Western AU brainrot go brrr

These are all direct quotes from the episode after Kanan is first blinded during a fight by the way.

Bendu says "you must learn to see things differently now" after destroying the object Kanan was using as a white cane. Like. No. He is blind. You don't get to say be magic, see differently, your disability is a super power or whatever. That's ridiculous. You destroyed Kanan's disability aid and then insulted him for not adapting to a new disability fast enough.

Kanan: "look I can't see anything... not anymore..."

Bendu: "No! You are unwilling" Girl. He is not unwilling. He is DISABLED! He is blind. He cannot see. He really really wants to, he is completely willing. this whole thing is about how willing he is to change his circumstances if he could. but he can't. and thats ok. And he is still valuable and he just needs to learn that. but because he's not adapting fast enough, he's just unwilling. - which btw is a common ableist sentiment towards people struggling with their disability

"I can teach you to see" and then just give generic life lessons. No. He is blind. His disability means he can't see. you can't teach away a disability. - again a common ableist sentiment.

After Kanan describes a smell and hearing something bendu says: "you see much for being blind" Like COMe ON?? That is ludicrously patronising, as well as being plain insulting. He is struggling with adapting to his disability. Constantly picking at him about it and saying "well you're not really disabled, because you can still smell stuff and that means you perceive it which is practically seeing" is just So WRONG.

Kanan then gets surrounded by spider monsters (which aren't dangerous, but they previously attacked him so how could he know) and says something like 'I want to run but there's one behind me' and then this poop says "you are beginning to see - hah" (HE LAUGhS at this guy BecaUSe HE DEStRoyED HIS DIsABilTY AID aND So KANAN iS StrUggLIng TO plACE WHERE THE CREATURES ARE BECAUSe He is DisABLED??!!!) and we're supposed to think he's wise and smart.

Kanan admits to feeling "fear, grief, anger" towards his disability and becoming recently disabled and this absolute piece of garbage says "Ah! Your sight returns!" ARE YOU SERIOUS??? 'hey I can't see anymore, and that makes me scared, and I'm grieving the loss of one of my senses. Also I'm angry at the person who took this from me' (because Kanan was lightsabered in the face which caused him to go blind) and the bendu's response is 'lol now you can see (what your feeling etc)' That is so ableist and cruel that I can't begin to understand why the writers put it in. You're supposed to think that this bendu guy is some wise guru character but he's just an ableist slime ball!! Fear grief and anger are common feelings to have when discovering you have a disability, or developing a new one, or having a life changing injury. And this show treats those feelings as though they deserve a blind joke.

"If you can see yourself, you will never be truly blind, Kanan Jarrus, Jedi Knight." Girl he is medically blind. He is learning to adapt to his disability. You don't loose the disabling elements of your disability if you have inner enlightenment. He is still physically medically blind. It will still cause him problems later in the show. It is still a disability.

Over fifty years of data show a peak in PFAS (also known as "forever chemicals") content in seabird eggs in the 90s, followed by a decrease as regulations went into effect. The most recent findings show a 70% decrease of most common PFAS.

We are making genuine progress! Producers are dramatically altering how much they use PFAS and how much gets released in effluent, but also there's a lot better understanding of how to remove PFAS from the environment!

The Amur Leopard and Clouded Leopard (which recently celebrated its 50th cub born at the zoo!)

The Sumatran Tiger

The Red Ruffed Lemur and Ring-Tailed Lemur

The Cotton-Top Tamarin and White-Cheeked Gibbon

The Colobus Monkey and De Brazza’s Monkey

And the Mexican Spider Monkey!

The Nashville Zoo is actually partnered with conservation efforts to help protect this one-of-a-kind fella, a native to this specific area (and no other area in the state, the country, or the world). It's already threatened by pollution. A data center not only threatens to directly impact it's water by consumption but also by further pollution, nevermind the disruption that electric signals can cause in delicate species.

In a worst case scenario, a zoo can be moved. Animals can be transferred to other facilities, new grounds can be purchased, and the animals would mostly survive.

The Nashville Crayfish has nowhere to go.

apparently the murder happened in 2023 after doing some research but the murderer has been found not guilty.

Standing in his laboratory, Harvard professor Sean Eddy gazes at a row of vacant work stations. More than a year ago, this lab was filled with over a dozen researchers. On a given day they might be working independently on analyzing genomic sequencing or gathered around the group table, drinking coffee and helping each other troubleshoot questions about genomic data from different species.

Now, after his funding was terminated under the Trump administration, the computer screens are gone and the room is silent. He's one of the last people left.

Grace, haltingly on the keyboard Rocky built for him: Wassup bitches. Fucking jazzed to—