The Texas State Aquarium has taught their crow to play connect four and I am DELIGHTED.

why does the texas state aquarium have a crow

it works there

a fated pair of star-crossed bunnies 🩷🐇

um yeah his name was Wheatley

how must the Dick -> Jason Robin switch have looked to the Gotham Rogues. it's not as if they did a formal 'attention, Robin has quit his job and will now be operating as Nightwing' announcement. like after a certain point it must have become like a Known Thing that periodically Batman gets new sidekicks. but that first changeover must have messed w people's heads right??

like. you are a B-list Gotham Rogue. You haven't seen Robin in months. You've asked around and no-one else in the circles you move in has seen him either. You're starting to get worried but you aren't sure if you have the kind of relationship with the Batman where it would be appropriate to ask after his sidekick's wellbeing. Every time he shows up Robin-less you get progressively more stressed out.

you are a B-list Gotham Rogue. Batman has Robin again but he is very clearly a different, significantly younger boy. This suggests that the OG Robin being gone is a permanent state of affairs. You're starting to fear the worst. You're like 85% sure Robin died and Batman quietly replaced him with a different child in the same costume. You've been asking around to see if someone killed him but no-one will admit to knowing anything. You really want to ask but you don't feel comfortable asking the Batman if his sidekick got murdered, especially not with the new kid right there.

you are a B-list Gotham Rogue and you're fighting Nightwing for the first time, he's usually over in Bludhaven so you haven't crossed paths with him before. And wow this guy's voice sounds really familiar but you can't place it - wait Robin?? Oh my god Original Flavour Robin is that you?? Hey buddy how've you been?? Love the new costume! We're so relieved we all thought you'd died!! :D Hey ow-

*B-List Rogue has been apprehended by the Batman and is sitting around waiting for the police to show up*

B-List Rogue: hey you know you could have told us the og Robin was Nightwing now

Batman: why the hell would I do that

Batman: wait how do you know that?

B-Lister: I've met you guys a bunch of times? I know what his voice sounds like and what most of his face looks like? so I recognised him?

Batman:

Batman: ok but why would we tell you? do you not understand how the whole masked vigilante with secret identity thing works?

B-Lister: you son of a bitch I thought he was dead?? he straight up disappeared and I thought he'd died or something?

Batman: what the hell do you care

B-Lister: ..................I rob banks and do museum heists and you know all my methods are non-lethal, so yeah I care??

B-Lister: I don't want your kid sidekick dead??

Batman: alright but I don't understand why you assumed he was dead just because he stopped being Robin.

B-Lister:

B-Lister: he disappeared for months and then you partnered up with a similar looking kid in the same costume, do you have any idea how creepy this whole situation looks from the outside??

Jason, who's been standing off to the side throughout this entire interaction: I'm getting kind of uncomfortable

B-Lister: ...yeah that's fair I'll shut up

B-Lister:

Jason:

Batman:

B-Lister: so did you end things or did he end things or what

Batman: absolutely none of your business

Jason: he quit

Batman: Robin!!

B-Lister: haha yikes.

After this Bruce realizes he should make some kind of statement so that people don't think he got Robin killed, so the next time there happens to be a news camera around he goes up to it like

Batman: I would just like everyone to know, the original Robin is alive, he, uh, moved to a farm, up state...

Everyone in Gotham: Holy shit Original Robin is so dead...

Batman: the original Robin is alive, he moved to Bludhaven

Everyone in Gotham, knowing that no-one ever voluntarily moves to Bludhaven: oh my god he's fucking dead

tiny prophet spotted

THE INSECTS ARE IN AGREEMENT

dear my fellow southern wisconsinites, it looks like we may get a rough start to winter this year (number 5)

Are you supposed to read them right to left or left to right? How do you know if you’re reading the wooly worm backwards? 🤔

you read it from the head end! in the infographic, the "head" is on the left. (in my pictures their heads are on the left as well)

@bunjywunjy how accurate were your prophets this year?

we had an extremely harsh opening and now it's snowy and milder, so I'd say pretty dang accurate

Millennials: That game system from my childhood is old? How can I be old too?

Me: That movie came out a few years before I was born so it's not THAT old.

That gun was made in WWI so it's not yet old

With these upgrades it should be good for another 50 years or so, it's not old yet.

Stop just asking "is it normal?" and start asking "is it harming anyone?" Lots of harmful things are normalized in this society and lots of things considered weird or rare are completely harmless. Whether something is considered normal or common shouldn't be the deciding factor in whether it's okay

Like a lot of disabled and neurodivergent and mentally ill ways of living and expressing yourself are both not normal and not harming anyone and it's the last part we should focus our attention on

@heterodox-heterographer you've hit the nail in the head

Other standards that should not be confused with being moral:

from a thread about cheese

i forgot that when you model swapped sherry for some reason it unlocks the firing rate of every weapon and just nearly passed out laughing

Alexis Mata - Volcán Universo, 2025 - Oil on canvas

it’s not accurate 100% of the time, but any time you’re in a fandom environment and someone tells you the only way you can be a true fan is to support (ship/character interpretation/fanon agreement) or frankly any other “rule”, that’s not a healthy fan environment and I promise you will be happier elsewhere.

uh, source?

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