[lastoneout]

Sorry we really went from free the nipple, take back the night, slut walks, and ending gender/sex segregation in sports being fucking milquetoast feminism 101 concepts to fucking girl dinner and "I just worry about fairness if we let trans girls play against cis ones" and "it was right of that woman to call the cops on a black man for existing near here in public during the day time because men are all violent monsters" and "radical feminism isn't transphobic we just need to kill all men including trans ones those oppressive traitors" and I will legit never be able to be normal about it. What the FUCK happened. I'd say I wonder what the feminists of my youth would say about this but I'm one and lemme tell ya I want to throw up. Go fucking read bell hooks or do something else useful please because all of this learned helplessness, gender essentialism, and transphobia dressed up as feminism is actively holding us back.

[espanolbot2]

Oppressive forces co-opting the language of progressive politics to mask their conservative agenda because just saying what they literally mean raises red flags even among the centrists they're trying to bring on side?

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Modern culture is pearl clutching puritanical sex negative, homophobic and transphobic dogshit and the fact it was so easily able to bring us to this point using the language of performative allyship and fauxgressive dogshit is so stupid that it would be funny if it weren't for the fact it's happening in real life

[cal3ris]

is this gonna get me fired you think

[viralfrog]

[paverics]

“my father is a boy and my mother is a girl so i’m mixed” is the funniest possible response to someone asking your gender and it came from 6’5 Viking footballer and notable weird little guy Erling Haaland on a Snapchat

[paverics]

comedians can only dream of writing something this funny

[starlightweave]

Baldur's Gate 3 Mod Recs: Romance~

In celebration of the 2 year anniversary of the most influential event of all time, the first day I played BG3, have some mods that fix and improve BG3's amazing romances :3

Qathryn's BG3 Mod Recs Masterpost

Kisses: In case you somehow don't have this one already. Adds spells of companions’ unique kisses, including: their unique endgame kisses (missing Halsin's tho ☹️) and unique epilogue kisses.

Hugs: Adds a spells that let you hug characters. Includes I think every hug animation: Gale, act 2 romanced Astarion, Shadowheart, Karlach, Halsin, God Gale, the Dream Guardian, and (limited) reverse hugs for short races.

Aeries' Gale Dekarios - Hugs Kisses Voiced Dialog: Adds a dialogue option to romanced Gale to access 8 kisses (his 4 epilogue ones, 2 from Wyll, and 2 from Astarion), his epilogue hug, and Shadowheart's hug. All these romantic actions are accompanied by dialogue, so while you can access all these thru the above Kisses and Hugs mods, this a is a more "natural" way of getting them. NOTE: this requires a compatibility pak if you have Lesser Restoration.

Astarion Confession Dialogue Edit: Incorporates elements of his Yugir confession (the famous "nice simple plan" line) to his Araj confession, adds the ability to both ask him what he wants to do + tell him we can be together w/o sex, before hugging or opening your mind him.

Astarion Kisses Revamped: Because why does spawn Astarion get only TWO kisses 😭!? Restores a third unfinished neck kiss found in games files, improves camera angles on his vanilla kisses, and stops his "I'm all pointy ears, love~" dialogue from vanishing after you defeat Cazador.

Astarion's Graveyard Scene Extended: Adds new additional shots to his act 3 romance scene, so you can see extra details as part of normal gameplay. This does include The Leg Thing B)

Astarion Act 3 - "But you're MY leaking blood-bag": For Durges romancing Astarion: ensures he always says this excellent line if Durge tells Ethel "I prefer to think of myself as a leaking blood-bag," in act 3, even if you saved Mayrina in act 1 (which normally makes this inaccessible in vanilla)

Karlach's Romance - Better Hot Date: Allows you to ask Karlach all 3 questions during your date, plus adds in some unique dialogue options for different classes, backgrounds, and races.

Firestarter - Karlach Romance Overhaul: Restores Karlach's bugged pre-tiefling party romance scene, allows the scene to happen after the party in case you didn't have enough approval at the party, and adds in a chance to start the romance (or kiss her if already dating) when she gets her 2nd upgrade.

Astral Pain - Lae'zel Romance Debuff: For weak istiks who want to remove the debuff they receive after getting freaky with the frog wife (you can do it in vanilla by using lesser restoration, but Lae'zel will disapprove 😂)

Minthara's Alurlssrin: Since Larian NEVER fixed the bug preventing the lovely follow-up dialogue after Minthara calls your bond alurlssrin from appearing, our patron saint of BG3 Modding hyperspacetowel did 🙏

Minthara's Poison Kiss: Bumps up the chance of getting your first poisoned kiss from 1 in 100 to 1 in 10, so you can learn that your hot drow wife loves u so much she poisons u 🥰

Missed Connections - Shadowheart - Truly Connect: Fixes the bug that prevents you from starting a romance with Shads after the tiefling party if you did not have enough approval at that party, or if you had the goblin party instead.

Missed Connections - Shadowheart: Fixes the bug preventing Shadowheart's act 3 romance scene if you missed your chance to learn that she likes night orchids and can't swim.

Ex-Sharran Swimming Lessons: Unlocks Shads' act 3 romance scene if Dark Justicier Shadowheart saved her parents.

Wyll's Act 3 Romance Tweaks: For those who choose to end Wyll's romance scene with cuddling, this tweaks the camera angle so you can actually see the cuddling!

Dark Urge Tweeaks: Some restored banter and improved companion reactivity for Durge, including new cinema sequences featuring your romance partner actually being upset about resist Durge dying.

Lesser Restoration: Previously recommended for its MANY bug fixes, wanted to highlight its romance improvements/fixes here: unlimited endgame kisses for Astarion, Halsin, and Minthara; fixes bugs preventing Karlach's pre-tiefling party romance scene; fixes bugs preventing Wyll's act 2 dance even if you did not flirt with him at the party (perhaps not an improvement because you WILL have to break his heart 😭 or enter a script extender command daily to prevent it); stops romance related banter from playing prematurely (such as before your partner's act 2 or 3 scene)

EDIT: typos fixed omfg guys will I ever learn to proofread

[johnny-depp-is-loved]

what is this genre of photos called

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

“yes, I’ve been wanting to read that!” I say with complete earnestness, as I proceed to ignore every opportunity I have to read it

[pelahnar]

“I’ve been meaning to read/watch/listen to that, but the stars are not in position, so I can’t do it yet”

[anexperimentallife]

[gardenergremlin]

It’s called ‘being able to see the corpse’

[burning-cathedrals-deactivated2]

So if I put you in an L-shaped swimming pool, and you knew there was a corpse around the corner, you'd be fine?

[mwagneto]

loving the implication that I'm a little animal and you're a scientist putting me into various bodies of water to test my corpse:water ratio tolerance

[eisenkrahe]

"For decades, wolf researchers believed ravens followed wolf packs to find food. Every biologist who flew aerial surveys over Yellowstone saw the same thing.

Wolves moving across the snow with ravens overhead, black shapes trailing the pack like a shadow with wings. The assumption was simple. The ravens were following the wolves. The wolves would kill. The ravens would eat. A study published in March 2026 using GPS transmitters on wolves, cougars, and ravens in Yellowstone proved the assumption wrong.

The ravens were not following the wolves. They were remembering where kills had happened before and flying over those locations looking for new carcasses. The relationship between the two species is real. The mechanism is not what anyone thought it was.

Bernd Heinrich, a University of Vermont biologist who spent years studying ravens in Maine and Yellowstone, first documented the scale of the association. His data showed ravens present near wolf packs 99.7 percent of the time during winter in Yellowstone. Not occasionally. Not frequently. Essentially always. On Isle Royale, researcher John Vucetich observed the same pattern from the air.

Every wolf pack had ravens with it. The birds were just always there.

The numbers at kill sites are staggering. The average number of ravens documented at a Yellowstone wolf kill is thirty. The maximum recorded at a single carcass is 135.

A wolf pack brings down an elk in the Lamar Valley, and within hours over a hundred ravens have materialized from across the drainage to feed. They do not wait politely. They land on the carcass while the wolves are still eating. They grab chunks of meat and cache them in the snow and in tree crotches for later retrieval. Research estimates that ravens can consume up to forty percent of a carcass, which means a wolf pack that kills a seven-hundred-pound elk may lose nearly three hundred pounds of it to birds.

That loss is so significant that one study proposed a theory that reshapes how we think about wolf pack size entirely. If a pair of wolves can take down an elk, why do wolves hunt in packs of four, six, eight, or more? The per-capita meat return decreases with every additional mouth. A pair gets the most meat per wolf. The answer may be ravens. Two wolves cannot eat fast enough to outpace a hundred ravens stripping the carcass simultaneously. A larger pack can post guards, feed in shifts, and physically dominate the carcass long enough to retain a greater share of the kill. Wolves may hunt in packs not because they need more teeth to bring down prey, but because they need more bodies to defend the kill from birds.

The ravens pay for their meals. Heinrich documented in his book Mind of the Raven that ravens serve as an early warning system at kill sites. Ravens are more vigilant than wolves. They perch in trees overlooking the carcass and scan the horizon in every direction. When a grizzly bear approaches, or a rival wolf pack, or a mountain lion, the ravens see it first. Their alarm calls alert the feeding wolves to the incoming threat before the wolves' own senses detect it. The wolves get airborne sentries. The ravens get an animal with the jaw strength to open a frozen elk carcass that no raven beak can penetrate.

That is the core of the mutualism. The raven cannot open the hide. The wolf can. The wolf cannot see a threat approaching from a mile away while its head is buried in a rib cage. The raven can. Each species fills a gap in the other's capability, and the result is a partnership so consistent that L. David Mech, the most published wolf researcher in the world, wrote that each creature is rewarded in some way by the presence of the other and that each is fully aware of the other's capabilities.

The play behavior is the part that makes biologists uncomfortable because it implies something beyond transactional mutualism. Wolves and ravens play together. Not at kill sites. Not during feeding. During downtime. Yellowstone observers have documented ravens diving at resting wolves, pulling their tails, and flying away. Wolf pups chase ravens across meadows. Ravens steal sticks from pups and hold them just out of reach. The interactions look like the cross-species equivalent of two bored kids messing with each other because there is nothing else to do.

Doug Smith, the retired lead biologist of the Yellowstone Wolf Project, had watched this relationship from the air for decades. Wolf researchers have believed forever that ravens follow wolves, he wrote after the 2026 study was published. Every wolf researcher has seen it. I have seen it routinely from the plane while wolves are chasing an elk in Yellowstone Park, numerous times. Ravens are just always there. This is an age-old observation. But it has never been rigorously tested until now.

The 2026 study, which used 2.5 years of GPS data from transmitters on wolves, cougars, and ravens simultaneously, revealed that ravens were not tracking wolf movements in real time. They were patrolling known kill sites. A raven that fed at a wolf kill in a specific drainage in November would return to that drainage repeatedly over the following weeks and months, flying over the exact location where the carcass had been, checking whether a new kill had appeared. The ravens were not following the wolves. They were following the memory of where wolves had killed before.

That distinction matters because it changes the raven from a passive follower into an active strategist. A bird that follows a wolf pack is reacting. A bird that memorizes kill locations across an entire landscape and patrols them systematically is planning. The raven is not tagging along. It is running a surveillance network across hundreds of square miles of Yellowstone, checking sites where food has appeared before, and showing up fast enough when it appears again that every observer since the 1995 reintroduction assumed it had been following the wolves the whole time.

The wolf and the raven share almost identical geographic range across the Northern Hemisphere. Everywhere wolves live, ravens live. The association is not a Yellowstone novelty. It is a continental relationship between two of the most intelligent species in North American wildlife, running continuously across boreal forest, tundra, mountain, and prairie, built on meat, memory, and a mutual awareness that neither species has ever needed to be taught."

Sources: Heinrich, B. "Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds." / Stahler, D. et al. (2002). Animal Behaviour. / Mech, L.D. "The Wolf: The Ecology and Behaviour of an Endangered Species." / Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Living Bird, 2020. / Bozeman Daily Chronicle, March 2026.

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[cock-holliday]

wish literally any gay papers would talk about lil nas x cause every article is either written with contempt OR makes sweeping assumptions by only quoting the cops and blatantly lies about things they contradict in their own article. like how is there no coverage of support or efforts to keep an eye on his location?

shortest possible story is that he he got arrested and hospitalized after walking around outside at night, MAYBE having 'an episode', MAYBE he was drunk, maybe he was high, maybe he was just being loud, who knows. Dude was outside at night in boxers and cowboy boots and that's all he did to "invite" police interaction.

But cops claimed he assaulted them so he gets arrested. Then goes to the hospital. Then goes back into custody.

And then he's not heard of for a while, then days later says he's out and okay. But facing FELONY charges!

WHERE IS EVERYONE? Pinknews cunts? Them? OutMag? Hello??

[cock-holliday]

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Almost a year later, Lil Nas X is out of a mental health rehab program, looking good, saying he feels really good, and seems to be on the way up after all of this. I'm really happy for him. I hope he has good genuine support in his life through family, friends, and folks rooting on him that he can count on.

I am really disappointed but not surprised how quickly a lot of media support for him disappeared, especially queer papers. An interview from before the police incident really highlighted how many people wanted him to fail and wanted to see him fall, including certain pockets within communities that should have has his back.

Happy Happy Pride to Lil Nas X. I hope nothing but good things come his way.

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[maze-on-jars]

[omtai]

They just don’t release the hounds like they used to

[anphivenas]

i need to get into cars

[dontsaythatillcry]

they have doors which help with this

[anphivenas]

most of them are locked ive only gotten lucky like twice

[quasi-normalcy]

I think it's unfortunate that the Nazis inherited an already very efficient German state, industrial and military apparatus, because it created the persistent myth that fascism itself is efficient, which, lol

[quasi-normalcy]

What's a more efficient way to serve the public interest: actually having mechanisms to monitor state officials for corruption and hold them to account, or just letting them loot the public purse to their heart's content so long as they stay loyal to the Leader? If you're not an idiot, the answer won't surprise you!

[kendrixtermina]

Before the Nazis, Germany was in a leading position in the arts & sciences & considered philosophical & intellectual.

After the Nazis, well... nobody associates Germany with art film or cutting edge computer science anymore. But we're now considered the most boring, square, unattractive people in all of europe!

trump is kinda well on his way of doing the same thing to the perceived sex appeal of us americans... when i was a kid ppl used to dream of moving there.

Ovsly neither of the countries was perfect before the respective strongmen/ had already done war crimes before, but the fascism didn't help.

[quasi-normalcy]

Yeah I shudder to imagine how US science is going to recover from this.

[muzzlesbian]

just saw a post talking about the misogynistic phenomenon of men frequently offloading household tasks to women & expecting us to do them... and describing it as "learned helplessness"

we are putting that term on the shelf

[muzzlesbian]

Learned helplessness is the behavior exhibited by a subject after enduring repeated aversive stimuli beyond their control. In humans, learned helplessness is related to the concept of self-efficacy, the individual's belief in their innate ability to achieve goals.

literal first paragraph of the wikipedia article for learned helplessness. this is a depression symptom. it is frequently caused by lifelong abuse from controlling authority figures. it is the exact OPPOSITE of an abuse tactic and would most likely be displayed by the WOMEN in that kind of scenario!!

the actual relevant term for what the man is doing is probably "weaponized incompetence" which is an abuse tactic. please for the love of fuck do not conflate the two

[dogpuppy]