I have never experienced as much abject excitement as this baby emu is experiencing over this cat toy. This is also a really good video of good stress! This baby is so excited (stimulated-excited but in a good, pleasant way) it can barely handle it, and you can also see that it does not want the ball to touch its feet, and runs around/away when it is overwhelmed by the existence and proximity of this ball. It doesn’t know what it is, and it is learning, and if I may say so… having a ball doing so! This is great supervised enrichment for the little one (wouldn’t recommend leaving the bird alone with it, as it might be small enough to eat)!
Emus are increasingly becoming a commonly kept farm bird, and do well being hand raised indoors like this. My understanding from those who keep them in my communities is that the males especially benefit from this, and remain sweet into adulthood.
there’s a big difference between “food waste” as in “farmers destroy tons of food to avoid exceeding quotas” or “supermarkets throw away this much edible food because it doesn’t sell”
and “food waste” as in “it is not actually within the capacity of humans to perfectly predict and track household food consumption, so a certain amount of food per household inevitably goes bad and has to be thrown out every year”
the idea that food waste is the product of thoughtless consumers rather than corporate greed is really insidious
thinking about fleetwood mac and how they actually sang songs about each other. and performed them. about how much they loved or hated each other like what the fuck how
I mean can you imagine. singing about how somebody broke your heart and they’re literally harmonizing. they’re right fucking there. they’re in touching distance. insanity! complete insanity! I would either break down crying or fully snap and break their neck
fucking. silver springs!!! ‘you’ll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you!’ no fucking kidding he won’t stevie he’s literally behind you playing the drums! absolute madlads
This live performance feels like I’m watching my parents fighting in the kitchen
Underrated Tumblr meme: responding to some niche knowledge gripe with “things are heating up in the X fandom”, where X is the relevant profession or field of academic study and not a traditional fandom.
