While walking the dog yesterday, we found the tracks of a pack of wolves that had passed across the edge of our property. (I live out in the highway in Alaska.) I took a picture of my hand next to a wolf track for comparison.
Now here’s a picture of my hand with one of our dog’s tracks:
And he’s not an especially small dog; he’s a 55-lb retriever mix.
And the dog’s tracks next to wolf tracks:
Wolves are huge.
dude, i’m tellin you, for real
Sometimes people ask if my klee kai is a wolf, like, seriously. And I’m always like oh no, ha ha he kind of looks like one, though, hunh? But inside I’m always like “uh, my dog weighs thirty pounds, wolves weigh more than me and my dog put together – if he was a wolf you wouldn’t be asking if he was a wolf, you’d be peeing your pants and demanding we leave”
like, a wolf is as tall when lying down as most dogs are standing.
here, see for yourself. Labs are a very dog-sized dog, wouldn’t you say? Check this out
(this is a wolf in Alaska that found an unfenced dog park and slowly over the course of months learned how to hang out and have fun with the dogs)
SO BIG THO - here, have some more examples
I love how wolves & humans - so disparately sized - looked at each other and said, ‘Huh. That looks friend-shaped.’
This is the reason Nancy Pelosi is so sensitive about political violence. It is the reason she does not trust these republican members of the house who refuse to go through the metal detectors on Capitol Hill. It is why the violent rhetoric used by republicans against her and other democrats upsets and angers her so much.
She knew these people that were assasinated. She is friends with Senator Diane Feinstein, who found Harvey Milk’s dead body, and unknowingly put her hand through one of his bullet holes trying to find a pulse. She is also friends with Congresswoman Jackie Speier who was shot 5 times in Jonestown where another San Francisco congressman, Leo Ryan, was shot and killed one week before Milk and Moscone.
Jackie Speier still has two bullets in her body from Jonestown. San Francisco city hall still has metal detectors at entrances and do bag searches because they have not forgotten that this happened, and city employees are not exempt from going through them because of Dan White. The entire city still has collective trauma from this two week period forty years ago, and it particularly effects their elected officials there.
History matters. Shared trauma matters. It should be taught and understood so it can be avoided from ever happening again.
for those who don’t know, harvey milk was the first openly gay elected official in california. he was a City Supervisor.
i think one can assess the homophobic roots easily.
a lot of people don’t know gay history aside from stonewall, and while op’s message is a bit separate from this, their use of harvey milk’s murder necessitates, in my opinion, the mention of the context in which he was murdered, why he was murdered, the mention that it was not him alone who was murdered but also the other party involved in passing his anti-discrimination laws, and why exactly the white Catholic jury was selected.
pro tip don’t let the men in your life get out of their fair share of housework just because they’re “helpless” and refuse to learn.
it’s not cute it’s not funny it’s fucking manipulative. and it’s rooted in the belief that their time is more valuable than yours. partners who respect you don’t pull that shit.
