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Here is my face. These are some posts I made. Idk have fun

[dimension20official]

The first episode of Dimension 20: Dungeons and Drag Queens is now up on the Dimension 20 Youtube channel for free! Just in case you have folks in your life who would love this but are still reticent about signing up for Dropout - let ‘em know what they’re missing out on!

[ladyshinga]

[prokopetz]

What we’ve gotta understand is that “the modern Internet is abolishing spaces for adults” and “the modern Internet is abolishing space for children” are compatible phenomena. Neither group is being favoured: the modern Internet is abolishing spaces for adults (i.e., because grown-up topics aren’t advertiser friendly) and the modern Internet is abolishing spaces for children (i.e., because online communities which consist principally of people who have no money are hard to sell things to). The Internet that contemporary corporate interests are trying to build isn’t a space for anyone – it’s the digital equivalent of an Ikea showroom.

[prokopetz]

Like, when I say that the greater part of contemporary social media is fundamentally hostile to human life, I’m not indulging in hyperbole or constructing an ironic metaphor. I mean that 100% literally.

[useless-irelandfacts]

[headspace-hotel]

I learned in my political science class that all major famines in the 20th century and onward have been caused by oppressive groups or political situations restricting access to food, NOT natural causes like crop failure

[duckdotcom]

worlds most stoic monk is seen allowing the shadow of a smile to play across his stern lips as he reads the 'jokes' section of a highlights kids magazine

[makingdonalddrumpfagain]

[liberalsarecool]

Nothing about getting rid of these protections made anything better. They were rewards to donors to enrich private profits from public lands.

[thmuffinman]

My wife got me a tshirt and I fucking love it

[amilkyway]

fireflies lighting up a rural Pennsylvania field at dusk

[spaghettinatural]

As a european i sometimes forget furefkied are actually real and not american folklore/cryptids. Like you’ve got friendly little bugs that glow in the dark….. b r uh

[tanadrin]

by far the most interesting part of the latest You’re Wrong About on homosexuality in the animal kingdom is the account of how science missed it for so long. the guest, lulu miller (of radiolab fame) basically divides the reasons into three categories: ignorance, self-suppression, and what you might call “official” suppression.

essentially, since the days of thomas aquinas when it had been simply declared that homosexuality was inherently against nature, you had a lot of observers of the natural world, even once the enlightenment got underway, who simply didn’t know what they were looking at. many animal species are very sexually dimorphic and thus easy to sex; but many more are not, and if your background assumption (because the background assumption of society in general) is that homosexuality does not occur in nature, if you see two animals of unidentified sex mating, you will assume one is male and one is female. or you might simply assume what you are seeing is an aberration, with no real systemic significance, and not pointing to any kind of underlying phenomenon, and simply fail to note it down–or talk to any other naturalists about it.

and this blends into self-suppression, which includes all researchers who might have noticed homosexuality among animals in the wild, but didn’t write about it. this includes researchers who might not have thought it was significant, or who might have thought nobody was interested in it–miller offers the example of a guy who died relatively recently who spent his life studying mountain rams, who omitted mentioning from his quite detailed survey of their behavior that about one in twelve males mate exclusively with other males, because it seemed to him (at the time of writing) an aberrant and unpleasant fact about an otherwise majestic creature.

“official” suppression we might apply to any time a researcher noticed and wanted to write about the phenomenon, but who simply couldn’t get their data published, including researchers who might have pressed the scientific community at large to recognize this phenomenon, only to be greeted with hostility and suspicion–i.e., what kind of pervert is so obsessed with this topic?

and out of a combination of all these factors you get centuries of a bias being confirmed, because anybody who might care to ask, “well, homosexuality clearly occurs in humans, have we observed it in other animals?” would have been confronted with a vast lacuna in the scientific literature, not because it did not occur, but because multiple intersecting cultural biases prevented anybody from actually talking about it. and it makes it hard to have a conversation about natural phenomena from an empirical and rational perspective when a bias that irrational runs that deep! and i cannot help but wonder what other biases we have in our culture, that might be producing similarly irrational lacunae in our apprehension of the world.

[ampervadasz]

[pocketgameboy]

This transition is straight out of a horror movie

[an-odd-idea]

@heymynameismolly-jk wow

[myalgicencephalomyelitiscfstom]

[oatscarwilde-deactivated2024022]

i’ve been saying it for years:

government considers you able to work if you can give anything more than 0%

employers consider you unhireable if you give anything less than 100%

[teethwreath]

god this tickles me

(OP's tiktok here)

[screenshotsofdespair]

[ndiecity-deactivated20241101]

The plague doctor covering me in leeches

[ladybugd0ts]

i love being weird and unsettling but also a sweetheart . Peace and love!

[tlirsgender]

"Girl" is completely removed from the concept of Being Female in my mind at this point it's barely even connected to femininity girl is about the vibe. Girl is a mindset

[dulciecollins]

[carmenpeach]

[hobohobgoblim]

You've seen turtle lock, but now prepare for the true measure of a turtle!

[mctreeleth]

I think if I had this I would use it as one of those riddles like "I have foor feet when I am beautiful but seven when I am useful. What am I?" And then I'd just whip this bad boy out.

It'd be particularly fun as a D&D mini I think: the question asked from the shadows and then this cool metal turtle comes out and absolutely beats your ass with its unnaturally huge reach and high AC.