It's Bean Time

Derek | 25 | he/him | real human bean

[donutdrawsthings]

I think we can all agree that it's rather inspiring that a wild raccoon with a shortened spine syndrome is agile and thriving out there somewhere.

[wulfhalls]

death to the mouse is a beautiful name for a babygirl......

[genericpuff]

i can't even come up with an adequate enough comparison to describe the second-hand embarrassment i'm feeling at this moment, all that's coming to mind is that time i threw up in the school hallway in 5th grade and that was still easier to cope with than this

[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.

[comradekatara]

rating uncle representation in avatar by accuracy

IROH (ZUKO’S UNCLE): a shamelessly reparative, whitewashed representation of the uncle figure, it is absurd to assume that one’s uncle could ever be capable of offering genuine wisdom, let alone competently leading a brutal military conquest. that said, the misogyny is a nice touch — 3/10.

THE WARDEN (MAI’S UNCLE): now this is more like it. he is an obstinately myopic asshole with utterly rancid vibes. and he’s stupid also — 9/10.

UNALAQ (KORRA’S UNCLE): while i do think it’s a bit heavy-handed of him to transform into the embodiment of all darkness, as a metaphor for unclehood, i can hardly call it inaccurate — 9/10.

BUMI (JINORA’S UNCLE): the most accurate representation of the uncle figure in the entire avatar franchise and perhaps all of media, bumi is obnoxiously obtrusive, ruins every scene he’s in with his heedless, wacky idiocy, and is entirely unnecessary to the mise en scène in a way that actively degrades the quality of the narrative as a whole. everyone would be better off if this man just disappeared, or better yet, had never been born at all. even though he is not an actively malicious figure, his unbearable stupidity coupled with his incessant need to be the loudest person in the room is itself immoral, and thus he causes harm to those around him simply by existing. while the entire show does suffer as a result of his presence, my commendations where it is due, as whoever wrote this man clearly understands the figure of the uncle with a canny insight — 100/10.

[kingcatnine]

a lot of people on social media are very cruel about the literacy crisis of course I think everyone should not just read more but read things that challenge them... but when had shaming and mockery ever made you want to do something you're being made fun of for not doing? i don't think you actually care I think you're just glad to have an acceptable target to feel intellectually superior over

[vintagecomputer]

i know this site isn't full of people with wads of cash to throw around but a really really important venue for the punk/alt scene in minneapolis needs a costly construction job or else it will be shut down by the city for not being up to fire safety regulations. this is an irreplaceable venue that does lots to support diy music and raise money for the immigrant and trans communities in the twin cities with their shows so i'd appreciate if you could send even a few bucks their way

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[allcops]

“The police spend very little of their time dealing with violent criminals—indeed, police sociologists report that only about 10% of the average police officer’s time is devoted to criminal matters of any kind. Most of the remaining 90% is spent dealing with infractions of various administrative codes and regulations: all those rules about how and where one can eat, drink, smoke, sell, sit, walk, and drive. If two people punch each other, or even draw a knife on each other, police are unlikely to get involved. Drive down the street in a car without license plates, on the other hand, and the authorities will show up instantly, threatening all sorts of dire consequences if you don’t do exactly what they tell you. The police, then, are essentially just bureaucrats with weapons. Their main role in society is to bring the threat of physical force—even, death—into situations where it would never have been otherwise invoked, such as the enforcement of civic ordinances about the sale of untaxed cigarettes.”

— An excerpt from Ferguson & the Criminalization of American Life by David Graeber (via actjustly)

[noneedtofearorhope]

since i think many will have had the memory slip with just how many other atrocities have occured in the past 11 years, or are simply too young to remember, the last bit about the sale of untaxed cigarettes isn’t just some hypothetical, it’s a reference to the killing of eric garner

Killing of Eric Garner - Wikipedia

this is the origin of the slogan “i cant breathe”, which was revived in the wake of the killing of george floyd.

[alanshemper]

On this day, 17 July 2014, Eric Garner was murdered by police enforcing a civic ordinance.

[anythings-a-sweet-if-you-eat-it]

boring take from real 21st century idiots: bdsm is bad because it's basically torture

interesting take from a fictional 14th century monk: torture is bad because it's basically sex

[ohholydyke]

Shoutout to the nun who had other nuns tie her up and pour hot wax on her as she confessed her sins

[amorphousgenderlesscryptid]

I'm sure that's true, but something tells me googling "nun tied up by other nuns" "hot wax" "confessing sins" will likely get what you might call rather un-academic results

[normaloperafan]

[probuccalfat]

pewdiepie was one of the harbingers of the alt right internet apocalypse i hate that skinny white man with all my heart

[you-d-prefer-an-astronaut]

I blame him (at least partially) for the rise in anti-indian racism in the late 2010s to today and people look at me like I'm the friend who's too woke when I say that. But it's true

[probuccalfat]

and you’d be right to blame him. he normalized the rise in anti-indian and anti-desi racism through “jokes.” it took me forever to take pride in my indian heritage bc of the culture he helped set up.

[dogpuppy]

[plaguedocboi]

So every year, my aquarium does a captive lobster hatchery project (hence all the loblings). The reason we’re doing it is because in the wild, loblings only have a 1 in 25,000 chance of surviving their larval phase. They’re plankton as babies and everything eats them. Additionally, as the Gulf of Maine warms, they are having even lower survival rates because the blooms of copepods they feed on as babies are happening earlier in the year, and they’re missing it.

Obviously, the goal of this experiment is to grow the lobsters until they’re big enough to settle to the seabed and then release them, because they have a much higher likelihood of surviving to adulthood when they’re able to hide. Ideally, captive lobster hatcheries can boost the wild population and keep things stable, so we don’t have a major crash in a decade or two.

The first year we tried this was pretty bad. We had a lot of eggs, but very few babies. It turned out that the CO2 levels in the building spiked as more guests visited throughout the summer, and that settled into the water and threw off the pH and caused a chemical reaction that prevented a lot of the eggs from hatching. I think we ended up releasing three baby lobsters (which is still better than their wild survival rate but not great).

The second year was a little better. We added a de-gasser to the aquarium and got a ton of larval lobsters, but right as they were settling to the bottom we had a disease outbreak that killed most of them. We ended up releasing four babies at the end of the season.

But this year? Oh boy. We have so many lobsters that we had to release the first round early (usually we wait till September or October so guests can see them). We just released a total of FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE baby lobsters, and we still have over a hundred who haven’t settled to the bottom yet. I genuinely don’t even have words to explain how cool this is. OVER FIVE HUNDRED. We just added hundreds of lobsters to the wild population that wouldn’t have been there otherwise.

Conservation is so fucken sick

[aomitois]

rb and tag your favorite song that's not in english, japanese or korean

[gummybearattacktheworldofdespair]

[thoradvice]

things get better slowly. you’ll wake up and you won’t feel an aching dread in your chest, but feel lighter. you’ll start to notice little things that make you smile: sunlight, soft pyjamas, hot tea, biting into fresh fruit. you’ll seek out these things, and your life will get warmer and fuller. day by day. you may still have days where you can’t get out of bed, but they’ll be fewer - small dark spots in a world of colour. if things aren’t too good yet, please remember that recovery is slow. show yourself some kindness. you deserve it.

[metfell]

i think that harry styles dies really frequently to like putting forks in outlets n shit, and they gotta use a factory to make more harries. but one day one of the fucked up defective harries escaped and they couldnt catch him in time before he became famous and so they just had to let him do this thing. and thats timothee chalamet

[endreal]

Solid medications (pills) really do be coming in two varieties - edible plastic, and smarties (derogatory)

[endreal]

Spoken like a person who truly knows what it is to have Ailments

[hypokeimena]

image description: two replies by @vegathelich, reading: it's all fun and games until the smarties (derogatory) start dissolving in your mouth because your hands don't want to work today

and you Taste It /end description