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[queer-as-city-folk]

Animals: a guide

[queer-as-city-folk]

One side has monkeys and tigers and elephants and capybaras, the other? Squirrels and deer

[queer-as-city-folk]

I forgot Bison and Sea Otters

[salekinj]

Have you seen a moose, megafauna are cool.

[queer-as-city-folk]

[queer-as-city-folk]

I DO NOT!!!

[queer-as-city-folk]

[queer-as-city-folk]

[queer-as-city-folk]

I am sorry

[captainlordauditor]

I live in the US and one of the things that really reframed the way I think about animals was when someone I knew in Brazil posted a picture of a marmoset hanging out outside their window and I realized that monkeys were to them what squirrels are to me. Recently a friend in Hungary sent a picture they took at the zoo of a raccoon and it was like my worldview was being shifted all over again because what was to me the mildly annoying, somewhat cute, critter that makes weird noises behind my house at night was a wonder to someone else. They have little hands and bandit masks. They wash their little hands. How is that NOT a wonder? All animals are cool I’m just used to raccoons.

[cryptotheism]

They don't want you to know this but K and G are actually the same sound. You just vibrate your vocal cords for the second one. Same thing with T and D. And S and Z. This thing goes straight to the top.

[cryptotheism]

You might think R is a consonant. It is. (Quietly) It is. But dark things happen with that little glyph. It has powers beyond the ordinary phoneme.

[str-ngeloop]

Everything's the same except for the ways in which they are different.

[cryptotheism]

When they make me god Themperess of philosophy, I'm sorting out all this difference and similtude nonsense. I think we only need maybe ten categories tops.

[tlirsgender]

Being critical of your interests is sooooo fun when you have the critic gene & then you sound kind of insane to the average tv watcher when you're like "this is my favorite show, It's Racist" & then you try to clarify what you mean & get that [Speech (legendary) - FAILURE] "the racism is really interesting though"

[tlirsgender]

[Speech (legendary) - SUCCESS] I find the sociopolitical context of pulpy old sci-fi born circa the civil rights movement really fascinating to analyze especially when it was progressive for its time but still reveals the writers' unexamined biases in the subtext

[sqbr]

Them: So you're saying its bad and I shouldn't watch it?

Me: I mean depends on your tolerance for this type of racism, but like I said it's my favourite show, it def has some great parts if you're up for it.

Them: Oh so it's not racist.

Me: It absolutely is.

Them: So you're saying racism is ok??

Me: No.

[mikkeneko]

[nasa]

Welcome to the Far Side of the Moon

A crescent Earth sets behind the Moon.

On April 6, 2026, the Artemis II astronauts flew around the Moon, observing the far side – which we never see on Earth thanks to tidal locking – with their own eyes and with cameras.

See more of the Moon:

A crescent Earth setting behind the Moon’s horizon.

Earth setting behind the Moon as seen by the Artemis II crew. Over half the left side of the image is filled by the gray lunar surface, pocked with craters.

A close view of the Moon. Jagged circles of craters dot the gray surface, fading to dark on the left side of the image.

A close view of the edge of the Moon. Jagged circles of craters dot the dark gray lunar surface, which arcs across the image.

A close-up view of the Moon, filling most of the frame. Along the left side of the image, the terminator divides the illuminated and darkened sides of the Moon.

A close-up view of the Moon, filling most of the frame. Along the left side of the image, the terminator divides the illuminated and darkened sides of the Moon.

Earth just as it set behind the Moon, as seen by the Artemis II crew. The dark gray surface of the Moon, pocked with craters, arcs from the bottom left corner of the image to the top right.

Check out more photos from the lunar flyby, including astronaut selfies and the solar eclipse only they experienced.

Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space!

[thatdisasterauthor]

Also, not gonna lie, it is so refreshing to have a major cultural moment that's just FREE. You don't have to pay a cent to watch this on NASA's YouTube. There's not a single ad, not a single sponsor plastered anywhere. It's just smart people doing cool things.

[thatdisasterauthor]

Closest thing we got to an ad was the jar of Nutella that escaped.

[thestrawberrydreams]

Inclusive language is for everyone!!

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Their boyfriend is their partner why is this hard to understand

[korben600]

Also, “partner” is just a good word? It implies an equal relationship where both of your work together in pursuit of something, whether that be life goals or just having fun together.

It’s a good word. People should use it more.

[transgender-rex]

[hillsofspices]

the way some people talk about jews makes it sound like they just discovered the concept of human culture. “they have a word for outsiders 😡” yes most people do

[iamthespineofmybook]

Something I find of some amusement is that the three such words I know off the top of my head all start with "G":

Goy

Gaijin

Gringo

[mossadspydolphin]

Don't forget "gadje."

I feel like this calls for a Sesame Street episode.

[tutti-durruti]

The idea of having a special word to describe outsiders is utterly alien to the average American. All these foreign cultures having all these exotic terms, just to refer to strangers and outlanders? It's so uncouth!

[cantotallyeven]

Those damn foreigners have a word for foreigners

[sarah-dipitous]

April Fools day here is always funny because my dash is full of “here’s a Rick roll but it’s actually a different song” “here’s ‘do you love the color of the sky’ just kidding! It’s not the full long post!” “Here’s a drawing I made of a kitty! Just kidding! It’s two kitties and they’re best friends” and we do this unironically and completely ignoring the blood lust we all experience every year just two weeks prior

[confusionofconfusions-deactivat]

i love that 17th century jewish poltergeist story where the family living in the haunted house calls a catholic priest for help before they contact a rabbi, because yeah, i think that would be my call too; id be like, oh? a demon in my house speaking latin and drawing inverted crosses on my wall in sulfuric bile? then without even questioning my faith i’d call up the catholic church and be like yo father, one of your boys loose come get him

[mayflower-uwu]

“Look here pal, I know my religion, and this ain’t it. Whatever this guy is, they’re clearly from your version of things. Mind coming over to help fix things up?”

[xekstrin]

#not my covenant not my malefactor

[skywolf42]

XD

[were--ralph]

when the human 2.0 patch rolls out i think people with uvulas should lay eggs rather than keeping them up in there

[were--ralph]

i can not stress the confidence when i paused and thought "I'm pretty sure uvula is the right part" and got it in one

[were--ralph]

i feel like im being pranked is it a uterus or an ovary or what what is happening in there

[were--ralph]

im tired y'all got conveyor belts and stuff in ya coochie ig

[posts-with-10000-notes-in-spirit]

current note count: 82

[were--ralph]

don't you put that curse on me

[were--ralph]

you little shits

[sistertaxon]

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[teaboot]

I need to start using other sources for news

[grickle14]

The first signs of spring.

[the-big-mood]

Now you can't blame the people in horror movies 😂

[dancinbutterfly]

Strategy. That is the key. Literally. You get the key out as soon as it’s unlocked.

[riding-with-the-wild-hunt]

the fact that the tra la la lally elves don’t show up when frodo et al. arrive in rivendell implies a few options to me:

they are only there some of the time or at certain entrances (possible but prosaic, includes the potential for tra la la lallying as shift work)

elrond’s magic has some kind of built-in warning system and they cleared out to avoid potential danger (plausible and realistic considering that i don’t think team tra la la lally is either interested in fighting or skilled in emergency response)

the changing political climate and increased danger around rivendell resulted in all tra la la lallying activities being moved inside the valley (which begs the question of where, and if they just manifest barbershop quartet style beneath guests’ windows)

elrond didn’t know about it until bilbo unwittingly mentioned the experience over dinner, and all roadside tra la la lallying was brought to an end (either petering out without the allure of secrecy or simply by the power of elrond’s consternation)

the whole thing was contrived solely to troll the dwarves (elucidates the standout conformity of only these elves to historic ‘tree-dwelling hippies’ stereotypes)

bilbo fully made it up (this was revealed when merry and pippin cheerfully asked elrond when the tra la la lallying would start, and elrond said ‘gesundheit’)

assuming the tra la la lally elves are real, though, i’m so certain that it was a celebrían-manufactured conceit made permanent by her shameless use of a parting wish to a weeping and dock-bound elrond right before they were sundered for centuries. she was leaning over the rail of the boat to valinor shaking her fist and yelling that they had to sing the song she wrote and not some sad sappy poem meant to attract maglor. yes, with all the tra la la lallies. or else.

[april]

i wonder what happens if you edit a reblog without added content to have added content, or a reblog with added content to have none

[knitmeapony]

Testing this on your post. I fast reblogged this, now I'm adding content.

[knitmeapony]

So here's a reblog, let's see what the notes do.

[sword-sorceress]

vs

From a visual standpoint its heinous

[genericpuff]

look i know i was shouting a lot about the note count on that stupid stardew valley post but

it was ??? a joke ??? @staff are you for real???

i genuinely can't believe tumblr staff nuked the reblog notes feature - their oldest fucking feature - right as i was surpassing 20k notes on a post for the first time it was a fucking JOKE tumblr holy fucking shit this sucks so much ASS

tumblr all like "this is just the beginning :)" yeah it's the beginning of the fucking end for you, because i'm coming for your fucking careers, mark my words

[genericpuff]

that stardew valley alien baby post was dumb but it was MY stardew valley alien baby.

it had ~17k reblogs yesterday. seventeen thousand.

this afternoon after finished up my work and hopped on tumblr, less than 24 hours later?

882.

not because those reblogs ceased to exist, not because of some 'bug' in the system, not because of the fabled 'broken notes' curse.

no, it's just because Tumblr decided I didn't need to know about those reblogs, so now they're not 'counting' the reblogs that were shared from other people's reblogs of MY post.

so now some OTHER chronically online asshole somewhere out there in the void has the majority of the notes on my fucking post. and it's not because that chronically online asshole intentionally stole and reposted my content - Tumblr stole it and reposted it all on their own on the behalf of everyone who's ever reblogged it.

and that was just a shitpost about a stardew valley alien baby! nothing really all that valuable aside from general internet tomfoolery! i wasn't even expecting that post to get to 800 reblogs let alone 17k so that's not even any skin off my back!

but i have art on this blog.

thousands of users have art on their blogs. paintings, digital creations,

art that has earned hundreds, if not thousands of notes, that has undoubtedly now been stripped down to double or even single digits.

once again, like most superfluous updates on social media platforms, the artists are the ones who are taking it up the ass.

[your-neighbourhood-antisocial]