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name | age | sexual orientation | pronouns | living on the traditional, ancestral, unceded, and reclaimed land of the Jewish people.

[were--ralph]

Take me down to the Anthro City where the dogs are green and the snakes have titties

[woofularunit]

the account is gone but i tracked it down for you u3u

[teaboot]

Wild that folks keep saying beekeepers abuse bees as if bees are not both venomous flying animals and fully unionized

[teaboot]

Hubris to think you COULD abuse bees

[teaboot]

I think that if you see a balrog in an unlocked kitty kennel then you can assume that it wants to be there

[vegance]

Actually, beekeepers take many precautions to keep their bees from leaving.

many clip the wings of the queen, destroy new queen cells, cull queens they don't like and use bee pheromones to prevent a hive from naturally swarming or absconding. They also try and prevent mating with the African honey bee, which makes them less docile among other things. During artificial insemination of queens, drones are crushed and „spare“ queens are killed.

and commercial beekeepers even cull their hives during winter, or when they are not producing well.

Coupled with the fact that there is evidence that insects do feel pain, this is not great.

(Not to mention that honeybees are an invasive species in most places, competing with native pollinators and spreading disease)

[tetrafelino]

It is so fucking bold of you to link the exact same paywalled book thirteen times in your reblog to throw people off the fact that you're using one source from 1859.

[champawattigress]

I don't think there's ever been a funnier vegan response in the history of this hell site. This is actual gold. If you cited an argument like this in a first year undergrad intro to bio module, then your lecturer would be legally entitled to fire you out of a cannon. I think I'm dying

[mccleans]

scrolling through the dash when the mutuals are in a new ugly guy phase

[mariana-oconnor]

Why can the Internet not just spontaneously create new fic for me when I run out?

[mariana-oconnor]

Not like that! I didn’t mean it like that!

[lesbianmarrow]

you just know if xander did come out as gay anya would NOT be an ally. she would be like does this mean we can't have sex anymore? and throw a fit when he said yes

[lesbianmarrow]

she would take it soooooo personally she would be like wow so i'm not good enough for you now? women aren't good enough? and he would say it's not that anya it's just that i like men. masculine male men. and she would be like hmph! sounds misogynistic.

kids have no concept of anything. i walked into my kindergarten class and one kid asked me what my name was. when i said miss jones, he said “i like that name. did you know i’m in love with you”

[letthemountainsmoveyou-deactiva]

i asked my four year old cousin how old he thought i was going to be at my next birthday and he said 8. im 23

[roonilwazlip-deactivated2022021]

once i told a 6 year old that i had finished school and was doing “more school” [university] and she asked “why haven’t you found anyone to marry then”

[byeeyeslikeacat-deactivated2019]

We were at a museum and I was asking for the student discount and my nine year old cousin looks up at me with his eyes wide and says “wait you’re a STUDENT??”

[meelothemanly]

I used to babysit these three kids and the eldest who was around 11 at the time was talking about how adults are boring and when I told him I was an adult he said, “That’s not true, you’re my age”

[cractasticdispatches]

our aunt teaches and she has this story about a little girl who really was always pretty quiet in class and then on the final day of kindergarten she just up and stated ‘i’m all teached now. i don’t need to be teached anymore. i’m done of being teached.’

[diamondelight92]

once when i was 19, I told my little cousin that i was 19 and she looked up at me with huge eyes and went, “Does that mean you don’t have to bring an adult with you to the pool?”

[maraudersvibes]

My 6 year old cousin saw me driving for the first time, looked up at him mom and said “does that mean she is married now?”

[standard-fiend]

I watched my dad and my niece (3 at the time) arguing over a pair of pants and whether or not they were also a dress. My neice’s argument was that they were, in fact, also a dress because they were blue.

[loveyoutothem00n]

I asked the kids in my daycare class what they thought I should be for Halloween and this little boy goes, “ooh I know! A pickle! You’d be such a good pickle”

[aimmyarrowshigh]

On the first day of class with my favorite student of all time, I said, “Are you okay? You look like you have a question.” And she looked me right in the eyes and said, tremulously,

“Can a piranha eat a stapler?”

[manic-kin]

One time I was working with a kid and he looked up at me and asked “Do you have a boy?” I had no idea what he was talking about, but I told him that I did not have any boys. He looked shocked and then deeply concerned and said “Well, you better hurry up and shave your arms so you can get married; August is next month!”

[dinovia-grant]

I was sitting on the floor with my 3yo niece and we were playing with her younger brother’s alphabet blocks and the O had an octopus on it.  So I picked it up and asked her what it was.

“Octopus,” she said, all curls and smiles.

“And what kind of animal is an octopus?” I asked.  I was looking for “fish” or “sea creature” but I would have accepted almost anything–”weird,” “gross,” even “slimy.”  “Underwater” or “it lives in the ocean” would have also been acceptable. 

She looks me right in the eye and says, happy as a clam, “It’s a cephalopod.”

I haven’t been the same since.

[penelope-and-the-suitors]

my sister once asked me when she was seven years old how the farmer knows whether the egg is hard boiled or raw when it comes out of the chicken

[hinoneko]

*sigh* fine, fine, i'll be the new doctor who showrunner. bring me two twinks, britain's tallest woman, and 1000 pounds worth of alumininamian foil

[7dmom]

Ants are a form of thing, known for travelling in cliques. They are small in size, unknown in color, and bashful in temperament. Every ant has two appendages they use to hurt other beings, and four appendages for other activities. Scientists have discovered many types of ants; gay, Protestant, electric, and chill. Their wealth is considered low.

[agam-shel-barvadim]

[topherchris]

[orcboxer]

okay what's going on here

[vyvilha]

need some female director to lock in and make a movie where a grotesquely ugly and disgusting and monstrous woman slasher killer butchers handsome men in humiliating and sexualized ways. and it CAN'T be because they are rapists or abusers or otherwise misogynistic okay, she has to do it because she's a fucked up pervert

[liesmyth]

#And she does NOT look good doing it.

AND SHE DOES NOT LOOK GOOD DOING IT!!!

[compassion4companions]

[fictionadventurer]

I love how every character of The Phantom of the Opera is in a different genre.

Raoul and Christine are in a fairy tale. The prince fell in love with the common girl. They wandered through an innocent world full of fairy stories until reality tore them apart, and then when they reconnect, they're ensnared in the darker side of fairyland, where angels turn out to be dark wizards who try to trap you in their underground caves of wonder. Even when they're adults, they're presented as innocent children who are caught up in a fairy tale adventure.

The Persian is in a political thriller. He knew Erik as the strange foreign mastermind who built mysterious palaces and dark torture chambers for monarchs. He manages to save Erik from unjust execution, but he still keeps tabs on him once they're both in a foreign country, and he ultimately has to stop the maniac from enacting a terrorist plot.

Raoul's brother is in a story of domestic realism. He's living the respectable life of a landed, titled gentleman, but now his brother wants to marry an opera singer. His story is just a tale of stopping his younger brother from disgracing the family's reputation. After everything unfolds, the general public also has this view of the story--it's nothing more than a spat between brothers gone horribly wrong.

The managers are in a sitcom. They're the victims of an elaborate prank! Someone is messing with them (and it's really quite impressive the lengths they will go to for a joke), and they're turned into the butt of the joke as the situation forces them to do all sorts of things that look ridiculous.

The narrator's in a true crime story. He's the investigator who sees that no single one of these genres tells the full story, and it's his job to see how all the pieces fit together to give us the whole picture.

[philcollinsenjoyer]

Thank you divorce for all you've done for music

[prettyboyhere]

sister post to this

[bookish-bimbo]

overheard someone today say they didn’t realize horses can be faster than each other. my guy that is a huge blind spot to have.

[teaboot]

I think that if you had enough daughters AND played your cards right you could spring Mambo Number Five out at the EXACT right gathering and shatter your entire family's trust forever

[teaboot]

The secret is to name them out of order with the lyrics so by the time anyone catches on it's too late

[teaboot]

For me personally the ideal gathering would be my funeral

[teaboot]

A little bit for Monica, she's my wife

A little bit for Erica, for her strife

My books all go to Rita, cause she reads

My greenhouse goes to Tina, she plants trees

The furniture is Sandra's, on my lawn

Jewelry for Mary, she can pawn

Ashes go to Jessica, that's my plan

A little bit of me inside a can (ah!)

[gothhabiba]

see this is exactly what I'm talking about. this labour is so incredibly invisibilised that there are real human beings, walking about amongst us, leading normal lives, etc., who earnestly believe that machines can make an item of clothing from start to finish.

[rowanrightalong]

Hey just in case someone on here doesn’t quite understand how labor intensive making a garment is, here is a list of things that (to the best of my knowledge) cannot be done by machine alone, from a costumer/tailor in training

Cutting - in my opinion, the most labor intensive part of the process. The amount of time/effort needed varies depending on the pattern and if seam allowance is included or marked separately, but no matter what this process can not be done by machine. Each and every panel and piece of fabric that goes into a garment must be cut by hand by a person.

Pinning/clipping - pinning (or clipping) is the stage at which you align the pieces you are going to be stitching together and hold them together with — you guessed it! — either pins or clips. This can not be done by machine.

Stitching - the actual sewing. This can be done by a sewing machine, but that machine still needs to be operated by a human being.

Ironing/pressing - two words that mean the same thing. The iron itself is a machine, but once again, it needs to be operated by a human being.

Finishing - depending on the technique you use, there are certain finishing techniques that can only be done by hand. But, let’s assume we’re talking about fast fashion, which is usually just finished with a simple overlock/serger. Once again: these machines need to be operated by people.

These are just the basic steps to making a garment, and don’t include textile arts that I am not as knowledgeable about, such as weaving, knitting, and crochet. Also, it is important to note that there are a lot of things that can only be done by hand, such as certain stitches and decorative techniques.

Also, the machinery being operated in textile factories is not equivalent to a domestic sewing machine. We’re talking about one of these guys:

See that gray cylinder under the table, behind the knee pedal? That’s the motor. These machines can sew through your fingers bones and all and not even stop. The people in these factories and sweatshops are operating heavy machinery, and are subject to all the risk that comes with that in addition to all of the work I mentioned above.

Please respect textile workers and continue the fight to eliminate the use of sweatshops and exploited labor in the fashion industry!

[your-local-martin-martinaise]

Thinking about the time when I was 7 and I saw someone online describe Mr. Krabs as Jewish. I got really excited because I thought that was cool! So I asked my Mom how they knew that because I'd never seen it referenced in the show

Then my mother had to explain the concept of antisemitism to her 7yo

[thegoodduckfan]

To be fair, Jews aren't kosher either, so I think that's a point in favor, actually.

[agam-shel-barvadim]

it's like talking with a genie with you