It's all relative, baby

Savannah / 27 / Bi / Oregon

[babyanimalgifs]

Marine life specialists noticed a spotted eagle ray mother was having trouble and helped her deliver two baby rays 

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[fionn-o-nassus]

They’re so cute! Such

[artissijamm]

:3

[catgirl-kaiju]

There are many benefits to being a marine biologist

[batscrem]

@missszena

[mcromwell]

FINALLY got around to dumping Spotify after their CEO continued to prove he's a fresh turd. (As if being a billionaire, not paying musicians, shoving AI garbage at us, and having an atrocious carbon footprint wasn't bad enough, he's now the chair of a AI-based weapons manufacturing company.)

I used TuneMyMusic ($24 annual fee you can cancel immediately, effectively paying only once) to transfer almost every single song from our Spotify account to Tidal. Tidal already has much better sound quality and they pay their artists much better. It migrated over 99% of our music, too, so there wasn't a huge loss.

[chainslobber]

I did this over in November when they gave Trump $100,000.

Tidal is incredible. Not only is it MUCH cheaper than Spotify, but the audio quality is much better. Artists DO get paid more, and their algorithm is actually coded by humans (did you wonder why Spotify Wrapped has been sucking, it's the AI).

You can download your Spotify playlists as .CSV files and then use a program to 'covert' them to Tidal. I used Exportify. It cost me $2 to transfer over 35 playlists and a total of 4,300+ songs. Two dollars.

Tidal's UI is similar to Spotify so you can jump right in and do the same stuff you've always done. You can make playlists, edit playlist covers, you have a discover daily, the mixes make more sense and are based on YOUR tastes, and to top it all off, did I mention it's cheaper?

And for those who drive a lot, it takes a lot less room on your phone and barely any data. I HIGHLY recommend making the jump!

[stele3]

'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup

Daniel Ek invested over $700m in drone, aircraft and submarine producer Helsing

[dajo42]

all chiropractors either

1. know they are scamming you with dangerous pseudoscience so you shouldnt let them near your neck or give them money

or

2. genuinely believe their dangerous pseudoscience so you shouldnt let them near your neck or give them money

and thats simply the facts of the matter unfortunately. maybe you disagree and thats your right and id never try to take that away from you but you are unfortunately completely wrong and i would encourage looking up more about this

[nerdpoe]

Texas, for it's many many many many many many many faults, really fucking hates chiropractors.

[kitkat-4772]

That because yall are going to the wrong chiropractor. Yeah there’s a lot of shitty ones out there, but there are a few clinics that actually know what they’re doing. The first one I went to was an older man located in TX recommended to me by both my parents. He was amazing at his job, but I am sad to say he is retired. I heard his brother is still working there but isn’t as well-practiced as his elder brother.

Then I moved away and had to find a new one. My mom found a lady that was actually really good, and she’s always super upbeat and chatty.

It’s not that all chiropractors suck, just most of them. So just make sure to keep your hopes high and your expectations low, and maybe one day you’ll find the one for you. :)

[dajo42]

"only MOST chiropractors will fucking paralyse you"

[heroicallynude]

My two yr old is looking through a book about prehistoric art and she saw a picture of those cave painting of hands and she held up her own and said "hand!" And I gotta be honest. That hit

[im-da-bronx]

Oh my god, this reminds me of the childrens garden of our local botanical garden. There’s one section that’s called the prehistoric lives garden or smth, and it’s full of native plants that indigenous people 2000 years ago would have eaten and used as medicine, etc. And within this little garden, there’s an adobe style playhouse, which for some reason (probably lighting reasons) has no roof, which means the rusty red dirt floor is often quite muddy.

And this series of events has led to my favorite interactive art piece ever.

Handprints.

Little tiny handprints at the bottom. Big teenager and adult sized handprints at the top. Handprints upon handprints upon handprints, a modern day continuation of an ancient tradition.

Most of the people who contributed were probably doing so because they thought it would be fun, not for any deep philosophical reason. Heck, you can tell based on the height of the larger handprints that their owners were having a jumping competition. They didn’t think about the fact that they were creating art in the exact same way the earliest humans created art. They didn’t think about the fact that humans have always been and will always be humans, and the ways we interact with each other and the world have always stayed the same in the most important ways.

But I did. I thought about it. And I am in love with humanity all over again.

[heroicallynude]

[wizardshark]

harry potter fans in 2025

[wizardshark]

people DESPERATE in the notes to explain why the way THEY engage with harry potter is morally pure. It's like white people talking about rap music in there! Libraries buy the books! Fanfiction maintains a conversation around the IP! There is NO WAY to enjoy harry potter in 2025 without publicly supporting JK Rowling!

[sportsandlaughs]

[ladyprydian]

[hotvampireadjacent]

[malorisaurus]

Alt text:

Statement from Tristan Kern de Gonzales

Husband of Jonathan Joss

My husband Jonathan Joss and I were involved in a shooting while checking the mail at the site of our former home. That home was burned down after over two years of threats from people in the area who repeatedly told us they would set it on fire. We reported these threats to law enforcement multiple times and nothing was done.

Throughout that time we were harassed regularly by individuals who made it clear they did not accept our relationship. Much of the harassment was openly homophobic.

When we returned to the site to check our mail we discovered the skull of one of our dogs and its harness placed in clear view. This caused both of us severe emotional distress. We began yelling and crying in response to the pain of what we saw.

While we were doing this a man approached us. He started yelling violent homophobic slurs at us. He then raised a gun from his lap and fired.

Jonathan and I had no weapons. We were not threatening anyone. We were grieving. We were standing side by side. When the man fired Jonathan pushed me out of the way. He saved my life.

Jonathan is my husband. He gave me more love in our time together than most people ever get. We were newlyweds. We picked Valentines Day. We were in the process of looking for a trailer and planning our future.

He was murdered by someone who could not stand the sight of two men loving each other.

I was with him when he passed. I told him how much he was loved.

To everyone who supported him, his fans, his friends, know that he valued you deeply. He saw you as family.

My focus now is on protecting Jonathan's legacy and honoring the life we built together.

If your concern is how someone coped with trauma or how loudly they speak when recounting injustice and being ignored by authorities then you never truly cared about my husband.

Jonathan saved my life. I will carry that forward. I will protect what he built.

- Tristan Kern de Gonzales

***

This is fucking heartbreaking. The cruelty of this is just unfathomable to me, but unsurprising. It seems that everywhere I turn are examples of boundless cruelty. Jonathan was a blessing in life, and may his memory forever be a blessing to us all. I will remember him. And I hope that this June is a fucking riot.

[carbomcoco]

"these researchers published a paper on something that literally any of us could have told you 🙄" ok well my supervisors wont let me write something in my thesis unless I can back it up with a citation so maybe it's a good thing that they're amplifying your voice to the scientific community in a way that prevents people from writing off your experiences as annecdotal evidence

[mydollyaviana]

I'm Chinese, so I wonder if non-Chinese understand

that in the Chinese version of Disney’s Mulan, the fake name she gives is “Ping”, but her family name “Fa” in English is “Hua” in Chinese, therefore her full name is “Hua Ping”, which is literally “Flower Vase”, and that’s why Shang is so bewildered because it’s a silly name.

[gelatofish]

but OP how could you not tell them the best part

“hua ping”/flower vase is chinese slang for “camp gay”

[cleopatrasweave-deactivated2014]

I—

[autumngracy]

Mulan, introducing her soldiersona: Hello yes it is me, a twink

[theannoyingquestionsblog]

Shang, sweating: welcome to the army

[rhubabby]

take me to snurch (snail church)

[dragongirlglasses]

happy 10 years to snurch

[rhubabby]

oh do not do this to me

[machetesquirrel]

I’m just going to leave this here

[chosetoseethebestinyou]

[thetrekkiehasthephonebox]

He really did.

[bibliophilepixie]

[luidilovins]

1930s news about a trans woman: Well I'll be curfuffled young Corlotta Jhonson has transformed herself from a dandy into a dame and what a Bombshell she's become. And How!

1930s news about trans men: Wanted dead or alive this young lady who started wearing trousers, the tomboy terror known only as The Crust is wanted for snorting the President's personal stash of opium and has slain nearly every senate member in a pistol duel.

[stereotype-embodier]

I'm a huge fan of the early 1900s/late 1800s Mexican (?) transmasc who would threaten to shoot anybody who called him a girl. Looked like a total badass too. Please somebody know who I'm talking about.

[crazy-pages]

I do know who you're talking about but can't remember his name.

[lavampiremerveilleuse]

His name is Amelio Robles. Just so people have the information ✨

[commiemaybe]

Amelio Robles Ávila - Wikipedia

Amelio Robles Ávila - Wikipedia

This is the colorized picture of Colonel Amelio Robles Ávila from 1915

[luidilovins]

I love how everyone in the notes is claiming that this post is about a different trans man. They were all like that back then.

[chubby-elf-hux]

[dorky-jenny]

also

[agentloonypants]

Murdered CEO owed “substantial amount of money” to driver who killed him, records show

Recently released court records show that the CEO who was allegedly murdered by his own driver owed the man a “substantial amount of money".

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Suclea is currently being held without bail in Cook County and has a hearing scheduled for Tuesday, March 18th. He has been diagnosed with cancer and is undergoing treatment. It is unclear when he was diagnosed. There are no records of ATG Truckload formally filing for bankruptcy.

[levonsnape-deactivated20230929]

I love The Golden Girls.

[gholateg]

Ya’ll don’t have any idea how fucking brave and needed these plot lines were.

This was before Ellen came out.

This was before civil unions.

This was before Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.

This was when your ass could be fired, blacklisted, and shunned with no legal protections for even being hinted at being gay.

And the Golden Girls said “Fuck you, Fuck this, we’re doing it anyway.”

[silenthillmutual]

I think it should be noted that Blanche’s quote about AIDS is also “It is not god punishing people for their sins” and that the episode also deals with slutshaming.

[darkravn]

I don’t know if people realize how much activism these women did for gay right and during the aids crisis. If you think about it they were all long established in Hollywood and Broadway. They had tons of friends personally affected and dealing with the aids crisis. Estelle Getty lost a nephew. I think they helped plant seeds in people who watched Golden Girls that helped make things a little more normalized and mainstream.

[internetgreatesthits]

[dozydawn]

nimble, a border collie-papillon mix, wins the 12” class in the 2024 masters agility championship. the first time a mixed breed has won at westminster ever.

[ch40s0w1]

context explaining why the announcer is screaming, this is supposed to take a high level competitive agility dog 40 seconds

[sandersstudies]

This video makes me cry every time it’s on my dash and I can’t even iterate why.

Like the dog doesn’t even know it’s a competition and she’s made history. She(?) just is happy and knows she made her owner happy too.

[solely-ashes]

The face of a being with only a wind storm between their ears, moments before unleashing it unto the world