perpetual disarray

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[butchtoks]

[fernshawart]

I keep seeing this picture and similar ones and it keeps giving me thoughts. Yeah I do agree with the message ! And these animals are hated by many peoole !! But let's be honest. These are still fairly conventionally cute. They're big eyed fluffy affectionate pretty intelligent mammals and birds. So today, I'm offering y'all my own version.

BE NICE TO ALL ANIMALS. INCLUDING THE ONES WHO DON'T LIKE BEING PET. INCLUDING THE ONES THAT AREN'T FLUFFY. INCLUDING THE ONES YOU FIND UGLY. Be nice to the weird ass critters too >:)

[snototter]

An American bullfrog (Lithobates catesbeiana) in Hancock County, Maine, USA

by Mario

[jewish-vents]

Noooo there was a post making a good point about polyamory rights and showing maps of all parts of the world where gay marriage and poly relationships are illegal or not. But they kept referring to the entire area of Israel as "Palestine" (and of course Jordan still gets to be Jordan) as if Israel, Gaza, and West Bank all homogenously share the same laws ig. I wanted to reblog but it was annoying me too much.

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[ryan-sometimes]

Working an office job will truly make you have the wildest enemies, bc why is my nemesis rn a woman I’ve never met and who exclusively haunts me by sending diabolical emails, and also a specific guy who left my company before I even worked here and made the system so fuckass that it ruined procedures for like a year

[ryan-sometimes]

Yesterday my nemesis (woman I’ve never met and whose face I’ve never seen) sent my office an email so rude, basically saying we had fucked up every project she ever ordered from us, one of the worst emails I’ve ever read in my life.

And it pissed me off so badly that I spent the ENTIRE WORK DAY today compiling evidence from every project my team has ever done for her, pulling past emails she’d sent us, putting together an entire case proving that she had been the problem all along. That she got projects mixed up, that she’d made requests that were nonsensical, literally everything you could possibly imagine. Screenshots of emails, reports we’d submitted, EVERYTHING.

This woman in particular has been terrorizing my team for years, her name is almost a slur in my office, I had simply had ENOUGH of her.

I put all of this evidence together and sent it to all of my bosses at 4:30pm. Then I took a long break to eat a sweet treat and drink some tea.

After my break, my bosses all called in an emergency meeting with me and they said they read my report and fucking loved it. And I sat on a teams call with my boss’ boss as she wrote my nemesis the scathing email I had always fantasized about sending, using the evidence I’d compiled, and hit send.

It was the most satisfying workday I’ve had since I got hired.

[winnie-wine]

[wolfsteax]

A painting of a nightmare I had recently.

In the dream, my partner and I were following the narrow paths in a dirty hallway with deep pools of water. In the deep water were the bodies of horses, bones and remaining flesh bleached white. We could hear a distant scream behind us that was slowly growing closer.

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Please take this common grackle gently prodding an abandoned bagel

Um, that's clearly his bagel.

[wiles-art-blog]

Fish shapes are so crazy to me... What the hell...

[whosname]

[id. A twitter post by @/Bennieeexyz Jury duty letter came addressed to my cat. Not a mistake. "Felix Martinez" - that's his full name according to his vet records. My last name. His first name. Somehow he's a registered voter now. Called the county clerk. Me: My cat got summoned for jury duty. Clerk: Is the name correct on the summons? Me: Yes, but he's a cat. Clerk: Is Felix Martinez a legal resident of this county? Me: He's a legal cat. Clerk: Sir, if the name matches our records, he needs to appear or file an exemption. Me: He can't file anything. He has paws. Clerk: You can file on his behalf. Me: Under what exemption? There's no box for "is a cat." Clerk: (pause) Check "unable to serve due to medical reasons." Me: What's the medical reason? Clerk: He's a cat. Me: That's not a medical condition. Clerk: It is if it prevents him from serving. Sent in the form. Got rejected two weeks later. "Insufficient documentation. Please provide medical professional's statement." Took the letter to my vet. Me: I need you to write that my cat can't do jury duty. Vet: Why is your cat summoned for jury duty? Me: Excellent question. No good answer. Vet: This is the weirdest request I've gotten. Me: Can you just write that he's medically unfit to serve? Vet: On what grounds? Me: He's a cat. Vet: (started typing) "Patient is unable to serve due to species-related limitations including inability to speak, read, or comprehend legal proceedings." Me: Perfect. Sent it in. Got another rejection. "Summons is mandatory. Failure to appear will result in contempt of court." My roommate thought this was hilarious. Roommate: Felix is going to jail. Me: This is serious. Roommate: Bring him to court. See what happens. Decided that was actually the only option left. Day of jury duty, put Felix in his carrier. Brought the entire paper trail of rejection letters. Checked in at the courthouse. Clerk: Name? Me: Felix Martinez. Clerk: (looked at the cat carrier) Is that Felix? Me: Yes. Clerk: (long stare) He's a cat. Me: I've been saying that for six weeks. Clerk: Why didn't you file an exemption? Me: I filed three. All rejected. Showed her the letters. She read through them, expression shifting from confusion to disbelief. Clerk: Someone rejected the veterinary documentation? Me: Twice. Clerk: (called her supervisor over) You need to see this. Supervisor read everything. Looked at Felix. Looked at me. Supervisor: How did a cat get registered to vote? Me: You tell me. Supervisor: This is a data error. Me: Took you six weeks to figure that out. They dismissed Felix immediately. Apologized for the inconvenience. Supervisor: We'll remove him from the voter registry. Me: Appreciate it. Supervisor: (pause) Out of curiosity, how would he have voted? Me: Probably whatever party supports universal treats. Got a formal apology letter a week later and a voter registration card. For me this time. Apparently I wasn't registered, but my cat was. Roommate: Felix committed voter fraud. Me: Felix committed nothing. He's innocent. Roommate: That's what they all say. Felix is sleeping on the jury summons now. Fitting end to his legal career. end id]

[thethirdromana]

Every so often I'm struck again by what an incredible job Whoopi Goldberg does playing Guinan. She was 33 when she first played her yet I have never once doubted that Guinan is a mysterious alien who is hundreds of years old. The effect even holds in screengrabs. How does someone manage to do that with their face.

[jewish-hot-takes]

Jumblr has an ableism problem.

Ableist language is used so frequently on Jumblr when disparaging antisemites and those who don't agree with a poster/commenter's beliefs re the i/p conflict, and that's not okay.

Whether it's intended or not, using ableist language prepetuates harmful biases about disability and mental illness, and stigmatizes already marginalized groups. (An example in this case would be "antisemite = bad → antisemite = [ableist descriptor] → person with disability/mental illness relevant to that descriptor = bad." It's obviously greatly simplified and sounds far-fetched when written out like that, but our brains could be making those connections subconsciously and we'd not even be aware of it.)

And sure, there are bigger problems re ableism, but those bigger problems take effort to combat and require large-scale change, while this doesn't take much effort.

I'm not even asking anyone to stop using this kind of language all the time (except the r-slur, do not use that.) even though that is possible (I've done it). But these types of posts/this specific situation is already so charged/emotional, let's not make it worse.

Stop saying things like "this insane/crazy take" or "these antisemitic morons" and stop using the "antisemitism/jew hate makes you stupid" tags.

Get creative. Find ways to dunk on bigots and people you disagree with, without perpetuating negative stereotypes about people with intellectual disabilities or mental illnesses. At a time when we're hurting for allies, let's be the best allies we can be to other marginalized people.

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[astra-the-dragon]

some alternate adjectives for antisemites: rude, selfish, willfully ignorant, vile, cruel, bigoted, pigheaded, pathetic, nauseating, liars, etc.

[jewish-hot-takes]

Didn't realize this was a hot take: Islamophobia is real and also bad

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[decapod-of-the-day]

Decapod of the day: Tozeuma carolinense | Arrow Shrimp

[herpsandbirds]

Big frog I saw yesterday. Handsome swamp guy!

[orochimarufacts]

You don't need a "WIFE". What you NEED is a beautiful priestess of the old religion to lead you down a dark path.

[laykaman]

You don't even have to tell me twice

[kedreeva]

Cage to table today!

We butchered 16 of the extra males this morning, put them in a marinade for the day, and cooked them in the air fryer for dinner! I dry plucked a few of them for the first time ever, just to see how plucking would be... It REALLY made a difference in the air fryer, the skin on birds were a lot juicier and tastier.

I haven't butchered quail in a while (I've just culled for feeders for animals for friends), but it was still really easy. We just got the air fryer a couple weeks ago, so this was also the first time cooking the quail in it.... They took about 15 minutes to cook and while they were resting Sark cooked the tater tots so it was all ready at the same time!

With how easy it was, it might be easier now to do a few on any given morning where I want to eat quail for dinner. It would certainly make better use of all the extra boys I have had during this breeding project, without having to take up freezer space or remember to thaw the day before. Convenient! Fresh meat!

[noze2222]

LMAOOOOOOO