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tracy, 23, norcal i like turtles and tofu and things

[profeminist]

Source

Want more info? Here ya go: 

This Biology Teacher Disproved Transphobia With Science 

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Sex redefined

“The idea of two sexes is simplistic. Biologists now think there is a wider spectrum than that.”

More on anti-trans arguments as bad science

[eternal-nova-deactivated2018011]

I LOVE THIS

[polysixxxx]

Reblog cuz I didn’t even know some of this shit.

[deadmugen]

the world is way too weird for that shit

[yourplayersaidwhat]

The following are all quotes from the dwarf summoner mentioned in this post. Some may be paraphrased.

Dwarf: “I open the door.”

DM: “Okay, you–”

Dwarf: “With my beard.”

DM: “–break your jaw.”

~~~~~

Dwarf: “What stats does my beard get, anyways?”

DM: “You can’t stat your beard out as a separate character!”

Dwarf: “…are you sure?”

~~~~~

Dwarf: “If I summon an owl fast enough, does it count as a throwing weapon?”

DM: *solely because he won’t stop asking* “…I’m going to regret this, but yes.”

Dwarf: “If I give him a pointy helmet, does he do piercing damage?”

DM: *regretting*

~~~~~

Dwarf: “I call upon divine intervention to make the suicidal paladin immortal!”

~~~~~

Dwarf, to tiny-size mage: “Hey, I bet you’re small enough to ride my owl!”

~~~~~

Rogue: “You hippogryph’d an entire town!?”

Dwarf: “It was an accident.”

[yesterdaysprint]

Barnard Bulletin, New York, December 20, 1935

[doctorbluesmanreturns]

Glad to know that the people in 1935 were EXACTLY the same as we are lol

[sunlightinabelljar-deactivated2]

so apparently when my sister and i were little we took golfing classes and we got kicked out after a week. the reason being that the old white male instructor kept calling my 4 year old sister Maria “Mary” after she told him several times that her name is pronounced Maria. anyway, at one point, he tells her “well, that doesn’t matter anymore. you’re in America now.” and that distressed my sister so much that she hit him with her golf club.

that’s not what did the damage, though. what fucked that old dude up is that i saw my sister hit him from where i was standing and i ran over and started beating him with MY golf club. my mom says that i didn’t know what the hell was happening, but i squared up.

that’s why we got kicked out.

[starlightandtears]

Please look at the contestants for the upcoming season of The Bachelor and laugh with me.

[loveaintforkeeping]

When you say you play D&D

What people hear: I’m a gigantic fucking nerd

What you’re actually saying: I’m a gigantic fucking nerd with at least 3 friends that tolerate my presence on a weekly basis

[menpale]

[little-kittykitty-deactivated20]

[targuzzler-deactivated20180224]

the only topic i am 100% a centrist about is cats vs dogs because they’re both good and theres no argument they both love you so dont fight

[jeoff-deactivated20170909]

[shook-ti]

[blindlamar]

I feel like this could be anything.

Take your meds. Flip off that asshole. Be unapologetically loud and brash. Love with your whole being.

[onegoodscare]

I can’t believe I just witnessed Luke Skywalker annihilate the Zodiac Killer with my own two eyes.

[averagefairy]

old people really need to learn how to text accurately to the mood they’re trying to represent like my boss texted me wondering when my semester is over so she can start scheduling me more hours and i was like my finals are done the 15th! And she texts back “Yay for you….” how the fuck am i supposed to interpret that besides passive aggressive

[runawaymarbles]

Someone needs to do a linguistic study on people over 50 and how they use the ellipsis. It’s FASCINATING. I never know the mood they’re trying to convey.

[feynites]

I actually thought for a long time that texting just made my mother cranky. But then I watched my sister send her a funny text, and my mother was laughing her ass off. But her actual texted response?

“Ha… right.”

Like, she had actual goddamn tears in her eyes, and that was what she considered an appropriate reply to the joke.I just marvelled for a minute like ‘what the actual hell?’ and eventually asked my mom a few questions. I didn’t want to make her feel defensive or self-conscious or anything, it just kind of blew my mind, and I wanted to know what she was thinking.

Turns out that she’s using the ellipsis the same way I would use a dash, and also to create ‘more space between words’ because it ‘just looks better to her’. Also, that I tend to perceive an ellipsis as an innate ‘downswing’, sort of like the opposite of the upswing you get when you ask a question, but she doesn’t. And that she never uses exclamation marks, because all her teachers basically drilled it into her that exclamation marks were horrible things that made you sound stupid and/or aggressive.

So whereas I might sent a response that looked something like:

“Yay! That sounds great - where are we meeting?”

My mother, whilst meaning the exact same thing, would go:

‘Yay. That sounds great… where are we meeting?”

And when I look at both of those texts, mine reads like ‘happy/approval’ to my eye, whereas my mother’s looks flat. Positive phrasing delivered in a completely flat tone of voice is almost always sarcastic when spoken aloud, so written down, it looks sarcastic or passive-aggressive.

On the reverse, my mother thinks my texts look, in her words, ‘ditzy’ and ‘loud’. She actually expressed confusion, because she knows I write and she thinks that I write well when I’m constructing prose, and she, apparently, could never understand why I ‘wrote like an airhead who never learned proper English’ in all my texts. It led to an interesting discussion on conversational text. Texting and text-based chatting are, relatively, still pretty new, and my mother’s generation by and large didn’t grow up writing things down in real-time conversations. The closest equivalent would be passing notes in class, and that almost never went on for as long as a text conversation might. But letters had been largely supplanted by telephones at that point, so ‘conversational writing’ was not a thing she had to master. 

So whereas people around my age or younger tend to text like we’re scripting our own dialogue and need to convey the right intonations, my mom writes her texts like she’s expecting her Eighth grade English teacher to come and mark them in red pen. She has learned that proper punctuation and mistakes are more acceptable, but when she considers putting effort into how she’s writing, it’s always the lines of making it more formal or technically correct, and not along the lines of ‘how would this sound if you said it out loud?’

[corporation-cats]

[asapscience]

Fair. [Reddit]

[ithelpstodream]

Japanese photographer Hisakata Hiroyuki has decided to dedicate a fair portion of his time to shooting cats during their totally serious combat practices, and the result is purrrfect.

[setheverman]

what’s the real mood for november?

[homotology]