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if you’ve never looked into stenographic court reporting and/or realtime captioning, this is your sign

oh my goodness, one of dian fossey’s first close up observations with gorillas happened when she was trying to climb a tree to see them better, but so badly that by the time she’d gotten up the entire group had come out of hiding to look at her: “Nearly all members of the group had totally exposed themselves, forgetting about hiding coyly behind foliage screens because it was obvious to them that the observer had been distracted by tree-climbing problems, an activity they could understand.”

argumate

hello, fellow apes

spitoutthedaisyhoratio

The lead up to that sentence is gold:

consistantly-changing

[Image transcript: porch. The group had been day-nesting and sunbathing when I contacted them, but upon my approach they nervously retreated to obscure themselves behind thick foliage. Frustrated but determined to see them better, I decided to climb a tree, not one of my better talents. The tree was particularly slithery and, try as I might, no amount of puffing, pulling, gripping, or clawing succeeded in getting me more than a few feet aboveground. Disgustedly, I was about to give up when Sanwekwe came to my aid by giving one mighty boost to my protruding rump; tears were running from his eyes as he was convulsed in silent laughter. I felt as inept as a baby taking its first step. Finally able to grab on to a conveniently placed branch, I hauled myself up into a respectful semislouch position in the tree about twenty feet from the ground. By this time I naturally assumed that the combined noises of panting, cursing, and branch-breaking made during the initial climbing attempts must have frightened the group on to the next mountain. I was amazed to look around and find that the entire group had returned and were sitting like front row spectators at a sideshow. All that was needed to make the image complete were a few gorilla-sized bags of popcorn and some cotton candy! This was the first live audience I had ever had in my life and certainly the least expected.]

roach-works

imagine some freakish not-a-human alien THING has shown up out of nowhere and is trying to get into your office building to study you. but it has no idea how to get past a revolving door. it tries for three hours. by the time it finally understands the concept of a revolving door and squeeze into the building everyone in the office is crowded into the lobby to watch and call helpful suggestions. it’s conclusively determined that the alien is definitely not a threat, except maybe to itself.

obeliskthetormentorsfeetpics

Addition approved

casadelanime

me showing the doctor where to amputate my leg as i ready the tourniquet

penny-anna

Fwiw I do consider medical professionals bluntly asking me what substances I do to be a green flag even tho the answer is none. Especially props to the audiologist who asked if I smoke weed and when I said no said 'ok, but just fyi here's why I'm asking' and I'm like this information is of no use to me but I appreciate that you went out of your way to relay it in case I'm lying 👍

penny-anna

It's that the come down from weed can cause tinnitus fyi

neenarchive

minos was such a pussy. if my wife gave birth to an epic minotaur baby i wouldn't have locked him in a labyrinth. i would have taken him to the mcdonalds play place (athens) every day and let him eat as many stray mcnuggets (athenians) off the floor as he wanted. i love you hungry son

neenarchive

(pulling a painted vase out of my wallet) and this is my youngest at his first nose ring fitting. isn't he handsome

brucespringsteencomments

epicsause-official

i recently found out what the * * * that sometimes separates parts of a text is called and youre never gonna fucking believe it

d-7th

"Algospeak is just superstition / not real / blah blah blah" I get that you probably don't respect anyone whose income depends on YouTube enough to speak to them, but if you would, you'd figure out that there are in fact words you can't say on the platform without risking a video not just being demonetized, but even search banned or deleted entirely.

"Transgender" literally used to be one of the context-sensitive banned words on YouTube. I'm the reason that got fixed 5 years ago. My video was the one that got deleted citing a "child safety" policy because I said "transgender" in a video about Super Mario Galaxy and you used to LITERALLY not be allowed to mention trans people in anything that could be assumed to be "kid friendly" (like Mario.)

As tempting as it is to say that there's no excuse on Tik Tok bc you shouldn't be doing Tik Tok for a living, videos there absolutely will be suppressed if the topic you're speaking about isn't entirely positive and social media is supposed to be for conversation. If you can't have conversations about certain topics without your video being hidden from people, that's censorship!

Instagram's captioning tool straight up bleeps out swearing FOR you if you don't do it, too.

The platforms ARE censoring people, each to varying levels of severity, and y'all are fucking up the conversation about this by pretending they don't.

fraught-with-peril

To give you an idea of how oddly easy it is to get a search ban on YouTube, this video briefly had a search ban for no clear reason

actually it's probably because of the word "sex"

halondrus

what if she was called chappell bone and instead of a singer she was a necromancer who raised strong as fuck skeleton warriors

halondrus

dont apologize. skeletonomenon is beautiful

duchessvongooseberg

good luck, wraith

dctrfate

silver age comics can either feel like the most exhausting laborious trudge through the mud or a bright-eyed bushy-tailed trek on a nice sunny day and yes this feeling will change from issue to issue and no you cannot skip through blindly you have to pay attention or else you'll miss a critical mind-blowing detail that will have you staring at the wall for a minute or two.

sunsetbuddie

we used to get christmas episodes of television. halloween episodes. valentines. we used to get television that felt like part of your life. like it was happening alongside your life. now we mostly get 8 episodes dropping all at once every two years and they don't have time for any of that. i miss characters living alongside us

machine-saint

i feel bad for bigender people, the commute between Jupiter and college has got to be rough

thegirlwiththemooglehat

Friends, romans, people who are nonbinary except at work, lend me your ears,

riding-with-the-wild-hunt

revealing of many things perhaps that the ‘you don’t know what you married’ fairytale trope contains such marked thematic differences between male and female protagonists… the selkie, animal wife/swan maiden, and lamia motifs being associated with the heteropatriarchal terror of perceived-feminine interiority; that if you don’t materially force your wife to stay, she might one day be gone, that there are things about her you don’t know and may not be able to understand. while female-focused versions of the structure—bluebeard, the robber bridegroom, fitcher’s bird, mr. fox, and so on—encapsulate the very real danger of abuse without recourse to anything but one’s own cleverness: the common fear that the person you marry and know might turn out to be a stranger after all, or that you may be forced to marry without even superficial knowledge or choice.