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Genevieve, 30s, Chicago. Let me know if you want me to tag things. Like my posts? Tip me at https://ko-fi.com/xoxogg

[shortandsweet]

Thirty and flirty? More like thirty and thirsty, am I right ladies! #chronicallydehydrated

XOXO GG

[sandersstudies]

Going to see children and adolescents dance badly, play ball badly, sing badly, play recorder badly because they are young: YES! YOU ARE LEARNING! INCREDIBLE!

[sandersstudies]

People are so rude about going to watch the children in their lives do stuff shittily. “Ugh toddler dance recital,” “ugh tee-ball weekend again,” “ugh nativity play.”

That guy learned what skipping is this year and now he’s playing the piano the worst I’ve ever seen but the best he’s ever done! AREN’T YOU CAPTIVATED BY THEIR ABILITY TO DO A LITTLE BIT WHEN PREVIOUSLY THEY COULD DO NOTHING? Be filled with wonder and joy!

[doctorbluesmanreturns]

PEER REVIEWED

[theinternetarchive]

fan of mother-of-pearl, gold, and silk; open and extended: 21.5 x 37 x 1.8 cm; rené lalique, french c. 1900.

[former-incel]

You touch a woman and she appears to like it.

Another time when you see her, you touch her again in a similar way and she finds it creepy.

You may be wondering why this is happening. She liked it at first. So what changed?

The difference is that the first time it happened, you were carefully trying to read her boundaries. You were slowly experimenting to find out what she likes and what she doesn't. You started out using the default setting of how people in general should interact with people in general, and you then slowly increased the physical contact while each time making sure she has a reasonable way out. You were paying attention to what she initiates in order to make sure it's not one sided. Meanwhile, the second time, you were just copying the parts that you liked from the first time. The first time, you were doing everything the correct way. The second time, you went in with expectations.

When something happens that feels good to you, it's natural that you'd want to recreate it. But you have to recreate the conditions that made her like it. You can't just recreate only the parts you like. You have to carefully read her boundaries again just like you did the first time. Also, you won't always be able to recreate it. It's possible that what happened is something that she only wanted to happen once. It's possible that she's not in a touchy mood this time. It's possible that she now has a romantic partner or is now looking for one. And there are many other reasons for someone's boundaries to change.

[senatortedcruz]

Listening to songs and thinking about something the songs aren’t about

[labcorp]

[acti-veg]

‘While bats can only sense the outer shapes and textures of their targets, dolphins can peer inside theirs. If a dolphin echolocates on you, it will perceive your lungs and your skeleton. It can likely sense shrapnel in war veterans and fetuses in pregnant women. It can pick out the air-filled swim bladders that allow fish, their main prey, to control their buoyancy.

It can almost certainly tell different species apart based on the shape of those air bladders. And it can tell if a fish has something weird inside it, like a metal hook. In Hawaii, false killer whales often pluck tuna off fishing lines, and “they’ll know where the hook is inside that fish,” Aude Pacini, who studies these animals, tells me. “They can ‘see’ things that you and I would never consider unless we had an X-ray machine or an MRI scanner.”

This penetrating perception is so unusual that scientists have barely begun to consider its implications. The beaked whales, for example, are odontocetes that look dolphin-esque on the outside—but on the inside, their skulls bear a strange assortment of crests, ridges, and bumps, many of which are only found in males.

Pavel Gol’din has suggested that these structures might be the equivalent of deer antlers—showy ornaments that are used to attract mates. Such ornaments would normally protrude from the body in a visible and conspicuous way, but that’s unnecessary for animals that are living medical scanners.’

-Ed Yong, An Immense World

[namu-the-orca]

Cetacean echolocation is one of those things that boggles your mind once you really start to think about the implications. They can see each others' hearts beating fast with fear or excitement. They can see if another dolphin is healthy, or pregnant; how the fetus is doing; if they have ingested debris. Their echolocation is also incredibly precise: a bottlenose dolphin could discriminate between cilinders differing in wall thickness by just 0.23 mm (0.009 inch) from 8 meters away!! And they certainly notice when something is off.

I'm not sure if I ever shared this story before here, but in Curacao, when I was allowed to assist in a guest interaction programme, there was suddenly consternation in the pool behind us. A guest had entered the water and the dolphins were going crazy, paying no heed to the trainers anymore. The lead trainer that was with me gave the dolphins to me to watch over while she went to help. When she came back she told me what had happened. The guest that had caused so much uproar had left the water again and was asked if he had done anything to upset the dolphins. He hadn't, and he couldn't imagine what was wrong... until he mentioned he had a pacemaker. The younger dolphins in the pool had never seen someone with a pacemaker before and apparently it rocked their world.

It was such a wild experience, and offered such a cool insight into how dolphins experience their world. I'll never forget it.

[contemptible-scoundrel]

fuuuck I could use a mysterious benefactor right now

[xxscrabiesxx-deactivated2025062]

hey folks if you have an android phone: google shadow installed malware.

Android System SafetyCore - Apps on Google Play

Provides safety features for Android devices.

I had to go and delete it myself this morning.

[oca-rinn-a]

Important info in the notes:

[ruinedchildhood]

[kathrynhoward]

TAMZIN MERCHANT as KATHERYN HOWARD THE TUDORS (2007 - 2010)

[poeticpicturism]

[julykings]

pages from winter

[ithelpstodream]

[queer-as-city-folk]

Career fields for after college:

Militant anti war protestor

Ecoterrorist

Barista

Secret lover of a diplomat

Dnd player that lives in someone's attic

Unpaid fresco painter for rich people

Guy who ties people to train tracks

Guy who gets tied to train tracks

Guy who stands conveniently close to the train track switch that has people tied to both tracks

Girl

Pretentious Quebecoi with an accent

The gig economy

An exact clone of Fidel Castro

Bank teller

[queer-as-city-folk]

Vice vice vice president of the local DSA Chapter

Head of a film club that exclusively watches gay porno flicks from the late 70s

Union organizer for lesbian polycules

Bisexual woman mafia hitman

Pet rock haver

Travel blogger

Postal worker

Derelict 1960s era housing project

Wine mom

The family dog

Cobbler

Minecraft let's player

[queer-as-city-folk]

Macaroni aficionado

Charcuterie board maker

Guy who buys expensive Dutch cheeses from a deli every 3rd Wednesday

Guy who stabs tourists in London

Recreational cigarette smoker

Folk Singer

High School bully

High School Art Teacher

Horrifying Chimera

Cashier at an over priced oraganic local grocier

Russian bot

The old grandma who got lost in the Menswear department of a large department store

The Toxic relationship metaphor cannibal

Marxist who argues on Twitter with other Marxists about what Marx really meant

[queer-as-city-folk]

Rpf researcher

Bagel shop owner

Guy who bites into ice cream

Hiker

Bus driver

Cabbie

Bob Dylan

The 5th Beatle

Cop (ew)

Indie game dev

Pursuing a postgrad degree

Person who puts the cone of shame on the dogs they pass at the park

Joan Baez

Fujoshi

Furry

Little German Boy

Friendship Bracelet maker

[prometheist]

love having a mutual who likes one specific thing. Seeing it on my dash and thinking oh yeah it’s my Thing mutual

[pantaloonwarrior]