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Keni
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Monterey Bay Aquarium
occasionally subtle
Acquired Stardust
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Any tips on dressing androgynously for this baby agender?
anything is androgynous when gender norms are meaningless!
(I don’t want to perpetuate gendered binary bull, especially seeing as how I’m genderqueer myself and took a long time to dismantle my own toxic thought patterns so take what comes next as agreement with Gaud and a rant about the concept of androgyny, gendered presentation, and how it’s impossible to stop being perceived and gendered by other people through a binary lens, even when it isn’t right)
Androgyny essentially depends on confusing other people’s perception of your gender to the point where they don’t know how to categorize you, and given the automatic gendering of bodies and clothing, it’ll always look different for different people
For some people, it looks like straddling the line between masc woman and fem man. For others, it looks like dressing as fem or as masc as possible in order to try to balance out other people’s opinion of their bodies: a curvy person with big hips and a big chest, for example, is going to be far more successful at breaking the binary with a beard than a broad-shouldered person with narrow hips and a deep voice
And that’s because these things are so heavily gendered that the only way to disrupt that perception is to lean into displays that are gendered differently. And that’s bullshit!! Like, there is something to be said for purposefully breaking, bewildering, and blockading this binary way of being perceived, and it’s absolutely awesome when that’s what people want to do! But it’s not mandatory - it should never be mandatory
Being agender means you’re already outside the gender binary, and if other people decide to gender you, without your consent, based on their perceptions of your body and presentation, then they are the ones in the wrong
(With that’s being said, everyone knows that this season’s androgynous looks are:
small silver sphere
false eyespots on tigers
worm on a string
shapeless, heaving mass
“poison” by alice cooper
Those are the only acceptable looks. Please direct all your complaints to the nearest flock of geese. We are always pleased to hear from our clients)
tag ursef i’m false eyespots on tigers
TIL - You can skip piracy warnings and trailers on a DVD by pressing STOP -> STOP -> PLAY
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i can’t wait to do this 10 years ago
You could have skipped piracy warnings and trailers
POSTING THIS AGAIN!!!
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE BE CAREFUL OUT THERE!!!
The conservatives on the Supreme Court just killed Roe v Wade, ending the federal right to abortion in America. And they are coming for contraception and same-sex rights next.
oh and btw if you're not aware Thomas has stated (very clearly) that they are coming for:
Griswold (contraception)
Lawrence (same-sex sexual intercourse)
Obergefell (gay marriage)
This country claims to be democratic but 9 unelected people who's values and opinions formed decades prior, who can get into this position without strong or even any valid credentials, can decide to negatively impact or even destroy millions of lives and they cannot be held accountable for it. They can't be impeached or voted out. It's only the most convoluted combination of election-year voting, voter suppression/lack thereof, and idk fucking cowardice from both sides that got any of them to where they are now. 9 people who are cemented in their beliefs and then use the law and constitution to justify their moral opinions that they insist don't influence their rulings at all. We can't vote then out. We just have to hope they retire or die under the presidency of someone who doesn't want to actively kill everything, and eve then we have to contend with any given republican or spineless Democrat in the Senate.
And even then, we cannot get rid of them. Nine people make decisions for 300+ million, affecting their ability to defend themselves, to live peacefully, to lead healthy and happy and safe lives. Nine people can ruin lives for decades to come.
Nine people. Nine. People.
well i have less rights than i did half an hour ago
The neurodivergent urge to ignore most texts from people for about 1-2 weeks and then rapid fire respond to all 35 unread messages in one night when you happen upon an inkling of dopamine, hoping no one responds again right away bc an actual Conversation™️ is out of the question, and the pressure to still be behave as a neurotypical is too much to just *never* respond, all the while hoping no one has decided to hate you for not responding sooner and simultaneously wishing they would all just forget you existed so you didn’t have to play these neurotypical social games
Some people apparently think video-based social media is better, which is baffling. a) the norm is for you to post your real face and voice, b) you need headphones or privacy to enjoy it, c) it’s heavily biased toward the physically sexy, d) and I cannot stress this enough, people from your real life will be able to find you
watched some tiktok analyses and good god it’s worse than I thought. good luck getting your opinions heard if you don’t have flawless skin
*minces onion and garlic for you with romantic intentions*
Imagine if you met someone who can't eat watermelon. Not that they're allergic or unable somehow, but they just haven't figured out how to do that. So you're like "what the hell do you mean? it works just like eating anything else, you open your mouth, sink your teeth in, take a bite and chew. If you can bite, chew and swallow, you should be able to eat a watermelon."
And they agree that yes, they do know how to eat, in theory. The problem is the watermelon. Surely, if they figured out where to start, they'd figure out how to do it, but they have no clue how to get started with it.
This goes back and forth. No, it's not an emotional issue, they're not afraid of the watermelon. They can eat any other fruit, other sweet things, and other watery things ("it's watery?" they ask you). Is it the colour? Do they have a problem eating things that are green on the outside and red on the inside?
"It's red on the inside?"
Wait, they've never seen the inside? At this point you have to ask them how, exactly, they eat the watermelon. So to demonstrate, they take a whole, round, uncut watermelon, and try to bite straight into it. Even if they could bite through the crust, there's no way to get human jaws around it.
"Oh, you're supposed to cut it first. You cut the crust open and only chew through the insides."
And they had no idea. All their life this person has had no idea how to eat a watermelon, despite of being told again and again and again that it's easy, it's ridiculous to struggle with something so simple, there's no way that someone just can't eat a watermelon, how can you even mange to be bad at something as fucking simple as eating watermelon.
If someone can't do something after being repeatedly told to "just do it", there might be some key component missing that one side has no idea about, and the other side assumed was so obvious it goes without mention.
Yep.
https://drmaciver.substack.com/p/how-to-do-everything had a nice list of additional examples like this, with (non-)obvious major insights with regard to opening stitched bags, cleaning your bathroom floor, using a search engine, catching a ball, pinging somebody, proving a theorem, playing sudoku, passing as “normal”, improving your writing, generating novel ideas, and solving your problem.
If you’d asked me six months ago how to get better at something, I’d probably have pointed you to how to do hard things. I still think this is a good approach and you should do it, but I now think it’s the wrong starting point and I’ve been undervaluing small insights. [...]
I think my revised belief is that if you are stuck at how to get better at something, spend a little while assuming there’s just some trick to it you’ve missed. You can try to generate the trick yourself, but it’s probably easier to learn it by observing someone else being good at the thing, asking them some questions, and seeing if you have any lightbulb moment.
My fiance played the clarinet when he was in school. When he was first learning to play, he rented an instrument from the school to learn on. He was the last chair clarinet, had been for years, because he could not make notes that required the register key. For years, they kept making him do embrature exercises and he started to get a few notes, with lots of effort. Eventually he had to get private lessons to stay in band.
Every time he tells me this story, his frustration by this point in the story, years later, is evident. He still sounds frustrated by it, despite all the time that passed. Teachers had been giving him crap for years because he hadn't been making much progress with the instrument.
When he got to the private instructor, she acknowledged his frustration, and asked him to try to play for her. He did, and she saw all he was doing. She then did something no one else had done before. She asked him to put his mouthpiece on a different clarinet and try to play the same notes. Like magic, it worked. She looked at the clarinet he had been using and found that the school's clarinet needed it's pads replaced.
He went from last chair to first chair nearly overnight, having been taught far more techniques than typically taught at that age just to overcome the broken instrument preventing him from making noise.
Sometimes you don't need to brute force a problem. Sometimes your clarinet is just broken.
Not quite sure why the clarinet addition got me crying, but here you go people: just in case, let's get you some new pads.
Happy Towel Day!
It’s the 25th of May (only ten days until the talking horse comes), and as you all definitely know, it’s the day we celebrate Towel Day. If you don’t know what Towel Day is, you’re probably really, really stupid. I’ve definitely always known about Towel Day. I’ve never not known about it. Can you imagine if I had only found out about it yesterday? Haha such a crazy idea lol.
Anyways, a towel is obviously the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Surprisingly enough, it’s also the most important thing an intrastellar social distancer can have.
You can hug while pretending it’s one of your friends. You can wear it around your shoulder and take pictures so people think you’ve been working out. You can put it around your face when your cat comes back from a walk and you don’t know where they’ve been. You can wipe sauce from your face. And if it’s still clean, you can use it after washing your hands for two happy birthdays.
And if you wanna know how you could have used it had you not been quarantined, I’ve got just the thing for you:
Douglas Adams was a great author with a phenomenal sense of humour and unmatched wit. If he were here now, he’d say:
Don’t Panic
Hey everyone it’s towel day, time for all of you to reblog this post I have no recollection of making
Look, this is my litmus test: I pretend I am the original Earl of Sandwich. I have asked for non-bread foods to be brought to me inside bread, that I might more easily consume them one-handed while gambling.
This does not enable my wretched regency habits. This is not what I asked for. I do not deign to grace it with the name of my house.
This is the most important addition to the sandwich discourse I have ever read.
I thought that was cara delevingne at first