Archaeopteryx Online

Profile Pic by zigmenthotep | Background Pic by me | itch: https://alexa42494.itch.io/ | FA: archaeopteryx4216 | bug blog: https://www.tumblr.com/certifiedbugfan

[i-am-a-fish]

very mad at the government

[tench-art]

A short comic I’ve done for @ibenkrutt

[soup-mother]

"and that's what missionary work SHOULD look like" no it shouldn't exist at all actually. even within their own country. preying on homeless people and the ill is bad too yknow? can't believe that's something i have to explain.

the whole "just lead by example and people might be interested in joining" thing still fundamentally surrenders to the idea that spreading Christianity is good and important (it's not!)

[soup-mother]

"jesus was actually a radical Palestinian activist of colour" stop trying to sell Christianity by slapping a progressive coat of paint on it. it's still preaching even if you don't recognise that and think you're just trying to fight back against conservatives or whatever. I promise you ~global christendom~ would not be fucking redeemed if everyone just learned the *true* meaning of his message (but for real this time)

[soup-mother]

I already know who Jesus is. I don't want him. I don't care that you've reinterpreted your religion in a way that lines up with your politics, I don't follow your religion. our politics being similar does not mean i care about your religious prophet, our politics being similar does not mean you get to do #leftist proselytism.

I don't want your guy, everyone already knows about him. you're going to have to come to terms with the fact your religion is a global tool of opression and discrimination. you having decided the issue is just that people have misinterpreted a religious message is not something to make everyone elses issue.

"tell everyone about Jesus but in the *right* way this time" is not a viable strategy for anything and hasn't been for 2000 years. it's actually just proselytism. you're not a martyr for being told to keep the jesus talk to yourself in activist spaces, you're just self centred.

[murderella-tvd]

The doors are now open, welcome to The Video Dungeon!

[archaeopteryx4216]

Enjoying a glass of absinthe with this one!

[murderella-tvd]

The doors are now open, welcome to The Video Dungeon!

[sneepsnorp3d]

major traffic incident

[gaymageclub]

[gaymageclub]

yes hello i would like to emphasize this

disgust is not a moral issue

[archaeopteryx4216]

I made a Swiss-Coptic bound notebook from scratch tonight!

[sylviii]

hey. dont cry. 10,000 transgender dragons in your tumblr feed ok?

[enki2]

[bpd-dylan-hall-deactivated20190]

reading a paper on quality of life among 45-to-70-year-olds with Down syndrome:

“Individuals expressed a desire to be allowed to go to bed when they wanted to.”

[queenshulamit-deactivated201602]

:(

[chavisory]

Imagine.

[fullyarticulatedgoldskeleton]

I lived in a room and board that failed the burrito test. (”If you’re not allowed to get up in the middle of the night to microwave a burrito, you live in an institution.”) No one stopped me from going to bed, but they did tell me I had to have my lights out by 10, and that I had to be out of the house by 10 the next morning. When I complained to my outpatient program that I needed more help than I was getting, they threatened me with board and care, where my cell phone would be taken away and I would lose contact with the outside world. My case manager sounded so damn smug, like he had caught me out, when he said, “if you’re really as helpless as you say, then you need to be in a board and care.” Like my only options were struggling to do things I couldn’t do, or surrendering my life to an institution.

When I tried to talk about these things with other people, they always rationalized it away. (I told my dad once that my caseworker was reading my e-mails as I wrote them, demonstrating extreme disrespect for my privacy, and he said, “Well, she’s probably making sure you don’t use the internet to goof off.” I was 22 years old.)

 People tend to mock the idea that telling an adult when to go to bed, when to eat, etc., is a human rights violation, even though they would find it outrageous and absurd if anyone came into their lives to do the same thing to them.

And this is what people seem to think when they tell disabled activists we’re just not disabled enough to understand that some people really do need to be locked up and deprived of all autonomy.

[phuk-ewe-deactivated20221207]

Here’s the paper:

https://library.down-syndrome.org/en-us/research-practice/06/3/quality-life-ageing-down-syndrome/

[mstopportunity]

They don’t want *any* activists for mentally/developmentally disabled people. If you’re able to advocate for your rights, you’re not “disabled enough” - and if you were disabled enough you wouldn’t be able to advocate for your rights.

[archaeopteryx4216]

@patricia-taxxon

I absolutely love the harsh noise part of techdog and want to force all my friends to listen to it.

https://youtu.be/AA1fa7lh5dY?si=OU7IACE3IhPRdo8k

[giantpredatorymollusk]

the term "phasmid," meaning "stick insect," comes from a latin word meaning "apparition" or "phantom," due to the creatures' ability to hide in plain sight, and then move around and scare people.

the largest phasmids likely remain undiscovered; the longest insect known to science was a phasmid from a species that remains formally unnamed and undescribed, even since being captured for the first time in china in 2014.

a female specimen of the quasi-mythical australian species of gargantuan stick insect was sought by a curator of museum victoria for three years before he encountered one, also in 2014. upon realizing what it was, he says, “I started screaming."

[misteline]

Cryptids are canceled. All of human energy and ingenuity needs to be shifted to tracking down and identifying each and every one of these phasmid motherfuckers. This thing is huge. So huge it is no longer a stick insect, it is now a branch insect instead. I cannot live my life in fear that I will turn a corner in the woods and come across the as of yet undiscovered whole-ass-tree insect.

This is some pikmin shit.

[gallusrostromegalus]

The age of getting stick bugged is over.

Now dawns the age of bugging sticks.

[georgesantosapologist-deactivat]

[55bltzkrgfrtz]

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

[galladegamer]

[brieflyshadywolf]

[onenicebugperday]

@archaeopteryx4216 submitted: I found this bug outside our Minnesota house, and I told my son that it was an assassin bug. Was I right, and if so, what kind of assassin bug was it?

It is an assassin bug! Looks like Acholla multispinosa which has no common name as far as I know.

[archaeopteryx4216]

Thank you @onenicebugperday !!

[alexandriad]

yet another greeku ancient greek miku