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[i-chew-on-pushpins]

today in "making up ways to help kids decompress on the fly": i had kids cup their hands in front of them and for 1 silent minute, picture a small mouse in their hand. afterwards they got to tell me, one at a time, what their mice did

[i-chew-on-pushpins]

figured it would be fun to add some quotes from my 4 year olds on what their mice did

"she danced and twisted"

"my mouse went to jump in a pond and then rowed a boat"

"mine ate cotton candy and then he got so sick"

"I let my mouse go and he went home to visit his family"

[raibura]

Is this unethical

Yes

No

Voting ended onJun 11

[patrochilles-or-bust]

Will turn their noses up at "ethnic smelling" food but wanna eat yeast from inside a corpse 😭 I just don't get it

[juniperjelly]

i get that it's kinda weird, but ya'll know they don't do this sorta shit for no reason, right? it's isn't just some researcher going "oh i wonder if i can make bread from this dead italian guy" just for fun, this is experimental archeology and anthropology. yeast that's been on otzi the iceman (he's the mummy in question!) for over 5k years is going to be very similar to other yeasts from around the time he was alive, so by making things like bread with the yeast sampled from him we can learn what those things would've been like in that region when he was alive! not to mention making bread is just a good way to test the properties of a yeast strain, stuff like how quickly it reproduces or produces CO2, and from what i read otzi's yeast might prove to be incredibly useful in medicine due to its ability to break down toxic phenols! and it's not like someone just decided on a whim to dig some goo out of otzi's guts n throw it into a sourdough starter, the study of his gut microbiome grants incredible insight into the diet of people and state of the ecology in his time and locale, and its been under study for a while now. also, the yeast wouldn't have been directly from otzi's body, that's unsanitary at best and illegal n likely to get your funding cut at worst, they propagated a sample of the yeast from his skin on something like an agar plate so they could make the starter using a clean sample of the yeast without any of his skin cells in it. it'd be a lot like if i propagated yeast from my own skin for a sourdough starter; sure it's weird and some people would understandably find the idea of making bread from it gross, but calling that cannibalism is either misinformed or just dishonest. archeology undeniably has roots in weird racist shit, and people treating the long-dead like objects to do anything they want with, including grinding them into a powder to consume because you've misunderstood some ancient medical text. this isn't an example of that. you're understandably grossed out by reductive headlines n shock reporting, and just not knowing lab procedure. ethics and regulations in archeology have come a long way from what used to be basically just grave robbing with a written record of what you stole, otzi the iceman is treated like the holy grail. if they can't study something about him without badly damaging him, they won't do it until they figure out a better way! he probably has as much care put into keeping him safe as the next most popular italian mummy, by which i mean the pope.

[inkthecryptid]

“White scientists (I would be shocked if anyone else was involved)”

Such an incredibly frustrating thing to hear when the first microbiologist quoted in the very article this is referencing is an Egyptian man named Mohamed Sabry Sarhan.

We’re doing an excellent job at training the critical thinking out of our brains. Nobody stops to read an article anymore, the headline gets briefly chewed up and extrapolated into the most heinous bad-faith interpretation supported by zero context. It is right and just to be outraged at the way racist historians and archeologists have defiled the remains of marginalized groups. This is really not one of those times and you could probably have surmised that by reading some extra words.

[godlessondheimite]

In 2026, the chicest thing a gay actor can do is never explicitly come out as gay but also make it abundantly clear that he is. Coming out is too modern. Staying closeted is too old fashioned. But this method merges contemporary freedom with Old Hollywood glamour and allure, and it weeds out the dumbest people who truly don’t get it. I call it the Pascal Method.

[nobodys-odyssey]

Taylor Swift does this

[godlessondheimite]

no she doesn’t

[nobodys-odyssey]

You clearly don't go here or to queer history and signaling, or both, enough to have this conversation and I'm not going to explain it to you. You could have asked questions, you could have done even a modicum of research. You didn't and you made yourself look ignorant. Goodbye.

[sanjipussyindulgence]

[specialagentartemis]

Thinking about it, and I’d like to forward the idea that prejudice against single people (aromantics, asexuals, and also just… anyone who does not have a romantic partner) follows dynamics less like anti-queer bigotry and more akin to anti-fat bigotry.

Fatness, like singlehood, is seen at large as a state of failure. Everybody is supposed to want to be [thin / partnered], and if you are not, that is a personal failure on your part, and you are pathetic and mock-worthy. The popular idea is that of course everybody wants to be [thin / partnered], and everybody is striving towards the goal, and anybody who is not [thin / partnered] is either temporarily inconvenienced on their way to correctness, or has something fundamentally wrong with them. And because [fatness / singlehood] is something that is treated as fixable, if you have not fixed it, then there is something wrong with you—and thus discriminating against you is acceptable, because your [fatness / singlehood] is based on your own bad choices.

The world is, in some cases quite literally, not built for fat or single people. If you are fat or single, the world is much more difficult or expensive to live in, because it is structurally designed for the assumption that you are thin or that you have a partner. The normative Person, after all, is thin and romantically partnered. If you are not thin or not romantically partnered, there is something fundamentally less human about you.

[Fatness / singlehood] is something embarrassing, something worth mocking others over, something that reflects your fundamental unworthiness. Every fictional hero is thin, every fictional happy ending ends with romance. Everyone in your life is either quietly or not-so-quietly worried about you.

And all this is fine and acceptable. Because in the general perception, [fatness / singlehood] is not a real axis of bigotry. It’s a choice! You could just become a different person and stop being [fat / single]! You deserve the mockery, the derision, the attempts to fix you, the world not accommodating you, because you could just become a better person and stop being [fat / single] at any point. So it’s your own fault people treat you badly, really.

[dhaaruni]

We read Persepolis, and watched the adaptation, in the 10th grade, and it's stayed with me ever since. I'm eternally in awe of Marjane Satrapi's bravery and resilience, and may she rest in peace.

[90s-kid-sad-adult]

lie to me

[thepromiscuousfinger]

[enquined]

tags from @papaya-inspiration

[my-balls79]

[bisexual-engineer-girl]

English sauce I'm cryinggggg

[raingardening]

i think there is a phenomenon where sometimes a trans person will go “hmm. i am treated as a man when it is convenient for others, and a woman when it is convenient for others, and often as a freakish third thing excluded from the advantages of both. surely, because of the gender binary, the Other Type of trans person experiences the opposite: they reap the benefits of maleness and femaleness at once.” like babes no they can do it twice

[sqbr]

This applies to a bunch of other subgroups of the queer community too. Asexuals are made to feel like freaks for not being sexual enough by the same society that makes everyone else feel like freaks for being too sexual. Lesbians feel pressured to be bi even while bi women feel like they'd be more accepted if they were lesbian. Butches, femmes, and wlw who are neither are all made to feel like they're doing it wrong. PLUS unique facets of shittiness for every shade of non binary PLUS different attitudes towards mlm and wlw PLUS divisions within mlm spaces etc etc etc. And these frictions and differing needs and experiences are absolutely worth discussing, but every time we decide the problem is just that Those Other Queers have it easy we are making the actual problem worse.

[panlight]

Renesmee . . .

Has a bright and beautiful future ahead of her.

Will lead the shadowy half-life of a vampire, the kind Rosalie resents.

Will be less isolated than a vamp bc she doesn't sparkle, but still limited.

IDK man eternity will eventually get monotonous and miserable.

Will make the best of it.

Don't mean to be a bummer but the Volturi will kill them all.

Better than her parents' lives. At least she will reach full adult development.

It. Will. Be. HAPPY! AND! PERFECT! and I will not hear otherwise.

Will go on a vigilante murder spree like dear old Dad.

Will have twins w/ Jake so powerful they take down the Volturi.

Other?

What the hell is a 'Renesmee?'

Voting ended onJun 11

[likelightinglass]

its on Erid, long after Grace and Rocky figure out how to hug and snuggle. Eridians dont really do full hugs like humans because then you can hear everyone's internal organs that close so its a little weird, maybe tapping/hand holding is the usual affection. Everyone assumes the constant cuddling is purely for Grace's human needs benefit, and while Grace obviously does love and need the touch, Rocky being driven to space madness and having every form of ptsd means he is equal if not more in need of constant full body hugs because he likes feeling how alive Grace is.

So random Eridian scientists are talking to Grace and are like, absolutely no disrespect intended, but very interesting Rocky overcame the cultural weirdness and sensory disgust of "hugs" and does them despite no benefit to himself because he cares for your needs! Its sweet!

Grace: actually Rocky freaks out if he cant press himself against my lungs and heart through the thinnest xenonite possible until he can hear every muscle cell in my body moving at least once a day.

Scientist: ok cool so hes kind of a total pervert then okay

[partypuppy-nastja]

Trans Women Face More Injuries Than Cis Ones (It's Not Even Close)

Transgender women face more injuries than cisgender peers

A new study found that injury rates among transgender women are significantly higher than injuries among cisgender women, based on radiologi

❝Transgender women in the study group suffered 8x times as many head injuries as the controls, 36x as many facial injuries, and 5x times as many chest injuries.❞

So much for "protecting women".

[partypuppy-nastja]

For all those wondering why the title doesn't say this, it's because the study doesn't say this either.

While the cause of the injuries may be obvious, it's not technically known, and science speaks for what is known.

Some (a minority) of the trans women injured reported that it was violence, and some (a smaller minority) reported that it was intimate partner violence, but most did not report anything and the stats are just from the fact that they needed treatment and so went through the radiology department with their injuries.

[partypuppy-nastja]

Getting a lot of reblogs saying "undescribed" and "no image ID" etc, so please be aware that I did add alt text shortly after posting (it was a pain to copy on my phone so I did it on my desktop), but by then, it had already been reblogged by a couple of big blogs, so this alt-texted version is languishing, please do reblog it!

[strike-another-match]

"christian characters in movies are poorly written because the writers are atheist" "atheist characters in movies are poorly written because the writers are christian" stop fighting. all human experience is poorly written in movies because the writers are californian

[fwizard]

omfg

[amvs]

​hold on i have to look something up

[amvs]

yeah he’s autistic

[jamsandsuch]

took my engineer brother around the engineering building on campus today. every time we came across an empty lecture hall he’d write a ridiculously difficult formula on the board and add ‘warm up. hint: use lecture notes from last class” and giggle and run off

[mockva]

This guy's illusions are great

[alexaloraetheris]

[byakuya-mioda]

I like to think this is the story of him breaking out of prison and then going on an extended spree of mischief

[derrickwildsun-deactivated20250]

That video of Alex Hirsch reading S&P notes for Gravity Falls conveys a few things to me:

1) the U.S. entertainment industry (especially animation) is run by older conservative types who make up offensive terms and get really mad about them.

2) the people who run Disney would be the first to fall in line with a fascist regime.

3) most of the media we consume is tailor-made and watered-down to appeal to the tastes of older, deeply religious conservative audiences.

4) conservatism, not the left, is and always has been the biggest voice of censorship in American culture.

[sci-fantasy]

J. Michael Straczynski, creator of Babylon 5, was before that a producer and writer for a number of cartoons in the late ‘80s/early ‘90s (The Real Ghostbusters and the original She-Ra, most notably). After a few years of dealing with the censors and their obsession with finding Satanism (or at least looking for Satanism to further political agendas) he wrote an article about the whole corrupt and bullshit system.

And published it in Penthouse, to force those same censors to buy a skin mag. The editor there asked, why Penthouse?

That one is from his autobiography, Becoming Superman. See also:

(As he goes on to say, he’s never worked in animation again–he’s effectively been blacklisted by the cartoon industry.)

[transhuman-priestess]

Every time something like this comes up, I remember two stories about making media. The first is about movies, and comes from Quentin “Feet Man” Tarantino.

When he was making Pulp Fiction, he was worried that the MPAA would object to the high level of violence in the film, so he shot a bunch of extra-gory stuff that he didn’t actually want in the film, and added it in before submitting it to the MPAA. Predictibly, they asked him to cut most of it (without even commenting on some of the things that had him worried, like the bits of Marvin’s skull that lodge in Samuel L. Jackson’s hairpiece). The resultant cuts were actually more permissive than he’d expected, so he cut a little more and submitted it, and it got passed with an R.

The second story is about that artist on Morrowind whose name escapes me (I’m not a big ES fan tbh) who figured out that if he made two creature designs, one weird and what he wanted, and one even weirder, he could get Todd Howard to agree to just about anything by showing him the whopper first, then going back and “working” for another few hours on a second, “toned-down” version, and it worked every time.

The reason I bring these up is that the thing that drives censors isn’t some extant physical rubrick of what is and isn’t acceptable, it’s the idea that they can have absolute power over someone else’s creative work. It’s about the social dominance of the interaction.

There is nothing so innocent, so clean, that a censor will not find some fault with it. Because they must find something wrong with it to justify their existence, and because it makes them feel powerful.

This is true of all censorship.