Why is a raven like a writing desk?

He/Him | Autistic | Achillean bisexual | Artist | Aspiring cartoonist | Paleontology fan | Shipper | Yaoi fanboy | Geek | Pokemon Trainer | Hoping to make a name for myself someday! Avatar made by prideful-poke-icons.tumblr.com | Say no to NFTs and AI "art"

[artvianblog]

It's almost pride and I like pterosaurs

[cjcroen1393]

It's my birthday!

[cjcroen1393]

First episode of Surviving Earth was pretty good! I appreciated the environmental message at the end!

It's interesting that Tim Haines loves Inostrancevia as much as he does and yet still seems allergic to using its actual name (he never seems to call it anything but "gorgonopsid").

[ann-chovi]

The Land Before Dialga

I can't be the only one who cries when Littleice's mom dies, right?

(ref under cut)

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

Folk, I’m gonna vaguepost for a sec here, but it’s an important one.

If you are in the United States and not employed by a zoo or sanctuary or a veterinarian working with a facility, if anyone for any reason offers to allow you to touch a big cat, please do not do it.

No matter how much you want to, no matter how much it is a dream, understand that it is a violation of federal law that could get the facility the cat lives at in very serious trouble. It does not matter if it is through the fence, or in the context of a trained behavior, or if the cat is on a leash. Even if it feels “safe” or they swear the facility condones it.

It’s starting to appear that lots of zookeepers have not been informed appropriately about the scope of the law - or in cases where they do know it’s inappropriate, they are sometimes being overridden by their management and forced to allow encounters. (Even at accredited facilities!)

We do not know exactly what the penalties could be for that happening within an accredited zoo (yay badly implemented laws) but it typically comes down to being risk to a) the cat’s welfare b) the facility’s ability to have any big cats at all and c) someone, either the facility owner or the person offering, could go to jail or pay serious fines. There are two instances of this happening at AZA zoos that were leaked recently and we may now find out how bad it’s going to get for them.

Lots of facilities will have big cat pelts as educational biofacts that they will allow you to touch. You do not ever need to take the risk associated with touching a live big cat - generally anywhere, and especially in the US.

And for some reason, if you ever are in that situation and unethical enough to actually touch the cat? Don’t post it on social media and definitely don’t make that post public. 🙄

[palaeoplushies]

Hot take:

It's not rainbow capitalism when it's something being handmade by someone who is queer and selling it as a celebration of their queerness or in solidarity with other queer folk.

[thesilencedsovereign]

SUPPORT QUEER ARTISTS!

[palaeoplushies]

Queer artists of any kind feel free to add pictures (and sales links) of the pride things you've been making!

[cjcroen1393]

Another set of Pride Month icons! This time, it's the woefully underappreciated cast of Boyfriends.!

All these identities are canon!

Felix Wang (Goth) = Asexual gay trans man

Adrian Adachihara (Nerd) = Pansexual demiboy (any pronouns)

Vincent Li (Prep) = Gay cis man

Kevin Nguyen (Jock) = Bisexual cis man

All four boys = Polyamorous

Luna Purnama (Goth GF) = Lesbian cis woman

Alex Nguyen (Jock GF) = Pansexual cis woman

Lala Mariella Gomez (Nerd Sweetheart) = Asexual and nonbinary (they/them)

Stephanie Kang (Prep GF) = Bisexual trans woman

All four girls (I couldn't find a picture of them all together) = Polyamorous

Once again, the templates are from @eldritchdraaks.

[cjcroen1393]

I made a bunch of these icons and figured I should start uploading them over Pride Month.

We're starting with my Six Core Ships! Some of these interpretations are my headcanons, some are outright canon. The headcanon ones will be signaled with an asterisk (*).

Hisoka Kurosaki* and Tsuzuki Asato*

Miharu Rokujou* and Yoite

Alfred F. Jones/America* and Arthur Kirkland/England*

Hilbert* and N Harmonia*

Dave Strider and Karkat Vantas

Angel Dust and Husk

Icon templates by @eldritchdraaks

[paper-mario-wiki]

do not forget the patron saint of these weeks that we celebrate ourselves proudly and openly in the streets

her name was Marsha P Johnson, and we have her to thank for so much.

remember, the first Pride was a riot, and she was one of the brave souls who endured it to help carve the path which so many of us walk today. she helped found several activist groups regarding LGBT safety and wellbeing. and she was absolutely radiant, too.

thank you, Marsha. we remember you.

[greelin]

the weight this image holds

[greelin]

happy pride month everybody

[daysleftofsecondterm]

Happy pride month on 964 days left

[luci-muller]

The LGTV community or whatever

[callizinc]

When the story has a sequence where the characters each get personally tortured with their exact personalized greatest fears and traumas

[great-and-small]

Humans whenever we see an anole:

[which-ocs]

Which OC ship?

[16th-of-a-twigg]

🌸🤡🌸 (Stupid in Love) Ko-Fi

[rudavoidish]

Y'all if you're American please email your politicians and senators against the parents decide act. I'm fucking begging because we're reaching a tipping point.

[hetrosjistin]

Call or Write Congress About H.R. 8250: Parents Decide Act - GovTrack.us

Quick and easy link to both find your congressmen/women and giving you a quick and easy way to copy / paste the message into it. You want to oppose. It's an act that will demand that all major OS makers integrate a direct forced age verification control into all OS.

[rudavoidish]

I received a comment on this that I figured would be very helpful- it's a template for communicating with your representatives. Be sure to use it for reference

Dear Representative [Name],

I am writing to express my strong opposition to H.R. 8250 (The "Parents Decide Act"). As your constituent and a concerned citizen, I believe this bill introduces unprecedented risks to digital privacy and security.

Specifically, I am alarmed by:

SEC. 2(a)(1)(B): Requiring age verification to even use an operating system creates a mandatory "hardware lockout" that ends anonymous computing and forces users to hand over sensitive identification data to major corporations just to power on their devices.

SEC. 2(a)(3): Mandating that OS providers create a system for all app developers to access verification data is a massive security vulnerability. This effectively creates a centralized API of user identities accessible to thousands of third-party developers, many of whom may lack adequate data protection.

This bill does not protect children; it creates a centralized surveillance infrastructure at the OS level. I urge you to protect the privacy of your constituents and vote NO on H.R. 8250.

Sincerely,

[Your Name]

[Your Zip Code]

[willowtree1527]

This is a hell that us down under in Australia are already living in, and it’s not even effective at what it claims to do in protecting children.

Given that, in the wake of this mandatory identification policy, my country seems to be moving to hand over its citizens biometric data, like fingerprints, Face ID files, and identification documents, over to the USA and to ICE to maintain the visa free travel (ESTA) we have, I strongly urge any US resident to send these emails, or make calls.

But if you can’t do that, the most powerful thing you can do is spread the word. Tell your friends, family, coworkers, anyone who can help.

My reach will likely be small, and so I don’t know if this will mean very much in the grand scheme of things, but I cannot stand to see this tracking happen to another population as it did to mine.

And if you think it won’t affect you, it will. All anonymity goes out the window when your accounts can be linked via your personal ID

I wish you all luck in preventing this act from going through.

[mossdftba]

I called my representative and left a voice message!

[humming-fly]

Here’s the 5calls script to make it easy! https://5calls.org/issue/age-verification-internet-privacy/

[tyrannosaurus-sock]

Oppose Age Verification Mandates for Internet Access ⭑ 5 Calls

Various federal and state bills have been introduced to require age verification for internet platforms. While these bills’ purported purpos

Linkified the above url.

[fvckw4d]

Do not forget that discord is still planning on moving forward with age verification and has only "delayed it" until "the later half of 2026." They are hoping you will forget while they quietly roll it out when no one is looking. Continue to message them about it. Continue to talk about it. Make it clear this is unacceptable. Discord is one of the only places left you can even talk about or share adult content in private at scale anymore. They will tell you "its not that bad if you dont use it for nsfw" but fuck them and fuck people who say that shit.