bleh.

Call me Feeble, it’s fine. Artist, all around dork. Spoonie.

[dubadoowop]

Siren baby learns how to sunbathe.

[ace-disgrace-on-the-case]

There’s no way the British could have built Buckingham palace. It had to be aliens

[numbersareimaginary]

Tower bridge was clearly built by a group of ancient Mongol explorers

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

Folk, I’m gonna vaguepost for a sec here, but it’s an important one.

If you are in the United States and not employed by a zoo or sanctuary or a veterinarian working with a facility, if anyone for any reason offers to allow you to touch a big cat, please do not do it.

No matter how much you want to, no matter how much it is a dream, understand that it is a violation of federal law that could get the facility the cat lives at in very serious trouble. It does not matter if it is through the fence, or in the context of a trained behavior, or if the cat is on a leash. Even if it feels “safe” or they swear the facility condones it.

It’s starting to appear that lots of zookeepers have not been informed appropriately about the scope of the law - or in cases where they do know it’s inappropriate, they are sometimes being overridden by their management and forced to allow encounters. (Even at accredited facilities!)

We do not know exactly what the penalties could be for that happening within an accredited zoo (yay badly implemented laws) but it typically comes down to being risk to a) the cat’s welfare b) the facility’s ability to have any big cats at all and c) someone, either the facility owner or the person offering, could go to jail or pay serious fines. There are two instances of this happening at AZA zoos that were leaked recently and we may now find out how bad it’s going to get for them.

Lots of facilities will have big cat pelts as educational biofacts that they will allow you to touch. You do not ever need to take the risk associated with touching a live big cat - generally anywhere, and especially in the US.

And for some reason, if you ever are in that situation and unethical enough to actually touch the cat? Don’t post it on social media and definitely don’t make that post public. 🙄

[my-dailydreams]

[bowlby4]

[segamascott]

[sethsings]

His ontology was broken by his “ontology” being challenged. Very Heisenbergian.

[morayofsunshine]

interview with the masquerade

[morayofsunshine]

vampire: the vampire

[anarchistmemedistro]

How much growth is required to achieve good lives for all? Insights from needs-based analysis

Some narratives in international development hold that ending poverty and achieving good lives for all will require every country to reach t

[sd-d0-l1y]

The conclusion, and one of the harder hitting parts of the article. Solving poverty does not require complex solutions and long timeframes.

[theunusualchameleon]

I'm reminded of that one part in Frederick Douglass's autobiography where he gets to the north for the first time and assumed, since they didn't have slaves, that everyone was about as poor as non-slaveowning white southerners. And they weren't! There were poor people, sure, but there were lots of people living very comfortably or in luxury.

He mentions how angry it made him, that not only were thousands and thousands of people suffering to create luxury for a few, but that slavery wasn't even necessary for wealth to exist. That's really stuck with me.

[mangedog]

First image description (edited from alt text):

screenshot of a tweet by @pot8um: “Does anyone have that recent study that determined all 8 billion of us could be easily housed and fed with only 30% of the current global labor output and that our collective suffering is manufactured by capitalism...”

reply by @jasonhickel: “Yes: sciencedirect.com/... [a url that is cut off in the screenshot]” and an attached image of text:

“With this approach, good lives can be achieved for all without requiring large creases in total global throughput and output. Provisioning decent living standards (DLS) for 8.5 billion people would require only 30% of current global resource and energy use, leaving a substantial surplus for additional consumption, public luxury, scientific advancement, and other social investments. Such a future requires planning to” [text is cut off here].

Second image transcription:

Poverty is not an intractable problem that requires complex solutions, long timeframes and large increases in production and throughput that conflict with ecological objectives. The solution is straightforward. We need to actively plan to shift productive capacities away from capital accumulation and elite consumption in order to focus instead on the goods and services that are necessary to meet human needs and enable decent living for all, while ensuring universal access through public provisioning systems. We have framed this work around the concept of human needs, following the recent literature. However it is important to underscore that this approach is ultimately about far more than just satisfying material requirements for human well-being. Achieving decent-living for all is critical to enabling broader human capabilities, individual and collective self-realisation, full participation in society and politics and, ultimately, freedom.

[storyweavingspider]

Hey, if you’re disabled (of any kind), Mad/Insane, or “undiagnosed but there’s definitely something happening”, please come read this.

Especially if you’re a disabled transfemme. I know that as of writing, we’ve had a shitty couple days.

And if y’all can share it otherwise, whether that’s reblogging this or sending the link to the disabled/mad/whatever we are people in your life, I’d really appreciate it.

Build Your Own Survival – Anonsee's Writings

[thesweetiepienovels]

But here’s the thing. No one actually cares. They don’t. We are just so perceptive to our own noise. Or more specifically, to our own internal noise, the constant replay of flaws, interpretations, and imagined judgments that feel enormous from the inside but are often barely visible to anyone else, or even something that matters to them. We experience ourselves in high definition and everyone else in a blur, so of course our minds are putting us at the center of judgment and nobody else. Just remember when you’re insecure about something, or worrying about some form of judgment coming for you, no one really cares, and if they do, it usually isn’t worth the space you’re giving it.

[softbonesclay]

five guys

[hug-your-face]

via @swatercolor [insta]

[hug-your-face]

This is the best tag I've ever received on a post, I think

[theatsthetic]

Link

He come to town

come to save

The Princess Zelda

[joanieinwait]

I find it really hard to care unless trans women are included, sorry

[joanieinwait]

just kidding, I'm not sorry

[mariekristina]

I love this so much.

[zhenya-grey]

One thing some people don't know is that gen ai data centers are also in many places in the USA. Where I used to live has at least one. The water is brown there. It's chaos there. Everyone is upset and hostile because even the buildings are suffering from how bad the water is now.

I lived in that for 2 years. It's bad. It's genuinely so fucking bad. I currently only live around 30 minutes away from there. I'm safe, for now. My neighbors are safe. For now. Especially since this is a small poor area that could easily be next.

So it just is a more close to home issue I'm having than what a random performative dork on Tumblr feels about this.

Every time I see a gen AI video or something, it makes me sick to my stomach. These are my neighbors AND myself suffering from these centers existing.

[vetchtibbles]

dead serious WHAT did they put into claire de lune to make it do all that

[caralarm-bicycles]

his whole debussy

[fuckyeahfightlock]

. . .I think OP was asking about BBC Sherlock (2010 - 2017)

[vetchtibbles]

I don’t think OP was doing that actually