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[ithankyoulord]

[thetyrannosaur]

[ceasarslegion]

Ive been playing Portal 2 for the first time and im loving this new british orb thing they introduced hes my best friend

[ceasarslegion]

[jettreno]

ducktales crew: lol okay so then we wanna introduce our silicon valley villain, we’re gonna call him mark zuckerbird and-

disney legal team waking up in a cold sweat: someone’s gonna try to insult a billionaire 

[falco-lombardis-guyliner]

Same energy

[superjustaguyblog]

Unhinged cartoon creator: “what if we just hit this beehive with this cool stick I found?”

[skrunglebeasts]

i have nothing but respect for cartoon creators that punch up as high as they can

[memeuplift]

[wenchyfloozymoo]

[thighetician]

The second girl at least read the book to confirm that it was shit, she even had Capote on deck as backup. Chick 1 is just lazy

[kaylapocalypse-deactivated20201]

Nope. Girl 2 saw that Girl 1′s absolutely accurate analysis was being shut down just because it wasn’t stated in an intellectual way (in spite of its validity). So Girl 2 reinforced Girl 1′s opinions in solidarity and made sure that it was absolutely clear that Girl 1 was factually correct. WITHOUT taking credit for her observations (”kim is right” instead of “Actually, kim”)  

Girls supporting Girls. 

Girls not letting other girls be treated poorly.

[toweroflondon]

Not only that, but the book is only 47 pages long. When she read 30 pages, it’s not as though she only read one chapter. She read a majority of the book.

[purpledragon42]

According to that linked pdf, this book is actually 70 pages long, not 47.  However the point still stands.  :)  Kim read almost half of the book, and in the case of most books, that’s more than enough to form an opinion about the writer and the writing, regardless of how well she can or can’t articulate how she feels about it.

[pettycentral]

[desperate-acts-of-capitalism]

But with your help, we can make next year even worse for Elon Musk

[thelovers-thedreamers-and-me]

[tam--lin]

Posts that are better with timestamps enabled.

[highfunctioningfool]

[endminx]

[cervinesatyr-deactivated2021083]

I have to reblog this every time because frankly this is absolutely genius prose

[straightboyfriend]

there is no medical component to a trans kid transitioning

if a little trans boy comes out to his parents & is like 4 all youd do for his transition is cut his hair, buy a new wardrobe, & switch pronouns & possibly change names

no one is gonna put a little 4 year old on testosterone OR puberty blockers until theyre actually about to start puberty & then they give them a few years to really decide if they want to start hormones

a trans kid existing isnt “child abuse.” child abuse is refusing to let your kid live their lives as they truly are & forcing them to present as a gender they arent

[straightboyfriend]

radfems who interact with this post will be blocked & your argument will not be read or even considered. i do not care about the opinion of a transphobe & my original post still stands.

[gwenfrankenstien]

a few years ago a kid in my preschool class transitioned socially and the only consequence was that as soon as her best friend discovered that changing your name is allowed she wanted to change hers to Detective

[thatgirlwhokeepsreading]

So stay with me here, but fun ballet fact: part of the reason you’re supposed to start ballet young is so you stretch and hold your joint in certain ways regularly enough that your body grows different. You know how men who do ballet look only sort of muscular but then like lift a whole ass person? Their muscles are trained to lie flat like that for flexibility, they don’t bulk up. Girl in your class who always stands in turnout? It’s likely not just habit, her joints probably sit like that now.

I started ballet when I was six and stopped after three years. I then took a break for three years, and came back and did jazz ballet (which has most of the same body mods but without turnout) and tap for another couple of years. And every physio who works on my body looks at my feet, hips and calves and goes “oh you danced”. I was never even flexible enough to do the splits, but you best believe I stand in turnout. I never went en pointe, but I’m 95% sure tap is the reason my feet have random spasms if I don’t take to them with a tennis ball once a week.

When I said I wanted to be a dancer at six years old, adults took that to mean I’d want certain permanent alterations to my body. Unlike with young trans kids, no one was looking to make sure I fully understood what I was getting into. And unlike with young trans kids, these changes were not reversible when I changed my mind. There wasn’t even a way to delay things to buy time (like puberty blockers), it was all or nothing. If I wanted to be a professional dancer, my normal ass joints were a ticking timebomb.

So like ~cis opinion~, but I really don’t have a lot of time for people getting feral about trans kids socially transitioning or going on blockers or even (when they’re old enough for it be relevant) hrt. Me “identifying” as a dancer at six years old was more physically impactful and less informed than if a six year old changed their name and grew their hair, but you don’t see any of the adults in my life getting accused of child abuse.

[trillanelle]

[natalieironside]

Reblog if you're a Millennian and do not ever want to be taught anything unless you told it on the cell phone

[captain-snark]

reblog if this is the first time you’ve heard of this movie

[charlesoberonn]

[fortunatecircus]

the people running the crayola twitter

[virginalbehemoth-moved-deactiva]

first they phased out the 22 episode season then they phased out the 13 episode season and now they’re phasing out the 10 episode season like can you guys go watch fucking movies or something and stop trying to “tighten” television

[boazpriestly]

We need to go back to more episodes because shows can’t be action or drama all the time, there needs to be breathing room for both the audience and the characters. There need to be good filler episodes where the characters get to just have fun and develop outside of the main story. Side quests and downtime are important to storytelling. We need to see the characters be regular people with regular problems in between the big stuff.

[lesbianrey]

who wore it better

[tdot-tumbldee]

Ahem. No contest.

[bidoof]

Change.org - Petition To Hire 1,000,000 People To Put Their Fingers In The Shoot Hole Of Peoples’ Guns So They Can’t Shoot Them

[mycatisnamedfrank]

It’s still gonna shoot… And they’re gonna lose a finger

[bidoof]

No. The finger blocks the bullet. We can do this

[domozillla-deactivated20181216]

This is a gun we’re talking about. The projectile is fired using an explosion, not by compressed air of a toy gun or the elastic forces of a sling shot. People would be lucky if they only lost their finger.

[bidoof]

The finger blocks it

[dildomuncher3000]

The finger won’t block it - the shaft is only there for keeping the bullet straight, all the propulsion happens behind the bullet. The bullet would rip through the finger, not that many would actually fit without the victim being a child, and beyond.

[bidoof]

The bullet would go forward a little and then hit the finger and stop it’s not that hard to understand

[fifty-percent-possessed-deactiv]

People are going to lose their hands. Go watch Mythbusters. They did an episode on this, the hand fucking exploded.

[hungwy]

No, the bullet would start to go but stop at the finger. Thats basic physics. Also hands dont explode normally they did something wrong.

[blipblerp]

Why the dingleknockers would you even consider sticking your finger in the barrel of a loaded gun?? the amount of force propelling the bullet at that close of range would shatter the finger at the very least; this is a petition for 1,000,000 people to loose the use of their hands. If a bullet explodes the back of a persons skull when they shoot it in their mouth it sure as hell will explode a finger.

[gorps]

No the finger would stop it

[joryboi]

I’m loving the idiocy of this post.

Ppl with brains: ummm finger go boom…

Others: no bullet stop. U no kno fisics >:V

[foulserpent]

no the finger would stop it

[indianworiorprincess-blog]

You guy who think the bullet would stop at the finger have never shot a gun and can volunteer to it their fingers in the barrel of my 9 mil and I’ll I’ll the trigger and see if it will stop the bullet. Dumdasses

[foulserpent]

the finger would stop it

[heritageposts]

date of origin: 28th of december, 2015.

[addictofcinema]

alright i promised to share info about the upcoming iatse strike, but i’m tired so here is someone else’s graphic…

Insta accounts to follow for more info:

@iatse @iatselocal44 @ia_stories @iasolidarity

most importantly, PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION

[avi17]

Hey all! If you don't know me in person or haven't picked up on this from other posts, this is my union and my job. My hours are a little less insane since I sew rather than working on set (though still much longer than a normal 9-5), but for an example of the "Fraturday" situation this post refers to, the set costuming crew on my show came in at about 4:30 pm yesterday. They did not leave until 7 or 8am this morning. They'll have to sleep until tonight just to function. And then they have to be back it at- wait for it- 4:12 AM on Monday morning. And they do this every week.

Does that sound like it would kill you? Sometimes it does kill us. We're sick of stories of crew people falling asleep at the wheel and dying on the way home from shifts like this. Nobody on a below the line crew is trying to become a millionaire. We want reasonable rest and time to see our families. And we want streaming services to pay their fair share now that streaming is the norm of the industry going forward.

(Also the petition linked above is legit, it was sent to us by our unions. So please sign it!)

[memehumor]

[kompanie-mutter-deactivated2021]

this shouldn’t have made me laugh so hard but I almost cried

[crunchbuttsteak]

[imnotrevealingmyname]

You can only reblog this on the 3st of January

[ampervadasz]

[squiddoodle]

how what???

[tandicoofficial]

I’m not good with the science of this or anything (someone who knows more feel free to add) but fish can play??? Fish can play like any other animal?? People saying it couldn’t breathe, do human kids not hold their breaths to go under water for fun? It’s just the opposite. Air is water, water is air. In the same vein as a kid being thrown up and into the pool and enjoying it, the fish is playing.

[shiekah]

okay… as someone who studies marine biology I need to clarify something:

fish are unable to hold their breaths. They literally cannot take a deep breath like mammals do.

We have lungs that can take in a specific volume of air, fish have gills that work when they are ventilated enough. There are different kinds of gills, yes. Some fish have something called ‘operculum’ which is like a cap on top of the gills, helping to protect them and increasing the water circulation through the gills. Some fish DONT have this structure and need to swim in order to be able to breathe.

But the fact that they cannot hold their breaths doesnt mean that they cannot survive without water for a while - in fact, fish can (usually) survive being without water WAY LONGER than we could survive being without air.

I cannot tell if this fish does this for fun, but it sure looks like it. But I am not a behavioural biologist, so I can’t tell for sure.

[dovewithscales]

It is abundantly clear the fish is a willing participant. It’s sort of arrogant to assume animals other than humans don’t play like humans.

[slimedivine]

Im not a behavior biologist either, but I have spent a lot of time around fish and ive spent a lot of time talking to and helping people that care for fish. (Former petstore fish guy that took his job too seriously)

That fish is having fun, and fish absolutely DO have fun!

There was a regular who came into the store I worked at a lot, and he kept several varieties of chichlids, a very smart, aggressive type of fish.

He would come in and talk to me about all the drama his fish get into. The different territorial disputes they were having, who had paired off with who, who broke up (yes chichlids are like this)

But he had a jack dempsey in particular that LOVED to chase his hand around the tank, not his wife’s hand, not his friend’s hand, it HAD to be him. He said that as soon as he entered the room where this fish’s tank was kept, the fish would TEAR UP the tank decor, knocking things over and acting a fool off his shits until this dude stuck his hand in there and let the fish chase it around back and forth.

He theorized that his fish learned that if he knocked the tank decor around, his owner would obviously have to stick his hand in to fix it. So when he wants to play “chase dad’s hand” thats naturally how he knows he can get the hand to appear. He wont do this behavior for anybody but this one guy and he won’t tear up the tank anymore after he had received sufficient “play time”, usually once a day when the guy got home from work. He likened it to having a dog that wont leave you alone till you play tug o war for a bit.

I had a betta that would spend twenty minutes at a time just swimming up to the waterfall of the filter, letting it push him down to the bottom of the tank, only to swim back up and do it again, like it was a fucking slide.

Bettas are weak swimmers, and they dislike strong currents, but this guy was using the filter current like a slide. Kinda like how we don’t really like getting thrown around, but we still enjoy rollercoasters.

I also have countless stories about goldfish trying to “give hugs” (re: shove themselves into their owners hands during tank maintenance)

My betta knows how to lie and he will only beg for food in front of those he knows have not fed him yet.

There is so much evidence I’ve seen that fish are waaaay smarter and affectionate than we think. They absolutely have fun and I honestly don’t think enough studies have been done on fish brains and fish behavior in general.

And honestly, having worked in a pet store, fish are generally treated like they don’t have brains by even the fish care brands that claim expert knowledge.

Its definitely worth noting that hard scientific evidence presenting that the very opposite is true would probably lead to more robust animal welfare laws that would definitely upset the aquatics industry. Food for thought.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

I had a tank where the filter return came out of a horizontal spray bar, and I had a betta that would jump up on the top of it - out of the water - and slide along to the other end of the tank, plop back down into the water, then go do it again. for half an hour at a time. it was like he’d invented the slip ‘n’ slide.

[tea-withnofixinsplease]

Animals are not mindless automatons.