It Is What It Is

28 / german / queer // priorities are silly goosing and having a jolly good time™

[lapislaluzie]

where there should be childhood memories are only gnome facts. and other such knowledge

[proxima-bee]

can you imagine how good shows would be if writers thought of women as human beings

[theartofmadeline]

happy pride to the gay people in my computer <3

[8nin]

"There's millions of Tumblr users" to you. To me There's only about 12 and we all reblog the same five posts from each other

[stonesense]

"i'm soooo glad that this new female character finally proved that you can be feminine and powerful! because media usually doesn’t let strong female characters be feminine!” yeah that is so crazy btw what planet do you live on and how can i get there

[werewolf-transgenderism]

only 62 more frogs until we hit 8,000 species described. the moment we've all been waiting for

[werewolf-transgenderism]

there are an average of about 150 new amphibian species described per year so I remain hopeful that 2026 will be the year of 8,000 frogs

[werewolf-transgenderism]

I do love that somebody tagged tumblr's own frog scientist on this post. chop chop dr scherz, we've got 62 more frogs to discover and you're the only frog scientist any of us knows

[werewolf-transgenderism]

GUYS amphibian species of the world is still at 7,994 species of frog BUT amphibiaweb is at 8,008 species of frog, and do you know who is a co-author on the 8,000th species of frog there???? TUMBLR'S OWN FROG SCIENTIST DR SCHERZ

[markscherz]

[captain-price-returns]

A real page on the White House website

[thatwizarddyke]

evergreen tweet

[thefiresontheheight]

A woman not shaving or wearing a dress or wearing makeup or wearing femme clothes or having styled or long hair or caring how she looks or using a masc name or whatever else is actually a neutral thing and not a sign of her being depressed or giving up or being sad or whatever

[camerahoax]

men got a taste of women's beauty standards and immediately started bashing their facial bones with hammers

[yamada-ryo]

Average nonusamerican [tumblr] experience be like:

- poll

1. seemingly obvious answer 35%

2. not obvious answer 12%

4. I'm bald 54%

- reblog

I can't believe you guys. This is taught in every AMERICAN school. It's literally part of the AMERICAN syllabus. You must've been a bad person and slept in class or skiving off when your AMERICAN teacher was going through this. If you didn't know this you are a bad person and should be ashamed of yourself

[yasmin1000000]

- poll What Continent is this?

Africa 12%

I dont knowwwwwwww 75%

im bald 13%

- reblog

its not our freaking fault the US school system is so bad it failed us all so bad you dont even realise how bads it is here we dont know anything its not oiur fault its not my falts its not my fault

[virtualgirladvance]

- post

damn its starting to get a little chilly here

- reblogs

WHAT DO YOU MEAN ITS GETTING COLD?!!? SUMMER JUST STARTED!!!! THE FUCK ARE YOU MARS??

[ibijau]

On topic for pride month is looking through old french chanson de geste and finding one about a trans man/masc lesbian

This princess runs away from her incestuous father by disguising as a man, and of course becomes a cool awesome knight (this IS a chanson de geste) and marries a princess, and when outed to his father in law and forced to undress to prove they're a dude, an angel comes down to announce he's fully a man now and will soon get the princess with child, and the shitty king who wanted to kill the queer couple will die in a week.

anyway look up Yde and Olive. I think there should be more modern retellings of that story. It'd be fun.

[loki-zen]

has anyone considered that it was probably her house too. where else was she supposed to put her chintz?

[mtndewpitchblack]

[dyk-this-musical-song]

Visit Original Link

Do you know this TV Show Song? #22

I know the song and the show

I know the song but not the show

I know the show but not the song

I may know this

I have never heard this

Remaining time: 5 days 6 hours

[skygenders]

Good news everyone you don’t have to have kids

[heated-blanket]

they’re foreclosing on my mind palace

[thefibrarchaeologist]

The Humboldt university Berlin ist about to have their archaeology department closed down. Here is the link to the campaign to protest that, if anyone wants to take a look:

https://weact.campact.de/petitions/schliessung-des-instituts-fur-archaologie-an-der-hu-berlin?source=rec-wa&utm_medium=recommendation&utm_source=rec-wa&share=dd65d3ef-b73e-438e-9dff-5e37287cc1b1

[local-hellhound-steals-spaghetti]

“At least he died free” apparently also applies to whales that strand now.

These people will tout whales as these incredibly intelligent beings and then think that they’re stupid enough to strand while being healthy.

Sure, some healthy whales and dolphins strand due to storm surges, hunting techniques and misadventure. Or for social reasons, like mass strandings of pilot whales.

But it’s far more likely that a whale that strands is a whale that was either too weak to swim against the currents pushing them ashore or they chose to swim into shallow water. Because it is much safer to be in shallow, calmer waters than in the deep sea.

People have this idea of the deep ocean as this idyllic place. The sun beats down mercilessly out there - if you’re too weak to swim you’re too weak to dive. Depending on the ocean, it can be extremely choppy and hard to keep afloat in if you have no energy.

It’s also a very vulnerable place to be as a sick animal. Easy prey for pelagic sharks and killer whales. They might even start getting picked at by seabirds if they’re logging at the surface.

Not to mention this was a lone juvenile humpback without a social group, competition pod or nursery pod to keep him safe in numbers.

The ocean is beautiful but it is indifferent to you. It doesn’t care if you live or die, it won’t protect you if you’re out there.

Timmy didn’t care about the human concept of “freedom”. We can only assume that he was sick and dying and looking for a peaceful place to die. His vocalisations and rapid rasping exhales showed us he was stressed and sick. But the people who painted themselves as his saviours decided it meant he was happy. Because they were Saving him.

Because apparently he was too stupid to get himself stranded but somehow intelligent enough to be able to know what humans were and that their hands all over him and their loud and noisy barge and their cheers and laughter were good actually!

And I have no doubt that these people will keep telling themselves they did the Right Thing and that the experts and scientists were still wrong.

And that they definitely weren’t involved with what appears to now be the most expensive and stressful euthanasia of a stranded whale in history.

[local-hellhound-steals-spaghetti]

Another thought I had is the way people talk about Timmy’s stranding is that it’s as if she was somehow brought there by an external force, which kept her “trapped”.

There’s this bizarre crossover between anti cap speak happening here. This idea that a stranded whale is “captive” and that they must be “freed.”

As if the whale themselves didn’t move to shallow waters to die. Or as if it wasn’t simply the natural ocean currents that pushed the weakened whale ashore.

Timmy had remnants of a gill net in her mouth, which would have made it very difficult for her to feed. The only forces that are to blame here are the dumping of fishing gear in our oceans that entangle and kill marine life.

The same force of nature that killed Timmy is ultimately the same that brought her to that sandbar. Yet these detractors of marine mammal science speak as if she was forced to strand by some intangible means.

That they had to “free” Timmy by dragging her back out into the open ocean, quite literally, because she didn’t know what was best for her. And the heroic humans saved her from what she had likely chosen to do.

And then they say. “Better to die free in the open ocean than a sandbank.” Is it? Or are you just projecting some bizarre naturalism fallacy as a way to stick it to governments and scientists that told you not do something?