ivyprickedthorns

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[homunculus-argument]

The human body's response to HRT is actually admirable in the sheer indifference. Just pure I Don't Give A Shit, I Just Fucking Work Here compliance to the new instructions. You can get testosterone injected straight into your body and it doesn't even question where that shit came from, coming back from a coffee break and just going

"Okay, everything seems to be in ord- oh fuck now what? Oh huh. Alright fine. New orders came in, cancel the menstrual cycle. Dig up the genetic balding patterns from somewhere, I don't fucking know they're buried somewhere in the dna. I'm greenlighting the growing-hair-on-your-toes thing. Yeah just cancel the ongoing maintenance processes, new orders came in so this is apparently what we're doing now."

[skull-bearer]

Oh, and we need to build a penis. How? No fucking clue, use whatever we've got lying around. We're going to have to McGyver the fuck out of this dick.

[adverbian]

The best part is that the clitoris is, structurally, a dick. Same parts, just arranged differently. So it’s more like “Oh hey, I found the dick! It was right here the whole time! Just needs a little reshaping.” [sound of blacksmith’s hammer]

[katelyn-danger]

Unironically, vegans need to be advocating for more and better sheep, llama, and alpaca farms. Wool is one of the best fabrics we have in terms of versatility, longevity and most importantly, insulation. Even wet, it retains 80% of it’s insulation potential.

AND IT DOESN’T SHED MICROPLASTICS

[katelyn-danger]

Like, there’s literally nothing you can do to a sheep that’s as morally reprehensible as dumping plastic down the gullet of literally every other living thing. You wanna talk about animal welfare? Talk about reducing the amount of microplastics produced by rayon, polyester, and spandex.

[guinea-big-deactivated20221004]

Bruh plant-based sources of clothing exist and are better for the environment and don’t involve slicing an animal’s throat open please shut the fuck up you cunt

[katelyn-danger]

THE WOOL GROWS BACK

[wizardshark]

Do they think you kill a sheep for it’s wool

[rosslynpaladin]

A LOT OF THEM DO THINK THIS. They get told this carp by PETA and the like.

People- wool animals are not killed for their wool/hair. Yaks, angora rabbits, angora goats, sheep, alpacas, llamas etc… We SHEAR THEM. Not Flay. Shear. With clippers.

Or some people just gather what falls off the critter, or in the case of “chien” which is dog fluff, you brush that off them.

Healthy happy animals make good fiber. It is monetarily foolish and useless to abuse your animals because then their fiber is bad. You can debate points of husbandry and some parts of industries need change so fight about that.

But wool is amazing.

[aquilacalvitium]

I’ve practised sheep tipping before, the sheep don’t even experience distress during shearing, they kind of just lie there

They’re literally just getting a haircut!

[ninjakittenarmy]

There was a sheep in Scotland who accidentally wandered down a cliff and got stranded on an isolated beach until a YouTuber retrieved her (which is nuts since the authorities deemed a rescue too difficult and dangerous and this guy is a hoof trimmer, not a rescue worker). She was terrified of the strange people trying to rescue her but couldn’t even run more than a couple meters because of the weight of her overgrown fleece. It was filthy, suffocating, and actually one of the biggest threats to her health at the moment.

First thing they did after she calmed down from the process of being winched up the cliff side was sheer her. It was like, mandatory.

[anteregem]

Some fanart of this ancient figurine! Also got commissioned to draw her hanging out with a friend!

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Rotating Blorbo From My Archeological Site in my head like a rotisserie chicken. Big things afoot in the Humanity Fandom.

[shower-raccoon]

oh shit, it's 3/21/23, 32123, palindrome day

[shower-raccoon]

don't worry, your'e still in time for 3/22/23, 32223, palindrome day the second

[thirdman000]

I missed BOTH of them.

[shower-raccoon]

don't worry, you're still in time for 3/28/23, 32823, palindrome day eight

[god-of-not-so-good-ideas]

im very exited for next years weed palendrome day of 4/20/24

[shower-raccoon]

so it's weed day and palindrome day, on leap year. perfection is achievable

[shower-raccoon]

oh shit, it's 4/20/24, 42024, weed palindrome day

[cyrannus95]

missed it, scheduling for the next one on may 20 next year

[shower-raccoon]

oh shit, it's 5/20/25, 52025, palindrome day

[strawberryswitchblader]

every person ive ever suggested to that going through your partners phone not only invades their privacy but also the privacy of all the people who have possibly texted very personal things to them have acted like they genuinely never thought of that before

[strawberryswitchblader]

like how many of you have sent or received texts about mental or physical health issues on your phone. embarrassing problems like grades or money or hygiene. intricate details of family dynamics. you might want a no secrets type relationship but your partner has other people’s secrets to keep too lol

[strawberryswitchblader]

and even if you weren’t invading third parties privacy you shouldn’t do this to your partner either… if youre at the point where youre openly accusing your partner of cheating and demanding to go through their phone (so private and also such tedious work) youre not going to be able to rest at that. your relationship/your psychology has serious trust issues that aren’t going to be fixed by reading their texts once. in no time youll be wondering if theres something you missed, if they’re having a romance completely offline, or if they have a second phone or some shit. and now your relationship is worse because you introduced a surveillance element where you should have been communicating btw

[shutyourmoustache]

[elvencantation]

[midnightssea]

“you couldn’t make this movie today” not because of cancel culture but because big studios aren’t willing to take risks on cool fun new ideas instead of adaptation number 7,000

[ilajue]

call me a dirty communist radical but I think everyone should know if they live near toxic waste

[ilajue]

if youre in the united states and would like to learn new and terrible things about where you live, you can visit the EPA's Environmental Justice Screening map and put in your location or zipcode

click on superfund proximity to see how close you are to a superfund site (location contaminated with hazardous material)

heres Niagra Falls NY! google love canal!

its a good tool to see what environmental factors could be harming your health that you may not know about. this is not limited to toxic waste so look around at it

my favorite is looking at roads. there are some interesting correlations. Here is a map of Buffalo NY with traffic proximity

here it is again but with where people are getting asthma :P

crazy

heres where the people of color live in Buffalo btw

in case you where wondering what the explanatory factor here is, its the 6-lane expressway that they ran through a residential community in the 50s. a redlined neighborhood btw. the road used to be beautiful parkway. thank you Urban Renewal, thank you Robert Moses, and thank you Kensington Expressway

ok heres the link again because now you really want to go look at it lol

[ilajue]

anyways yeah um environmental health issues are super insidious and not talked about enough. i know thinks seem daunting and scary when we talk about environmental problems, things like climate change are huge and all-encompassing. The way you can make the most impact, real tangible impact is by learning about things local to you!!!!

learn about them, talk to other people about them, organize or find a way to get involved with orgs that already exist. grassroots activism is infinitely more effective than they want you to know and its your responsibility to yourself and your neighbors to try to make things better good luck I love you all

[dungeonmalcontent]

One day I showed up to D&D and one of the guys in our group, before we could even start playing, was like "guys, look at this thing I found." And pulled up either this exact map or a very similar one that cross checks environmental hazards from industrial facilities with average income (more detailed than by zip code, it was pretty cool). And we use a big TV embedded in the game table for maps and stuff, which he pulled this up on, so we spent like half an hour looking at where we all lived and going "oh. Shit." And then we sat there a bit kind of ambling through some cool down small talk.

And like, the thing that kind of made it real for everyone was the context of it being on the screen we use to look at world maps for a fantasy game. It was very surreal for some of the guys at the table, the more conservative ones in particular, like they could see the map and it was showing them the forces of Mordor marching to their doorstep. And for a short time they understood that there are actually vast and evil forces in this world that they could defeat with a weapon, they were just large corporations commiting environmental crimes with very well protected CEOs and fantastic lawyers.

[ilajue]

check out your location while you can!!! Part of Trumps immediate changrs includes getting rid of public information sources like this one. I don't know if they will keep this website up for much longer so go on and download any reports or pollution information you might want

[ilajue]

so as of today, February 5th 2025 this website is down. This is coinciding with mass censorship of other government agencies online from the Trump administration. Those who were able to download their data before the removal, keep it and learn it and share it with your peers. Those who did not get the chance, know that there are other avenues and follow them. Information is power and they are trying to take it away from you. Do not let them.

here are some other mapping resources from the notes. this is not everything, but it is a start.

Check the quality of your tap water here:https://www.ewg.org/tapwater/

Check your climate vulnerability here: https://climatevulnerabilityindex.org/

explore historical redlining maps here: https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining

this is just the wikipedia page of current superfund sites, take a look and see where your state has hazardous waste sites.

look into the history of your area and TALK ABOUT IT. be annoying and loud about it. don't stop learning and don't stop talking.

[ilajue]

update! here is a clone of the website, thank you @boots-fastened-slip-fashion for linking this in the replies I'm putting it here so it can be accessed along with the other sites :)

[ilajue]

hey! if you're in the notes worrying about how the website is down, you should be rbing this version, which has a replica of the site and a bunch of other resources!!!

[ivyprickedthorns]

"Are they lovers?" "Worse" fucks me up every time and yes i WILL be using it

[i-am-a-fish]

put me in the 1 inch x 1 inch x 1 inch box coach!!! I'm all fired up, I'm ready!!!!!

[olisa-iwannasleep]

Fish. How big are you fish. Will you fit into 1 inch x 1 inch x 1 inch box fish.

[i-am-a-fish]

it doesn't matter, I can handle it !!!!! I'm ready!!!!!!!

[m-p-lebrush]

Let's get you in the box, fish. It might be a squeeze but I'm sure you can manage.

[i-am-a-fish]

it's everything that I've ever wanted

[twelve-crows-deactivated2025120]

i know your secret

[i-am-a-fish]

DID YOU JUST LEAK MY DIMENSIONS?????

[headspace-hotel]

Sometimes, old American books about trees are all "This tree is unshapely, has ragged and irregular growth and has little economic value." but I was wrong to characterize them all as such, because for every capitalist-minded book about the USA's trees that is like "ough we gotta exploit every living thing" there's also a book like this:

The book is called Our Friends the Trees and it was written in the 1930's and this is the VERY FIRST PARAGRAPH, no introduction no nothing, just going all in taking no prisoners from the very first line and it CONTINUES like this for the WHOLE book there is ZERO chill throughout the whole length of the book

[liveleaker-deactivated20250423]

You're mutuals with somebody who genuinely wants to murder and cannibalize people and has stated so on multiple occasions. You disgust me.

yeah thats like 4 of my mutuals so you gotta be more specific

[the-haiku-bot]

yeah thats like 4 of

my mutuals so you gotta

be more specific

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[shiiro-arts]

✫Lucy✫

I need her to go full on batshit

[batmanisagatewaydrug-deactivate]

just once I want to see a good post critiquing makeup culture that doesn’t turn out to be made by some janky radfem blog

oh hey!! I’m not a janky radfem I can do it myself!

makeup culture is wack and normalizes a ludicrously high bar as the bare minimum women can do. I saw a “lazy"makeup tutorial the other day that listed 22 separate goddamn products. you’re supposed to buy and know how to use 22 different things on your face just for the privilege of being considered lazy and that’s uuuuuuh what’s the word? bullshit.

Really, five products could work, even 3. Just frame the face, eyes, lips, and you’re done.

0 products also works great

because I’m gonna be real here, the idea that 22 products is a minimum sucks but it’s really upsetting that any amount of makeup is the bare minimum at all

I would really just suggest some powder foundation, concealer, mascara and lipgloss/lipstick, or tbh just mascara works too, but that’s up to you

I’m sorry if I didn’t express this clearly enough in the original post but I’m not really looking for more concise makeup regiments. my intention was to point out how it’s Bad that makeup is considered a bare minimum at all, regardless of individual feelings on the matter

no face should be “required” to have “a minimum” of makeup. makeup has no health benefits and does nothing but fill the pockets of companies that prey on women and our insecurities.

makeup should not be seen as hygiene because it isnt. get that shit out of your head.

this post: makeup culture is ridiculous and 22 products should not be considered a minimum requirement for someones face. no one should have to do that

the notes: so like……. what youre saying is……. we need to make the minimum about 5 or 6 instead… i gotcha

Really the only makeup you need is eyeliner but that’s just my personal opinion

okay

where did we lose you

why are people like this

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

#nobody survived this post

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

oh hey, OP here. the Taylor Swift post was also mine lmao

[greatmolassesflood]

i can't be the only one who's just straight-up ... bored with women hating themselves. my mom keeps lamenting to me how upset she is about her gray hair. my friend stares at her laugh lines every day in agony. my sister loses sleep over the horrible unbearable thought of looking fat. and every time these women i love open up to me, i can't help but think ... then stop staring at yourself? stop drowning yourself, narcissus, and just fucking live your life instead of sitting in front of a mirror obeying cosmetic corporations' lies. just stop it. this is getting ridiculous. you're too smart to be falling for this bullshit. "oh no but these men who hate women told me that if i'm ugly i'm worthless!" girl if you actually believe that then good luck. but i am getting worse at being supportive of people whose nonsense worldviews keep them trapped in pain. stop looking at yourself start fucking living i am pleading you deserve to be happy and it is stupid that you disagree

[vanityschild-deactivated2026031]

Someone in the comments said "you really said just stop being insecure" and yes :) make an effort to stop spiralling about your looks, challenge insecure thoughts and stop doing things that lead to you feeling insecure.

[whisperingthings]

I always come back to this: Do your insecurities match your morals?

Do you truly believe that having belly fat makes people disgusting? That the media should have final say on how you feel about yourself? If you don't believe it and there is a mismatch between your moral beliefs and your gut reaction to your appearance...

Then yeah. Stop being insecure. It's work but it's worth it.

[freshgratednutmeg]

Promoting @sarkywoman 's tags as that's a perfectly distilled mantra:

I am not the exception to my beliefs

[valtsv]

guy who is fun-ruiningly pedantic about the differences between a labyrinth and a maze

[valtsv]

in my defence, it IS actually a pretty fun difference

labyrinth: never give up! you can do it! just keep pushing!

maze: you are FUCKED. good luck navigating my tangled paths shithead.

[xenasaur]

it's me. I'm the girl who's incredibly pedantic about labyrinth vs maze. I've never felt so seen

[bisexualbaker]

Someone with more classics knowledge than me, please help me understand!

Is the way "labyrinth" is used accurate to its namesake? I keep thinking that, if there's literally only one path, why would Theseus need a ball of magic thread to help him find the way there/back, so either my knowledge is incorrect or this definition is fucked up. I think I remember that Daedalus designed the labyrinth in some special, extra tricky way, but even that doesn't make sense to me as something that would be a problem if there is literally only one path. Did the singular path break physics somehow?

[imsobadatnicknames2]

By this definition the Labyrinth designed by Daedalus in Greek mythology is "actually" a maze, but tbqh the source of that weirdness is the fact that the way this post is worded (and the way most people talk when they bring up this fact) implicitly attributes a universal transhistorical quality to this distinction that it simply does not have.

In most languages the distinction between "labyrinth" and "maze" is so nonexistent that they don't even have separate words for them (e.g. in my native Spanish both words would be translated as "laberinto"), and historically speaking, the idea of a distinction between these two terms in English is EXTREMELY recent. For most of history the words "labyrinth" and "maze" in English have been treated as 100% interchangeable (and continue to be treated that way in most everyday contexts) because they're basically two words for the same thing, just with different etymological roots.

The idea that the words "maze" and "labyrinth" refer to different things and that the difference between them is that a labyrinth is unicursal while a maze is multicursal doesn't show up in any literature until the 1920's, and honestly it comes off more like an arbitrary prescriptivist assertion (rather than a descriptivist observation rooted in the way the words were actually being used by people).

[pukicho]

Moon shaped anomaly in the sky tonight

[chaoticlittleguy]

is it the moon?

[pukicho]

I’m not answering questions right now. I’m scared.

[ivyprickedthorns]

because it blinked?