I munch your popcorn. I munch it up.

for context, since last november-ish i have been volunteering with a team helping students in gaza (and recent refugees) find international scholarships, which carries particular weight because some countries will help evacuate students who have a scholarship to one of their institutions. for the most part we try to find full tuition scholarships that also cover living expenses, but when a student does get a scholarship, there are often extra costs for things like travel/visa expenses/health insurance/etc., and there aren't a ton of resources to cover that. we also fundraised last year to cover application fees for undergraduate applications to the uk, and we'll probably repeat that for this upcoming cycle. our main goal is connecting people to existing funds, not so much raising funds ourselves, so these fundraisers should be relatively few, but at the same time we are not very well-equipped when we do want to fundraise, so if you can share literally anywhere that would help a ton.

right now we have two fundraisers running:

help abdalbari evacuate and finish high school, for a fifteen-year-old who has received a full scholarship to a uk boarding school and needs to pay for a guardian service so he can have a legal guardian in the uk (required for underage international students).

help gazan scholarship students reach their universities, for four masters students who have received scholarships and need help closing the gap between the scholarship amount and the actual realistic costs of moving to/living in a new country.

obviously the possibility of evacuation is uncertain, so if the students aren't able to evacuate, the funds will be distributed to other students or saved for the next application cycle. the need far outstrips the available resources, so literally anything helps.

i just want us to get out, of course our other 2 kids will come with me I just need money for a couple of taxis and a hotel room please

anything anything helps please

this is honestly so fucking unfair I left all my safe foods I haven't had a proper meal since yesterday and i don't have my medication

we got enough for breakfast, with $60 more we could book the room one more day please

i need $700 overall (usd) to have all of that taken care of, but anything, even a little bit, helps and lets me eat and not be in a ton of pain all day and thus hopefully sort things out as best i can. i also really appreciate sharing.

paypal.me/jupitervivi

thank you and i'm sorry for taking your time with this. have a silly amity

You will however, understand exactly what they’re saying from the context of the video

And you will get to hear this person’s wonderful laughter

You know, given how C. lupus, C. lupus familiaris, and C. latrans can all create perfectly viable hybrids, and that the proto-dogs that domestic dogs descended from much more resembled coyotes than wolves, it's not really a surprise that some yotes are experimenting with domestication.

Goddamn that lady must be fucking shredded to be able to chase down a coyote through a swamp.

"Don't let wild animals into your house, you are not going to make Dogs 2.0, you're going to get injured and the animal killed." is probably obvious enough advice that I don't need to put it in the tags as a reminder.

...I know more than four people on this site that have poisoned themselves trying out 'foraging guides' they found online, two people IRL who tried to keep raccoons at pets, and have a family member who got hospitalized for Cat Scratch Fever after grabbing a feral cat bare-handed. This is apparently, not obvious enough.

Could coyotes be domesticated, sometime down the line? I know there are animals like bears that could never be, but coyotes seem close enough to dogs for it to work in many many many many generations.

Could Coyotes be domesticated again? Yes and No.

Yes: They're REALLY closely related and already frequently interbreed with domestic dogs and are in a similar ecological position to the proto-dogs: comfortable living in and around human settlements, especially garbage dumps. Biologically, it's a VERY short hop (possibly as few as 2 or 3 mutations) to domestication for them.

No: The actual practicality of domesticating coyotes is negligible. Humans domesticated dogs in the first place because partially because we needed help with hunting, but probably mostly because we had fuck-all else to do for fun back then. In the modern age of readily available livestock and needing to monetize EVERYTHING or suffer for it, there isn't really much need or interest in domesticating coyotes. It'd take a large canine farming facility, similar to the fox farms of the early 1900's, multiple generations of careful genetic testing and manipulation, and would be goddamn impossible to zone or get insurance for.

The re-domestication of Cheetahs has a slightly better shot because there is a genuine need for LOTS of them as an ecological keystone species and there's decent odds of finding some rich idiots to back that project so they can have The Coolest Pet Cat.