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[gothamphantomgoat]

[bearotonin-international]

Apex predator, my ass. I’m going to pet the dog 🐻🐻‍❄️🐼

perhaps now is a good time for some responsible bear programming to remind everyone that as cute and cuddly as they may seem, bears are lethal apex predators and should absolutely be treated accordingly if ever encountered.

DO

NOT

PET

[andoutofharm]

all i’m gonna say on the whole thing is yes ai art is not great and they did in fact fuck up but:

1) people are in fact human, including people in bands, and they will disappoint you. get more comfortable with that because it is fact and it will happen again because humans fuck up. this time it was because of misinformation or a lack of research and there was no malicious intent at all. anthony did more research and his views shifted and he recognized their mistake.

2) if you tell someone to kill themselves over something like this you are genuinely fucked up, especially when that person (anthony) has struggled with suicidal tendencies before. jesus christ.

in conclusion: have some fucking nuance. just a little.

[predalien]

Sometimes I randomly remember that the Xenomorph was inspired off of human genitalia and parasitic wasp. And that almost always has me taking a second to stare at the wall, just to go about my day once again and forget about it.

I mean, of all things to take inspiration off of? Truly. Terrible.

[bonefall]

Question: what’s your source on the phytoestrogens? Bc the only times I’ve ever heard that claim, they all source back to this one study on sheep in like the 40s, which… well it’s not very well supported

(Although maybe you don’t care about that, which would be fair. These are fictional cats after all not clinical studies)

You're probably coming from Hbomberguy when he was specifically addressing lunkhead chuds, who pass around the claim that phytoestrogens lower human fertility and sex drive. The "soyboy" claim.

Human studies on the effects of phytoestrogens are pretty lacking overall, but what does exist doesn't back up that claim-- because humans don't graze on red clover in west australia like a sheep. What that means is that it doesn't impact human fertility the way a terrified conservative brain stem thinks it does.

(ESPECIALLY not in a plate of soybeans, which has significantly lower levels of phytoestrogen than red clover.)

But what it DOES do is bind to the estrogen receptors in your body (and acts as a really good antioxidant but that's neither here nor there) which can mean it can act AS estrogen... or as an antagonist.

If you want to know more (especially if you have a background in chemistry, this source talks a lot about the structural similarities between estrogen and phytoestrogen and the mechanism of action) then go dive into PHYTOESTROGENS IN FUNCTIONAL FOOD by Fatih Yildiz, which collects together many of the studies that we do have on the matter and omits controversial ones.

(Plus it's an easy read for such a science-heavy publication imo)

Though I have to stress that my HRT guide is, y'know, fake cats! Nothing in nature replaces modern medicine***, but I wanted to make a good resource for WC fans with trans cats who wanted a little bit of scientific accuracy, wanted to cut herbs that cast Liver Failure 1000 on felines, and could reasonably be found in a temperate environment

***= Except medicinal maggots. Medicinal maggots are literally magical. Nothing debrides necrotic tissue like green bottlefly larvae and as far as I'm concerned they're the closest thing to divinity we have on this earth. And medicinal leeches I love you leeches im so sorry that anyone has ever called you a pest you're cherubic angels and she doesnt deserve this </3

[drrav3nb]

KIM YOUNG KWANG as SEO DO YOUNG in EVILIVE (2023)

[ex-foster]

I can't really forget about that statistic about foster kids being significantly more likely to identify as trans than the general population. "What does this have to do with Ellen Page? She wasn't in foster care" you might ask. Well consider her sexual traumas. I don't think it is a coincidence that girls in foster care want to dissociate from their sex - we are frequently the target of sexual abuse.

Consider this painting called Just Take Them and Leave me Alone:

I really worry about Gen Z and Gen Alpha. Every single day I see another scandal with the trans movement. I read about stories of children removed from parents who would not affirm a trans identity. I read about teachers secretly transitioning a child behind their parent's back at school. I read about minors receiving a double mastectomy in order to affirm their "non binary" identity. I read about safe guarding concerns with drag performers with child audiences.

I wish that girls didn't feel such agony that they wanted to remove their breasts. It's truly a tragedy what's been happening. What has happened to my poor country? I remember that the foster care I grew up in used to save girls from Female Genital Mutilation - now our Children's Aid Society has the trans flag waving on the property. Girls who experienced sexual abuse should not be mutilated. This is not a form of medicine, it is abuse. It's shameful.

[echoland]

variable halflight_infodump 👁

[jenn-the-butterfly]

Twitter thirst comments entertain them both

This is 50% threat, 50% lore

Were they designed for that purpose in mind? (you know exactly what I mean)

No

Do they enjoy the extra benefits of the most efficient power cores in and out of market (just under industrial grade)?

Absolutely they do

All military grade models are built with self-sustainability in mind to some degree or another, as they're expected to be able to "continue on" when power, resources and network access are all out of reach. This necessitates power systems that are incredibly efficient, even under extreme circumstances. These systems are explicitly Closed Market and disallowed by the public for a variety of reasons with very few suppliers being authorized to make and distribute the quality of parts needed for any military build. Retired units are monitored closely (mostly) if they don't opt to downgrade their power system.

Of them, [REDACTED]-class are the most efficient crisis-ready kind, but [INFORMATION EXPUNGED].

With proper conditioning (use and repair), the uptime of a [REDACTED]-class etherylle system running at lowest efficiency with no periphery abilities active can last up to 20-23 Adir Standard Days between charges.

[gothamphantomgoat]

[twisting-roads]

One of my favorite aspects in rain world is how the symbols are utilized in the language of the ancients

You have your typical karma symbols of course, as well as other symbols seen within the passages or structures.

Though, I'm mainly going to be talking about the symbol that combines karmas 1 (violence) and 4 (gluttony).

This symbol is used to represent "predator" or "hunter" as it is a thing that wants to Kill and Eat you.

A very nice detail about this particular symbol though is that its used for DANGER in general too, as seen when Moon malfunctions in Spearmaster

Its a bit of enviromental storytelling in how the meaning of the symbol may have shifted from "predator" to just danger in general. Nothing is going to kill and eat Moon

Just feels very natural and I wanted to appreciate it, I love it when theres a language with words/symbols that have meanings that shift over time

[bittsandpieces]

I know a few too many people who shake their ass to Drake and suddenly have always hated him.

Have you considered that maybe they weren't aware that he's a bad dude and maybe have learned some information in the past few weeks that made them change their opinion on him? People opinions change. You seem determined to have a bad faith interpretation of the people around you. It doesn't have to be that way

[fiddlepot]

but anyway im actually beginning to realize what the oldies meant when they said the internet's anonymity mitigates shame in what a person says because a lot of you would be looked at as freaks if you said in real life showing your face HALF the shit you say on public spaces bro

and now it's manifesting into real life where people just don't get embarrassed anymore bro 😭 like do you not feel embarrassed actually showing your face and talking about porn or posting about using a vibrator in public??? at a mall????

but it's bad when a weeaboo goes into an anime store and starts talking about being a lolicon LIKE NO NIGGA YOU'RE ALL CRAZY NASTY WICKED EVIL

shit bro if any of the "i don't read it unless it has porn in it" niggas went to the high school i went to they would get eaten ALIVE. im sorry but for certain people we have GOT to bring back bullying because some of you have no shame in publicizing shit that should be fuckin private.

[brotherslayer]

Hate how the only redeeming quality that the real penelope has is her beauty for the mc to take over... Really fucked up that whenever anyone says anything remotely nice about og penelope is when they are talking about her appearance...

would expect of no better from child abusers. what did the Duke like about Penelope enough to be willing to adopt her? was it really just her physical resemblance to Ivonne? There had to be one positive quality at least. If he wanted a substitute that wasn't being difficult he could have just put one of those appearance changing bracelets on a random kid. Or would he consider that more immoral than neglecting a traumatized orphan cause she couldn't play her role right?

[prisonpodcast]

some ccs are just straight up nuts there’s no other explanation

[guinevereslancelot]

most fucked up thing at my new job is there's only zero calorie sweeteners at the coffee station in the break room. three different kinds of zero calorie sweetener but no regular sugar because the assumption is that literally everyone is on a diet?