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Different video, they're just eating a bat in this one, but there's a video somewhere of two toucans sitting high in a tree literally just waiting for the bats to swarm close enough and when they do they get snapped up

OK but what about the video I saw last week of toucans catching and eating fucking BATS

I'd love to meet one of those few. A skateboarder eating that much krill has to be such an amazing spectacle

Spoken like a true mammal

This is crazy in the context of having just finished the Native Tongue trilogy by Suzette Haden Elgin. Great read or listen, describes the world this person imagines.

This feels like a poor response to the "would you rather be alone in the woods with a man or a bear" social profiler. "Yeah but that bear is fat, would you really want to be mauled by a fat bear instead of violated and gaslit by an aLpHa MaLe?!"

Thank you for bringing Rid Kock to my attention.

Ope. There goes the Pope.

Ope, there goes the Pope

It is me. I am that pokemon.

Umm, that's actually fire

I just read a chapter called "Zionism" in a book called "Never Again" by Rabbi Meir Kahane (published 2009), because the book was presented to me by the person who owns the copy as being, like, somehow especially important, something about the author being really good or something. I don't remember exactly. I figured reading this chapter would tell me whether the book is for me (born Buddhist/Jewish in a primarily Jewish/Espicopalian Christian family; celebrated Christmas and Passover but never had a mitzvah, 60% Ashkenazi, yadda yadda), given my lack of education/study of Jewish history. It starts out seemingly taking a neutral/mildly derogatory stance towards Zionism... But by the end of the chapter it's clear he thinks of modern Palestinians as being still responsible as "Arabs" in general for the past persecution of Jewish people in the region. He pretty much says "these dirty Arabs can't possibly be genocided hard enough" (paraphrased), and that's when I put the book down.

I'm not sorry to say: I firmly believe that past atrocities committed against one population by another absolutely do not, in any way, provide a basis for or permission to perform any atrocities in recompense, especially not intergenerationally. Yeah, easy for me to say, being Caucasian, but also, I'm still Jewish, and queer, and disabled, so I don't know what it's like to live with daily racism, but I'm definitely not even actually that close to the top of the social hierarchy