it’s ok to block anyone to curate your experience unless you have me blocked in which case you’re wrong and also missing out on beautiful wonderful meee <3
just remembered shows used to have 20-25 eps per season
Optimize 👏 those 👏 user-minutes 👏 per 👏 hour! I just can’t wait for Disney/Netflix/Apple/Warner-Discovery/ABC/BBC/PBS/Paramount/HBO/Tubi/Gumbo/Hoopa/Poob to crank out fifty more sequel prequels with six episodes a pop to fill out their streaming catalog!! I sure do love the suspense that comes with knowing my favourite show might get cancelled tomorrow despite being the 10th most successful show in the history of the platform because of tax loopholes!!!!!
I hate this sm but I need something to post so here ig
Guh.. sorry I kinda fucked it up I drew this with my finger in 22 minutes.. I never planned to post this like.. at all but as I said, I need something to post
So here, sorry @hmsdoodlin I made him look like a wet dumpling
i like to pretend i already died and asked god to send me back to earth so i can swim in lakes again and see mountains and get my heart broken and love my friends and cry so hard in the bathroom and go grocery shopping 1,000 more times. and that i promised i would never forget the miracle of being here
Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, Amy Krouse Rosenthal
historical fiction is such a funny genre like dammit i spoiled the ending of les mis for myself by reading the wikipedia page for the paris uprising of 1832
and yet it’s such a tragic genre for this same reason. like you want to believe that they can make it! you want to believe they can take the future in their hands and make it whatever they dream it could be. but what happens to them was always there, set down in the ledger of the wikipedia page for the paris uprising of 1832
look at this incredibly haunting coyote from Ohio I saw on inaturalist
I have a lot of really annoying thoughts about coyotes and how its like, a known fact that eastern coyotes are wolf and dog hybrids,
and the current red wolf population came from an effort to separate the “pure” red wolves from coyote hybrids,
and the effective population size of red wolves (genetically how much the diversity is equivalent to) is like, 10 animals, which means there’s severe inbreeding depression,
but the red wolf genes are STILL OUT THERE they’re just IN COYOTES and a lot of the coyotes probably have a HIGH CONTENT OF WOLF
And there has been SO much controversy over whether red wolves are their own species and a lot of people insist they’re “just coyotes”
and people don’t respect coyotes even if they do respect wolves and think they are totally different even though they have intermixed often in their evolutionary history.
and people keep shooting endangered wolves because “I thought it was a coyote,”
and basically one species is valued and the other species is considered to have no value even though they’re not even totally separate things and a wolf that’s part coyote has “polluted” genes but a coyote that’s part wolf is just like. completely worthless and unremarkable for conservation.
anyways. Look at this handsome animal. Wonder what its genes are like. The tucked in waist says “dog” to me. Amazing how these creatures are evolving before our eyes and people are like “yeah yeah coyotes whatever”
@cosmosinmycoffee omg thank you for this addition, I hadn’t heard of this playing out with grolar bears
I just Do Not get this prejudice towards naturally formed hybrids and denying that they have any conservation value. Yes, maybe it happened because of anthropogenic changes to the animals habitat, but…so what? Isn’t it amazing that evolution can pull these neat tricks to ensure a creature’s survival and the preservation of genetic diversity?
Another thing—I’ve read a lot of papers and studies about evolutionary history of species, and it is super normal for species to split, hybridize and blend together, split even more, and hybridize again over and over and over throughout the evolution of the clade.
It’s called reticulate evolution and it’s a major reason why resolving the taxonomic relationships of groups that radiated rapidly is a HUGE pain in the ass. A lot of times, species in the same genus are perfectly reproductively compatible with each other, just separated by niche or by the area they live in, and when those boundaries shift or when genetic diversity is scarce the species can merge again.
With red wolves, the conservationists have gone to great lengths to prevent hybridization with coyotes, including sterilizing coyotes in the region they’re being released into the wild, and I just…I know there’s reasoning behind it, they want to preserve the expression of wolf genes as much as possible, but I get a sinking feeling in my stomach when I think of how little genetic diversity exists in the red wolf population and how inbred those animals are becoming.
There’s just something about humans doing so much intervention and effort to stop the wolves from taking coyotes as mates to maintain their “genetic purity”…Animals try to avoid inbreeding. Most animals have a drive to disperse and find mates they’re not related to. And the coyote-wolf hybrids are ridiculously successful little beasts, more successful and adaptable than either of their progenitors.
Like I get wanting to preserve the wolf phenotype and the niche it can fill, but these animals are just doing what is healthy and beneficial for their offspring. They don’t know or care what a species is.
oh my god y'all i’ve been reading a bunch more about this and the scientists are fightingggggggg
basically it has been traditional to think hybrids are maladapted evolutionary dead ends, but it turns out hybridization is common and natural and plays a major role in evolution, which is bad news for the idea of a “species,” which is a BIG PROBLEM for conservation, because…protected species, endangered species list, species conservation.
All the laws are based on species!!! In fact, hybrids are often considered a THREAT to species conservation. But the scientists are looking at the evidence and it’s like okay species lowkey aren’t real so what are we conserving.
One paper I looked at points out the, uhh… “value-laden” terminology used to describe hybridization—words like “contamination” and “pollution” which….hey that sounds an awful lot like eugenics?
And it literally is! It’s an obsession with “purity” without considering how the ecosystem is actually affected! It turns out that a lot of the claims of hybridization forming a threat to rare species, are bullshit with no actual evidence. Furthermore, there is increasing evidence that hybridization can sometimes benefit rare species, or even form something entirely new that is better at survival than its parents.
For example, coral is under extreme and immediate threat from climate change. There is a case where two declining species of coral have hybridized and formed a third new species, that is way better adapted to climate change—in fact its population is increasing. Scientists watching this are like “…guys? I think the field of conservation might be terribly wrong about the whole ‘hybridization is the devil’ thing.”
In fact, we could end up destroying species that otherwise could survive by trying to bottle them up in a tiny, inbred “pure” gene pool, instead of allowing their genes to continue existing in a robust mixed population.
I think that is very much what fic is meant to be – others may enter, but you wrote the entrance for yourself. Or for someone you’re gifting it to, but for that person it’s as personal as it is for yourself, it’s not an emperor-and-a-bad-painting situation.
Also I chuckle a little whenever Ocean Vuong comes up because I know the name mainly from the time his prose was used in an Australian literature exam and a bunch of students found him on twitter and demanded to know what the hell he meant. :D
Lean into the funny idiot archetype so that when you’re unexpectedly hypercompetent at something they give you The Look where you can see them reexamine their entire perception of you in confusion, respect and no small amount of fear, and when you keep playing funny idiot they will be forever wary of you. Let them find out, incidentally, that the jester keeps a knife under his hat, and never figure out how to deal with that because they won’t abandon their boxes.
Fig. 3 - Notice how the tiles with colors have moved again. This is because they each contain a trapped soul. That soul can move throughout the floor, but not escape it.
1. You probably dont suck at your craft as much as you think you do, I bet a lot of people are amazed at what you can make, and
2. If you actually are the Literal Worst In The Whole Wide World at your craft… who the fuck cares? What are they gonna do, call the police on you? Keep making your shitty little things, youre the boss of you, fuck the haters.
I think I’m going to think about this youtube comment forever
[id: a youtube comment by @/KM-mw3jp that reads “When I was in 7th and 8th grade we had a Sikh kid who would carry wet boba around in his pocket and throw them at people for insulting him, his religon, his culture, or other kids. I asked him about it a couple years ago and he said it’s cause his dad gave him some talk about how standing up for what’s right is part of the religon. So for two years this boy carried an open plastic bag FULL of wet boba around to throw at bullies. If it was a minor insensitive comment or a first time offence it would be one boba. If it was a big thing or a reoccurring bully it could be a bunch. He even threw boba at our substitute teacher one day because she tried to punish us because one kid was talking by making all of us do pushups. He literally went "no that’s not fair” and threw like four wet bobas at her.
Pretty sure his dad encouraged that behavior too. And to be honest, it did deter a lot of bullying and name calling.“ /end id]
actually……1 more thing because I realised I haven’t posted this yet. the best & worst piece of art I’ve ever made - 3D shark called biscuit that I modelled for a class a few years ago. toiled on him for hours, cried over him, went on a journey with him. still failed the class. he haunts me to this day
LMFAO hell yeah give biscuit 2000 notes. why the fuck not. are you seeing this professor? are you seeing what my “failed” experiment has achieved
i want to turn off reblogs for this post but it’d feel like taking biscuit out back and shooting him in the head. so instead i just hover my cursor over the button like i’m gently tensing my finger against the trigger of my 4 gauge shotgun while biscuit is staring at me with his soulful lack of eyes
actually……1 more thing because I realised I haven’t posted this yet. the best & worst piece of art I’ve ever made - 3D shark called biscuit that I modelled for a class a few years ago. toiled on him for hours, cried over him, went on a journey with him. still failed the class. he haunts me to this day
LMFAO hell yeah give biscuit 2000 notes. why the fuck not. are you seeing this professor? are you seeing what my “failed” experiment has achieved
i want to turn off reblogs for this post but it’d feel like taking biscuit out back and shooting him in the head. so instead i just hover my cursor over the button like i’m gently tensing my finger against the trigger of my 4 gauge shotgun while biscuit is staring at me with his soulful lack of eyes
i grew up in a small rural town where there was one dentist, which i went to from around age 5 whenever my parents had the right insurance/money/time to get me there. anyway when i’m like 20 or so i started having minor issues with my wisdom teeth coming in, but not so severe that this place can’t extract them.
so i go in for that and i’m sitting there in the chair and the assistant comes in looking at some paperwork and says “so you’ve been coming here for a while right?” and i am like “oh yeah since i was a little kid” and she replies “yeah, i thought so, there’s one note on your file and it’s ‘patient likes dinosaurs and bugs’”
Some rando: You should think about stopping your prescription
Me: My pills make me not want to die tho
They: You shouldn’t want to die, that’s not normal
Me: Yeah that’s why I’m taking my pills
Again: But you aren’t the *real* you when you’re on your pills
Me: I’m the alive version of me
An actual doctor, once: “Relying On A Chemical Crutch For A Hormonal Imbalance Denies The Fortitude Of The Human Soul”
Me: Cool so like I’m agnostic
They: “But you might be on pills the rest of your life!”
Me: “So?”
Good! That means that I have a “rest of” my life to continue living!
Thanks to the pills.
Meanwhile, no person ever: “You should think about giving up your insulin/antiretrovirals/beta blockers/anti-rejection drugs/prosthetic legs/daily multivitamin, because using those your whole life is bad for some reason”
Oh no, they do that too.
I have a kidney transplant. A woman once told me she didn’t believe in organ transplants and that people should just die when they’re meant to.
Sounds like a great set-up for a murder
People who are fully healthy, fit and neurotypical seem to think they are that way because they’re doing something right that the rest of us haven’t thought of, and not just because they got lucky
Speaking of the luck of the non-disabled…I once terrorized a Karen who was using me to teach her entitled kid that disabled people are Other and should not be treated with respect. I told her (truthfully) that until I was twenty-eight, I wasn’t visibly disabled. Then a defective chromosome that I hadn’t known about kicked in. So my luck ran out. But until then, I had been normal–just…like…her.
The sheer terror on her face as the concept of “You mean I’ve just been lucky so far?” seeped into her brain was a thing of beauty.
People who are fully healthy, fit and neurotypical seem to think they are that way because they’re doing something right that the rest of us haven’t thought of, and not just because they got lucky
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
“You are one stroke of bad luck, common viral illness, or traumatic event away from being just like me” is honestly the most terrifying thing you can tell an abled person - and you should. I was healthy and fit and doing everything ‘right’ too - right up until some inner switch flipped and my body crumbled right out from under me.
I just got a reply by someone who apparently namesearches racism (to argue against it existing), sex work (to argue it shouldn’t exist), and factorio (to argue for it).
do people just roll dice to pick their three hills to die on?
Hills to Die On:
To establish your Hill to Die On, roll once on the Positions table and once on the Topics table
Positions (d4):
Against
For
It doesn’t exist
Roll again and hold both positions (ignore if you are currently rolling again)
Topics (d30):
Sexism
Racism
Transphobia
Privatization of the trans girl milk production for subsidizing cost of Estrogen
Monopolies
Monopoly (The Board Game)
The Gold Standard
The Silver Standard
The Cool-Looking-Shells-I-Found-On-The-Beach Standard
Sex Work
Factorio
The Elder Scrolls series of games
Gambling
Star Trek
Star Wars (the media series)
Star Wars (the missile defense program)
Space travel
Colonization
Sid Meier’s Colonization
Piracy (copyright infrigment)
Piracy (nautical, medieval)
Piracy (nautical, age of sail)
Piracy (nautical, modern)
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
Nuclear weapons
Coughing babies
Nuance
Baldness
kitty kitty kitty pspspsppspsppsppsps kitty here kitty pspspsps
Roll again on both tables to add another position and topic pair. If you roll this result again, instead roll for two additional position and topic pairs.
Excellent work.
I rolled that Monopolies don’t exist, I’m against racism, and most importantly:
Piracy, as in copyright infrigment, DOES NOT EXIST.
Important note because I saw some people advising mask usage and because I know some shit about TB
While you should wear a mask for other airborne diseases (covid, influenza, H1N1 etc), tuberculosis is transmitted through much much much smaller particles than these examples.
A mask will protect you from these but they do not work with TB. You need hospital-grade equipment to protect yourself from TB
Do your BCG shots, do your mandoux tests, avoid unpasteurised shit (yes, you can get TB from that), avoid cluttered and poor ventilated areas.
TB is curable with very strong antibiotics. If prescribed, take them UNTIL A HEALTH PROFESSIONAL TELLS YOU TO STOP. Do not ration them, do not stop early. Yes, the treatment can last for over a year. If you stop, you will get TB again and this time the antibiotics will not work.
listen to me. listen. your actual job in life, and it sucks that your 5th grader teacher didnt explain this adequately enough, is to ask for help when you need it and to accept charity when it would take a weight from your shoulders. Otherwise you end up like Sisyphus- or even worse, Walter White
why is this highlighted like Morrowind dialogue
Because I have ADHD and it’s easier for me to follow text if it’s not boring and untextured
So sadly the Slur Song has become too powerful and the shadowy powers that be have joined forces to stop it from charting
On the upside it means a whole panel of professional music industry executives had to sit there and awkwardly listen to the whole song which is hilarious
So sadly the Slur Song has become too powerful and the shadowy powers that be have joined forces to stop it from charting
On the upside it means a whole panel of professional music industry executives had to sit there and awkwardly listen to the whole song which is hilarious
I’ve seen many a smug “activist” here say how they won’t vote because “voting just plays into the system and doesn’t change anything.”
Cool story kiddo, that doesn’t stop the political right from voting, and the next thing you know Fuckface von Clownstick will be sitting in the Oval Office outlawing abortion and deporting everyone.
In regards to my previous post: HRT is nowhere near a magic fix all that will make you a girl. That is decided by you. Your ability or inability to get hormone replacement therapy is not a measurement of how transgender you are. Being transgender is an internal decision, and whatever comes after that is ancillary to deciding for yourself that you are the gender you want to be. I recommend it; I adore what HRT has done to my body, but I was a girl long before I decided to do any sort of medical transition and anyone who says you need makeup and stringent routines and medical supplies to transition is either a fuckin’ liar or needs to reexamine how they think about other transgender people, including themselves.
