Cake as a Way of Life

My name is Daisy. This blog has no order. I love books, I love silly cat gifs, I will occasionally bother with a few political/feminist leaning posts.

[sabyaasachi]

Disney Princesses with a little Desi twist 💫 Model: Hamel Patel

[minjiminjiminji]

XKCD’s excellent presentation on historical global temperature and anthropogenic global warming. 

[After setting your car on fire] “Listen, your car’s temperature has changed before.”

[asteraceaeblue-deactivated20181]

For the “Earth’s climate has changed before” crowd.

[babyanimalgifs]

When you’re sorting the tank filters and a big boye wants cuddles. 

(Source)

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

“Gotta make sure they are cherished”

[a-book-of-creatures]

Someone with a degree in biology please explain this, is the grouper really cruising for cuddles or are we misinterpreting its behavior?

Because it looks awful cuddly is what I’m saying

[bogleech]

Fish are WILDLY intelligent and many are so social that they naturally have social behaviors for interacting with other different species as a whole reef-wide community!! When it comes to interaction with humans, many fish can learn to recognize specific humans and increasingly seek attention such as scratches, rubs and simple play behaviors!

[linguisticparadox]

@linddzz can you confirm the fishy desire for skritches?

[linddzz]

I’ve had a 4ft goliath grouper come up to me and stare reproachfully until I started giving her scritches and gravel showers. Picking up handfuls of the gravel and gently dropping it over their back is a nice fish massage. We encourage the behavior bc it’s a great time to check over them for any health concerns.

Also this looks like maybe a diver helping with a gravel vac tube. Basically a big siphon used to take junk out of the bottom of tanks.

But yeah this is pretty standard grouper neediness lmao

[go-drink-the-kool-aid-deactivat]

My betta fish used to love getting little pets

[irisbleufic]

I’ve had 5-6 bettas over the years that have enjoyed cuddles. Half of those would do just about anything to swim into my hand or butt up against my fingers during tank cleaning to “ask” for attention. Fish are smart and some species are very, very sweet if they happen to imprint on you.

[radiantroach]

[marlinspirkhall]

This is so soft

[thesassybunnies]

“My sisters cat doesn’t like leafy greens but pretends to eat them to make her bunny feel comfortable“ 

(via)

[the-pigeon-king]

Cats are social eaters!!! Straight up pretending to eat bc wants to feel involved.

[sandersstudies]

[stability]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[abigaillazaar]

Dark greetings of the night to all the members of the Vampiric Council, from all the continents, gathered here together on… Staten Island. O-On Staten Island.

[savagedefectives]

‘previously undreamed-of’

[mx-chievous]

this just gave me a glimpse into an alternate reality where human society functions the way carpenter ant society does

[loislane]

[vieratheartist]

This is the funniest superman gag I have ever seen.

[marveladdicts]

[kabaks]

bro remember when mad max happened. remember when max was treated like an animal and so behaved like one and saw himself as one and then he met a bunch of women who were all struggling to be seen as human too and they treated him with compassion and he was like “i would die for all of you then. good.” wtf 

[kabaks]

max being chained up and used for his blood at the start of the film then giving it freely at the end of it because he loves furiosa?????? giving her his name at last like a parting gift????? wtf!!!!!! we are not things!!!!!!!!!!

[nativenews]

[merry927]

Steven Spohn @stevenspohn

On June 11th, Michael Hickson, a quadriplegic black man with COVID-19 was killed by a hospital in Austin Texas.

Doctors decided he had "no quality of life" an was not worth spending the resources to save.

The conversation between his doctor and his wife was caught on audio 1/?

[description of image: a photo of Hickson, lying in a hospital bed and smiling for the camera /description]

Doctor: So as of right now, his quality of life -- he doesn't have much of one.

Melissa: What do you mean? Because he's paralyzed with a brain injury he doesn’t have quality of life?

Doctor: Correct.

--

Hickson was refused food or treatment for 6 days

In the YouTube video, the doctor can be heard saying "he will have lines and tubes coming out of his body... That's not quality-of-life"

I have tubes coming out of my body. I happen to like my life. Without those tubes I'd be dead

Our definition of quality is vastly different

So, when you see me repeatedly yelling about masks, paying attention to disabled people, and you don't understand why I tweet with passion, remember this.

I'm fighting to change culture that doesn't see disabled life as quality. many of us are afraid and rightly so.

LaBlaq @LoveAndShalom

Please, please, please don't sweep this under the rug. Your disabled friends are in danger.

We must unite and fight this!

[lumberjackloverboy-moved]

His wife was not notified of his death until the next morning after his remains had already been transported to a funeral home without [Mrs. Hickson’s] permission.

“No one has offered condolences. There has never been an apology or acknowledgment of his death. It’s like they just don’t care,”

#disabled not disposable

[sentientdessert]

What that doctor did is a crime against humanity.  Killing the disabled because they are disabled (in this case “no quality of life disbaled”) is genocidal.

[antis-delete-your-blogs-pls-thx]

This is eugenics.

[the-feeeling-is-mutual]

Hozier reading “Daedalus and Icarus” from The Metamorphoses on his Instagram Live, 3 June 2020

Source

[darkmelodies27]

[the-feeeling-is-mutual]

Hammerstein Ballroom, NY, 23 November 2019

📷 by Christina Laderoute

[stutterhug]

Comparing Pets

Tapastic. Twitter.

[flavorcountry]

Dr. Mae Jemison, MD, the first black woman in space and first actual astronaut to appear on a Star Trek show, one of the very few people on this planet of whom two pictures can be posted depicting them doing their job on a spaceship with entirely different contexts.

[gingerhastoomanyobsessions]

I can’t breathe

[brawltogethernow]

Best wishes to these people obviously but I’m WHEEZING at the concept of a standard horror plot starter but the stranded travelers are an entire fully equipped orchestra.

[gleefully-macabre]

It’s the prequel to every other horror film. Their haunting spirits play the background music.

[gleefully-macabre]

Oh shoot, that actually would be a really cool concept. The film starts with no thematic music, and as each member of the orchestra is picked off, their instrument joins the soundtrack. Subtly, so you don’t really notice, and the end credits are a full orchestral symphony.

[thestraggletag]

DUUUUUDE

[jenny-jinya]

TW: animal death / animal neglect

I wanted to draw this comic for a long time, but I never knew how to approach this issue. In my childhood all my friends had budgies, all of them were put aside somewhere and left alone. Treated like “annoying” decoration. Don’t get a bird if you can’t meet its needs.