A wolf lurks within

While the wolves feed, the ravens keep watch for and alert the wolves of incoming animals that might threaten them. In return, the wolves leave some food behind for the ravens. In between feedings they’re known to travel and play together.

Ravens alert each other of incoming animals - wolves just learned to use that in their advantage.

Also wolves don’t leave pieces of meat behind specially for their raven friends - ravens just learned that following wolves means finding left over cadaver to scavenge from (this works the other way around as well; ravens leading wolves to prey or cadavers by flying and the wolves following). 

Not saying they’re unaware of how they affect each other or something, but what this primarily is, is two species who learned to take advantage of each other’s behaviors which are not behaviors that are motivated by helping each other. Dr. L. David Mech described this perfectly in ‘The Wolf: The Ecology and Behaviour of an Endangered Species’: “It appears that the wolf and the raven have reached an adjustment in their relationships such that each creature is rewarded in some way by the presence of the other and that each is fully aware of the other’s capabilities.” 

Now I’ve seen bots with firstname-lastname combo with numbers in the middle, but even more odd are the ones without numbers at all… Some jumbled up almost-words that at first glance could be actual tumblrs. But when you click through to see their blogs, they look just like the old bots.

Apparently at some point the bots starts to leave comments with malware links on your posts if left to their own devices. I saw that in the wild today on someone else’s post.

Alright kids, listen up because @staff have pulled off a corker of a hot mess and have decided to add "Community Labels". I guess they've decided we can't be trusted to add our own warnings and people can't make sensible choices with what they engage with.

But why does it matter to me?

Tumblr have made labels AN OPT IN SITUATION which means every single blog here is automatically set to hide any triggering content

If you want to continue to be able to access and read fanfiction PLEASE go into your settings and click "show" on at least the "Mature" and "Sexual Themes" labels!!

ALSO IOS USERS: there's an extra fun "Hide additional content" bit just to really try and block us from any hopes of success. Make sure you opt out of that too otherwise I think content will be blocked on the mobile app!

Attached to this post are screenshots from my settings so you guys know what to look for. I could only find it on my desktop settings and not on the mobile app (for now at least)qq

Hello fresh - last years workers were on strike for shitty work conditions and there’s reports of union busting. Never have i seen a youtuber acknowledge this at all

Adam and Eve - the dildos aren’t all from body safe materials. Don’t risk it with cheap dildos it can fuck your body up

Audible - owned by amazon

Idk which one but one of the vpn ones mined bitcoin from ur computer and they’re useful but generally falsely advertised, not a big tech person but this guy talks about it

All the fit teas and shakes etc are bullshit that just makes you poop and loose water weight short term

Raid shadow legends - lol do i even need to explain this one

All the loot crates - filled with cheap junk they’re getting wholesale

The online coupon thingies are a data harvesting scam. Just google the shop name + coupon when shopping

The online therapy better help was a whole big controversy and i still see this shitty company being promoted

Since Squarespace is templets, they legally own whatever you make. If you decide to change providers, you can’t take it with you. You’re stuck with them forever or have to rebuild your website from the ground up. You at least own the domain name so there’s that, but for me it’s not worth the work if I have to restart should I ever decide I hate the company.

Marsha P. Johnson performing the poem “Soul” for the drag troupe Hot Peaches in 1989

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