[homeofhousechickens]

Oh baby fight

[its-a-beautful-day]

See them jousting

[homeofhousechickens]

So cute, I love it!

[its-a-beautful-day]

Yayy I'm so glad!!

Now see them boxing 🥊🐔 🥊

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Intersections 2.0: Key Findings on socio-economic inequalities experienced by LGBTI people in Europe | ILGA-Europe

In 2023, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) conducted its third LGBTIQ survey, gathering responses from more than 100,00

In 2023, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) conducted its third LGBTIQ survey, gathering responses from more than 100,000 LGBTIQ people across the 27 EU Member States, as well as Albania, North Macedonia, and Serbia. This landmark survey provides one of the most comprehensive datasets to date on the lived experiences of LGBTIQ people in Europe.

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"The findings of this analysis demonstrate that socio-economic inequalities among LGBTI people are deeply structured and unevenly distributed, with trans, non-binary and intersex individuals consistently facing the most adverse outcomes across employment, education and economic security.

Experiences of discrimination, exclusion and financial precarity are not isolated phenomena but interconnected, reinforcing one another across different areas of life. Workplace hostility, limited openness, barriers in education and exposure to housing insecurity all contribute to cumulative disadvantage, particularly for those who also belong to other marginalised groups.

A key insight emerging from the data is that avoiding openness about one's LGBTIQ identity is not a protective strategy, but rather an indicator of unsafe or exclusionary environments. Individuals who conceal their identity are not less exposed to harm; on the contrary, they often face higher risks of negative experiences, including discrimination and social isolation. This highlights how stigma operates structurally, shaping behaviour while simultaneously reproducing vulnerability. Environments perceived as hostile (whether schools or workplaces) drive concealment, which in turn is associated with poorer socio-economic and well-being outcomes.

These findings have broader implications for policy and practice. They underline the need to move beyond individual-level interventions and instead address the structural conditions that produce inequality, including discriminatory norms, institutional barriers and insufficient legal protections. Creating inclusive and supportive environments in education, employment and housing is essential not only to enable openness, but also to reduce the socio-economic disparities that disproportionately affect the most marginalised within LGBTI communities."

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The way the yellow bars representing trans men just drop of completely after the age of 25 💔

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When it comes to employment status, gay men (59%) were the most likely to be in full-time paid work, and trans men the least likely (30%). Trans, non-binary and intersex respondents face a number of structural barriers, such as hiring discrimination, workplace stigma, and interruptions in their career paths (e.g. due to transition-related processes, or healthcare). Cis men are also less exposed to gender-based discrimination. All EU countries consider sexual orientation as protected grounds in employment, but only 15 include gender identity, and only nine include sex characteristics

Trans women (12%), intersex (10%) and non-binary persons (9%) were more than twice as likely to be unemployed than cis women and men (both 4%).

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Country context also plays a crucial role: when asked about being out at work, the responses vary depending on country. In Romania and Albania, 56% of respondents reported never revealing being LGBTI at their workplaces, the highest in the region. In contrast, only 17% of respondents in Denmark, and 19% in Spain and the Netherlands claimed to have never been out to people they meet at work.

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"Cis men are the most likely to be able to easily or fairly easily to make ends meet (38% in total), and they are the least likely to have difficulties (12%), closely followed by cis women. By contrast, trans, non-binary and intersex respondents were significantly more likely to experience financial hardship. In particular, intersex people and trans women struggle the most making ends meet, 29% and 24% respectively, and they are the ones were respondents were most likely to report “great difficulties” when it came to making ends meet."

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Due to fears of discrimination and violence from staff and other service users, LGBTI people are more likely to avoid traditional homeless shelters and services. This pushes people into taking risks with unsafe accommodation: trans men, trans women, and non-binary and intersex persons were much more likely to stay in a place not intended as a permanent home or sleep rough compared to the EU average of all respondents. Compared to the reference profile, trans men were two times as likely, trans women four times as likely, non-binary persons three times as likely and intersex persons more than six times as likely to have slept rough.

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When it comes the experiencing negative comments or behaviour at school, there is a stark difference among the subgroups. Cis women (35%) were the least likely to report such experiences, while 61% of trans men did. More than half of cis men, intersex and non-binary persons reported the same. Gay men (44%) and trans men (43%) experience being ridiculed, teased, insulted or threatened for being LGBTIQ by their peers the most. When it comes to being bullied by teachers or other staff, trans men are the most vulnerable (15%).

Zooming in on trans respondents, we can see that those experiencing exclusion in gendered spaces or sports participation were significantly more likely to avoid expressing their gender. In both cases, those who experienced school-related problems show around 12 % higher avoidance. These findings highlight that structural and social barriers in educational settings directly impact protective behaviours among trans respondents. The effect sizes are very similar for both bathrooms/changing rooms and sports, suggesting that each represents a sensitive, high-risk context for stigmatisation.

[venndaai]

have you guys heard about the greenland shark. some crazy shit happening there.

[venndaai]

they are sexually mature at ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OLD.

their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

toxic flesh

has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears

ma'am you are delightfully strange and I'm privileged to share a planet with you

[fluorescentbrains]

this post prompted me to refresh my memory on Greenland Shark Facts and this detail about how they feed goes so hard

just vacuuming up their unsuspecting prey. whole !

[muffinlance]

Good news good news good news! Recent research suggests the eye parasites do NOT blind them!

Eye-opening research: Greenland sharks maintain vision for centuries through DNA repair mechanism

Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk sits in her office, eyes fixed on the computer monitor in front of her. "You see it move its eye," says the UC Ir

I <3 you a normal amount Greenland sharks

[miamaimania]

“Untitled, no. 36 of 36” from The Fragile (2007) ⌇ Louise Bourgeois

[herpsandbirds]

Wilson's Plover (Anarhynchus wilsonia), chicks, family Charadriidae, order Charadriiformes, FL, USA

photographs by Igor Marach

[mammalianmammals]

Eastern Quoll (Dasyurus viverrinus), family Dasyuridae, order Dasyuromorphia, Canberra, Australia

photographs by Raelene Pitcher

[iamheavymeta-lll]

[queerpyracy]

I keep getting in trouble for referring to my spouse as 'my woman.' That's who she is to me--wanch ngatharam, and I'm pam nungantam, her man. Apparently that bit of paleo-misogyny loses something in translation for the metro middle-class people I'm attempting to mingle with lately, so I've had to alter my language and start saying 'my spouse.' The problem lies in the cultural baggage that comes with the possessive form in English grammar, and with the language of property law. In our Aboriginal communities, when people first meet you they will often ask, 'Who own you?' This doesn't signify a property relation--it is all about what groups, pairs and lands you belong to in your relationships, which are governed collectively. Belonging and ownership means something completely different from possession in our world. It means being in relation to family and community and place. Your belongings are not your property, but your connections. This worldview is not very compatible with the political economies, legal systems and marketplaces we must interact with to survive.

Tyson Yunkaporta, Right Story, Wrong Story

[weepingwidar]

Anthony Hurd (American, 1975) - You Have This Hold Over Me (2025)

[weepingwidar]

Nathaniel Oliver (American, 1996) - So You're the Captain (2023)

[heart-forge]

Bad Ritual Public Update

New chapter is up !! Being a warlock isn't as safe as you think, and you have to decide whether to face what your patron is with a smile, or try to force them to see what they've become. This is a two way street, after all !!

Bad Ritual is an interactive Twine-based romance wherein you, a corporate demon hunter, find yourself helplessly bound to an archdemon after your mysterious boss leaves you alone with a clearly unauthorized binding ritual. Who will you ally with: the archdemon, hell-bent on escaping the binding and disappearing forever, or the priestess Tahira, who would hunt him to the very ends of the earth?

[inatcats]

Bobcat (Lynx rufus)

Observed by arizona_adrienne, CC BY-NC

[perplexingly]

I will never forgive Elisabeth das Musical for changing the choreography of Die Schatten Werden Langer from this in 1992:

To this in the 2020s:

[perplexingly]

If anyone is unaware of the context of this scene, this is the personification of Death attempting to seduce Kronprinz Rudolf into committing suicide (by feeding into his fears of powerlessness)

we used to be a society

[biencorrect-deactivated20170210]

[juuuno2048]

@identifying-planes-in-posts ?

[identifying-planes-in-posts]

Piper PA-23 Aztec

[very-gay-alkyrion]

Okay but HOW is the plane?

[identifying-planes-in-posts]

having a little swim 🤗💦🏖️🐬

[big-condiments-official]

Okay but WHERE is the plane?

[identifying-planes-in-posts]

Freeport, Bahamas, January 30, 2004

[verbnounadjective]

Okay but WHY is the plane?

[identifying-planes-in-posts]

Engine failure at low altitude (all four occupants uninjured)

[infestuous]

have yall heard about the 17lb cannibal cat named Baby Jesus

[infestuous]

thats a big a boy

[calware]

spiritual successor to my email post

[calware]

ok this too

[tigerleopardlion]

This image was taken very early in the morning. The sun was just beginning to rise behind the mountains, and the cold was still heavy in the air. The lynx appeared on this rocky area and began hunting right in front of us. What stood out immediately were its ears. They moved constantly, adjusting position again and again, working like precise antennas. There was no rabbit visible anywhere, yet the lynx was clearly tracking its prey using sound alone. You could follow the entire process. The pauses. The focus. The way it narrowed down the exact location of the rabbit without ever seeing it. Then the chase began, and within seconds it was over. The lynx emerged successfully with the rabbit in its mouth as the first light of the day touched the landscape. Witnessing this behavior so closely was truly unforgettable.

Iberian Lynx | Andres Novales