gay people can never say ily it's always gotta be some shit like letting time pass in the timeline that rests in the palm of your lover's hand hoping his eternal loneliness is lessened by even a fraction while he sacrifices himself forever so you and yours can live freely
thinking about that kakapo egg that got crushed but the conservation team patched it up and it survived
life will persist against all odds
For those who don’t follow kakapo conservation, they are critically endangered parrots who only breed on years where the rimu tree they rely on meet a certain threshold of fruit production. One breeding season in 4 years can be typical, and about half of all eggs laid by kakapo are infertile (they still aren’t completely certain why, it could be a recent population bottleneck) so each fertile egg is worth its weight in gold.
This was one of only 5 fertile eggs laid on the Whenua Hou island population in the 2014 breeding season and it got crushed by its mother on accident. It was mended with glue and tape and incubated by the rangers until hatching.
At 150 days old kakapo chicks are officially added to the population total and given a unique name, until then they are given their mother’s name and a number for birth order laid in the clutch. This chick was known as Lisa-one before officially being given the name Ruapuke by local indigenous Ngai Tahu people.Here he is grown up:
It’s sad when a species is so rare we know them all individually but at the same time I love that you can point at this one bird and say oh that’s Ruapuke, his mom sat on him too hard
[gary and marshall see fionna blip back into her apartment]
marshall: yo
gary: HEY FIONNA YOU'RE BACK!! oh, so much happened while you were gone! uh, me and marshall got to know each other a little and... we're kind of a thing now? Oh, never mind us, what did you get up to?
fionna:
We been told this over and over again. Testosterone (T) is the male drug that makes men “real men”, and estrogen (E) is the female drug that makes women sweet and dainty.
This is a story that makes the hypermasculine narrative about traditional gender roles seem “sciency”. The fact is, however, that this is not how the hormones work.
Did you know that E is made from T?
Gemma Stones writes over at twitter:
If you block your testosterone receptors then your T says “fuck this I’m transitioning” and becomes oestrogen. Your actual hormones themselves can change sex. This is a biology fact.
“Can people change sex” seems like a really fucking dim question in the face of facts like this huh.
This is also why gym bros who take T sometimes get lil titties. your T receptors can only handle so much and the rest of it has to go somewhere! so it becomes oestrogen!
More hormone facts I’ve been told today: Pretty much all of the E in everyone’s body was once an androgen like Testosterone. This happens more in bodies with ovaries because they have more of the enzyme that does it. All oestrogen is transgender.
And here’s a fun graph showing that across a cis woman’s life time she has significantly more testosterone than oestrogen. again, smashing the binary thinking we have of these lil chemical boyos.
[This graph is from a tweet by the urologist Ashley Winter MD, who writes:
“So your whole life, you should have been shown a better graph. Like this one. With Y-axis labelling. Which shows that (in average over the lifespan), WOMEN HAVE MORE TESTOSTERONE THAT ESTRADIOL. Thats right. Every goddamn human has more testosterone than estradiol.”]
Photo from Barbie movie.
