Maybe Me

queer as in fuck you

[strawberrydykke]

opened up ravelry to look at patterns and the very first thing i saw was

The Garment by Robert Cole

[littlebirdinagarden]

I had to immediately look for myself and I feel like this post needs the addition of the very first line in the pattern description

[trek-tracks]

Forget "what colour are Kirk's eyes," the real tell between TOS and AOS is:

TOS: McCoy is being choked

AOS: Kirk is being choked

[pierogiy]

every day i learn and grow, too

[molluscappreciator-deactivated2]

[vexx-the-egg]

[dirtbrunch]

[bowlby4]

[snotsloth]

HEY DON'T DO THIS!

Japanese Knotweed is highly invasive and can overtake native ecosystems so fast. It's a lot like kudzu in that way. Y'know, "the vine that ate the South"???

I know we all hate AI data centers and want them gone but this is not the fucking solution and should not be spread around even as a joke. Shit like this ruins already endangered native ecosystems.

[gaylittleancient]

Genuinely for the love of god do not do even consider doing this, all my fieldwork was "and also there is knotweed" in the site debriefs and the biosecurity steps you have to take to prevent spreading are really no joke. You can transport material it can propagate from on tires, clothing, boots etc very easily.

Knotweed often gets burned (with permits to do so, because you really need to know what you're doing to stop it spreading because it can propagate again from very little if it's moved off site as mentioned) but the rhizomes can survive burning because they grow to 3m~ deep and fully removing these is a nightmare in general. A lot of the time it gets buried which also needs a specialist involved so it can be buried properly and STAY buried for 50+ years so we can comfortably know it WILL die and won't breach containment. There's a bunch of crazy specific criteria required to meet for burial, it's not just digging a hole and throwing it in and it's a niche specialist task to properly manage for a reason

If you are concerned about AI data centers from an ecological or environmental perspective DO NOT fuck about with planting or relocating knotweed, it is incredibly disastrous for the environment (especially waterways) and native species diversity because it is INSANELY hardy (if the fact it can SURVIVE FIRE didn't imply this - they're adapted to survive lava flows) and very competitive. This doesn't just impact plant diversity which in itself is a problem, it will affect wildlife as well especially inverts. It's an offense to plant, sell or distribute F. japonica and the various similar species in many parts of the world BECAUSE it's so disastrous to the environment. If you see signs like this PLEASE ignore them or remove them if you're able, do not fight one ecological problem with another!

[theartistrans]

[probablyasocialecologist]

“Musk talks about Mars as a lifeboat for humanity, which is among the very stupidest things that someone could say,” says Adam Becker, an astrophysicist and author of the book More Everything Forever, which outlines the messianic, sci-fi fantasies of the tech oligarchs. “There are so many reasons why it’s such a bad idea, and this is not about, ‘Oh, we’ll never have the technology to live on Mars.’ That’s not what I’m saying. What I’m saying is that Earth is always going to be a better option no matter what happens to Earth. Like, we could get hit with an asteroid the size of the one that killed off the dinosaurs, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could explode every single nuclear weapon, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could have the worst-case scenario for climate change, and Earth would still be more habitable. Any cursory examination of any of the facts about Mars makes it very clear.”

What You’ve Suspected Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like Us

[wire-smith]

I really like sci-fi stories where people have to go off and terraform a planet, or figure out how to rebuild civilization after some disaster, or ideally both. "The last ark-ship leaving Earth right before it becomes uninhabitable" sort of deal. But lately I've been coming around to this same idea, that it will always be more practical to try to save Earth than to try to start over elsewhere.

I was reading one story where the apocalypse was impossibly-rising oceans. Like, water is appearing from *waves hand* the Earth's crust or something, and literally all dry surface land on Earth is going to become underwater in X years. Part of the story was about a giant research project to invent FTL to send a few hundred humans to a nearby star which might have a habitable planet. You know what they were hoping to find? A planet with liquid water. Their plan was to descend from their starship and restart civilization using just the tools they brought with them, on a world with no life and no breathable air and the wrong gravity and the wrong temperate and the wrong sunlight and the wrong day-night cycle, just because it had liquid water. You know where else has liquid water? The flooded Earth you just abandoned. Instead of researching starship technology, you could have spent that time loading up all the same civilization-restarter tools into boats.

And this is really true of any futuristic apocalypse scenario. If you can terraform Mars to have a thick oxygen atmosphere, why not just do that to Earth? Even if you smash an ice comet into Earth and destroy basically everything, Earth will still be more habitable than Mars! It'll still have roughly the right atmospheric pressure, and magnetic field, and heat balance, and it'll still have whatever life the comet didn't kill... Same with a starshade to cool Venus. Same with excavating asteroids into city-stations. Same with abandoning Sol System entirely and heading to another star. If an ark-ship arrived in a new star system and found Earth-but-choked-by-climate-change, the crew would be ecstatic. They would never have thought to get that lucky. So why bother with the trip? Just stay and fix the damn Earth.

[dozydawn]

[lew-basnight]

Look I know this is a scientific publication but you don’t understand— we need to include milk and cookies in the photo. We have to. Otherwise the science suffers

[markscherz]

I realised today that frog feet are kind of ideal for wearing heels and well then I accidentally

[aspiring-weird-old-man]

Get the look:

[markscherz]

This is a fucking phenomenal addition.

[trangoldin]

[mrskayathefrog]

Here is the podcast (audio only), here is the text (the top text is Chinese, scroll down for English)

[wolveswolves]

Wolves open their mouths and gently close their jaws on the jaws of another pack member, known as a rough kiss

Picture source

[space-butts]

lol gone for months and i come back with some spirk smut. tbh i was just gonna practice drawing that back-of-the-head angle that’s always so tricky, and then this happened. k byee

[polkadotmotmot]

Pan Inkhoo - You are the sun in the gloom., 2026 - Mineral pigments, ink and glue on paper

[lesbianshepard]

honey is the only food product that never spoils. there are pots of honey that are over five thousand years old and still completely edible

[lesbianshepard]

i also want to point out we know it tastes the same even after thousands of years b/c archaeologists who discovered two thousand year old honey tasted it. presumably right after they looked at each other and went “what the hell here goes nothing”

[celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725]

[key--lime--pie]

I’m pretty sure they also identify human remains by taste. Archaeologists are straight up freaks.

[notaflippinmermaid]

No, no no… you identify bone from rock or other substances by touching it to your tongue. If it sticks, it’s bone. The taste itself has nothing to do with it. And most archaeologists won’t lick human bones if they know they’re human.

…and I realize that doesn’t actually do much to prove archaeologists aren’t freaks.

[midnightmindcave]

mai nam is jane and wen i dig i fynde some roks both smol and big i put my tung upon the stone for science yes i lik the bone

[dinosauriaawesome]

I’m sitting with a bunch of archaeologists and we just laughed so hard we CRIED we’re getting tshirts with this on them

[thesaltofcarthage]

I will never ever get tired of seeing bredlik poems. It is really one of the seminal art forms of the century. I am not being sarcastic. 

[wholesome-dragon-lady]

If I ever don’t reblog this, assume I’m dead and archaeologists are licking my bones.

[joeyridersvoid]

This sounds like a shitpost but people should be allowed to be horny. As in, sexuality is just part of life for most people and there’s no reason for consensual sexual behavior to be punished. A celebrity getting “caught” at a sex club shouldn’t be a scandal. No one should be fired for having a fetlife profile outside of work. Nudes getting leaked shouldn’t be career-ending. Denying and hiding (consensual) sexual interests doesn’t make anyone more professional, it just makes everyone more repressed. And sterilizing ourselves to be better work drones isn’t productive, it’s just creepy. I’d rather my surgeon get absolutely railed on camera and come to work in a good mood, frankly.

[joeyridersvoid]

the amount of ace, aroace, + sex-repulsed ppl leaving support on this post is rly heartwarming

[rimonoroni]

also this goes without saying but is also true of ppl who do sex work for used to do sex work. an accountant’s boss finding out that they used to do sex work shouldn’t be a career ender. a restaurant worker shouldn’t be fired bc they have an OnlyFans.

[cricketcat9]

Yes, yes, yes and yes.

[partywithponies]

My woke take, as someone who has worked in both a public library and a school library, is that we desperately need both more books that are at a higher reading level but a less mature subject matter, and more books that are at a lower reading level but a more mature subject matter, because 8 year olds who are advanced readers are still 8 year olds and don't want to read about graphic violence and torture, and teens and adults who have learning difficulties or who are just later readers for whatever reason are still teens and adults and don't want to read about Billy the Bunny going to school or whatever the hell.

[partywithponies]

Shoutout to people in the notes also mentioning people learning the language, I should've mentioned that really, given that I've been stuck reading German picture books myself while learning German.

[great-and-small]

Sanderling coloration starts making a lot of sense when you spot them out on the mudflats

[lindzee]

this! this! this! (but on a pebble beach!!!)