tara stumpfl

i like animals and having rights also every social media i have is also @tarastumpfl

[tara stumpfl @tarastumpfl]

avatar episode the painted lady shows the effects of pollution (from the military) on the health, business, and nutrition of a small town. it demonstrates how civil disobedience and escalated action meaningfully address societal and environmental issues. in this essay i will

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Love it….bus driver had to get in the mix

[Dan Amira @DanAmira]

Upper West Side

[Project Chimps @projectchimps]

Today, we’re overjoyed to finally introduce the last chimp in this remarkable group, Tweetybird!

To help with their ongoing care, consider donating: https://t.co/whsC54wcdP. From all of us at Project Chimps—including Tweetybird and the other five newest arrivals—thank you.

[Gillian Branstetter @GBBranstetter]

NYC this weekend

[Daily Snoopy @DailySnoopys]

go knicks!

[City & State NY @CityAndStateNY]

This is a place where every day you wake up you could experience everything from the greatest comeback in NBA Finals history to a person who’s celebrating a new business that’s open.

[bern @bigballerbernn]

you're telling me a gar licked this bread?

[tara stumpfl @tarastumpfl]

we as a society should make doors bigger and heavier so that men have to do this

[Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance @DenverZoo]

🐃 Happy #InternationalUngulateAwarenessDay. We have a lot to celebrate this year!

This spring, DZCA welcomed not one, not two... but FIVE ungulate babies to our herds; two Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep lambs, a Cape buffalo calf, a kudu named Ella, and Frannie, our Eastern bongo calf. 🐑

All four babies are out and visible for guests to see! Come meet the newest members of our herd on your next visit. 🐾

#InternationalUngulateAwarenessDay #DenverZooConservationAlliance #DZCA #BabyAnimals #SpringBabies #Bongo #BigHornSheep #CapeBuffalo #SavingWildlifeTogether

[The Ginger Swindler @lilydsmith]

sure elmo

[Ben Crew @BenjaminCrew1]

Beautiful gag in How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) where Marilyn Monroe and Lauren Bacall are fantasizing about marrying a wealthy man and then it cuts to Betty Grable who is just dreaming about a delicious sandwich

[dudugs @ratvisionist]

"lend me some sugar, i am your neighbour" is a verse you couldn't write in modern atomized neoliberal society

[Hania T. Mumtaz @haniainabox]

The Pope is a great example of the idea that cruelty is actually dumb and that kindness and openness come from intelligence. A great juxtaposition to the (techno)fascists of our time. It takes a mind to create a better world, it takes zero to destroy it.

[Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance @DenverZoo]

We’re delighted to share that Hesty, our 15-year-old Sumatran orangutan, gave birth to a healthy male infant on Sunday, May 24! While all our baby births are precious, this is especially exciting for first-time mom Hesty and is a huge conservation win for the Critically Endangered species!

Hesty is already demonstrating strong maternal instincts and bonding beautifully with her son. Because Hesty’s anatomy closely resembled that of her mother, Nias, her dedicated Animal Care teams have spent years proactively training with her so she could voluntarily participate in both her own care and her baby’s care if additional support was ever needed. While the team was prepared to step in if difficulties arose, Hesty and her baby boy have successfully figured things out together, and both nursing and bonding are progressing well.

As expected for any new mom, Hesty is spending most of her time resting behind the scenes and keeping her baby close as they continue to bond and adjust together. Our Great Apes building may be temporarily closed to the public at times to allow Hesty and baby time to acclimate. Stay tuned for more information about member sneak peeks and when baby will make his public debut!

Learn more about Hesty, this adorable new addition and how you can help name him here:https://t.co/hmcOEWlpxp @Intermountain

[Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance @DenverZoo]

Pop Quiz!

How would you describe our new Cape buffalo calf?
A) So silly
B) So cute
C) So good at having bottom teeth
D) The embodiment of "you got any games on your phone?"
E) All of the above

📸: Lead Animal Care Specialist Kim D. and Megan G. and Animal Care Specialist Laura W.

[GL @gldivittorio]

Bar

[Gus Saltonstall @GusSaltonstall]

Ongoing peculiar UWS situation where a man wearing an orange safety vest has been pretending to be a traffic cop for the last week along W. 72nd Street.

He rearranges cones constantly in places that almost make sense and jumps into traffic to direct cars, who then listen to him.

[horse dentist @equine__dentist]

happy mother’s day to these two queens

[tara stumpfl @tarastumpfl]

I’m Crying

[VisionaryVoid @VisionaryVoid]

The Dog Breed That Was Literally a Kitchen Appliance.

For three centuries, every serious kitchen in Britain ran on dog power. The turnspit dog, a short-legged, long-bodied breed officially classified as Canis vertigus, was purpose-bred to sprint inside a wooden wheel mounted on the wall, which turned a chain connected to the roasting spit. First documented in 1576, these animals worked in shifts, running for hours to keep joints of meat rotating evenly over open flames.

They were universally described as ugly. "Long-bodied, crooked-legged and ugly dogs, with a suspicious, unhappy look about them," wrote one naturalist in 1809. The misery was apparently well-founded. Cooks reportedly threw hot coals into the wheel to keep a tired dog running. Kitchens kept them in pairs so each got every other day off, and owners could tell them apart because one always hid on its workday.

On Sundays, the dogs got a reprieve, they were brought to church. Not for salvation, but because they made excellent foot warmers during long sermons. During one service in Bath, the Bishop of Gloucester read from Ezekiel and uttered the phrase "it was then that Ezekiel saw the wheel." Every turnspit dog in the building bolted for the door.

Queen Victoria kept three retired turnspits as pets. But by the mid-1800s, a mechanical device called the clock jack could do the same job without feeding or rest. The breed had no other purpose. Within a generation, every last one was gone. Today, a single stuffed specimen named Whiskey sits in a glass case at Abergavenny Museum in Wales, the only physical proof that an entire breed of dog once existed solely as a living kitchen gadget.

Turns out planned obsolescence has been around a lot longer than the iPhone.