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A gray blue gecko with orange spots and gold eyes

His name is Bitey.

Thank you for the beautiful lichens!

Stick with pale gray-green foliose lichen

Various fluffy lichens on windfall stick

Forked windfall branch with lots of lichen

Stick with some foliose lichen

Windfall sticks all nice & licheny ...

It would be only fair to the reader to say frankly in advance that the attitude of any person toward this story will be distinctly influenced by his theories of the Negro race. If he believes that the Negro in America and in general is an average and ordinary human being, who under given environment develops like other human beings, then he will read this story and judge it by the facts adduced. If, however, he regards the Negro as a distinctly inferior creation, who can never successfully take part in modern civilization and whose emancipation and enfranchisement were gestures against nature, then he will need something more than the sort of facts that I have set down. But this latter person, I am not trying to convince. I am simply pointing out these two points of view, so obvious to Americans, and then without further ado, I am assuming the truth of the first. In fine, I am going to tell this story as though Negroes were ordinary human beings, realizing that this attitude will from the first seriously curtail my audience. W. E. BURGHARDT DU BOIS Atlanta, December, 1934

I'd forgotten how hard the preface to DuBois's "Black Reconstruction" (1934) went...and am saddened by how contemporary it still feels.

What does "Ezo" mean here? I keep seeing it appended to animals at Japanese zoos but not finding a definition.

tenchi masaki from tenchi muyo dressed in a grey schoolgirl uniform walks through a scifi scanner thingie

a computer screen showing his skeleton and a DNA strand, captioned dialog reads "everything looks okay"

the space cop or whatever says "but did you know your frame is very masculine?"

tenchi says "uh, i... have a father who's a man"

it's a pleasant surprise if you find a crossdressing character in a 90s anime and the joke being told is funny

A photo of a ceramic wolf. The wolf is glazed white with brown speckles.

A little wintery wolf! This piece will be available this Friday, March 13th at 8pm Eastern time.

Sets of dice with tea coloring and tea leaf design on high side of d20. The tins have Friday Afternoon Tea and Die Hard Dice logos

Limited to edition! We brought 50 and ONLY 50 sets of our Tea Druid Dice to @emeraldcitycon.bsky.social! Come get em before they’re gone at booth 11232 on the expo floor, #ThirstyNerds!

now would be an awesome time to check out mox’s store if you’ve been interested in their stuff but haven’t bought anything yet!! my sweatshirt is super comfy and i get lots of compliments on the design:)

The pivot to video can go fuck itself forever and ever amen.

Thanks for the tip on fixing the stupid dot, Erin!

I know a number of women who picked out really big trucks/SUVs because they liked to be Up High and they 'wanted to make sure the OTHER car got flattened in an accident'.

I had nothing polite to contribute.

still within safe bounds

Don't eat multiple bags of them in the same week and you'll be fine.

A female prehensile-tailed skink sticks her tongue out while leaning forward.

New animal announcement: Welcome Clarice to Zoo Boise!

The 10-year-old female prehensile-tailed skink moved here as a Species Survival Plan (SSP) breeding recommendation for Clarence, our male skink.

The pair can be found in the Small Animal Kingdom's rainforest building.

📷: Zookeeper Taylor S

Really great T-shirt AND vest!

Small bat with large pink ears on a white cloth and a striped background.

We are heartbroken to announce that our beloved Queen Zora has passed away after a short illness. Despite stellar vet care, she was not able to bounce back. We're grateful for the time we had with her and the many ways she furthered our mission to teach people how amazing and adorable bats are.🦇

high five of solidarity

We salute the great shitposters of the past who took the time to type up and photocopy their jokes, such as the anonymous 1980s queer who came up with this alternate hanky code

I was practicing some ring toss with Cracker yesterday and Chickpea got curious...only for some reason she decided the ring toss prop is evil and spent half the time trying to chew it up!
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Video: white-bellied black monkey tugging and mouthing at a long braid of paper with fruit chunks woven in.

I am sending you well wishes and good thoughts. :( Sorry you feel shitty.

komusō monks or komusō styled shakuhachi players walking along in white robes with straw baskets on their heads

Posting through the horrors

Red panda facing the viewer, stretched out on an elevated ledge, clearly most of the way to a doze. Their thick striped tail is hanging off the far end.

Saffron gotta squeeze in their 17 hours of sleep.

[Sequoia Park Zoo]

A green shed with a doggy-door hole in the wall butting up against the roof, which extends out a little ways over a wire grate ceiling. A crowd of dark bats is clambering upside-down along the grate with their feet and hooked wing-fingers.

Lubee Bat Conservatory opens up this doggy-door thing in the mornings to let the flying foxes come clambering out on the wire.

Sarah's hand has a giant millipede walking across it with the words "You are tough, you are strong, you are smart you are amazing" on a bulletin board behind her.

Affirmations with my millipede after she met 300 elementary school students today

Just a stroke or two of their fluffy wool!

God, why

Only if you're around a certain kind of Black Coffee = Respectability sneerer!

Hell yeah!

elgaria multicarinata with cool banding and some dumbass hands holding him

cute defiant lizard face and some shitty cuticles

a dude we found elgaria-ing around on our front steps