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[🌲MTO🏳️‍🌈 ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 @MTOMauw]

studios are gonna get the wrong message from this thinking they need to throw youtubers money to make movies now instead of figuring out that they need to let artists make passion projects.

[Hedgehog Cabin @HedgehogCabin]

We tend to judge all animal behaviour by what we've learned about those we know - our pets. They are our only frame of reference.
So when we see a hedgehog out in the day, even if we've read somewhere that this means they are seriously ill, we like to prove ourselves right - offer food, see if she eats.
Yes! She's eating, so must be okay, just hungry, right? WRONG!
Wild animals are completely different to domesticated animals. They have a survival imperative to eat, even when dying, because there's no telling when they may find food again.
This has been bred out of our domesticated animals.
So appetite is NOT an indicator of heath.
You can only tell a hedgehog is ill because of their abnormal behaviour.
As nocturnal animals, being out in the day is abnormal - no matter how 'healthy' they look.
Once out in the day they are dying.
It's an emergency.
They need urgent treatment from a good rescue (never a vet).
This example is from last year, but it's still happening now, today:

Poor dear Henry was seen out in the day.
He 'looked' normal, so was fed and left.
On day 2 he came out again.
By now he was walking a lot slower.
The finder emailed me (see below - sadly I get an email like this almost daily).
Emails and messages are for non-emergencies only. Like all rescues I have to triage my work, there simply aren't enough hours in some days, and messages often sit for 2 or 3 days before I have time to read them.
A hog out in the day is an emergency.
You need to phone and speak to a rescue, immediately, that same day.
Luckily for Henry I skim read my messages, just in case of emergencies like this.
Yet it was another 24 hours before the finder read my urgent reply.
If you regularly follow a hedgehog rescue and know all this stuff inside out, it's easy to judge these finders. But they are good, kind, intelligent people, and were just doing what is advised on hundreds of wrong and misinformed websites.
Including sites you'd think you could trust.
As soon as I spoke to them and explained the urgency, they had no hesitation in driving the hour and a half round trip from Windsor to get the casualty here.
This poor darling, the dear boy who would have been left to his own devices, is Henry.
Henry is old (hogs can live as long as dogs, but most are lucky to see their 3rd birthday).
The brown pigmentation on his nose and feet has completely worn away, leaving them pink. His eyes and ears are full of mites and ticks (the mites look like grains of sand in the photo).
His thin, fragile chest is full of lungworm so breathing is difficult for poor Henry.
His tummy is full of roundworm, so no matter how much he eats he can't get any nourishment from the food, so is slowly starving to death.
At his age he should weigh well over a kilo.
But Henry is so sick, this poor sweet old man weighs just 451g.
You can see all of this because you're looking at a still, close up photo and I'm pointing it out to you.
A quick glance of Henry out on the lawn would reveal nothing out of the ordinary.
Sick hedgehogs don't always look sick.
But the fact they are out in the day tells you that they are.
Henry's prognosis was extremely poor. But after intensive treatment here he miraculously survived, and after 2 months recuperation he was released back home, to the wild.
But there are many others who aren't so lucky.
Please spread this information as far as you can, in the hopes we can save other little Henrys out there.

[Maple @MaplePrism]

WE ARE WINNING.

DO NOT STOP.

DO NOT QUIET DOWN.

BE EVEN LOUDER. BE MORE ANGRY. FORCE THEM TO BACK ALL THE WAY DOWN.

@discord MUST UNDERSTAND.

[Gilly @profesh_baby]

I made a comic about why you should be masking in 2026 (spoiler: it’s to protect yourself and your community)

A thread...

[Valour Software @ValourApp]

It's a great time to learn how to set up a small private VPN. It's not hard - and it may protect your freedom in the not so distant future.

[Jessica Robinson @SunseedJess]

I know I'm a big advocate for quiet rooms in general at events but this is above and beyond. It makes me really happy to see

[Cody Fandom @CodyFandom_]

PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE!

Dinosaur Valley State Park in Glen Rose, Tx is in danger!!! Please help spread the word.

They want to install a 2600 ACRE data center there that will destroy the natural resources.

[Cheshire @Thatsregrettab1]

Happy 2nd Anniversary - for those who celebrate!

https://t.co/VkPkemp1LO (the article download button doesn't seem to work... hmm).

[SUDA51/須田剛一 @suda_51]

This is awesome!!!

[ɴᴀᴅɪ.🤍 @luvblessingz]

i still think about how when the black panthers started feeding kids free breakfast, the federal government literally was so angry that they started raiding the locations where kids were still eating. this is all intentional and designed.

[sanstitre (commissions closed) @sanstitre2000]

Never in human history has commissioning art not been a luxury

[tre @trecomics]

I wanted to bully Ken a bit

[🔞 Gaz in Kamurocho ⛩ ガス @GazKamurocho]

Happy Valentine's Day 💘

#yakuza #龍が如く #真桐 #kazumaji #真島吾朗 #桐生一馬 #RGG #likeadragon #comic

[𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕾𝖊𝖓𝖘𝖎𝖙𝖎𝖛𝖊 𝕻𝖊𝖗𝖛𝖊𝖗𝖙 @komaedajr]

#holmat #holidaymatsuri #holidaymatsuri2025 has anyone seen a small pink my melody shaped coin purse 😭 please contact me ASAP!!!! i cant find pictures but it looks like this kinda ⏬

[alpha @omarsbigsister]

If you live in any of these states, blast your senators for co-sponsoring such a HORRIFIC bill

Illinois
Iowa
Rhode Island
Missouri
Montana
Tennessee
Connecticut
Florida
Vermont

And everyone else, call your senators and tell them NO SECTION 230 REPEAL
https://t.co/vpIy5cunPR

[miss xo @venusian_doll]

hi yall!

my dear friends dad was unfortunately detained by ICE while getting materials at home depot for work! please help me help my friend bring his dad home and not let these people tear another family apart

https://t.co/acL8kPlzPJ

[🔞 Gaz in Kamurocho ⛩ ガス @GazKamurocho]

Brahk's Goromi looked so cute in that comic that I needed to sketch her 🥺💕

[john secco and lata @transecco]

back when golden wind was airing if you dared to even mention cioccolata and secco people on social media would talk about you like you were a minecraft youtuber after a 74 page long google doc callout