Slushy Seals!

THE IDEAL MALE BODY

“More than fifty research and development facilities across thirty-one states. Gone. Consolidated into a single location in Fort Collins, Colorado. And ‘consolidated’ is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence, because what it actually means is that decades of place-based, long-term ecological research—the kind that literally cannot exist anywhere else because it depends on specific forests, specific watersheds, specific ecosystems studied over generations—will be snuffed out.

If your senator is a Republican, the question is simple: you voted for a law that requires USDA to get committee approval before reorganizing or relocating any office. USDA didn’t get that approval. Their own lawyers declared your law unconstitutional. What are you going to do about it?

If your senator is a Democrat, the question is just as simple: the legal basis for stopping this already exists. Where are the subpoenas? Where are the hearings? Why is USDA’s general counsel allowed to declare a duly enacted law unconstitutional by internal memo and face no consequences?

Make them answer. Make their staff write it down. Call back next week and ask what happened.

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Scoria surveying her garden. She loves plants, and laying among them!

Sudden bulldozer!

Her garden is destroyed :c She's very upset about this and keeps going between the two remaining sprouts and looking at me like she wants me to fix it. (The other succulents are plastic, she knows they aren't real and doesn't care about them or interact with them like living plants.)

She was sleeping in her hide and didn't see why this happened. I'm pretty sure she thinks I did it with the side I'm getting.

It's okay though, because it will be back again soon! This is Chia seed and I specifically picked it because it's super cheap in bulk and grows back incredibly fast. So perhaps Scoria might start to understand it like seasons, when this Chia dies I just take a sprinkling from the bag and let the isopods eat the prior ones. And more sprout up again within a couple days. (It's also really tasty, you put some in a glass and stir it with water and it makes this jello-like fruity gel.)

Please note at the end, I tell her to come back, and despite wanting to go to the gap, she does as I request.

This matters because a snake able to hear, let alone respond to verbal commands is believed by most to be impossible. I see it constantly, many times throughout the day. If me filming it still doesn't show people they can in fact hear and respond intelligently, I honestly don't know what to do.

This kind of behavior is something she regularly does, and something I've not seen documented before. This is not a coincidence as she VERY much wants to go toward that crevice and explore it. She would have continued if I did not ask her to stop.

This demonstrates many things, not only that she can hear me but assigns meaning to the sounds I make. I'm not saying she specifically understands words. She might. But she certainly understands context and what my voice/tone means in regard to what she wants to do and what will happen if she tries.

My talking to her is an active deterrent. Now, it's also worth noting she can only resist the call of the void so long, and will hit a point where if the temptation remains present she'll go for it anyway because she just can't take it anymore, much like a child with their favorite candy on the table in front of them and their mother telling them not to touch it. They can only resist so long.

And the Stellar's sea lion, which are WAY bigger and live in Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska