Icon by @ThatSpookyAgent. Call me Tir or Julian. 37. He/They. Queer. Twitter: @tirlaeyn. ao3: tirlaeyn. 18+ Only. Star Trek. The X-Files. Sandman. IwtV. OMFD. Definitionless in this Strict Atmosphere.
vampires have been drinking human blood for centuries they don’t give a fuck about guys on eight different antidepressants. they were sucking on asbestos factory workers
The absolutely hilarity of imagining some older vampires hectoring younger ones. “Back in my day, I had to drink blood with radium in it and I liked it! We glowed in the damn dark for weeks!”
as much as i love public transportation my fellow usamericans have got to stop lying on the internet about how enjoyable because it is it is doing us no favors. we need investment in public transportation as it currently sucks so so much ass
i ask the underpaid and overworked bus driver if this is the right route because my three separate transit apps are all telling me different things. the driver grunts at me. i take a seat. for the next 75 minutes i am flung about and almost ejected from my seat, my guts jostling with every hill or stoplight. every new passenger has to swing themself from bar to bar for stability as they stagger towards an empty seat.
please understand i love trains and buses so much i am number one train fan but our infrastructure sucks so bad that it literally doesn’t matter if we invest in new high speed train cars because our rails are so outdated they can’t even run them. we need an overhaul of public transport very badly. i want to go back in time and donkey kick henry ford off a cliff
i watched this morning’s livestream at work because i couldn’t help myself, reynal (alex jones’ shitty lawyer) really did try to file for a mistrial and ask the judge to move that bankston should delete the entire phone backup he was sent. it turns out that reynal actually DID email back “please disregard, i will send you a new one” but
that is not how that works
you have to specify exactly what you are claiming is privileged, and why
you have to send back new versions of the documents with the privileged content redacted and marked confidential
reynal didn’t do any of that and just assumed bankston would be a bro and delete because he said “oops”
reynal never even sent him the new documents
all of the documents he is trying to get locked down are things that should have been produced over a year ago anyway
it turns out that what alex jones’ lawyers sent was. basically their whole shared drive. norm pattis’ entire computer. there was over 300GB. the medical records were for a different trial, in connecticut, and reynal shouldn’t have had them in the first place.
the judge told him that if he wants to go through and retroactively mark specific files as confidential, he can go through the normal process for that. reynal wanted another ten days and she said “no???” he complained about how many documents they would need to go through in a short amount of time. she pointed out that if they’d produced these documents a year ago they’d have plenty of time. if someone wants to subpoena the documents there’s nothing she can do about it and that’s a him problem.
the judge. literally thought he was joking about the mistrial. she tried to give him an out to say that he was joking. he was not. she told him to stop bringing up mistrials because that’s not how this works.
Ever needed to hear about mad dad birds with enormous feet? Try THESE on for size:
What’s that you say? These are clearly the feet of a dinosaur, not a bird? WHY NOT BOTH?
This is Australia’s very own dinosaur, the second-largest bird in the world, the emu. Say hi!
They roam around Australia making ‘wonk-wonk’ noises under their breath and glaring at everything. And the dads take care of the babies! They sit on the eggs…
They look after the tiny stripey adorable things….
They look after the less tiny less adorable things…
And they even look after the great big menacing things that are almost as big as they are.
But here’s the catch. All emus look pretty much alike. Especially when you are a tiny stripey adorable thing. All you can see of your dad is is great big dinosaur feet (see picture #1). So there is one very unrealistic thing about all the adorable terrifying dinosaur family photos above:
I have never seen an emu family in the wild where all the babies are the same size.
Here is the reason!
Emu dad and his emu babies are roaming about wonking and glaring at everyone. Suddenly emu dad sees another emu dad! A threat!
Emu dads do some display threats with dancing and bouncing and fluffing and… look, it’s very serious business, okay?
If this does not work to see off one emu they might progress to actual fighting.
Oops, sorry, you wanted the dignified version. Here, have some ART:
MAGNIFICENT.
Either way, this encounter will end up with one or both adult emus zooming away as fast as he can run. This is very fast.
This is the other thing they do besides wonking and glaring, by the way. They run. Fear the running emu.
Anyway, this leaves all the tiny and medium-sized and semi-large stripey things milling around making confused tiny “cheep? wonk?” noises and basically just following whichever pair of large feet they can find.
HI DAD
And so mostly when you see a male emu with a gaggle of youngsters at heel, they are all different sizes. Who knows whose they are? Not him! But he’s going to look after them anyway.
Fear him.
Well this is awkward
I’ve done a lot of volunteer work on scientific research in emu’s! Which involved measuring lots of emu eggs from under nesting males.
The females make this really low booming noise in order to attract a mate that sounds like two empty plastic bottles being hit together and the males will hiss at you if you get to close. But they’re massive cowards and if you step towards them with your hand in the air they get scared and run off (as you can see from this photo i managed to get of a male getting spooked by us when we stepped towards him).
Here is the first tweet of the saga! From tumblr acct @foxfeather who runs a farm and bird rescue in Minnesota! She is amazing! Go to her acct for baby vulture pics! She also has a mostly grown vulture and a kestrel named Stormfly!
totally understand him. i once absentmindedly poked the screen while showing something to my brother on a huge work laptop and it opened a file, we both pogged
Let’s fucking GO Greg dutra local quad cities wetherman
