Mastodawn

Each of us is the bearer of a singular and unrepeatable world. This is a memento mori, a reminder to honor what is fragile and irreducible in all beings.

Toughie, the last of the Rabbs’ Fringe-Limbed Treefrogs, taught us the word endling. He passed away on September 26, 2016. May all of us still living fight to defend each other and the beauty of the world.

https://crimethinc.com/2017/09/26/memento-mori-we-endlings-a-message-from-toughie

#endling #endlings #Toughie #RabbsFringeLimbedTreefrog #MementoMori

Memento Mori: We Endlings

A story about Toughie, the last of the Rabbs’ fringe-limbed treefrogs, who passed away one year ago today—and what he can tell us about ourselves and the future of our species.

CrimethInc.

Dimitri Dhuyvetter 1d ago

The last known caterpillar that could have become a Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterfly has died.

The term for an animal that is the sole survivor of a species is endling. In a sense, we are all endlings—each the last of our kind.

The loss of a species is not simply the loss of a biological category—it is the loss of countless unique individuals and their collective potential.

http://crimethinc.com/endlings

#endling #endlings #environment #species #endtimes #extinction #specieism

Memento Mori: We Endlings

A story about Toughie, the last of the Rabbs’ fringe-limbed treefrogs, who passed away one year ago today—and what he can tell us about ourselves and the future of our species.

CrimethInc.

Content Catnip May 2

Maria Reva’s debut novel, Endling is immensely ambitious and credit where credit is due this is a vast, sweeping novel that rocked me to my core in its first few chapters. #snails #fiction #MariaReva #Endling #novel #Ukraine #bookreview #review

http://contentcatnip.com/2026/05/03/book-review-endling-by-maria-reva/

Book Review: Endling by Maria Reva

Maria Reva’s debut novel, Endling is immensely ambitious and credit where credit is due this is a vast, sweeping novel that rocked me to my core in its first few chapters.

Content Catnip

Marce Favio Dec 27

Dios, qué duro final el de #Endling. #gaming Un juego muy disfrutable y con una mecánica que resulta muy real: "el tiempo se acaba, los recursos disminuyen, debo sobrevivir por mis hijos."

John Nov 24, 2025

My first thought, is s/he called Lefty? *Still grieving for my favourite for the Booker Prize #Endling

Marce Favio Oct 30, 2025

#Endling #gameplay #gaming

Samantha Sep 11, 2025

I'm quite annoyed with the video game industry and I barely buy any these days. I'm still rocking my PS4 and Switch 1 here. On the bright side, it allows me to play and appreciate what I have and I still have a few indies on my backlog.

One of them is Endling: Extinction is Forever. In this indie you play as a mother fox who is trying to find one of her kidnapped fox kit while trying to keep her other three kits alive. There is a lot of danger, however, and as the environment gets more polluted by humans, it becomes increasingly difficult to find food.

I don't do well with animal death and the kits can permanently die in this game, but thankfully Endling managed to keep things doable (I managed to keep them all alive, though I had a few close calls). The game still pulls on your heartstrings, there is a degree of urgency with needing to balance finding food with continuing the story and being back in your den by sunrise, and the environmental message isn't subtle. You see water getting polluted and a forest getting cut down around you while you're busy surviving. Most humans want to harm you. I thought this game was very impactful and one worth experiencing at least once, despite being a bit bleak. The stylistic art style is great and they told the story eithout any dialogue.

#Endling #EndlingExtinctionIsForever #IndieGames #VideoGames

DWDS Sep 1, 2025

Am 1. September 1914 starb Martha in #Cincinnati. Sie war die letzte ihrer Art, ein #Endling. Die traurige Geschichte erzählt der Artikel des Tages https://www.dwds.de/wb/Endling

Becca 🌳🚀🛀Jul 15, 2025

#Endling Chapter 1 - this is not a light read. But the book has the potential to be interesting and with a good setup of the protagonist. I hope it doesn't get even darker in chapter 2. Many snails have perished. Endling - good term for a species going extinct, that I'll remember. Despite all the misery I enjoy reading about people devoting their life to science, something I was sure I would do and then didn't.

#bookstodon #books #fedibookclub