Let us be lazy in everything,

except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy \ mid 20s

[teaboot]

The only downside to talking to small children like they’re normal people and treating them like normal people (as per my mom) is that as they develop into bigger children they are viscerally aware of every single moment in which they are pandered to like stupid little accessories (as per my dad, my teacher, the special ed aide, every adult in my middle school) and you end up getting a lot of phone calls from people reporting your kid for (checks notes) “undermining authority”, “disrupting the classroom environment”, “disobeying elder peers”, and “unionizing the grade eleven gym class with intent to incite a mutiny” (as per me) and you end up with a Grown Adult who will absolutely encourage and enable other people’s children to fuck the sustem

[teaboot]

Anyhow the most empowering shit you can say to a kid in my experience has to be

“Wow that adult was being a jerk”

“That sounds really frustrating”

”Good job handling that, I would have lost my mind”

“It’s cool, I don’t expect you to remember me”

“You don’t have to hug me if you don’t want to”

“Yeah sometimes (authority figure you can’t avoid) doesn’t know what they’re talking about, it’s not your fault, just do your best”

“I don’t totally understand what you mean but I get that you’re upset, is there anything I can do?”

”Wanna go yell and break stuff with me?”

“You don’t need to be friends with that kid as long as you can still be polite”

“If an adult tells you to do something that will get you hurt, you don’t have to listen.”

“My number one goal is to keep you safe, but I don’t know everything and sometimes I’m wrong, so let me know if I make a mistake.”

“Man. Today sucked.”

“Yeah I also kinda wanna cry right now”

“Whoops, yeah, my bad”

“I don’t know the answer to that but we can probably figure it out”

[loish]

I loved painting this one. It was truly a delight to create and I hope that shows 💚

Full process video over on my Patreon!

[pjharvey]

agnostic is lowkey the funniest belief system it's just like yeah idk it's none of my business

[sclimp]

What was your word for "skipping school". This is primarily directed towards british and oirish anglophones but everyone tell me if you're not shy. Ours was dossing / being "on the doss"

skipping school =

dossing

mitching

skiving

bunking off

ditching / cutting class

playing hooky

not anglophone (please lemme know your term!)

anglophone but none of these (what term did you use...)

results

Voting ended onSep 9, 2025

[robinsceramics]

some wolves I've been working on!

image description: four porcelain wolves in shades of blue, green, and gray, with white fur markings and black eyes.

[robinsceramics]

they all survived the fire!

[foxhardt]

you dont have to be a parent to understand the horror of walking into a room to discover that the baby crawled out of his crib and onto that pottery wheel you forgot to turn off, and while the baby is spinning around and around, the dog is sitting there all calm, like a person, gently using his paws to fashion the babys soft cartilage head into something a little more modern.  it might be the classic tale of bad parenting, but lets see where the dog is going with this

[wizardshark]

This post is from 2013. It has less than 100 notes. Together we can revive this work of art that tragically ahead of its time. We’re ready for it now

[cacturne]

when you want to play your video games but dont have the energy for it its like who wants to be my proxy that does the gameplay while i watch and make every decision in the game from the comfort of my bed

[cacturne]

[televisionenjoyer]

NOOOO THE SIX ORGASMS PERIOD HACK GOT REBLOGS DISABLED JUST AS I TRIED TO REBLOG IT whatever. I'm trying that next period.

[televisionenjoyer]

Rescued media. Fuck it.

[beautifuloutlier]

I want to note that the way the sex binary looks like it’s present throughout the animal world is that white scientists have a terrible habit of labeling everything “male” or “female” even when it makes no sense.

Like, by any reasonable metric, bees have three sexes: drone, queen, and worker. Workers are only labelled female because someone couldn’t abide the idea of something not being either one or the other.

And before someone calls “genetics” there are many species where both sexes have the exact same genetics, and even many where individuals can change reproductive capacity at will, and scientists suddenly have no problem calling the ones who grow eggs “female” even though they were “male” two weeks ago.

Some species of mammals reproduce asexually. They have only one sex. It is still called “female” because it makes babies even though one might reasonably ask why even make the distinction when every single individual makes babies just the same.

[curlicuecal]

Okay. But like.  That is not how bees work.  That is incredibly not how bees work.  I am not even going to address any other part of this post because I am so annoyed by this misrepresentation of how bees work. (srsly though, name ONE mammal that reproduces asexually.  I think you are thinking of reptiles and amphibians.  And I think you mean parthenogenetically.)

Okay.  So.  I was typing up a whole lecture on the evolution of eusociality and division of labor and then decided that was too complicated so let’s keep it simple and focused on one example.

Honeybees.  We’ve got drones/males.  They have testes and sperm and they essentially blow up when they mate. Queens/gynes/reproductive-females are female bees that are fed special food by workers to enhance the development of their ovaries.  They lay eggs.  They also put out pheromones to inhibit reproduction by other bees. 

Worker bees are females that did not get the queen food to turn on the hormonal paths to get the plus-plus-ovaries.  Instead of betting on passing their genes along to daughters, they are betting on rearing sister-queens, who they are actually MORE related to than they would be to their own offspring due to the way bee genetics work (haplodiploidy). AND their momma is pumping out pheromones to inhibit major development of ovaries, eggs, etc.  In some species of social insects this is straight up reproductive sabotage–if queenie dies workers can literally grow into queens because pheromones go away.  Honeybees need the special diet as babies.

But.  Here’s the thing.  They also cheat.  Yep.  They’ve got underdeveloped ovaries.  And some worker bees sneak off to the edge of the nest and slack off on their share of the work and eat lots of food and lay a couple of their own eggs.  The eggs are unfertilized, so the babies will be males, but hey that’s still a future reproductive with sneaky-worker-momma’s genes!  (Other workers will kill these babies if they figure out what’s going on but. Eh.  Sometimes it works.)  Look up honeybees and “rebel workers”, it is a trip.

So anyway, the thing I am saying is that scientists are not making arbitrary calls on this shit, there is a genetic, physiological, and evolutionary background to where these terms come from.  And also, we don’t determine a bee’s sex by whether or not it is on birth control because that would be stupid.

Also, oh my god, biology is way too cool to need to spread misinformation to make a point.

Now, if you want a real example of a genetic system that actually functions as three sexes check out the recent work done on symmetrical social hybridogenesis in a couple species of harvester ants.  Basically, we have two variants of ants and a queen needs needs to mate with the same variant as herself to produce queens and the opposite variant to produce workers.  So a queen needs to have mated with both if she wants to have a healthy colony and be able to pass on her genes to future queens.  And all types of colonies need to be present in a population to keep it stable.  Functionally, it becomes more like four operational sexes.  IT IS VERY NEAT.

OR if you want an example of a genetic system where the sexes have literally become different species, look up clonal reproduction in little fire ants (Wasmannia auropunctata) because it is weird shit.  The females have evolved to make reproductive clone babies.  The males have evolved to wipe the female dna from eggs and make reproductive clone babies.  Basically, the male and female reproductive lines are operating in an entirely different evolutionary pool than the sterile workers, who are still made by mixing genes from both sexes.

tl;dr, there is way cooler shit going on in the biology of sex than you seem to be aware of.

[beltsquid]

I was about to reblog this with “oh I’m glad you added the recent ant paper because I would have” before I noticed that the addition is 10 years old and about a different genus.

Turns out there’s a new paper as of yesterday (September 03, 2025) about a separate ant species in Europe that does the cross-species reproduction thing:

One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants

[catchymemes]

[mustachioedwalrus]

[shoresoftheshadowlands]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

He’s right. Ten dollars for that much cheese, buying it is the only correct decision.

[mrsterlingeverything]

You can force people into being happy by saying shit like good morning :) follow for more emotional manipulation tips

[camelidae]

If you want to make your backyard a safe haven for lesser dragons, you must keep a close eye on your pets. While it is unlikely that a curious kitten will be able to cause a dragon physical harm, the egos of these small wyrms are as fragile as they are beautiful.

[through-gayas-eyes]

"One of the coolest examples of creative living that I’ve seen in recent years, for instance, came from my friend Susan, who took up figure skating when she was forty years old. To be more precise, she actually already knew how to skate. She had competed in figure skating as a child and had always loved it, but she’d quit the sport during adolescence when it became clear she didn’t have quite enough talent to be a champion. (Ah, lovely adolescence—when the “talented” are officially shunted off from the herd, thus putting the total burden of society’s creative dreams on the thin shoulders of a few select souls, while condemning everyone else to live a more commonplace, inspiration-free existence! What a system . . . )

For the next quarter of a century, my friend Susan did not skate. Why bother, if you can’t be the best? Then she turned forty. She was listless. She was restless. She felt drab and heavy. She did a little soul-searching, the way one does on the big birthdays. She asked herself when was the last time she’d felt truly light, joyous, and—yes—creative in her own skin. To her shock, she realized that it had been decades since she’d felt that way. In fact, the last time she’d experienced such feelings had been as a teenager, back when she was still figure skating. She was appalled to discover that she had denied herself this life-affirming pursuit for so long, and she was curious to see if she still loved it.

So she followed her curiosity. She bought a pair of skates, found a rink, hired a coach. She ignored the voice within her that told her she was being self-indulgent and preposterous to do this crazy thing. She tamped down her feelings of extreme self-consciousness at being the only middle-aged woman on the ice, with all those tiny, feathery nine-year-old girls.

She just did it.

Three mornings a week, Susan awoke before dawn and, in that groggy hour before her demanding day job began, she skated. And she skated and skated and skated. And yes, she loved it, as much as ever. She loved it even more than ever, perhaps, because now, as an adult, she finally had the perspective to appreciate the value of her own joy. Skating made her feel alive and ageless. She stopped feeling like she was nothing more than a consumer, nothing more than the sum of her daily obligations and duties. She was making something of herself, making something with herself.

It was a revolution. A literal revolution, as she spun to life again on the ice—revolution upon revolution upon revolution . . .

Please note that my friend did not quit her job, did not sell her home, did not sever all her relationships and move to Toronto to study seventy hours a week with an exacting Olympic-level skating coach. And no, this story does not end with her winning any championship medals. It doesn’t have to. In fact, this story does not end at all, because Susan is still figure skating several mornings a week—simply because skating is still the best way for her to unfold a certain beauty and transcendence within her life that she cannot seem to access in any other manner. And she would like to spend as much time as possible in such a state of transcendence while she is still here on earth."

From : BIG MAGIC - creative living beyond fear. By Elizabeth Gilbert.

[thememedaddy]

[porcelain-dollbones]

before and after yep shes lo mein

[bintro]

[transmechanicus]

Dredge teaches you important lessons such as “Fish goes bad quickly at room temperature” and “If you don’t get a good night’s rest the phantom shark will get you”