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The African bullfrog is the biggest frog in Africa and very aggressive. But in spite of that, it’s a devoted father. Bullfrogs spawn in little pools around the margins of larger ponds and after mating is over one male stays to keep watch over the newly hatched tadpoles. If the pool begins to dry up the dutiful dad digs a channel to a new water source.
A perfectly natural heterosexual black swan couple raising their cute fluffy babies together as God intended <3
SIKE
THEY'RE GAY
And they're not some rare exception to the rule, either!!!
About 25% of black swan couples consist of two swans of the same sex (typically, two males).
These couples will court each other, build a nest, and raise their young together in a more-or-less committed monogamous relationship.
In fact, these same-sex couples have a high success rate of 80% when raising their young to adulthood, as opposed to the 30% of their heterosexual counterparts! Two big buff papa swans are better than one when it comes to stomping on invaders of nesting territory.
"But," I hear you say, "where do their baby floofballs come from? Does mpreg exist among black swans?"
Alas, no, but there is a very elegant solution to this. The swan couple may simply temporarily associate themselves with a female swan.
Afterwards, the female swan deposits their eggs and swims off free to live her single girlie life if she wishes (or, find a boyfriend. Preferably one who isn't already committed to another boyfriend.)
So whenever someone commits the naturalistic fallacy "homosexuality bad because unnatural >:(" I like to point out not only their glaring illogicality, but also, respectfully, there is homosexuality happening in the local lake right now.
you don't understand the only way to keep children safe is to isolate them from everyone except the people who are statistically most likely to abuse them
We need to lay more blame for "Kids don't know how computers work" at the feet of the people responsible: Google.
Google set out about a decade ago to push their (relatively unpopular) chromebooks by supplying them below-cost to schools for students, explicitly marketing them as being easy to restrict to certain activities, and in the offing, kids have now grown up in walled gardens, on glorified tablets that are designed to monetize and restrict every movement to maximize profit for one of the biggest companies in the world.
Tech literacy didn't mysteriously vanish, it was fucking murdered for profit.
I just saw a video title on YouTube that said something like “Why is glass transparent?” And that’s an interesting question and I’m sure it’s great that the video exists but my first thought was like “Because glass is terrible, obviously.” Because it’s unwieldy and let’s out warmth and needs to be heated to hundreds of degrees to be shaped and turns into hundreds of tiny daggers if you drop it. Why the hell would we bother with that if it didn’t have some magical quality like being totally transparent despite being solid? Glass is transparent because if it weren’t, we’d use something else.
If you’re still curious we did not start working glass for its transparency. It was most likely started as a sanitary concern. Glass is easy to clean with soap and water, once it’s cleaned out you can use it again for anything and no germs or flavor from the previous meal or drink will remain.
Other materials at the time, namely clay, would absorb flavors and germs meaning that if you ate beef off a clay plate your next meal with that plate could have beef flavor and microbes common on cow meat on it. That would leak out seemingly at random no less. Heck imagine a sick person coughing into their soup bowl and then months later their germs hiding in the clay would pop out to infect whole new people.
Also the earliest human use of glass we know of is for its sharpness. Pre-historic people would use volcanic glass as sharp knives for food preparation. Also beads. Pretty much any new substance humans get their hands on for most of our history we immediately try to make into beads.
The fact that it could become see through was a side benefit.
helen “trans people are perpetuating gender steriotypes” joyce is now upset that the scientific american is writing about how women were hunters too back in the day, not just mothers and caretakers. feminist win!
Reading the article I see why TERFs are mad about it; it explicitly makes the distinction between gender as a social entity and sex as a biological category, and defines biological sex having multiple factors, both of which are anathema to TERF philosophy.
It also includes these fascinating paragraphs about the role of estrogen in different types of physical activity, directly debunking the widespread notion that estrogen is the weak human's hormone and only does weak human things:
Given the fitness world's persistent touting of the hormone testosterone for athletic success, you'd be forgiven for not knowing that estrogen, which females typically produce more of than males, plays an incredibly important role in athletic performance… The estrogen receptor—the protein that estrogen binds to in order to do its work—is deeply ancient. Joseph Thornton of the University of Chicago and his colleagues have estimated that it is around 1.2 billion to 600 million years old—roughly twice as old as the testosterone receptor. In addition to helping regulate the reproductive system, estrogen influences fine-motor control and memory, enhances the growth and development of neurons, and helps to prevent hardening of the arteries.
Important for the purposes of this discussion, estrogen also improves fat metabolism. During exercise, estrogen seems to encourage the body to use stored fat for energy before stored carbohydrates. Fat contains more calories per gram than carbohydrates do, so it burns more slowly, which can delay fatigue during endurance activity. Not only does estrogen encourage fat burning, but it also promotes greater fat storage within muscles… which makes that fat's energy more readily available. Adiponectin, another hormone that is typically present in higher amounts in females than in males, further enhances fat metabolism while sparing carbohydrates for future use, and it protects muscle from breakdown. Anne Friedlander of Stanford University and her colleagues found that females use as much as 70 percent more fat for energy during exercise than males.
Estrogen's ability to increase fat metabolism and regulate the body's response to the hormone insulin can help prevent muscle breakdown during intense exercise. Furthermore, estrogen appears to have a stabilizing effect on cell membranes that might otherwise rupture from acute stress brought on by heat and exercise. Ruptured cells release enzymes called creatine kinases, which can damage tissues… Linda Lamont of the University of Rhode Island and her colleagues, as well as Michael Riddell of York University in Canada and his colleagues, found that females experienced less muscle breakdown than males after the same bouts of exercise. Tellingly, in a separate study, Mazen J. Hamadeh of York University and his colleagues found that males supplemented with estrogen suffered less muscle breakdown during cycling than those who didn't receive estrogen supplements.
The article also talks about sexual dimorphism in different species, concluding that "Modern humans have low sexual dimorphism compared with the other great apes," and that overemphasis on averages obscures the wide dispersal of individual traits, which is what I keep saying.
Anthropologists also look at damage on our ancestors' skeletons for clues to their behavior. Neandertals are the best-studied extinct members of the human family because we have a rich fossil record of their remains. Neandertal females and males do not differ in their trauma patterns, nor do they exhibit sex differences in pathology from repetitive actions. Their skeletons show the same patterns of wear and tear. This finding suggests that they were doing the same things, from ambush-hunting large game animals to processing hides for leather. Yes, Neandertal women were spearing woolly rhinoceroses, and Neandertal men were making clothing.
Trans men are now forced to use women's restrooms in Kansas
Erin in the Morning's reports on how the Kansas “Compliance Crew” action exposes the contradiction at the heart of anti-trans bathroom laws. Men are forced to use women's bathrooms.
Supporters claim that forcing trans people to use restrooms assigned for their so-called "biological sex" (i.e. gender assigned at birth) keeps men out of women’s spaces. But Kansas SB244 directs many men - trans men - to use women's restrooms.
On August 8, three “bearded, burly” trans men used the women’s restroom and changing area at Long Branch Lagoon Water Park in Dodge City, as state law requires them to do. Police were called, and the men reportedly had to explain intimate details about their bodies to avoid arrest.
The point was not to frighten anyone. The men were making visible what lawmakers prefer to hide:
That the laws forces trans men to use women's restrooms,
That trans women and trans men are exposed to verbal and physical violence if they are forced to use the wrong restrooms.
That the law creates an atmosphere of suspicion, where even cis people may have to undergo invasive questioning and genital inspections.
Such laws stop many trans people from using any public bathrooms, forcing them to stay at home.
If trans men use men’s rooms, transphobes object; if they use women’s rooms, they are treated as threats. Trans people are not a danger in public bathrooms. Bathroom bans are. They invite surveillance, vigilantism and police involvement in ordinary acts of daily life.
Police Called on Trans Men Using Women's Restroom As Required By Kansas Law
Bearded Trans Men Entered Women’s Restrooms Across Kansas to Expose Its Bathroom Law
They buy them ready-made and stuff. Don't learn The Skills. Put them in a room with traditional materials and they do fuck all for insulation or padding.
Urban omegas are the pigeons of the omegaverse world. Their nest has three cigarettes and a takeout menu. Also wallpaper from grandma's (it's a healthy green!) (Arsenic).
If it isn't ready-made, it's got like. plastic bags from local chinese takeout in the lining
WAIT NO, IT'S ALSO r/malelivingspaces
"I just met this really hot omega, but look at. whatever it is." and it's like thirty deconstructed amazon boxes and a bunch of scarves from a street vendor.
"He keeps saying that cardboard is good insulation? I think he glued them together so they'd stay in place?"
"Guys I think if I try to fuck him it's going to fall apart and then he's going to cry or something because I broke his cardboard nest."
"…I'm gonna buy him like ten pillows. This isn't even me doing alpha courtship stuff, this is just SAD."
Hitting on a cool alpha and then he stares at your awesome eco-aware recycled materials nest in abject horror.
He gets you bamboo pillows because his criticisms got you started on a rant about the evils of polyfill.
"You know, in Finland, they use cardboard boxes as baby cribs"
"Not Amazon boxes, you don't know where those have been!"
Help I'm in love my eco-friendly disaster omega and his distressed new alpha.
Why does an eco-friendly guy have so many amazon orders? He steals the empty boxes from neighbors after they put them out for recycling
Which, again: you don't know where those have been.
AITA for making my new boyfriend get actual pillows instead of strangers' amazon boxes for his nest
Alpha partner (I'm leaning enby?) takes the omega upstate to an alpaca farm to source some wool in person.
Most omegas in the city just have beds at this point, they don't bother with nests unless they are actively making a family, and who can afford that in this economy? This omega just had exceptionally strong instincts, ethics, and lack of knowledge on what a proper nest should look like. He's not planning a family he's just REALLY in his feelings, and his feelings said to Nest. So he scavenged some insulation! It's cardboard.
Casually "forgetting" a hoodie at your omega boyfriend's apartment… finding it shoved around his Lone Pillow after like it's a pillowcase
Which
Close enough???
Fantasy equivalent of
"I am begging my new man to get a pillowcase. or a pillow that isn't flat as a board. Y'all there is so much oil seeped into this thing that I think there's something growing on it?
"Listen to me. Listen. There is no feeling like Clean Body Clean Jammies Clean Sheets. But for that. YOU NEED SHEETS."
"Have you heard of a mattress topper? No? Great, you're about to, we're going to IKEA."
"Girl just dump him."
"No, I can fix him. Everything else about this idiot is great, I just need to make him start living like a human person."
"Here’s a trick I learned during the Obama presidency for handling certain types of political labels.
Take, as an example, the Tea Party claim that Obama is a Communist. Don’t take the word of the person making the claim (Tea Partiers). Don’t rely on the rebuttal of the target (Obama), because that will just be dismissed. Go to the group itself (Communists) and ask them. Ask an actual Communist if Obama is a comrade and see how they answer. Watch as they laugh at you, then explain in great detail how they wish there was a Communist in the White House, but here’s a long and exhaustive list of why that just isn’t so.
Now apply this logic to the claim that Hillary is pretty much the same as a Republican. Ask an actual Republican if they think Hillary Clinton is one of them. Watch them laugh, and then explain in the same exhausting detail why that just isn’t so. Some of them might concede that she’s better than Trump, but that’s not the same thing.
Finally, go ask a White Supremacist if Trump is one of them. As they excitedly explain how Trump is the guy they’ve been waiting for all these years, and how he’s really empowered their movement, use this to guide how you will be voting in November."
Source: a 2016 facebook posts by Craig Enan, since then deleted (OG link here)
when you eat a Normal Sandwich (bread meat greens cheese relish) and your body goes ooohhh fuck! oh fuck! what have you done! heartbeat GO! sweating GO! temperature GO! like sorry man I'm just trying to keep you WORKING!!!!!!!! ASS HOLE!
The polar opposite of corporate accounts trying to come across as hip and super friendly are the ones for libraries, aquariums, parks systems and the like, that are basically just trying to get people excited about learning and the wonder of history/science by posting things like this:
unraveling at the seams thinking about how graces reaction to remembering that he was drugged and forced onto the mission was to come to the conclusion that he was a coward. like on some level sure he was angry at stratt but he was far angrier with himself. he built up this story in his head that somewhere somehow along the way he developed the courage and bravery to choose to sacrifice himself for earths sake. he clung to this story when he didnt have anything else. and it wasnt real. not only was he a vicious coward but he threatened to sabotage a mission to save the entire world because his desire to live was so overpowering. there was nothing that couldve convinced him otherwise. not his kids, not the rest of humanity, nothing. and he tears himself APARTTTTT for this. if you want rocky to get this secret out of grace youre gonna need twelve hours, some elbow grease, and industrial grade lube thats how deep the shame lies. i think grace is incredibly angry about how it all went down and i also think that if you told him he didnt deserve it he'd probably bite your head off
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