You shouldn't have to be brave to be yourself

Kyr [Pronounced KEE-r]. 27. Androgyne. Demisexual. PTSD, DID, and depression. Welcome to my personal blog! System blog is more-than-they-see.tumblr.com

[livinginahicktown]

Our blogs:

@livinginahicktown (a little bit of everything all of the time)

@more-than-they-see (system hijinks)

@sunandsoftsongs (witchy, pagan stuff)

All others are currently inactive

[prokopetz]

You wouldn’t think that flamingoes are extremophiles just from looking at them. It’s like somebody tried to build the vertebrate equivalent of that fungus that lives inside nuclear reactors, and ended up with a gangly pink dinosaur with a spoon for a face.

[calloutnevvegas]

For everyone in the comments asking how flamingos are extremophiles:

Flamingos can survive in low oxygen, high altitude, high temperatures, low temperatures, high alkaline, they can and will drink boiling water and they can be completely frozen at night and still get up the next morning

Don’t fuck with flamingos

[revretch]

….. Didn’t know most of that

[iamthekaijuking]

Huh… so that’s why zoos don’t put them somewhere warm during winter.

[revretch]

Oh yeah, this leaves out what I *did* know about them–they can also survive hypersalinity. That is, water so salty it kills practically everything else–water so salty it burns your skin.

American flamingos just drink that shit

[bogleech]

(animal death) this is a real undoctored photograph (*though the body was stood up for the shot) of a dead flamingo on the surface of lake natron, a lake so salty and so alkaline that it’s naturally carbonated like soda and would eat through your stomach lining if you drank from it.

When this photo went viral years ago, most people assumed this poor flamingo must have been killed by the lake.

It is actually the lake where 75% of its global population are hatched. This is a photo from the same lake:

[assuming-dinosaur]

Some species of flamingo actually subsist almost entirely on a diet of bacteria! In other words, there is a species of dinosaur that eats only bacteria and lives in lakes so toxic they would kill almost anything else—and it is best known to the average person as a kitschy lawn decoration.

[lakemojave]

You know that whatever character did those problematic things isn't like. Real, right?

[lakemojave]

You are aware that a fictional character is just a rhetorical construct designed to fulfill a narrative/thematic purpose right? That their actions are written by an author who wants to use them to explore complex ideas and moral gray areas within the safe confines of fiction right? That they aren't a real person who has killed real people right?

[amaconcha]

THEY COOKED, THEY SERVED, THEY ATE

[romana-colasour]

It’s been a bit of a wacky day in the fandom, so have a meme for your troubles

[lizajane2]

🎶“I had a dream so big and loud, I jumped so high I touched the clouds!.” 🎶

[correctopinionhaver]

[fairycosmos]

im not complaining because i expect you to fix anything im complaining to bond with you. omggggg find your hater spirit

[its-just-hyper]

Really big fan of Sabo’s increasing association with sea birds. Something about Sabo enacting justice when the marines won’t. I hope the trend continues.

[daily-weasel]

[mammalidentifier]

Mountain weasel (Mustela altaica)

[professorsparklepants]

#it fucken sumny (via @mindfulwrath)

[feminist-space]

[official-lucifers-child]

the wemther brothers

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

sick, nauseous, retching at how corporate interests demand all technological advancement must come at the cost of choice and consent, must be forcefed to the uncooperative consumer. a digital menu would be useful? 'k great, they're FUCKING MANDATORY :D Wireless earbuds are an innovation, so we stole your fucking earphone jack. hard to find coins for the laundry machine? no problem, now you can pay with card, in fact you must pay with card, in fact you must DOWNLOAD AN APP TO WASH A LOAD ON MED-TEMP QUICK CYCLE. you want to park your car? you want to PARK your CAR you dumb CUCKFUCKLE? you weeping seeping pathetic pustulant bedsore of an open wound???

download our app! give us your data! give us control of your money, your time, your viewership, your exhaustion!!! give us your location, your viewing history, your marketable hopes and third-party-resellable dreams, we require access to your eyes your ears your motherfucking synapses, click here to accept OUR terms and OUR conditions!!!

to us you aren't a person per se, but you could aspire to someday be a profit

[catgirltoofies]

they should legalize polyamory. everywhere. and im not kidding at all. if someone wants to marry multiple people they should be allowed to. for any reason.

[transfutch]

before anybody tries to say some bullshit about this, extending the definition of marriage to include multiple people would give members of religions forced into abusive polygamy the same rights any divorcing spouse would have without putting them at risk for being charged with bigamy. this would make it easier for people to leave abusive plural marriages.

[saisaixchan]

Things One Piece is about:

Piracy

Adventure

The power of friendship

Fighting against oppression no matter what form it takes, be it a corrupt king, rival pirates, or a system of government that controls the whole world

The only way to make a change when stuck in a situation that's actively taking away your freedom and rights is by force

Racism and discrimination are complicated issues that cannot be solved over night, it takes a combined effort to reach an understanding and to change people's views, and even if you can't let go of your own hatred because of the horrible things you've experienced, you shouldn't pass that hatred onto the next generation and instead allow them to form their own opinions through their own lived experiences

Freedom and liberation are basic human rights

Everyone, no matter who they are, should have access to food and water

Healthcare should be readily available to anyone who needs it

It's incredibly important to not only learn, but understand and preserve history, because those who seek power will go out of their way to destroy inconvenient information, erasing the stories of those who no longer have a voice, dooming society into forever repeating the same mistakes without ever learning from them

Children shouldn't suffer because of the actions of their parents

Queer people

Finding the One Piece

[chaoticargeltal]

• Never apologise for being alive / It is never a sin to exist

[pipermca]

I got another spam comment today on AO3, and I want to share it as a PSA. But before I do, I want you to understand that you SHOULD NOT DO what this comment is asking. Ok? Ok.

See that bit at the bottom? Don't do that. Insert ParamedicGuy.gif going "Don't."

Other malicious spam comments I've gotten seemed designed to make an author question their writing, or outright encourage them to delete their stories from AO3. This one is different, in that it tries to get you to destroy the work on your own computer.

If you ran that command, it basically locates your Documents folder, then deletes everything in it, including all subfolders. It also does it without any prompt, so you have no chance to second guess your actions.

This is just fucking trolling.

Coincidentally, we just did training on a cyberattack similar to this, called a ClickFix attack. You can read about how that works here.

As a general rule, if ANYONE or ANY WEBSITE tells you unsolicited* to do anything in Powershell, CMD RUN, command prompt, shell command, or something similar, DON'T.

*There are legit reasons for running commands in PowerShell or the command prompt, but in those cases you are likely seeking out a solution to a problem you are already experiencing. Don't just run random commands on your computer as recommended by some unlogged-in guest on a fan fiction site.

Always think and consider before taking action, and get a second opinion from a trusted source. When I got this comment I was pretty sure what the command would do, and it took me about three seconds of googling to confirm it.

Be safe out there!

[in-the-drowning-deep]

Seconding this, do not EVER run Powershell or Command prompt scripts unless you know exactly what they're going to do, step by step!

[sodomit]

The drastic separation between social positions of transfems and transmascs is a theoretical invention of writers who spoke to very few transmascs and tried to fill the gap by assumptions that stem from the "opposite gender" crap.

"Transmasculine transition is respected in the society because cis people see becoming a man as stepping up" is one of the most hilarious and sad examples of that, but there's also "coming out as a trans man leads to less sexual objectification" and "trans men are simultaneously respected more because they're men and protected more because they're afab".

None of it is real. This is just a calculated inverse of what transfems go through. We should abandon this framework for the sake of something that's actually rooted in reality.

[venice-1987]

For anyone wondering, the correct statements would be

"Transmasculine transition is not repected in society because cis people see "women" trying to forcefully occupy a position of privilege where they are not, and never have been, welcomed"

"Coming out as a trans man does not protect from sexual objectification, and adds a new complicated relationship with how society welcomes you into discussions of reproductive justice, sexuality, and pregnancy. Plus, you're a porn catrgory now"

And

"Trans men are simultaneously seen as failed men, and as failed women, and are neither respected nor protected."

[cherry-mash]

Technical Happier AU of the ASL boys chasing lunch the chupacabra. The OG one, not the dog(s) with mange. Should taste like goat, right?

I say this counts as a Halloween drawing, so day two after day one of a maybe Halloweek! We'll see tomorrow, I don't make promises day three / day four / day five / SPECIAL / day seven

Traditional art, pencil and ink

Edit: The less than ten people who saw me forget Luffy's scar please take that to the grave, seeing how it didn't happen, right? Right

[mailboxxi]

quick study of this live actor sabo picture i saw on twt a while back. his unsettling nature charmed me

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