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No but…. but….. you can watch the fireflies dance around you! And hear the bats flittering overhead! And hear the owl hooting in the distance!! And listen to the wind rustle the leaves of the surrounding trees and grass! You’re never alone if you make friends with the natural world!!!!!

#imsuchanaturewhoreitsnotevenfunny #*hearssoundsofasummerevening*GIMMEDAT

socialistexan

Oh, cool. Cool cool cool.

So... we're heading for an era of extreme reactionary backlash.

The question is it going to be like 1980's style or 1930's style.

We shit on rainbow capitalism (as we should), but it is a good indicator of social acceptance of LGBTQ people. When brands are loud and proud about how much the support gay people('s money), it means the social conditions have moved in our favor and the potential backlash is weak.

Right now, the power is shifting back to the fascists. That's bad.

froggytime511

Is it just me who thinks we should put all the rainbow capitalism backlash on halt? There seems to be more pressing issues (like this) than the fact that brands just capitalize on certain groups of consumers. If they sell pride stuff then that tells people that we’re here, and the brand at least somewhat supports us, and that anyone who disagrees should suck it up. I know sometimes the lgbtq merch is being sold for the wrong reasons, but it does benefit us, no? If we go against that then with the addition of right-wing extremist bullshit the companies will fold and halt it, and where will that leave us then? Nowhere good methinks.

Companies are companies, idk if we will ever get the giant monopolies to care deeply about groups of marginalized people. I would LOVE a world where they use their wealth to donate to organizations that help us and others in need, but we can encourage that in a way that doesn’t make it seem like we hate the lgbtq merch all together?

inside-my-gay-mind

froggytime511

Beaming in as the 2 pm friend. One time during my study abroad to Paris I slept in and everyone had left without me to do stuff so I ate a crepe in the gardens and it slayed

rimonoroni

do you ever hear people talking about something and you’re like. fuck. let me be real for a second. i’m too much of a commie to have this conversation

rimonoroni

“of course this is the bare minimum amount of labor someone must perform to be a human being worthy of being alive! what do you think, rimon?” brother if i told you what i think about this your head would fucking explode.

obsoleteformat92

I was talking at work about how fucking boring mens fashion is and how I wish I could wear skirts and dresses and stuff without getting weird looks and people were laughing like i was joking? And then this girl said "you don't want to start wearing skirts, then you have to shave your legs!" and i said well no and she said okay maybe not as a man but I still have to and i said "well... you don't though" and she thought that was a joke?????? I fucking hate gender

rimonoroni

it’s okay bro ur out here doing the lords work. telling women that they can be hairy is basically a divine mission

froggytime511

I love life as a hairy woman, until I think about bugs while I have hair on my legs because that’s when The Horrors happen

I’m an oil pilled acne maxxer

#my skin has consistently sucked for the past 7 years of my life pls help me #makeacnehot✊

I have a brain disease where 50 diseases have entered my brain

I can proudly announce to everyone that I have lived the nightmare we’ve all had- I walked into my final exam today and learned in that moment that it was CUMULATIVE, not just a second midterm 😃😃😃

@one-time-i-dreamt

#I knew I was fucked when everyone else had a ruler #*slaps my own head* this bad boy can misremember any instructions you give it

justvala

Ever so slightly, daily and nightly

dragongirlbunny

you don't like mourning dove? hwoo hoo hoo hoo?

niedopalek

real life society: we need to ban tiktok because china is evil

my ideal society: new species of deer was just discovered in Peru. it is shown on all news channels and the entire population spends the day discussing & reflecting on life's diversity, people are let off work early

aletheyass

friendly reminder that YOU 🫵 can make even the most relaxing innocuous activities into high stress situations if you’re mentally ill enough. always believe in yourself and your incapacity to conquer catastrophic thinking!

unsubconscious

“There is no other home”, Soviet poster, 1986.

apsciencebylyn

Short story time, about a reason I love doing what I do, in particular the science/naturalist aspect!

I spotted an unfamiliar ant a few weeks back (which isn't an entirely rare occurrence as I don't know ants well) here in Florida, got a few pics, moved on. After posting to iNat, it turns out it is kind of a rare one, though they couldn't be sure from my pics which of two species it was. So I went back to the site, found another, and got species confirmed: Temnothorax bradleyi, an acorn ant species which nests in pines. So that was fun on its own!

But here's the part that makes things extra rewarding for me: Finding a thing, then learning from a scientist about a related rarer thing and where to look for it, and then finding that as well. The scientist on iNaturalist who positively identified T. bradleyi gave a piece of information that helped confirm the species: T. bradleyi nests in *living* pines (where I found them), and the other similar-looking species, T. smithi, nests in *standing dead* pines.

So I had a new quest. I went searching a location in Florida which seemed like a likely habitat with many dead/burnt out pines, and found T. smithi!

There does not seem to have been any photographs of either species alive before mine, according to the scientist, so that's also cool to do!

The part where I learn about a thing by finding it, then get a whole other tiny world opened up, with creatures I've either overlooked or not encountered at all, will never get old to me. It's so damn fun, and rewarding. So many creatures to find, so many who've only had their moment in an obscure scientific paper seen by almost no one - maybe never even seen alive; now getting their own page with pictures on iNaturalist or wherever else... 🥹

It just makes me happy. That is all. ❤️

So here's Temnothorax bradleyi, which nests on living pines:

(diagnostic feature visible in the studio shot: the short rear-facing spines on the back of the thorax)