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#tooth speech #oh i guess my original post tag makes no sense now #not that it ever did

I was trying to get a photo of my budgie, Bluey Armstrong, playing with her ball when she noticed the camera. I do like the cage bar acting as a censor bar though.

angel-derangement

they put pussy in the water supply to keep the lesbians healthy

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angel-derangement

idk why but they buried the option to turn this feature off - but you can find it if you go to the FAQ.

tforthetea

WHY DID THEY NEED TO CLAIRIFY THAT

phyrexian-lootbug

Tumblr has fact checking?

tforthetea

apparently???

angel-derangement

yeah it’s new :/ they announced it on the staff blog here

idkwhatthisisbutheresdcandstuff

HUH?????

Why did I find this out in a shit post about pussy and lesbians?????

angel-derangement

have you got notifications on for announcements? you can find the setting here if not

#lies & bullshit #fact checking

kayla-denker

Hey, you, cis girl that's very (correctly) vocal about women being allowed to talk about their periods, do you include trans women in that?

I ask because every single time I've tried to talk about it to anyone that isn't a trans woman they get fucking angry. Which has caused me to have to just suffer in silence every single month. So I really relate to cis women when they talk about literally the exact same thing; being shamed by everyone around them their whole lives for talking about their periods, so they just suffer in silence every month as it negatively impacts their work and social lives. But I don't even feel like I can voice that I am literally dealing with the same exact thing because most of y'all react like you want to throw me in front of a bus for saying it, even those of you who act like your such big great transfem allies.

kayla-denker

I guess I'll take this opportunity to talk about trans women periods. The first thing any tme person thinks when they hear this is always "how can trans women have periods? They don't have uteruses!"

The answer is: the uterus isn't what causes your period, it is effected by your period. What causes your period and what causes trans women's periods is the same thing: the endocrine system.

HRT changes the sex of your endocrine system. Feminizing HRT makes it a female endocrine system, giving us a 28-day hormone cycle just like cis women. At the end of that cycle, the hypothalamus floods the body with prostaglandins. Those are what cause all but one of the period symptoms, because they make muscles inflame and contract. They are what make the uterus shed its lining, they are what cause intestinal cramps, they are what cause body aches, they are what cause headaches and migraines. The only period symptom not causes by the release of prostaglandins throughout the body is depression, and that is caused by your endocrine system simply not processing as much estrogen and from simply feeling like shit.

So, the only symptoms trans women don't get every 28 days is menstrual cramps, because yes we do not menstruate since we don't have uteruses. But migraines, depression, body aches, intestinal cramps, and the infamous "period shits" don't exactly add up to us having any better of a time. Except we have to pretend that we're fine and nothing is different because no one believes that we get periods, not even cis women.

"But you can't call it a period then because that refers to MENSTRUATION!" is another one I hear all the time. This is incorrect. You use the word "period" instead of just "menstruation" because it doesn't just refer to menstruation. It refers to a period at the end of the hormone cycle where we experience a host of symptoms. And not all cis women experience all of the symptoms that encompass the period. Not all cis women get migraines, or body aches, or have severe depression. If a cis woman gets a hysterectomy she doesn't menstruate either! In that instance she experiences an identical period to what trans women experience. Yet, I doubt you'd insist that cis women who've had hysterectomies don't have periods.

kayla-denker

Oh, another thing that I personally discovered after bottom surgery: vaginal odor changes for trans women during our periods too. I was not expecting that because I always thought it was just from menstruation. But nope, the ph levels of a trans woman's vagina are the same of as a cis woman's vagina, and it changes during our periods just the same.

#'I doubt you'd insist that cis women who've had hysterectomies don't have periods'#don't underestimate people's ignorance + arrogance + willingness to be a jerk. I would not be surprised #but yeah fun (?) fact: the pain circuits in your intestines are hooked into estrogen specifically #(I read a good paper on this recently but it was super technical so it would be hard to explain for a general audience)#ANYWAY idk what cis or pre-transition person needs to hear this but sex changes do in fact change your sex in noticeable ways

yanguang

lizholmes

oh he would have loved having a blog

savouryduck

Official Siku Quanshu Post!

[some kind of sparkly banner]

This post has been Certified as a Treasure by the Old Man of Ten Great Campaigns!

[links to his carrd and askbox]

[another sparkly banner]

cabinetcard

[ID: South China Morning Post article titled ‘Stamp boy’: sealing passion of China emperor criticised for harming artistic integrity.

Subheading reads: When Qianlong came across paintings and calligraphy he admired, he would place his seals on those artworks multiple times.

Body text reads: The Qianlong Emperor (reigned 1735–1796, died 1799) was exceptionally long-lived even among rulers, and he is celebrated for ushering in a prosperous era alongside his father, Yongzheng, and grandfather, Kangxi.

Additionally, he is famous for his enthusiasm for art and literature. Not only did he compose over 40,000 poems, but he also sponsored the monumental encyclopaedia Siku Quanshu, or Complete Library of the Four Treasures.

A well-known narcissist, Qianlong referred to himself as the “Old Man of Ten Great Campaigns” in 1792, lauding the 10 significant victories from the battles he initiated to resolve border conflicts.

This narcissism extended to his passion for art. When Qianlong encountered paintings and calligraphy that he favoured, he would stamp his seals repeatedly on those artworks.

After the body text is a work of painting and calligraphy covered in stamps from various seals. /End ID]

#thank you

kremlin

while jamming my entire body between two closing elevator doors today, i was met with wide eyes, and i thought to myself "this probably looks frightening to people that don't have a thorough technical understanding of how elevators work and the history behind why they are so insanely safe"

and then i remembered the story of the tenured civil engineering professor who, with a running start, would leap and throw himself full-force at skyscraper windows in order to demonstrate their structural properties, until one day the window popped out of the frame, unbroken of course, and he fell to his death

agnesmontague

it was a lawyer but yes it was exactly as described

dyk-this-musical-song

Visit Original Link

Do you know this TV Show Song? #21

I know the song and the show

I know the song but not the show

I know the show but not the song

I may know this

I have never heard this

Voting ended onJun 9

dyk-this-musical-song

Song: Welcome to Mountport

Show: Game Changer

Composers: Jess McKenna, Zach Reino, Zeke Nicholson, Scott Passarella

#the distribution on the poll is MOSTLY what i would expect but I'm surprised that there are people who said they MAY know this #I would expect this one to be an 'either you know exactly what this is or you have no idea' situation #with maybe some allowance for recognizing the voices but not knowing the actual song #but maybe that's just me because this was A Thing with my friends in college

savouryduck

gay experience unlocked: paid too much for a disgusting Fancy Coffee Drink because I was flirting with the barista 😔

savouryduck

drank my lousy coffee drink next to a food truck around the corner blaring Only Girl In The World by Rihanna and felt like a pathetic archetype of gay zillennial yuppiehood

savouryduck

to complete the picture I should mention that I paid for the coffee with the reimbursement card I got for participating in a research study on mental illness

#I use it for small luxuries I'm embarassed to include in my real budget #tooth speech

roswellsoup

graduated and was blessed by ladybug freaks 💛🐞🎓

roswellsoup

photographic evidence btw 🐞🐞

3liza

SECOND TIME THE MEDICAID TRANSPORTATION TO A DR APPT HAS SHOWN UP (OR DID THEY?) OUTSIDE THE PICKUP WINDOW (REALLY EARLY THIS TIME INSTEAD OF LATE), LEFT A GARBLED VOICEMAIL, AND THEN FUCKED OFF, MAKING ME MISS THE APPOINTMENT! 🤪🤪🤪🤪

3liza

HERE IS W sorry here is what they do not tell you about welfare programs, and why poor people avoid using them strenuously unless it absolutely cannot be avoided: this is normal. it is normal for these programs, even when they exist, to simply not function, even when the infrastructure has been successfully instated. of the three rides i have scheduled this way, two of them have ghosted me in this manner, and neither time when i called to report it to the medicaid program front desk did the receptionist on the other end seem even vaguely surprised. they are spending your tax money on cab companies no-show fees and the cripples are still not getting to our stupid appointments. after all that. "why does everyone in america need a car" because it is impossible to go anywhere or do anything without one in 99.9999% of the square acreage of the country

the ONE trip i have successfully completed with this program required about five phone calls to do so, during which the person on the other end repeatedly told me "dont trust the website, it's not accurate" while the phone tree told me 'just hang up and use the website! it's fast and its free!" and then the receptionist added "yeah you really do need to call us after you send the trip request to make sure we got it, and then again the day of the trip to make sure the driver is actually coming"

maidthings

every time i say velociraptor is very important to imagine a turkey-sized predatory bird and not the weird lizard thing from jurassic park

maidthings

you have to love her. you have to

#'Turkey sized' is making me picture them in the places you see turkeys #standing in the middle of the road in packs of half a dozen #making indignant noises at cars and puffing up their feathers in response to honking #ooh but PREDATORY #that looks about the right size to eat rats from behind dumpsters #or a pack of them could probably rip apart a turkey pretty handily #velociraptors would make a great urban nuisance #I know a lot of small aggressive dogs who would love to get injured trying to fight one of these

savouryduck

gay experience unlocked: paid too much for a disgusting Fancy Coffee Drink because I was flirting with the barista 😔

savouryduck

drank my lousy coffee drink next to a food truck around the corner blaring Only Girl In The World by Rihanna and felt like a pathetic archetype of gay zillennial yuppiehood

#tooth speech

playwrongs

That translation from @sungodsevenoclock got me thinking about jaunty short-line rhyming poems. I started remembering a handful from, in particular, Elinor Wylie and her somewhat later contemporary Phyllis McGinley. Both of them had a wonderful knack for these very playful, jazzy poems that were often just excuses to show off how brilliantly they could do multisyllabic rhymes. Here's a chunk of Wylie's "Peregrine":

"He made pantries Of Vaux and Arden And the village gentry's Kitchen-garden. Fruits within yards Were his staples; He drank whole vineyards From Rome to Naples, Then went to Brittany For the cider. He could sit any Horse, a rider Outstripping Cheiron's Canter and gallop. Pau's environs The pubs of Salop, Wells and Bath inns Shared his pleasure With taverns of Athens..."

And there's an even more technically brilliant variation of this, which is exemplified in McGinley's "Lesson for Beginners." I'm going to transcribe the whole poem, because (though it's a bit glib), I have rarely found its equal for marrying verve and musicality to keeping on topic and not wandering into rhyme for rhyme's sake.

LESSON FOR BEGINNERS by Phyllis McGinley

Martin of Tours, When he earned his shilling Trooping the flags Of the Roman Guard, Came on a poor, Aching and chilling Beggar in rags By the barracks yard. Blind to his lack, The Guard went riding. But Martin a moment Paused and drew The coat from his back, His sword from hiding, And sabered his raiment Into two.

Now some who muse On the allegory Affect to find It a pious joke; To beggar what use, For Martin what glory, In deed half-kind And part of a cloak? Still, it has charm And a point worth seizing. For all who move In the mortal sun Know halfway warm Is better than freezing, As half a love Is better than none.

memories-of-ancients

A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artif

An interesting game where you are presented with 10 artifacts from the MET. You have to place where the artifact is from and what time period it is from. Each artifact scores up to 10,000 points, and you lose points the further away your guess is and how far off in time you are. You can only play once a day. Thanks to @baebeylik for showing this to me.

Today I scored really well. Yesterday ... not so much.

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motherfuckingnazgul

oh this is extremely fun. i did NOT do all that well but i can see myself getting good. i will be doing this regularly.

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savouryduck

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I like how they included some pieces done in styles not characteristic for the region, or copied from an original made elsewhere — it makes the game harder, but it's a fun way to call attention to cultural exchange and trade routes