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Replace the phrase "Chess with Pigeons" with "Chess with Koalas"

Pigeons are intelligent, crafty, and frequently misunderstood

Koalas are very stupid (sorry), silly, and what humans would dub "lazy" (energy efficient)

like I'm seriously losing my mind over here who actually thinks gulls are an eastern hemisphere phenomenon when this is Laridae's global distribution

behold the native range of the Grey-Headed Gull

(dark green is resident, you'll note its along the andes)

behold the range of the brown headed gull

andean gull

dolphin gull

grey gull

laughing gull

franklin's gull

belcher's gull

olrog's gull

kelp gull

aka what I think historians call the post-classical period? Not that any of this is free of europe bias

This post talks about a new DM feature in youtube. What it fails to mention is that as part of this new feature is that when you send someone a link to a video, and they open it in the youtube app, they will see who sent them the link. Specifically, your channel name.

If your google account name is your real name, so is your channel name by default.

This means the new default behavior is that everyone you send a youtube link to will see your full name if they open it in the mobile app.

To turn this off:

Go to your youtube app settings

Go to Privacy

Turn off "Channel visibility for shared links"

but it's an entirely new level of tragic when somebody you've actually spoken to gets turned into a bot account. it's like peeking at a zombie apocalypse through the window and realizing one of the shambling corpses was your friend.

and then the zombie catches sight of you, lurches up to your window, and shouts through the glass that they accidentally reported your account to tumblr and you'll be deactivated unless you click this link.

if you get something like this ↑ they're gonna follow up by instructing you to contact tumblr support on discord and give you contact info; or they're gonna link a website that looks sort of like tumblr support and say you have to email them; or any variety of "you must now contact tumblr, here is how you contact tumblr."

whatever they send you, it Does Not lead to tumblr. it leads to the master zombie that bit them and inducted them into the ranks of the undead, and will bite you the second they have your email and password. i might be confusing zombies and vampires. anyway,

it's easier to fall for these messages because the blog doesn't LOOK like a bot blog, because it ISN'T a bot blog. it's a normal person's blog that got accessed by a bot, meaning the blog's content CLEARLY looks like a real active user when you click on it. and yes—it might even be a blog you already know. sometimes bots like this go down a blog's DMs or reblogs and message people they've previously interacted with.

I'm an art student being silly is my profesion

Junerassic day 16, rainbow lorikeet. As much as I enjoy seeing these guys in zoos, I did not enjoy spriting one. Shocking, truly.

I wanted to draw today but didn't know what. I looked at the dino list and it said Rainbow Lorikeet and then I said heck yeah!

don’t climb uluru (it’s sacred and incredibly disrespectful)

do NOT play the didgeridoo/yirdaki if you’re white/not aboriginal (ESPECIALLY if you’re a woman - women aren’t allowed to play the yirdaki in our culture due to the belief they will become sick/pregnant/infertile (it varies depending on nation)) the ONLY exception to this is if you’re invited in by the community

if you’re going to buy a boomerang, get one from the community and also know that not all boomerangs come back! and not all nations use them either! same goes for art/other cultural stuff

there are AT LEAST 250 nations with ~300 languages and ~700 dialects. don’t be ignorant and ask someone if they “speak aboriginal”

usually when we speak about our language/country, however, we just call them “language”/”country” (e.g. “i speak language”/”out on country”)

DON’T EVER ask “how much” or “what percentage” indigenous someone is - it’s incredibly offensive considering the australian government’s policy of kidnapping lightskinned indigenous kids from their families to “bring them up white” and “better the bloodline”. due to this + centuries of colonisation we can look like anything and we’re all STILL aboriginal. obviously there are still things such as white passing privilege but in an aboriginal context, there is a lot more nuance due to the stolen generations and extra sensitivity must be taken when discussing these topics

additionally aboriginal people are NOT the only indigenous australians, there are also the torres strait islanders who live in the torres strait islands in queensland. i’m not torres strait islander so i don’t have much to say here (feel free to add on if you are though)

in a lot of our cultures, we are not allowed to say the names of the dead or view photos/listen to recordings of them, as we believe it disturbs their spirit. if you come across content featuring a deceased aboriginal person, it is very appreciated if you warn us that they are deceased. people who are not indigenous don’t have to follow this tradition but it’s appreciated if you do

certain terms are seen as offensive by some, such as “aborigine”, so it’s best not to use them. we also have a series of regional terms such as koori/goori/murri/palawa/nyoongar etc.

contrary to popular belief, we weren’t all nomadic peoples - there’s fishtraps + evidence of agricultural and villages of thousands of people all over australia, as well as possibly the OLDEST astronomical observatory in the WORLD (wurdi youang)

don’t fucking appropriate the dreamtime (looking @ you white hippies/alternate lifestyles) - while we share some of these stories, a lot of these are exclusive and only for us and y’all are more than likely to bastardise the shit out of them. just don’t touch them.

anyway there’s a lot more i could add to this but this post is already really long so just send me questions/stuff if you want more thanks

and this always was, and always will be, aboriginal land

Alas, I don't think I'm going back anytime soon, so here's some Lucy Stillman meta as well as my last attempt at getting my "Leila Marino was being set up as a very important character + Lucy's foil in ac1" agenda off the ground.

Choerosaurus dejageri, the permian therocephalian with a funny face.

He answers: I believe that whoever created the concept of soulmates should be taken into the town square and beaten to death. Or you should tell me who they are so I can send them a check for a couple of hundred thousand dollars, because they have done more to facilitate the demise of happy marriages than I could ever aspire to doing.

The concept of a soulmate to me is absolutely bizarre. To suggest that out of eight billion other people in the world, that there's just this one person, and they happen by the way to live within like the same town as you, where they went to the same university as you - what were the odds of that? And that's the only person you could ever have a happy, fulfilling relationship with. That's insane, folks. It's insane. And by the way, it's toxic. Because here's the thing: when you get married, society essentially tells you, this person, they're supposed to be your best friend, best lover, best roommate, best travel companion, best co-parent - that's a hell of a resume, guy. Like, it'd be shocking to find someone who fits all three of those things.

So what happens when you have this concept of a soulmate? And my partner, you know, they're the best co-parent, they're the best roommate, the best travel companion, but you know, they're not the best lover I ever had. Well, they mustn't be your soulmate then. That means that there's somebody out there in the eight billion people, that they would be the perfect one. And that's what the horizon that just forever recedes and keeps people constantly craving the next thing that might check all of the boxes. It's dangerous.