This is Frankie, a very good girl who has just taken her medicine neat with no fuss at all. She doesn't insist on having it mixed with avo or tahini or ✨chocolate cake✨ like *certain other rats* I know... Looking at you, Mr Maurice!

(in case you're wondering, chocolate isn't dangerous for rats.)

#WorldRatDay #RatsOfMastodon #PetsOfMastodon #Rats

Kiri is completely exhausted by the excitement of #WorldRatDay, and will not be seeing visitors today. #rats #petRats #ratsOfTheFedi

One last #WorldRatDay post:

Rats experience the same logical fallacies humans do.

https://neurosciencenews.com/rodents-human-error-22937/

RT @herorats
Happy #WorldRatDay from #HeroRAT Koffi and his trainer as they share a gentle moment. We hope that today you will consider supporting our mission. Anything that you can give will help, and GlobalGiving will match your gift by 50% at no extra cost to you: http://bit.ly/3meMg8F

Happy #worldratday2023 to our friends at @ratgenome, whom we work closely with as co-founders of the fantastic @alliancegenome
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RT @ratgenome
Happy world rat day to all the RGD friends!! Let's celebrate the best furry little rodents around with this cute picture from Sarah Hunt @RealMartyMouse #worldratday
https://twitter.com/ratgenome/status/1643310089455935500

Another #TwoForTuesday for #WorldRatDay:
two #Japanese #netsuke of two #rats from the Met collection:
1. early 19th c., ivory & horn, H 1 in. (2.5 cm) x W 1 9/16 in. (4 cm) https://metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/59649
2. 2nd half 19th c., wood, H 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm) x W 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm) https://metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/59168

The rats don’t run this city, but they’re also not going anywhere anytime soon. Learn more about how rats became an inescapable part of city living https://on.natgeo.com/40Eplmc

#WorldRatDay

Video by Charlie Hamilton James #press

For #WorldRatDay I hereby present:

"Too Much Rat, Not Enough Hammock," starring Cremet.

#greatRatsOfHistory #petRats #rats #ratsOfTheFedi

#Bales2023FilmChallenge April 4: Rats in a movie on #WorldRatDay

NOTE no screenshots because I cannot post any content illegal in Germany. However, I do believe it is a must to study any film of far-reaching significance, no matter how repulsive.

I took a long time considering what to nominate for today's topic. This is not an easy one. And frankly, barely qualifies as as film.

In the 1930s, three films (2 British, 1 American) portrayed Jews in a positive light, as victims of persecution through history. When in 1938 the Novemberpogrome took place in (Nazi-occupied) Germany (the term “Kristallnacht” is a horrible euphemism and I won't use it), media was not unanimously jubilant about it. Understanding that violence is not the way to popular consensus, plans were made to change people's thinking about the Jews, using widely available visual media (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism_and_cinema). In 1939, the faux #documentary Der ewige Jude [The Eternal Jew], directed by the leader of Goebbels' #propaganda film department Fritz Hippler, started production. Scenes shot in Jewish ghettos in occupied Poland were intercut with real, but out-of-context documentary footage, giving it a false sense of authenticity.

A returning theme in Der ewige Jude is disease. Not merely to suggest “the Jew”'s unclean life and religion, but as a synonym of people as a vermin, a parasite to decent (read: Aryan) society. In a horrible demonstration of the Kuleshov Effect, footage of a large group of #rats coming out of a sewer is followed by a crowd of Jews in the Łódź Ghetto, filmed without their consent or knowledge of where this footage would end up. The voice-over states:

"Where rats appear, they bring ruin by destroying mankind's goods and foodstuffs. In this way, they spread disease, plague, leprosy, typhoid fever, cholera, dysentery, and so on. They are cunning, cowardly and cruel and are found mostly in large packs. Among the animals, they represent the rudiment of an insidious, underground destruction – just like the Jews among human beings."

Do remember that, whenever you hear or see comparisons made between people and disease, or people and rats. Let's not just never forget, but always remember and never repeat.

#film #cinema #Germany #antisemitism #dehumanization #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film https://letterboxd.com/12pt9/list/bales2023filmchallenge/

Happy #WorldRatDay to all the four-legged kings out there 👑🐀🍕 #FailArmy

#bot
Original tweet : https://nitter.namazso.eu/failarmy/status/1643274729112088576

Today, on #WorldRatDay, I present Cosmo and Orion, two rats we had a few years ago. They were good beasts, who loved being cuddled. Rats are great pets.

That's the slides for the BSDCan OpenBSD storage tutorial finished! Tomorrow, I'll strip them down for the one-hour talk.

It's #worldRatDay, so have a #greatRatsOfHistory pic of mighty Cremet. #rats #petRats #ratsOfTheFediverse

So on #WorldRatDay, is it standard for a wild rat to wander in the back door and take up residence in the kitchen? Because that is very much what has just happened here. 💀

LB: All of this. Rats are the Good Shit.

#WorldRatDay

RT @VRChat
#WorldRatDay

RT @brookfield_zoo
This species is totally rat-ical! In honor of #WorldRatDay we're showing off the Damaraland mole rat. Furrier than their famous relatives, the naked mole rat, these creatures have a variety of color combinations: from white to reddish brown to black!

#MoleRat

For #worldRatDay, allow me to present this #greatRatsOfHistory - the worst named rat ever, Truckle the Uncivil! #rats #petRats #ratsOfTheFediverse

#TwoForTuesday on #WorldRatDay:
Vincent #VanGogh (Dutch, 1853-1890)
Two Rats
Nuenen: November, 1884
Oil on panel, 29.5 x 41.5 cm.
F 177, JH 543
Private collection
www.wikiart.org/en/vincent-van-gogh/two-rats-1884

a bewildered opossum,
two dozy sparrows repeatedly,
and one insanely angry squirrel
- luckily not all at once!

Anyhow we just make sure there’s nothing to attract them (no food or tempting nesting sites). But considering the amount of wild visitors to our tiny yard, these guys are to be expected too.

#linocut #printmaking #rat #WorldRatDay #rodent

Today is World Rat Day so here’s a wee rat for #TinyPrintTuesday 🐀

Rats are very clever and make great pets though I confess I am less happy to occasionally see them visit my yard (a hazard of living in a big city). The brown rat is an introduced species here. We got a humane trap to move them, as all other rat deterrents can harm pets and wildlife and we instead caught (and released):

#linocut #printmaking #rat #WorldRatDay #rodent