The Late Rodentocene: 20 Million Years Post-establishment

I cast Summon Kidney Stone

July morning walk along the lake path.

But, for real, do you give a shit about real live Jews? Do you care about the violent antisemitism they face? Do you care about their physical and mental well-being?

OR do you only care about "antisemitism" when it's calling a piece of media out for being "antisemitic?"

Same across all my social media. Also avoiding works by creators that say antisemitic stuff has left me with less and less entertainment to consume.

i finally started just unfollowing people who reblog antisemitic posts on here but now i have run into an entirely different problem

i'm not seeing any fandom posts about things i like on my dashboard anymore. that's the entire reason i use any social media, i want it back

pretty much the only things on my dashboard now are from other jews and they are understandably mostly just posting about the war and their own experiences with antisemitism

why are my options either "i constantly see people saying they want me and my people dead" or "there is nothing fun on my dashboard"

Curious about how NASA will land the next mission to the Red Planet – the Perseverance Mars rover? Here’s your chance to ask our expert! 

After nearly 300 million miles, our Perseverance rover completes its journey to Mars on Feb. 18. To reach the surface of the Red Planet, it has to survive the harrowing final phase known as Entry, Descent, and Landing. Mission engineer Chloe Sackier will be taking your questions in an Answer Time session on Thursday, Feb. 4 from noon to 1pm ET here on our Tumblr! Make sure to ask your question now by visiting http://nasa.tumblr.com/ask. 

Chloe Sackier is a systems engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California. She works on the Mars 2020 Entry, Descent and Landing team, tasked with safely delivering the Perseverance rover to the surface of Mars.

Landing Perseverance on Mars – fun facts: 

The landing system on the mission includes a parachute, descent vehicle, and an approach called a “skycrane maneuver” for lowering the rover on a tether to the surface during the final seconds before landing.

Perseverance will use new technologies for landing, including Terrain-Relative Navigation. This sophisticated navigation system allows the rover to detect and avoid hazardous terrain by diverting around it during its descent through the Martian atmosphere. 

A microphone allows engineers to analyze entry, descent, and landing. It might also capture sounds of the rover at work, which would provide engineers with clues about the rover’s health and operations.

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Been lately getting in the feed a bunch of nsfw content I'd like to like or reblog but don't want that stuff public. Perhaps I should make a second account?

Catcalling :3

The Early Therocene: 30 million years post-establishment

The Tooth Hurts: The Saber-Toothed Daggarat

The mison of the continent of Ecatoria, unlike their relatives in Westerna and Nodera, evolved a pair of prominent tusks as additional defenses against the unique native predators of the Ecatorian continent: the hamyenas. However, not even this would be enough, as eventually in the Early Therocene one species of hamyena eventually evolves to specifically prey upon mison: the saber-toothed daggarat (Smilocynomys scmitarodon).

Roughly the size of a Great Dane, the daggarat is the largest member of a group of distinctly canid-like hamyenas, the zingos. Specialized for running after prey on the open plains, they usually preyed upon smaller quarry such as boingos and hamtelopes, but the arrival of the mison from the northern continent of Westerna 5 million years ago set their sights on new prey -- and more specialized weaponry for tackling larger game.

The daggarat, like all hamyenas, sports a single long 'fang' made from the fusion of its upper incisors into a single stabbing point. However, in the daggarat, this fang can reach a length of up to six inches, and protrudes out of the mouth when the mouth is closed, to avoid injuring its own gums and lips. Hardened enamel protects the modified incisor from damage despite its exposure, and is strengthened with iron much like those of a beaver's teeth, which also grants it a distinctive orange hue. But unlike beaver teeth, the fang of the daggarat is not used for gnawing wood -- but for piercing through hide and flesh.

The primary hunting tactic of the daggarat is through persistence, singling out a straggler from a herd of mison and ambushing it. Able to open its jaws to a frightening 120 degrees, the daggarat quickly lunges in, stabs a few deep wounds into the mison intended to puncture large arteries, and promptly retreats, as an injured mison can easily trample and kill them in its panic. The daggarat then sits back and waits for the mison to move on, before harassing and wounding it again when it stops to rest or drink, putting up a prolonged cycle of attack, retreat, wait and attack once more, a process which can last as long as two to three days until exhausted and wounded, the mison finally succumbs to its injuries and the daggarat is rewarded for its patience with a huge food source that can last it for days.

Daggarats typically hunt in pairs, usually a mated couple, which cooperatively hunt together and aid one another in bringing down their large prey, and share the same den when they shelter at night. The pair are very closely bonded and rarely leave each other's side, and typically mate for life: only taking a new mate should their previous one die. The pair can produce a litter of three to five pups each breeding season (usually every two to three years), which the couple take turns caring for for at least ten months until they are weaned: by then, the father chases off the male offspring to fend for themselves, but female pups stick around for up to two years-- during which the resulting larger pack when hunting with their parents allows them a greater chance of success in quickly making a kill.

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I know this is such a doomer kind of attitude but I genuinely cannot stand it when people go around talking about the ‘silent majority’ when it comes to Jew hatred. There’s two main problems I have with this statement

— Sure, these people might support Jews now, but it’s probably safe to say the majority of people in the world have deeply ingrained biases against Jews. Those biases are easily exploited, easily brought out, and easily radicalised into rabid hatred. See: large swaths of leftist spaces, who honestly seemed like sleeper agents with how fast they openly admitted raping Jews is a moral thing. There’s also the issue of a lot of these silent majority people not supporting Hamas or believing in the Aryan race or thinking that Jews have no culture and we’re just stealing it from everyone else, but still tolerating those ideas being held in other people— it shows that these people neither understand nor care about the gravity of these views, which then makes those precious biases much, much easier to show

and

— The entire point of the silent majority is that they are silent. Sure, they might chat with their Jewish friends about how bad things are, they might express sympathy in private, things like that. But when push comes to shove, when Jews are being actively murdered wide scale, they don’t show up. They leave us in the dirt. They watch quietly as the Gestappo drags their neighbours away. They look away politely as their Dhimmi shopkeeper is beaten in the street for walking on the wrong side of the pavement. They close their blinds when their friend is tied to the stake and burned alive

I know it’s comforting to think of this vague concept of the silent majority, but it’s not actually reality. I know it sucks feeling like you need to have your guard up all the time (and you don’t, just be careful), it’s going to suck a whole lot more if you put yourself into a false sense of security. The silent majority are not our friends. The silent majority are not there for us. The silent majority don’t care. We can’t just live in a nebulous idea of people who quietly tut to themselves whenever they see someone saying ‘glory to the resistance’ or ‘Jews are trying to taint the Aryan race’, we need to focus on the tangible reality, and the people who are actually present

I think this is also why I, and so many other Jews, absolutely love non-Jewish allies. There’s something so indescribably amazing to see people in this world that’s been so horrible to us standing up for us, listening to us, helping us. Allies go through a lot of shit from others because they care about us, I’ve seen it so much— they’ll get vicious hate for just associating with Jews. And they still do it. They still stick with us. Because they care, and it’s just so wonderful

Spread the love to non-Jewish allies, you are so amazing. And to the silent majority, I hope you can become the help that we desperately need