Le Soleil chante, les oiseaux brillent

My useless superpower according to my relatives is researching and fact-checking random stuff as soon as the fancy hits. So if I come across as nitpicking and pedantic on a subject it's (mostly) accidentally. If you use chatgpt first at the start of a project know that I assume you are incapable of original thought. I wish people on the internet didn't rely on others’ perception of some things to decide whether they like/should do them or not

[a-room-of-my-own]

Tellement triste pour Marjane Satrapi…

Qu’elle repose en paix auprès de son mari 🤍

[kronkk]

Me: I want to see a cultural third gender that isn’t a way of othering effeminate males out of ‘correct’ manhood.

Progressives on Tumblr: I have the gender.

Me: You’re sure? You have the third gender and it isn’t exclusivily for males?

Progressives on Tumblr: This is correct. I have a socially functional third gender that is completely different from masculinity and femininity and isn’t sex-exclusive. I do not have a fringe identity for male crossdressers.

Me: Excellent! Please show me the gender.

Progressives on Tumblr: Here you go! *Effeminate male in a patriarchal society*

Me: 

[bulles-de-bd]

Le Journal de Spirou - 1732 (24 Juin 1971)

[torenhoog]

Laetitia Ky

[kkoffin]

i’m sick to death of seeing male cosmetic surgeons on social media with this “cunty” “gay best friend” personality, making jokes about being “snatched” and “skinni” knowing damn well they’re all fucking evil greedy misogynists.

i also regularly see them making jokes about their young female clients being with elderly and borderline abusive men. also jokes about “maybe a bbl will make you feel better”, “you aren’t ugly, you just need to get bread and come into my practice”

THESE MFS ARE EVIL!! THEY ARE FUCKING EVIL!!! i want to throw BRICKS THROUGH THEIR PRACTICE WINDOWS WHENEVER I SEE THEM!!! THEY ARE FUCKING LYING TO YOU THEY ARE PROFITING OFF FEMALE INSECURITY THEY WANT YOU TO FEEL FAT AND UGLY!! THEY WILL BUTCHER UR SURGERY AND THEN TELL YOU ITS SUPPOSED TO LOOK LIKE THAT!! MOTHER FUCKER THEY WILL KILL YOU!! THEY ARE NOT UR FRIEND THEY ARE TRYING TO MAKE YOU HATE YOURSELF!! THEY ARE THE FUCKING ENEMY TO ALL WOMEN!!

DO NOT CALL ME BESTIE, GIRLIE, WHATEVER!! I NEED YOU IN A CELL!!!!!!

EHEHE!! NOT EATING FOR 8 HOURS AND CLOTHING SO TIGHT IT RESTRICTS YOU IS SO CUTE AND “SNATCHED” HEHE!! ANYWAYS UR UGLY IF YOU DONT PAY THOUSANDS FOR A BBL!! AAAAHH

[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

[bulles-de-bd]

Le Journal de Spirou n°4472 - Calendrier 2024

[puttin-on-a-drum-show]

THIS IS SENDING ME

Original tiktok link here

[kronkk]

Barbara Kruger Untitled (Never Perfect Enough), 2020 digital prints on vinyl, tryptic Second image credit: Robert Wedemeyer

[compagniedesfrelons]

Finished Les Trois Mousquetaires while I was at it and honestly I'm gonna have to read the sequels to feel anything but nonplussed over these characters.

No-one has that much time to shine with the rush the intrigue is on. D’Artagnan does and I like (most of) him, but other than that I swear my favorites are by default Planchet and Milady bc nobody else gets to do or say much shit (except Athos, who categorically refuses to say shit unless dead drunk).

Very pleasing read however. The rhythm worked for me and Dumas is very easy to get through (in French at least).

Dreaming of a video game where you play a modern-day version of this where Milady is a whistleblower abt to expose a politician for profit and the musketeers are some sort of agents trying to thwart her àd protect said politician in the name of stability (unclear who's on the right side of this petty private business with likely international repercussions. You can play as both parties and winning gets you different, equally not that great endings).

[classicalcanvas]

Weeping Willow (1919) by Claude Monet

[fullslack-deactivated20260525]

Peruvian whistling vessels simulating animal calls (some of the oldest found date to c. 500–300 BCE)

[labryslesbian]

“we just want to pee with women!!!!”

anyone with a working brain already knew there’s no reason for them to be in our bathrooms unless they had disgusting motives behind it.

as foul and degenerate as this is, it’s not even shocking to me anymore.

no women’s bathroom should allow males, under any circumstances

[joannerowling]

The idea that a woman needs now to pay a man a fine, because he was pretending to be a lesbian on a dating app, making other lesbians uncomfortable, and she refused to entertain that nonsense, and now the GOVERNMENT is saying that was wrong of her and everyone should have indulged him??? Hell world. May all these misogynistic morons be eaten by sharks and crocodiles.

[deafeningcreationearthquake]

[athelind]

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin - Wikipedia

This Month in Physics History

APS Archives

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: The woman who first grasped the elemental power of stars

Cecilia Payne: Discoverer of the Chemical Makeup of Stars | AMNH

What are the stars made of? At 25, Cecilia Payne answered this fundamental question in her Ph.D. thesis.

Amazing.

[rottencore]

This post keeps making me cry laughingg

[logophilestudies]

this is the article:

Women Who Use Drugs

"Female drug use exists in diametrical opposition to male drug use: with different causes, motives for use, experiences, treatments, and pre