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Phoenix | occasionally reblogs suggestive stuff | human rights extremist, apparently | autistic goblin | ADHD | she/they pronouns, tigerkin, amethyst starlingkin, wolfkin, crowkin | lesbian | demiaroace | polyamorous, in a relationship

[sandmandaddy69]

[yexerrr]

rumors and confessions

[importantcatpics]

[what-even-is-thiss]

You know the FBI and CIA get thousands of tips a day and they look into all of them but like 99% of them turn out to be nothing.

Anyways the government choosing to release literally all files related to anything are gonna fuel conspiracy theories because the conspiracy theorists are gonna assume that those bullshit tips must mean something

So basically President 47 choosing to release files related to the 2020 election is almost certainly sending the conspiracy theorists into a spiral right now combing over all of those nothing burgers and was obviously extremely irresponsible of him but what else is new

[phoenixofthestars]

dare i suggest that it was on purpose

[what-even-is-thiss]

Just because something is on purpose doesn’t make it any less irresponsible. This is probably trying to distract from something as these things usually are but it’s a stupid way to do it

[phoenixofthestars]

oh no no I know, apologies I didn’t mean to imply otherwise lol. definitely agree with you 😅

[what-even-is-thiss]

You know the FBI and CIA get thousands of tips a day and they look into all of them but like 99% of them turn out to be nothing.

Anyways the government choosing to release literally all files related to anything are gonna fuel conspiracy theories because the conspiracy theorists are gonna assume that those bullshit tips must mean something

So basically President 47 choosing to release files related to the 2020 election is almost certainly sending the conspiracy theorists into a spiral right now combing over all of those nothing burgers and was obviously extremely irresponsible of him but what else is new

[phoenixofthestars]

dare i suggest that it was on purpose

[kokica1]

Bet he didn't see that plot twist coming...

[what-even-is-thiss]

The American mindset, that being distantly related to a farmhand who left in 18-something, somehow means you have meaningful claims to a country's citizenship is unironically insane.

That’s literally how German citizenship works currently lol

[what-even-is-thiss]

If my direct ancestors had registered at a German consulate when they came to the US I would already be going through the process of getting German citizenship. The only reason I’m not is that they were poor and didn’t have time for it.

Poverty cuts off one’s ties to the old country and makes people say you have no claim to it. Interesting, that.

[what-even-is-thiss]

You know until relatively recently German citizenship only followed the father? Meaning someone born outside of Germany to a German mother and non German father had no right to citizenship.

These rules are made up. They’re stupid rules. Citizenship requirements for residence somewhere are stupid. I’m not allowed to live in a place that I have cultural ties to and have family living there. Is that not stupid? Like what’s your requirements for who deserves to live in a place?

[onetruelurker]

My partner’s dad is exploring Italian citizenship and interestingly enough his grandfather had to renounce his Italian citizenship when he was naturalized an American - but his grandmother didn’t have to because she was a woman. If your ancestor renounced citizenship you can’t claim descent but if they didn’t you can. So currently the family’s citizenship case rests on a sexist legal loophole from the early 1900s.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Ah, citizenship law. I hate it so much.

[nerathul]

I wonder if that 'Only men' rule had something to do with conscription, since only men could be conscripted, what if they had two citizenship from opposing countries? But just a wild guess.

[ulyssessimpsongrant]

There’s actually an ongoing issue regarding a Togolese family descended from a German man married to a Togolese woman arguing the family isn’t entitled to German citizenship because Germany didn’t recognize interracial marriage at the time.

[what-even-is-thiss]

You know that’s a pretty bad look for a country supposedly trying to restore citizenship to as many people as possible to correct their past wrongs. I mean Germany does plenty of other stuff to have a bad look just like any other country but this is definitely one of them.

[phoenixofthestars]

racism and sexism really is in everything isn’t it :(

[chalroe]

i love aroace ryland grace. however, i dont think he knows this about himself so for the past decade he's probably been like "yeahhh i'll eventually settle down and find a special someone but i'm just too busy being a teacher to date or anything like that"

cut to when grace & rocky are on their way to erid and things have settled down a bit and he's just like.

oh thank GOD i do not have to ever do that

[oversteeped-tea]

i think stories without a romantic subplot are so important actually because i didn’t even realize how much internalized aphobia i had rolling around in there until i saw ryland grace be genuinely happy and fulfilled by platonic relationships

[cipheramnesia]

Actually the real reason I transitioned was because my parents joked so many times about returning me to the child store I decided to void the warranty.

[cipheramnesia]

Actually the real reason I transitioned was my dad complained about women in golf so much I knew it was a sure fire way to make him stop trying to teach me golf.

[cipheramnesia]

Actually the real reason I transitioned was because I'm really supportive of my wife but I wanted to make shopping for their tampons feel less awkward.

[cipheramnesia]

Actually the real reason I transitioned was to prove to a point about the ending of the Scottish play to my 8th grade English teacher.

[cipheramnesia]

Actually the real reason I transitioned was because slutty shorts for men went out of style and I couldn't give them up.

[cipheramnesia]

Actually the real reason I transitioned was because I needed a good picture to get on Tinder, but I didn't want to hold up a fish.

[phoenixofthestars]

Actually the real reason I transitioned was because i was always destined to be a creechur

[sanguine-squid]

where is any higher quality version of this image

[satellites-halo]

can't find anything other than this which has maybe 5 extra pixels

[sergal]

[solitairie]

now dance fucker dance man he never had a chance

[phoenixofthestars]

sigh rats are so cute but i am albertan 😔

[magicratfingers]

went to throw dog poop away in a rando trash can and

[floralasshat]

Plz tell me you took him home and have a new per gengar.

[magicratfingers]

i'm not qualified to provide adequate enrichment for a trash gengar also I know for a fact he was recently hit in the face with a bag of dog poop

[magicratfingers]

it just started raining this is really doing a number on my object personification

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[magicratfingers]

Jesus fucking Christ

[magicratfingers]

jesus fucking christ

[osvaldvvanstein]

Update please I am begging you

[magicratfingers]

ok but you’re not gonna like it

[magicratfingers]

mid spa break to drain in the sink

[magicratfingers]

sir

please

[magicratfingers]

the family requests that trash gengar's privacy be respected during this difficult time

drying in the sun

[magicratfingers]

[daecus]

Thank you for giving him a home! :) (Sorry if this has already been done, already. I couldn't just leave this post alone.)

[magicratfingers]

Omgggggggg

[angel-derangement]

“we live in an uncaring universe” yeah dude and I live in an uncaring house. and I shit in an uncaring toilet. but do you touch an uncaring lover? do you comfort an uncaring child? do you guide to sleep each night a cold and uncaring self?

[angel-derangement]

please hurry up in reblogging this I wanna jorts it before someone puts it in one of those heartwarming tiktok slideshows

[ablubluh]

i was like 'what could jorts it possibly mean' but as with many things clicking the original post immediately clarified the situation

[kaiserin-erzsebet]

People will correctly identify that heteronormativity is a problem in old historiography and then immediately turn around and insist that two people must be having sex based on transgressive social intimacy. Then say something like "because sex is a human need for fulfillment."

Ah if only there was more than one kind of normativity to keep in mind....

[kaiserin-erzsebet]

This isn't exclusive to same sex attraction or love either. Anyone who digs into Empress Elisabeth's writings enough will find pretty clear statements about being apathetic (or disinclination) to physical intimacy and fulfillment from totally separate parts of her life.

We can't assume that people's highest fulfillment comes from having sex with the people they love. I wish we could have more nuance about this.

[plaguedocboi]

So every year, my aquarium does a captive lobster hatchery project (hence all the loblings). The reason we’re doing it is because in the wild, loblings only have a 1 in 25,000 chance of surviving their larval phase. They’re plankton as babies and everything eats them. Additionally, as the Gulf of Maine warms, they are having even lower survival rates because the blooms of copepods they feed on as babies are happening earlier in the year, and they’re missing it.

Obviously, the goal of this experiment is to grow the lobsters until they’re big enough to settle to the seabed and then release them, because they have a much higher likelihood of surviving to adulthood when they’re able to hide. Ideally, captive lobster hatcheries can boost the wild population and keep things stable, so we don’t have a major crash in a decade or two.

The first year we tried this was pretty bad. We had a lot of eggs, but very few babies. It turned out that the CO2 levels in the building spiked as more guests visited throughout the summer, and that settled into the water and threw off the pH and caused a chemical reaction that prevented a lot of the eggs from hatching. I think we ended up releasing three baby lobsters (which is still better than their wild survival rate but not great).

The second year was a little better. We added a de-gasser to the aquarium and got a ton of larval lobsters, but right as they were settling to the bottom we had a disease outbreak that killed most of them. We ended up releasing four babies at the end of the season.

But this year? Oh boy. We have so many lobsters that we had to release the first round early (usually we wait till September or October so guests can see them). We just released a total of FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE baby lobsters, and we still have over a hundred who haven’t settled to the bottom yet. I genuinely don’t even have words to explain how cool this is. OVER FIVE HUNDRED. We just added hundreds of lobsters to the wild population that wouldn’t have been there otherwise.

Conservation is so fucken sick

[coredrill]

“project hail mary (2026) using an orange-yellow-blue color palette in the majority of its lighting, set design, and wardrobe (except for the detour to the green planet with a purple aurora) is an intentional choice potentially based on the colors of the aroace (and aro and ace) flag(s) which may have been made in part because someone on the production staff realized that a story about a guy whose life is considered lesser explicitly because his relationships do not follow an amatonormative hierarchy, structured specifically to show that it is NOT romance which brings out the best in him but the love of/for a friend who similarly forgoes amatonormative expectations, and who is shown to be happy and fulfilled at the end for that very reason might be extremely resonant with aroaces” is a sentence which makes you sound like an insane person until you realize that project hail mary (2026) is a lord & miller production and those are the same guys who did this

[lazer-exe]

I'm gonna say it, I do think that even the laziest person imaginable should have a roof over their head, food in their stomach, and access to healthcare

[lazer-exe]

a lot of people are reblogging this saying that most "lazy" people are actually just disabled or that the concept of laziness itself is a product of our society's obsession with productivity. this is all true, but it is not my point.

even if someone WAS just lazy and simply didn't want to do anything but lie on the couch and watch tv, they should still have these things. it's irrelevant whether some people aren't actually lazy because everyone, including hypothetical lazy people, should have their basic needs met.

if we have the resources to do it, there is no defense of letting people die because they don't want to work, and much less because they can't.

I don't want lazy people to have basic necessities because they "actually" deserve them because they ARE working or CAN'T work. I want lazy people to have basic necessities because they are people, and we shouldn't leave them to die when we have the resources not to.