this little freak keeps sneaking into my garden and rubbing himself all over my flowers??Hello?????
Real, male bees don’t go after flowers they stay home, that freak is a herself
googling ‘bee genders’ as I dictate this post
The more you google bee reproductive biology the more absurd it is that we’re applying the words male and female to them. Their actual genders are worker, drone and queen. The queen is capable of both asexual and sexual reproduction. Bees born of unfertilized eggs become drones that are capable of fertilizing eggs. Bees born of fertilized eggs become workers, but can also potentially become a queen depending on how they are fed during the larval stage.
Use whatever the fuck pronouns you want to describe bees because they’re all equally incorrect projections of human worldview onto an insect species. Bees don’t experience mammalian sexual dimorphism in a biological sense nor do they experience human gender dimorphism in a sociopolitical sense.
diversity win, the freak sneaking into your garden and rubbing themselves all over your flowers does not fit into a human biological or sociopolitical framework of sex and gender!
The most terrifying part of having memory issues is when you can feel something from 5 seconds ago be thrown out the window and there’s an empty hole where it once was. You remember that you forgot something.
absolutely cannot get over this cold open from etho’s let’s play 13 years ago
[Transcript:
[Etho, in Survival Mode, standing under a few wooden slabs as it rains.]
Etho: Man, it is pouring rain out there. It just won’t let up, we’ve been stuck here forever now. (Sigh) Never gonna get free. You know what, don’t take this personally, but I’m not really enjoying my time here with you.
[Etho turns and looks at a creeper standing next to him.]
Etho: You know, you’re just not very much fun. It’s the truth, really. You don’t talk— you could tell me a joke or something, I don’t know. You know— Just forget it. We’ll just sit here.
femme trans men & masc trans women deserve all the good in the world & a gun & a license to kill people who are weird about their presentation & 4 billion dollars & really good soup & a hug & free hrt
“they knew it was wrong, you can tell because they did things to avoid getting in trouble” is such a profoundly terminally neurotypical conclusion to reach and i am sick of seeing it repeated as a truism
“people generally avoid getting negative attention such as being yelled at, shunned, or punished. This is proof that they, like you, have an innate, unlearned connection to a metaphysical Higher Cosmic Truth that the socially discouraged behavior they just did is a Universal Moral Evil. Everybody who is not me also thinks this deep down in their soul, and if you dont agree, you’re lying because you’re a bad, guilty evil person.”
^ideas that hit hard if you never question the social norms you were raised on
I hate how sunscreen has been coopted into the anti-anging skincare category because, in reality, sunscreen is categorically a cancer preventative that also just so happens to keep you looking young
I know men who refuse to wear sunscreen because “lotion is for women.”
Capitalism has redefined cancer prevention as makeup to hike up prices, and people are dying (needlessly, painfully, horribly) because of it.
I really wish I could make it clear to people that asking for updates usually has the opposite effect, even when you add “please” to your sentence. I’m not saying this to be mean, and I know the comments are meant well, that they’re a way for people to show they’re thinking of the fic. However, my brain is a rude thing and will immediately put that fic in the “nope” category, even when or especially when I was already working on it. Leaving a heart emoji, a short ’re-read kudos’, or anything of the sort is far more effective at communicating that people are thinking of the fic, without making my brain shelve the fic for the next couple of days.
If I haven’t updated a fic for a while, trust me, it’s not because I’ve forgotten about it; I know when I haven’t updated in months. It usually is because I’m struggling with real life, with writer’s block, or am feeling burnt out with that particular fic. In short, I’m not postponing the updates on purpose.
You knowwww the character fixation bad when you can’t even pretend it’s sexual. Like no actually I’m not thinking abt him getting beat up because it turns me on. I want to see him bloody and crying for entirely different reasons and somehow that makes it even worse
the problem is that discussions is impossible when everyone is deeply terrified about being branded as “a bad person”, as if such a thing truly exists, because suddenly all categories, all descriptors, exist primarily in how many fallout karma points they give or take away.
columbo should be public domain. he should be allowed to show up in anything. the columbo episode should be one of the standard types of tv episode like the beach episode or the episode where a character shrinks and explores the insides of someone’s body
Just so younger trans dudes hear it from another transmasc who Might be older: it’s fine to not be passing. If there’s a “yet” after that sentence for you, that’s fine too. Regardless of where you’re going, you still deserve a voice when it comes to speaking on your experiences as a trans person. Don’t let any loser tell you otherwise.
hey so me and my friends spent like three years dubbing the 1986 Mario movie as if it was actually dubbed in the 80s. It’s got everything- bizarre translation, questionable voice direction, and the replacement of all Japanese food. Also new English songs. It’ll be out tomorrow, here’s a link: https://youtube.com/@marioradioshow3289?si=CJ5DK0I0ZsHEwjny
when I was in college in the 1990s I took a document design course and we had to go talk to an archivist at the university library
the library had a single page from a gutenberg bible (the bible had been damaged by fire and the remaining undamaged pieces cut apart and sold) and a CD sitting next to each other
we looked at the bible page, marveling at this 500+ year old page with its neatly set type, carefully kept under a sheet of glass to protect it
and then she held up the CD and pointed out that in 500 years, if a CD could even last that long, it was unlikely we’d possess the technology to read it
and we all got very quiet and look at the book page for a long time
and is evidenced by the fact I’m telling you about this almost 30 years later, I have never forgotten that blank-looking shiny piece of plastic sitting next to a beautiful, ancient piece of paper that someone pressed words into with a machine and left for me to read, hundreds of years before I was born.
when I was in college in the 1990s I took a document design course and we had to go talk to an archivist at the university library
the library had a single page from a gutenberg bible (the bible had been damaged by fire and the remaining undamaged pieces cut apart and sold) and a CD sitting next to each other
we looked at the bible page, marveling at this 500+ year old page with its neatly set type, carefully kept under a sheet of glass to protect it
and then she held up the CD and pointed out that in 500 years, if a CD could even last that long, it was unlikely we’d possess the technology to read it
and we all got very quiet and look at the book page for a long time
and is evidenced by the fact I’m telling you about this almost 30 years later, I have never forgotten that blank-looking shiny piece of plastic sitting next to a beautiful, ancient piece of paper that someone pressed words into with a machine and left for me to read, hundreds of years before I was born.
i’ve been playing a lot of balatro lately, and at one point i turned on high contrast cards, had the thought of ‘wow those are almost tmnt colors,’ which then eventually led to ’…i wonder how hard it is to mod this game’
turns out it’s not too hard..!
i might’ve doomed myself here a little tho bc now i want a complete set of face cards.. which means drawing 8 more characters..
Autistic Person: “I did what came natural to me. I was hated, outcasted, and punished. So I burned myself out trying to avoid that. I then became invisible. I eventually became tired of being invisible, especially since it required me to burn myself out in order to achieve. But I had no idea what to do about it, and I couldn’t get advice from anyone because no one ever believed that my struggles were even possible. So I took wild guesses at how to get noticed. People then thought I was weird again. I was hated, outcasted, and punished again. After some time, once I realized that my attempts to get noticed were failing and would never succeed, I avoided drawing attention to myself. I then became invisible again. After some time, I again got tired of being invisible, and took different wild guesses at how to get noticed. And yet again, I was hated, outcasted, and punished. So I went back to being invisible, and eventually everyone forgot about me.
Society’s Perception: "They misbehaved. Then they stopped. Then they misbehaved. Then they stopped. Then they misbehaved. Then they stopped.”
I checked the date on the original post and it’s December 11, 2021. That was the day after I came home from college, immediately after the semester where I had a breakdown that collapsed my health into chaos and dissolved my identity and goals.
This post is me at rock bottom, and that makes it so much funnier
i have understood so many things about online leftist culture by the fact that when i said “your local community has people you will morally and politically disagree with but you cannot lock them out of accessing any tangible service you’re organising” one of the tags responding said “this isn’t about proshippers in here you’re not welcome” like. folks. focus with me. some of us are homeless here.
There’s a disconnect happening here because the primary function of social media for most casual users is to form a circle of friends around the usual things that friendships are built on: shared interests and lifestyles and ideas of what is important and what is unacceptable. When people are mainly doing leftism on social media, this encourages thinking of leftism as centered around establishing high-minded social clubs.
For anyone who still isn’t getting it from someone who helps people IRL: There’s a difference between whom you’re helping to feed at the mealshare and whom you’re choosing to hang out with for fun after the mealshare. You don’t have to invite a hungry person with opinions you don’t like to play board games with you, but you do have to help keep them from starving if you’re serious about leftist organizing.
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