it's ok to linger

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[quaintpanic]

I WAS BORN YESTERDAY. I JUST BLEW IN FROM STUPID TOWN. THIS IS MY FIRST RODEO. PLEASE BE PATIENT WITH ME.

[twofingerswhiskey]

reblog if you hate the current interior design trend of painting everything white with hints of grey or black. ignore if you have no taste

[lavenderek]

painted one of my walls last week

[tragbarerpanzrabwehrkomplexfagot]

[thememedaddy]

[tastefullyoffensive]

(photos by Bill Watterson and an octopus)

[transparasite-deactivated201806]

I think this is the best scientist photograph I have ever seen.

[shellysbees-blog]

But people didn’t believe him on reddit. So Watterson made the photo sequence into a gif.

[moonlit-hedge]

Here’s the gif for anyone curious.

[siren-kitten-his-deactivated202]

I had to go through the notes to find the gif. Not because I didn’t believe him but because I wanted to see it.

[illisidifan]

Fantastic

[zszsze]

slicing through a stick of butter is essentially an impossible task unless your knife is glowing red hot

[grumfy]

yeah actually we removed the big bad wolf from the little red riding hood story because portraying violence against minors is really messed up. yeah. yeah also the wolf narrative was really predatory and had had some icky grooming vibes and a fable meant for literal children shouldn’t have implied p*do shit and grape so now little red riding hood goes into the woods and nothing happens and she goes to grandma’s house. don’t worry our kids will still stick to the path and know not to follow to wolves implicitly because we told them to and children should always do as their told. just like little red riding hood does now.

[nyahkennay]

u can lift it bunny

[stephensondheim]

I hope its ok i painted your bunny

[peachy-faery]

you are my peach, you are my plum

[footlongdingledong]

had a dream that there was this new tiktok trend called "scrubbing" where people would take images of fictional characters and put them in images of bathtubs and drag around transparent pngs of soap and brushes with their tiktok art tablets and like liquify tool their hair down to mimic giving them a shower. and people would get into flamewars in the comments of every single video over the types of soap they picked and if the images had decently removed backgrounds and if they got soap in their eyes. and it got onto the news because it turned out everyone doing the trend was doing it compulsively like they physically couldn't stop and each video was a solid few minutes long because they were just collectively obsessively recording themselves fake-showering these fictional characters and arguing about it online

[footlongdingledong]

for the record I have never used tiktok and like explicitly in the dream I learned about it secondhand from a discord server so there's that also which is funny I think

[hellsitegenetics]

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Closest match: Mya arenaria isolate MELC-2E11 chromosome 1 Common name: Soft-Shell Clam

[so-much-to-read-deactivated2025]

This damn site. If I described this site as accurately as I could, I would be unable to justify the time I spend here.

[orpheuslament]

i need (abruptly stops talking & stares at some random fixed point with a vacant expression)

[pissvortex]

[lovej0ys-deactivated20240212]

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[quasi-normalcy]

wow if only everyone warned you about AI hallucination.

[uncle-fruity]

I do actually think some people choose to be trans, and I also think that's a cool & valid choice to make. I think the only reason to deny this is to make cis & transmedicalist people more comfortable -- to define being transgender as a medical problem to be solved instead of recognizing that gender is a cultural construct we create & perform for ourselves.

Not all of us knew we were One True Gender Born in the Wrong Body since we were 3. Some of us learned that we *could* be trans somewhere along the way and said, "Damn, that's cool as fuck! Get me in there!"

[padmestrilogy]

real tears in my eyes

[newsandstuffisee]

[leprecon98]

Part of the problem is that Harris is a woman. This simple fact would not have really affected things in most democracies, but the American electorate grapples with a particular brand of cultural misogyny that leads them to doubt any woman in positions of power. It’s not just out-and-out woman haters, it’s a whole web of unconscious biases that may be held across the entire political spectrum.

Qualified, competent, and experienced women like Harris and Clinton before her should not be able to lose to an odious cretin like Trump. That would be the case if they were handled with any honesty by the media and the voter base. But because they are women, they were put under the microscope for every little thing they said and did. Harris couldn’t even so much as bark a laugh without people thinking it was weird, and that’s saying nothing of the remarkably large amount of people concerned about their being ‘too emotional’, in apparent ignorance of the man who makes stroppy toddlers look like monks who have undertaken vows of silence.

And that’s before we get to policy. On a policy level, Harris and Clinton were both objectively superior to anything Trump could ever dribble out of the secondary anal cavity he calls a mouth. But as I said above, they were endlessly scrutinised over everything, relevant and otherwise. Trump was allowed to say whatever the fuck he wanted, Harris couldn’t so much as employ nuance without getting hounded from both sides of the aisle.

Welp. Here we are. The world is objectively worse off in just about every metric because the American electorate chose to vote for a man who had only a few years previously already demonstrated on a constant basis his utter incompetence and generally repulsive nature.

And I get the feeling that the next woman to try shooting for the White House will face the exact same fucking pushback. Many countries around the world have voted for women as their national leaders. Some have been good, some have been bad, but what matters is that they were indeed voted for. Will America ever get past this seemingly insignificant hurdle?