[liberalsarecool]

Defund the cowards.

[otterbf-deactivated20180205]

oooo its the fuckin wizard

[mrspider-deactivated20221213]

the weirdest thing about nonbinaryism is that people will get told they dont ‘look nonbinary’ because theyre just wearing plainclothes and dressed comfortably. instead of like. idk gothic eyeliner or fangs or a cape or flowing, long, gorgeous hair,

[mrspider-deactivated20221213]

i got distracted. anyway why did we make nonbinary the third gender where everyones supposed to be sexier. its funny and like in theory correct but what about the normal people. what about the sweatpant wearears

[neomedievalist]

sorry for adding a comment on your post but literally this. i want nonbinary to be boring. i want it to be mundane. i dont want people to look at me and go wohhh so androgynous swag. i just want people to go oh thats a person. stop elevating us higher thn others bc thats just othering us more. can we support nonbinary people who dont want to be special hot and sexy tiktok stars or whatever

[mrspider-deactivated20221213]

actually thank you you made me realize this was because ive been on tiktok too much

[holytrohmanempire]

Also we should perhaps let nonbinary people be fat

[cl-airbleu]

We literally don’t need to make you confused about what potential gender we are based off of how we’re dressed, projecting your gender assumptions because I’m dressed “masc” or “femme” does not change that I’m non binary and I literally always am whether I’m wearing a 3 piece suit, a ball gown, or my fucking sweatpants because they’re fucking comfortable and I don’t project my gender on my clothes!!!!!

[froggychairr]

[buzzcut-butch-deactivated202403]

I love nonbinary people. I love us for refusing to put ourselves neatly into boxes.

[harmalite]

CLADISTICS ruined my life

[aquaticpaleo]

yall joke but this is actually a serious conundrun with cladistic-based classification

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

The choice is this: 

Birds are reptiles 

Or crocodilians (and probably turtles) ARENT 

That’s it, that’s the choice 

[shadybacon]

What if Bird and reptiles are two different things that came from the same thing

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Nope 

Because you can’t group (lizards, snakes, tuatara, turtles, crocodilians) without also including (birds) 

So if you don’t want to include birds in reptiles then you have to leave out some things we’ve called reptiles 

birds are dinosaurs though, full stop. we’ve already defined what a dinosaur is and it includes birds. but reptiles isn’t really defined so much as thrown against a wall angrily. 

[shadybacon]

But don’t turtles and alligators have more in common with modern reptiles than modern birds have in common with modern reptiles? I’m not trying to contradict, I’m trying to understand. Mammals and reptiles have a common ancestor as well, but we do not make them the same group.

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

It’s not about having things in common. It’s about common ancestry, which is how we classify animals in light of extinct species, which defy trait-based classification. 

And, the common ancestor of [lizards, snakes, tuatara, turtles, crocodilians] by definition is also the common ancestor of birds. It is NOT the common ancestor of mammals. 

So, either we decide that Tuatara Lizards and Snakes are the only reptiles, or we include birds as reptiles. Or we just decide reptiles are no longer a thing. 

[anais-ninja-bitch]

don’t throw reptiles against the wall? please? some of them are small and delicate. you could hurt them.

[virovac]

Basically, unless we’re maybe talking massive horizontal gene transfer, everything is still part of the group that came before it. 

You are technically a fish.

[haltraveler]

IIRC the fish thing is so frustrating that scientists have decided fish is just not real cladistic grouping at all

[aethersea]

hey could we go back please to the bit where the closest relative of Birds is Crocodiles? bc I am alarmed

[haltraveler]

Well, technically they’re equally-closely related to crocodiles, alligators, gharials and tomistomas. As archosaurs, they’re all descended from small reptiles that looked something like this 

The two main groups of archosaurs are the Pseudosuchia, or crocodile-line archosaurs, and the Ornithodira, or bird-line archosaurs. Both groups were massively diverse in prehistory, with the Pseudosuchia dominating most land-based niches in the Triassic, and the Ornithodira, especially the dinosaurs, doing the same during the Jurassic and Cretaceous. However, most of them have been wiped out due to the Triassic and Cretaceous mass extinctions, leaving them each with only one surviving clade: Aves, the true birds, and Crocodylia, the semiaquatic, ambush predators like crocs and gators. 

[alexaloraetheris]

This entire post sums up everything we’re not allowed to mention in our Vertebrata classes because the last time someone started that argument they had to break up a fistfight.

[knitordeath]

I’m just hung up on the humans evolving from fish comment.

Like, we evolved from tiny tree-climbing squirrels. To the best of our knowledge.

[theclockworkjudas]

…which evolved from tiny tree-climbing reptiles

…which evolved from amphibians

…which evolved from fish.

[invisible-goats]

*runs in ten minutes late with a plucked chicken* BEHOLD A LIZARD

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

you could have left the feathers on this time tbh

[dee-the-red-witch]

It was already plucked. They just STOLE IT from philosophy 101.

[gothgirl-stonerchicxoxo]

[ellakas]

reblog to thank ur mutuals for providing enrichment to ur enclosure

[purplehazeplaysoffasamsung]

Don’t assume you know me based on 8,000 confessional posts.

[colorisbyshe]

Actual issues we should discuss about when it comes to pride:

events still being held during a pandemic

the presence of cops, politicians, and military branches in the parade and at other events (and how they prey on LGBT youth for recruitment at these events)

accessibility for disabled LGBT people

events being taken over by non-LGBT identities and corporations

some events and parades platforming TERFs or Drop The T groups

the omnipresence of alcohol at events (related to the corporate take over)

how many LGBT people cannot afford to go to ticketed pride events

the prevalence of the word queer at these events, considering it is still very triggering for many LGBT people

the complete sanitization and de-radicalization of pride so that no one associates it with its actual history and purpose

how pride is being used to sell shit and how pride month is officially just free advertising

how whitewashed the actual events are and i mean this literally–the focus is often on white celebrities performing shows and a white take on Stonewall’s history with very little support for groups of LGBT POC besides lip service like using the Philly Pride flag

The discourse we have every year instead:

is pride too horny?

it is too horny, you evil deviants

i saw a woman with no shirt on and a man in a leather harness i’m calling the cops

think about the children

[sandersstudies]

So I kept telling my husband to stop unfolding his clean clothes and leaving them on the floor, and he insisted he wasn’t doing any of that even though I had the evidence.

Just found the cat pulling t-shirts out of his drawer, which had been left slightly ajar. The culprit has escalated from trashcan crimes and is trying to cause upset in my marriage now.

[sandersstudies]

I discovered the ruse a bit faster than the former but she ALSO pulls clothes off the hangers by trying to “climb” them so she can sit on the top closet shelf.

[sandersstudies]

HOMEWRECKER

[titimylove]

get her a cat tower, she wants to be tall

[sandersstudies]

She HAS a cat tower it’s the tallest one the store had

And she has LOTS of toys and many snackies she has NO reason to cause mischief except her own bastardly motivation.

[yteicosanievilew]

“this makes me personally uncomfortable”, “this seems in poor taste”, “this is somehow harmful but presumably because you’re misinformed” and “this is actively malicious” are all different things. remember that

[vivaciousarcanist]

“this makes me personally uncomfortable”: the work has something that is awkward or triggering to someone, but nothing problematic “this seems in poor taste”: the work is fine, but it’s about something that maybe shouldn’t be joked about/the work has bad timing with the release lining up with a tradgedy similar to the events of the work like the episode tentacool and tentacruel from pokemon “this is somehow harmful but presumably because you’re misinformed”: the work unintentionally has some negative shit in it caused by a lack of knowledge, i.e. a cis person’s trans headcanons accidentally reinforcing negative stereotypes “this is actively malicious”: the work was made with the intention to cause harm

[schafpudel]

#this post needs to be mandatory viewing because the critique of work always being this black and white like… #‘the artist made a joke in poor taste therefore they are clearly an unapologetic violent fascist’ is like holy shit #please learn how to have a normal discussion  about problems without it being 0 to 100

[bob-artist]

I reach into my garbage can and locate my trash child.

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

My heart hurts

[gayluigi]

your paper is very sleepy

[ansodie]

cat or ferret, cat or ferret- Nice.

[polyamandhellaglam]

That polyam feeling when your partner haz relationship issues and you can help them resolve it cause you're friends with your meta. Excellent vibes

“I don’t know what to do!” “I do. Let’s start with a comprehensive review of everyone's boundaries and then we’ll get into all the solutions I brain stormed while I was respectfully waiting for you to ask me for help instead of just trying to solve your problems. First...”

[polyamandhellaglam]

The point is ten feet before its a problem. If you’d be exhausted and frustrated after a partner vented to you for half an hour, make them stop at twenty minutes. If you have an idea of what “too involved” in someone else’s problem looks like, stop well before you’re there. The moment you think “I can’t help with this,” either because you’ve run out of effort to offer or because you can’t help them at all, say so. And if you have an idea that that point is getting close, stop it early. This goes for any close relationship, not just partners.

You set boundaries about how much you able to help someone with stuff generally and for specific issues and then try to stop people before they’ve reached those boundaries. This looks like planning ahead with phrases like: “I only have twenty minutes for venting” and “Let’s talk about this while we get coffee and when we get back we’ll switch to doing [this other thing].” It also looks like stopped someone when you need to with phrases like: “That really intense. I want to hear more about this but not right now. Are you good to change the subject?” or “I think I can’t help anymore right now. Do you want to talk about this tomorrow?” The point when you step back is a bit before you need to.

[sawasawako-archived]

me giving relationship advice: communicate or end it

[no-longer-another-bondi-blonde]

Everyone should know the international sign for Help Me. Let’s make this famous!!

[amanda-bakes]

Interesting; I didn't know this was a thing.

[hopefulmisanthrope]

It’s apparently a thing, but it’s a very new thing, so it may need some help being known.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_for_Help

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

How relaxing it would be, what an immeasurable relief it would be, to not have beauty constantly expected, demanded, enforced. To just - exist, without the insistent demand that my appearance match others’ ideals, without being sanctioned for not fulfilling those ideals. Existing as a person, not expected to double as a work of visual art that exists for public consumption and public critique.