Gods Mistake

i am alive out of spite (18+)

[meladoodle]

Hey welcome to my blog

lower your expectations immediately

[mothcelestial]

[whaile]

late summer / early fall thoughts

[artistformerlyknownasbutttrumpet]

i was training a young person at work, and she referred to sexual assault as "SA" out loud, and i immediately was like, "no, it's sexual assault, call it what it is," bc idgaf if the algorithm overlords have taught y'all that you should fear direct language, how tf do any of you expect to ever address real issues with any amount of seriousness if you can't even say the words? imagine an advocate looking a sexual assault survivor in the eyes and asking "did he grape you?" it's absolutely fucking absurd, but these young interns and new hires are coming into an environment where we deal with survivors of all different kinds of abuse, and they're coming with the mindset that the words are as bad as the actions, and that makes them shitty at the job and look juvenile af

i HATE self-censorship for a lot of reasons, but being in crisis work makes it even more frustrating. who are you censoring for? like i am being so fr, WHO are you censoring for? have you even thought it through? people who have been raped know that they have been raped. if someone attempts suicide or is grieving someone who did, saying "sewer slide" isn't going to protect them from any of the feelings. a murder victim's family isn't going to feel better bc you said "unalived" instead of murdered. if anything, it's just extremely invalidating and othering. it's saying "what happened to you is so bad that i won't even say the word," which is NOT trauma-informed care. you are not protecting survivors/victims when you self-censor. the ONLY things you protect when you self-censor are the puritanical ideologies that are being encouraged by rich fascists who want your money and obedience

say the fucking words, guys. just say the goddamn words before i go insane!!!

[kingpin-of-steel-act3]

[ihatenearlyeverything]

its ok theyre Gods lil helpers

[oatmealbrain]

And boy are they clumsy

[hydrangeafae]

Hi, these bees are babies! They’re not clumsy at all, this is what is called orientation flights. After birth and before beginning their careers as foragers (as all Honey bees cycle through all the jobs in the Hive throughout their lifespan), Honey bees take short flights back and forth, to and from the Hive, to orient themselves with their wings and their home so they can learn its location and how to get back home after foraging! Everyone has to learn, these are just smol little baby turkeys. Bees use the angle of the sun for location so adults have a better and more direct sense of location than any human

[polar-solstice]

IM SO PLEASED TO LEARN THIS!!!

They are just!!! Student drivers!!! 😭

[sindri42]

BONK!

[softwaring]

[doubleca5t]

Hollywood truly does always take the wrong lesson from its success stories

[parkchanwoohoo]

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[beemovieerotica]

[gamerwoman3d]

I suspect that long neck sauropods could kinda.... loaf? Lay on their heads to protect them? Tuck their heads down?

Also unfortunately I do believe a tornado, which had the power to lift an oil rig weighing 800+ metric tons, could probably lift a 100 ton dinosaur.

Cactus 117 oil drilling rig near El Reno, showing the mangled and overturned rig

[pareidoliaonthemove]

Both of these scenarios had never occurred to me before.

Both of these scenarios are going to take up significant portion of my mental capacity today.

[gamerwoman3d]

I once had an encounter with a tornado that followed me home while I was walking. I had a long way to walk, and felt like something behind me was watching me. I picked up my step. At one point all of the birds in the sky stopped what they were doing, turned into the direction I was going, and flew as fast as they could. It was all of the birds. Hawks pigeons sparrows ravens songbirds, the none of them feared me or the birds of prey and flew straight towards the red tailed hawks to get away from whatever was behind me... but the hawks also bolted, unconcerned with prey. I muttered "fuck* and started running as fast as I could, didn't even look behind me. Didn't have to look, because what else in existence can spook every flying critter with 65billion years of evolution? Whatever that is I don't wanna meet it so yea I ran my ass off.

I could see my driveway when the tornado sirens began. I cut across the back lawn to get inside. The tornado/funnel tore apart trees all down the road I had walked. Branches littered the street and caused road closures. It did not hit my apartment but left debris at the edge of my apartment complex where I had just been walking (and where all the birds bolted from.)

I suspect even hundred ton dinos would be spooked of something that can throw a tree. And that's somewhat evidenced in the bird flight I saw.

I do wonder if prehistoric tornadoes were possibly stronger than out current EF and fujita scales measure. Tornado alley is im the central-ish part of the north American continent, leading me to believe that it's possible that the larger the landmass, the more frequent/stronger the tornadic activity in the center. So who knows how strong a tornado could have been on Pangaea or any other prehistoric continent.

[junoniadoesart]

To my knowledge, that’s not why tornadoes form- it has to do with cold dry air meeting warm moist air over a big flat expanse of land, the interaction between the different temperatures of air fuels the storm and then the flat land means that there’s not really anything that can disrupt a tornado’s formation. In the modern day, we only really see the optimal conditions for powerful tornadoes over the Great Plains- tornadoes can happen elsewhere, of course, but they're usually weaker, and even then, they still rely on the collisions between fronts of warm air and cold air to form.

Several of the world's most famous fossil-bearing rock formations preserve what would've been "grass"lands* and deserts, ample flat land- but, crucially, the Earth as a whole was much warmer than it is today (the polar ice caps would've covered one-third of their modern extent, no major glaciers, what're now Antarctica and Alaska would've only seen sparse snowfall in the coldest winters) meaning the cold air-warm-air interactions needed for tornado formation would've been a lot rarer to come by. Therefore, tornadoes in general would've been rare occurrences during the Mesozoic, and ones powerful enough to pose a threat to a large dinosaur would've been even rarer. However, regular storm activity still would've occurred, and the posited "maybe they just laid down/lowered their heads" speculation above is indeed a theory for how sauropods might've avoided getting struck by lightning in such conditions- I strongly doubt they sat on their heads due to how heavy their bodies were**, but they absolutely could lower their heads closer to the ground.

*Grasses only evolved at the very end of the Mesozoic and did not become the primary open groundcover until well into the Cenozoic, the predominant ground cover at this point would've been ferns, horsetails, and small, herblike gymnosperms, depending on aridity **Many large dinosaurs were too heavy to even sit on their eggs- we have fossil evidence that at least some sauropods migrated to volcanic regions to bury their eggs in the ash and let geothermal heat incubate them, while other dinosaurs instead constructed circular nests and sat in the empty middle (we have direct fossil evidence of this for only some species, but it's likely others did it too). The modern Australian brush-turkey exhibits similar behavior, burying it's eggs in leaf litter and using the heat given off by the rotting plant matter as an incubator.

[iamwizzzzz]

[dailyjermasparkle]

[penny-anna]

what the hell is going on

[penny-anna]

i believe in you Binface. you can do it. this could be your moment.

[penny-anna]

Please god it would be so funny

[penny-anna]

there is no downside to voting for Count Binface. its not taking away from other candidates bcos they aren't any and the more votes he gets the stupider Farage looks.

[penny-anna]

for people out of the loop:

Nigel Farage is the leader of Reform UK, a far right party who are currently in the process of a serious bid to become the UK government. they are just straight up evil.

Count Binface is an intergalactic space warrior with a bin on his head. he likes to run as a novelty candidate in general and mayoral elections. a big thing he likes to do is run as a candidate against the incumbent prime minister:

(Also pictured: Boris Johnson, Elmo)

Anyway, in brief:

Nigel Farage is currently in the midst of a big scandal about his finances

He has decided to deal with this by 1) making a show of nobly resigning from parliament and then 2) immediately running in the resulting by-election

He has stated that he is letting 'the people' judge his actions and implied that if he wins that will prove that he has been exonerated in the court of public opinion

His goal was presumably to get a big resounding win over the other parties, proving that The People still love him.

the other parties have thus far decided that this is a 'vanity election' and, well, there is one very easy way to ensure that he will not beat any of them, and that is simply not to play.

and as a result the only person who has so far confirmed they are running against him is Count Binface. no matter the outcome this makes Nigel Farage look like, u know, a fucking clown.

[butterflyslinky]

So what happens if Count Binface actually wins? Does he join Parliament? Does he have to take the bin off his face?

[penny-anna]

I've seen some people saying he would have to give up his title but it would seem that is no longer the case as of 1999; so, no, he can keep his ceremonial bin if he wishes.

Important to note also that Count Binface is the alter ego of comedian & political satirist Jon Harvey who seems to be an intelligent individual with reasonable politics. As I said no real downside.

[penny-anna]

The no hats rule clearly does not apply to him. He is not wearing a hat. It's a bin.

[ayeforscotland]

It appears that all parties with the exception of Restore are not going to entertain Farage’s media circus.

Count Binface - it is your time. People of Clacton, please do the funniest fucking thing that’s happened in UK politics for a while.

[ayeforscotland]

Shitposting at its finest.

[omtai]

Man I miss free the nipple. Its getting warmer and we don’t even have free the nipple anymore

[gramarye]

feminism has backslid so hard in recent years people don't even know what free the nipple means anymore

[briwhosaysni]

To clarify for those who don't know, "free the nipple" isn't about going braless, it's about going topless

No shirt, no bra, completely bare torso, just like cis men are allowed to

It's about desexualizing breasts and "female presenting nipples" and not being criminalized for our bodies if we want to go topless because it's a million damn degrees out. This was a popular growing movement that was still widely known a decade ago!

And the fact that not wearing a bra is so discouraged and stigmatized that people think the movement was about being able to go braless under your shirt in public rather than about being able to not wear a shirt at all says a lot about how far we've backslid in the past decade

[addigni]

Reblog if you genuinely support asexuals

It terrifies me that there’s so much raging passion in the lgbt+ community that insist on marginalizing asexuals and implying that asexuals don’t deserve to have safe spaces. There’s still so much acephobia so I just wanna know which blogs are genuinely supportive and a safe space for asexuals

[cabinthreeproblems]

*SLAMS REBLOG BUTTON* ASEXUALS HAVE MY VOTE //ref

[fadell-aldany]

I don't know what to say. I've run out of words, and the war in G@za hasn't ended. The b0mbing continues every day, and d@ath stalks us every moment.

[fadell-aldany]

I'm writing to you amidst this siege, with pain gnawing at my body. Since our house was bombed, shrapnel has been lodged in my body, tearing me apart and causing unbearable pain. I haven't been able to have surgery to remove it because the entire healthcare system here has been destroyed, and I need to raise the m0ney for travel to have my operation in another country. I need your stand by me.

[fadell-aldany]

On top of this suffering, I'm suffering from severe anemia, which causes me to faint frequently. I urgently need your h@lp now to buy anemia medication and painkillers to alleviate this agony, and to cover the costs of my treatment, I hope you will all stand by my side.

[sexygaywizard]

FUCK AMERICA HAPPY 100TH BIRTHDAY CEASAR SALAD 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽❗❗❗

[kaban-bang]

[pinnipetal]

It deeply saddens me that "pdf file" has become slang for pedo. Don't you dare disrespect my wife the beautiful portable document format ever again

[dualcasterjay]

and to the children in the notes saying we need this fucking baby talk to get around censorship online; there's been no credible evidence that any site other that YouTube (which will only demonetize your video, ftr) will actually censor or hide content that include words like rape, pedophile, gun, terrorist, etc. etc. and even if we take as a given they were (which, again, they are not), do not fucking comply in advance, you absolute fucking coward. and ESPECIALLY do not comply by altering your real life fucking vocabulary. don't let the technocrats dictate what words you say holy fucking shit dude!!!!!!!!!!!!

[juneberryjammin]

Additional reminder that this kind of self censorship makes it harder for people to block content they do not want to see.