Movers 'n' Quakers

I am Keegan (Gwen), and probably more afraid of you than you are of me. If the first post on this page isn't a bird, then I've made a terrible error. There will be more birds shortly. Talk to me. Really, I have lost all semblance of shyness. You can ask pretty much anything and I'll do my best to answer/help.

[flyingfusser]

Are you okay? You haven't posted in a long time.

Hello!

Sorry for the long wait (no idea how long this has been here), but I’ve been very busy. Over the last couple of years, I’ve been involved in a lot of wildlife/ecology research, and as of the last couple of weeks, have collected some great news to share with you guys!

1) I’m set to start drafting a manuscript re: applications of my data collection methods in the next couple of weeks.

2) I got my first acceptance to vet school! I have somehow convinced Grown Professionals that I have promise. It’s shocking, and I shouldn’t have listened to Student Doctor Network, which told me I’d never be good enough without having ‘ 6000 clinical hours, starting my own non-profit, etc’….

In short, it’s been crazy, and I haven’t really had time to post in several years. Likely, I won’t have much if any time to post for the next few. Y’all have been great to me through the last however many years, and I really appreciate it. I’ve gotten so busy that social media of any kind has fallen to the bottom of my priority list.

I’m ok, and I’ll likely continue to be ok. Transition’s going well enough for me (slated to legally change my name in the next few months), and that has contributed enormously to my ability to focus on life beyond social media. I’m just so incredibly busy in my offline life that it leaves me no time to consider posting to here.

Please take care!

[arrowquillpokemon]

game: has any kind of elemental based fighting system

me: apply pokemon logic

[gluttonousgoddess]

To be fair Pokemon element logic is rooted in normal logic.

[arrowquillpokemon]

yeah, everyone knows a wrestlers biggest weakness is the local pigeons

[coelasquid]

It checks out.

[goddamnshinyrock]

my arctic environment professor on narwhals: “they’re pretty interesting creatures, I guess, even though they’re not birds.”

[goddamnshinyrock]

my arctic environment professor on a colleague: “this is [name], she used to study polar bears but has improved her life and works on birds now.” 

[mnpups]

I have a ton of new followers so I just wanted to post this. There is a difference between an emotional support animal, therapy animal, and service dog. Please know the difference!

“Emotional Support Service K9s” don’t exist. “Emotional Service Dogs” aren’t a thing. 

Psychiatric service dogs are a thing and it’s important to get terminology correct! When talking to other people, if you’re using the incorrect terminology, more and more people will hear you say you have a “emotional therapy service dog” and think that therapy dogs and service dogs are the same. THEY AREN’T. 

This isn’t at anyone in particular. Just want to make sure that my followers are on the same page. 

[mellifexfarm]

sebrights come in two modes

1. elegant

2. peanut with legs

[ronin134]

Never forget

[taviacw]

[killin-the-machine]

Character development

[boss-of-the-plains]

This is exactly what Steve would have wanted

[scarlettohairdye]

What true love looks like.

OKAY SO I had a coworker who was otherwise a standard clueless Straight White Guy, but this dude loved his wife and he knew her real good. And his wife LOVES shitty grocery store icing. So the first thing she’d always do with any cake is shove her fingers into the corner and scoop off whatever abomination of a flower was on there and eat it off her fingers. SO THIS DUDE GOES TO THE STORE AND HAS THEM MAKE A WHOLE CAKE OUT OF FROSTING Brings it home to his wife for her birthday She shoves her fingers into it and then they just keep going FROSTING ALL THE WAY DOWN He said the look on her face was the best thing he’d ever seen in his life It gives me hope that even a clueless Straight White Guy knew and loved his wife enough to give her the perfect birthday present cake frosting abomination

And I love to imagine the conversation he had to have with the grocery store bakery.

[enoughtohold]

american chastity-and-fear sex ed has done incalculable harm to society

[la-laborista-republiko]

Industrial Workers of the World

[my-magical-art]

Easier said than done

[wodneswynn-deactivated-deactiva]

You got eleven dollars?  It’s as easy as eleven dollars.

https://iww.org/

If you ain’t got eleven dollars, talk to your local and they should be able to work something out. 

[just-a-zuki]

You can join the IWW even if you’re unemployed, and even if your labor is exploited in prison. When they say one big union for everyone, they really mean it

[butchflirt]

Subminimum dues for the Wobs are six bucks

[dfskle]

Seriously, join the fucking IWW. Message your local on Facebook if you don’t know who to turn to. They’d love to have you and they’ll meet with you in person to talk about it and sign you up if you want. It can and will only lead to good things for you.

[womenslibber]

For real guys, I can’t recommend this enough. Join your local union.

[krysslabryn]

I worked at a union job years ago. Best job I ever had. Fair pay–they’d negotiated us danger pay from minimum wage; full benefits (Canadian so we had health care anyways but they covered most of our prescriptions, and glasses, and dental work); got paid holidays starting at two weeks when you started (I think the first year was just the two weeks off, but after that it was paid, and increased regularly with seniority); regular pay bumps to keep up with inflation; sick days; PLUS when management were dicks they’d sort them out.

Like this one time, I had a machine that was cleaning some extremely dirty grain (our wheat was full of peas, which we didn’t handle, so our machines just dumped it as oversized garbage along with pieces of stalks etc), and had this really heavy sack (because it was a regular burlap sack but now it was full of fucking peas) that the peas were going into that usually would be emptied maybe twice a shift or so, and we had so many peas coming out that it was needing to be emptied like every ten minutes. And by the time you lugged this like eighty-pound bag of peas to the other side of the floor to dump, and then cleaned up the mess the machine dumped on the floor while you were doing that, it was damned near time to dump the peas again.

So it’s getting time for my lunch break (mandatory half hour, plus two coffee breaks, also mandatory), and there is no way in hell I can leave it; the peas will pile up high enough that there will be a fire risk from them rubbing against the machine.

So I call my supervisor and tell him my lunch is almost due, and he should either get someone to spell me off or else shut the machine down so I can have my break (which I desperately needed at that point, as you can imagine).

Well, they had a shitload of wheat to clean all the peas out of, and didn’t want to shut the machine down. So first he told me to let the machine just overflow and clean it up after; and when I told him that would likely start a fire with how many peas were coming out, he told me to “just take my break between emptying the sack.” Which, like, does not actually count as taking a fucking break from it.

So I called down to my union rep and told him what was up, he talked to the supervisor, and then him and the supervisor came and had a look at how many peas were coming out (so many that we were joking that the peas were contaminated with wheat), and then grabbed a couple of guys off sweeping to empty the bag while I ate.

And then put a second body on the floor to help handle all those peas because omfg.

Unions are the best. Remember that in the mid-Eighties, almost half of all jobs were unionized. It was Reagan catering to corporations that got all the workers’ rights that people quite literally had fought and died for almost a hundred years previously rolled right back.

Bring back the unions!!

[christopher-bryant]

What if your job is under the table? Can you still join a union?

[wodneswynn-deactivated-deactiva]

Yes! The IWW is an explicitly anticapitalist union and recognizes *all* labor as worthy of respect and representation. They collect minimal data on individual members and prefer to collect dues in cash and in person for exactly those reasons. All you really need is a local officer to jaw at, a name (doesn’t have to be real), and eleven dollars.

I forget the number, but there’s even a sex workers’ industrial.

[sixpenceee]

Is genetically modified food safe?

[saranghaessa]

Please do not feed your kids to the crocodiles.

[sixpenceee]

How to name species 101

[Twitter/SarahMackAttack]

[kabimeje]

SCIENCE!

[the-transfeminine-mystique]

I’ve seen these posts saying, in the words of one of them, “If your job requires you to go against your religious beliefs then perhaps it is time to change careers?” in reference to healthcare workers and government employees who want to deny services to lgbt ppl or others whom they condemn, and i just feel like those posts don’t attempt to understand internal logics at all

like, fundamentalist christian doctors don’t deny trans people medical care because they believe that somebody should provide the care but they just don’t want to be the one to do it. they deny the care because they don’t believe the person should receive care. Their refusal to provide care isn’t just “oops you’re in the wrong field,” as if they were a person with a peanut allergy working in a peanut factory. It is an intentional and calculated part of why they are in the field in the first place — to extend religious control and condemnation to the medical realm.

the pediatrician who spent an entire consultation telling one of my friends at 16 or 17 that he would go to hell if he kept choosing to be gay wasn’t just “not cut out for the job,” he was specifically in that job in order to do that particular thing. Kim Davis didn’t deny the gay couple a marriage license because she couldn’t personally do it, she denied them a marriage license because she thought that people like them should not get marriage licenses and that a clerk should deny them and by god she was going to be that clerk

Saying “if you can’t provide services then why are you in that job!!!” to fundamentalist christians almost always misses the point — that they are in that job specifically so they can selectively deny service

[the-real-seebs]

I think this ascribes a lot more planning and intentionality than I have ever seen from people when I’ve talked to them about this. I have no evidence that these people entered these lines of work with specific intent to deny service; I think they were thinking about things they did want to do, and then discovered later that there were things they didn’t want to do associated with it.

For this to be true, we have to be convinced that these people wouldn’t have pursued the job if they didn’t specifically have that desire to refuse service. Keep in mind, a lot of them got into those jobs at times when that wasn’t a possibility, because there was no service to refuse. We’ve only had legal recognition of gay marriage at all for a handful of years. For most of the time a lot of these people were in their jobs, “refuse marriage license to gay couple” wasn’t a thing that they would do, because no one would have asked, because it wasn’t a thing anyone had even seriously thought about, and it certainly wasn’t a legal thing. You could be the most pro-gay-rights person in the world a few years ago, and still not be able to grant marriage licenses to gay couples.

The idea of someone becoming a pediatrician when no part of the job interests them except harassing gay kids seems highly implausible to me. That is a vanishingly small portion of the workload, none of the study or practice or education relates to it.

This implies a degree of focus and motivation that I don’t think is remotely plausible. I don’t think the bakers who had the famous case about the gay wedding cake were bakers because they wanted to deny gay people wedding cakes. I think they were bakers because they enjoyed baking, and then after they’d been baking for a while, the world changed, and suddenly there was a possibility of being asked to make a custom wedding cake for a gay couple, which is not a problem that they would likely have seriously considered earlier.

The idea that horrible behavior is premeditated is appealing, but in this case, I think it’s also ludicrous.

[relatablepicturesofpatrickgill]

The only good streamer on Twitch

[slightmayhem]

“Charles, entertain chat for me, let me get you the mike.”

(swings boom mike over to cat on the bed while leaving)

Charles: “mraaa, mrrr, hmrr!”

[daisyjazzridley]

And he goes, “What are you?”     Which is fucking rude.

[libertybill]

[catchymemes]

Animal Reviews!

Source: facebook.com

[sorcyress]

…seriously though, when did I write this and why don’t I remember doing so?

[dateapansexualwho]

an honest question for polyamorous people that i couldn’t get off my mind last night:

how do you feel about the quote “if you ever find yourself stuck between two people, go for the second. because if you truly loved the first person, you wouldn’t have fallen in love with the second.” ??? i imagine that most poly people love their partners equally, so do you ever feel guilty that you might not love your first partner as much as the subsequent partners, because you feel in love with them later??

ahhh i hope this makes sense. please don’t take my words the wrong way; i just couldn’t stop thinking about this, and i’m curious to hear what others think!!

[flyingfusser]

I do feel like I love all my partners equally, but I think some people in poly relationships might struggle with adapting to something called New Relationship Energy (NRE)It happens with monogamous people, too. You find someone who likes you back and, wow! You suddenly have so much to discover about them. You don’t want to shut up about this New Human. And that might make the partner(s) you have when the new branch of your polycule forms that don’t feel like they’re getting their share of love because of that apparent fixation. I know I’ve struggled with it, and don’t doubt that others have, too. It’s important to know that NRE dies down, and that provided that your original relationship(s) are built on mutual respect, fondness, and open communication, the relationship with the new person will likely come to resemble that of your prior relationships*. Making sure to spend time talking to the established polycule throughout that transition and supporting them helps to mitigate some of the friction associated with the new branch. You loved the original (person/polycule) enough to foster something special with them. If you’re polyamorous, that isn’t something just reserved to one person, one relationship. You’ve got love enough to raise up multiple people, and in the case of falling for another person, you might find that you have love enough to extend to one more, provided that that’s a development consented to without prodding by the present participants in the polycule.

*Some polyamorous people have different types of relationships with different people. And that’s ok! Different people have different needs, and a part of polyamory is recognizing each individual’s needs and finding out how you can support each other.