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female/34/cis/bisexual/atheist/mayonnaise Gaming, comic books, feminism, civil rights, animal rights, wtfever I feel like posting. Twitter: @SmeepRocket

[icouldwritebooks]

I put the ten baby rats on my bed, and gave them a dollhouse that I had lying around, to see what they would make of it. Clearly they enjoyed themselves.

[portmantaur-deactivated20240523]

when ur like “im gettin a gay vibe” and your straight friend is like “uhhh idk that seems….forced….” and u gotta pull out your fuckin phd from gay college and your private gay detective license and your federal bureau of investigaytion badge like sit fuckin down buddy i got credentials and also an opinion the truth is out there my guy

[merry-go-round-jailhouse]

[posi-pan]

just so people know, there’s a “drop the b” hashtag going around about how it should be “lgpt” instead of “lgbt”

and I’d just like to say:

it was started by 4chan trolls

it does not come from trans, non-binary, or pan people

it is meant to cause fighting within the community

don’t let it

[fire-is-her-water]

My doggo, Ezri, who rarely barks and mostly borks.

When I got her, she’d been abused and would cower and pee at almost everything, and had been mistreated when she’d barked, so she never would. One day months after I had her she got excited on a walk and borked at a bird, and then immediately cower-peed. I had to re-teach her to bark by gathering her whole human pack and having everyone bark and howl and feed her treats and pet her till she got excited enough to join in, and then got more treats. Took a while but I was able to teach her to bork on command (and she’s gotta be excited or she just stares at me like “Sorry, the bork system needs charging”) and she’ll do it happily when she’s excited to go for a walk or upon seeing a friend, and at birds. I love her croaky borking, especially when she started off terrified of making a joyful noise.

[merak-zoran]

[corvigae]

What kind of dog is Ezri? I love her!!

[fire-is-her-water]

I… did not expect this post to blow up this much but I am delighted at all the tags and replies and Ezri has been told the internet thinks she’s a Very Good Dog. :D

She’s a German spitz - in the same family as keeshonds and pomeranians. She might be crossed with something else as her freckled coat, non-pointy nose, and personality are not standard for her breed (they’re usually a lot more high energy and excitable - she’s super laid back and chill). She’s a bit less fluffy than breed-standard too, mostly because she’s grown out from her spring/summer trim (not usually necessary/good for her type of coat but she gets terribly itchy otherwise). It also makes her look like a puppy of a large breed:

Ezri’s best friend is Murder Cat, who is a gentle friend to humans and Ezri, but does things to mice that would make Hannibal Lecter go “Isn’t that a bit much?”

I got Murder Cat as a kitten, and she used to try to nurse on everything when she was small. Eventually, she settled on her favourite thing to nurse on, Ezri, who has never had puppies and a little confused at first but eventually went with it. She grew out of it, but they have stayed snuggly buddies ever since.

New Years here is full of fireworks outside and Ezri gets Vry Scared. I usually set her up somewhere with a snuggly spot right by me, and Murder Cat comes and does this all night: 

She goes everywhere with me in my bakfiets (cargo bike) and lets me warm my hands in her fur on cold days.

And her ears disappear if I say her name to get her attention.

ok so great thanks for coming to my TED talk about my dog, good night, drive safe

[aibafiles]

consider: modern AU hamlet doing soliloquies in the shower

[aibafiles]

#does this mean in the first one horatio bursts into his shower like hey hamlet i saw the ghost of your dad (via hyenateeth)

yes. yes that is exactly what that means

[arrantknave]

[beradan]

“Did you - stop screaming, it’s just me - did you see your dad’s ghost recently?”

[workingitinportland-deactivated]

That blurry white rectangle is the tent in Tornillo, TX, where 360ish kids will be indefinitely. Here’s the thing I haven’t seen touched on yet altho Maddox gestures at it: People DIE of heat exposure. People die of it in Joe Arpaio’s prison camps in AZ and they die of it right here in Portland Oregon on our streets and KIDS are going to die in these deliberately inadequately brutal concentration camps for children. Not to mention the physical, emotional, and sexual abuse they’re going to undergo because of the sort of person who is attracted to this type of job environment and then deliberately selected for by for-profit prison companies.

[jessie-and-the-dead]

Monticello Is Done Avoiding Jefferson’s Relationship With Sally Hemings

A new exhibit grapples with the reality of slavery and deals a final blow to two centuries of ignoring or covering up what amounted to an open secret.

[heartoflaos-blog]

Buddha Statues’ Heads: What it actually means.

Yesterday, I went shopping at Homegoods with my mom for some interior decorations and a few gifts. And what do you know: Buddha’s heads, either in brass and sold as “antique” or dipped in bright neon paint. My mom shook her head in disapproval and laughed. This really got my mind thinking that shoppers have literally no clue what these statues’ heads are really about.

This really got my mind thinking about that Thai movie “Ong-Bak“ about how a group of thieves decapitated a Buddha statue’s head  & how a Muay Thai skilled warrior volunteered to return it before it is sold in the black market. Cutting off that religious statue’s head is seen as an act of vandalism & violence. It is one of the utmost disrespectful marks one could do in the religion. The original heads were stolen from respected places of worship. Cutting off Buddha statues’ heads have been happening for who-knows-how-long originally by greedy thieves.

And now they are replicated into fashion statements or interior decorating. They really have such a dark history behind them that nearly a lot of people had forgotten. (None of those pictures belong to me.)

[goldpeninsula]

The Buddha bust, usually in a faux Thai or Indonesian style, is one of the ugliest and most ignorant bourgeois accoutrements one can posses. Not only is it a bland and obvious attempt to purchase the appearance of spiritual depth, its presence immediately belies a total ignorance of the context and history of Buddhist images themselves! A severed Buddha head, plundered from Borobudur, in the corner of a gentleman’s study is a romantic relic from a bygone age when the world considered genocide and forced military conquest a viable means of affairs. To keep a stolen cultural artifact as a trophy is to deny a sovereign people access to their own cultural heritage to satisfy one’s own ego. That the idea of the severed Buddha head as decoration flourishes today is a disappointing remainder that the aesthetics marketed towards the middle class are a cheaper version of those objects collected by the wealthy, further divorced from their original context.

[thedancingdakini]

The Buddha is not an accessory or a complement for your decor. 

[tzillahshelor-deactivated201702]

Reblogging for historical context I didn’t know about.

[blaireee]

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[thefrozennhorizon-deactivated20]

Icon ❤️

[an-american-whore]

Wanna remind y'all that Bea Arthur actually opened a homeless shelter for LGBT+ youth in NYC

[classichorrorblog]

Beetlejuice Directed by Tim Burton (1988)

[bob-belcher]

[la-femme-beansidhe-is-cancelled]

This is not to call out anyone who reblogged this post or diminish the OP’s family tragedy, but let’s not gloss over the massive misstatement that a Polish Catholic “was only a couple of steps above a Polish Jew.”

[14kgoldupgraded]

I was literally just about to post this.

Honestly, fuck that. She and her family didn’t ‘miraculously’ survive; there was never intent to kill them. They were to be systematically oppressed and subjugated, not exterminated. As much as the Nazi ideology considered ethnic Poles inferior by virtue of ethnicity, only the intelligentsia were targeted for execution, to prevent pushback.

If you were a Polish Jew the point of rounding you up was to feed you to the gas chambers. 90% of Polish Jews died – not went into the camps, died. Those Jews were 10% of the Polish population, but twice as many Polish Jews died in the Holocaust as did all non-Jewish Poles in WWII. Polish Jews accounted for about half of the victims of the Shoah; liquidating the Polish ghettos killed more Jews than existed in France, Italy, the Netherlands, Scandinavia as a whole, and the Balkans as a whole - combined.  

(source; this is all Jews, it doesn’t include any non-Jewish victims)

The Lublin-Majdanek camp that the post refers to was a forced labor camp, and gas chambers were constructed there in 1942. Again, at least twice as many Jews died there as non-Jews, and the specific death campaigns there, such as Aktion Erkenfest, were part of the Final Solution and intended exclusively for Jewish prisoners.

So, yeah, not to diminish the horrible things that happened to that woman’s grandmother, but there can be absolutely NO comparison between the subjugation of Polish Catholics and the extermination of Polish Jews.

[la-femme-beansidhe-is-cancelled]

All of this. “They killed us, too” has no place in the conversation.

And let’s not pretend Jewish survivors were allowed to return to their homes after the war. Let’s not pretend their descendants are the ones running around the caves and forests of Poland digging up Nazi treasures for fun right now.

[keepingitinarticulate]

[lord-kitschener]

#me as a historian

[boyhikes-deactivated20190227]

THIS WOMAN LOL

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