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They/Them 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ I’m not quite sure dear reader

[psshaw]

[lilifred]

everyone's talking about the ibs/autism haha funny comparison thing while I'm still stuck on the concept that hamsters exist in the wild. like naturally

tf do you mean they're a wild creature. you find those ankle-biters at the pet store

[psshaw]

Not a biologist, but the evolution of mammals is way more granular than you might expect. Humans are the sole surviving species of the genus Homo, which was a real party before the other ones went extinct. You're in for a fun time.

Domestic cats are believed to be domesticated not from tigers, but from the African wildcat:

Which evolved to be small just because it's sometimes more useful to be small.

And no, hamsters are not off-brand rats. They're part of the rodent order, which includes beavers, moles, capybaras, guinea pigs (yes, also wild) and lots of other fun things:

[thesecretuncle]

Shit. This dude knows an extreme amount about a niche subject. Crazy what you can accomplish when you have treatment resistant IBS

[psshaw]

I want it on record that I shit mostly normal.

[raccoonmilf]

I don’t have a raccoon daughter because I’m a raccoon biologist. I have a raccoon daughter because I moved to South Africa because I had what I thought was a “prophetic dream” (I had scurvy and also an evil psychiatrist prescribing me the wrong meds) where I was in South Africa and there was billboard with a woman on it in a lab coat holding a red fox and a raccoon that said “Dr Foxy: This Could Be You!” And then in the dream I looked across the street and saw a billboard the said “Come Visit Hooters in South Africa.” And I woke up and was like “I know what I need to do” which was not “go to school to study native wildlife” but instead was “visit Hooters in South Africa.” But I didn’t want to go for just a little while because it was expensive and I didn’t like the idea of the long flight, but I knew I HAD to go to the Hooters in South Africa. So I figured it would be more economical to just go and finish art school there. Except COVID happened and I literally got trapped there and the hooters in the city I moved to had apparently been closed for years and also I got a concussion and when I went to the doctor they said I had scurvy. So I had to do intensive eating treatment where I drank a lot of fruit juice and also learned to eat macaroni that was shapes other than SpongeBob. And after listening to my yapping about raccoons, my therapist, who had never met a raccoon, told me I should get a raccoon to help me keep fresh fruits in the house. And so when I got back to America I found someone trying to get rid of one Facebook because it was apparently evil and bit her toddler and then I did.

And now I’m a raccoon biologist.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#thats exactly what id expect from anyone who's made it big post dashcon

I love how the phrasing of this politely obscures that raccoonmilf made Dashcon. Like a newcomer could come away thinking you mean "someone who made it big after Dashcon happened." But no.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#how would having a raccoon help you keep fresh fruits in the house….. like is it scavenging for you#is it being appropriately compensated? is raccoon OSHA involved

I assume the idea is that you need to get fruit for the raccoon. Like if you as a human run out of fruit mid-week you're like "fuck it, it's ramen until payday" and then you probably forget. If you need fruit for the raccoon then you're more likely to make certain you always have fruit. Which you can both eat.

[fellahimedia]

Btw there is no ceasefire in Lebanon. Like israel is continuing to violate the ceasefire with lebanon they agreed to in Pakistan

the times of israel is not even sugar coating it...

[steorran]

not interested in getting involved in the rest of this discussion, for the most part, but to me this is a GREAT piece of advice that many people these days don't seem to be getting or understanding.

not everyone you meet or interact with is your friend, the requirements and expectations for respectful behaviour between friends is not the same as between strangers.

[vexwerewolf]

Organised crime? Nah girl I'm into disorganised crime. If a goon doesn't have ADHD they aren't getting hired

[vexwerewolf]

Cops can't stop us if they don't know what we're doing, and they can't find out if we have no idea either

[vexwerewolf]

Nah I'm safe it wouldn't happen twice

[vexwerewolf]

Minions stop this post from reaching 1k

[lesser-robot-cat]

On it, boss! Gettin' this post to 10k, just like you said!

[spotted-tomcat]

A Japanese transmasc rapper named Cocona has become a Brand Ambassador for Gucci. GUCCI!!!! And he’s in Milan Primavera, a really important and fancy fashion show, strutting around with a buzz cut and all his piercings and visible top surgery scars and I’m like genuinely so emotional about this I need all of you to see this!!!!!!! 🥹🥹🥹

[spotted-tomcat]

He has been out for about 2 months, and in the time since his bandmates (as he is part of a musical group) have been nothing but extremely loving and supportive towards him, even rebranding from “Xtraordinary Girls” to “Xtraordinary Genes” as a way to support him :D

They now refer to him as their little brother and pet his buzz cut like a cat :]

I hope this can serve as proof to any trans people who may see this that there will always, ALWAYS be people out there who see you as you are and love you for it! It just takes a little time.

[daisieswithdaydreams]

@this-is-trans-joy

[this-is-trans-joy]

This is trans joy!!!

[fluffydancer618]

thank u for including old man yaoi in ur cupcake art its much appreciated in this word thats erasing gaybama

Don't let them rewrite the history, remember what they took from us,

[foxes-in-love]

[ouroborosorder]

everyone jokes about Gardevoir trainers being horny freaks but I think Gardevoir trainers would actually be posting like irl doll collectors

[ouroborosorder]

They’d be posting ”An exquisite day for a most elegant lady” and then a picture of the cutest tea party you have ever seen for a Gardevoir wearing a lovely little hat

[ouroborosorder]

the real horny freaks would be posting shit like “go my loyal minions” and then a video of them siccing 6 Galarian zigzagoon on a dumpster

[demi-shoggoth]

These tags are too good to be transitory

[excuse-me-thanks]

“i should take a walk for my mental health” boring, tired, i don’t even really wanna do it tbh

“i need to check the perimeter” i need to check the perimeter

[practicalsolarpunk]

The Breakroom Free Box

Context: I (Mod J) work in a warehouse for my day job. Employees aren’t allowed to leave the premises during work hours, but there is a good-sized breakroom with fridges, assorted tables, a coffee machine, and general breakroom stuff.

How it happened: I’d love to claim I had the intention of starting something like this from the beginning, but I didn’t. I had a friend who also worked at the same warehouse, and when she got a different job, she gave me her old uniform shirts. That left me with way more work shirts than I had space for. I folded up the extra shirts, put them in a box with “free” written on it, and put it on the table next to the time clock.

By the time I clocked out the next day, most of the shirts were gone, but someone had added a boxed cake mix and two cans of soup. And I realized something I probably should have thought of sooner: A box in the break room had more possibilities than just getting rid of my extra work shirts.

The box: I replaced the shirt box with a bigger box and a more visible sign.

Food has so far been the fastest to disappear out of the box, but mugs and clothing have also been popular. Even though due to varying break schedules, it’s mostly anonymous, it’s been a great project to share things among coworkers - and all it takes to start oneis a box and a marker.

[calocera]

[indecisivechamber]

rtgame's new video has so many quotable moments

[thevaultoftheatomicspaceage]

Robert McCall - Mars Outpost, 1986

[animusbell]

you can't come to my birthday party? aw dang, (remembers it's bad to guilt trip people) this doesn't matter to me at all (remembers to demonstrate that i am affected by you to affirm your positive presence in my life) but while you're away i will die (remembers not to guilt trip again) unpreventably. unrelated to you. don't worry about it. (remembers to express care through actions and not just words) you're in the will.

[homunculus-argument]

Randomly remembered seeing this random old black and white photo from like the 50s, pretty sure it was from Sweden. A picture from a morgue, of a tall blond man in some kind of an uniform approaching another man standing beside an opened coffin, clutching something to his chest while looking at the approaching man with a look of wary insult on his face. The caption explained that this was an incident of a police officer stopping a man from putting a bottle of beer in his father's coffin (his own father, not the cop's father) because for some reason doing that was against Sweden's burial laws.

I don't remember the details but I recall how the guy had the looks of a rough life written all over him, ragged clothes in contrast to the police officer's pristine uniform - though obscured by motion blur as he was rapidly approaching with hateful intent - and the much finer burial clothes of the deceased. A small, skinny man with black hair, holding onto the bottle that's about to be confiscated like it's something precious to him.

I felt like something wasn't adding up and went to the comments to see if there was additional context that was missing from all this, and there was: The son and the father were Romani, and at least at the time it was still very much a tradition in Swedish Romani culture to bury the dead with little gifts - not necessarily extravagant or expensive, but things that the lost loved one would have liked.

This wasn't about a mourning son being stopped from playfully paying his respects in a way that someone else thought indignified. This was about a man being prohibited from performing his own peoples' funeral rites.

[alientitty]

💀

[xanraygun]

[I'm waking up] I feel it in my hips, enough to make Wal-Mart stocks dip. Welcome to the shrimp case, to the shrimp case. Radiation from space, up in my face.

Woah-oh-oh-oh oh, woah-oh-oh-oh shrimp's RADIOACTIVE, RADIOACTIVE!