natural selection never saw me coming, baby!

merle, it/its ~ adult ~ hmu if you wanna be nemeses!

[cheese-pull]

a man from my state is on death row for a crime he didnt commit. they have DNA that doesnt match his, and the jury was not informed that the informant was paid, which is incredibly illegal. they have no proof this young black male did this. when he asked if the informant was paid, it was objected and the judge held the objection. they have lied under oath.

Stop the Execution of Tony Carruthers in Tennessee

Tennessee has scheduled Tony Carruthers for execution on May 21, 2026 for the 1994 murders of Marcellos Anderson, Delois Anderson, and Frede

please sign. you can opt out of all notifications from this site easily, its quick to sign up, and it might just save this man's life.

[edward-fishhands]

Death row inmate gets reprieve after 'botched' execution in Tennessee

Death row inmate Tony Carruthers was in pain as the executioners tried to find a vein and there was "lots of blood," one of his attorneys sa

they attempted to execute him but they couldnt find a backup vein, he was in pain for almost two hours before they gave up. his execution has been delayed by a year. PLEASE do not give up on him, keep contacting gov. lee and keep requesting forensic testing. do not let the state of tennessee wrongfully execute tony carruthers.

@creatingblackcharacters @isuggestlandback

[memorycycle]

turnips? do you have any turnips

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Thys is a beaft moste foule

[mammalidentifier]

Pyrenean desman (Galemys pyrenaicus). They share the family talpidae with moles and shrew-moles. Unlike their cousins, though, desmans decided they liked swimming better than digging and became semiaquatic animals, just like otters!

[shutyourmoustache]

Making exercises more accessible to the disabled? Fuck yeah!

[purple-dahlias]

florence welch was right. it picks me up puts me down chews me up spits me out a hundred times a day picks me up puts me down i'm always running from something i push it back but it keeps on coming and being clever never got me very far

[vicposter]

i had to google more words than i’d like to admit while making this

[w0nderland42]

i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1986. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.

[digitalkiddo]

If you're writing anything involving cons, scams, heists, or morally questionable characters who are very good at lying, here are some free resources I've been using for research. Saving you the "why is this in my search history" anxiety.

1. The FBI's Famous Cases & Criminals archive (fbi.gov/history/famous-cases) has detailed breakdowns of real fraud cases, Ponzi schemes, and confidence operations. The language they use is clinical and precise, which is perfect for getting the procedural details right.

2. The FTC Consumer Sentinel Network publishes annual reports on the most common fraud tactics in the US. Great for understanding how modern scams actually work and what makes people fall for them.

3. The Smithsonian's American Art Museum has a free digital collection of forgery case studies. If your character forges documents or art, this is gold.

4. Court Listener (courtlistener.com) is a free legal database where you can read actual court transcripts from fraud trials. Want to know how a real con artist talks under oath? This is where you find out.

5. The Internet Archive's collection of old newspaper crime sections. Search for "confidence man" or "swindle" in papers from the 1920s through 1960s and you'll find incredible real stories that would feel too dramatic for fiction.

Bonus: The Psychology of Fraud section on the Association for Psychological Science website has accessible articles about why people trust, how deception works cognitively, and what makes someone a convincing liar. Essential reading if you want your con artist characters to feel psychologically real.

Reblog to save for later. Your WIP will thank you.

[catcrumb]

[destructsequence]

rpf actually stands for red pepper flakes

[aroace-ryland-grace]

happy pride month

[lilyproxin]

yay she's all done finally :>

[damndorothea]

i saw this somewhere else but reply / tag what you did today so everyone can see that we all did something different today

[speggehtix3]

one of the "these can and should coexist" things to me is "there are numerous fat people who eat healthy and exercise and could beat the average skinny person in a hike" and "fat people who are fat and arent athletic and dont eat super healthy and do get winded walking up hills also are apart of fat liberation and deserve love too"

both of these are true and both deserve love and to be able to be accepted and get proper healthcare

[wizardarchetypes]

we need another bidoof’s law to refer to the phenomenon where someone says some rude stupid shit in the reblogs of your post and you go to their blog and all their posts are about nature loving you and being kind to each other and cute illustrations about friendship etc. the cognitive dissonance

[canadianwheatpirates]

Fleming's law: the most toxic person you've ever met over-relates to woodland creatures on social media

[digitalmyyth]

Hanging out with people will make you remember you're the crazy woke friend for like. not wanting to shop at shien

[kosmogrl]

not a caller not a texter but a secret third thing

[kosmogrl]

don’t contact me. ever

[edward-fishhands]

my hip is fucked up again what the hell man