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In Japanese, they don’t say “moon,” they say “tsuki,” which literally translates to “moon,” and I think that’s how language works.

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I don't know if this has been reported in USAmerica but it's been daily in the news in Australia and it's just unreal. A rare moment of unity in politics as an idiot influencer nabbed a wombat out of the scrub

Here's the video link

She gave the most lacklustre apology too lol, "I've learned and I'm sorry but look at Australia they have people without electricity? And you're judging me for my shameless attempt at internet clout while unrelated bad things happen in Australia? How mean is the PM? Obvs I wouldn't pick up a baby crocodile because they can fight back against cruelty, I'd only be cruel to animals that can't hurt me, like a wombat. Can't believe people were mean to me for illegally harming native wildlife for giggles online. Don't you know I'm a self described biologist?" What a twit

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Demi Moore

Wins Best Female Actor – Motion Picture – Musical/Comedy | 82nd Annual Golden Globes

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Can snakes get obese?

YES. it's really, REALLY bad for them.

keeping snakes healthy in captivity is, in large part, the science of not overfeeding them.

DON'T FILL THIS WITH MICE. I know it's tempting, but DO NOT.

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Like, yes, people calling for a return to a golden age that never actually existed is a problem, but pushing back against that by insisting that everything has always been exactly as bad as it is right now in every respect for everyone everywhere and that any suggestion to the contrary is reactionary doesn't make you a hard-nosed realist, it just makes you a dipshit.

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I keep seeing the leather/pleather vs denim jacket poll over and over again with all different sorts of discourse about how there is no plastic-free pleather and like, that's TRUE, there isn't, but honestly I DO think people who don't want to use animal products* also deserve to look cool

and so my suggestion is that y'all google "waxed cotton jacket" or "waxed canvas jacket" plus like, "motorcycle" or whatever style you think is cool, because there's a plastic free leather-look material that is strong and durable and waterproof and doesn't use animal products** AND is plastic free already out there and some of the clothes that you can get made out of it look sick as hell.

*ignoring the fact that most leather is meat by-product that would be going to waste anyway

**except beeswax but if you're going to object to that then honestly there's no helping you

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REMEMBER THAT EPISODE WHERE REESE THOUGHT MALCOLM WAS GAY AND MALCOLM THOUGHT REESE WAS GAY AND THEY TALKED ABOUT IT BUT LIKE THIS I’M CRYING

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genuinely wild to me when I go to someone's house and we watch TV or listen to music or something and there are ads. I haven't seen an ad in my home since 2005. what do you mean you haven't set up multiple layers of digital infrastructure to banish corporate messaging to oblivion before it manifests? listen, this is important. this is the 21st century version of carving sigils on the wall to deny entry to demons or wearing bells to ward off the Unseelie. come on give me your router admin password and I'll show you how to cast a protective spell of Get Thee Tae Fuck, Capital

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i can’t believe i fell for it

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map panther do you see my vision

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hey gamers I’ve started watching star trek does anyone else see the romantic tension between captain kirk and mr. spock

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BAD IDEA BAD IDEA

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In the mind of the healthcare system I don't have "low estrogen by female standards", I have "gender incongruence".

In the mind of the healthcare system I don't have "unwanted and severe facial hair growth impacting self image", I have "gender incongruence".

In the mind of the healthcare system, procedures that are taken for granted as justified medical interventions when it's a cis woman are reluctantly offered if and only if they can be convinced that my mental health will improve, and I better pay up myself.

That is the systemic difference between a woman assigned male at birth and a woman assigned female at birth.

Failure to understand these mechanisms will inevitably lead you to transmisogyny. Inevitably.

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Sophia, the Boston woman from 1875 who haunts a lamp I got at Brimfield: what is a stay at home girlfriend, if you please?

me: well, it's a woman who's financially supported by the man she's dating, and she lives with him and usually keeps house and cooks for him

her: and they're not married?

me: well, no; hence "girlfriend" rather than "wife." I know that may alarm y-

her: oh calm down I know about Kept Women. he has no legal tie to her, though? she has no sort of standing with him in the eyes of the law? only his word that he'll follow through?

me: yes

her: and remind me again- you don't have to be financially dependent on a man anymore, right? there are more than like three careers open to women that will let you support yourself at a decent level now? and society isn't pressuring you 24/7 to get married and stop working outside the home?

me: yes

her: so these women. CHOOSE to be dependent on a man. who could leave them at any moment without legal consequence. because they don't like their jobs. the jobs, while imperfect, that let them live on their own, answerable to no-one

me: yes

her: that had better be some absolutely amazing jewelry they can pawn off if he leaves them, then

me: it's usually not

her: THERE'S NOT EVEN SECURITY JEWELRY?!

me: oh by the way they blame feminism for "having to work"

her:

her: I became fully dependent on my in-laws who hated me, after my husband died two years into our marriage, because I was a 23-year-old orphan with no marketable skills in any avenue besides Running A Household and the only men left unmarried in my social circle were widowers thirty years my senior. I also couldn't establish lines of credit as a widow because the merchants said my husband dying so soon meant that I didn't have stable enough income. and that was entirely legal

me: yeah

her: I'm going to go slam some doors please do not bother me