Tag: holy crap

ms-cellanies:

typhlonectes:

The Malabar Giant Squirrel (Ratufa indica), aka Indian Giant Squirrel, is a huge motherfucker, with a body length of up to 14 inches and a tail length of up to 2 ft.

They are important seed dispersers in a variety of Indian forest types, and are well known for smacking the taste out of your mouth for looking at them the wrong way. Keep they name out of your mouth if you know whats good for you. They ride wild boar into battle, and favor the spiked club as a weapon.

photographs: AtlasObscura and Amara Bharathy

I want to know MORE!  We have Fox squirrels in Florida but we’ve devastated (aka developed) most of their natural habitat so they aren’t as common as they once were.  Their body length ranges from 16 – 29 inches and their tails are from 7 to 14 inches long.  I once saw one on a tree trunk in the late 60s.  Stunning!

https://www.arkive.org/eastern-fox-squirrel/sciurus-niger/ 

aegiskitty:

coatntails:

muirin007:

aegiskitty:

hi yes hello my friend made me a DINO FOSSIL BIRTHDAY CAKE that I had to excavate and this is the greatest? thing? ever?

OKAY BUT LISTEN

She SCULTPED DINOSAUR SKELETONS and rocks out of fondant

(she even added texture and shading)

layered the cake into sediment deposits

and filled the top with cake “dirt” so @aegiskitty could excavate the skull with a brush.

This is next-level baking, people.

This friend is a true friend. Never let this one go.

She is a shining, pun-fueled light in this cruel and unforgiving world and I do not intend to.

crunchbuttsteak:

crunchbuttsteak:

Minimum Wage should be indexed to 2% of a city’s median rent.

And here’s why:

Housing costs are the single biggest financial burden facing Americans today.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development define being cost-burdened as spending more than a third of your income on rent. By that definition, over half of the households in this country are cost-burdened. Source

If we want people to be able to afford to live in cities and not get priced out, we have to make a two pronged approach. One is to build houses towards all incomes and price ranges, not just luxury condos. And the other is a robust wage floor so people can actually afford to live.

Fight for 15 is doing an amazing job and I love them, but we have to realize that is quite a few places, $15/hr still isn’t enough to live on.

Which is where the 2% comes in. It allows a minimum wage that is flexible with regards to the costs of living.

And it wasn’t plucked out of thin air either:

Rent should be a third of a persons income, or to restate the equation: income should be three times a person’s rent.

And since a full time job is 8 hrs a day / 40 hrs a week / 160 hrs a month.

So when you do the math, the ideal hourly minimum wage as a percentage of rent works out to around 1.875%, which for ease of calculation is 2%.

Example minimum wages under a 2% rent rule:

  • San Francisco: $67.40/hr
  • New York City: $56/hr
  • Boston: $55.94/hr
  • Los Angeles: $27/hr
  • Houston: $21.38/hr
  • St. Louis: $18.22/hr
  • Billings, MT: $17.16/hr