lets plant a garden in the heart of this wasteland

Kirbee, non-binary (nebulous and queer), they/them (or whatever), 28, white. Woven from threads of LOTR, old Star Trek, etymology (words not bugs), and freshwater fish. Bonded with @sapphic-seraph, do not separate.

[fairycosmos]

your problem is you think if you communicate with clarity and earnestness that people will actually understand you

[leviathan-supersystem]

weird that this is happening all across the usa at the same time. oh well. probably doesn't mean anything.

[caseyscraftycorner]

watching my husband get diagnosed with and treated for sleep apnea over the last year was not the thing that radicalized me re: weight and healthcare but my goodness it has solidified my stances.

sleep apnea is more common in people who are fat.

society decided for some reason that this meant that being fat causes sleep apnea. its often difficult to get referrals for sleep apnea treatment if you are fat, because some PCPs will tell you try losing weight first.

turns out!! having untreated sleep apnea causes weight gain in a not-insignificant number of people. it also makes it fucking impossible for many people to lose weight.

my husband worked out the same amount before he got a cpap as he does now. there have been no major diet changes either. yet he has been losing weight -- and gaining muscle tone -- consistently since he started using a cpap in january.

also, his blood pressure -- which was high, which docs blamed on his weight/diet -- went down significantly within one month of starting cpap treatment, before his weight changed significantly.

ANYWAYS. this is getting long. two final thoughts.

- I Want To Strangle Medical Fatphobia With My Bare Fucking Hands

- if you are exhausted constantly for "no reason", and especially if you snore, you should probably ask your doctor about getting tested for sleep apnea. it is extremely common -- estimates are around 1 in 10 people -- and is also wildly under-diagnosed. like, some estimates suggest that 80% of people with moderate-severe sleep apnea are undiagnosed.

[sharkfiinn]

omnidirectional

i couldnt decide between these two similar ideas i had so you get both LOLLLLLL

[administer-distractions]

i think the fact that noahs ark is one of the most well known bible stories is so insane to me. it's one of the stories they teach kids first. there was noahs ark wallpaper in some of the nursery rooms. and im pretty sure it's because kids love animals and the rainbow is pretty. it's also god at objectively his worst? but i suppose that's part of it too. when you teach this story to babies, they accept it without pondering the consequences. then if they're good little christians they won't question it. they gloss right over the part where the infallible, omnipotent god decides he's capable of regret and fucking murders everyone and everything because he made a mistake with people the first go around. "the rainbow is gods promise he won't kill us again uwu" and you find the pride flag repulsive?

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[beemovieerotica]

[partywithponies]

Fascinating how what's considered feminine and what's considered masculine can change over time. The rebranding of being a horse girl into being a stereotypical feminine girly trait needs to be studied.

[partywithponies]

Look at classic children's novels. As recently as the 50s and early 60s, being obsessed with horses as a girl was depicted as strange and tomboyish, and the very concept of being obsessed with horses from early childhood and loving toy horses and desperately wanting your own horse being a "little girl thing" and not a "little boy thing" would send someone from the 1800s and earlier into a coma.

[partywithponies]

There's maybe a point to be made here somewhere about how when keeping and riding horses stopped being necessary to the functioning of society and became a more "frivolous" thing, it was rapidly rebranded as silly and girly and for women, but what do I know.

[dizzyghoast]

i wrote a paper in my masculinity studies class in college about this exact phenomenon, specifically about how high heeled shoes started as a practical way for Persian cavalry to keep their feet on their stirrups, then likely due to that association, became a popular fashion item and status symbol among the upper classes of Europe, before the Great Male Renunciation of the 18th-19th centuries, when men started shunning opulence in favor of utility, leaving them as a fashion item for women instead.

I've joked that the two genders are Aesthetic and Utility before but thats just kinda the case

[mangled-by-disuse]

Italian conman jailed for building fake Roman amphitheatre

In Italy, a structure promoted for years as an "ancient Roman amphitheatre" has turned out to be a fake, constructed recently using modern m

I have a new favourite guy. free Franco Malosso 'von Rozenfranz' RIGHT NOW and give him a medal for the funniest crime of 2026

[katjohnadams]

[dbzyuri]

[jkottke]

Clipart Studio lets you cut up magazines sourced from the Internet Archive, images from Wikimedia Commons, & files you’ve uploaded, and create art collages from them. This is great — be sure to check out the gallery.

[reshidei]

dying in the hospital with a duel disk on my arm

[trollkatt]

Big Jack

Pet Foolery, #93

[weirdinternet]

[cloudabserk]

i know adrian is widely headcanoned as green. but they could really be any color

[frankendykes-monster]

This is what I was alluding to when I discussed that the volume of name changes you have to make as a trans person highlights the ridiculous amount of documentation attached to you.

[jartitameteneis]

[furbearingbrick]

[drax-the-vampire-king]

Maybe if im invisible they won't feel me in there hands

[lichfucker]

y'all are so lucky I decided to just block this motherfucker instead of going off at 4:30 am because people are misusing alt text again

[lichfucker]

alt text is not the place for paratextual jokes. alt text is not the place for soliloquies and asides and confessions. alt text is not the place for secret tangential conversations between author and reader. alt text is not the place for easter eggs. alt text is not the place for paragraph-long existential rambles that include lines like "did you come to the transcript looking for answers? I don't have any answers" and "I've lost the thread of what's happening in [the image I'm supposed to be describing]."

alt text is an accessibility tool. use it like one.

[plain text: alt text is an accessibility tool. use it like one.]