Even better is them in person. Baby Piping Plovers are basically cotton balls.
They’re so small, we actually close off parts of beaches during hatching season. Dogs have to stay on leashes and if the weather changes, they can easily die. Basically, you’re left with a great need to protect these puff balls. ALWAYS.
PSA: Despite the film name, these are sanderling, not PIPL.
Jack Daniel’s is finally admitting its founder may have learned how to distill not from a local preacher named Dan Call, but instead from one of Call’s slaves, Nearis Green. The story has been around for decades, but only recently has Jack Daniel’s begun telling it. Interestingly, even before this news came to light, Green had a living legacy at Jack Daniel’s.
Y’all America is so weird today I had to remove any shirts that had alligators on them at work because of the kid that got eaten by one so the store literally banned alligator merch but ask people to do anything about guns after 49 get shot and killed and you’re a anti-American who hates the second amendment I mean our priorities are………….
Don’t worry about a lack of representation for dudes in the new Ghostbusters movie guys! You have Chris Hemsworth’s character! He’s a man!
He’s a Strong Male Character, he doesn’t need a woman to make him feel complete! I mean, yeah, he seems to be wearing a lot of unnecessarily tight clothes, but that’s just because he Feels Comfortable In His Own Skin! He’s pretty bright for a dumb blonde to? That makes him super relatable! He’s not a Dude in Distress! He doesn’t need a woman to save him! He is Fiesty! He can Hold His Own against the Ladies! He’s not loud and over bearing, he’s a cool, empowering male character! There may even be some ROMANCE! You guys like romance right? He’s practically one of the girls! He’s just as strong as the women! He’s TECH SUPPORT! THAT’S ALMOST AS GOOD AS BEING A REAL GHOSTBUSTER RIGHT???
But Chris Hemsworth still doesn’t look like a convincing nerd.
You mean glasses and standing near a computer isn’t enough to make him a nerd? He must be a fake nerd guy!
‘Actually, Mr. Vimes, I think we could,’ said Carrot. ‘And the army, too. I mean, I don’t see why we can’t. We could charge them with behavior likely to cause a breach of the peace, sir. I mean, that’s what warfare IS.’
Vimes’s face split in a manic grin. ‘I LIKE it.’
‘But in fairness our–that is, the Ankh-Morpork army–are also–’
‘Then you’d better arrest them, too,’ said Vimes. ‘Arrest the lot of ‘em. Conspiracy to cause an affray,’ he started to count on his fingers, ‘going equipped to commit a crime, obstruction, threatening behavior, loitering with intent, loitering WITHIN tent, hah, traveling for the purposes of committing a crime, malicious lingering and carrying concealed weapons.’
Terry Pratchett, “Jingo” (And the thing is, we laugh at this because the idea of Sam Vimes arresting two armies IS funny. But on top of being funny–and on top of Vimes trying to pile on the charges here with this list–Pratchett intended with this book above all else to characterize war as, in itself, a crime. In this case, a war started because of a lie and because of racial/ethnic/national prejudice. But we’re meant to be thinking about this. When is war NOT a crime, when you get down to what most people think crimes are? Why is killing people okay and legal when it’s war, for one thing? Why is it legal to loot places when you conquer them? Why isn’t it murder and theft? Well?)
I’m dead at his face in the last one like “Did you even try?”
And then when he gets pushed he’s like “Wait no let him try!”
his composure is just everything I aspire to be
OMG IT’S BACK!
CHARLES IS THE BEST OMG
Like how he stands there as if, “Okay, I’ll be perfectly still and we’ll see if you can hit me this time. Come on, it is like I’m giving you a head start.” He’s more annoyed with his cuff link than the wanna be assassin.
FOREVER REBLOGGING THIS.
THIS is how you deal with terrorists
Even if you go down you did it with dignity.
You all do know who his mother is right? You know the woman who stayed home during the bombing of London and drove Jeeps in WW2. They are trained to be final boss overlord level composed at age 2.
U don’t fuck with the Queen
His sister, Princess Anne, was the victim of an attempted kidnapping. The guy pointed a gun at her and told her to get out her car. She replied: “Not bloody likely.” And tried to kick him.
I just the wikipedia article about this and…wow. David Kang, the student who fired the shots, turns out to have been firing blanks from a starting pistol, not actual bullets. He was sentenced to community service, went on to get his MBA and is now a barrister. So…I guess that turned out pretty well for everybody.
Queen Elizabeth II is everything I aspire to be.
Yep, stone cold, hideously wealthy, head of her own religion, and in possession of A BLOODTHIRSTY ARMY OF SWANS.
All found on Twitter, with minimal searching, 48 hours after the Brexit referendum.
“Oh but it wasn’t about racism and xenophobia!”
“It was about sovereignty!”
I am an Eastern European woman, with relatives living in the UK as economic migrants. I am going to make this painfully clear:
I DO NOT GIVE A SINGLE RANCID SHIT ABOUT THE LIES BREXITERS HAVE TOLD THEMSELVES.
I do not care if you tell yourselves it was about sovereignty or about ‘unreachable elites’ or about legislation. The simple truth is that through your vote, you’re legitimized the festering hatred of fucking fascists in your goddamn country and given them cause to think that they and their repugnant ideology are now free to come into the light.
Through your vote, you’ve aligned yourself with the part of British society that wanted out of the EU specifically to stop people like me from coming there and having hassle-free access to your job-market.
Through your vote you’ve endangered the safety of both EU nationals and refugees living and working in Britain. My youngest niece was born just days ago in Glasgow and my happiness at a new family member has been tainted by worries for the safety or everyone I love and worries for her future in the UK.
Through your vote you’ve also endangered the safety of your own fucking people – because do you think anyone who isn’t White British and England-born is going to come out unscathed, when the far-right comes out to play? The people up there, who voted the same as you did, make it clear that their hatred also extends to Scots and anyone who spits on the ‘little Englander’ mentality.
Through your vote, you may have endangered the entire European project, that gave people like me the possibility to force our countries to adopt inclusive non-discrimination legislation and to live and work all over the continent and in so doing, build better lives for both ourselves and our loved ones.
Through your vote, you’ve proven that you don’t give a shit about anyone but your own selves and you’re ready to throw everyone else right under the bus. Because happiness and safety and economic well-being should only be for your precious selves, shouldn’t they?
May God or your divinity of choice forgive you, because one day you might have blood on your hands.
They had blood on their hands before even the referendum day, remember.
