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not in any way connected to argentina, i just really like this one species of duck

[s-t-a-r-c-o]

im reading discworld and im on the third book and i only just realized they arent arranged like this

[hungwy]

One of the best stories humanity ever produced was a draft of a rewrite of the Epic of Gilgamesh written by a Ecuadorian poet in 1935. It was tossed into a fireplace by an angry boy and lost forever. Another of humanity's best was told 65,000 years ago and was overheard by a small tribe of embarked Neanderthals boating down a river in what is now northern Georgia. A short woman at the bank scrubbed a wooden idol in the water and sang an ancient tale in an unknown language. These two are eclipsed by everything produced by two brothers at the coast of what is now Cameroon between 503 BC and 490 BC, which they shared with some family and friends, and were beloved by everyone except a sour uncle.

[deadgenerations]

in more pleasant news: this year is seeing the biggest humpback migration in Australian history, bigger than it was PRE whaling. That's right, there are more humpbacks migrating off the coast of Australia than there were BEFORE industrial whaling started.

A huge, fat W for environmentalists and Greenies. what an achievement

[lumsel]

we did it! we saved the fucking whales!!!!

[the-tao-of-fandom]

These whales were hunted to 150 individuals. Now there are 50,000 of them

Once hunted almost to extinction, the population of humpback whales currently migrating down Australia's east coast has bounced back and is

Further info for those interested

[pnwnativeplants]

Environmental activism works!!! If they tell you its hopeless they're lying and/or selling some shit!!!

[traegorn]

[asneakyfox]

the idea that restrooms, locker rooms, etc need to be single-sex spaces in order for women to be safe is patriarchy's way of signalling to men & boys that society doesn't expect them to behave themselves around women. it is directly antifeminist. it would be antifeminist even if trans people did not exist. a feminist society would demand that women should be safe in all spaces even when there are men there.

[asneakyfox]

btw this is maybe the single most key distinguishing feature of the terfy strains of radical feminism, the seed all the rest of it springs out of: they have absolutely no faith in the ability of feminism to actually destroy patriarchy. they do not think feminism can truly build a better world. they cannot really even imagine that possibility. they think patriarchy is an inevitable natural consequence of unchangeable biological facts, and therefore the goal of feminism can only be to mitigate the worst effects of patriarchy, not to get rid of it.

they can imagine a society where women get some designated safe spaces without men around. they cannot imagine a society where the presence of men is not inherently a danger to women.

[kaijuno]

I mean

[riverpiracy]

having to break down and actually make a reddit post asking about something is just

hey r/waterbottles! i've been wondering how everyone likes to clean their bottles. i personally use a bottle brush, but i've heard good things about cleaning tablets too. anybody have other methods they swear by?

AUTOMOD: your post has been deleted because you're so fuckinggg stupid. in the future, please refer to our faq before posting your incoherent ramblings, and make sure to check out our style guide regarding the proper terms for jugs/canteens. cunt.

[firagasoap]

Broccoli Knuckle Duster by David Delahunty

[ma-gpie]

[hyperlexichypatia]

IDK I think if cis men are being told that being fat will lower their testosterone and make them Insufficiently Masculine, and cis women are being told that being fat will raise their testosterone and make them Excessively Masculine, and fat trans people are being denied the right to medically transition if they're fat, and thin trans people are warned against HRT because it will make them fat (and this is said about both testosterone and estrogen HRT), and androgynous-presenting people are told that only thin people count as androgynous...

Then maybe...

Maybe...

Maybe the weight loss industry is just using Gender to enforce fatphobia.

[draconym]

Sorry, my what? My pronouns? Oh, yeah I'm between genders at the moment. No, it's cool, I quit my last gender a little while ago because it really wasn't working out. I don't know if I even have a dream gender anymore.

[draconym]

Oh yeah, it did come with benefits, but they weren't really worth it. The culture was really toxic. To be honest I think I'd prefer a part-time gender so I can just be self-described in my spare time.

[draconym]

I mean, in a perfect world we wouldn't need gender, you know? We could just voluntarily be perceived as much as we're able, as much as makes us feel fulfilled. Having a full-time gender shouldn't be a prerequisite for food, shelter, and healthcare.

[earhartsease]

where's the future we were promised where robots do the gender for us

[clementine-kesh]

the inverse placeness of voyager and ds9 is a really interesting point of comparison and once you start noticing it it’s easy to see how it influences the narrative arcs of both shows. the spatial stability of ds9 easily lends itself to the big picture political intrigue plots, whereas the spatial instability of voyager lends itself more to focus on the characters’ personal journeys. voyager by its very nature could never have something like the dominion war, it simply does not stay put long enough for that type of story. ds9 could never have something like equinox or timeless, it’s too connected to the outside world. it’s fine if you prefer ds9 because it can tell those big picture stories, or voyager because of the microscope it provides on its characters, but any comparison of the two has got to take the placeness of it all into account

[undying-princess]

knowing how it tends to go with male authors and their wives it was probably marge who wrote the odyssey

[didoofcarthage]

Automedon with the Horses of Achilles by Henri Regnault. French, 1868. Oil on canvas. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

From the MFA:

Regnault’s painting illustrates a story from Homer’s Iliad. Automedon, chariot driver for the Greek warrior Achilles, restrains the horses Xanthos (behind) and Balios, two beasts who could predict the future. As Regnault wrote, “the horses, aware that their master [Achilles] is taking them into combat, and that this combat will be the last and will cost him his life, struggle and wrest with the groom who has come to take them from their pasture. One of them, chestnut brown, rises like a great dark phantom, outlining himself against the sky. I wanted to give the picture a foretaste of disaster.”

[babyblainers]

[graceunknowndood-blog]

[makingtrouble]

It's my cat's birthday (anniversary of me getting him) so I told him the story of his life while petting him real good

Highlights include:

For your first two years (when you were small) you lived in a foster home with people who raised you into a very polite young man. Two is like you plus me, that's what two is.

Some people adopted you before me and they called you Timmy (which is a stupid name) and they returned your ass almost immediately because you were so annoying at that age.

Like think about how annoying you are right now at seven years old, but way worse.

I'm better than them though, I don't call you Timmy and I wore earplugs to bed for three years because you love to scream at bedtime. Earplugs are like when I roll over and go back to sleep even when you are yelling so so so loud.

I got you at a time in my life when I was really sick (being sick is like when I'm up late because I'm throwing up and you are a very handsome good boy who sits with me) and they had to put me asleep for a procedure. A procedure is like what happened to you when they put you asleep and took your balls away.

Now you've lived with me for five years. Five is like the number of toe beans on one of your feet. When I clip your nails five is when we're halfway done. But we're hopefully not even halfway done with how long we get to be together. I'm gonna have to figure out new ways to help you count.

[makingtrouble]

Actually I've decided this is a poem

[prokopetz]

I love it when folks get the "-ist" and "-est" suffixes mixed up. Like, I'm fully prepared to believe that you're medieval, but medievalest? That's a bold claim!

[prokopetz]

#that character is NOT your 'specialist princess' unless you can tell me right now what they specialize in (via @jennynext)

[clementine-kesh]

the worf paradox is often pointed to as an example of dissonance between what the narrative tells us (worf is an extremely competent fighter) and what the narrative actually shows us (worf is constantly getting his ass kicked), since in theory worf getting his ass kicked is a means of showing us how tough the baddies of the week are but in practice it mostly just makes it seem like worf is not actually that great at fighting. however in the light of recent discussion around the historical shortcomings of “warrior culture” and the ways it inevitably gets its ass beat by a bunch of nerds who don’t give that much of a shit about fighting but do know how to manage a supply chain i propose a new theory: klingons are the spartans of the trek universe