Worker's Rights, Animals, Nature

[importantcatpics]

Gato.

[literallyaflame]

my partner doesn’t use pet names nearly as much as i do, which is very funny because i will crack my gay little knuckles and say some shit like “good morning my sun and moon, my loveliest boy, my baby my sweetheart my darling dearest” and he will reply “hello adrian”

[curiositysavesthecat]

Do you think it's weird and/or predatory for a 13 year-old and a 30 year-old to be best friends if they're not family members or related by blood? Assuming everything is innocent and platonic. Nothing romantic or sexual.

Yes, it's weird and predatory

It's weird. But not predatory

It's predatory. But not weird

No, it's not weird or predatory

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[creelson]

unpopular opinion but I don't think there's anything weird or predatory about an innocent friendship

[dianxiacantastemolecules]

The question is why the fuck is a thirty year old hanging out with a 13 year old if not in their family?? The only other relation that could have them interact is through teacher/student and bring friends like that would be weird as fuck

[creelson]

found family? the kid not feeling safe in their house? the adult wanting to help? family / teacher / school isn't always a guaranteed safe place. should the kid and adult each have friends that are their own age too? sure. but if their friendship is genuinely innocent then I think the problem isn't them but people who project their weird and predatory thoughts onto them

[the-bar-sinister]

Don't forget shared hobbies?

A 13 year old and a 30 year old could reasonably meet at a tabletop gaming store, a fiber arts group, a book club....

[audacityinblack]

They could literally just be neighbors. This whole isolationist thing of never even talking to the people you live closest to is new and weird.

[olderthannetfic]

When I was 13, an art teacher who worked for my mother (who ran after school programs) got into the X-Files. This was season 1. Neither of us knew anyone else who was into it, and she wasn't very online given that this was 1994, so she had nowhere else to discuss it. I'd call her every Friday night after the episode, and we'd obsessively go over it.

I'd probably have called her my best friend at the time, though I very much doubt she'd have said the same, partly because having One Single Best Friend and being super weird about which of your friends gets this coveted spot is not something middle-aged people care about.

Some of you have very weird ideas about 13-year-olds living in hermetically sealed bubbles. Frankly, many neurodivergent weirdo 13-year-olds who grew up to be Tumblr users were far, far better at talking to adults at that age than at talking to other 13-year-olds. Many of you would have had a way happier year if you'd also had an old-ass "best friend" to talk to back then.

[beardedmrbean]

[samtheviking]

In kindergarten, they had this fake flower that they called The Peace Flower. Whenever you were having a disagreement with someone, you went and got The Peace Flower and gave it to them. They were supposed to take it, and then you hugged and made up and were friends again.

Once we got a note from an upset kindergarten teacher about an incident with The Peace Flower. I wanted to give her the opportunity to explain what happened.

"Ariana and I were having an argument and she wouldn't listen and she was mad at me. So I went and got The Peace Flower and gave it to her. Only she wouldn't take it! I told her she had to take it, but she wouldn't! I tried several times and told her that that was the rule: You *have* to take it! But she wouldn't!

...so I hit her with it!"

(the note had said "student hit her friend with The Peace Flower")

So forever after that, it became an inside joke in our house (and with close friends) where a story would end with "So I hit her with The Peace Flower!"

[gaeliclass]

Maine Republican running for governor cites Noah’s Ark tale as proof trans kids don’t exist (The Advocate)

A Republicanrunning for...

[saywhat-politics]

[futileexercise]

[bowlby4]

[jammernews]

[ID: To the people who say Ocasio-Cortez's proposed 70% top marginal tax rate on Americans making over $10 million a year is too radical, remind them of this: under Republican President Eisenhower the top marginal tax rate was 91% on Americans making over $200,000 a year which is $1.7 million in today's dollars.

-- Vox]

[victusinveritas]

Meet Pando, not a forest but a single tree. Every trunk of the Quaking Aspen is genetically identical & connected by a single 80,000 year old root system, making it one of the largest and oldest living entities on Earth!

[foone]

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to walk through the body of a God?

[carmelia-rose]

@derinthescarletpescatarian

[isa-ah]

it should be illegal to take a nap and still have a headache when you wake up. like no i shut it off and back on again why are you still here

[la-rona-d19]

Trump himself has called his supporters idiots. I can't imagine how little self respect and self worth it takes to support a moron who thinks planes flew in revolutionary war, wanted to nuke a hurricane and inject disinfectant to cure COVID calling you stupid.

[bowlby4]

[mangled-by-disuse]

in happier pride news i actually found this deeply heartwarming

that's solidarity baybeeee

[lgbtlaughs]

Further context: Durham city council (Reform UK) cut funding and support for Pride. The Durham Miner's Association and other trade unions raised enough money for Durham Pride 2026 to go ahead - a direct call back to when Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) raised money for mining communities when Margaret Thatcher seized union funding during the miner strikes of 1984-85.

At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.

Stephen Guy, the chair of the Durham Miners’ Association, said that when it became apparent Durham Pride was under threat, he took it upon himself to “encourage the trade union movement to step up and do the right thing, and stand shoulder to shoulder with the LGBT+ community […] They not only raised funds for us, but came to our communities, uplifted our spirits when they were down, and showed their solidarity.”

[1000-life-hacks]

[quovadis-jasen]

[bombardeo]

[bowlby4]