A Cactus Never Sleeps

Toby(or just cactus) | he/they | 26 (icon and header both by me)

[wheelie-sick]

"ovarian cysts don't make you intersex" correct! luckily PMOS (formerly PCOS) doesn't begin and end at ovarian cysts. in fact, it was just renamed to dispel that myth! not everyone with PMOS even has ovarian cysts in the first place.

the reason PMOS is intersex has to do with the fact that it gives you sex characteristics that are between peritypical sex characteristics (typical of perisex (not intersex) people) such as hyperandrogenism (high androgens such as testosterone), hirsutism (development of more than typical body hair, such as a beard), the development of ambiguous genitalia, and more!

[tamamita]

[theconcealedweapon]

[runawaymarbles]

☝️not anymore!!!! People kicked up enough of a fuss

Seattle Children’s says Laurelhurst council supports ending helicopter landing committee

Seattle Children’s Hospital says a Laurelhurst neighborhood group has agreed to support its effort to end a review process for helicopter la

[weaponsofclairvoyance]

“This song is about the time I took a ride in a guy’s IROC and got totally, fucking, pregnant. [Give ‘em Hell Kid intro starts] Put your fuckin hands together New Jersey…oh baby here comes the sound!” x

[cobaltspartan]

fascinated by jeff the killer tbh. everyone in that creepypasta has generic white usamerican names (jeff, keith, barbara, billy, etc.) except for jeff the killer's doe eyed little brother liu. why is he liu. is liu chinese? it's okay if he's chinese. is jeff also chinese? has jeff the killer been chinese this whole time? am I a bad person?

[minmos]

i hope tumblr users never stop talking about punk music i think we deserve this

[foodffs]

[foodffs]

I just found a picture of her almost 4 years ago when I picked her up from the shelter. Four months old, skinny, sick, with poor fur, and freshly castrated (shelter took care of that - I wouldn’t do it that early).

They told me ‘Oh you’ll be very happy with her, she doesn’t play or anything, just lays around.’

What? A cat? No, not a cat - a kitten?

I worked from home for three weeks until she got better. Carrying to the litter, feeding her, giving medication, grooming… She seemed she wouldn’t grow to ‘normal’ cat size, she was that sick.

But as the time went by, she got better. And the ‘kitty that doesn’t play’ part? Of course, she didn’t care about that *then*, she was fucking miserable in that shelter.

You all know what comes next, my laziness to get these pictures in a collage.

[foodffs]

We moved a few months ago, so this little bastard now has twice the space than before. Yes, she still has a hard time getting accustomed to the new environment and a pretty much love-hate relationship with my future husband, but we’ll get there. I’m very proud of her for not trying to escape to our previous place (although she was crying the first whole night). Happy 6th birthday, my love!

[foodffs]

Time to go to school! (Happy 7th birthday)

[foodffs]

8 🥰

[foodffs]

9🎉

[foodffs]

Oops, a bit late with the 10th birthday, here we go 🥰

[foodffs]

12

[cheaphalloweencostume]

all movies are for children because the moving image is inherently juvenile. to be entertained by it even moreso

[cadet-abysmal]

Random tumblr blog roleplays as a philosopher. Shocks the masses by using big words just to say they think theyre better than you because you watch movies. WHHAAAAT?

[cheaphalloweencostume]

thats right

[cheaphalloweencostume]

the biggest word in this post is “entertained”

[mysharona1987]

[lynati]

If the trash pickup people stop doing their job for two weeks you'd be throwing a fucking tantrum. Same for the janitors who keep your office spaces and bathrooms clean. (And that's before the various illnesses start to spread all over your city from the build up of pathogens.)

The people responsible keeping our spaces clean (and thus, mostly disease-free) should both be paid more AND thanked more.

[penny-anna]

endlessly frustrating that whenever anyone is like 'i wish i could complain about X without people trying to give me unsolicited advice' swarms of people are always like 'clearly you have not heard *my* unsolicited advice!' and it's always like yes I have. Didn't help.

[lovely-v]

I’m gonna propose “I guess you haven’t read the silmarillion then :/” as a default response to anyone not understanding a reference to something obscure. even if it’s not remotely Tolkien related. I want to build up a perception that perhaps the sum total of human knowledge is contained in the silmarillion

[lovely-v]

[10-4ward]

This is the polar opposite of this:

[froginakettle]

[myonlypen]

[roycohn]

something i've noticed that has become really annoying in the past 10 years or so is this fad of what i've been calling, for lack of a better word, "structural whataboutism." it's that thing where, when faced with a concrete, resolvable problem in your community, your answer is to blame it on a vast, unsolvable issue of structural inequality and then throw up your hands. "there's trash all over the ground in this corner of the park" becomes "well, that's where MEN OF COLOR congregate after their 12-HOUR GRAVEYARD SHIFTS and i'm not going to support a CARCERAL SOLUTION to a CAPITALISTIC PROBLEM. WE NEED TO ELIMINATE POVERTY AND THE SUBJUGATION OF THE WORKING CLASS" and it's like okay but sis. someone still has to go pick up the trash. we don't need a carceral solution, we need more trash cans. you're not going to eliminate poverty and the subjugation of the working class and even if ya did, there would still be trash on the ground. how any of this passes for radicalism within their peer groups i simply don't understand. it's radical laziness more than anything else

[figtreeandvine]

I was on a canoe trip once with a river biologist who worked for the county. After we found and removed a car tire, she started talking about the annual river cleanup her department organized. From a water quality or ecological standpoint, removing shopping carts, car tires, and other macro trash from the river really wasn't that important, she said. The real threat to the river was industrial and agricultural runoff.

"But!" she said:

People who see a clean, trash-free river are more likely support laws to curb more harmful "systemic" forms of pollution. People who participate in river cleanups take pride in their work--their river!--and become evangelists for protecting it.

Immediate action leads to systemic awareness, which leads to systemic change.

[writing-with-olive]

Literally this.

Saying "there's no point in doing something small until the big thing is fixed" is literally just the Glorious Revolution Rapture story all over again, and it's not helpful.

[antiqueanimals]

Lives of Game Animals, Volume 3. 1927. Written and illustrated by Ernest Thompson Seton.

Internet Archive

[antiqueanimals]

Lives of Game Animals, Volume 3. 1927. Written and illustrated by Ernest Thompson Seton.

Internet Archive

[tatangadragon]

water sports should be for adults too.me and the blokes at university should be allowed to shoot eachother with water guns

[tatangadragon]

post cancelled I've been told the term i used already exists in english and that it means something Very Much Different. english is a wicked language that i regret learning

[partywithponies]

Strange racists and homophobes on the internet seem to have access to an alternate way cooler version of TV than me. "every white character on TV is in an interracial relationship" "every show has a gay couple in it" "main characters keep having to secretly be bisexual and nonbinary" "every show has gratuitous full frontal nudity" like damn promise?? What channel???

[urlocalpyshcopan]

as a black gay person real like where y'all be finding this stuff pass the name

[brainsforbabyjesus]

for real though, those DO NOT WATCH OR YOU'LL CORRUPT YOUR CHILDREN lists put out by conservative christian family groups is where I find all the stellar tv shows. Like, shit I didn't know half of those existed, thanks for finding them for me, gonna go watch 30 hours of gay tv now!

[infamousbrad]

I think I know how this works.

For personal context, before I went to the '98 Burning Man festival, one of the things I'd read from a couple different journalists was that "everybody" runs around naked. Which, fine by me, I'd already spent a lot of time in clothing-optional spaces, I'm not fanatic about it but it's nice.

So I got there early and set up a public shade structure on one of Black Rock City's main roads and spent most of each afternoon just watching the crowds go by. I don't remember seeing more than one actually naked person the whole week. I think a topless woman passed by my intersection maybe every half an hour, sometimes once an hour. So why in the hell were people, normally pretty smart and observant writers, coming away with the impression that everybody was naked?

Then I remembered an unrelated passage from Joel Garreau's great book about the history of the outer-ring suburbs, Edge City. Mall developers told him flat-out that they tried to keep the crowds in their malls less than 5% black. Not because they themselves were racist, but because they had determined, experimentally, that if more than 5% of the people in the mall are black, the median white shopper will wrongly describe the mall as at least half black, as mostly black. And not a few of them would describe it, at 6% black, as a mall where "only black people go." Why?

Because, emotionally, they were still upset over the last one when the next one came into view.

Same as the journalists describing Black Rock City as all naked. Same as the right-wing religious culture warriors describing television as entirely mixed-race and gender non-conforming. Not because it's even vaguely true, we know that, but because they haven't gotten over their discomfort over the last one by the time the next one comes along. The anger, not the stimulus, is the part that's continuous, so their mind lies to them that it's "all" the thing they can't get over.

[kagedtiger]

Similar effect for the presence/proportion of women in things, by the way: https://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/human-nature/perception/how-17-equals-496-the-amazing-multiplying-women.htm

[vonclosen]

like it actually does not matter how leftist you are in your politics, if you are on native land (and i don’t just mean reserves or reservations. you know exactly what i mean.) and you are not listening to native people and doing the work to decolonize your own ideology and perspective on the world, if you are not making an effort to learn that colonialism of all forms is bad, it does not matter. you are still a settler. you are still a colonizer. fucking listen to us.