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Non-consensually involving thousands of people in my praise kink by creating interesting and effective art that they enjoy

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TIL the reason you don’t find much Lyme’s Disease in California is not because we don’t have Ticks, or Lyme Disease Vectors; but rather: because the Western Fence Lizard (if you live anywhere in California this is your regular Garden Variety Lizard) has adapted a passive immune response that makes their blood lethal to Lyme Disease Bacteria. Any Tick that feeds on one gets its gut cleansed of Lyme Disease as a side effect.

Fucking neat.

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Pink News has a very helpful article about the M&S nonsense - undoubtedly most of it will be preaching to the choir over here but if you're looking for an actually level headed source of info for yourself or to show ppl on your life ^ here u go

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i thought my laptop was on its last leg because it was running at six billion degrees and using 100% disk space at all times and then i turned off shadows and some other windows effects and it was immediately cured. i just did the same to my roommate's computer and its performance issues were also immediately cured. okay. i guess.

so i guess if you have creaky freezy windows 10/11 try searching "advanced system settings", go to performance settings, and uncheck "show shadows under windows" and anything else you don't want. hope that helps someone else.

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coyote in sagebrush steppe, by Matt Lavin.

found on wikimedia commons

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staying with my father and my teenage brother occasionally has been very enlightening actually i need to think about it positively

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hey this is a crazy graph right. like. the smoking one is not surprising but whats with the drinking one. question is

Respondents were also asked "In any 1 year, have you had at least 12 drinks of any type of alcoholic beverage?"; "In your entire life, have you had at least 12 drinks of any type of alcoholic beverage?"; and "In the past year, how often did you drink any type of alcoholic beverage?" A current regular drinker had at least 12 drinks in his or her lifetime and at least 12 drinks in the past year.

so its probably capturing religiosity, less education implies more likely to be a strict teetotaller for religious (or class?) reasons

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this guy in the library is raging bc chatgpt is blocked on their wifi lmfaooo common public library W

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bringing my portable soldering iron to the function to attract the hoes

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Abuna Yemata Guh location: Tigray Region, Ethiopia

Abuna Yemata Guh is a renowned monolithic church in Ethiopia, carved into a sandstone cliff in the Tigray region at an elevation of 2,580 meters. The church is famous not only for its breathtaking location but also for the challenging journey required to reach it. Visitors must undertake a steep and exposed climb that includes narrow ledges and vertical rock faces, often without protective gear.

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LMFAOOOO the kind of kinktober happening on twt…

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A senior FBI official who served as acting director in the first weeks of the Trump administration and resisted demands to turn over the names of agents who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, investigations is being forced out of the bureau, two people familiar with the matter said Thursday. The circumstances of Brian Driscoll’s ouster were not immediately clear, but his final day is Friday, said the people, who were not authorized to discuss the personnel move by name and spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity. Additional ousters were possible. Spokespeople for the FBI declined to comment. The news comes amid a much broader personnel purge that has unfolded over the last several months under the leadership of current FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino. Numerous senior officials including top agents in charge of big-city field offices have been pushed out of their jobs, and some agents have been subjected to polygraph exams, moves that former officials say have roiled the workforce and contributed to angst. Driscoll, a veteran agent who worked international counterterrorism investigations in New York and had also commanded the bureau’s Hostage Rescue Team, had most recently served as acting director in charge of the Critical Incident Response Group, which deploys manpower and resources to crisis situations.

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I find it really interesting that since changing my last name to my partner’s last name, I’ve experienced…I’m not sure what to term it—maybe “secondary racism.” I’ve had people online/in work emails assume that I can’t speak English, or that English is my second language. I’ve had people assume that I’m not US-based/that I’m not a US citizen. I’ve had an influx of people (men, it’s always men) on Instagram and Facebook who apparently don’t take the time to click on my profile and see what I look like before sending me sexist messages that also include racist stereotypes about Asian women specifically.

I knew from speaking with my husband and friends (again, especially Asian women) that this shit is common as hell, but experiencing it is something else. Really emphasizes that sometimes, even if you’re aware of your privilege, there’s really no way of being aware aware until you experience, even in very small part, the other side.

It’s also demonstrated how ill-equipped I am to lose privilege I’m accustomed to because each time this happens I’m immediately burn-all-the-bridges, salt-the-earth, muskets-at-dawn about it while if I mention an occurrences to my partner, he’s so cavalier about it, like, “easy, this isn’t even that bad, take a deep breath.” Because he’s been dealing with this shit his whole life.

No real point to this. Just. Thinking at the keyboard.