life isnt about being anyone except you

Enjoy your stay, whoever is reading this, and have a good day or night. Dex/Isaac, 18+, he/him, DID system

[crabussy]

hi trans kiwis and friends. if you haven't seen the news, they're trying to pass a frankly insidious bill in aotearoa to define the terms 'man' and 'woman' based on biological sex. this unsurprisingly reflects a lot of similar cruel efforts happening overseas at the moment. IT HASN'T PASSED YET, but I figured I should speak up about it because this is happening as we speak.

(screenshot from the linked RNZ article)

it seems very fucking bleak!!!! please don't lose hope! it hasn't passed yet and a lot of the shoddy bills suggested by the coalition have been shot down already. it's still worth knowing about. you don't have to share this post if you don't want to. I just know that a lot of my followers are kiwi. if there are any updates as to what we can do to push back against this, I'll make a relevant addition. kia kaha, okay? love you all.

[crabussy]

UPDATE: you can now very quickly and very easily submit a comment on the bill! these will be counted and considered in parliament.

it took me less than three minutes, and that's only because I wrote a whole paragraphs on why this is a stupid idea. all you really need to put is "don't pass this bill" if you want. it'll only take 30 seconds.

if you're able to and you want to, please consider reblogging! the more reach this gets, the better. thank you all so much [:

[raccoonmilf]

In case anyone would just like the graphic:

Anyway. There is rabies (the disease) in Australia, it just isn’t caused by rabies lyssavirus

[raccoonmilf]

Help us fund pygmy raccoon conservation initiatives!

Hi friends! I am back with another request to fund ongoing pygmy raccoon conservation initiatives. Here are the details:

I am currently working in partnership with the Cozumel Municipal Ecology Department to find actionable ways to keep critically endangered pygmy raccoons alive. Right now, there is almost no infrastructure for rehabilitating and releasing orphaned and injured animals. We are working on changing that. Thanks to previous donations, we have already been able to purchase a small plot of land and hope to start building sanctuary enclosures soon. However, we hope to conduct an ongoing study to determine the efficacy of new rehabilitation procedures and protocols in development. Part of this involves tracking the animals to see if these changes are actually working, and finding any issues so that we can fix them.

Right now, a baby pygmy raccoon named Mapas is in the care of my research partner (who oversees all animal rescue on the island). Mapas is being raised with the intent to release under current procedures and protocol. Nobody has any idea how these current rehab methods are working, so we hope we can track Mapas after release to get a baseline of efficacy.

To do this, we need about $1,600 to purchase a receiver ($1,099), an antenna ($210), a collar transmitter ($225), and shipping ($50). While the collar is kind of a one time use thing (that lasts up to a year,) the receiver and antenna will be used going forward during the formal study next year when I return to Cozumel, and in the years to come. This is a very worthwhile investment to let us track the species. If you are interested in donating for this project, you can do so in the following ways: Venmo (Please leave a note about a donation for pygmy raccoon tracking)

Paypal (Please leave a note about a donation for pygmy raccoon tracking)

Credit or debit card on the Nature Conscious Tourism Initiative website

All donations through all platforms are tax deductible, and I can provide a receipt if needed. Just send me a message here or through the contact form on the NCTI website.

If you have any further questions, please let me know!

[raccoonmilf]

Just letting everyone know that we have raised the necessary funds for this project and then some! This will help us buy even more collars going forward. Thank you all so much for your help. I am now able to aid the Ecology Department by writing up a justification so they can get a telemetry permit, and also show that we have all the funds raised for this. I appreciate each and every one of you who donated, reblogged, or supported any way whatsoever. Thank you!

[chantenhalf]

"Because I said so" straight up isn't as good an answer as you think it is.

[arcana-witch]

this reminds me of when I was in vallet classes, i kept falling out of my pirhouettes. I wasn't engaging the right muscles because nobody told ne the why. once I got the scientific 'why', I could turn perfectly. weird

[theriverbeyond]

Ideal work schedule:

I show up and am given a list of cognitively engaging but achievable tasks

I complete the list

I leave immedietly

[isuggesteatingtherich]

i have a suggestion

[arcana-witch]

somehow this is just... my job? i have a list of fairly simple tasks to complete, with breaks, self-contained to one room. i can achieve my tasks by the end of my shift and I get to just clock out and go home at the end. no work from home or tasks required offsite. no supervisor over my shoulder. its fun

[free-my-mindd]

[diedoffscreen]

[mornington-the-crescent]

[centaurself]

in celebration of april 13, i present all four known photos of neil, who banged out the tunes 19 years ago today

source: theagilerat.com (click right to see all four photos!)

[starberry-cupcake]

[heartclef]

NEW EARTH PHOTO JUST DROPPED FROM ARTEMIS II

[busket]

thats my home

you can see the atmosphere. that halo around the edge, that's my air. the green on the upper right is my aurora. those are my clouds, my sunlight.

and its yours! this is your home. this is the home of everyone you ever heard of and everyone you will ever meet. every animal you've been curious about. every plant you've ever picked, and sniffed. its mine and its yours and its theirs. everything is here. its all that i have. its all that you have too.

[tornprince]

One thing about getting a job after months of being stuck in my house is I forgot how frequently people just talk about counting calories and starving themselves and stuff. Fucked up....I'm eating cookies and ice cream and slapping my bellyyyyyyy

[arcana-witch]

one of my coworkers favourite things is to tell me ive lost weight. like babygirl no... ive gained weight, I just look happier!

[batshit-auspol]

what the fuck is the statistics office planning

[mousidy]

top 9 facts about yourself you probably already knew:

#9: on March 17th, 2026 you will bear witness to the mangled corpse of God

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

[all-the-good-usernames]

Oh boy todays the day!

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

[kedreeva]

I dunno about god but last night we definitely had a stand off to produce a mangled corpse one way or another

[kedreeva]

Hey hang on a second

As important as it was to contact Tumblr when they made that asinine, fucked up change, now that they've reversed it, you have a chance to say thanks for reversing it.

I know that you're probably still riding the high (negative) from the stress of going through yesterday's changes, and worrying about the fate of your community, and how badly the change would have affected creators. We banded together, and we let the staff know that we didn't like what they were doing, and you know what? They listened. That's part of why we're here on Tumblr and not other places that would have just shoved that down our throats regardless of the hundreds of thousands of complaints. Yeah, they fucked up. Big time. But they also backed off, and it's important to speak on that front as well if you want them to do it again later.

So, even though you may still be mad that they did it at all, take a moment and a breath, and click here. Select feedback if it isn't already selected. And just say "Hey, thanks for listening to your users, and for rolling back the change. I like my community here, and I like that you listened to us when we asked you not to do something we didn't like." It doesn't need to be elaborate. But if we want them to listen to us, making it worth listening to us is a step in the process.

Which also means that if you added a negative review somewhere due to this update, consider retracting or editing it to address the back track on the update. If you were a premium user and you cancelled in order to speak with your money to object to the change, consider speaking again now that you've been listened to.

Staff fucked up. But I'd rather have a staff that fucks up sometimes and then actually listens to its users and fixes or tries to fix it, than a staff that fucks up and pushes through to force the fuck up on everyone. So I'm going to thank them for listening this time, and I'm going to encourage them to listen again next time.

[pangur-and-grim]

pigeon that looks like a seagull btw

[arcana-witch]

I love those!! we have tons of pigeons where I work and they have such interesting colour variations

[fluentisonus]

remember in p.e. when they'd take a bunch of insecure teenagers & be like "today we're going to play basketball" and then not teach you how to play basketball. and then put you in a group with guys who were obsessed with basketball and would get mad at you for not knowing how to play basketball. why did they do that

[arcana-witch]

not convinced p.e. was actually useful, tbh. I was a competitive dancer, in multiple styles, from the age of 8. my p.e. teachers called my mum and told them I was 'unhealthy' and 'unathletic' because I couldn't run cross-country very well.

[mush-dooms]

I think weight loss ads should be illegal and im not kidding

[arcana-witch]

i keep getting ads for medical weightloss. I AM RECOVERING FROM AN EATING DISORDER AND AM UNDERWEIGHT STILL. like please,,, stop advertising that shit to me,,, i do not need it

[teathattast]

[thefurriestofchows]

oh,

oh this is absolutely beautiful

[wakingfromthewater]

I saw some James Webb Telescope scientists give a talk and one of them said this was her favorite image because she had waited and worked 25 years to see this.

[teathattast]

200k notes is insane who the hell are u people

[johnny-depp-is-loved]

[dawaxxenpith]

At risk of sounding like a hater and an asshole this looks like AI and if its somehow not, the editor who reworked images and sharpened them up made it look like AI

Edit: yeah its AI

[theromanbarbarian]

This is the actual image (from a 6 year old reddit post so def not AI). Either someone asked AI to recreate it or AI, being the plagiarism machine it is, was asked for a pic of dogs finding humans in the snow and just ripped off the first image it could find. Another reminder that AI doesn't actually create anything. Also real cute dogs.

[badboneszone]

Actually a fantastic example for when you need to illustrate to someone that AI art is theft, blatantly, and not in some abstract way