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weird random shit I find or things that make me say "hells, yes!" I'm 18+ yrs old, neurodivergent, and queer Here for the doomscrolling

[ziijsh1]

"Why do you talk so much about being intersex?"

Over 90% of parents of visibly intersex children opt for cosmetic surgery on their infants.

The ones that don't experience medical violence then, likely experience it as a teenager.

I didn't.

I am very rare in that I did not experience medical violence.

Why? Because I learned what intersexuality was as a young age, and I actively fought against what doctors wanted to do to me. All the way down to legal research on what medical care minors can be forced into. I remember walking into that doctor's appointment with the state law written down that proved that if I did not consent they could not do surgery.

That is why intersex activism is important. It saved me and it will save more.

[aquilacalvitium]

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

[aquilacalvitium]

Please keep interacting with this post because when I come to tumblr to procrastinate, this shows up again in my notifications and guilts me into writing again

[depsidase]

[animentality]

[infectiouspiss]

predictions are locked in. 2026 is going to be a good one

[butterflyinthewell]

You have been booped by this empty wrapping paper tube.

Reblog to boop all of your followers with it.

[depsidase]

[ibetteracethatinterview]

[jarofdragonflywings]

[nerdygaymormon]

[queerstudiesnatural]

greta thunberg, liam cunningham, rima hassan, and everyone else on that ship, thank you, and i hope you succeed. i really hope you succeed. you know what you are risking, and i wish for you to come back safely, having done what you set out to do.

[queerstudiesnatural]

for those who don't know, the freedom fretilla, a ship headed to gaza to try and get some aid past the israeli siege, just left with among its crew swedish activist greta thunberg, irish actor liam cunningham, and french member of the european parliament rima hassan.

the ship has already been bombed twice during previous attempts at approaching gaza.

my only hope is that if we make enough noise this time, israel won't dare bomb it with such prominent international figures on board, from fear of making them martyrs and turning the rest of the world against them.

so talk about it, post about it, and expect, demand their mission to succeed and their safe return 🙏

the only power we have is political and economic pressure at this point. ethics are out of the picture when it comes to the israeli government. so we need to make it clear that bombing this ship would be a declaration of war against europe.

[vyeoh]

Track it here! Hopefully with more publicity and tracking on it, it won't get blown up by drones this time :)

[subdee]

Just an extremely Normal thing to say

Reminder they want to increase the budget for ICE from 3.5 to 45 billion dollars.

Reminder the majority of that will be for building new detention centers.

Reminder ICE are *currently* detaining tourists who can pay for a plane ticket home and people with visa issues that were already resolved, because they have to make quota so Trump can brag about the numbers going up.

Reminder most of these people were already in the immigration system - that's why they were easy to detain.

Reminder this is all at taxpayer expense.

Reminder these are people.

[necronomipod]

Reminder that these are people

[wizardarchetypes]

i think the scariest exam i ever took was in my Fisheries Management 400 course, the final semester of my degree. our final exam was an essay response to a management prompt. each of us pulled a slip of paper out of a jar at the start of the exam, for a unique fisheries management situation. like a recovery project in a salmon habitat, etc. then we wrote a response as if we were the project manager, detailing how we would manage, execute, and accomplish the project.

so i got my prompt and my heart sank because as i read it, i could only think that what i was assigned to manage was impossible. the prompt explained that a farmer asked me to stock a fishing pond with a specific species & create a self-sustaining population. based on the location and the ecological parameters of this imaginary pond, i knew it would be impossible to accomplish his goal to maintain a self-sustaining population of his target species.

basically, the answer was, "The client's request is not possible [short explanation as to why]" and "I would recommend alternative species, or repeated manual stocking."

In the end, my essay response was 3 sentences long. It took me 5 minutes to think over and write. By the time I wrote down my answer, most of my classmates hadn't even picked up their pencils. They were still thinking over their no doubt far more involved management prompts. We had 2 hours to take the exam.

I sat there having a crisis for 15 minutes until I finally walked to the front and put my notebook down on the professor's desk.

I said, quietly, unsure if he'd give me ANY hints, "surely.....this should be longer?" He raised his eyebrows and said, "Do you trust yourself and what you've learned in this class?" I said, "Uh. I think so?" He said, "Then you'll have to trust it's as long as it's supposed to be."

I decided to think those were encouraging words so I left the class, 15 minutes into a final exam that allowed 2 hours for my response.

Went home and took a Xanax. Got an 100%.

Nobody better ever do that to me EVER again.

[autismfox]

This is a completely unethical way to run an exam. Congratulations to you though I'm glad you succeeded.

[wizardarchetypes]

oh I disagree! this is a real-world fisheries management scenarios. people make unrealistic requests of wildlife & fisheries managers all the time. much of a fisheries & wildlife manager's career is explaining the why and how of a habitat and its populations. in my four years (and 7 fisheries management courses) at the school, I learned how to create, restore, and generally manage habitats for a variety of target fish species. i absolutely should be equipped to identify when a project isn't possible, communicate it to a client in terms they understand, and recommend alternatives. i absolutely should have known the answer to this question, and i did! it only threw me off because it was so simple. but it was only simple because i knew my stuff! this prompt tested me on my knowledge of game fish species, and their chemical, geographical, reproductive, temperature, and food source requirements. all things everyone else needed to know to answer their own prompts.

The reality is, "that won't work" is not an unusual answer in ecological management.

[libraford]

Once you start thinking about humans as a species in a biome, it affects your entire way of looking at normal things.

The other day I referred to female morning joggers as an 'indicator species' in that if you see women jogging in the dark it means that the environment provides migration pathways (sidewalks, clear signs) and doesn't have any known predators of female morning joggers (guy with knife, bear, BigTruck, male morning joggers).

Though, I think that people consider framing humans as animals reacting to their environment as rude.

[teaboot]

I tap the mic. “Most people don’t want to crawl down your chimney and steal your dog.”

the crowd murmurs uncertainly.

“If someone wants to steal your dog,” I continue, “there are easier ways to do that. They don’t have to crawl into a chimney.”

Murmuring intensifies. People stand in their seats and begin to boo.

“People disguising themselves as chimney sweepers and stealing dogs is not a rational fear,” I shout. “Literally anyone could steal your dog. Why make sweeping chimneys illegal?”

“I have a list of chimney sweeps who stole dogs from parks!” Someone yells, throwing a shoe.

“You seriously think no chimney sweepers could possibly ever steal from a home?” Another cries.

“Only a dog thief would even want to crawl into a chimney to begin with!” Says a third.

A single tear rolls down my cheek. They are all so fucking stupid

This is a metaphor

[thetimeicansee]

It amazes me how the National Park Service is the most vocal department against Fascism. Even the Democrats are a mumble when compared to these park rangers' adamant denouncement and exposing of this administration. Support our bravest federal workers who keep our world one worth living in.

[saltyduane]

Baldur's Gate, but they're all ensigns on a Galaxy-class starship - #4

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Awwwwwwwwww <3

[pyrrhiccomedy]

My wife and I have a little game we play called "Speaking From Ignorance."

To play Speaking From Ignorance, all you need is a phone with a voice recorder, and another person who knows considerably more or considerably less about a topic than you do. The topic can be anything: from "how to bake a quiche" to "what happens in the Peter Jackson Hobbit movies" to "who is Florence Pugh" to "how does the traveling salesman problem work." All that matters is that one of you has a firm grasp on the material, and one of you absolutely the fuck does not.

Then the person who knows about the topic turns on the recorder, and says to the person who knows barely anything: "Hey - tell me everything you think you know about [X]."

The speaker is then not allowed to ask any questions. Nor is the expert allowed to volunteer any information. The expert is allowed to pipe up with a faintly incredulous "Oh--really? Do you--do you think so?" from time to time, but for the most part, the expert's job is just to sit there and make encouraging sounds while the speaker digs their own grave.

This is never not funny.

The reason you record it is because, very often, the first thing the speaker wants to do after finishing the recording is find out how you actually make a quiche, or whatever. Then you both get to go back and listen to how wrong they were.

We have a small library now of Speaking From Ignorance recordings, and I'm going to be listening to them until I'm eighty.