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Tristan S. Rapp
@Hieraaetus
⚓Nimis Audax Mundo, Nimis Stultus Caelo. Master's in biology at Aarhus University & Co-founder of @theextinctions
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    Tristan S. Rapp
    @Hieraaetus
    Nov 17, 2025
    "Whenever I return to the Maasai country, on the marches of southern Kenya and Tanzania, I find it at once both a thrilling and unsettling experience... a remote frontier, an inaccessible highland of nomadic warriors in whose company one still sees spears and bows and the
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    Quillette
    @Quillette
    Nov 16, 2025
    The homogenisation of culture begins with the loss of language, writes Tristan S. Rapp | @Hieraaetus quillette.com/2025/11/16/whe…
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    Tristan S. Rapp
    @Hieraaetus
    Dec 19, 2022
    I have just learned that the name "Dennis" is a variant of "Dionysius", and this information has shaken me
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    Tristan S. Rapp
    @Hieraaetus
    Jun 30, 2023
    For really no particular reason, I'd like to talk a little bit about this place
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    Tristan S. Rapp
    @Hieraaetus
    Jan 7, 2024
    Predators tend not to eat other predators because, occupying the highest trophic levels in an ecosystem, they accumulate higher levels of toxic compounds and parasites. This is true of many species, but manifests in humans as a reflex of revulsion.
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    Johnny Oberg
    @JohnOberg
    Jan 6, 2024
    Can any meat-eaters PLEASE explain their logic? 🤔
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    Tristan S. Rapp
    @Hieraaetus
    Mar 3, 2023
    Abundance dies twice - in the field, and in memory. One of the greatest struggles facing all restoration-initiatives in conservation is the tyranny of low expectations. People begin complaining about beavers or wolves being overpopulated once their numbers reach over 1/80 km^2
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    Gunjan
    @Lost_Nostalgic
    Mar 2, 2023
    This is what an elephant herd is supposed to look like. Tsavo, Kenya in 1976
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    This photograph is not of a healthy herd. It was taken in the 1970s during a period of horrific drought, leading these animals in desperate search of water. More than 6,000 elephants died during this drought. markdeeble.wordpress.com/2014/05/18/hau…
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    Tristan S. Rapp
    @Hieraaetus
    Aug 5, 2025
    I do enjoy how the Spanish Empire was probably the only state in history to legitimately consider, for a brief time, "Perhaps we should just conquer the entire planet."
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    Lux_Stella
    @Lux_Stella_
    Aug 5, 2025
    trying to think about how id explain to 16th century spaniard why this wouldnt work but all that stuff in america did
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    Tristan S. Rapp
    @Hieraaetus
    Mar 14, 2025
    Guys I'm sorry
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    Tristan S. Rapp
    @Hieraaetus
    Nov 21, 2023
    It is genuinely crazy to me that we still don't have a big-screen adaptation of The Odyssey.
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    Tristan S. Rapp
    @Hieraaetus
    May 7, 2024
    So many people discussing Dune (take a shot) get the prophecy of the Lisan al-Gaib wrong. They point out, correctly, that it is a fake prophecy, planted by the Bene Gesserit, and then conclude from this that Paul's rise as the mahdi is just empty propaganda, but... no.
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    Tristan S. Rapp
    @Hieraaetus
    May 9, 2024
    "What are they?" "They were films once, great trilogies of cinema. Then Hollywood gave them franchise deals. Blinded by greed, they took them without question, one by one falling into mediocrity. They are the reboots: franchise zombies, neither living nor dead."
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    DiscussingFilm
    @DiscussingFilm
    May 9, 2024
    A new live-action ‘LORD OF THE RINGS’ movie is now being written. Peter Jackson is set to produce. In theaters in 2026.
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    Tristan S. Rapp
    @Hieraaetus
    May 4, 2024
    Tragicomic how many ppl are mocking this poor girl for what they think is her butchering an Indonesian dance because it looks strange, not realising that she is actually doing it pretty well & that what they are really mocking is the traditional dance itself.
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    Tristan S. Rapp
    @Hieraaetus
    Oct 26, 2023
    I'm still really not clear on what exactly this character is supposed to be doing wrong in the movie
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    DiscussingFilm
    @DiscussingFilm
    Oct 24, 2023
    First listen to Chris Pine’s villain song “This Is The Thanks I Get?!” from Disney’s ‘WISH’.
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    Disney Animation
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    Tristan S. Rapp
    @Hieraaetus
    Dec 4, 2024
    I am once again tapping the "If you think Paul was the villain in Dune, please detail the preferable alternative outcome" sign
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    Matt Caron
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    Dec 3, 2024
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    Tristan S. Rapp
    @Hieraaetus
    May 22, 2024
    The fundamental issue with Avatar, and with it irks so many people, even if subconsciously, is not that the humans are too evil, but that the Na'vi are too utterly perfect and edenic.
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    @tsureil
    May 20, 2024
    "the humans in avatar are cartoonishly evil"
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    Tristan S. Rapp
    @Hieraaetus
    Mar 25, 2024
    It's funny how people will endlessly cheer on (and I don't disagree) these heavily-armed, militarised anti poaching teams in Africa, but if you proposed implementing anything similar in Europe they would call you a sociopath.
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    Artyox
    @Artyoxent
    Mar 24, 2024
    And this is your yearly reminder that we support anti Poaching Rangers all around the world. 🫡
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