What?

xe/xem/xyr I like hiking, food, history, and science. I am also mildly insane.

[animusrox]

Batman Begins (2005) dir. Christopher Nolan

[outofcoffee24]

Alfred really said “DO YOU EVEN LIFT MR WAYNE”

[ruinedchildhood]

[cupcraft]

Also btw trump recognizing only "the two biological sexes" harms intersex people too. I am a researcher of sex and it's affects on disease, and sex is far more complicated than "two sexes" and it always will be. Sex is multifaceted and there are far more than two binary sexes. Keep that in mind too. Don't fall into bioessentialism as you fight for trans people and intersex people.

[cupcraft]

Let's use our critical thinking skills about Trump and the GOPs and administration's view of gender as inherently bioessentialist and saying terms that are words pertaining to sex "male and female" and that the view overall is about returning gender to binary biological sex. "He said gender" yes but how does he view gender -> from a bioessentialist POV. Don't be ignorant because this will affect every aspect of people's lives not just trans and intersex people. When we fascistly decide what it means to be a certain gender or a certain biology we fall into fascist waters

[daily-spooky]

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

fresh squeezed orange juice has me in a chokehold

[reallyreallyreallytrying]

it's crazy that madame tussauds has been around since the 1800s. they barely had celebrities back then. "ooh its a wax sculpture of voltaire" bitch how would you know

[aropride]

u used to be able to put a dvd in your computer. and then u could watch it

[felicitypdf]

Trying To Not Feel Doomed Tuesday

[charl0ttan]

nighttime was invented so you could unlock special emotions that make you feel better and worse at the same time

[hoatdoags]

Nighttime is for smoking a goint with my dog

He likes when a smokem goint because we run around and chase each other

[charl0ttan]

fuck yesss 👍

[ripeteeth]

One of my favorite things is taking someone to the Great Lakes for the first time - or describing how you can fly over them and see only hundreds of miles of glittering blue water and no coasts at all; how they have their own Coast Guard (the only lakes to do so); that the Earth's rotation steers their currents; that they're studied using ocean models; that they have wrecked more than 6000 ships - and watch them realize that the word "lake" is misleading and that they had no idea of the size and majesty of them at all.

[ripeteeth]

Some fun facts about her majesty, Lake Superior:

It has a surface area of 31,700 sq. miles, roughly the size of South Carolina or Austria.

It's incredibly deep and has enough water to cover all of North and South America to a depth of 12 inches.

Waves over 30 feet have been recorded.

Its deepest point is 1,333 feet, which is the third lowest point in North America

Its average temperature is around 36 degrees Fahrenheit (2 Celsius), which inhibits bacterial growth in bodies, diminishing bloating and gas, and frequently shipwreck and drowning victims to sink to the bottom and never be recovered.

[liberalsarecool]

The biggest story of our time, and one that is never properly given attention by EVERY aspect of the media/pundits/journalists/legacy media/social media, is the Russian domination of MAGA and the Republican ecosystem.

[tvrded]

[elliegoose]

i think the real reason egg prices are so high is that so many of them are turning into beautiful women

[dogdayafternoon1975]

this tweet has given me more motivation to stretch than any "it's good for you" post ever will

[the-cassquatch]

I want to recommend qigong, and particularly shifu Yan Xin's youtube channel. He has GREAT energy. Qigong especially is amazing for working your lungs and other core muscles, and it's low intensity so it's relatively easy to do. For someone like me that didn't start doing regular stretching until I was 30, it's a great way to begin!

[calellon]

big fan of anything that shuts my brain off for a little while

[dry-gold]

Hey in middle earth is there any ecological consequences for those big fuckin eagles

[astercrash]

Goblins and hobbits both make their homes underground

[cool-bacon-dude]

Funniest answer for why gandalf didnt use eagles to carry the hobbits to mordor

[fuck-u-maga]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[ohgoddamnit]

As a mass comm major, IF THERE IS SOMETHING UNJUST OR IMMORAL BEING DONE CALL YOUR LOCAL NEWS STATION THEY WILL HELP MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE

Cities and government agencies HATE bad press. This story that was told to me by the journalist that covered this, and he showed us the piece:

There was a traffic light that was set up on the far side of an overpass, but it was improperly hung so you couldn’t see the light until it was too late. There were accidents there EVERY SINGLE DAY and calls to the city did NOTHING.

Someone had the idea to call the local news station and this dude went out to see. As he was interviewing someone, there was a wreck.

Guess what happened after that piece aired?

Suddenly the city had the time to lower the traffic light and the accidents stopped.

Journalists get a bad rep, and while big stations like Fox deserve it, I think more thought should be given to who you’re actually shitting on when you say “I hate journalists.” Because we’re overworked, underpaid, constantly shit on, but we still do the job because we want to help people. All professional, prestigious journalists that I’ve met hate the government and will do whatever they can to get the information and change that’s needed. Being a journalist is a dangerous profession: at every professional convention I’ve been at there’s a fund for the families of journalists that have been killed (there’s a lot!) and a long memoriam roll.

SUPPORT LOCAL NEWS STATIONS

[prismatic-bell]

When I was in college, my dorm flooded.

From above.

Let me explain: the rain was so bad and the roof so shitty and the building so old that water was pouring in from ceilings and light sockets. The dorm had drop ceilings, and saturated tiles were plopping out onto the floor covered in mold—this clearly was not the first time this had happened.

My mom called the news after she saw my room and heard the school had no plans to assist students who’d just lost clothes, textbooks, computers, personal belongings, and more. She was as furious as we were.

The school refused to let media into the dorm “for student privacy” and had the president make a statement about how it was just a couple of disgruntled students and everything was fine.

This was before cameraphones, so they assumed that was that.

Their fatal mistake was in forgetting the initial complainant (i.e., ME) WAS A JOURNALISM MAJOR. First year, but that was still enough to know what basic information a news story needed.

My mom smuggled me a camcorder in a basket of laundry. I interviewed people from my floor and the floor above complete with “I consent to be on video for TV purposes” verbal disclaimers, showed the moldy tiles and water dripping out of lights and my own room three inches deep in water. One of my floormates heard what I was doing and called me into her room and said “you should get THAT” and showed me a power strip she needed to unplug because it was sparking and couldn’t unplug because it was in a puddle of water. (We eventually managed to find a pair of rubber gloves to pull the plug out of the very damp wall, but it was a great visual. “Nothing wrong” my ass.)

My mom took the tape to the news station. They used my footage with the president’s statement.

In under 48 hours, the college said that if you’d lost stuff due to the flood, you should contact Res Life for assistance.

In under two weeks they announced plans to build new dorms and retire my building.

Local. Journalism. Works.