it's lonely out here

top candidate for the fool of the year

[jackkdaniels]

you know how people say that cats and dogs don’t feel love the way humans do but it’s like. “oh they don’t love you they just associate you with warmth and safety and seek out your company and being near you and spending time with you makes them feel comfortable and secure” bro if that’s not love then what the FUCK do you think love is???

[theheartmold]

love is real because my kitty cat seeks me out for warmth and safety and also so do my friends on account of the fact that i love them

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

It’s also just bullshit in general. The Human - Animal bond has been studied extensively and results in similar biological responses across animal groups and humans.

Not only do your dogs and cats love you, but your parrots love you. Your mice love you. Your lizards love you. Your ants love you. Your spider loves you.

Turns out bonding is just something we animals (humans included, bc we’re not fundamentally different from other animals as such statements op is referring to imply) like to do when we can afford to do it.

[catboybiologist]

Fucking THANK you

This is the #1 thing that people ask or say when they learn I have a tortoise- "oh, but does he actually love you?"

Look buddy. Maybe you have some specific definition of love that'll exclude anything other than human, or mammalian love.

But he recognizes me specifically, and when he sees me, he scoots his shelled butt out of his hut and cranes his neck up for little head scratches and maybe a dandelion leaf as a treat, and when he's out on the floor or on the field with me he likes the huddle on my shoes or under my legs and circle around them before going on his next adventure to nom a lil clover sprig

He associates me with warmth and safety and food and that good feeling on his skin he gets when I touch him gently. And whatever that manifests as in his little reptilian brain is some form of love.

[beewulf]

no offense but if i exit out of a program that program should close. none of that running in the background shit.

[soratayuya]

If you kill something it had better be dead

[eternally--mortal]

[tsunamiwavesurfing]

lost two years of your life cause of covid - then got hit with inflation right after. we're down tremendously

[lookalivezay]

And still gon thrive cus it’s what we do.

[tsunamiwavesurfing]

brother this ain’t a kumbaya words of affirmation chain. the price of groceries is very real out here

[ayeforscotland]

Genuinely solid policy.

[useless-englandfacts]

uk journalists having to report through gritted teeth that there were no riots last night as thousands of anti-racist protesters significantly outnumbered the racist rioters across the country

[useless-englandfacts]

around 10,000 people counter-protesting in walthamstow last night

[froggy-horror-picture-show]

here in brighton, with the three (3) racists vs thousands of anti racist counter-protesters

[blindfoureyes]

OH AND ALSO

Just gotta love how this QUEEN got up and decided to give zero fucks to that stupid rule about hijabs. She not only ignored that bs, she did it with style!

In front of every single person who may be watching this, in front of Emmanuel Macron and France, in front of every ignorant and disgusting soul who dares to try and hinder such a beauty.

Her wonderfull smile says more than any word I could put here!

[homunculus-argument]

Don't you worry about my pronouns. My pronouns are pretty standard. Worry about my adverbs. My most frequent ones are "omniously", "haphazardly" and "obliviously".

[teaboot]

BRUH a dude I know from work came in for the first time in months and I thought he looked different but couldn't figure out why?? So I asked if he'd changed his hair and he was like "BITCH I GOT TOP SURGERY"

[strangeasexuallegume-deactivate]

GOT DAMN HOW DIDNT YOU NOTICE

[teaboot]

LIKE THIS

[teaboot]

[teaboot]

WHO BROUGHT THIgS BACK

[it-appears-that-bruno-has-deact]

[it-appears-that-bruno-has-deact]

[onlytiktoks]

[rodrickheffeley]

imane khelif wins her first Olympic gold medal imane khelif you’re a fucking star

[dkpsyhog]

You know how canaries were historically brought into coal mines, because if the mine was full of carbon monoxide the canary would die first and the miners would be able to escape before they died too?

I just found the greatest thing.

This is a canary resuscitator.

When the miners notice the canary getting sick with carbon monoxide poisoning, they can close that circular hatch so no more gas gets into the canary cage, and open the valve on that oxygen tank to keep the canary breathing. In other words, they made a spacesuit for birds.

By immediately giving the canary access to clean air, the miners can save it from the poison. The bird lives. To be clear, this is not for economic purposes, this was specifically created because the miners felt bad and wanted to save the bird.

Isn’t that just the perfect demonstration of what humans are like? We started sacrificing small creatures to save ourselves, and then felt bad and spent our valuable resources on saving the critters too. Because yeah the canary was the only way to test for CO, but it’s a living creature too, dammit!

[potter-on-my-wayward-doctor]

[libraryogre]

Union watches out for its members.

[meredithmcclaren]

Please don't make me cry.

[animentality]

[twelvemonkeyswere]

not even JRR Tolkien, who famously developed the concept of the Secondary World and firmly believed that no trace of the Real World should be evoked in the fictional world, was able to remove potatoes from his literature. this is a man who developed whole languages and mythologies for his literary world, who justified its existence in English as a translation* simply because he was so miffed he couldn't get away with making the story fully alien to the real world. and not even he, in extremis, was so cruel as to deny his characters the heavenly potato. could not even conceive a universe devoid of the potato. such is its impact. everyone please take a moment to say thank you to South Americans for developing and cultivating one of earth's finest vegetables. the potato IS all that. literally world-changing food. bless.

[howieabel]

“Europe is literally the creation of the Third World. The wealth which smothers her is that which was stolen from the underdeveloped peoples. The ports of Holland, the docks of Bordeaux and Liverpool were specialized in the Negro slave trade, and owe their renown to millions of deported slaves. So when we hear the head of a European state declare with his hand on his heart that he must come to the aid of the poor underdeveloped peoples, we do not tremble with gratitude.”

— Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

[johnnyjoestarrelatable]

being moderately proficient with computers in the early 2010s was casting a hex on your family to call you sheldon

[johnnyjoestarrelatable]

i got a big bang theory box set and a bazinga t shirt for christmas when i was 16

[cozy2000]

my dad wanted to get me a psych eval so i could say "im not crazy. my father had me tested." like sheldon did and after the psych eval they diagnosed me with paranoid schizophrenia

[baboon-87]

this could be the funniest thing that has happened to anyone ever. my condolences king

[thechekhov]

I need to run a survey really quick. This isn't serious, but I need people to cooperate and not cheat for the sake of it because it'll skew the results.

Imagine you wake up tomorrow and you realize you (and everyone else in the world) can turn into an animal (And back into a human) at will.

Please go to this link to see what animal it will be for you:

Random Animal Generator

Generated a random animal species: A goat, armadillo, orangutan, porpoise, cheetah... Nearly 200 different animals!

(this is random, and yes, you only get one, no redos)

With this in mind, please reply to the following questions as truthfully as possible based on your current situation. (Not an ideal fantasy one.)

How do you feel about this, in general?

Good! I like this animal.

Okay. I'm not thrilled but not disappointed.

Meh. Not the worst.

Not great. I'm pretty disappointed.

Horrible. This is my worst nightmare.

It's complicated./I'm conflicted.

Voting ended onAug 17, 2024

[thechekhov]

How often would you turn into this animal?

Pretty often, just for fun.

Pretty often, for a specific task.

Sometimes, just for fun.

Sometimes, to do something a human cannot.

Rarely, but still for fun.

Rarely, only if I absolutely need to.

Voting ended onAug 17, 2024

[thechekhov]

How open would you be about what animal you are?

I'd tell anyone and everyone!

I'd tell my friends and family.

I'd tell my closer friends and family.

I'd try to keep it mostly secret.

I'd prefer not to tell anyone, ever.

Voting ended onAug 17, 2024

[thechekhov]

Would you want to get to know other people who also transform into the same/similar animal?

Yeah! I'd join a subreddit or a club for sure!

Probably. I'd like to know what makes us similar.

Eh, only if it comes up in conversation naturally.

Not really. I don't think it'd connect us in any way.

No. It's not a good metric for friendship.

Voting ended onAug 17, 2024

[jenroses]

I feel like turning into a marmoset on the regular would only enhance my life.