Great Stuff

Drawer of great stuff.Political stuff and other stuff. Social stuff. Great stuff. I am a cat.

[depsidase]

[nemfrog]

Astronomical phenomena. Werner encyclopaedia. vol. 11. 1909. Frontispiece.

Internet Archive

[arrow-ettes]

how it's feeling rn

[innerchildabortionclinic]

also I don't think parents "these days" are uniquely terrible, I just think neglect is showing up in new ways as technology progresses. today's ipad kid would've been wandering around in a ditch alone all day and night before. parents not wanting to have to deal with children is not a new phenomenon.

[queeranarchism]

Society hardly acknowledged that child abuse and child neglect existed until the 1960s and since then, they've blamed a new technology or drug or cultural thing for it every decade instead of just acknowledging that parents can be very shitty.

[depsidase]

[greatstuffdrawer]

Even if they are too stupid to understand it

[chaoticgouda]

In AWE at the sheer big dick energy this royal mistress exuded

[dickstolebyanalien]

Walk Like No One Is Driving

[greatstuffdrawer]

(But look to your left and look to your right)

[dreamstars]

Made by mirengela

[soundcarvings]

WOW

wwooowwwwwwwww

[depsidase]

[fucktoyfelix]

[sandersstudies]

Every time you go in a public place and something ISN’T disgusting it’s because somebody cleaned it. Every time you feel comfortable using a public bathroom or sitting at a restaurant table or setting something on a gas station counter or playing on a playground it’s because somebody cleaned it.

Thank you to everyone who cleans the world, especially those who are underpaid and under appreciated.

[professionalowl]

it is of course easier to performatively ban children from social media than to do things like "actually challenge and regulate the abusive tactics tech companies use to extract people's data and money via social media" but if we did the second thing we wouldn't have any excuse to force people to use digital ID :(

[greatstuffdrawer]

I literally wrote a final assignment on this for a master’s level uni course on which when asked by the lecturer who supports social media age bans in Europe all but me raised their hands and I felt like I was going crazy, the lack of critical thinking 😫😫😫 When I challenged the teacher on putting the onus on the children and the irony of appealing to child safety while introducing biometric/surveillance technologies her reply was ”well we already live in surveillance capitalism”. So… because it is here it cannot and should not be fought. This is my Roman Empire. This course. This class. This topic. People. Stupidity.

[terrypratchettparadise]

“Yes, but humans are more important than animals,’ said Brutha.

‘This is a point of view often expressed by humans,’ said Om.

- Terry Pratchett - Small Gods

[captain-price-returns]

he’s sitting in his discomfort and interrogating whether his actions were worth the consequences… a great many of u could take notes

[petewentzisblack1312]

we seriously need to stop conceding to the personhood trap when it comes to abortion rights. is a fetus a person? thats a spiritual question. i dont care about the answer. should another person dictate what someone can do with their body? simple answer: no.

[petewentzisblack1312]

like if a fetus isnt a person it has no right to my body and if a fetus IS a peson it also has no right to my body because there is no other context in which we are required to put ourselves at risk of physical harm to preserve another persons safety or even life.

you dont have to save someone from drowning even if youre a strong swimmer. even in death youre not required to donate organs and that could save several people. you can kill someone if you truly believe your safety is at risk. we dont mandate preservation of life over autonomy in any of these circumstances.

[greatstuffdrawer]

Also, whether or not a fetus is a person, the person carrying it certainly is!!

[mammalianmammals]

Camera Traps Reveal Iberian Lynxes Soaking Their Prey, a First-Ever Discovery Among Carnivores

Scientists speculate that the wild cats are trying to improve hydration or ease their cubs’ transition to solid food. The finding points to resilience in one of the world’s most endangered felines

A camera trap in Spain recorded a wild female Iberian lynx carrying a dead rabbit to a water trough and dunking it, researchers were shocked. Then, they spotted the behavior several more times. In a study published in March in Ecology, scientists detailed these findings, which they say are the first-ever observations of a carnivore soaking its dead prey in water. The unusual phenomenon has raised questions about how predatory species adapt to changing environments—and it hints at resilience in one of the world’s most endangered felines. “This is very interesting and genuinely a surprising observation,” says Wai-Ming Wong, the director of small-cat conservation science for Panthera, who was not associated with the study. “Wild cats are typically thought of as highly efficient, instinct-driven hunters, so seeing an individual modify how it handles prey in this way is quite remarkable.”...

Read more: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/camera-traps-reveal-iberian-lynxes-soaking-their-prey-a-first-ever-discovery-among-carnivores-180988591/

[sealcore]

sometimes when i'm lying in bed i like to put my heels together and stretch out my toes like a seal stretching its hind flippers :]

[greatstuffdrawer]

Will try this.