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Jack nicholson in the shining
so tiny; yet robust and strong.
Got any adorable photos of Lasionycteris noctivagans? P.S.: a related question; are LANO capable of taking off from the ground, or are they a 'must drop to fly' bat species?
image description: a black bat with white-tipped fur being held with wings outstretched by a researcher wearing blue latex gloves. image source: Larisa Bishop-Boros, via wikipedia
Silver-haired Bat (Lasionycteris noctivagans) Technically all bats can take off from the ground, however, most species can not do it very well*, and the silver-haired bat is no exception to that.
*There's only a couple species that are known to be good at taking off from the ground: the common vampire bat, the pallid bat, and the New Zealand short-tailed bats.
Another new bat!
My cotton ball sprouted wings!
I literally think the Code of Claw is A. The number one best book to give to middle schoolers to teach them about loss and war BECAUSE IT HAS SO MUCH NUANCE AND RELEVANCE TODAY STILL!!! And it teaches you so much abt grief oh my god I think half the ways I’ve coped with grief come from that series.
And B. ITS SO GOOD GOD THE TWISTS?? THE TURNS??? THE FIVE BOOK BUILDUP THE LAST PAGE???? ITS SUCH A GOOD SERIES I DONT CARE ITS WRITTEN FOR MIDDLE SCHOOLERS
all these fucking fools on my dashboard talk about how they love bats but only show pictures of fruit bats fuck you start posting pictures of all bats i can’t stand this fucking bat erasure
A comic (?) about my love of weird little bats for this halloween
What in the-
McDonnell XP-67 Moonbat shortly before starting ground trials.
Date: November 29, 1943
source
If you're still taking requests for doodles... (quoting from Code of Claw)
"Next, I will sing one for you!" announced Boots, pointing at the bat, who actually flinched.
Or maybe a hypothetical scenario of Angelina and Larry meeting Luxa, with Gregor in attendance? (Gregor having brought Luxa on a topside excursion for pizza, and then his friends just randomly show up at some point through sheer coincidence.) Ooooor, maybe Gregor's school friends dropped by his apartment to meet up, with one of the other tenants directing them to the laundry room 'cause they saw the kid in there as they left… Gregor juuuust departing to the Underland but suddenly hears his friends' voices coming from the approach and he can't just dip because what if they find the access point on their own and the currents at that moment aren't favorable for a non-assisted descent. So he has to get back up into the laundry room quickly and so manages to do so in time but the grate either makes noise as it closes and thus invokes curiosity, or Gregor tries to be stealthy and quietly closes the grate but the other two kids catch him in the act... ...this is all a lead-up to hypothetical scenario/image of Angelina and Larry encountering/maybe chatting with Nike. (Or, maybe it's Ares in the shaft...)
apologies. can't make up my mind on which to choose.
how bout bulldog bat!euripedes wearing one of them novelty fishing hats?
"let any fish who meets my gaze learn the true meaning of fear, for I am the harbinger of death; the bane of creatures subaqueous. for my claws are true and unwavering, as I glide above the surface of the aquatic abyss."
or unaltered text hat, merely strategically transferred from an outdoor store to end up resting atop the head of Euripedes. maybe the brim is lined with superglue too, so it stays on while flying. and resists the best attempts of Vikus to remove it.
UPDATE: they made more changes to their setup battlestation battlewagon
this is so fucking funny
once again thinking about gregor and ares' brief divorce arc, it's honestly unbelievably funny. they're so violence kill and then they aren't speaking for like. a day. but then after that they're completely ride or die for each other
like this is so funny. they're so stupid. then the next time they interact gregor had just hit all the blood balls and ares is whisking him away from everybody and they're besties again
Has this been done yet
Hoary Bat, unknown photographer, (source)
Just a bat hangin out on your dash.
Okay alright sorry for all the sudden German politics influx but lemme explain what happened so far and why Germans are losing it a bit:
The tldr? Our government is getting a divorce and it's turning messy with elections being called early and now being called even earlier.
The longer version?
Okay so, groundwork first:
in Germany there is a coalition currently in power called the Ampel(traffic lights) bc the colours of the party are red, yellow and green (or not anymore or for much longer??). They're centrist slightly more left leaning than right leaning. (You could argue about that I am aware). There has been infighting for as long as this coalition has been going on. It is also the first three party coalition since y know, the Last Time.
So. Enough groundwork. The yellow party (FDP) has a finance minister (Christiane Lindner) it's this guy
You will see him in memes I am sure. We don't like him. He's an asshole and has blocked every meaningful change that the coalition had been trying to accomplish. He also got his finance plan blocked by our highest court because parts were against our Constitution.
(.... I am oversimplifying hard here it's actually more complicated than that and not fully his fault, but it's also not the focus)
What WAS the fault though of him and the FDP was that they had a strong position of "saving money at all costs" which made bigger and bigger rifts with the two other coalition partners who were more leaftleaning. The war in Ukraine, Infrastructure, climate change - there were many places that needed more money and Lidner was like naaahhhhh for no fucking reason other than "oh we need to save money!!"
Long story short there have been arguing all the fucking time and therefore have started to lose approval. Drastically lose approval. As on for the first time since the Last Time there is a far right party in charge for part of the country that is also being investigated for being Nazis. (Oversimplifying again).
Which is. Worrying. You know. Especially with Trump now being elected. It has us all a little skittish.
The finance minister has also now been fired.
You see. We were all still trying to stomach Trump winning the US election, when Scholz, in the same fucking evening, fired Lindner.
And not in a polite way. Nah. Olaf fucking Scholz our Chancellor, notorious for saying literally nothing, and with a running joke that he regularly stops existing bc that man Does Not Take Stances, a spine of wet cardboard, delivered this yesterday evening:
(English subtitles by me you already got this far watch it I spent too much time on this lol)
And it is insane alright. For his standards and German politic standards thats the equivalent of calling Lindner a egomaniacal bitch that has only his self interest at heart and can not be trusted.
Lindner and his party have been pulverised in all recent elections. Which means that after he was fired, the FDP completely withdrew from the coalition and all minister from the FDP resigned.
....well all but one who apparently stayed in his positions because he's leaving the FDP over this. What sort of shitty backstabbing kindergarten fight is this. (Jokes aside hes the minister of transportation and says he needs to stay in office in important projects. Which. True. Having minister resigning en mass is not good)
Alright cool cool cool cool. Current situation yesterday is the following:
So. Trump is president. Fuck.
Lindner got fired! Yaaay!
Wait my goverment is now also falling apart! Fuck.
Which all lead to new elections being called in Germany.
Mind you, that's not usual ok. I know other countries have systems where they can call an election whenever but that is not a thing that normally happens here. We have a schedule alright. (Insert obligatory "Germans and their plans and structure" joke)
So new elections are called for spring, nearly a year early. Cool cool cool. With a right wing rising in Germany and deeply unpopular current leadership. On the eve of motherfucking trump getting elected.
Habeck, leader of the green party and one of the few policians in germany I think is vaguely liked by ppl (the general attitude in German politics is less "I like this guy" and more "you are the least shitty choice I guess") has appearently also nearly started crying after the news broke. So. Yeah.
Now. Let's make this shitshow complete,alright?
There is this party. CDU. They had been in charge for a very long time in Germany. Centrist, right leaning, with the afd on the rising even more right leaning than before. Their current leader is Friedrich Merz, as unpleasant as human beings can go.
He has now called for the new election to be not in a few months but like. To be called next week.
In the current climate.
So yeah. if you're German mutuals and friends are currently going through their own stages of grief - this is why.
For my non-German mutuals wondering wtf is happening in the Bundesrepublik of Beer and Bread, here is an overview over the clown show so far:
Nov 6 - chancellor Olaf Scholz fires minister of finances Christian Lindner (FDP) for being an incompetent little bitch and drags him on live TV, resulting in a government crisis as the three party coalition (named Ampel aka "Traffic Light"), which is ruling the country at the moment, falls apart.
Scholz also calls for a vote of confidence on January 15th which (if lost) will lead to the Bundestag being dissolved, triggering snap elections in March. This sends everyone into a panic because the ultra right-wing AfD (with Best Of hits such as "Russia is sexy.", "We should criminalize abortions and force every woman to have more babies instead of rights." and "Deport all immigrants and traitors." and the inofficial ones such as "Why don't we just kill everyone we don't like, let's start with the queers.") has been gaining support for a while (because MAGA has no monopoly on racism, sexism, hate and overall stupidity) and no one with an ounce of empathy or a triple digit IQ likes that very much and is thus worried they might actually make it into a new coalition.
Nov 7 - minister for justice Marco Buschmann is heartbroken over the Ampel-Aus and resigns.
Volker Wissing (FDP), minister for transport, commits the funniest anime betrayal and backstabs his party in order to keep his job, leaves the FDP but gets promoted to minister of justice as a little treat. The memes skyrocket.
Bettina Stark-Watzinger, minister of education and research, resigns along with Buschmann and gets replaced by Cem Özdemir (current minister for food and agriculture) because agriculture - education - at the end of the day where's the difference, right?
Federal President Steinmeier hands Christian Lindner his official participation certificate in an awkward ceremony at castle Bellevue. This is broadcast live on television so everyone can be sure that the little bitch is really leaving.
Friedrich Merz (CDU) threatens the nation with the promise that if he (Merz) becomes chancellor, he will let Lindner back into the government so they can keep fucking up the country's budget together. Bffs.
Nov 8 - after backstabbing the FDP Wissing's website gets hacked in retaliation to display FDP ads.
Meanwhile concerns are being voiced that snap elections in March might be way too early due to a lack of paper.
Robert Habeck (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen), vice chancellor and minister for economic affairs and climate action, announces that he will be running for the position of chancellor with a social media post that shows him wearing a Swiftie bracelet which spells "Kanzler-Era" (chancellor-era). This sends Gundolf Siebeke from the super conservative CDU spiralling.
Nov 9 - Siebeke fires off a tweet stating that if Habeck becomes chancellor that would of course be totally the fault of women alone (who are all too emotional to make rational decisions) and Germany should "inofficially" consider revoking women's right to vote and officially implement "antiemotional" history lessons in school, earning him a massive shitstorm (completely deserved). Siebeke deletes the tweet.
Nov 10 - previous minister of justice Marco Buschmann processes his grief over the end of the traffic light coalition by composing and uploading a song to Soundcloud (feat. Gregorian chants) which is not exactly a banger but is admittedly still better than 99% of Germany's entries in the ESC these past few years.
Siebeke is still on his misogynistic bs and makes another incoherent and sexist tweet, this time yapping about queens and Christianity while trying to paint himself as the misunderstood victim.
There are sadly no more Volker Wissing memes.
Nov 12 - everyone has agreed to move the elections from March to the end of February because paper is no longer an issue, I guess? However, now everyone is unhappy because the date clashes with the carnival. No joke.
Siebeke changes the banner on his Twitter profile to read "Frauen. Wahl. Recht. Der 19. Januar 1919" / "Women. Right (to). Vote. January 19th 1919" in a pathetic attempt to show how much he actually (not) respects women while at the same time claiming in his Twitter bio that "only conservatism can secure democracy, freedom, rule of law, equality, climate and culture". No comment.
Nov 13 - 113 members of parliament have officially called for the Bundestag to open the long overdue investigation in order to finally ban the AfD.
It has been the longest week in the history of the Bundesrepublik. Everyone needs a fucking break.
To be continued
You know what fuck you
*spell of bnuuy vortex*
I'm not well. But this voidbat helps keep the other void at bay.
Checking in
He hopes you're well
Albino Geoffrey’s tailless bat (Anoura geoffroyi)
@ trinibats
“No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to others is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.”
— Unknown
The worst people who did not learn to love, read a book, meet a neighbor, leave their hometown, study in school, appreciate art, learn an instrument, travel abroad, seek knowledge, reflect on their shortcomings, ask for forgiveness, or work on their insecurities are using a silver-spooned liar and racist bully engorged on resentments to greenlight their cruelty towards people they don't even know.
Fcuk that.
I follow this lady on instagram who rescues cats, and i have been thinking about this video for literal months. behold the transformation of this wretched little beast
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