Matt's Trash

He/him || trans guy || digital artist || emo but in the old lame way || merely a human-shaped mech suit controlled by the autism (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ*･ﾟ✧☆ﾟ.*･｡ﾟ

[pooksbedamned]

You’re a casualty in London in the year 1665

How did you die and does it sound about right ?

[pooksbedamned]

I got kingsevill which is about right considering my opinions on the ruling class.

The disease mycobacterial cervical lymphadenitis! Swelling of the lymph nodes in the neck - TB related.

Also called “Scrofula” or The Kings Evil.

The name derives from the belief that it could be cured by being touched by Royalty.

So either through the power of controlling the narrative or enough people recovering naturally, this belief that the “miraculous power” of Kings to cure by touching lasted from 1060 until the 18th century.

[monkeyislandtwo]

why r callouts always like "please dont harass this person and dont go after them. anyway heres every single detail of their life gathered by stalking and their private profiles for all to see"

[monkeyislandtwo]

"please don't go after this person! now let me post this document for every single one of my followers and list every single one of their usernames"

[cannibalisticdespair]

[tarragonthedragon]

i just got the "see where your blood has gone!" email from giving blood but it glitched and just showed me my current location. which. theyre not wrong. that is where most of my blood is

[gaynfl-moved]

what's your "if I won the lottery I wouldn't tell anyone but there would be signs" thing? mine is getting a fully green kitchen

[gaynfl-moved]

[artistformerlyknownasbutttrumpet]

i was training a young person at work, and she referred to sexual assault as "SA" out loud, and i immediately was like, "no, it's sexual assault, call it what it is," bc idgaf if the algorithm overlords have taught y'all that you should fear direct language, how tf do any of you expect to ever address real issues with any amount of seriousness if you can't even say the words? imagine an advocate looking a sexual assault survivor in the eyes and asking "did he grape you?" it's absolutely fucking absurd, but these young interns and new hires are coming into an environment where we deal with survivors of all different kinds of abuse, and they're coming with the mindset that the words are as bad as the actions, and that makes them shitty at the job and look juvenile af

i HATE self-censorship for a lot of reasons, but being in crisis work makes it even more frustrating. who are you censoring for? like i am being so fr, WHO are you censoring for? have you even thought it through? people who have been raped know that they have been raped. if someone attempts suicide or is grieving someone who did, saying "sewer slide" isn't going to protect them from any of the feelings. a murder victim's family isn't going to feel better bc you said "unalived" instead of murdered. if anything, it's just extremely invalidating and othering. it's saying "what happened to you is so bad that i won't even say the word," which is NOT trauma-informed care. you are not protecting survivors/victims when you self-censor. the ONLY things you protect when you self-censor are the puritanical ideologies that are being encouraged by rich fascists who want your money and obedience

say the fucking words, guys. just say the goddamn words before i go insane!!!

[t00thpasteface]

being an effective educator is about yes-anding people so you can find unique connections between your material and their interests

[mrhealyourgirl]

[punished-venom-solitair-e]

[mrhealyourgirl]

look at my gouger, boy.

[heavymetalbimbo]

Couldn’t get a good pic but check this shit out

Saw this bad boy in the wild yesterday

[mrhealyourgirl]

I heard someone say it in the elevator under their breath to their friend and I was high af so it scared me

[clown-killifish]

fesh!

🐟 + 10x forktail rainbowfish

🐟 + 2x reticulated hillstream loach

🌱 + 3x micrathenum monte carlo

[downerdisaster]

what kind of fish is the big black and white one in the last picture?

[uphillfarmers]

this has absolutely made my day. I’ve found myself revolving my entire life around the promotion of high-welfare poultry breeds, which are barely acknowledged in the USA, and it’s so heartening to see that raising awareness and concern isn’t just a hopeless case.

[vaintarquin]

"Norway to become the first country in decades to import 90% of food chickens." fixed it.

[uphillfarmers]

you can actually eat high welfare birds too. it’s all made of meat 👍

[yiffmaster]

"sharks are older than trees" is technically true, but TIL that sharks were a marginal group until the mid-Jurassic (the middle of the Dino Age, ~200-150 mya), and all modern shark orders first appear around this time.

Before then, a different group of cartilaginous fish called hybodonts were the big apex predators. How were they different than sharks? Mostly because they had "boney" dorsal spines made out of dentine and enamel. Like teeth are. Like where would that tech have gone, if they'd survived and kept evolving for 200 million more years?

[yiffmaster]

TIL that sharks went thru a mysterious extinction event 19 million years ago, when 95% of populations and 70% of species disappeared. Sediment samples go from having 1 shark fossil for every 5 fish fossils, to 1 shark per 100 fish (does that mean that the ocean used to be like 16% shark??)

And there was no big climate change then, or extinctions of other groups! This research is pretty recent and no one has even an educated guess!

Two effects of this:

All of today's big ocean sharks (Great White, Tiger, Basking, etc.) all evolved from coastal sharks that survived this event. And,

Populations haven't recovered. Sharks as a group are still decimated, a shadow of their former selves for most of the last 200 million years.

[pangur-and-grim]

OH my sweet summer child, sleep ignorant of what awaits you

[cosmicastrogazer]

Give her a smooch on the noggin before applying Hat

[pangur-and-grim]

if you lift off the Hat, you’ll find the smooch underneath

[pangur-and-grim]

we are good friends

[warranty-voider]

cat looked easy to draw

[pangur-and-grim]

they’re both so yucky, but they do love each other

[da-janela-lateral]

Outdoor cat owners have no concept of basic ecology and it shows. "You're saying my kitty is EVIL for following its instincts???????" obviously not, you idiot, its an animal. I don't blame it because it is designed to hunt and doesn't understand human morality. The cat's human owner, though, should stop pretending that millions of people letting their pets hunt native species for fun WON'T make their ecossystem collapse. If you stop hearing birdsong in your neighborhood its your fault 👍.

[da-janela-lateral]

Also cats are domestic animals????? Its your pet. Its your responsability to take care of it and it certainly doesn't look like you are doing this if your pet spends 90% of the day on the streets. Outside cats are in great risk for being ran over, stolen, beaten, poisoned, mauled or eaten by wild animals. A mildly bored cat is way better than a dead one and besides? Just offer your pet enrichment. You don't need to risk its life to keep it happy. You can even let it outside with supervision!! Look how many options we have. Insisting the only way to keep your cat happy is allowing it to wreck the environment and possibly die is not only fucking irresponsible, but also lazy and shows that you don't really care for the wildlife around you.

[yesornopolls]

which is more bearable: overstimulation or understimulation?

Which is more bearable: overstimulation or understimulation?

Yes

No

Voting ended onApr 19

[sudanese]

[type-1-diabreadstick]

I'm a big proponent of calling it transmasculine erasure instead of invisibility because I believe using the latter makes people too comfortable to dismiss it like it's just some inevitable, mysterious force of nature and therefore allows them to absolve themselves from examining if they may have any culpability in it.