Lithobates Catesbeianus

The Humble American Bullfrog.

[twinkhole-destroyer]

but babe you love being chained to the radiator

[note-a-bear]

Employers when you try to use your pto

[cypress-punk]

Bruh they cited fucking ChatGPT on the slides on character design at the SDCC panel about the Legend of Aang movie its so OVER.

[slowlikehoney1996]

If your lover lives in Hong Kong and cannot get to Chicago, it will be necessary for you to go to Hong Kong. Perhaps you will spend your life there, and never see Chicago again. And you will, I assure you, as long as space and time divide you from anyone you love, discover a great deal about shipping routes, airlines, earthquake, famine, disease, and war. And you will always know what time it is in Hong Kong, for you love someone who lives there. And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time and, furthermore, to win.

James Baldwin, Nothing Personal

[number1mongrel]

"You hear that? They're saying The Odyssey doesn't even have nobody!"

"They've got nobody in the Odyssey?"

"No I'm saying they don't got nobody."

"Nobody's there?"

"Nobody's not there!"

"So everyone's there?"

"Everybody but nobody!"

[bedrock-to-buildheight]

This wingless thing

[demilypyro]

The thing about death of the author is I don't think you can apply it in ignorance. It's a deliberate choice you make. If you choose to reject the author's intent and substitute your own, you must first acknowledge what the author's intent was, and that means rejecting it says something about you. For a specific but nonspecific example, if you see a character that the author intends to be read as a transgender woman, and you go looking for a possible alternate interpretation... that's not a meaningless choice. Why are you rejecting that reading? What kind of person would?

[cypress-punk]

Christopher Nolan funny as hell cause he can make movies with Something To Say but that Something is always a little mush mouthed, like he cant quite commit to the logical extension of it.

[ilovedthestars]

"how do you feel about labels as a queer person?"

[funtergeist]

the fact that dark worlds feel like lively vast worlds full of people with their own thoughts and feelings, while hometown feels like a last thursdayish bubble where every other npc is slowly losing sentience, really drives home how it feels to see no future or interest in your real life and having to sink into fiction to escape that feeling of emptiness

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

are people talking about the labor conditions at Taylor Farms yet? like the fact they use enslaved prisoners in their facilities?

are we drawing the connection between worker safety and consumer safety & public health yet?

are people demanding to see the conditions in this place that keeps making us sick? why are the enslaved workers not having the time to use the bathroom or to rest when ill? very few people would shit in front of their coworkers given any choice at all.

[cupidswoe]

Advanced femme tech

[anywhoozles]

[hms-no-fun]

the nature of reality is such that

[cypress-punk]

Id have thrived in Ming dynasty China. I was born to be a neurotic scholar-beauracrat who eventually rebelled against the emperor,but only because he was surrounded by corrupt officials who pass over the worthy (me and my blood brother) for promotion.

Id have a bearded ruffian known for his short temper, immense alcohol consumption, and ability to kill a tiger with his bare hands as one of my lieutenants and he'd constantly fuck things up for me.

[dogpuppy]

[gyrovagi]

the problem with employment is it gives you money to purchase video games but it takes away your time to play video games. Mao spoke of this

[vintagewildlife]

"I can't believe humans would hunt the thylacine to extinction, humans are fundamentally evil" Hey, did you know that extinction was long thought to be impossible, and within 50 years of humans realizing that extinction via overhunting was a possibility it practically stopped happening? Did you know that humans are so desperate to prevent more losses that they're funneling millions of collective hours and billions of euros into helping other species? Hours and euros that could be spent on humans, and species on whom humanity's own survival does not depend? Did you know that due to an accidental introduction of rats, the Lord Howe Island stick insect population was brought down to 24 individuals and now there are tens of thousands of them?

This bug. This bug that, to most humans, is utterly useless, relatively gross, and completely foreign. Humans saved it because humans do not want to cause another extinction ever again if they can avoid it.

[hyperlexichypatia]

IDK I think if cis men are being told that being fat will lower their testosterone and make them Insufficiently Masculine, and cis women are being told that being fat will raise their testosterone and make them Excessively Masculine, and fat trans people are being denied the right to medically transition if they're fat, and thin trans people are warned against HRT because it will make them fat (and this is said about both testosterone and estrogen HRT), and androgynous-presenting people are told that only thin people count as androgynous...

Then maybe...

Maybe...

Maybe the weight loss industry is just using Gender to enforce fatphobia.