So how's your Monday going?

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William

Mr. Shatner to you

Who knew?

  

"Hyenas: Always getting a bad rap because lions are jerks. Lions actually steal from hyenas most of the time because hyenas are the better predators — but they’re also very skittish when faced with a giant pride of cats. Adorable babies!

Okay, lemme tell you about spotted hyenas, aka the BAMFiest BAMFs in the animal kingdom.

Their societies are entirely female-dominated. Female hyenas are larger and stronger than males and have higher social status in clan hierarchy - even the lowest-ranking female in a hyena clan is higher up the social ladder than the highest-ranking male. They’re basically the Amazons of the animal world. The females even have false penis-like appendages (which are essentially large clitorises), which led the ancient Greeks to think that hyenas were hermaphrodites. Because fuck your narrow human perceptions of sex and gender roles, that’s why.

They are considered the dominant predators of the African savannah, despite not being the largest or strongest, because they are the most successful hunters. Their hunting success rate is estimated to be about 70-80%, meaning that they catch about 70-80% of prey they pursue - a freakishly high statistic (to compare, the success rate of lions and wolves is about 20-30%). They also scavenge much less than lions do, as whowasntthere said, and are incredibly adaptable and opportunistic predators, meaning that they are also the most common and widespread of the large African carnivores. That’s not too bad for an animal typecast as a lazy scavenger.

Their jaws are some of the strongest in the animal kingdom, stronger than those of lions, tigers, wolves or perhaps bears, and can crush elephant and giraffe bones; hyenas are also able to digest all bone matter. Don’t tell me that’s not metal as fuck.

Despite looking like dogs, they are not part of the dog family and are actually more closely related to cats. Because fuck your logic. Nature does what it wants.

They are incredibly intelligent. They are easily as intelligent as primates and some scientists claim that their intelligence may even rival that of the great apes, which would make them among the most intelligent animals in the world. Hyenas even outperform chimpanzees on some tests, which is pretty damn awesome, considering that chimpanzees are our closest relatives and all.

So yeah, basically hyenas are awesome and badass as well as truly fascinating animals and if you don’t have at least a bit of respect for them you’re wrong."

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It's the weekend

Go boating

Because gay marriage is legal in space.

Yes!

That's got to smart.

Owning a dog

Is it for you?

ROLLIN` SAFARI - what if animals were round?

Freedom

No money. No family. 16 in the middle of Miami.

Never Forget. Remembering the UpStairs Lounge

The anniversary was Thursday. I thought I had posted about this before but can't remember.  It's such a damn shame, particularly the aftermath and the hatred blocking the mourning.  We've come  along way

Read more: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2013/06/24/remembering-the-upstairs-lounge-the-u-s-a-s-largest-lgbt-massacre-happened-40-years-ago-today/#ixzz35kOc6avw

Many many years ago, ilduce put himself though college working in a bookstore.  The bookstore was a block or so from the Boston common During the summer months we had a patron who liked nothing better than to sunbath on the Boston common and then come shopping for books after.  This would not have been a problem if he had brought clothes with him, other than the speedo he insisted on wearing, that is.

Speedos are small, speedos are confining, speedos have no pockets, nor did the flip flops he wore wiht his jaunty little speedo ensemble.  Are yous tarting to get the picture?

It was amazing the speed with which every cashier i the store would announce they were taking hteir break upon realizing Mr. Speedo had entered the premises.  And woe to that cashier not paying attention upon Mr. Speodos arrival because they would find themselves at the lone last open regiister ringing up Mr. Speedos books and taking his very warm very damp cash in hand

Of course, if Mr. Speedo had looked like this....

I would have handled his money and insisted on making change

#5 resonates with me.

It was probably a librarian

Tea leaves collected from Boston harbor the morning after the Boston Tea Party. 

Label reads:

“Tea that was gathered up on the Shore of Dorchester Neck on the morning after the destruction of the three Cargos at Boston December 17, 1773.”

"i’m so pleased that this means someone during the event was like “yeah this is probably gonna be historically interesting” and just ran out there with, like, what, a net? some cloth? fishing around in the fucking bay to collect tea to put in a bottle? you go, buddy

Good job, anonymous 18th century person.  Your commitment to historic preservation pleases me."

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The Animal Rescue Site is having trouble getting enough people to click on it daily so they can meet their quota of getting FREE FOOD donated every day to abused and neglected animals in their shelters.

It takes less than a minute (only about 15 seconds actually) to go to their site and click on the purple box titled, ‘Click Here to Give - it’s FREE!’. Every click gives about .6 bowls of food to sheltered dogs. You can also click daily!

Keep in mind that this does not cost you a thing. Their corporate sponsors/advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate food to abandoned/neglected animals in exchange for advertising. [via]

Go to the website HERE.

Root causes

Photospreads for Ah Men Clothing Line, 1965

Truffle hunting

Carol Ruth and Burt

This is why we can't have nice things.

The fire department in the southern German university city of Tuebingen extracted a 20-year old American exchange student after he got trapped inside a giant vagina sculpture. Read more.

So how's your Monday going?

 

Untamed & unashamed

Just the way I like em!

I'll take the ad and the fridge.

And it's on wheels no less!

It's the weekend

Hit the gym

Best seance ever.

 "I made a point of stopping by her trailer for cocktails and such. Now the leading man on this film was Jeff Chandler, a terribly nice young man, very good-looking, and he and Joan were in the middle of a very steamy affair. I remember Joan staying on after filming and Jeff remained as well. We were about halfway through the film when Joan invited me to her house for a small dinner party and I really had made very definite plans and had to decline. Well, she seemed alright with it, until the next morning I arrived on the set only to find my trailer had been physically moved almost to the parking lot of Universal…You learn not to say ‘no’ to Miss Joan Crawford unless you wish to suffer the consequences."  -Natalie Schafer 

And one more shot of Mr. Chandler, Why not?

In memorium

Vincent Chin was a 27-year-old Chinese American raised in Metro Detroit. A week before his wedding, June 19, 1982, he went to the Fancy Pants strip club in Highland Park with a few buddies for his bachelor’s party. There, they encountered two autoworkers, Ronald Ebens and Michael Nitz, who, like many at the time, blamed the Japanese for the U.S. auto industry’s troubles. At the time, the American auto industry was in a crushing recession and much of the hostility was directed at Japan. (President Bush senior ahd been making speechs and mentioning such only a few days before)Mistaking Chin for a Japanese American, two white autoworkers began to harass Vincent with racial epithets and a fight broke out. Even though Chin was not Japanese and worked in the auto industry himself as a draftsman, Ebens was heard saying, “It’s because of you little m—f—s that we’re out of work,” as well as other anti-Asian racial epithets. 

The men were thrown out of the bar, and the fight continued in the parking lot and into the night. Ebens and Nitz searched for Chin and his friends, and upon finding them after a half hour pursuit, Nitz held Chin in a bear hug while Ebens struck Chin’s head four times with a baseball bat, cracking his skull. 

Vincent Chin died four days later. His wedding guests attended his funeral instead.

Via Remembering Vincent Chin

You lend what?

Seed Lending Libraries Crop Up Around Massachusetts

CONCORD, Mass. — There are lending libraries for tools, fishing poles, telescopes, even baking pans. Now gardeners are increasingly finding places to “borrow” too, as seed lending libraries crop up across the country. WBUR's Andrea Shea visited one in Concord to find out more about this growing movement.

Full story here

By Andrea Shea June 18, 2014

Quads!

Always in style!

I can't get this number out of my head

Nor do I want to.  It's fantastic.

Think about it.

Still dieting down

About to go stricter and harder in reducing carb portions to get rid of the last 10 lbs of body fat. I'm sure the cravings are going to kick in at that point.

I'm sure I'll be craving pie pretty soon