as a huge lover of birds, 90% of the concern against wind turbines being used for energy is literally just pro fossil fuel propaganda. birds ARE at a risk however there is a lot of strategies even as simple as painting one of the blades that reduces a lot of accidental deaths. additionally renewable energy sources will do more in favor of the environment that would positively impact birds (and all of us). one study found over one million bird deaths from wind turbines. while that is a shockingly high number and we should work to drastically shrink it, at least 1.3 billion birds die to outdoor cats on a yearly basis. it was never about caring about birds
there was a study done in 2015 that shows an even greater possible yearly divide than the 2012 one
This fund gets pizza straight to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA picket lines. Please donate if you can and boost this post!
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[ID: tweet by Jess Morse @/chessmorse that says, “The fund is getting low again! We have enough to get to 8/3 (marking 3 months of pizza) but not beyond that. Please share if you can! This is my only platform, so screenshotting and sharing on other apps is appreciated! As long as you don’t pretend to be me, it’s all good.”
The tweet is quoting her earlier tweet: “BUY THE #WGA A PIZZA I’m bringing pizzas to the picketers at Disney, WB, and Universal! Toss me some dough to keep our writers fed! http://venmo.com/u/Jess-Morse $10.97 = 1 pizza (tax included) #wgastrong#wgastrike#writersstrike.” attached is her Venmo QR code. end ID]
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adding some screenshots of her twitter so people can see the difference this makes, there have been over 1000 pizzas delivered!
The thing with the writers strike and actors strike is that. You ALL have to start realizing that the cool creative jobs they paint as “glamorous” in the media are actually ALL struggling in a big way, and basically everyone below “Huge Household Name” is actually often having to spend THEIR OWN DAY JOB MONEY to keep trying and trying to “break into” that household name status.
Like, im a cartoonist. Just starting out, but already fairly successful! My comics are sold in a handful of states, i sell out of my works, and i even have been featured as a finalist in a couple awards shows AND have pieces bought by a cartooning museum. I still barely make a couple hundred per month off it IF IM LUCKY, and spend almost as much trying to print more. Oh yes, i have to print my own comics! And working for a big comic company, they generally require you to bring some level of your own equipment. Heck, even if you make it “big” as a cartoonist…you wanna know how much you get paid if your comic that you spent months of back-breaking labor on is adapted into a marvel movie? A one-time check for $5000. Out of the BILLIONS those movies make, in perpetuity for eternity, you are given $5k. Pre-tax. Pre-agent. Pre-lawyer. (Yes we have agents and lawyers too, quite often). There’s hardly any cartoonists who can afford to quit their day jobs, and even those who do are never living above the lower middle class range.
Now obviously cartooning is not the same as acting or writing, but my point is that we NEED yall to stop thinking just because you see our work as cool that we are living some dream life!!! Basically the only people who are living these dream lives you think of are CEOs of major companies and the occasional celebrity. The rest of us are just out here, struggling to survive just like you, we just happen to have a side hustle which is Kinda Cool.
All the arts. Writing, music, movies, dance, theater, design, all of them are important. We assume people with “real talent” will be able to make a living at them but even the super talented people can’t, and a lot of people who might be super talented never get to try because they have to do something else to keep a roof over their heads.
this is completely true. when i went to school to learn animation, the teachers there (who all worked at the now-shuttered fox animation studios) basically said don’t expect to get paid a lot. you’ll be the cool parent with the cool job, but you’ll never be Really Rich, and that sure is the gd case, ain’t it.
Grizzly 399 is so cool! I went to her Wikipedia page intending to screenshot interesting facts about her, but I would really recommend you go check out the whole thing for yourself.
Grizzly 399 lives in close proximity to humans but has never caused problems or attacked a human - she has taught her many cubs important skills like looking both ways before crossing the road. She has had more triplets than is normal for grizzlies, and is far better at keeping triplets alive than less experienced mothers.
She had 22 progeny, (though not all survived) including Grizzly 610, who in 2011 adopted one of 399’s triplets along with her own two cubs. 399 previously went viral on social media for keeping her quadruplets alive through two seasons, despite bear cubs only having a 55% survival rate.
A beast crushing it on adapting to become more fit for her environment and passing on knowledge to her progeny. Top-tier animal.
Friedman suspects [the removal of the books] is due to her speaking out about the issue on social media.
just another reminder that speaking out WORKS
It should also be a reminder just how little Amazon cares about anything. They refused to remove the books because they expected Friedman not to put up a big public fight. They refused to remove the books because they thought they could get away with it. They’ve decided letting very shitty AI books overrun their platform is profitable and they’re going to keep letting it happen.
It was never a good idea to shop at Amazon, but they’re now on a track that’s going to make their website absolutely unusable for finding actual books written by real people who know how to write enjoyable books.
I love this advice! Subverting a character trait is a great way to really get into the emotional core of a character and see what makes them tick and what makes them change!
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