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Gnu - Question for native speakers

Guys, why do you call Terry Pratchett either a type of antelope or an astroid?

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Long rant about cultural christianity and israel

If I see one more culturally christian atheist bring up Israel as a gotcha, I'm gonna scream.

Like "humans returned to the land they were ripped from for 2000 years and run the government as a democracy. They also have problems with safety and stability due to conflict created by Israel, Palestine and the United Nations. We need to find a way to make peace so that the Israelis who are native to the land and the Palestinians who, to my knowledge, may also be native to the land but regardless are there now, may live in peace with one another."

That's the situation. They were persecuted humans returning to their home land, and because people were there and the UN dropped the ball, conflict arose.

Israel deserves to exist. Palestinians deserve to exist. And no one deserves to be exiled.

That's not addressing any of the nuances of the debate, obviously. But like. Both Israel and Palestians deserve to exist. That can be a thing.

And also, in most situations, Israel isn't even relevant to the conversation.

You just need to justify your inability to show compassion to Jews by throwing in their faces the one place in the world were they aren't persecuted for existing.

Jews are not the same as colonizers. Jews are not responsible for the actions of the Israeli government. Jews deserve to make aliyah to Israel if they so choose (and even then they still aren't responsible for government action).

And just because Jews are the majority in one part of the world does not mean that oppression they face elsewhere doesn't matter.

Have compassion for Jews. Stick up for Jews. And stop throwing Israel in their fucking faces like some kind of gotcha. It's old, it's annoying and it shows your apathy to the suffering of Jews all over the world.

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Full credit to the creator @ ThePandaRedd on TikTok who actually made this video (if he contacts me to take this down I will) but I couldn’t just not post yet another golden video of his after watching it…

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Boston Pride ‘96 | Carla Osberg

In 1996, the Boston chapter of the Lesbian Avengers pushed a bed along the route of Boston Pride. During the march, members climbed on the bed and kissed and caressed through the streets. The goal was to create a blatant image of lesbian sexuality for public consumption as both an artistic and a political act, and make a statement about dominant hetero-normative rhetoric surrounding sex and sexuality.

The act caused a scandal, now known as "bedgate” which led to Pride organizers, news outlets, and even the mayor of Boston denouncing it as “distasteful and irresponsible”. The Boston Dyke March commission released a statement following the backlash, asserting “When we permit straights in suits to define us, chastise us or credit our good behavior, we lose power and the qualities that make us beautiful.”

The full statement by Lesbian Avenger Heather Janules can be read here.

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Would you sloppy a neurotypical?

they won’t be neurotypical when I’m done with them

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“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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I wonder how many gay people are actually transgender & dont know it because people thing being transgender is transitioning when it’s literally just not being cis.

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Okay fuck it if this post reaches 666k notes by the end of 2023 I'll practise basic self care

Why 666k? Because it's funny and impossible so good fucking luck

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holy mother of god i have GOT to get weirder

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Cross your fingers for Disney losing full Avengers rights

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Nicola Scott, a hero who loves Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, pitching the Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman 80th anniversary covers: they all face the front of the cover in the same position, showcasing their different suits over the years!

Dc: Fantastic. Fantastic work, Nicola. Now how about Dick Grayson?

Nicola Scott, a hero who loves Dick Grayson but who also understands Dick Grayson on a fundamental level:

"ass."

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thinking about this again

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July 5th, 2021: A TERF-run historical girlboss account mysteriously fails to mention the French Resistance killed Violette Morris because they were a fucking Nazi.

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i do trust sonic... but now i'm a lil bit suspicious

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A big huge post of BUG FACTS

PHOBIA SAFE (no real creatures shown in post itself) with clickable source links for every single fact!

Arthropods are wonderful amazing living things, but often poorly appreciated. This post dispels some common arthropod myths, but also collects some generally cool, fun or surprising facts!

Some people don’t like looking at arthropods, and I won’t pretend to get it, but they still deserve cool and (to the best of my ability) accurate facts, so there will be no real photos in this post. It’s also extremely long, so I’ve put a cut after the first few items! I apologize if any links change or go down, and will fix them when possible.

First: “Bugs” ARE animals. An animal can really be as simple as a jellyfish or a sea sponge, but Arthropods are on the more complex side of the animal kingdom with such familiar adaptations as legs, eyes, muscle tissue, neural cells, egg-laying and more. Possibly only rivaled by nematode worms, they may also represent the majority of animal life in terms of both species and actual biomass, making arthropods the foremost representatives of what constitutes an animal.

Wasps are at least as important as bees. Wasps can pollinate almost all the same flowers, even if it’s with slightly less efficiency, but many plants also attract wasps alone for pollination, and wasps pull additional duty regulating every food web that involves insects at all.

Mosquitoes are also necessary, sorry. The viral claim that “scientists” have “proven” them to be useless is a misunderstanding of one researcher’s opinion that it would be safe to eradicate one variety of mosquito from a limited area. All over the world, mosquitoes are a massive part of the nutrient cycle, and little else could multiply as rapidly in the same range of conditions if they were to go missing.

Ants and bees are effectively just specialized wasps themselves, together forming the order Hymenoptera along with the less famous “sawflies.” You can think of ants as super-social, super-successful subterranean wasps for having evolved from the same ancestors.

Fireflies are carnivorous beetles, which feed primarily on slugs and snails during their larval stages. In some species, adult female fireflies also prey on the males of other fireflies, imitating their light signals as a lure.

Male fruit flies deliberately get drunk if too many females reject them. Anything with a brain can get intoxicated from alcohol, and arthropod brains run on familiar reward systems.

Termites are cockroaches. Totally unrelated to ants despite their very similar lifestyles, termites were always considered closely related to roaches but were more recently proven to actually just be very oddball roaches themselves. There are even some highly social wood-eating cockroaches that bridge the evolutionary gap, still alive today.

OVER 40 MORE FACTS UNDER CUT!!!

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