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This always makes me happy, because the source video shows that the shark actually wanted this. It experienced it once and then kept coming back for more petting.
(also, because i’ve seen comments about this: the shark is able to breathe while still, not all species need to be in motion to pass water through their gills. If you look closely, you can see its gills pumping)
I would very much like if more people would pet sharks and be good to them instead of trying to hurt them please
Sharks are very lovely and should get pettings like these more :)
MythBusters did an episode on how to survive a shark attack and a shark’s nose is so sensitive that a gentle tap is all you need to drive it away. The guy sat on the ocean floor with a bucket of chum and didn’t get attacked once, when hungry sharks swam up he’d give them a boop on the nose and they’d swim away. So if the shark is friendly, pet the snoot. If the shark is dangerous, boop the snoot. Either way, no one dies.
Boop the snoot
Reblogging for adorable shark and ‘boop the snoot.’
If any of y'all try to say, “We survived Reagan, we’ll survive this,” expect a fucking earful from me.
Have you ever noticed that young gay men seem to vastly, overwhelmingly outnumber old gay men?
We most certainly did NOT survive Reagan.
As someone who personally survived the Reagan/Thatcher years, I’m gonna second this. The minimal margin by which some extremely fortunate and possibly privileged members of our community crawled out of the smouldering wreckage of that period is not actually a sign that ‘we’ survived. We, as a cultural group, lost so much and so many that modern LGBT+ culture is essentially reinventing the wheel as far as cultural concepts go. We didn’t survive. We started over.
This. Its true for LGBTQ people with Reagan and you know what? It’s true for us and these MOTHERFUCKING NAZIS.
Jews didn’t “survive” the Holocaust. They killed 6 million of us which prevented more than ten million of us from EVER BEING BORN due solely to Nazi exterminations and nothing else. And aside from murdering us like we were on an assembly line, Nazis just like Bannon and Trump’s people systemically destroyed more than a thousand years of European Jewish culture, history, literature, religious teachings, architecture and just general knowledge in about a dozen countries by destroying them (books, records, personal property, businesses and synagogues), or giving away to gentiles (books, art, jewelry, private homes, privately owned businesses, livestock, pets, personal possessions) so we wouldn’t have the resources either to put those communities back together afterwards.
Look around Europe today. Where are the Jews? Find one, go on. You’ll find a few, maybe but not many. We don’t live there anymore because we weren’t just wiped out, we were also driven away. We had to start over in new countries that spoke new languages with dead relatives and a failed world on our backs. We were destroyed and we still haven’t picked up the pieces - not with the stats showing Judaism on a decline all around the world.
So not again, goddamnit. Not to anyone else.
Modern Hebrew as its used today is only about 50 or 60 years old. It had to be RECONSTITUTED from biblical Hebrew. THOUSANDS of modern words had to be created, in fact a system to create the words had to be created (i.e. how nouns and verbs are related, someone runs, they are a runner) so that it was somewhat organic. Because we lost so much. It is possible that without the staggering black hole of history some of the other common dialects would have taken their place as the main language, but the truth is a concerted effort had to be made to recreate Jewish History and Culture.
The next four years are not just about surviving. They are about fighting back. They are about PROTECTING those under attack.
Never forget. Not any of this.
Start keeping archives. I mean that.
Buy a terrabyte if you can. As many as you can. Back up your personal data. But more than that, start downloading things. Science papers and books and music and essays and news articles. Letters and fanfic and IM logs.
Ours is the generation that has the most corespondance of any generation before ours. Our artifacts exist in a virtual world, and we have to create spaces to keep that data safe. We’ve got decades of conversations saved to our hard drives and clouds and servers.
We’ve got to look at this coming time as the horror it is. We know this story, as Norcumi said so eloquently. We know this story and we know how it starts. It starts with the rhetoric and the hate and then it ends with people looking upon burning libraries and screaming for it to stop.
The decentralization of our data could save our lives. Keep as many archives as you can. Aggressively hoard information. Check facts and figures, double check, then archive all those things.
Think about what would happen if wikipedia was just gone, one day.
We can’t allow this to happen to us. Save what you can. Save the things it would break your heart to lose. Defy the idea that our online lives are not important. They ARE important.
In fifty years, we’re not going to have the paper copies of these letters, unless we print them out. If we can’t print them out, we’ve got to save them to privately owned hard drives, and then we have to make sure that nobody can ever find them if it comes to that.
This is a brilliant addition, and something we’re already doing ourselves. Watch Newegg’s daily sales–they often have 8 terrabyte drives for incredibly low prices, and those prices are falling each month as higher capacity drives start to become more common.
