An Epic Vantage - Lower Falls Of The Yellowstone River From Inspiration Point

Presenting: OTTER CHAOS 🦦

Fernando Valenzuela Anguamea,

From Etchohuaquila, Mexico, Fernandomania took baseball by storm. Like the lava lizards of the Galapagos Islands, breathing through your eyes to throw the nastiest of screwball, the world wasn't ready.

For years, he was the voice to so many around the world. I'm so glad you became immortalized with your number retirement.

Even without being in the hall of fame you'll always be a cornerstone to Dodger history

We will forever miss you.

"If you have a sombrero, throw it to the sky!"

RIP, "El Toro"

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Ok but how about this being one of the possible Sirius' animagus' form? Just make it pure black with a different eye colour. Not perfect, I know, but I headcanon Padfoot as basically a huge black wolf. In the book he is described as "a huge, bear-like dog". Since we can't use those or wolfdogs in movies, I think this might be as close as it gets (unless we're talking about Tibetan Mastiffs).

Anyway, there's something about this face and the look in his eyes. Padfoot being groomed. Bathed. Loved. Taken care of. I just—

Sirius. Padfoot. My love.

UPD:

the closed eyes? Padfoot behaving? yep!

I'm absolutely appalled by David Tennant saying that he wished Kemi Badenoch "didn't exist anymore" while picking up an award . You can defend trans rights all you like, but a white, privileged man wishing that a black woman didn't exist anymore? Black women are the most likely to get killed, harassed and discriminated against. He has completely lost the plot and I'm sorry I ever admired him.

cutest first pitch ever

Moon and Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California, Ansel Adams, 1960

I can't believe this is a radical opinion in these current times.

If a part of your group is being violent towards jews, physically or emotionally or chanting for violence, and the group as a whole does not call those people out and prevent antisemitism and instead ignores them, tries to say they aren't really apart of the group or tries to sweep them under the rug, then the whole group has a problem with antisemitism.

Ignoring and sweeping antisemitism under the rug means that the group does not view it as a problem.

If you do not prevent or call out antisemitism, it means the group is fine with it existing in the same spaces you do.

If you truly do not want antisemitism in pro palestine movements, you will do everything to prevent and stop it from existing in those spaces, same for any groups. If you do not, you are fine with it existing in pro palestine spaces.

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Grizzly bear baby boom in Yellowstone triples cub count in national park

A mother grizzly bear was spotted with a record five cubs, bringing the total bear cub count to 18, and highlighting the species' recovery.

"Two weeks ago [mid-June, 2024], Yellowstone National Park made headlines when a mother grizzly bear was spotted out and about with five cubs in tow — the biggest grizzly bear cub litter ever seen in the park. 

Grizzly bears in that region of North America typically only have one to three bear cubs a litter. 

Frank van Manen, the leader of the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team, said it was possible that an “adoption” event had occurred, in which two mothers give birth in the same year, and one ends up taking on the sibling’s cubs. 

In an interview, van Manen told Wyofile that if the bears had all been born in the same litter, it would be the first five-cub litter “recorded in the history of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.”

“Whether it was an adoption or whether it truly is a five-cub litter, it just amazes me that every year there’s some new surprise to us, even after intensively studying this population for more than 50 years,” van Manen said. “I just think that’s cool.” ...

On top of this record sighting, [Grizzly watch Bill] Hamblin is baffled by the sheer number of cubs that have been spotted so far in 2024. 

Since they started emerging in the spring, the total count of unique grizzly bear cubs spotted has ticked up to a whopping 18 — triple the average number. 

“That’s more than we’ve ever seen,” Hamblin said."

-via GoodGoodGood, July 3, 2024

Vernal Fall, Yosemite Valley, California, Ansel Adams, circa 1948