NomadSappho

Wandering thoughts of a nomadic dyke.

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Have you seen Gracie? Officials in Texas search for missing giraffe

Gracie the giraffe is described as having rounded ears. She went missing from a ranch in Real County.

im crying dude

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Yeehaw yall. Gracie is on the run.

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To answer some common questions in the tags:

1. How do you lose a Giraffe? She apparently scaled a cliff that served as part of the enclosure (which the other giraffes in the herd had shown no interest in climbing.)

2. Well it should be easier to find her, she's a whole ass giraffe? Yeah, you'd think, but Texas ranches are fuckin huge. The man has apparently hired a helicopter and several drones to aide the search, but no luck yet. She's been seen on some game cameras on the nearby ranches though. But she's sneaky.

3. Why does a random guy in Texas have a herd of giraffes? Because it's Texas and we have basically no exotic animal regulations. No really. If you have enough land out in the hill country, you can just own stuff. It's fuckin nuts.

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[diesellesbian]

Everything is bigger in Texas is the saying. Yes, I could see them losing a giraffe. All that scrub land and no predators is probably a dream come true.

[crabussy]

you are alive on a planet with insects and whales and diatoms and mycelium networks and puppies and your human friends. literally so awesome to be a living thing

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There’s a really good book all about this.

Last seen by Judith Giesberg

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Actually I wanted to take this out of the tags, because I was doing a lot of research on this earlier this year, and I have several book recs.

In Search of Liberty: African American Internationalism in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World Edited by Ronald Angelo Johnson and Ousmane K. Power-Greene Black Southerners 1619-1869 by John B. Boles Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936 to 1938 (Available for free online) South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and to the Civil War by Alice L Baumgartner (did you know that Mexico was staunchly anti-slavery and most enslaved peoples who fled Texas fled to Mexico?) An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas by Randolph B. Campbell (Feels especially appropriate for this holiday in particular)

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i think the most upsetting thing about american-flavor puritanism is how fucking patronizing it is. it's 2026 but the whole world still has to deal with a cultural hegemony grown from the gnarled vestiges of victorian-era paternalism. tax-paying adults with passports and the right to vote are treated like wayward children because of the antiquated idea that authorities must protect the weak minds of the unwashed masses from depravity and corruption. the average american can send a fellow citizen to the chair, but they can't piss in a ditch without being declared an outlaw. american entertainment media is saturated with sex, but you can't talk about it online without getting your account suspended. it's such blatant censorship at a universal scale, but because sexual content is framed as inherently dangerous, this restriction on basic adult autonomy, this blanket denial of moral and intellectual adulthood, can be reframed as protection, an expression of care, a moral duty. "won't someone think of the children!" I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN!

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thank god that the video game that features slow motion animations of graphic gunshot wounds and is rated 18+ has a profanity filter in single player offline mode. thank you for protecting this 33 year old mind from the corrupting influence that is a horse named apple slut

[diesellesbian]

Pull up a woman's shirt on tv? Oh, heavens no. Clutches pearls. Open a woman's whole rib cage? Now that's something for the whole family. What is this bullshit 'murica?

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[nonaferatu]

people hate it when i say "black people getting cancer is racist" but im literally fucking right because systemic racism has led to chemical dumping being acceptable in black/brown neighborhoods and black people have higher rates of cancer as a result

[werewolf-transgenderism]

irritating as fuck when people get mad at Black people existing in premodern historical fiction/fantasy media. like first of all, you're racist. and second of all, you are acting as though Black people didn't exist in premodern Europe which is simply false. especially when we're talking about the Mediterranean, like what the fuck do you people think is along the southern half of the Mediterranean Ocean?? everyone's on boats, there are GOING to be interactions with Black people in Northern Africa, and there are GOING to be Black people in Mediterranean Europe. stop being stupid. your imagined homogeneous white European past is not historical reality, get over it you massive losers

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[diesellesbian]

The problem is the morons on the ground who believe that blurb from FOX news about waiting for health care as if we dont have to wait months for health care AND pay sixty fucking thousand goddamned dollars for worse care.