But the beast refuses to die.

Nixe. 30/They/them/bigender/Aus ASD/ADHD/Bipolar/Fibro NOT GAY AS IN HAPPY, QUEER AS IN FUCK YOU Keep your fandom discourse and drama away from me pls.

[poketcg-art]

Crobat -- GOSSAN

[mewvore]

"we detected a mature post" yeah I'm in my 30s

[mewvore]

"we detected a mature post" yeah I'm in my 30s

[mewvore]

"we detected a mature post" yeah I'm in my 30s

[peachfromcmbyn]

The thing about Miss Piggy is that she kind of has a Roger Rabbit comedy superpower where she wins nearly any conceivable fight she's in. But unlike other characters of which that's true, like say, Bugs Bunny, who tend to win because they make the opponent play the game with their rules, Miss Piggy wins because the joke is that she can beat the shit out of literally anybody.

[sunderwight]

The problem with studying the deep ocean is that humans need light to look at things, the depths of the ocean are extremely dark, and what lives there is accustomed to spending most of its time in that darkness. So when we go down there with submersibles and turn on Big Lights to see, we invariably and dramatically alter what's going on, in the same way that it's generally difficult to observe the natural behaviors of terrestrial animals if you whip out a megaphone and shout HEY GUYS WHAT ARE YOU DOING at them first.

[adizzyninja]

A humble snubnose eelpout on its way to the whale fall buffet when some nearby humans give it a quick, unintrusive study:

[julianova44]

I put this in the comments but feel it needs a reblog- Check out some of Dr Edith Widder’s work on light in the deep sea! Among other things, she used the bioluminescence of stoplight fish to deduce wavelengths which most deep sea animals can’t perceive and used that to create light filters to be able to film with minimal disturbance! And that’s how we got 25 minutes of giant squid footage!!!!

[morionette413]

@eddieintheocean

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

if sex work was legal the workers could unionize

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

I am fully serious about this btw. not "pro sex work" as in "there are no issues whatsoever within the industry", but "pro sex work" as in "these are jobs and the workers should be a) allowed to work and b) protected from their customers by the law"

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

people responding to this with stuff like "but that would just put sex workers in the same exploited position as uber drivers, cleaners, migrant workers, etc" and yes! good point! reform all of it! keep going!

[ivy-michaels]

We need to lay more blame for "Kids don't know how computers work" at the feet of the people responsible: Google.

Google set out about a decade ago to push their (relatively unpopular) chromebooks by supplying them below-cost to schools for students, explicitly marketing them as being easy to restrict to certain activities, and in the offing, kids have now grown up in walled gardens, on glorified tablets that are designed to monetize and restrict every movement to maximize profit for one of the biggest companies in the world.

Tech literacy didn't mysteriously vanish, it was fucking murdered for profit.

[anoraktrend]

Linux is a very good and powerful alternative.

[ivy-michaels]

[transarsonist]

reminder: you cannot Personal Choises your way out of an Intentional Structural Problem

[yurigirldick]

Fun fact! School Chromebooks block Linux. It's not an easy alternative. You are missing the point

[ryebreadgf]

the sexiest thing a woman can be is a cringe fujoshi with a very serious day job

[curiositysavesthecat]

Do you think people who enjoy dark/taboo fiction deserve to be shamed and harassed?

Yes, I believe they deserve to be shamed and harassed (anti ship by definition)

No, I don’t think they deserve to be shamed or harassed (proship by definition)

Voting ended onJul 11

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[yesornopolls]

Without looking it up, do you know what opabinia is?

Without looking it up, do you know what opabinia is?

Yes

No

Voting ended onJul 10

[theunsubtleknife]

Sleeping poorly is so embarrassing... sorry im grumpy I stayed up past my bedtime. Like a toddler

[joycomplexx]

my "too woke" opinion? we cannot be calling people degenerates under any circumstance. i don't care what political side you're on, it doesn't matter. we HAVE to stop using that word

[joycomplexx]

for anyone who doesn't know the history of that word, especially when applied to literature and art:

Degenerate art - Wikipedia

[joycomplexx]

And yes, this still applies to art featuring sexual taboo, and "unfavorable" relationships. It ESPECIALLY applies to it.

[sacred-portal]

[squeakitties]

it’s actually crazy how passion and sincerity is the answer

[fieropasto-deactivated20210613]

me studying anything in history

[fieropasto-deactivated20210613]

[draconym]

Sorry, my what? My pronouns? Oh, yeah I'm between genders at the moment. No, it's cool, I quit my last gender a little while ago because it really wasn't working out. I don't know if I even have a dream gender anymore.

[draconym]

Oh yeah, it did come with benefits, but they weren't really worth it. The culture was really toxic. To be honest I think I'd prefer a part-time gender so I can just be self-described in my spare time.

[draconym]

I mean, in a perfect world we wouldn't need gender, you know? We could just voluntarily be perceived as much as we're able, as much as makes us feel fulfilled. Having a full-time gender shouldn't be a prerequisite for food, shelter, and healthcare.