[catchymemes]

[catchymemes]

[ozymalek-deactivated20240224]

There was no miscommunication. Alicent just heard what she wanted to hear. Earlier that day Viserys dragged his corpse ass to the throne room to reaffirm Rhaenyra as his heir and Velaryon boys as future heirs of the Iron Throne and Dritmark respectively. Alicent just used his dead man mumbling as an opportunity to do what she wanted to do all along

[fixablebubble]

It was obvious he didn’t know who he was talking to when he was picking up a conversation she had no part of, even she was confused. Like this man is in and out of awareness but we’re gonna take his dying breath has the end all be all after he dragged his ass up those stairs to sit on that seat AGAIN to reaffirm Rhaenyra? Like what in the world would make you think that convo had anything to do with your shit-stain rapist of a son??

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

This review for a dog life jacket is sending me

[myjetpack]

My cartoon for the latest @Guardian Saturday

p.s. my new book: tomgauld.com

[celebrimborium]

the rings of power + references to women in art

[new-bitch-who-dis]

Heres your reminder to use literally anything but chrome

[commodorecliche]

And here's your reminder that Firefox actively works to protect your privacy and prevent tracking.

[nomadicism]

Firefox also has “Facebook fence” which is used to contain Facebook into isolated tabs that prevent tracking as you browse, since so many sites have social media plugins/ads that help collect data for Facebook and other apps.

You can tell Firefox to fence in Facebook in the browser preferences. Also a good time to change your search engine to DuckDuckGo and leave Google search behind (or only use it with another browser that’s separate from daily use).

The EFF (OP of the tweet) has various types of privacy tools that they’ve created. Some are browser plugins. I recommend going to their site to learn more about internet privacy and advocacy (and donating a few bucks if you can spare it). https://www.eff.org/pages/tools

Tools from EFF's Tech Team

EFF’s team of technologists and computer scientists engineers solutions to the problems of sneaky tracking, inconsistent encryption, and mor

[ruffboi-mags]

Also reminder that a lot of browsers like Opera run on the Chromium structure. ...Which is just Chrome, essentially. It will do the exact same thing as Chrome, wrt your privacy. Switch to Firefox today!

[aftabkaran]

People protect a woman who is burning her scarf

[cop-disliker69]

A little context for those who don’t know: recently a woman was arrested by the Iranian morality police (who enforce mandatory headscarves and other theocratic policies) and died in custody. This has sparked massive protests across Iran.

[qwertyu858]

And she wasnt even arrested for not using the hijab but bc she was using it "incorrectly". So she was even following the law and still got killed.

They have also tried to claim that she died from natural causes, even when she was 22. And they realesed a very fake video as evidence of that.

[odinsblog]

He dropped a dime on his boy!

[aftabkaran]

Help us by spreading the news

[stupidfuckingquestions]

[zebablah-deactivated20160105]

television history

[virginmarx]

i’ve been trying to explain this sketch to people for years

[real-faker]

there is literally no way to explain this sketch it’s just a thing you have to see and even then I’m not sure why it’s so funny

[valleyhowler]

Viserys could have ruined Rhaenyra's entire life solely on those rumors alone but instead said he'd cut out the eyes of those who slandered his bb princess and sent her ye olde plan b on the down low because he knew something, somewhere, happened. Then immediately fired Otto for being a snake. That's what separates the Hightowers from the Targaryens. That loyalty is why I love the dragons.

[depsidase]

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[ampervadasz]

[pangur-and-grim]

Pangur does this thing where she goes bow-legged in her hind legs in order to lean fully into her food dish

[pangur-and-grim]

I dunno I find it really charming

[pangur-and-grim]

photographic evidence

[kedreeva]

These two pictures are of a peahen (top photo from April 2019, and bird on the left in the bottom is the same bird in November 2019) that is currently going through a transformation from traditional hen plumage to cock plumage- which I suppose makes him a peacock now! The bird is 17 years old and while this sort of transformation is not unheard of (called “henopause” because it usually happens to older hens), it’s not usually such a stark difference. This bird went all out though!

[Source]

[kedreeva]

Here is an 18 year old pea that began life as a hen, but stopped laying at 14 years old and grew in male plumage!

And a blackshoulder peahen:

Who 14 years later decided nah, and swapped to male blackshoulder colors; QUITE the difference!

[Source]

And a video from a very confused man who has had this happen 5 times on his farm so far:

[reblogosaurusrex]

Peacocks said trans rights!

[kedreeva]

Another transitioning bird was posted to the group I’m in not long ago!

(source)

[kedreeva]

Another bird, this one only 2 years old, was posted yesterday. The owner had this bird genetically tested after she noticed a lack of displaying among other typical “peacock” behavior. The result came back as a hen, which means most likely this bird’s working ovary (birds only develop one, the left one) has been compromised or failed to develop normally, resulting in male plumage at a very young age.

(source)

Because this transition only occurs when the hen’s working ovary (they only have 1, the left one) stops working (or fails to start), thus ceasing production of the hormones which suppress male plumage, they are not fertile. They also do not change sex organs, just their plumage.

[kedreeva]

It’s Pride again, so please enjoy my collection of trans peafowl!

[kedreeva]

There have been several people in the notes expressing that these are intersex peafowl and while I certainly won’t take that away from anyone (welcome, enjoy!), I feel that you should all know that there are regular intersex peafowl as well.

These peafowl grow in and retain sex characteristics of both hens and cocks, for their entire lives. They do not lay eggs or court, the way the other sexes do. Unlike a hen in henopause, they do not transition into or out of this state- they are born to it and remain in it their entire lives.

In reality, gender isn’t really a thing for peafowl (or birds in general) at all and sex is pretty much a grey area. We assign them sexes (yes, sexes, I’m getting there) based on human concepts of it, but they don’t even have x and y sex chromosomes. They have Z and w, and it’s flipped from how humans are; the bird with the 2-same chromosomes is a male (ZZ) and the bird with one of each is a female (Zw) and we only assigned the sexes like we did because the hens lay eggs. Don’t even get me started on the bird species that aren’t peafowl that have more than 2 sexes. But they have no concept of gender or sex. If they did, maybe they would argue their males are the ones that lay the eggs. There’s no way to know; they are just animals we’re projecting human concepts on. Biological sex really does fall apart if you look at it sideways, and gender was a mistake.

In any case, at least in one sense, the initial birds in this post are maybe not transgender, exactly, but they have made a transition from one state to another that heavily involves looking like a standard female and then looking like a standard male, and some people have found comfort and joy in relating to that. That end state is not really one sex or another, if you look under the hood so to speak, and hopefully other people will find joy and comfort in that as well. Yet other Peafowl have not ever transitioned and yet have the characteristics of multiple sexes their entire lives the same way, and I hope that this extra knowledge can bring joy and comfort to even more people.

That’s all this is about.