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@iridiumurchin​ submitted: This AMAZING photo I took of a tarantula hawk drinking from my dads pond. My phone isn’t very good but you can still see the like velvety texture.

This is some sort of isopod I’m like 90% sure.

Cute pic of the tarantula hawk wasp havin a sippy! The last fella is actually a roach, not an isopod :)

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(college stuff) everyone give it up for the humble arapaima

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@abyssalprincess27 submitted: Small brown moth found in Redmond, Washington, USA during the day, in late summer!

Cute! Looks like Noctua sp. :)

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Oh BTW, it's important that as many people vote for Harris as possible, because we don't want a scenario where the votes are close enough that it might be taken to court (much less the conservative-leaning Supreme Court) and ruled in Trump's favor. And yes, this also applies if you live in a blue state; we don't want to risk any doubt anywhere who the winner is.

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I notice sometimes in queer and feminist spaces the idea of "this group is generally given more leniency and privileges in wider society; it's okay for us to be critical or even a little nasty to them because anywhere else they'd be praised". and that's understandable, i think. when you have real issues with men and how men act, it's ok to express that and to mock mens behavior. cis men who are generally praised and celebrated in society should be able to take some mean jokes or criticisms and accept they're not always going to be lauded.

but since queer and feminist spaces are generally more accepting of trans people and the wider society is not, this is also projected on to trans men. "trans men are men" was an affirming statement to our validity, but that was interpreted as "since trans men are men, and men are celebrated by society, I get to be a little nasty to them because the rest of society worships men. they can take it."

but the rest of society doesn't have that same level of trans acceptance. they don't see trans men as men, they see trans men as mentally ill, broken, mutilated women. so it's absolutely aggravating when we turn to queer and feminist spaces for solidarity, we face the same reactive nastiness cis men get and are told "come on, trans men are men. you are celebrated in society. you can take it." and when we look at the rest of society there's no celebration. there's only more nastiness and cruelty. so how can we "take it" when we have no community that accepts us and treats us without mockery? we don't have the shelter of acceptance that cis men have in the status quo, and sometimes we can't find a small umbrella of acceptance in queer communities either.

to be honest, I think a lot of people view trans men as a safe punching bag to vent their frustrations with men. you can mistreat a trans man and he's probably not going to fight you back since he's already so beat down. you can feel like you put a man in his place, you can feel like you're resisting the patriarchy. but all you did was act cruel to a marginalized person. and you know if you treated a cis man like that you might be putting yourself in danger, cos he might not take it lying down and he might not care as much about your wellbeing!

trans men are men, but trans men are not cis men. cis men are lauded and celebrated in society as long as they conform to the gender roles that were placed on them at birth. and this privilege is extremely conditional and not equally spread between men of different sexualities, races, ethnicities, ability, age, etc; trans men and intersex men are thrown to the side completely. I understand needing to vent about men. trans men do it too. but a persistent attitude of resentment and cruelty towards all men, including trans men, is not activism. all you do is push marginalized men out of the only communities they belong

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This Dropout mishegoss is why antizionism is antisemitism

Some "activists" targeted a few random Jewish people and (without evidence!!) just labeled them Zionists

Then a whole ass company had to say "we've never knowingly worked with any Zionists" - which seems like a tall order considering how many staff and people work on shows and just how many guests they've had over the years

So now Dropout's incentive is this: they have to carefully scrutinize the background of any Jew they hire - and only Jews - to determine whether they've said anything Bad(tm)

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All y'all fuckers when you say you ain't gonna vote

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Reminder that if Trump loses, he’s gone once and for all. He will have lost twice in a row. His initial win seemingly a fluke. He will be in his 80s next time he wants to campaign. Now two presidential rounds out. He is running on fumes atp. His sentencing is pretty soon. One last blow is really just what we need to banish him once and for all.

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Anyone else here shocked and horrified by dropouts sudden declaration? Or is it just me? I had to read through it about five times until I believed it was real.

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It is not that Jews are a more superstitious people I think, it's just that we have a really strong cultural taboo against expressing optimism, and an even stronger one against expressing certainty.

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thank you everyone for joining my first episode of my heartgold artlocke... here is every pokemon we caught this night on stream!! (no deaths... SO FAR.)

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Last night I dreamed that my Awful Racist Uncle (TM) was challenging me on something or other Kamala said or did that wasn't perfectly in line with my beliefs.

And dream self snapped back, "For fucks sake, I just voted for her, I'm not marrying her. If you're saying we always have to agree and embody 100% of what a candidate does or says, we're about to have some very uncomfortable discussions about your voting history."

And I woke up like - that's it. Why are we always the ones apologizing? Is it because we're idealists? Fuck that. Idealism dies without pragmatism to hold it up. No more getting backed into a corner on these things. Let's talk about your values, then, uncle. Out loud. In front of everyone. And see who is still speaking to you afterward.

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Nebraska hasn't passed a single bill this year because one lawmaker keeps filibustering in protest of an anti-trans bill: 'I will burn this session to the ground'

Damn. I thought she was just gonna up and make a fuss and her swearing to protect trans kids was a bunch of empty words (again).

But no. She's one-woman filibustering the entire Nebraska legislature into a complete standstill until they agree to protect the rights of trans kids.

She was 100% serious when she said she'd make it as painful for everyone as it is for trans kids. Gahddamn.

This is why small elections matter. She's not a country wide senator or president or shit. She's just a local official representing District 6 in Nebraska.

This is why the "smaller" elections between the presidential elections matter.

-fae

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its rly infuriating to see so many posts attempting to "celebrate" or "honor" sephardic n mizrahi jewish communities that time and time again "coincidentally" leave out any and all mentions of violent persecution lmfao bc it was by non white/european/xtians n it doesnt fit their solidarity/coexistence/infantilization of racialized peoples/etc. agenda. u post abt the beautiful, 3000 year old jewish community of libya but refuse to mention that there r currently zero jews living there n why all of them fled and cant return? u post post abt the history of yemenite jews yet fail to address that out of a population of half a million jews of yemenite descent, only FIVE ppl live in yemen and why that is? this shit rly isnt cute and atp i refuse to see any reason to continue doing it

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For years now, I have been railing against the Republican Party as a literal – literal – Party of Plague. In these closing days of the campaign, they have quadrupled back down on this in ways that will kill millions of Americans.

Not “might.” Will.

Appointing RFK, Jr. as czar of public health and letting him “go wild” will kill millions. Again, not might: will. Not immediately, no, but over time. Trump himself is utterly refusing to promise he and his party won’t ban vaccines and said on Sunday that RFK Jr.’s pledge to eliminate fluoridation of water on day one “sounds OK to me.”

If they do this and make it stick, millions will die. And an outsized number of them will be children.

Courtesy McNadoMD on Mastodon, here are a few of the diseases mass vaccination eliminated from American life, and which banning vaccination will bring back, along with some of their symptoms and progression paths.Howdy folks! Friendly neighborhood ER doc here. Did you know that Trump’s folks want to take vaccines off of the market? That means you can’t get a shot even if you want one. Did you know that the tetanus shot is a vaccine? If you want your kids to be safe from lockjaw (caused by tetanus), you want vaccines to be available. You know what else is a vaccine? Rabies shots. If a rabid dog or bat bites your kid, do you want your kid to be able to be treated before they die of rabies?

Lockjaw and rabies:

Diphtheria:

Whooping cough:

Polio:

You get the idea, right?

These aren’t the only ones. These are just a few of those less often mentioned in these modern times, because people have forgot they exist.

When I say the Republican Party is a Party of Plague, when I say it is a goddamn death cult, I mean every single one of those words in every way you might think.

They are promising economic ruin and they are promising ethnic purges and now they are promising mass death of children.

All while killing pregnant people for their vile sense of domination, of course. Let us never forget that, since their families certainly won’t.

One of the things their apologists keep saying is that “Trump doesn’t mean it” and “Trump won’t do it,” and “That’s just Trump being Trump,” and they talk about “Trump derangement syndrome,” and say that we’re stupid for believing what their candidate fucking says he’ll do, and meanwhile, they get enraged about shit they completely make up about us and the candidates who are with us.

We react to things their candidates promise. They react to shit they make up wholesale about us. We are not the fucking same.

If only the political press would catch on to that fact.

The very last day of a campaign is a pretty lousy time to bring up another topic, even if it’s not really new. But this is, again, so murderously psychotic that I can’t not bring it back up.

Maybe you can bring it up, too, on this final day of this hellish and evil campaign, this Monday, November 4th, 2024.

Zero days remain.

It is Lastday.

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Oct 7th fucked up my whole view of leftism, because especially with the Coats' thing, I get the feeling that this is the blueprint how the rapture revolution they want is gonna go and there don't seem to be enough leftists within the movement opposing that.