“Oh that animal doesn’t LIKE you it just TOLERATES you”
…..So? If that’s the most a non-social organism can feel towards you isn’t that just as special an honor as whatever it is you think affection means??
“This creature with no natural social instincts outside of mating allows me to freely interact with it, while causing it little stress” is fucking DOPE AS SHIT
also… are you SURE? like, we’re still finding out so much about animals. Wolverines fathers, who we thought were not involved in caring for kits, turn out to travel around and collect all their kits from multiple mothers and take the whole group out on camping trips. Some spiders have tiny frog pets (!) or group up to communally raise their young. Wild sharks, crocodiles, and snakes have formed strong, documented relationships with people.
this man Gilberto (Chito) Shedden nursed this crocodile back to health after it was shot in the eye, and they were best friends for the rest of the crocodile’s life.
this python came in out of the wild as a baby snake and curled up next to the family’s infant, Oun Sambat (or Oeun Sambat?) and they were inseparable for 12 years
Cristina Zenato removes hooks from sharks and they let her stick her hand down their throat to do it and they even bring other sharks who need help to see her.
It’s a relationship that goes beyond a single helpful interaction. For example one of the sharks that would show up when she first started swimming with them was a shark she called Foggy Eye who really didn’t like to be touched. One day, Foggy Eye showed up with a hook in her mouth that Cristina Zenato removed, and ever after, Foggy Eye cuddles when she visits, putting her head in Cristina’s lap and enjoying some petting
We don’t know SO much. Some wolf spiders will adopt unrelated orphaned spiderlings and raise them. We recently discovered that the ant-mimickingjumping spider (below) produces “milk” and suckles its young until they are nearly fully grown.
SO. Don’t assume we know all about what creatures do or feel or whether or not they form social connections or bond with others.
Watch Me When I Kill will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on October 29 via Synapse Films. The Blu-ray will include a bonus CD of the soundtrack by Trans-Europa Express.
Also known as The Cat with the Jade Eyes and as The Cat’s Victims, the 1977 Italian giallo film is directed by Antonio Bido (Bloodstained Shadow). Corrado Pani and Paola Tedesco star.
Watch Me When I Kill has been restored in high definition
in anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen with
DTS-HD MA English and 2.0 mono English and Italian (with English subtitles) soundtracks.
The release features reversible cover art (pictured below). Special features are listed below.
I’ve always viewed the punk aspect as the DIY / grassroots combined with mutual aid / community building. Solarpunk is engineering students and tinkerers hanging out in maker spaces creating things that benefit everyone. Solarpunk is not engineers working for Tesla making shit for the 1%.
If you’re serious about reusing and recycling, you’re gonna find yourself curb picking, hanging out in dumpsters, at garbage dumps, in metal recycling facilities. If you’re super serious about the environment you’re gonna be chaining yourself up to trees, you’ll be at protests, you’ll be creating a ruckus. You’ll be creating.
I often think of solarpunk as a verb. It’s not something you are or are not, it’s something you do. A label is meaningless, that guerrilla garden you created, the community garden you nurture with your friends, your workplace that you helped to unionize - is not.
On this day, 3 August 1939, Walter Altmann and Gunther Mann, two Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany were deported from the United Kingdom. They had left Belgium in a 10-foot (3-metre) dinghy, which they intended to row to England, but bad weather caused them to capsize and almost drown in the Channel before they were saved by a lifeboat. Both said they would have preferred to be drowned at sea than return to Germany. They were returned to Belgium, where they had permission to stay until the end of the month. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1180196262165522/?type=3
Kairo(Pulse) is a 2001 Jananese horror directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Ghosts are coming through into our world through the internet and is set in Tokyo with two parallel storylines. Rumors, odd calls and videos, missing people, and doors sealed with red tape become a frequent presence for two groups of characters in this creepy film The atmosphere, lighting and sounds(or lack of at times) make it a very earie movie in my opinion and is worth a watch. An American remake came out in 2006 with two direct to dvd sequels in 2008, but I really favour the original 2001 version.
