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Common Raven (Corvus corax) teasing a gull (Larus spp) - series by Sandra Gilchrist

We know vaccines painful, and by comparing horses at rest with horses getting vaccinated, we've been able to determine how they express pain visually. By looking at horses with disorders like colic, broken bones, wounds, and so on, we can determine their facial expressions during more severe pain.

At zookeeper school we were drilled through the pain faces of the most common lab animals and livestock. Nowadays I believe this has become a routine lesson in all animal related fields, but the general public still doesn't know that this is a thing that exists.

Here are all the pain face/grimace scales I've been able to find. Please study them if you interact with any of these animals on a regular basis:

from their "definitions" section:

That said, at least within kink circles, top and bottom directly referenced the active person in a scene and the receiving person in a scene, with no requirement or expectation of sexual penetration. The flogger is the top, the beatee is the bottom.

Switch was also a term for those who did both in regards to play scenes. (Though every top could be a switch since in The Old Days you always started as a bottom and earned your way up.)

The shift to these terms being used exclusively for sexual activities has always bugged me, but the kids these days are gonna do what kids always do any day.

Thank you for bringing up, and trying to research this topic.

There was definitely a norm, even an expectation, that the top would be dominant and the bottom would be submissive, but it's certainly not impossible to decouple them, especially on the queer side of things.

Roevember 2025: Day 15 - Handmade ⊶⊰ Prompt List ⊱⊷

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These aren't just run-of-the-mill bilge rats... they have hats, you see! (And they're certainly more civilized than your typical Maelstrom recruits.)

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A record die-off of sea stars was followed by something that stunned biologists

The creatures almost went extinct along the West Coast a decade ago. Recently, they have been making a comeback.

Six months ago, Menge’s team published exciting research — five-legged sea stars were undergoing a significant “baby boom.” The tide pools were denser than they had been before the disease, and the juveniles were eating mussels and clearing space for other species. In short, something rare and wonderful was happening on the Oregon Coast: One of the intertidal zone’s most important predators had returned from the brink...

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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"