Erebus in the Forest of Death

At my age, I was into everything before it was cool. To be conscious at all is to be conscious of our own isolation.

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It's midday on a Saturday. Time for bed.

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Meet The Titanosaur!  🦕 At 122 ft (37.2 m) long, Patagotitan mayorum is the Museum’s largest dinosaur on display and one of the largest animals to have ever walked the Earth! This gigantic herbivore, which lived some 95 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous, was heavier than 10 African elephants—tipping the scales at roughly 70 tons. In fact, The Titanosaur is so big that it barely fits in the Museum’s halls: It’s longer than the gallery it sits in—and its head, which would graze the ceiling, extends outwards toward the elevator banks! Spot this sauropod, and so much more, at the Museum. Plan your visit.

Photo: © AMNH 

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Iran says US breaches show Trump's signature 'worthless'

Iran's Supreme Leader has said that repeated US breaches of a memorandum of understanding signed by the presidents of Iran and the United St

Yes.

This war had zero benefit to the American people when it started and it continued to be all costs. How wonderful that Israel could rile that dipshit up again.

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German politician resigns over surrogate controversy

A prominent figure in German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's centre-right party has resigned his leadership post, party sources said, amid contr

These fucking disgusting sub-human predators renting out women’s bodies and purchasing human beings should by executed for committing such grievous human rights violations. Women and children are people and not commodities to be bought and sold by ghouls.

A prominent figure in German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's centre-right party has resigned his leadership post, party sources said, amid controversy over his use of a surrogate mother in the US despite a ban on the practice in Germany.

"In recent days, I have come to realise that my personal happiness in starting a family with my husband and becoming a father is incompatible with my political office," Jens Spahn, the chairman of the CDU's faction in parliament, wrote in a letter to a colleague.

Mr Spahn and Mr Merz's CDU party is vehemently opposed to surrogate pregnancies, having most recently voted to maintain Germany's ban at a party congress in February.

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The San Andreas fault has gone ominously silent. Scientists fear when it finally snaps

There is no easy explanation for how the San Andreas fault, responsible for some of America’s most powerful earthquakes, has produced so few

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House votes to make daylight saving time permanent. Would California go along with it?

The House approved a bill that would put an end to the annual clock-switching practiced in most states. California and other states could op

I actually can’t take any more sunlight. I get SAD in the summer and it’s really hard to sleep when there’s daylight past 9:30 at night. That’s too late. Standard time better represents our natural circadian rhythms and doctors recommend it. Why must our government screw everything up?

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The author of the book I’m reading pointed out that given our ancient ancestors’ relative physical weakness compared to males and having much more to lose than males in terms of injury or lack of calories, ancient female hominins were most likely the first users of tools. It makes a lot of sense, women are undeniably industrious and clever. It reminds me of a previous book I just finished that argued women were probably the inventors of farming too. It’s obvious on both counts when it’s presented to you. I bet we smartly put on some clothes first as well.

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Jonni Skinner Says He Wasn’t Born in the Wrong Body, But His Doctors Told Him Otherwise

After beginning medical transition at 13-years-old, detransitioner Jonni Skinner says his medical professionals prevented him from growing u

At 13-years-old, Jonni Skinner was made to believe he had somehow been born in the wrong body. Adults in white coats told him he had a medical condition that required medical intervention. He was diagnosed as transgender after just one appointment, referred to specialists, prescribed hormone blockers and estrogen, and assured that transition was the only path he could walk for a livable future.

Today, Skinner believes something very different.

“I was probably, most likely just a gay guy that they did this to,” Skinner told IW Features. 

Now 22-years-old, Skinner has become one of America’s most outspoken detransitioners. He argues that what he needed as a lonely, autistic, feminine teenage boy wasn’t a new identity. Rather, he needed the freedom to grow into himself without irreversible medical intervention that still affects him to this day...

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RIP Australian icon Sam Neill.

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TIMs: ummm you know the penis isn’t an evil organ it’s actually a completely neutral body part that is no more likely to cause harm than any other body part and by acting like there’s some kind of inherent violence associated with penises you’re being super gross and bio-essentialist and transmisogynistic !!!!!!!

TIMs the second a woman angers them: suck my dick, gargle my balls, I’m gonna rape you with my girldick, you deserve to die choking on a transfem’s cock, etc etc

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TIMs when they see any posts about uteruses, vaginas, or other female anatomy: “THIS IS A TERF DOGWHISTLE!”

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“skip” i’ll kill you

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I’m skipping manicures the same way I’m skipping shoving my hand into a blender

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I can't daydream anymore. It started last year and seemed to have gotten better, but the thoughts are gone again. I can't focus on anything. My brain fritters here and thither. I would that I could think one thought for more than a second.

I don't like this. I feel like I can't control my mind. I wonder if it's just aging. It's unpleasant regardless. My brain is not my own anymore.

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