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Elliot || they/them or xe/xym || 23 || Chinese-American

[scamguy]

i would like to officially thank sesame for its seeds, its oil, and of course its street

[persephoneme]

you can't say "hey has anyone noticed that M/M fic outnumbers F/F like 100:1” or “it feels racist that only 3/202 characters on the ao3 top 100 ships list are Black and two of them are Alastor HazbinHotel” bc some ppl will start going like “oh so you think we should FORCE people to write about things they DON’T CARE ABOUT for WOKE????” and you’ll be like “no, i’m pointing out that the conditions that created this disparity are informed by racism & misogyny” and ppl will say “it’s not BIGOTED to only care about WHITE MEN” and then the gargoyle king appears

[airinyourtires]

If you’re pining you need to stop and pick a different tree. You know, spruce it up a little

[airinyourtires]

I’m still proud of this post. It’s evergreen

[maidthings]

why the fuck are you putting upskirt in scare quotes genuinely kill yourself

[crafty-butch]

anyone else notice how when "digital assistants" were just supposed to do specific tasks when you asked for them we had Alexa and Siri and Cortana, but now that they're being marketed as smart enough to take actions and make decisions on their own they've got names like Claude and Devin

[dougielombax]

Largest whale ‘graveyard’ discovered, with skeletons spanning 5 million years

The fossilized remains of more than 450 whales have amassed along a 750-mile-long stretch of the Indian Ocean floor

GRAVEWHALE!

A vast whale necropolis has been found

In the Indian Ocean, a deep-sea area roughly 1,200 kilometres long and 7 kilometres deep was found to harbour an ecological landmark site of

Okay seriously this is some fascinating shit.

And I don’t know shit about fossils, marine biology or ocean research.

Whale graveyard dating back five million years discovered

The Indian Ocean site is "far beyond anything we had imagined", one researcher says.

Fascinating stuff!

[kogiopsis]

If you're curious (and because for some reason the Nature article about this paper is paywalled), the actual paper is open-source and VERY readable.

[pnglesbian]

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[reshirfuse]

Americans can never talk about japan in a normal way either they go full fetishy orientalist while forgetting japanese includes Real people, or they blatantly forget that the USA is the primary reason why japan sucks so much. Like americans STRONGLY shaped japan's politics and culture by basically threatening them with higher forms of mass destruction multiple times in history like of all people, USA americans shut up. Meji era is on you and so is the bombs.

[reshirfuse]

Like some "progressive" americans will see "Oh japan is imperial country so we can mask our hardly buried racism while trying to be progressive" like no. You can't. Cause America did all that shit. Twice. The rot came from the USA. Japan was an isolationist country still swinging around swords and minding their business till the USA came and basically said change your government and give us military positioning over china or we will shoot you all. America made japan feel so frugal and ashamed that japan felt like they had no choice but to basically copy the west's shitty homework because that is "the advanced way to live." Because the USA made them feel like their whole culture and way of life was shameful and primitive. The japanese said "there is no past only the future." "We have no culture." No one talks about how much shame the USA made the japanese feel about their whole existence.

And now white ass americans star in samurai movies and shit and have basically all the culture they made japan evict to the point where the whole culture of japan exists more as a famtasy for white people rather than something that actually has people and real history attached to it. Japan's culture is not even theirs anymore.

[reshirfuse]

and combine this with the eastern technology scare racism that the west funneled into their cyberpunk genres of "Asia will take over the world with a dystopian tech revolution," when a large influencer of making eastern countries including japan, progress faster is in fact, the USA, after the USA (and europe) came in with mass weapons of destruction and made asians feel primitive and backwards.

Like. Whiter countries are the primary reason behind their own dumbass fears of the east. It just so happens when you barge in with guns, you influence other countries to retaliate or evolve to meet you in some way back. How can this be. Shocker.

[galaxycepheus]

If your system doesn't account for the fact that Parents Are Going To Be Abusive/Neglectful/Insufficient then it objectively sucks I'm sorry I don't make the rules

[galaxycepheus]

Monitored bank accounts for those under 18. Requiring parental consent for medical procedures. Parental controls on personal devices. "We won't teach this at school because parents are supposed to address it at home." Anything that puts all of the child's power onto the parents' hand, anything that assumes parents are going to inherently do enough of a good job no one else needs to interfer, every single one of these IS going to be used by controlling, neglectful or unprepared parents and already are, and if the system did not account for that very real, tangible, dangerous tendency, then it's not worth fucking anything. You shouldn't make things "for the youth"/with children in mind if you are going to overlook this painfully common aspect of their lives u_u

[merrydapachi]

I am an uninsured trans woman staring down unexpected medical charges! After losing my job I've been unable to afford much and need some help with both my obligatory bills and groceries. I have until the 11th of next month. Thanks to your help before, I safely made it to a new home, but while I'm working hard to secure support from financial aid programs, I still need a little more. Please share if you can't give, and anything you can is deeply deeply appreciated!

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[cutecipher]

got grabbed after mischief

[cutecipher]

again

[rickybabyboy]

some one call my lawyer i am being unfairly grabbed

[cat-fandom]

Have you considered not being so grabable?

[rickybabyboy]

have you considered respectful to me

[crimson-femme]

Curve Magazine, November 1999. Living with Pride: Ruth C. Ellis @ 100 (1999) dir. Yvonne Welbon.

[enbaluka-tokyo-drift]

[eldritch-lesbians]

“fuck a hot girl summer i want a bog witch autumn” just say you’re a terminally online hater with internalized misogyny and go. megan thee stallion did not establish this gender-inclusive, body positive term about having fun and being unapologetically yourself, only for you weirdos to act like it’s problematic or beneath you. it’s not! seriously it just sounds like recycled “i’m not like other girls” rhetoric. it also gives off racist vibes - why so eager to mock the confidence & joy of a black woman and her predominantly black fans?

furthermore, i remind you that hot girl summer (as described by megan thee stallion herself) is about having fun and being yourself. if your version of that is dressing in shapeless robes and chanting ominously in the forest, you do you! that’s your hot girl summer! but stop acting like you’re better than the women whose hot girl summers will involve bikinis and partying. racism and misogyny is not cute or quirky - give it a rest.

[moodr1ng]

said this before will say it again - its very weird when white people keep taking things black people came up with/coined/created, determine its too shallow/sexual/ghetto or whatever, and decide they need to take it over and make it some kind of quirky dorky nerd shit. it reeks of antiblackness that everything black people do has to be turned into some cutesy fluffy stuff bc youre scandalized by black people and especially black women expressing ANYTHING that has to do with being sexy or loving your body or talking about sex or feeling hot or anything of the sort. why so eager to sanitize black peoples bodies and self-expression?

[marithlizard]

(via bsky)

In case anyone hasn't heard, the cyclospora outbreak affecting tons of people in the US right now is coming from Taylor Farms produce. Best to stay away from bagged lettuce and prepared salads completely right now, but especially the ones mentioned in the screenshot:

Taylor Farms Earthbound Farms Little Salad Bar (Aldi) Marketside (Walmart) Kroger House Brand Target private label greens Costco salads and greens etc Trader Joe's chopped salad kits and fresh produce Fast food: McDonalds, Taco Bell, (Yum! Brands), Chipotle, Subway, Pizza Hut, KFC, Olive Garden, Top Golf, Red Lobster, Burger King, etc.

This is not the first time I've heard about a Taylor Farms foodborne illness outbreak. I stopped eating their salads after reading a description of the conditions in their facilities. Doesn't sound like they've improved anything.

We need a fully funded and staffed FDA, and regulations with teeth - and that's exactly what we don't have under Trump. To make things worse, the CDC is no longer tracking these outbreaks. We're on our own.

[pokemonarchive]

Waterbending (2025) Illustrator: DWalkn

[kinuko]