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Call me Rue Kids & Teens Librarian She/Her Too old to act my age Biromantic Asexual . Currently hyperfixating on Leverage: Redemption, Steddie/Stranger Things (don’t ask), and Our Flag Means Death. Forever into Star Trek, The Mummy, historical fashion, and rats. . (I’m an adult and I try not to follow minors. If I have followed you by accident, please let me know and I will fix that. Or feel free to block me, I won’t be offended by you curating your experience)

[movingscastles-deactivated20210]

we're found family sluts first and humans second

[truenoodle]

"alas" is a truly S tier english word. fantastic mouthfeel, makes me sound like a world-weary wizard, looks cool when written out. good job to whoever created this word.

[raisedbylibrarians]

Oooo have you heard of “alack”? It follows alas sometimes and it’s peak

[raisedbylibrarians]

I’m so fucking tired of begging. I get passed over for jobs, I get passed over for acting roles, I get passed over to direct, what the fuck do I have to do to be seen?

I mean I know that if I lost a bunch of weight that would help. Fat phobia is fucking brutal and still so prevalent in progressive spaces. Everyone likes to pretend it isn’t but it is.

I’m seen as privileged as a white woman (which I full am, no doubt) but my queerness, my disability, and my class are ignored.

I’m just so tired of this shit. And I’m tired of seeing mediocre men get picked again and again.

[vampigeon]

It's as good a theory for all this nonsense as anything else I've seen.

[somecutething]

A cat waking up from surgery

[daco-broman]

I am losing my shit

[yeahiwasintheshit]

everyone trying to get me in the uber

[queerspeculativefiction]

My cat Nosse had tooth surgery, and had a very strong reaction to the drugs given so he was high as a kite for a lot longer than expected. Apparently he was so desperately cuddly for people that they put him around the neck of one of the nurses doing paperwork, and he just hung there for an hour, purring like a chainsaw, drooling on her shoulder.

[libraford]

Unpopular opinion, apparently, but i think the best way to deal with scam calls is to either let it ring or reject call.

That conversation with Diesel where explained that he learned curse words in Hindi so he could cuss out scam callers in their own language hit a sore spot for me. I know he's just a teenager and teenage boys are often jerks but...

Okay so first off, colloquial insults from other cultures are fucking insane so you're really doing a disservice by just looking up 'motherfucker' and using a one to one translation. Boring.

2- answering your phone rewards the scammer. I can't remember the term, but theres an operator whose job is to collect data of numbers that pick up the phone. That information is sold to the people operating the scam. They get paid per call connected. You are now on a list and you will get more calls.

3. The people making those calls are often trafficked, in abusive working conditions for shit pay and hired under false pretenses. I only know some of the details, and what I have heard is a nightmare. You're not punishing the mastermind of the compound, you're punishing an at-risk person who already gets yelled at all day.

The videos of fucking with scam callers are funny, sure. But the people who make those videos are doing it on a separate line with identity protection.

Obviously do what you want with your life. But that's my stance. Hang up, block. Don't answer, if possible.

[libraford]

Less popular opinion than I thought, it seems.

[famouspainterwombat]

[itsbenedict]

#france in shambles. automation truly comes for us all.

[mapsontheweb]

Passenger trains in US vs Europe (image is making the rounds among U.S. transit advocates today)

[rumbustious-backhander]

High speed rail in China on 2008 VS 2020

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

[telumendils]

[pankendev]

there are places in the world today that are experiencing 40°C for the first time in recorded history. of course there's no way to know whether chucking billionaires into volcanos will appease the sun god but i feel we're doing the scientific method a disservice if we don't at least try

[leahstuff]

Happy Make a Terrible Comic Day!

[scifigrl47]

There are times when you experience perfectly fine media, like, it is fine, maybe even good, you LIKED it, but...

You just keep looking behind the plot and go, "hello my new favorites."

And now I'm writing fic literally no one will be interested in reading.

[catasters]

[mostlycatsmostly]

They’re doing their best with half a brain cell.

[charlesoberonn]

The gray kitten isn't dumb. They're learning. They made a mistake and stopped.

The orange kitten tho... they are not beating the stereotype.

[catgirl-bartender]

smokey Jone: whoopsiesies! steppted my lil paw inna the foude. dis noan goode, bettor whipes it off ovar hier.

Vermillion Carmichael: gotta eat this fucking metal

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

today I found out my mother doesn’t know what dandelions are and now I’m wondering what other strange secrets she’s been quietly harboring

[krystal-prisms]

Where do you live that you don’t have dandelions?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

we have dandelions EVERYWHERE, they are basically our State Weed, it is absolutely impossible that my mom has never interacted with a dandelion before, this requires further investigation

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

So after extensive interrogation I have an update:

my mom is in fact aware that dandelions exist. she temporarily forgot the name and there was some miscommunication.

the truth is actually weirder

she’s aware dandelions look like this

she is familiar with this flower. she knows the name of this flower. she declines to believe, however, that these are also dandelions

she does not believe these are the same plant. I tried to explain, and she thought I was either misinformed or lying. so I asked her what exactly did she think the yellow ones were called?

she answered, with complete confidence: Daffodils.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

gosh I enjoy this website

[authoratmidnight]

For comparison, this is a daffodil

[quietlygrousing]

See, folks in the southern US will tell you up and down those are buttercups, actually.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i don’t think so? i’m southern and buttercups are what we call these things (much tinier)

[maejacrezz007]

Wait I thought those bigger cup ones were Easter Lillies???

[fractiousrvt]

This is an Easter Lily. It is an actual lily and therefore deadly to cats.

[blood-trip-god2]

They’re marigolds and I know a bitch when I see one!

[delphinidin4]

This is a marigold:

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

….we need to start taking the phrase “go touch grass” more literally. go outside and examine a flower i beg u

[jmtorres]

“buttercups” is a name applied to MANY flowers. in my part of the south it was this one:

imo there’s correct identifications of dandelions, daffodils, easter lilies and marigolds in this thread, but buttercups are simply impossible to agree on and the only solution is for everyone to post pictures of their local buttercups

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

*squints* is that a motherfucking EVENING PRIMROSE?!??

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[curioscurio]

[autisticbisexualsokka]

32,287 votes

[badpsychicadvice]

50,364 votes

[depsidase]

[ymfingsteadilyon]

Image description: Undated social media post by user @ OrevaZSN.

To be clear, I do not just hate generative AI. I also hate golf, lawns, space tourism, war, monoculture farming, clear cutting forests, building on floodplains, deep sea mining, developments that destroy habitats, and corporations bulldozing ecosystems for endless growth.

End of description.

[justsomeguycore]

lesbian scifi is so easy. here’s a woman in cargo pants and a tank top on a spaceship. are you with me

[justsomeguycore]

maybe it’s not even cargo pants. maybe it’s coveralls rolled to + tied around the waist. maybe she even has fuckoff boots

[raisedbylibrarians]