don't that picture look dusty

10 nominations and 0 wins at the swagless white boy awards

[hotguy2]

hot guy 2: the sequel to a hot guy

30 | he/him | trans | bi | usa

im finishing my undergrad and unfortunately im going into one of those stupid careers where you do actually need a masters so i gotta do that too

i watch wwe raw, smackdown, nxt, and ples as close to live as i can. i usually skip nxt when school is in session. i'll get into aew eventually. its really important for you to know before you click follow that i do NOT like cm punk

i also like to post about birds and reptiles that are happening around me in real life

areas of expertise: bojack horseman, red dead redemption, kesha, superman

areas of interest: pokemon, country music, wrestling, dinosaurs, astrology

[ifitbleedsbiteharder]

im working the "girls bringing their boyfriends" checkpoint at the pride parade, sending most of the boyfriends to an overpriced bar with optimised number of leaning-with-a-beer points like youd send kids at a wedding to their table and letting the girlfriends in with a special ticket to an adjoining room with glass that lets them look at the boyfriends distinctly not talking to one another the rest of the boyfriends i press a little button under my desk and some tgirls in dark trenchcoats come and bundle them away, waving the girlfriend into the lesbian section, and with various mechanical grinding and whirring noises the new girls pop out of the room with an estrogen vial, a new outfit and a black lipstick stain on their cheek im clearly bored out of my mind sat at this desk, but im vital because ive got a 100% accuracy rate and i get paid in vodka to keep my interest in the world alive

[ifitbleedsbiteharder]

i also get paid in all the first panty shot polaroids they take before they shove the new girls out but dont tell anyone cuz if the chasers union finds out ill never hear the end of it, and i already dont hear the end of them cuz i refuse to tell them how big it is, i tell them its a data protection thing and they never listen

[ifitbleedsbiteharder]

the chasers union keeps asking for a float at pride but we have to keep rejecting it cuz they refuse to not have a banner that says "haha youre so cute have you had bottom surgery" and thatd fuck up our obligations to the forcefem union, who i am not taking bribes from stop asking

[ifitbleedsbiteharder]

mr evrart is helping me find my dick

[minmos]

this reddit post isgoing to make me cry literally let's bask in the sun

[cranberrylimes]

The left image as a rug and the right image as a ceiling poster

[desaturate-worlds]

this on the bedspread

[str8aura-no-not-that-one]

This as every wallpaper

[cranberrylimes]

Wow guys, we’ve really come together to make this House MD into a Home MD 💙

[daysofauldlangsyne]

@alessmargi

[maplebunie]

[smoqueen-deactivated20251108]

[uss-edsall]

At 1 PM on a Friday I get an email from my boss. I'm busy as hell so I don't check it immediately. Then I get a phone call from my boss, which has almost never happened before. I'm a white collar worker, a historian. There's never a 'historical emergency' requiring a phone call to kick me in the ass and get to work.

The request is so urgent my boss needs it by the end of the work week. Which, y'know, is 5 PM on a Friday. So I have four hours to do it.

It's a forwarded request. Somebody contacted a member of the donation team asking for help, "I need a map from the Vietnam War to use for a presentation." It's somebody she's trying to coax into giving a five figure donation to the museum.

The request was asked to the donation team member, who then emailed my boss, who then emailed and called me urgently.

This map required:

North and South Vietnam in it

All four areas that South Vietnam was divided into for military purposes ('Corps') clearly delineated

Four cities, all of them horrifically misspelled, and only identifiable because I know what battle the requester is asking about (it’s in III Corps on the border with Cambodia) (the requester danced around the battle but I’m knowledgeable enough to identify it)

Has Laos and Cambodia in it

Has the Ho Chi Minh Trail in it

So. I was mad about the 'you have literally four hours to find a map with a lot of requirements.'

I was then mad at myself about finding a copyright free map from Texas Tech University within half an hour, proving her right for asking me to do it.

Then, after I found a map that perfectly met the requirements, I was equally amazed, baffled, and horrified when I read further into the forwarded email chain.

The donation team team member they were speaking to used AI to generate a map.

The above put half of North Vietnam in South Vietnam, made the Ho Chi Minh Trail a country, made 60% of Cambodia part of South Vietnam, put the DMZ extremely high up in North Vietnam, completely disconnected the southern tip of Vietnam, misplaced all of the Corps zones, etc etc

At the very last second the donation team member had a moment of divine clarity, remembering there's three historians on payroll to ask for this kind of thing from. So she contacted my boss while saying, "I had fun with this, but I decided I should check for accuracy before I send it to the donor! I need a fact check by the end of the day, then I send it"

My boss, while not the most knowledgeable on the Vietnam War, does know her geography. She took one look, and knew it was so off she called me to tell me how urgent it is that I look at the email and respond

good fucking god, jesus tap dancing goddamn christ, I'm glad I was asked to look at it and then find a real map

[bobdylanyaoi]

“Subverting” Catholic art? Oh, okay. I see, you think this has nothing to do with you. You log onto the internet and you post about how “Wound of Christ” from Psalter and Prayer Book of Bonne de Luxembourg, attributed to Jean le Noir, c.1349, for instance, looks like a vulva because you're trying to tell the world that you enjoy Catholic art and imagery in an alternative, queer, risqué way that challenges Christian beliefs. But what you don't know is that that stigma isn’t just a vulva. It's not just a mandorla. It's not just yonic. It's actually intentionally erotic. And you're also blithely unaware of the fact that around 1297, Saint Angela of Foligno experienced a vision of Christ himself, who called her to put her mouth to the wound in his side and lick the freshly flowing blood. And then I think it was Saint Catherine of Siena who drank blood and a clear liquid from the wound before receiving a ring made from Christ’s foreskin? And then graphically erotic encounters with the side wound of Christ quickly showed up in the writings of eight different mystics. And then the yonic interpretation of the stigmata filtered down through the illuminated manuscripts and then trickled on down into some pseudo-intellectual corner of the internet…where you, no doubt, fished it out of some Pinterest board. However, that interpretation represents hundreds of years and countless visions of religious ecstasy. And it's sort of comical how you think that you've come up with an idea that exempts you from Christian theology when, in fact…you're posting an image that was sexualized for you by the very Medieval saints you think you’re so different than…from “subverted” Catholic art.

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

the distinction between professional and amateur is pay btw. if you get paid for doing it you're doing it professionally. it says nothing about quality. some of the best craftspeople on earth are amateurs and some of the worst writers are professionals.

[fapper]

What me and jay saw on my hinge yesterday

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

they killed him for this

[beholdingslut]

in absolute tears about the pride module at my work

[dikdikpronouncedxylophone]

[bigfoots-biggest-fan]

HOLY SHIT GUYS, I WAS INSPIRED BY THIS POST TO TRY MAKE THE SONG AND YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE THE SCREAM I SCRUMPT WHEN I DRAGGED THE TRAINING AUDIO OVER THE BACKING TRACK AND IT LINED UP PERFECTLY

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Tempted to actually put this on spotify so I can secretly stream it at work...

Tagging @batshit-auspol because as an Australian you're the only big account I know who might share (sorry).

[punkrorschach]

happy first day of pride everyone

[fuzzy-oooze]

There's this really obscure forgotten DC hero named the Heckler, who's basically buggs bunny as a superhero, not having any powers or physically strong, but just really good at pissing people off until they accidentally deal with themselves.

Now they're interesting, but the REAL star of the show is one of his villains, John Doe the Generic Man, who's this guy in a stark white suit with flat pink unshaded, untextured skin with no features or anything who talks like chatGPT and has black text over his face that explains what he's feeling at the moment. That guy is fucking fascinating.

[mightym52]

I first heard about this guy from the "League of regrettable superheroes" Books, (The supervillain one, obviously) and He stuck with me because its such an interesting concept. not only is HE generic, but he has the power to make anything he TOUCHES generic too. I never actually got to experience his whole deal as an actual character, since this was just an info book that tells you about the character, so seeing these panels it really cool.

[hotguy2]

mockingbird didnt like that i was gonna walk under the tree he was singing from and started frantically making carolina wren noises at me when i got close lol. he said i need a song thats annoying and repellent and i know just the one

[creamycuppy]

playing against me is a total nightmare, you have to watch out in case i try to clip you irl

[creamycuppy]

[charl0ttan]

adhd and weed will both have u like fuck i had to go look up pictures of the giant manta ray

[dastardlywlw]

[kedreeva]

Hi Kedreeva!! You mentioned that male peafowl get aggressive when hand-raised, why is that?

There is no research done on this to be able to definitively give an answer. I've written about this before, as well, but I'm feeling chatty.

However, according to anecdotal evidence by keepers around the world, after being hand raised male peafowl treat humans the same way as they would treat a rival peacock they hold a grudge against, and the aggression is almost always worse during mating season (exception cases where it's bad all year). This would seem to indicate that instead of seeing themselves as humans, peacocks see humans as "like them" ie: peacocks, and that the aggression is hormone based.

With peafowl, a male will attempt to chase off unrelated rival males. Related males form leks, but even males that have not ever met before seem to be able to clock blood relations (this actually was confirmed in scientific study, which I have talked about before so you can find it in the peafowl tag somewhere), and whatever method they use to do this, it cannot apply to humans (because you're definitely not able to be blood related to them). As such, the solution is only EVER going to be: chase off. But, humans are not going to be chased off by a bird they are keeping in a pen, and so begins a feedback loop of stress and aggression: they try to chase you off, they can't, they get frustrated and stressed and more desperate, rinse and repeat. This eventually, even with no reinforcement from you, leads them to be stressed even just seeing you, whether or not you're interacting.

However, most people I've seen aren't just "not doing anything," they are actively reinforcing the idea that they are a threat to the bird. They yell, they make sudden movements, they kick them, they pin them to the ground, they chase them around/carry them around, they spray them with hoses, they attack them with sticks/rakes/pool noodles... I have seen the gamut. And ALL of it reinforces the idea, to the peacock, that they are DANGEROUS and should be CHASED OFF. The bird physically cannot escape in many of these situations (being penned in a flight pen), so the only option they would see is fighting.

This is ALL solved by just... not hand raising them. When they don't consider you to be a rival cock, then 99.9999% of them will be chill dudes even during mating season. They don't actually LIKE to fight, but there are certain situations which inform their instincts (instincts strengthened greatly by hormones) that they need to in order to survive/reproduce.

There is ONE potential work around I have found for hand-raised males, if it is not already too late, and that is extensive training. Stan was, by necessity, hand-raised due his medical issues early on. I trained him to jump to a treat perch when he was young, and once he got aggressive, I was able to reinforce the treat perch such that when I went into his pen, he would immediately go to that perch and he would get treats when I left if he stayed there. This didn't eliminate his stress over my presence, but it did alleviate altercations between us, and allow me to care for him properly. I have helped two other people do this with their young hand-raised males (ones they didn't know better about, and won't repeat), so I know that it CAN work for some others, but it's never going to be a good solution compared to just not fucking doing the hand raising in the first place. The birds will still be experiencing stress they shouldn't have to, and the owner will experience stress knowing that aggression is sitting just beneath the surface at all times.

[piinemarten]

Does this defensive behaviour continue if the cock is rehomed? Is it just towards the person who raised them or will this behaviour continue regardless of owner, it just being all people?

[kedreeva]

It continues regardless of home. On top of new folks not knowing better and being attacked constantly by their sweet baby boy who was SO sweet and loving and cuddly (because they ARE until they are NOT), new people also get absolutely blindsided by acquiring new cocks that were hand raised where the previous owner doesn't disclose this fact up front (usually only after the new owners ask around and get asked by 541 old folks "did you hand raise it" and they go back and the old owner admits it under pressure) or DID disclose it but didn't explain what that entails, so the new owner thinks they're getting a sweet hand raised bird. Wrong!

For the record, it's also considered EXTREMELY irresponsible to rehome a hand raised male that's aggressive, though I assume people do it because they think it will fix the issue (ie: "they just hate ME but they can't hate YOU because they don't know you" which is not the case, they can hate anyone). You (general you) are the one that directly caused the problem, it is your responsibility to either build proper containment and live with the consequences of not doing enough research before getting a pet, or humanely euthanize the bird (which honestly is better for everyone involved; hand raised males are under SO MUCH STRESS being constantly exposed to a Threat they cannot control or flee, it's not great for them).

[scribblecrumbs]

oh, interesting! this is also an issue in llamas and alpacas (commonly referred to as ABS, Aberrant Behavior Syndrome, or BMS, Berserk Male Syndrome). It’s seen in both males and females, though more common and more serious in males.

It’s basically the exact same issue, the animal is hand raised and thinks humans are also a llama/alpaca. It’s more of an issue in males because intact males can be very territorial and establish pecking order via neck wrestling and biting. I think you can probably see the issue in having a 400 lb animal attempt to neck wrestle with you.

My family actually has a female who was somewhat hand raised (she was premature and required tube feeding and extensive care) and we are careful with our training of her. She has grown up to be extremely friendly and affectionate, but she absolutely struggles with boundaries. We have to be far more strict with her in terms of her behavior when haltered. I wouldn’t call her an ABS alpaca, however she’s definitely at risk of becoming one.

Males with ABS are commonly castrated to try and reduce some of the territorial behavior, but there’s little that can be done and it’s effectively “incurable”.

I’m curious if peacocks who are hand raised will always suffer from this or if keeping it strictly “business” when hand raising will prevent it? This is the case with llamas/alpacas. When hand raising we refrain from coddling or snuggling the animal and keep contact to a minimum. This helps prevent ABS.

[kedreeva]

Yep it's also called berserk male syndrome in peafowl!

And "hand raised" is not the same as human raised, for birds at least. Incubator chicks that don't imprint or aren't interacted with heavily don't get aggressive. It's the people that imprint them or handle them excessively and cuddle them a lot from a very early age, particularly if they continue to do it to maturity. It's the difference between hand feeding and bonding with a bird as a parent figure and the rearing wildlife rehabbers do to allow birds to go back to the wild... The former is what a lot of people do, because in many other fowl it makes a friendlier bird. It's just that generalizing this to peafowl will land you in hot water, which is why it's important for anyone wanting to get a new animal, even (or perhaps particularly) if it's similar to one they've kept before.

Because for peas, once they're imprinted/hand raised, there's no going back. You can't fix it by keeping it business only. It doesn't get better. But you CAN raise them in brooders with minimal interaction and be just fine. Food, water, bedding changes, and <30 minutes of interaction time a day is usually a good method, and ALWAYS raise multiple chicks together (even if you have to sub in a chicken for a solo hatch) so you're not the only creature it interacts with.

I will also add that it's just males that are aggressive, typically. I've hand raised several hens and they've always been sweet. Not always great, socially, with the other birds. Not very interested in the boys. But sweet to people.

[hempseeeeds]

Does cross-fostering/having a Chicken foster-mother raise a peacock, make the peacock weird towards chickens?

[kedreeva]

I don't actually know- a lot of folks use chickens to hatch peafowl but they aren't usually keeping the birds in with chickens afterwards, they're just more effective at incubating than incubators.

Chicken hens WILL squat for peacocks though, so I suspect that in the "mate or rival" categories, the hens that raise them would fall into "mate" categories rather than rivals, and I don't know if anyone risks the peacocks by hatching them where roosters can get them. Considering I have seen instances where chicken roosters kill peachicks it's not advisable at all.

But honestly I think other birds probably have ways of communicating that they're not the same. It's how you get 15 different duck species on a pond and they all choose their own species to mate with. Humans just don't know how to effectively communicate that in this instance. We don't understand the birds well enough to avoid that if the birds are being hand raised with imprinting on us.

[blessyouhawkeye]

forever thinking about that girl at my uni orientation who, after being told to pour out her water bottle before entering an event, looked at me and said "they tell us to stay hydrated and then make us pour out our water, this is like totally kafkaesque" and then poured out what was very obviously an entire water bottle full of whiskey. hope she's doing well.