People who fix the lights at the top of
airplane radio towers usually have to
climb them in the middle of the night.
If a light burns out on the tower, late-
night hours are the most cost-effective
time for a station to power down, which
protects the climbers from exposure to
dangerous radio frequencies as they
ascend upwards of 200 feet in the dark.
Source Source 2
“Don’t bother, he’ll talk about it when he feels like it.”
(Akaashi having a hard time adjusting to college life)
I feel like the reason certain dog-lovers insist cats are evil is because they read their body language as if they were dogs. So here’s a very basic guide to common “mean” things cats do that actually aren’t mean at all if you know what they’re thinking.
Rolling and exposing belly- attacks you when touched
Does not mean: Give belly rubs! – haha I tricked you!
Actually means: I’m playful! If you reach for my belly I’ll grab your arm and bite it because I think we’re playfighting!Lazily exposing belly – still attacks when touched
Does not mean: tricked you again!
Actually means: I’m showing you my belly because I trust you. Please don’t break that trust by invading my personal space. I might accept a belly rub if I’m not ticklish and I know you well.Snapping at you while being pet
Does not mean: I suddenly decided I dislike you!
Actually means: You’re petting me in a way that gives me too much restless energy. Please focus on petting my head and shoulders instead of stroking the full length of my back next time.Is in the same room but makes no attempt to interact
Does not mean: I’m ignoring you
Actually means: We’re hanging out! I’m being respectful by giving you space while still enjoying your company.Slapping/scratching your hand when you try to pet them
Does not mean: I hate you!
Actually means: You’ve failed to establish that we’re not playing, or the way you’re approaching me scares me. Be calmer, speak more gently, make eye-contact and blink slowly at me before you try again.I love this post omg, thank you so much. As a lifelong cat person, dogs perplex me because they’re so completely different behaviourally.
This is also why people assume “cats and dogs don’t get along.”
Their body language is totally different; a dog’s play posture is a cat’s hunting or aggression posture, depending on the situation.
Tail wagging is not a friendly, “HELLO! I am pleased to see you” with cats the way it often is with dogs, it’s more of an, “I’m annoyed, please go away.” if it’s outside the realm of playing/stalking behavior.
DOGS misinterpret cat body language and often assume a cat is friendly and wanting to play when the cat is displaying, “I’m uncomfortable and will either run away or attack you if you don’t stop.”
Cats also misinterpret dog body language; the tail wag and ears are two big ones. A dog with its ears back (assuming it’s the type of dog that can put its ears back) and tail wagging is often relaxed, but to a cat, that’s a pretty aggressive set of anger body language, so a dog that approaches a cat with tail wagging and potentially ears back is not often seen as a friendly hello.
Cats and dogs also play in different ways that don’t often mesh unless or until a cat and dog have had several months to get used to each other and figure it out.
A Chinese farmer who quit school in 3rd
grade spent 16 years teaching himself
law to sue a chemical company for
polluting his village. Wang Enlin couldn’t
afford to buy all the law books he studied
at a local bookstore, so he paid the store
in bags of corn to let him sit and read,
copied all the information by hand, and
learned what he could with the help of
a dictionary. He won the case in 2017. Source Source 2
She got torn up by a boat propeller off New South Wales in 2001 and proceeded to walk it off. Swim it off. Whatever. The scars from the propeller slices healed ~20cm deep down her back and across her tail fluke. Since then, whale watchers down under look for “the Blade Runner” every year. Just the sight of her starts conversations about whether we humans should reconsider being such gigantic floppy penises to our rad cetacean bros.
nobody will ever be harder core than the Blade Runner. She has surpassed badassery.
She is unkillable. She is Life Goals: the Whale.
“The original script of The Road to El Dorado called for Miguel and Tulio to be lovers, calling each other “Darling” and such. Although the idea was eventually shot down, several scenes remain in the film where this is apparent.“
In the 1980s, Ruth Coker Burks took care
of people with AIDS when no one else
would. When she saw dying gay men were
being abandoned by their families and
doctors, it became her mission to love
them until death- and she buried over 40
of them in her family’s cemetery. She
never wore gloves unless a patient had
broken skin, and she believes a warm,
caring touch is why her HIV patients lived
2 years longer than the national average. Source Source 2 Source 3
Seeing all of the random places my poetry pops up over the years has never ceased to blow my mind. I found this photo saved from years ago when a user on @tumblr named @song-sung-blue found it and photographed it. Written on rock. From church walls to human flesh, tattoos to graffiti, I am humbled and flattered by your support and I love you. All.
I’ve never seen it put so succinctly.
This.
Politically relevant.
My New Years resolution: Stop being the bigger person and call people for who and what they are.
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