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fucked up how colors look different depending on what screen you’re looking at them on. that should be illegal I think

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You literally have to understand that ur closest friends and loved ones may very well have kinks or fetishes that gross or freak you out and they simply won’t tell you because they know it grosses or freaks you out. Like you have no way of knowing if your best friend is into necro roleplay if she doesn’t wanna tell you. Sometimes you date someone for years before finding out they have a thing for incest. Maybe your coworker likes ageplay and diapers. Who gives a fuck. Nothing changes between you knowing and not knowing except your own constructed moral outrage.

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After nearly 20 years of trying to increase the red-headed vulture population, this endangered baby vulture was born in March at the Nakhon Ratchasima Zoo in northeast Thailand. The endangered bird is the first red-headed - also known as Asian king vulture - to be bred in the continent and only the second in the world. X

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“While many people think fanfiction is about inserting sex into texts (like Tolkien’s) where it doesn’t belong, Brancher sees it differently: “I was desperate to read about sex that included great friendship; I was repurposing Tolkien’s text in order to do that. It wasn’t that friendship needed to be sexualized, it was that erotica needed to be … friendship-ized.” Many fanfiction writers write about sex in conjunction with beloved texts and characters not because they think those texts are incomplete, but because they’re looking for stories where sex is profound and meaningful. This is part of what makes fan fiction different from pornography: unlike pornography, fanfic features characters we already care deeply about, and who tend to already have long-standing and complex relationships with each other. It’s a genre of sexual subjectification: the very opposite of objectification. It’s benefits with friendship.”

— Francesca Coppa, “Introduction to The Dwarf’s Tale,” The Fanfiction Reader (via francescacoppa)

Someone put it into words. I gotta sit down

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Nancy Grossman-Tazmanian mean mouth (1969)

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unsorted rodent people

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moon and rainbow at sunrise by mark ham

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Norman Lindsay (1879-1969) - Other Lovers, 1924

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okay so you know how living with autism means having frequent mind-blowing realizations about seemingly contradictory social norms that allistic people learned as children and consider obvious, like "you're probably not actually expected to show up exactly at the listed start time of a large house party" or "you're pretty much expected to lie in job interviews and also the questions the interviewers asks are looking for specific amswers"? ive got this half-baked theory based on observations on this site that there are two main ways for autistic people to resolve this

the first, most common way is to get mad about it, because none of it makes sense and nobody is saying what they actually mean. "if you invite me to show up at 5 im showing up at 5" mentality. i do sympathize with this school of thought, because it's objectively correct and i would love to see what society would look like if everyone said exactly what they meant, but the attitude wears on you after a few years and eventually becomes grating

the second way that i seem to have settled into is feeling relief, because, like, you already navigate through social scenarios the same way the guy in the Chinese Room thought experiment "speaks" Chinese: blindly consulting reference material you don't understand but know is correct. learning a new social faux pas is therefore just more reference material to consult. the fact that it doesn't make any sense is irrelevant because none of the other social norms you've been following make any sense either, and they've served you just fine. and crucially, because you have no personal attachment to any of these social norms, you can just abandon them whenever they become too inconvenient OR if it would be funny. this is the kind of autism that produces stuff like Nathan For You

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the pipeline of fixating over some thingy

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P.A.W.S.: Personal Automated Wagging System (Domestic Funk/Digital Garden/Organa, Mac/Windows/CD-i, 1995/1998)

Posted using PostyBirb

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Anti-voting rhetoric will be the death of the left. Literally.

Not a single fucking Republican voted to protect roe. It was fucking overturned in the first place bc trump got three Supreme Court appointments.

Every fucking thing wrong in this country is almost certainly the result of Republicans being in power. In 2020, Texas cut half of the polling places in black neighborhoods, and doubled them in white ones, regardless of population. It was Republicans bitching about mail in voting, and constantly, constantly fearmonger about voter fraud. Literally, their platform is about making civil rights harder to practice.

Would you like to know why? It’s because Republican politicians know better than anyone that higher voter participation means higher republican loss.

But what do I see from the online left, champions of the oppressed?

“Voting doesn’t do anything, the parties are the same, the system is rigged, etc, etc”

Don’t sit here and tell me you give a fuck about marginalized people if you aren’t ready to march your ass to the voting booth and vote out the party actively stripping their rights away.

Protest, donate, community build, unionize, and vote, vote, vote.

By the time direct action is the only option, it will be too fucking late.

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PSA: BAD LITTERBOX

i don't usually make posts like this, but this is a truly upsetting topic to me as a lifelong cat owner, so i feel i have a duty to share my knowledge with others.

there is a type of automatic litterbox for cats being sold that is EXTREMELY dangerous and has killed numerous cats through blunt force trauma, suffocation, etc. this litterbox is being sold under different brand names and logos, so i will include the picture of the model and two links to informational videos with more evidence and eloquence than i am able to provide.

please consider not having this type of litterbox in your home for your furry friends. me and my 16 year old tortie, puddy, want the best for all your kitty friends

image of litterbox below:

here are my two video links that provide proof and testimonials of this harmful product:

This Scam is Killing Cats by penguinz0

The DEADLY self-cleaning litter boxes that have flooded the market by One Man Five Cats

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antlered flutter flies (toxonevra superba) | this_mama_fetz on ig

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i invented a sandwich called the mormon baptism

premise: you are stoned. you have just woken up from a 3 hour nap. you are housebound from debilitating back pain and as such you cannot go to the store, and you ran out of jelly but you happen to have some fruit gel cups in the fridge and plenty of peanut butter. enter: the mormon baptism

you need: bread. peanut butter. dole wiggles fruit gel cup that you got a bunch of at grocery outlet for 79 cents for a pack of four the other week because it was a cheap snack

assembly: step 1: mince the fuck out of the fruit gel in the cup. this shit doesn't spread that well since, yknow, it wasn't made to do that, so just make a mess of it and dump about half of it on your waiting slice of bread and make an attempt to spread it. eat what's left in the cup like a wild animal step 2: peanut buttre optional step 2a: sprinkle peanut butter with abv or put some weed oil on it or something, you're probably gonna need it if you're here spte 3: smash bread together. marvel in your act of creation step 4: forget to take a photo of the finished sandwich because you're so fucking ravenous from the aforementioned "waking up from a three hour nap while stoned" part that you start chowing down on the abomination immediately step 5 (IMPORTANT): post about it online

rating: 3/5 stars it wasn't the worst thing i've ever concocted while stoned but it does not reach the culinary heights of the pizza bagel. this is desperation food at its finest. it tastes enough like peanut butter and jelly if you don't think about it too hard and texture-wise it feels overly literal, like what you would imagine a peanut butter and jelly sandwich to feel like when you were a kid. the jelly squeezes out the side of the sandwich at a higher rate than regular jam since it's not very sticky so to avoid making a mess you slurp the sides of the sandwich like a dog as you contemplate your life choices.

i feel like it was saved by using the fruit gel cup things and not actual jello since it doesn't have gelatin in it, but it's adjacent enough to jello in terms of texture to make it weird. i dont think that if actual jello was used, it could be contained and would just fall out of all sides of the sandwich and make a mess and you'd have just wasted some perfectly good jello.

should i try making a mormon baptism?: look if you are somehow in the specific scenario i described in the premise and you are violently craving a peanut butter and jelly sandwich while missing one of the crucial ingredients because you ran out but hey you got these fruit cup things from grocery outlet that are similar enough that it could work, it hits the spot well enough. any other time im not sure, just use regular jam and save your dignity

why it is called the mormon baptism: if there is any group of humans on earth deviant enough to try putting jello in a sandwich, it's gotta be the mormons and eating this sandwich is like having your head dunked underwater as you gasp for life. i name it in their dubious honor as the primary consumers of jello on the planet. amen

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i think i'll repost some of my old cohost posts over here, y'all might enjoy em

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you ever see a character design so silly it kinda loops back round to being excellent again