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@blueblood-rose
he’s not ugly he’s handsome
distinguished
rugged
This motherfucker survives a lightning strike and you have the gull to call them ugly?? If mother nature cant kill them what chance do you have when this mofo comes after you?!
Reblog Lightning Bison for protection from lightning.
When you reblog Lightning Bison, Lightning Bison gets 200 metres closer to the journalist who called him ugly
he gets all the bison bitches
he’s not ugly he’s handsome
distinguished
rugged
This motherfucker survives a lightning strike and you have the gull to call them ugly?? If mother nature cant kill them what chance do you have when this mofo comes after you?!
Reblog Lightning Bison for protection from lightning.
When you reblog Lightning Bison, Lightning Bison gets 200 metres closer to the journalist who called him ugly
he gets all the bison bitches
the human brain literally needs the color green (grass, leafs) to like self-calibrate and not go insane i sincerely believe this
“Get a rat and put it in a cage and give it two water bottles. One is just water, and one is water laced with either heroin or cocaine. If you do that, the rat will almost always prefer the drugged water and almost always kill itself very quickly, right, within a couple of weeks. So there you go. It’s our theory of addiction. Bruce comes along in the ’70s and said, “Well, hang on a minute. We’re putting the rat in an empty cage. It’s got nothing to do. Let’s try this a little bit differently.” So Bruce built Rat Park, and Rat Park is like heaven for rats. Everything your rat about town could want, it’s got in Rat Park. It’s got lovely food. It’s got sex. It’s got loads of other rats to be friends with. It’s got loads of colored balls. Everything your rat could want. And they’ve got both the water bottles. They’ve got the drugged water and the normal water. But here’s the fascinating thing. In Rat Park, they don’t like the drugged water. They hardly use any of it. None of them ever overdose. None of them ever use in a way that looks like compulsion or addiction. There’s a really interesting human example I’ll tell you about in a minute, but what Bruce says is that shows that both the right-wing and left-wing theories of addiction are wrong. So the right-wing theory is it’s a moral failing, you’re a hedonist, you party too hard. The left-wing theory is it takes you over, your brain is hijacked. Bruce says it’s not your morality, it’s not your brain; it’s your cage. Addiction is largely an adaptation to your environment. […] We’ve created a society where significant numbers of our fellow citizens cannot bear to be present in their lives without being drugged, right? We’ve created a hyperconsumerist, hyperindividualist, isolated world that is, for a lot of people, much more like that first cage than it is like the bonded, connected cages that we need. The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is connection. And our whole society, the engine of our society, is geared towards making us connect with things. If you are not a good consumer capitalist citizen, if you’re spending your time bonding with the people around you and not buying stuff—in fact, we are trained from a very young age to focus our hopes and our dreams and our ambitions on things we can buy and consume. And drug addiction is really a subset of that.”
—
Johann Hari,
Does Capitalism Drive Drug Addiction?
(via bigfatsun)
Shut up. That’s hilarious. I hope each and every cop involved has to personally give him $5000
people who joke about consent in any context are weird as fuck to me and sound like those "you need consent to smile at a woman these days" conservatives
especially with children !! it's actually good and NOT ridiculous to ask a child if they want a hug instead of just hugging them when you don't know if they're comfortable with it. taking personal offense to a literal child's boundaries is in fact very concerning.
at the day camp I volunteer at we literally aren't allowed to touch kids unless they either initiate contact, or say it's okay. (obviously smth like pulling them out of danger is an exception) but I've gotten parents at work look at me weird when I ask their kid if I can touch their hair to put a birthday crown on.
there's a daycare my neighbor's daughter goes to that teaches kids consent from the very beginning (such as toddlers asking to hug other toddlers) and same thing with parents thinking it's crazy. "but they're so little! it doesn't matter!" when in reality childhood influences your behavior in adulthood. i'm glad more childcare programs are introducing consent to children. now if only parents could accept it...
I've done this with swim students! If a kid's struggling to put on their goggles I'll be like "do you want help with those" and then I'll let them know they can stop me at any moment. It turns out a lot of kids who "hate to wear goggles" actually just hate having an adult pull their hair repeatedly with no indication of when it's gonna stop.
childhoods influences adulthood and also, children are people right now
THERE ARE LITERALLY STUDIES ON THIS! Teaching kids consent early not only makes them more equipped to defend their own boundaries but a LOT more equipped to respect the boundaries of others. Teaching the asking for and receiving consent to give and receive hugs to toddlers is literal rape prevention. It's better for EVERYONE involved.
TO THOSE MAKING NATIVE OCS
I see this a lot, no one has actual names, or any reference for names, that are legit Native American, varying among the tribes, for their characters.
Babynames.com and shit like that will give you names made up by white people.
However, I’ve got your solution.
Native-Languages is a good website to turn to for knowledge on a lot of native things, including native names. If you’re unsure about the names you’ve picked, they even have a list of made up names here!
Please don’t trust names like babynames.com for native names, they’re made up and often quite offensive to the cultures themselves.
Thank you!
Native Languages is a great website. I use it for my fact-checking since it always has reliable links to tribal sites.
i love the locked tomb because all of the men are described like:
he was grotesquely muscular, like bulbous lumps in a plastic bag. this other guy is a lame skinny nerd with crooked glasses. i detest them both.
and then all of the women are described like:
her anemic skin shone like pearls in the sunlight. her body is wonderfully skeletal and i feel as though her ribcage consumes me. her iridescent locks curl at the base of her neck like the lapping of a tide and i am undone by her gaze...
or the opposite, you’ll crawl through emotional hell on a bad execdys day to feed yourself and get up and get ready and you’ll be so proud of yourself and all anyone sees is that you got somewhere ten minutes late, you must not care
Making fandom posts is really fun because every now and then someone will stumble across something you did months ago, go "hm, eight posts about my blorbo? I'll take the lot, thanks and goodbye" and you may or may not ever see them again.
Shoutout warframe for having a random side vendor be canon trans and also have the best lines in the game
Reagan-era "stranger danger" panic has done so much harm to americans' sense of community. It cemented the idea that only the nuclear family could be trusted with the care of the child, deterred people from cooperative living with an extended community, and continues to place abuse victims in danger by perpetuating the misconception that most child abuse is done by strangers rather than someone they know. It is in our best interest to become more interdependent than we were raised to be.
The widespread nature of child sexual abuse came to society's notice during this era. The Satanic Panic and the hyping of Stranger Danger served different purposes for different groups:
It let people who didn't want to believe that parents and other trusted adults could be predators frame the threat as external; and
It gave actual abusers a way to direct attention away from themselves, and further isolate the children they abused.
It gave people who were uncomfortable with/didn't want women working outside the home something to point at. It's no coincidence that abuse allegations during this time period focused on daycare providers. That's what you get for leaving your child with a stranger.
Unironically, vegans need to be advocating for more and better sheep, llama, and alpaca farms. Wool is one of the best fabrics we have in terms of versatility, longevity and most importantly, insulation. Even wet, it retains 80% of it’s insulation potential.
AND IT DOESN’T SHED MICROPLASTICS
Like, there’s literally nothing you can do to a sheep that’s as morally reprehensible as dumping plastic down the gullet of literally every other living thing. You wanna talk about animal welfare? Talk about reducing the amount of microplastics produced by rayon, polyester, and spandex.
You are brave as FUCK for saying this, and it’s 100% true.
Wool farming, if done with an eye on animal welfare*, does absolutely nothing to harm a sheep or alpaca. It’s no different than a haircut. And just like a haircut, it’ll grow right back. If your argument is that sheep may be cut in this process—very occasionally a sheep may be nicked. To be clear, I say NICKED, not cut. Think about shaving your legs or face and hitting a bump, and ow, you bleed a couple drops. That is what may, rarely, happen. But RARELY, because farmers are going to take damn good care of the animals who keep them in funds. Should it happen, it’s as much an accident as you finding that bump while shaving.
Likewise y’all should be promoting ethical beekeeping and honey farming. Bees are unique among livestock in that if they don’t like their keeper, if they think the hive is shitty, they can, and will, just…leave. You can’t put a collar or ear tag on a bee. Bee populations are declining and they’re incredibly important in our biodiversity (as pollinators, yes, but also in other ways). And bees do, indeed, make too much honey for themselves. That’s why they swarm. A nest gets too full of comb, or they outgrow it, and they just dip. Swarming is dangerous because it leaves the bees vulnerable—the queen is mostly unprotected, they have only as much food as they could carry with them so if it’s late in the season they’re dead meat, humans spot swarms and freak out and send exterminators because they don’t realize swarms aren’t dangerous as long as you’re calm….it is, BY FAR, better to have bees in a hive that never overfills, where they can be checked for parasites and diseases that would destroy the colony or even an entire apiary and can receive honey substitute rather than starving to death if winter should be particularly harsh or long, and where an excess of their natural product and instincts can be siphoned off for the benefit of humans with no detriment to the bees.
Honey is less harmful to us and to the planet we live on than agave syrup, stevia, or cane sugar. It does not rely on any kind of slave labor (again: if the bees weren’t happy, they’d leave). It does not upset entire economies. And by its nature there are more independent keepers than there are giant conglomerates, which is better all the way around! (Although the conglomerates are trying to change that, so like. Support your local beekeepers.) Plus, old no-longer-needed honeycomb is made of beeswax, which can be used in all manner of things in lieu of more harmful chemicals like phthalates. There is no downside here!
“Never do anything involving an animal ever” should not be the goal. That completely ignores that we are animals that grew up in a complete ecosystem. “Do the least amount of harm and be good stewards, because this planet doesn’t belong to only us” should be the goal.
Wool and honey. We can argue another time about eggs. For right now let’s agree that sheep, goats, alpacas, and bees make far more of these products than they will ever need, that in some cases an excess can even be detrimental to them, and that it is a GOOD THING to find a way to live in balance rather than poisoning our world with “vegan leather.”
*to wit: animals should have plenty of space, shelter, food, and clean water. I love meat and I fucking hate factory farming.
I went to a bookshop and I got dizzy at the amount of books on stuff like “astrological feminism” “reclaiming womanhood through numerology” and all that shit…… One was called “cosmic fanny” or for my french speakers out there, “foufoune cosmique”. I think the fight against patriarchy is going really well
“But I didn’t and still don’t like making a cult of women’s knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men don’t know, women’s deep irrational wisdom, women’s instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. All that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and inferior – women’s knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. But why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? Why should women feel blindly while men get to think?”
Ursula K Le Guin, from What Women Know
One night we had a thrilling summer storm… We hadn’t been in the house long, and it was the first time in this house we’d had to close all the windows. In the morning I smelled gas, strong, unmistakable. “I smell gas,” I said to my husband. “I don’t smell it,” he said. He had a friend come over. “Why are you having a friend come over,” I asked, “when it doesn’t matter if he can smell it or not, and none of us can fix it?” His friend didn’t smell it, either. I called the gas company. The gas company employee didn’t smell it, either. He waved his reader around and it blasted off in three places, substantial leaks behind the stove and in the basement. “Always trust a woman’s nose,” the gas company employee said.
Yes, I thought, believe us.
Then, No, I thought, I’m not a fucking witch. Believe anyone who smells gas. If someone smells gas, believe them.
– Jane Dykema, What I Don’t Tell My Students About “The Husband Stitch”
another cool bug on this site is when youre on mobile and suddenly the ads will just move and cover the post youre reading
im so sorry ill make it up to you
enjoy the WOOLLY CHAFER BEETLE
i unironically believe electricity is the closest thing we have to magic in this universe. consider:
it's basically what human "souls" are made of (your consciousness is the result of miniscule amounts of electric charge jumping between neurons in your brain)
when handled incorrectly or encountered in the wild, it is a deadly force that can kill you in at least half a dozen different ways
when treated respectfully and channeled into the proper conduits, it is a power source that forms the backbone of modern society
if you engrave the right sigils into a rock and channel electricity into it, you can make the rock think
there is a dedicated caste of mages (electrical engineers) tasked with researching it in ivory towers
whatever the fuck Galvani was doing with those frog legs
look at this and just try to tell me it isn't a kind of summoning circle
