locally sourced deep sea cryptid

they/them it/its lesbo 20 something i mostly reblog shit i find funny and or important if im feeling funky ill post my art or some gay shit like that idk

[cheddarchandelure]

https://x.com/NOAA/status/1915814304634298817?t=lZ_l0dhPCqw5blds2PAmWw&s=19

Donald Trump just signed an executive order allowing for deep sea mining.

I genuinely feel like I'm going to cry.

This is an environmental emergency.

So much deep sea life is going to die from this. So many animals we know basically nothing about will be gone. It will take millions of years for the seabed to heal.

I can't take this anymore

[beguilingcorpse]

the best thing about rulette 2 is that i do think it adds substantial mechanical improvements to the game design of the first iteration — paul and sam as ‘players’ intended to follow and be called out on rules, interesting new rules/prompts/modifiers, the golden rule concept, etc. — but all of that slowly but surely becomes overshadowed by josh ruben landing by chance on all of the specific rules that transform him into a baby-themed tongue-heavy gyrating monster

[vehder]

i miss u so much (pre ai internet)

[liamthesnail]

this is one of, if not the best screenshot i've ever gotten from a game changer episode in my entire fucking life

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

do not ride on

[tpwrtrmnky]

One of my funniest interactions with medical personnel was when I went for an ADHD assessment around 3 years on HRT, and the specialist said "Gender incongruence? So you want to be a man?"

[demilypyro]

Medical pros keep asking me if I'm pregnant.... and I'm like.... pretty sure I'm not, no

[nicothespy]

oh tumblr staff definitely noticed the transphobe allegations and put the entire lgbtq+ in it LMAO

[marx-and-cola]

[escuerzoresucitado]

[escuerzoresucitado]

[qcharlie]

please god watch this right now

[fangirltothefullest]

The editing of this video is hysterical and genius- they switch between so many editing styles to reflect exactly what kind of thing they're going for in each segment its GREAT.

[rearte2]

by Wojciech Fangor

[mtf-the-gathering]

getting banned over a glitched report that was never actually filed, only to be unbanned out if nowhere 3 months later and then immediately banned again within a matter of hours, is honestly the most pjackk thing to ever happen to someone on this site

[great-and-small]

Watching Przewalski's horses run free on the Kazakhstan steppe for the first time in 200 years

[great-and-small]

[khaleesi]

It's my time to shine as a horse girl!!

These horses went extinct in the wild 60 years ago! They were reintroduced in other parts of Mongolia and Central Asia earlier than they were reintroduced on the Steppes, but having them back here has been generational conservation work. It's truly amazing.

These horses and other kinds of horses are probably different branches of evolution, which is CRAZY AWESOME. Modern horse breeds trace back to one branch, and these dudes evolved separately. They have 33 chromosome pairs whereas the horse you're used to seeing in movies and TV shows (or riding if you too are a horse girl - gender neutral title of expertise) have 32.

Despite this, you can interbreed these two species and they will have fertile offspring. That's really rare! (A common equine cross between species, the mule, is an always-sterile offspring of a donkey and a horse, for instance).

I did have to look the exact numbers up here, full disclosure, but it's believed that Przewalski's horses and other breeds have a common ancestor about between 160,000 and 38,000 years ago

The horses you see on cave art? These guys!

It's likely that Attila the Hun and his armies rode these horses (though hard to prove decisively)

Part of the conservation efforts around them involved CLONING to avoid a genetic bottleneck. ISN'T THAT DOPE. You can read more about that here

These are the only truly wild horses. All other "wild" horses -- Australian brumbies and American mustangs, for instance -- are feral descendants of domesticated horses, which is partly why you can see such a wide range of heights, colors, conformations, etc in those populations.

Anyway. This is incredible news and this species of animal is very special, very ancient, and very cool.

[mascwoman]

New bumper sticker 🕺

[w0nderland42]

i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1986. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.

[paxamericana]

i have been and will always be a summer hater. however in my senescence i've learned that lying on the back porch in a hammock after the sun goes down is quite goaty