Total Trash Mammal

here to cheer you up or make you feel bad....so....yeah

[catasters]

[wizardshark]

Unmute for CHMPCH CHMPCH CHMPCH

[magicratfingers]

[shamebats]

Did they task the vampires with hanging up the flags 😭

[secondlina]

No transphobes allowed, only transborbs.

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[wizardarchetypes]

The production value here is off the charts but this is also literally just what it feels like to play Uno.

legendaryjay_ on TikTok

[silvertherogue715]

The production value really is off the fucking charts. What the fuck.

[whiskey-bumblebee]

hey does anyone wanna do the funniest thing ever

[the-prophesied-disco-gay]

Literally sobbing. A judge, a US judge defended us. A judge brought up intersex people, uaing the term intersex, to *defend* us by not allowing our erasure. I'm having a lot of feelings right now

[graysongoal]

Judge Reyes is literally out here serving so much cunt:

Also, this is her Wikipedia photo:

I love her.

[ariaste]

I LOVE her??? can we have her as a Supreme Court Justice one day, please????

[transgirlpinup]

Gawdayum, she came for their fucking souls. She fucking excoriated them.

[thoughtportal]

[desfraisespartout]

This is a nice video showing an blind/invisible stitch, which is quite useful for repairing tears or finishing something (ex. cushion).

Also, that extra step for putting back the seam is really nice.

[rattledbrainpan]

This is sorcery

I will cherish it

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

It's always so weird to come down from the biology heavens to see what the average person believes about animals, plants, ecosystems, just the world around them. I don't even mean things that one simply doesn't know because they've never been told or things that are confusing, I'm talking about people who genuinely do not see insects as animals. What are you saying. Every time I see a crawling or fluttering little guy I know that little guy has motivations and drive to fulfill those motivations. There are gears turning in their head! They are perceiving this world and they are drawing conclusions, they are conscious. And yet it's still a whole thing if various bugs of the world feel pain or if they are simply Instinct Machines that are Not Truly Aware of Anything At All????? Help!!!!!! How can you look at a little guy and think he is just the macroscopic animal version of a virus

[froginakettle]

Had an anthropology professor explain once that emotions are instincts.

"their instincts are telling them" means they're scared or angry or horny or in love

Our emotions are not what make us more evolved that animals, it's our ability to rationalize past them and use logic instead that makes us human

ALL animals feel emotions. The "more evolved" an animal is the more nuance the emotions have, but they still feel more than they think

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

I think that’s a good way to look at it! Emotions likely evolved to benefit us: doing things that help us survive feels good, unknown things are scary to protect us, shame and sadness makes us not do something again, things like that. It’s weird to think that animals, who clearly react to things, would not have any sort of feeling on things, and simply factually react to stimuli. “Oh, my foot is being chewed to the core. This is bad, I guess. I should try to get away, so the bad thing will stop,” except also not really as thoughts but like, instant response, somehow.

Humans are different from other species of course, but sometimes we need to remember that we are but animals and also have instincts, and other species are more similar to us than we think

[phoronopsis]

Oftentimes I see people just make shit up about bugs and other invertebrates. People will say stuff like "actually it's been scientifically proven that insects are physically incapable of cognition" with no source, and then you look it up and in fact there is tons and tons of literature reporting results on this exact thing. A while back after getting into an argument with people online about wasps, I decided to try compiling sources on invertebrate cognition out of spite and I had to take a break at some point because there is so much literature out there, it is actually overwhelming. Just with fruit flies alone, there's studies on how they form stable social networks and fight to establish hierarchies; how they make group decisions and act differently in crowds; how they pay attention to what other flies are doing and teach and learn from each other, even with other species. When subjected to pain out of their control, they can develop depression and respond to SSRIs to the point that they are literally used as animal models to study how to treat depression in humans. And that's just like, one animal!

Even with all the research there is though the truth is that we just haven't studied things like cognition, perception, behavior, sociality, etc. for the vast majority of invertebrates (i.e. the vast majority of animals). Most behavioral research (honestly, just bio research in general) is focused on vertebrates -- particularly mammals -- and the research that has been performed for invertebrates has still only been done for a small handful of species and lineages. Fruit flies are one of the single most studied organisms in the world (and there's still a lot we don't know about them). If idk, clams felt emotions, do you think you would be able to tell by just looking at them? (I have no idea if they do or not, I don't think anyone has studied this. we do know scallops can see.) But absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, and given the small glimpses of insight we have gotten into the vast world of unknowns, I think yeah it's pretty obvious that there is way more going on with a lot of animals than people think. Scala naturae my behated

[roach-works]

what's more likely: the entire animal kingdom is unfeeling automatons mindlessly grinding through meaningless clockwork cycles of birth and death, devoid of sensation from the ant to the elephant

or that you, a small and fragile human, already haunted with a lifetime of regrets, already beholden to one species' weight of pain and hunger, don't you think that maybe just once you glimpsed the edge of a perspective that could recognize the life of every bug you've ever smashed as deep and meaningful, and you got scared

[plant-based-person]

had a fascinating english class that resulted in the notes header “the forcefeminization of victor frankenstein”

[plant-based-person]

what the people want, the people get

you see

my professor’s take is that mary shelley is feminizing victor throughout the novel, as a way of flipping gender roles and putting a male character through female experiences.

evidence as explained:

victor is creating life. he is putting his health at risk (spends two years with little sleep or socialization) to bring life forth into this world

his illness after he is shocked by the creature coming to life is akin to both ‘hysteria’ and postpartum depression

he pretty much swoons, let’s be honest

henry clerval, a man who has been characterized as manly and heroic, has to chase after damsel-in-distress victor and care for him as he convalesces 

afterward, he hides what he did and went through, for fear that others will label him crazy and emotional and not believe him. sound familiar?

Victor in general is more emotional than the other characters and is constantly tempering his reactions to not be seen as irrational 

the book does not otherwise have central female characters 

Also, Shelley’s mother died in childbirth. It’s interesting, then, that Shelley presents the creation of life as something horrific and damaging. She parallels Victor with her mother.

in conclusion, Frankenstein (1818) by Mary  Wollstonecraft Shelley is one of the first examples of mpreg in English literature 

[tamilhobbit]

I was not expecting that last line.

[trainsgenderfoxgirl2816]

THIS IS THE KIND OF ESSAY WE NEED MORE OF

[hotelcrying]

https://stopproject2025comic.org/

[ladytuarach]

This is amazing !!!

[the-tired-tenor]

So uh….some dude apparently recreated Adobe Photoshop feature-for-feature, for FREE, and it runs in your browser.

Anyway, fuck Adobe, and enjoy!

[adv3nturelust]

Give credit to the 30-year-old who worked on this for free and offers this service for free!

[celestial-fang]

Holy shit

[geminisee]

you have more in common with the average citizen in china than any us politician

[rubberduckymondays]

[deepdickpizza]

[king-garbo-deactivated20190103]

an actual video of me in any math class ever.

[daughter-ofthesea-deactivated20]

crying at what someones tagged this

glaswegian ya fool

[drawingden]

How to Paint Light by jonhuangart

[once-a-polecat]

This is badass: Medieval Nubian Fashion Brought to Life. Click through to the link because there’s more replica clothing and it is all stunning!

[eyes-alight]

[sca-nerd]

This is AMAZING.

[izzyhill]

[camiekahle-deactivated20190815]

THIS IS THE BEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN

[macncheese-blog]

I’VE BEEN TRYING TO FIND THIS FOR SEVEN YEARS

DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW HARD IT IS TO ?????

[amethystthe-gem-deactivated2016]

I’m fucking dying

[pinkifingers]

That last fatal scream tho

[thepioden]

Chai tea bag + lil but of brown sugar + apple cider packet + 16 oz. mug of hot but not quite boiling water

it will not Fix You but like. maybe. maybe.

[thepioden]

tags by @eridan-ampora

[thepioden]

Update: this is the best post I've ever made because everyone is sharing their Warm Beverage recipes in the notes. Go check the notes for more Warm Beverages That Will Fix You.