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Discover one of the world’s cutest birds—the Japanese “snow fairy,” also known as the Shima-enaga.

Happy World Frog Day! Big respect for frogs. While they are often misunderstood, they are truly vital when it comes to ecosystem health, and as an important indicator species, they keep environments in check, and serve as a natural pest control.   Here at the Zoo, our Conservation team’s work to repopulate and re-establish frog species where they were once numerous, in concert with our many partners, has been a long road, but has made a difference.   On this day, we honor the mighty frog, many endangered around the world due to habitat loss and disease.   This weekend, come visit our conservation pop-up table from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. outside Amphibian Alley, to learn about frogs and the work to protect and save them.

science is so dumb bro. It’s like “ok heres the laws of physics and how stuff works most the time. but if u go faster than the SPEED OF LIGHT time breaks and everything goes backwards. U can become ur own grandpa. U can destroy reality.” just say we don’t actually know anything.

“The greatest pain a person can endure is not hunger, poverty, or even death, but to love in a world that does not acknowledge their love — to give their heart completely and receive only emptiness and silence in return. Within us, we carry a terrifying contradiction: we seek love, yet we fear it; we long for closeness, yet we flee from it; we adore the other, yet we doubt them. What absurdity is this, that makes us cling to those who leave and neglect those who stay? I wonder: Is love a test of our strength or a revelation of our weakness? And is the loneliness we escape from nothing more than the natural consequence of every love that was never reciprocated?” — Fyodor Dostoevsky

if you're around people who can confidently speak up when your behaviour is impacting them negatively, it means they have respect for themselves, and it means they are teaching you how to love them. because they value you enough to keep you in their lives.

I actually fell in love with this sentence: "Forgive yourself for not knowing earlier what only time could teach."

May the force be with you 🙏✨✨

The brain doesn't burn out from stress, it burns out from emotional overthinking... Here's the cure 🧵

Someone said, “This is your life… and you’re letting people make you miserable in it?” And that really made me pause. Because when you think about it, this is the only life you get. The only timeline that belongs to you. And sometimes we hand over control of our mood, our peace, and our joy to people who aren’t even managing their own. It made me realize how much power we give away without noticing. At some point, you have to decide: if this is my life, why am I letting outside energy run it? That thought stuck with me.

I don’t think people realize how heavy it is to always feel like you don’t belong anywhere. Always the one left out, misunderstood, or just… there. Not hated, but not chosen either. That kind of rejection builds a wall you don’t even mean to have. It’s been like that my whole life. And yeah, I’ve learned to deal with it, but deep down it’s a wound that never fully heals. I may not ever fit in or belong anywhere, & I’m learning to just be okay with that.

my therapist told me this and it hit me: “healing is so hard because it is a constant battle between your inner child who is scared and just wants safety.... your inner teenager who is angry and just wants justice.... and your current self-who is tired and just wants peace."

the end of the trance

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