*Sarcasms Loudly*

rip to our worthy contenders Ronald Colman, Ivan Dixon, John Carradine, William Powell, Rex Ingram, Howard Keel, Turhan Bey, Cesar Romero, Lee Van Cleef, Sammy Davis Jr., Gilbert Roland, Cantinflas, Cab Calloway, Soumitra Chatterjee, Edric Connor, Trevor Howard, Emilio Fernandez, Frank Morgan, Groucho Marx, Laurence Olivier, Fats Waller, Vincent Price, Charlie Chaplin, Canada Lee, Basil Rathbone, Sunil Dutt, Lionel Jeffries, Carman Newsome, Laird Cregar, Harold Nicholas, John Gilbert, Laurence Criner, Nigel Bruce, Albert Finney, Herb Jeffries, Victor Jansen, William Marshall, David Niven, Robert Dounat, Michael Redgrave, Raj Kapoor, Claude Rains, Walter Slezak, Melvyn Douglas, and Rex Harrison.

If you’ll all pardon my Americentrism for a moment, the amount, visibility, and flamboyance of Pride merch available in clothing, home goods, and comestibles stores is a DIRECT reflection of how safe it is to be queer in public in the United States.

How? Simple. Out groups aren’t profitable. If you’re not “acceptable” in the current social climate, big franchise businesses will not market to you. (Prime example - Look how quickly Target dropped all their Pride merch after having been wall-to-wall rainbows every June for almost a decade prior.)

Sure, capitalism sucks and being viewed as an exploitable marketing demographic isn’t a fun concept.

HOWEVER.

The grim truth is that being normalized enough to be considered profitable by corporations IS A GOOD THING in terms of the barometer of social acceptance.

Same thing goes for smaller businesses that throw kitschy Pride events or even just put a token rainbow flag in the window or somewhere inside the shop. That’s a level of acceptance that DID NOT EXIST thirty years ago, and I can tell you because I was there.

The fact that we can scoff and bitch about being an exploitable marketing demographic nowadays means we have made GIGANTIC strides since the 1990s. It also speaks to the fact that the drive and the conversation surrounding LGBTQ+ rights and acceptance are continuing. And getting louder.

You can be cynical about it if you want. But I will take a store that puts out lip-service rainbow merch over a world that pretends we don’t exist any day of the week. Because that will always mean something.

I don’t expect to see anything in my local supermarket this summer. My council will not be flying the pride flag this year. Neither will my library, which a few years ago had six different pride flags outside its building including trans, ace, and intersex.

Thankfully for my own safety I’m not clockable. Not everyone is so lucky.

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(warning: loud chirping throughout)

the first osprey is the father, the one that comes later is the mother.

ospreys are not eagles, they're ospreys

ospreys only eat fish, that's why they don't register this starling as possible food

the starling got home safely

the starling was not trying to eat the eggs, it was mostly curious and you can see it trying to hop under the osprey every time the osprey tries to sit down again--this is because the starling is still a baby and has the instinct to get under an adult for warmth, even though it mostly has its feathers. this scares the osprey because that is a Foreign Creature near its eggs.

at the end of the video you can see the ospreys starting to turn the eggs. birds do this so the yolk and/or embryo don't stick to the shell of the egg, which is bad for the egg's health.

alas...

Posting this here before scope creep kicks my ass

Reference below (I found it on Pinterest and I thought of Simon so…yeah)

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