Abandon all hope you who come here

…or however this quote went. DON'T PING ME IN REBLOG CHAINS!! Hi! he/it and a feminist, no I don't think men are pigs, that's misandrist, no I don't exclude trans women, that's TERF. Enjoy rebloging madness, this is just my place to dump all of the things I like. Politics, doggos, memes, hedgehogs, art, murder, cats and much more!

[olibog]

I doubt anyone's gonna see this post

I'm just a goy who sat there in silent anger

I'm on an unfollowing and blocking and reporting spree but I don't know how many I'll get

How quiet it will get

How quiet it got for so many Israeli, Jews and Israeli Jews

I crave violence but I know it's not the answer

If you are against zionists do me a favour and block me.

Because antizionism IS antisemitism in a way y'all are practicing it.

To all the Jews who might see this post, have a picture of my cat. Heavens above know you could use any amount of comfort right now.

[tanadrin]

So one of the things that can apparently contribute to kidney issues in cats is if they eat too much dry food and don't drink enough water; cats are adapted to get a lot of their water from their food since they're originally desert animals, and might not get enough water if they don't eat wet food. Unfortunately, Dozy won't eat wet food no matter what; she categorically refuses to touch the stuff. So a few months ago, we were looking for ways to get Dozy more fluids, and my wife noticed at the pet store a cat drink--basically meat broth with some floaty bits in--that was low-protein and meant for cats with kidney issues. So we figured, worth a try, right?

Great news: she loved it. Super tasty apparently. Great success. Along with the kidney-sensitive treats we found, it was a nice way to supplement her diet. Unforseen long-term consequence though: she loved it so much she began demanding it throughout the day. Like, would come up to us and meow, and meow, and meow, and not stop, until we got up, went to the kitchen, and got her some cat drink.

And by doing so on demand, we have unfortunately created a monster: no matter what we are doing at home, Dozy knows that if she sits next to you and meows, 1) you know what she wants, and 2) you know that she will not stop until you get it for her now. And when you do get it, she gets extremely excited. She will bum rush the kitchen door as you enter. She will run around your feet as you open the can. She will let out the creakiest, crunchiest, most nails-on-the-chalkboard meow you've ever heard if she thinks you're not going fast enough.

I do not begrudge her this. It is gratifying to care for a creature whose most ardent desires are so simple that it is this easy to fulfill them. But I am a little sad, because I know in my heart that I have never loved any comestible as much as she loves this cat drink. She has a pleasure of a purity and intensity that I will never know.

[the creacher in question]

[venndaai]

have you guys heard about the greenland shark. some crazy shit happening there.

[venndaai]

they are sexually mature at ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OLD.

their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

toxic flesh

has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears

ma'am you are delightfully strange and I'm privileged to share a planet with you

[fluorescentbrains]

this post prompted me to refresh my memory on Greenland Shark Facts and this detail about how they feed goes so hard

just vacuuming up their unsuspecting prey. whole !

[muffinlance]

Good news good news good news! Recent research suggests the eye parasites do NOT blind them!

Eye-opening research: Greenland sharks maintain vision for centuries through DNA repair mechanism

Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk sits in her office, eyes fixed on the computer monitor in front of her. "You see it move its eye," says the UC Ir

I <3 you a normal amount Greenland sharks

[crippled-peeper]

having sex with your friends is so very normal please stop poisoning the youths minds with shame surrounding hooking up with your friends. especially if you’re gay

[crippled-peeper]

people are so fucking mad in the notes that adults have sex with each other and aren’t married sometimes. yall are carbon copies of your conservative parents and you’re so proud of it. ewwww

[crippled-peeper]

calling the sex I have with my friends “hookup culture” is insulting and incorrect. these are guys who take care of me and take me on dates and watch fun movies with me. being a disabled faggot too, they help me clean my place and take my trash out for me. they care for me and are on my emergency contact lists. trying to slap the label of “todays hookup culture!!!” on it is diminishing and devaluing those relationships

secondly, gay and bi men have been fucking all their friends and cruising and hooking up with total strangers since LLOOONGGGG before you were born and will continue doing so LLOOONGGG after you die. it’s never been a trend or a fad for us. It’s just a way of life for some of us and you aren’t going to change that by being disgusted by it

[crippled-peeper]

this tag has me in stitches

[everythingfoxes]

[foxpost-generator]

it fucken WIMDY

[foxpost-generator]

girk at my work discovered my terrible secret

[blanketfortarchitect]

Girk at my work

[copperbadge]

I was innocently buying a soda and a Kit Kat bar from a snack shop recently when the cashier said, "Oh, a Kit Kat! That's what I named my cat!" and then launched into An Monologue.

Nobody was behind me in line, which seemed to be a good reason for her to treat me to a five minute retelling of the identification, rescue, and argument over initial custody of Kit Kat, who was so small they thought when they first heard him crying for help that he was a bird and not a kitten in a tree, and is now fifteen pounds of "pure, sculpted lardass".

And I didn't mind, precisely, I wasn't bored or anything, but around the time she was bringing me up to speed on Kit Kat's current status it occurred to me that this woman is a cashier in a store that primarily sells candy bars and beverages. People must buy Kit Kat bars from her multiple times a day. Does she do this every time there's nobody in line behind the purchaser? Did I just have that I Own Several Cats And Will Enjoy Your Cat Stories look about me? Was it the first time it occurred to her that she sold the brand of candy bar she named her cat after? Was she new to the job of selling Kit Kat bars?

The idea that every time she sees a Kit Kat bar she is gripped by the urge, Manchurian Candidate style, to retell the story of Kit Kat the Cat, elevates her from a friendly cashier to a deep enigma. Truly there is no knowing the mind of another.

[copperbadge]

IT GETS FUNNIER

I was in the same snack shop, which I'm in, like, once a month, recently. I only recognized her because I spent five minutes listening to this monologue in sincere wonder. But I did recognize her, so as I was buying a soda and a Milky Way bar (this time) I said, without thinking about how this would come across, "Hey, how's Kit Kat?"

She looked genuinely horrified and said, "What...how?"

"Oh fuck!" I blurted. "Sorry! You told me about him last time!"

This is still quite cryptic as responses go but she gave me a frankly frantic look of sudden recognition and said, "He's fine! You bought a Kit Kat! I was unmedicated!"

I did not inform her she is small town famous on Tumblr and instead just said, "Glad you're both doing well!" and we parted as confused and mortified friends.

Gosh she's fun. I hope she's there next time. I want to reenact the Spiderman Pointing meme with her.

[crayfishcraig]

Next time get pictures of Kit Kat

[copperbadge]

Oh NO I should have gotten pictures. I promise if I see her again I will get pictures of the pure sculpted lardass.

[pocket-deer-belly]

i find it kinda laughable when people use speedrunning as a mark of the game's quality. like yeah this niche group of players that rarely represents even 1% of a game's playerbase that plays the game often in ways explicitly unintended by the devs is a real mark of the game's quality and not just like, a sign of its popularity.

[pocket-deer-belly]

speedrunning is at best something you can accommodate in the game and not something you build your game around. celeste functions because it makes all its difficult technicalities approachable and readable, but a lot of its speedrun tricks offer little to no feedback to the average player and thus aren't expected tech for the average player to learn.

[pocket-deer-belly]

even sonic games that are entirely (at least nominally) about going fast are accommodating the speed experience to the more average player. speedrunners aren't playing the game regular style and are functionally useless for game design feedback in almost every instance.

[youngerfrankenstein]

To put it very bluntly.

You will always make a better impact helping people who need it than trying to hurt people you think deserve it.

[ameliarating]

I see a lot of leftists agog at the notion that Jewish communities are remaining “liberal” without joining their more revolutionary causes. At best they’re confused and irritated. At worst, they are using this as an excuse for anti-Semitism.

But here’s the thing. Historically speaking, Jews have been most safe under liberal moderate regimes. The far right and the far left have always targeted Jewish communities once they’ve been in positions of power. Even without gaining power, they’ve been likely to trade in anti-Semitic stereotypes, dog whistling, and fear-mongering.

So to the leftist (whether that’s Marxist, communist, anarcho-communist) groups out there, you need to clean up your own communities first. Jews have very little reason to believe that you have our backs. We haven’t done well when you’ve had any power. We’ve been murdered, sent to gulags, and assassinated. We’ve been scapegoated and had our ethno-religious expression punished and prohibited. Address that first. And maybe Jewish communities won’t be so wary.

[jewishtransdyke]

I’m very much a radical leftist (somewhere in the vicinity of Rosa Luxemburg), but this is painfully true. Leftist communities have a huge antisemitism problem. I never go to political meetings, because I feel unsafe in those spaces, and I’m far from alone in that.

Leftists, clean your shit up.

[is-the-fire-real]

These posts are from 2019.

[brainscrems]

I think it’s worth noting that the reason for this is that those who want radical change, one way or another, are those who are most susceptible to antisemitic propaganda. If ur happy w how things are you usually aren’t looking for someone to blame. If you want things to be different, then you’re more susceptible to the comforting lie of, “Rather than doing the hard work to dismantle the systems of power creating these problems, all you gotta do is get rid of the Jews who are secretly in control!” The sudden ease of the “solution” and catharsis of violence is more appealing to many than facing the cold truth that change requires real constant work to make the world better.

[7-inches-of-satanic-panic]

k but imagine Rocky wanting to learn about how humans became the apex predators of their planet so he has Grace “hunt” him in the biodome as an experiment and during it he thinks Grace isn’t trying or taking it seriously which is bad bad bad because this is for research purposes

only for Rocky to get more and more tired as the experiment goes on just to realize that Grace isn’t which makes him panic so he puts as much distance as he can between them and finds a (hopefully) safe spot to sleep and when he wakes up the human is crouching over him like “got youuu” and Rocky has never shrieked so damn loud before in his life

[heedra]

really losing my patience for any 'feminist' statement to the tune of 'we need feminism because women fill a fundamentally different and necessary role than men and will be better at doing x y or z'. like actually i think we need feminism because it is an unbearable death of the spirit by inches to exist in a world where you are not seen as a fully realized human being because of a single cultural determination, and because a world that enshrines such things creates systems that are fundamentally sick to the core

[thememedaddy]

[commiesofia]

[the-truth-within-the-lie]

Checks out the people who reblog this who can’t be bothered to do one thing every four years and expect us to do everything for them.

[deepseasmetro]

people on tumblr will really be like "posting on your blog? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, winning an election" and then not win an election

[retquits]

artistic rendition of how my cat fell asleep this morning

[retquits]

she hugs her own foot like it’s a stuffed animal i’m gonna throw up

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

@jorality

[jorality]

We know who has all the brain cells

[arsnof]

It makes the dream work

[naamahdarling]

Being smart enough to know when to consult and listen to someone more knowledgeable is in fact quite smart! Many humans cannot manage this!

[pnglove]

Mate, you’ve got a chubby lizard on your dashboard

[markscherz]

Graced by Geckolepis typica from Madagascar. I love that they’re quite round creatures and then they have these dainty little toes. Also, their scales are full bone and both scale and skin come off when they get grabbed, which is…unpleasant. Consequently, catching these geckos for research without damaging them requires special techniques. 19th century researchers used bundles of cotton wool, but I imagine this wasn’t very effective, because cotton still has a lot of friction and the friction would pull the skin and scales off. In my (quite extensive) experience, the best technique is to carefully and quickly flick the geckos from their tree trunk or branch into an open dry plastic bag using a finger or stick.

[mrskayathefrog]

'scuse me, Mr @markscherz, does it harm the gecko for the scales to come off?

like, of course it harms them but... can they grow back? like how some lizards can drop their tails and eventually the tails grow back

[markscherz]

Not only do they grow back, but they come back so well that we cannot even tell where they have ripped off before. This is very weird, because when a lizard loses its tail, it is very obvious where it has been lost and regrown. Not so these chaps. They seek out a humid place to hide, and within a few weeks, skin and scales have started to regrow. The fact that they can do this so well is the reason a team has just sequenced their genome. I believe it is hoped that the skin regeneration tech they have built into their cells could eventually be harnessed for human skin grafts.

[luna-azzurra]

They taught us in physics that an object in motion stays in motion unless something acts on it and i didn't care at the time but as a writer i think about this constantly. your character cannot just stop. something has to stop them. something external, something internal, something that costs them. a person doesn't change direction for no reason. a story doesn't either. newton was writing craft advice and nobody told him.