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WK / a whole ass adult man / autistic and kweer If you can read this, no you can't. You never found me. I never existed.

[oncorhynchus-nerka]

VERY IMPORTANT a dam in the Netherlands, the weerdsluis lock, is directly on a migratory path for spawning fish. They have a worker stationed there to open the door for the fish, but they can take a while to open it. So to keep the fish from getting preyed on by birds they installed a doorbell. Only, the fish don't have hands to ring the doorbell. If you go to their website, they have a LIVE CAMERA AND A DOORBELL that YOU RING FOR THE FISH when they're waiting, and then the dam worker opens the door for them! I can't express how obsessed I am with this. look at this shit. oh my god.

Please check on the fish doorbell once in a while :)

[alex51324]

I just looked, and there are 170 other people on there, also checking to see if there are fish waiting.

Please remember, if ever you are tempted to make a sweeping statement about human nature, that on this night in March, 2024, while war rages, there are 171 of us looking to see if a fish needs us to ring a doorbell.

Plenty else is going on, but also that.

(PS, the site says that the busiest times for fish are sunrise and sunset, which for now are at about 6:30, AM and PM, local time. Local time in Utrecht is 1 hour ahead of GMT, 5 hours ahead of EST, if that helps. I'm going to try to remember to check back again around 2 AM my time, when it will be morning for the fish!)

[genderkoolaid]

If “man” and “woman” are opposed and mutually exclusive categories, if men can only ever be predators and women can only ever be prey, then trans men can’t exist. We are logically impossible under the terms of the current system. You either “treat us like men” by voiding out half our lives, or you write us back into womanhood by denying our male identities. I knew all that, at least in theory, but when I came out, I actually saw my life story disappearing into other people’s blind spots. I watched myself become unthinkable in real time.

— Eraserhead: On writer's block and being a gender traitor by Jude Doyle

[theinconvenientlifestyle]

[theinconvenientlifestyle]

This is the rest of the Instagram post for the bds national committee for anyone who doesn't have Instagram

[genderkoolaid]

people on this site will be like fascists are so awful! btw all of my political opponents are inhuman scum that deserve death

[pro-anomalocaris]

A friend of mine with Anti-Social Personality Disorder once summed it up very nicely:

"People accuse me of thinking of others as not people because of my condition. They then say sociopaths like me aren't human. Humanity, for a lot of "good" people, is contingent on how acceptable you are to them or how much like them you are. It's not inherent to being a member of the species. The cops inside their heads are running their lives."

[shazleen]

CHILCHUCK TIMS SAYS WORKERS RIGHTS!!

Inspirational words for freelancers, hourly paid workers and salarymen alike

(There will be stickers, watch this space :,,)

[soon-palestine]

[windkonig]

when people say "ok but x bug has no benefit to nature" I bet they can't even name 5 facts about the bug they're shitting on. so how could they Possibly know what its function is in the environment and if it's "useless" or not

wasps being the perfect example, I still get people saying "oh bees are cute and pollinate :) yay. but WASPS ARE EVIL and they don't contribute ANYTHING!!!" and it's like buddy. wasps pollinate too. they also control spider populations. they do a lot of great valuable things. but even if they didn't, they're still worthy of being here. I see SO much hatred toward wasps and I wish people would try to learn a little more about them.

I'm mainly talking about paper wasps here because these are common ones we run into in daily life and most commonly deemed "aggressive". but wasps have body language. and if you learn to read this language and learn how to properly act around them, things will go a lot better for you! wasps can be curious creatures and they may come up to observe you, especially if you're wearing something brightly colored. this can be startling for sure, but my best advice is to just be still, DO NOT SWAT or wave your arms. try to just back away or sidestep so it loses interest and leaves. swatting is just gonna make them feel as if they are being attacked and increase your chances of being stung.

many stings happen due to unfortunate but accidental circumstances. unknowingly getting too close to a nest, stepping on a wasp on accident, one getting stuck in clothing, etc. I got stung once while gardening, went to pull a weed and the wasp was on it, so I grabbed her without knowing and she stung me because she was scared. this doesn't mean "oh wasps are AGGRESSIVE and EVIL" it means you stumbled into an unfortunate situation where the wasps felt threatened and defensive. instead of being like "FUCK all wasps" go forward trying to learn about common nesting areas, be wary of holes in the ground, wear gloves while gardening, and if you do have to be around a nest, try not to make a lot of noise. if the nest absolutely needs removed, call a professional.

[shailion]

i had a paper wasp nest next to my front door for about 5 months and the only aggressive thing they did was go \!/ when i was being too annoying with my camera.

Now the next generation is building a nest near the same spot and they continue being perfectly polite polistes :)

pictured are guards doing the warning stance \!/ and a satellite nest filled with fat and happy grubs showing how close they let me get.

[stitched-snake-sidez]

I understand this, but what about ticks? Do they serve any purpose?

[crevicedwelling]

the natural world will make so much more sense to you when you stop trying to make animals have a “purpose.” thinking about animals having “jobs” is a good teaching tool up to a point but I don’t think it’s stressed enough how harmful it is to believe certain organisms could disappear without consequence because they are “useless.”

from our human perspective, we can come up with relationships between organisms that cause things to happen in ways that we can arbitrarily define as “good” or “bad”: ticks redistribute nutrients “locked up” in mammalian bodies, feeding spiders and birds that could never hope to take down a whole deer; ticks spread disease that weakens or kills animals, reducing pressure on those animals’ food sources; etc. but those relationships don’t happen for a “purpose.” they just happen. and evolution has shaped environments with ticks in them to account for the presence of ticks and other parasites. I’m not saying that every environment is dependent on ticks, just that they are part of everything, and that’s enough.

we can’t let our selfishness dictate what animals we deem “useless” or “valuable.” I ask, useless to whom?

what “purpose” does the Devils Hole pupfish serve? they exist in a single puddle in Nevada and if they did go extinct it probably would have no effect at all on the rest of the natural world. but I think many people would agree that it would be a shame if they disappeared—that’s why we’re trying so hard to protect them. they matter to people because they exist.

what “purpose” do domestic cats serve? they provide comfort to humans and kill billions of animals every year, placing some species in peril. if they went extinct, countless endangered small animals would be saved—and humans would be sad. because of how much cats matter to people, we’ve allowed them to erase entire species.

what “purpose” do ticks serve? they suck blood, but some suck only rhinoceros blood, or tortoise blood, making those species in peril of extinction because their hosts are in peril—what to do about those? does their parasitic lifestyle make them less worthy of life than the pupfish? more common species transmit diseases, feed other animals, and maybe do lots of other things we just don’t know about. we don’t know what would happen if they disappeared. it’s impossible to make a consistent definition of an animal’s “purpose” without bringing selfishness or changing what that purpose means. just let animals exist to exist, please

[whydidisavethistomyphone]

[saintjosie]

wow. for once i can truly say i am so proud of my hometown

[silly-ehggy]

is 60°F warm or cool

warm

cool

Voting ended onMay 3, 2024

No in between. Reblog if you vote pleas

[silly-ehggy]

Again, please reblog if you vote. At least like, man

[spock-shock]

I know "60s housewives who invented slash fanfiction" has taken on a life of its own as a phrase, but Kirk/Spock didn't really exist until the 70s and THOSE WOMEN HAD JOBS. They were teachers and librarians and bookkeepers and scientists and they damn well spent their own money going to conventions, printing zines, buying fanart and making fandom happen. Put some respect on their names.

[spock-shock]

Salute to our troops (70s careerwomen who put their hard-earned dollars into homemade gay erotica)

[mrsmarymorstan]

It was women with secretarial jobs doing a lot of the heavy lifting, if memory serves correctly.

They had training in type setting, could churn things out quickly, knew how to organise mailing lists, and had easy access to Expensive High Tech like photocopiers.

Boss make a dollar, she makes a dime. That's why she's printing Kirk X Spock zines on company time.

[moringmark]

[runcibility]

I liked this post, scrolled for like another minute before I went “SHIT FUCK SHIT” and scrolled back to reblog it

[quadriviummuse]

I always reblog this one when I see it on my dash. When someone posts their own art, writing, or music here they are really hoping you will share it.

[louisegluckpdf]

umm how to be a dog by andrew kane. btw.

[louisegluckpdf]

in case you didnt fucking know

[lady-raziel]

i'm sorry but this is the only submission to this trend that i'll consider giving any thought to

[lady-raziel]

i say this with 100% sincerity: if you want to know who monica lewkinsky is, she's the person who deserves to be back in the white house more than any person alive and she should get full rights to execute any 1990s comedians of her choice by firing squad. she deserves to be on the $20 bill and have her own monument on the national mall, but instead she's happy with reclaiming the narrative. she should have been america's people's princess instead of diana. we don't deserve her.

[strangermask]

Okay, so I did google her and the scandal you mentioned in the tags, and I have two things to say

1. Holy shit

2. Yeah, I think she has the best one for the trend

[stainlessteelwaterbottle]

youre telling me a ham fisted this metaphor??

[victoriankeysmash]

[shadowthehedgehogmovie]

[thequeeninyellowlace]

[anxiety-elemental-kay]

[jadedanddark]

"I'm going to tell you a story with a joke at the end.

"This happened a long long time ago when the gods were little like me. Loki was a little baby. He wanted to go outside but they told him, 'no you are a baby.' He said it was too hot inside, and they said it was too cold to go out.

"He went out anyway and they said 'come inside it's too cold for babies,' but he just climbed a tree and they couldn't reach him. And he swung around from tree to tree like a macaque until he was all nice and cooled off, then he slid down the tree.

"When he gets to the bottom his hands are all full of sap and splinters. So he pulled them all out and put them in the fire, and it made a smell like your smoky stuff, Mama. They opened the window and it wasn't so hot inside anymore. The end."

"And what's the joke, sweetie?"

"Oh! Why did the chicken go to the underworld?"

"Why?"

"TO GET TO THE OTHER SIDE!"

(original tale from my kid who is four and apparently knows a secret story about Loki as a child inventing incense. Also that joke slaps.)

[asneakyfox]

the idea that restrooms, locker rooms, etc need to be single-sex spaces in order for women to be safe is patriarchy's way of signalling to men & boys that society doesn't expect them to behave themselves around women. it is directly antifeminist. it would be antifeminist even if trans people did not exist. a feminist society would demand that women should be safe in all spaces even when there are men there.

[asneakyfox]

btw this is maybe the single most key distinguishing feature of the terfy strains of radical feminism, the seed all the rest of it springs out of: they have absolutely no faith in the ability of feminism to actually destroy patriarchy. they do not think feminism can truly build a better world. they cannot really even imagine that possibility. they think patriarchy is an inevitable natural consequence of unchangeable biological facts, and therefore the goal of feminism can only be to mitigate the worst effects of patriarchy, not to get rid of it.

they can imagine a society where women get some designated safe spaces without men around. they cannot imagine a society where the presence of men is not inherently a danger to women.

[dostoyevsky-official]

somehow the poor cops who we were told are simply too understaffed and underpaid because of Woke to deal with 'rampant rising crime' have found the strength to beat the shit out of college students across the whole country for peacefully saying "divest from the country killing innocent palestinians in the tens of thousands"