every day i wake up and choose mild

🔞 / Aotearoa NZ Occasonal Artist. Conservation Enthusiast. Glup Shitto Connoisseur. Keeper of Herps, Fish & Inverts.

[slugmango]

Since I never ended up posting my art on tumblr, I've changed the username of this blog to distance it from my old art username. Especially because all I do is reblog random shit and I'm guilty of oversharing personal nonsense. Instead I've migrated that 'persona' to a sideblog for when/if I decide to post art online again.

[escuerzoresucitado]

[cloevr]

[nervespike]

[tpwrtrmnky]

Think tanks explicitly founded to "abolish transgenderism" will publish a report that's like "there's no evidence that trans healthcare works if you ignore all the evidence" and be taken seriously, meanwhile actual researchers go "there's seriously NO evidence that gatekeeping helps" and get ignored

[tpwrtrmnky]

Like on the one hand there's new papers each year going "So it turns out that there's literally no fucking reason to restrict transition access based on these arbitrary criteria, and in fact, they were explicitly made up by some Danish fuck because he was personally obsessed with the idea that trans people were demons, and as it turns out the only measurable impacts of this policy are to increase risks to the patient" that have no impact on the healthcare systems they're criticizing whatsoever.

And then, on the other hand, you've got "Shockingly, this life-altering treatment that massively impacts how the patient is perceived by others in all facets of life is primarily supported by observational studies, as opposed to the enormous violations of bodily autonomy and human dignity necessary to perform a true randomized control trial. We recommend that treatment ceases immediately because you don't understand how evidence-based medicine works." And that becomes a linchpin of the politics of multiple European countries' trans healthcare politics for the next several years.

It's fucking clown world. Nobody who enabled this should be in a position of any power whatsoever.

[elierlick]

Yet another new study debunked the basis for the anti-trans sports bans. It was never about sports but for creating legal avenues for exclusion and abjection. This is one of the largest analyses ever conducted, involving 52 studies and 6,485 trans people. Read the study here.

[lucieslucidity]

post so nice had to reblog it twice and force it down everyone's throats

[fleshengine]

At minimum about 4.5 thousand people liked this without reblogging it.

We gotta fix that.

[dancinbutterfly]

Progress.

Onwards!

[onthedriftinthetardis]

I can't access the full paper, but their conclusion is right there in the abstract:

While transgender women exhibited higher lean mass than cisgender women, their physical fitness was comparable. Current evidence is mostly low certainty and has heterogenous quality but does not support theories of inherent athletic advantages for transgender women over cisgender.

[cheesefags]

2-YEAR CHEDDAR

from GRAFTON VILLAGE

I usually try to review cheeses virginally - that is, ones that I’ve never had before. In this case, this is a cheddar I’ve had many times before. But I couldn’t leave it off the blog, what with its obvious appeal to leather and rubber fetishists.

As far as cheddars go, Grafton’s 2-year aged isn’t going to shock you. It’s mild, light on the salt, with a slightly sweet and grassy flavour. It’s got a nice texture. It’s dense, more moist than I expected, and smooth.

So what is the deal with the gummi suit on this cheese anyway? Well, cheese has obviously been around a lot longer than fridges. Fresh cheeses like mozzarella are too moist to last very long outside of a cold place (bacteria and fungi do so love damp places), though I don’t think anyone was too mad about eating that stuff quickly. But cheeses that have been aged (and dried) more have some more preservation options, which is where cheese wax comes in. The wax is a physical barrier, stopping fungal spores from landing, and also blocks moisture and air, making the cheese a pretty unfriendly place to grow. Even drier cheeses can be bandaged in cheesecloth and then slathered in lard to preserve them while allowing some ventilation.

I gotta admit: hot wax isn’t really my thing. But cheesecloth bondage and grease… it has potential.

[dumbpuppyfag]

this site used to be awesome

[bophia]

Daily affirmations for tesla owners: your car is ugly as hell and everyone hates you

[renal03421]

Mollaren

Thoracopoda ta'arrikensis* (commonly known as "Chest Talkers" or "Molarrens") is a sapient reptilian species from the planet Ta'arrik, representing a unique example of adaptive radiation among cursorial desert theropods like. The species is characterized by pronounced digitigrade locomotion with powerful hind limbs and a long balancing tail, while the forelimbs are completely reduced to vestigial claws on the sternum. The key evolutionary innovation of the species is a pair of flexible muscular hydrostats originating from the thoracic region, which evolved from the display skin folds of ancestral forms; these structures serve as highly specialized manipulators and the primary organ of communication. Members of the species are functionally deaf, compensating with developed visual perception, sensitivity to ground vibrations, and a complex sign language realized through micro-movements of the thoracic appendages. Social organization is based on visual hierarchy and tactile interaction, with the species' self-designation having no sound equivalent and instead being transmitted through a ritual gesture, making them one of the most biologically and culturally distinctive sapient civilizations in the known region of the galaxy.

[notvoid]

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[smadsel]

would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.

[smadsel]

that’s not the whole flag, now is it

[plotholes-and-spellingerrors]

Is this post mature content, though? Or is there maybe something else that staff doesn't like about this post

[hotvampireadjacent]

[nemfrog]

British fungi. 1911. Cover.

Internet Archive

[transparentfossil]

Trilobite

[xphaiea]

Kilmartin Glen neolithic rock art

[dogpuppy]

[thelostcanyon]

Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus), Sabino Canyon, Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona.