tricia becker

"Los oprimidos de los cinco continentes, sin duda, sintieron que su corazón se detenía al escuchar que Stalin había muerto. Él era la encarnación de sus esperanzas". BERTOLT BRECHT

Orcas have brain structures you don't have. Neurobiologist Lori Marino's MRI work on killer whales identified a fourth cortical segment called the paralimbic lobe. It sits next to the limbic system and handles emotion and social awareness. It doesn't exist in humans or in any land mammal. In orcas, it's so elaborated it erupts into the cortex. Their cortical limbic lobe, the region handling self-awareness and social processing, is exceptionally developed. Their brain weighs roughly 12 pounds, four times the mass of yours. They have spindle cells, the same neurons that let humans reason about other minds. When an orca surfaces and locks eyes with you, it's running a social assessment with neural hardware specialized for exactly that. It knows you're a separate being. It knows you're watching it back. It's evaluating you. Here's what should recontextualize the clip. In all of recorded history, wild orcas have killed zero humans. Zero documented fatalities. One surfer was bitten off California in 1972, and the orca released him the moment it realized he wasn't a sea lion. A 12-year-old was bumped in Alaska in 2005. The orca approached, touched him, turned back. Orcas hunt great white sharks. They coordinate wave attacks that sweep seals off ice floes. They take down moose swimming between islands. They have every capability to kill you. They have never chosen to. Marino's explanation: the orca neocortex is developed enough to instantly distinguish a human from prey. Other researchers point to orca culture, the traditions passed through pods across generations, in which humans simply aren't food. That look is recognition and restraint. From a mind built for social cognition at a scale your brain can't reach.

This article takes a critical look at acid guru Timothy Leary’s connection to the CIA, raising questions as to whether the CIA helped push the 1960's drug culture in order to destroy the new left. Read it at bit.ly/4cJExpj #TimothyLeary #CIA #HiddenHistory

According to her father, she's not only developmentally disabled, but she has the mind of a pre teen or child. She's also on "high-powered medication." The FBI is so disgusting.

@flrainh btw, I love these posts. with all the horrors of this world, my love of cats & birds, really all animals, helps me cope, and yours are so funny...

OK, last one, and then I’ll stop bothering you 😂👋🤍 kitties, bunny, Kevin and birds

Comrades: please send me adult literacy curricula. I’m tryna engage in a mass literacy campaign asap but I need practical and pedagogical skills for this.

I’m trying to spread good news today.

Omg...Do the elephants have a GoFundMe???

Video çekmek için yaptığını söylüyor ama gerçek ortada. Hayvanlar pisliğin içinde, açıkta ve soğukta tutuluyor. Doğar doğmaz yavruları annelerinden koparılıyor. İnekler bokun, çamurun içinde yaşamaya zorlanıyor. Tüm vücutları pislik içinde, zar zor hareket edebiliyorlar.

@XposeTrophyHunt @SARA2001NOOR @Angelux1111 @Gail7175 @Lin11W @Protect_Wldlife @PhaedraXTeddy @louisa1000 @CWitvrouwen @LiftForever67 @Cshells33Wells @ARCrusade @domdyer70 is this her... Sydney Katz- Cooper (@sydney.katz) • Instagram photos and videos

Bimbo, Sydney Katz loves hunting, taxidermy, food. Posing with baby Porter & a dead bobcat. Such a shallow life. 🤬 #BanTrophyHunting RT @SARA2001NOOR @Angelux1111 @Gail7175 @Lin11W @Protect_Wldlife @PhaedraXTeddy

Imagine being stabbed repeatedly for “entertainment.” That’s bullfighting.

@thejakebuzz @Matt_Pinner @grok "many people." "better for the natural habitat" for cruel terrorizing & gunning down of animals by sick sociopathic rich people...lol

No, I would not support a worldwide ban. First of all I’m against some worldwide governing body. Secondly @grok explain to us what actually happens on these trophy hunts and why many people in Africa support them and say it’s better for the natural habitat and future of these great animals. Explain how the hunts are for old not fertile males and actually help stop poaching of healthy animals.

Would You Support a Worldwide Ban on Trophy Hunting? YES or NO?

@Matt_Pinner YES

@ChDge1985 @AldoSterone111 conservation blah blah blah...just an excuse for sociopathic cruelty for pleasure. you're as mentally stunted as the one that was defensively stomped.

@AldoSterone111 Incroyable les réactions Ce type a fait + pour la préservation des animaux en achetant des trophées Tout ceux qui critiquent, combien avez vous donné pour les réserves ? Un lion c’est 75000€ … j’attends de voir vos dons

Ernie Dosio, millionnaire californien, vient de se faire tuer en Afrique. Il partait souvent chasser le fauve. La, il s'est fait écraser par 5 éléphants femelles qui protégeaient un petit. Il en reste une bouillie. La famille est sous le choc et ne comprend pas.

@Winston_Smiss @AldoSterone111 yup. all should be pulp.

@AldoSterone111 La famille ne comprend pas 🤔 C'est est un ramassis de crétins made in usa.

@AldoSterone111 C'est le connard du jour, je présente la connasse du jour⤵️

Roughly 100 million sharks are killed every year for their fins. Most of them are caught by long-line fleets that hook thousands of animals, slice off the fins, and dump the bodies back in the ocean alive to drown or bleed out. Costa Rica was one of the worst offenders in the Western Hemisphere. Randall Arauz decided to stop it. Arauz is a Costa Rican marine biologist. In the early 2000s, he documented foreign fishing fleets offloading massive quantities of shark fins at private docks in Costa Rican ports, bypassing the inspections required by law. He published the evidence. The industry sued him. He was stalked, threatened, and publicly attacked by political figures aligned with the fishing companies. He kept going. Over the next decade, he pushed the Costa Rican government into a series of legal reforms. All sharks landed in Costa Rica must now arrive with fins still attached to the body. Foreign vessels can no longer use private docks. In 2023, after another Arauz-led legal battle, the Costa Rican Supreme Court ruled that sharks are wildlife, not a commercial commodity, reversing a 2017 government decree that had weakened their protections. Costa Rica is now one of the hemisphere's leading shark conservation countries. Arauz won the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2010 for the work. He is still fighting. Global shark populations have declined 90% in the last 50 years. They may or may not recover. But in one country, at one point, one person refused to let it keep happening.

.@RickyGervais gives his views on bullfighting. "When a matador gets gored to death, the headline is always "tragedy at bullfight." EVERY bullfight is a ... tragedy. It's animal torture." Absolutely true Ricky!

things r so bad americans nostalgic for warehouses built for mindless consumption as ersatz replacement for communities destroyed by automobile technology.