Hi!

My name is Curio! If you'd read my Introduction and DNI/BYF, that'd be awesome!

[despazito]

Dendrogaster (a crustacean that parasitizes starfish)

[loving-n0t-heyting]

this is how they look

[headspace-hotel]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN, CRUSTACEAN.

[headspace-hotel]

my tags need to go in the main part of the post actually

[ceausescue]

this is what im talking about that's fucking horrible. worth noting though that the crustaceans are a broad class of marine animal which include barnacles and such as well as the usual suspects. so the nightmarish vision of a crab evolving into that terrible thing is thankfully not true

[ceausescue]

IMPORTANT UPDATE FROM @velociraptrix BARNACLES ARE DESCENDED FROM MOBILE LEG HAVING NORMAL ANIMALS. hell world hell world hell world

[catadromously]

Oh, it gets better. Barnacles aren't just descended from mobile leg having normal animals, they ARE mobile leg having normal animals! A barnacle larva looks like this:

Waldo Nell, flickr ... and do they ever swim around. Quickly. Effectively. Tirelessly. It's only at barnacle puberty that they stick themselves upside down to a convenient rock and scramble their body plan through metamorphosis. The feeding tendrils (cirri) on adult barnacles are actually the remaining legs! See?

Matt Lau, Point Reyes National Park Yeah... There is in fact a group of barnacles, called the Rhizocephala, that do the ungodly horrorparasite thing. Instead of finding a rock or section of timber, that normal looking larva finds the skin of a host. Instead of turning upside down and growing a shell, it expels a tiny, featureless glob of cells that burrows into the host and begins to grow. And grow. And grow. The resulting animal has no symmetry, no segments, no organs except ovaries. It is a filigreed tangle of thirsty roots, weaving into the host's body, stealing its shape and drinking its life.

And the hosts are?

Conventional crustaceans, like this hermit crab here!! Worst family dinner ever! Yeah if you sequenced the genomes of these entwined bodies you would register kin. There are barnacle relatives that we've only ever seen as larvae because they're parasites and we can't find the host. Hundreds of years of careful documentation and we do not know what they turn into. What a lovely, terrifying mystery!

[queeranarchism]

I am (much too late) diving into accessibility for people with cognitive disabilities lately and it is staggering how little there is out there.

Like, on very very rare occasions there will be some sort of acknowledgement that low stimuli events are more inclusive and that some people need to be able to retreat to a quiet space. But that’s about it.

I haven’t really seen any organization consider “how would a person who can not read find my event?” or “can I offer the description of this event in super simple words?” or “are we creating a community in which it is okay to be a slow learner and to ask to have things explained again?” or “Are we dismantling the tendency to value members of our community based on intelligence?”.

And the more I notice that, and my own complicity in that, the more I feel sick.

[queeranarchism]

#i’ve been slowly slowly trying to unlearn thinking of ‘stupid’ as the worst insult i can apply to someone #it’s hard hard work #intelligence is not even well defined #but even if it were #why would being stupid or slow or uneducated so bad? #of course people can do harm via stupidity #but srsly ppl do harm via intelligence all the fucking time and often on bigger scales#and yet. ‘stupid’ is the worst thing.. except it isn’t. i’m just conditioned to think that and it’s not true #people’s worth is inherent and not determined by *anything* about them#including smarts# but i have been told i’m better for being smart so often that it feels like attacking my core #it’s silly but i’ll probably spend some more years chipping away at this #and in the meantime i hope we can make it so the next generations won’t have to #and create accessibility for those who have cognitive disabilities #or are just not smart

Yeah, that really lies at the heart of it. As a community, to start organizing accessibility, you have to first believe that people with cognitive disabilities are worth including. And as a society we’re taught the opposite. I think part of why accessibility for people with cognitive disabilities is so often lacking in spaces that do have good accessibility for other groups is because of this kind of supremacy thinking around intelligence: the idea that we need smart people in our places and we don’t need people who are ‘insert-any-slur-for-low-intelligence-here’.

And that’s fucked up in two ways. the first thing is that any community or movement needs tons of skills and characteristics and smartness gives us only one of them. Smartness doesn’t give you kindness or patience or the ability to defend ourselves or any of the many things that we need to be a community together. And the second fucked up thing is that basing our inclusion of who we think is useful is bad in itself. Capitalism only values our productivity. If we only value what others can contribute to a community, we’re treating each other the way capitalism treats us.

Like, I am furious with myself and with my communities that for years I have been led to believe - in communities that call themselves egalitarian - that just because I was ‘smart’ I deserved more time to speak, a spot on stage, a key role in decision making, to have my thoughts published in our community papers. Which means others were given less space to be heard, or were not heard at all, or were not there at all. And before I started unlearning this shit, I did not see my own responsibility to level that playing field or to deliberately create space for the people who were missing. Because ableism had led us to believe that some people just don’t have anything of value to say. We have to do better.

[puppyboyumi]

Reposting with screenshots of other peoples’ thoughts:

[homunculus-argument]

I don't know whether the story about tibetan spaniels and tibetan mastiffs working together is true or not, but I find it way too fucking funny. Like imagine being a burglar who's broken into a monastery to do burglarly things, and then you hear a noise and you're like "oh shit I'm caught", but then you turn to look and it's just this tiny dog who looks at you with mild disgust and wanders off.

So you sigh in relief and continue with your robbery before you hear another noise, and immediately become aware of three things: The little dog came back with a friend, the new buddy is the size of one metric Fuck You, and you are about to find out which afterlife is real.

[salem-lunaris]

Adding this for people who don't know these breeds

Tibetan spaniel

Tibetan mastiff

[everyoneisgayandtrans]

We're gonna be okay

[gallusrostromegalus]

The worst thing I ever did at a D&D table was when our DM ran out of place name ideas and told us the name of the port town we needed to go to was "Bar Harbor".

So I tricked him into roleplaying the slightly-too-helpful town guard into giving us directions to- Well you see, the party has been out in the wilderness for like a MONTH, we're all a mess, the dwarf's beard is out of control, so can you tell us- Where can we find the Bar Harbor Barber?

But we were not done. We each took turns, like a pack of velociraptors.

We also had Dryad in the party and a few of her branches got broken in a fight and now her whole canopy is unbalanced and it looks awful, but she really needs to see a specialist, is there a Bar Harbor Arbor Barber?

The Paladin also wanted to look in on a small church he'd heard of, that the city had a patron saint, who was boiled alive in a cauldron of ale, so where is the temple of the Bar Harbor Larger Martyr?

It was around this point that Chris started to tire of this nonsense.

The bard, naturally, wanted to go carousing, and he'd heard this town had some of the most attentive and welcoming Ladies of the Night on the continent, known by thier brightly colored stocking bands, so had he seen any of the Bar harbor Ardor Parlor Farber Garters?

Chris immediately escalated to threats of a Total Party Kill.

Unfortunately, I'd had time to prepare and-

"What do you want?"

"I just wanted to know if you'd seen my cousin."

"...Your cousin?"

"Yeah, I know it's a long shot, but he's got a pretty distinctive appearence and you might have seen him around town."

"Oh No-"

"Okay so he's Welsh and the whole family used to be in the wagon-making business but he got into clothes manufacture until there was an accident with a lamp black dye and now he's permanently stained a sooty color and that really turns heads, so now he's got a job drawing in crowds for the city funded swap meet- no, not the Drow that also works there, I mean like the inside of a fireplace- anyway, he got tired of people mixing the two of them up so he started wearing this fancy armor with a magical +1 charisma bonus-"

"Gallus I swear to God I *WILL* Summon the Tarraqsue-"

"-So have you seen my cousin, Arthur Carter, former Sartor but now he's the Darker Harker for the Charter Barter of Bar Harbor, the one with the Charmer Armor?"

Amazingly, we survived the Tarrasque.

[pikablob]

You do realise Bar Harbor is a real place, right? It’s in Maine:

[gallusrostromegalus]

Important Clarification:

Chris the DM is FROM Bar Harbor, Maine.

We did this to his Home Town.

[draconym]

Hey @staff just wondering did any of you ever study web design

Just feels like you're intentionally making the desktop interface an inhospitable place in order to drive users toward the app or off the site entirely. Is that what you were going for? If so good job I guess.

[draconym]

Wouldn't it be nice.

A better world is possible. I even kept some ad space for you.

[cyle]

we're hiring designers

[bi-enad]

Can y'all hire public relations or something too because this is ridiculous 🤨

[xiaoguiwang]

isn't it illegal to post a job ad without disclosing the amount you'll be paying for the position 🤨 like, especially as a company which, I assume, has more than 4 salaried employees, you have to have that visible on the ad

[themightytej]

That depends on the state, and in some cases, the city. Only 8 states have current laws banning this, with two other states having only local laws on the matter. Then there's New York, which is currently in a sort of limbo. The mention of 4 employees makes me think you're referring to New York laws, as that criteria is uncommon. The state of New York passed a law requiring that to be listed, but it doesn't go into effect until September 17, 2023; in the meantime, only local laws apply in NY. So currently, if the job is in New York but outside the cities of NYC and Ithaca or the counties Albany and Westchester, no, it is not illegal. They probably SHOULD list it, but that sadly doesn't make it a legal requirement.

[xiaoguiwang]

tumblr hq is literally located in new york, dipshit

[the-haiku-bot]

tumblr hq is

literally located

in new york, dipshit

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[puru2-deactivated20250326]

the state of tiktok skits about having a rude customer is getting out of control i just saw one from a pharmacist and the whole skit was like someone comes in and goes “you shorted me on pills” and the pharmacist goes “no we didn’t you can see on the prescription it said to give you this many” and the patient goes “well i usually get more so i’m gonna call my doctor about this” like how is that customer being unreasonable or a karen or whatever

[puru2-deactivated20250326]

but the whole skit was about pain meds and we all know if someone wants more pain meds it’s bc they’re a lying addict trying to scam you and not just someone who’s confused bc their doctor made a mistake so it’s ok to post skits on tiktok portraying them as a villain for wanting the medication that was prescribed to them

[cuntwrap--supreme]

Karen is quickly becoming one of those terms that's lost all meaning, like so many before it.

Like. You ask me to define "Karen" and I'd say it's the lady today who said she wanted a chicken sandwich then threw a fit when I told her we've never served chicken but could do a turkey burger, calling me stupid, insisting we've always given her chicken before, then insisting she speak with the manager (which is me).

Meanwhile, my 16 year old sister was telling me about a Karen at her work (she works in a really nice retirement home) who was a lady who asked for no sugar in her tea, was given sweet tea, and then explained she couldn't drink it because she was diabetic and it might kill her. "Like, she was such a bitch," my sister said, "She wouldn't even drink it! Told me to send it back and get her a new one!" Which, like, maybe it's because I'm old now, but if I messed up someone's drink and they had a medical condition that kept them from drinking that drink, they're not the bad guy in that situation. The proper response is to fix it, but my sister's been raised by her phone and is on TikTok all the time and thinks that "Karen" and "mild inconvenience" are the same thing.

[susiephone]

Also, even if there isn't a medical reason, politely asking for a mistake to be corrected is fine??? Like there's no medical reason I can't drink sweet tea, I just don't like the taste. But if I order unsweet tea and get sweet tea, I don't think it's unreasonable of me to ask for what I ordered! As long as someone is polite, understanding that mistakes happen, and understanding when sometimes it just can't be corrected ("We don't have unsweetened tea" "Oh OK, I'll take water instead") then what's the problem??

[headspace-hotel]

What a bitch, complaining about *checks notes* almost being fatally poisoned

[rovermcfly]

[bowelflies]

You can cook a chicken by slapping it at 3725.95 mph, an impossible task by any human means. If you do succeed however, you will not only cook the chicken but also decimate its entire structure, causing a violent explosion. This is a simulation of the slap using FEA. 

source

[carnivalseb]

1800 ARE YOU SLAPPIN

[bowelflies]

You can cook a chicken by slapping it at 3725.95 mph, an impossible task by any human means. If you do succeed however, you will not only cook the chicken but also decimate its entire structure, causing a violent explosion. This is a simulation of the slap using FEA. 

source

[carnivalseb]

1800 ARE YOU SLAPPIN

[homoluigi]

[barryogg]

"some reason" :^)

[nitpickrider]

Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima If you can GUARANTEE that nothing even APPROACHING those could EVER happen under ANY circumstances Then I will fold to Nuclear Power

[official-kircheis]

Three Mile Island

NO ONE DIED

Fukushima

NO ONE DIED

Chernobyl

essentially a human-made accident through gross mismanagement and neglect, that physically can't happen with other reactor types (in part because they all have containment buildings now). so yes we can guarantee that nothing even approaching chernobyl will ever happen with modern reactors.

even so chernobyl still killed fewer people than the German Atomausstieg has through increased air pollution because of additional coal being burnt

welcome to team uranium!

[hematite2]

Love people using 3 mile island as an example. 3 mile island is an example of where things WORKED, that the failsafes kicked in so only a miniscule amount of radiation was released, which not only didnt kill anyone, but no one was injured, no adverse health effects were caused, and there was no damage to the surrounding environment. Despite the incident, the other reactor continued to run until 2019!

And again: the point isn't "do you prefer renewables or nuclear". The point is "everyone fighting againsy nuclear power has further entrenched coal and oil power and caused a LOT more damage to the environment"

[modern-politics111]

I do not ask this lightly, the Missouri AG’s office has started a site to build a list of trans people. Clog the system. That’s the life of a trans kid who gets another day on this earth. Spam the fuck out of it, it’s not sophisticated. You don’t need to use a real email. Post as much as you’d like

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Go full Bart Simpson with this I want the brainless worthless cunts responsible for this to have to sort through thousands of fake reports with names like Hugh Jass and Amanda Hugankiss

[gorps]

@ technology understanders. please set up an autoGPT instance to automatically generate and submit endless amounts of fake data

[bestshipsmackdown]

This isn’t poll related, but incredibly important, and I have a bigger audience here than my main. Please clog this thing and help save the people this is meant to target.

[sabinerondissime]

Bohatyrka by sculptor Vasily Korchevoy

[wanderingnelipot]

Here's some more amazing plus size sculptures by Vasily Korchevoy:

"Standing in Marble"

"Luxurious"

"Lush"

"Prosperity"

See more here: (https://www.saatchiart.com/v.korchevoy)

Also check out artist Adam Shultz...

"Untamed"

"Sisters"

"Aphrodite"

See more here: (https://artcloud.com/artist/adam-schultz)

[twinkpoll]

Nomination Rankings so far...

23 noms: Link (Legend of Zelda) [passing automatically]

17 noms: Lio Fotia (Promare)

14 noms: The Onceler (The Lorax) (I can’t even be mad about this)

12 noms: Julian Bashir (Star Trek: Deep Space 9)

11 noms: Merlin (BBC Merlin)

10 noms: Reigen Arataka (Mob Psycho 100) (istfg)

8 noms: Taako (The Adventure Zone) and Vash the Stampede (Trigun/Trigun Stampede)

7 noms: Tintin (The Adventures of Tintin) [passing automatically] and Howl Jenkins Pendragon (Howl’s Moving Castle)

6 noms: Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III (How to Train Your Dragon), Kuzco (The Emperor’s New Groove), Tim “Red Robin” Drake (DC Comics) and Wylan Van Eck (The Grishaverse)

5 noms: Essek Thelyss (Critical Role), Jaskier (The Witcher), Kurapika (Hunter x Hunter), Milo Thatch (Atlantis: The Lost Empire) and Nagito Komaeda (Danganronpa)

These are the highest ranks. Everyone else nominated has 4 or less.

As you can see it’s a pretty diverse bunch. I particularly admire the Trekkies for just shutting up and sending noms for Julian Bashir, ninjalike, the same as the Merlin fandom and the Adventure Zone fandom. Overall, however, the votes have been very, very broadly spread over a ton of different characters.

Submissions go here!

[tahthetrickster]

i really like looking at google image searches for “firemen rescuing cats” or something because you get super cute pictures like

AND THEN THERE’S THIS ONE

[zmenit]

“THAT’S RIGHT TWAS I that set the house ablaze!!!”

[3fluffies]

Dying.

[ciatri]

Every fucking time I know what’s at the bottom and every time I still lose my shit.

[randomslasher]

I’m so happy this post is back again asdlkfjsa

[wish-ful-thinking513]

So, I know I’ve tried making a posts about this, but I don’t feel like they’ve gotten the point across I’m trying to make… and honestly, I feel like I’m just not gonna, but… oh well.

Like I’ve said before, it’s really fucking weird being afab and toric.

I’m unaligned, but I don’t really “pass”. People assume I’m a woman, and if they know I’m toric, they’re gonna think I’m straight.

But I’m not. I’m really fucking not.

And… alright, might be setting myself up for a fight here, but I’ve seen lots of mspec folks talk about how in the queer community, there’s this rejection of everything “straight” — and it’s fair to hate your oppressors. I’m not trying to argue that. But the way that it happens throws straight trans folks, mspec folks, and folks who use the SAM model and heterosexual/heterotromantic under the bus.

So, being a non passing afab toric enby is really fucking weird, because I don’t feel like I’m queer enough. I am. I know for a fucking fact I am.

But… I don’t think I’d feel this way if I was trixic or enbian. I wouldn’t feel like I’m… pretending.

I just… really hate this rejection of seemingly straightness that hurts other queer folks.

[wish-ful-thinking513]

There’s not a lot of content for toric oriented aroaces out there… so this is me taking it onto myself and making my own content.

[id: There is an image with four panels. The top left of is of Robbie Rotten from Lazy Town looking fearful and kinda disgusted. The top right image says “Telling people I’m aroace and experience other types of attraction”. The bottom left panel is Robbie pointing at something like he agrees with it. The bottom right panel says “Only telling people I’m aroace and leaving them confused when I start drooling over guys”.]

[tsvetaya-deactivated20210318]

out of all the ivs, the ones most crazy about useless kitchen appliances such as fruit juicers are sp-doms AND sp-blinds

[gay-psychopomp]

absolutely and i'll tell you why:

sp-dom: what if I need to do this thing in the kitchen? I better have an appliance for it because that way I'll be prepared

sp-blind: what do you mean this air-fryer only does one thing, takes up tons of counterspace, and costs money that I don't need to spend because I can do similar or the exact same thing with multipurpose appliances I already own?