Please signal boost this for anyone that owns a dog, works with dogs or knows someone with a dog, this is SO IMPORTANT.

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bpdramsaybolton:

edgebug:

we-have-all-got-battle-scars:

A lot of dog owners give their dogs peanut butter. It’s great as a treat given in small quantities and most dogs love the stuff. But PLEASE check the ingredients before giving it to your dog. There is a sweetener called XYLITOL, often found in chewing gum, dental hygiene products and it can also be purchased as a sweetener itself, and now they’ve started putting it in some peanut butters. It is EXTREMELY TOXIC to dogs and can be potentially fatal if not dealt with immediately when ingested by a dog. Check the ingredients, if XYLITOL is mentioned then PLEASE DO NOT FEED IT TO YOUR DOG! If you suspect your dog has ingested XYLITOL, which can often happen through dogs finding chewing gum in bags (they like the smell of mint), or if they do happen to have peanut butter containing it, call your vet straight away. I’m a dog trainer, I see lots of goods, but I also see the bads, and the last thing I want to see is dogs coming to harm because people are unaware of this so please if there’s one thing you do then reblog this or at least tell people about it. Thank you so much!

http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/xylitol.asp

THIS IS 100% LEGIT. Xylitol can cause a HUGE surge of insulin in dogs and in higher doses is toxic to their livers. Three grams of xylitol can kill a 65lb dog.

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#death tw #dog #the more you know #we gave our dog an empty peanut butter jar to lick the remnants out of yesterday #luckily Wegmans regular peanut butter doesn’t have xylitol #(no we don’t have Wegmans in Canada) #(Wegmans peanut butter is cheaper and tastier than No Name so we buy a bunch whenever we go to America)

Schrodinger’s Kid?

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deelaundry:

My younger kid:  “I don’t want to die.  I want to live forever.”

My older kid:  “It’s not that everybody dies, it’s just that everybody so far has died.”

Roughly (very roughly) 107 billion people have ever lived. Given a living population of 7 billion, this means it’s much too soon to use that saying that “life is a condition with a 100% mortality rate”. Empirically, life is a condition with a ~93% mortality rate.

Seven percent of all the people who have ever lived, it’s not too late to save.

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#death tw #transhumanism #if I ever decide to make a specific anti-deathism tag it will be ‘seven percent of all the people who have ever lived can still be saved’

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ds9vgrconfessions:

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[Why did Odo decide to take a male form? Did he just model after Mora, or is it how he most identified?]

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#Star Trek #DS9 #Odo #gender #personally I think that he was originally modelling after Mora and then got into the habit of it #I suspect me being strongly cis is due–at least in part–to a general tendency to form strong habits #and Odo has such a tendency #if he gets attached to things like patrol schedules or furniture placements that were originally mostly or entirely arbitrary #it makes sense that he would get attached to his originally-mostly-arbitrary gender

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This is my home! This is my home! How can you sit here within it and tell me that nobody lives here?!

(and say it like it’s obvious, say it with condescension, I am so fucking sick of my lived experience being met with condescension and casual declaration of impossibility, or at best saying that it may well have happened but I should still shut up and just let the first-generations speak, their problems their experiences are more numerous more important the only ones worth public acknowledgement)

(You say you want a world like mine, a world with people like me in it. You say you work to achieve it, to achieve us. Decide now how you will react to us when we come to be, for we are already here. You cannot afford to wait until you deem the tide to be turning in your favour, for the world is vast and contains multitudes and the tide is always in your favour somewhere, even if those places are small. Even if those places are small, they may still be big enough to raise a child.

Decide now. Decide wisely.)

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#my issues with sj let me show you them #in which Brin hails from a subculture in deep denial about its own subcultural status #did you know? #in the particular SJ sub-subculture where I was raised ‘queer’ *had been* reclaimed #past tense #it was just what you said when you wanted an umbrella term for people who weren’t straight #(sometimes also people who weren’t cis) #you didn’t have to be queer to use it #connotations of the word were neutral-to-positive #I didn’t even know for seventeen years that it had *ever* been negative #that’s how thoroughly it had lost that negativity #I’m probably the only person reading this who actually knows what a successfully reclaimed word looks like in practice #everyone else I’ve met on the Internet comes from places where it hasn’t been done and thinks those places are the only places #I’ve watched that ignorance hinder their own attempts at reclamation #rants #oh look an original post #(I’m not even thinking of a particular person right now this just happens to me a lot) #(the following category tag was added retroactively:) #our roads may be golden or broken or lost

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comparativelysuperlative:

michaelblume:

Alicorn: Did you know that if you laid all the arteries and all the veins in your body end to end you’d *die*?

Me: Did you know that if you weighed all the kidneys of all the people in San Jose you’d get arrested?

Alicorn: Did you know that if you married someone from the state of Ohio you’d be a bigamist?

Me: Did you know that if you laid all the voles in Kentucky end to end, they’d wander off long before you were finished?

Do you have ANY IDEA how many utils you two just created?

#The San Jose one is false #due to lack of people to do the arresting #and your own Untimely Demise if you’re not doing it remotely

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#overly literal interpretations

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dcnnanoble:

if you’re american, you should totally do this dialect test

it’s super interesting

Two of my top three are Newark/Paterson and Boston, the closest cities to the childhood hometowns of my parents. The red blob in the Northeast roughly corresponds to the part of America I think of as “home territory”, though it extends a bit too far north and isn’t quite red enough in the western Massachusetts/Connecticut area. Nice job, quiz.

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#language #home of the brave