[mossworm]

This article documents the severe and ongoing specimen neglect I witnessed over 12 months working at Florida State Collection of Arthropods. FSCA actively solicits donations, then picks and chooses what specimens to care about based on individuals' personal favorites. The rest are left to rot.

Please take a look and consider sharing this, it's extremely important for people (especially in science, taxonomy, natural history, museum curation, etc) to know how and why scientific material is being lost.

Neglect of a Museum’s Collection Could Cause Scientific Setbacks

According to sources familiar with the Florida State Collection of Arthropods, many specimens are deteriorating.

[browningtons]

lmao bruh

[omegaversereloaded]

My cat is emotionally abusive towards me

[omegaversereloaded]

He is a misogynist he used to hit me

[omegaversereloaded]

he may seem nice at a glance, but this was taken moments after he called me a bourgeois & ignorant USAmerican

he is also american, and a hypocrite.

[permafusion-stevonnie]

Happy Pride Month, y’all.

[anarchistmemedistro]

[isuggestrevolution]

i suggest using that powerful tool

[luxwing]

Whenever I hear someone say "the woke mob" I have to stop myself from laughing because even today all I can think of is this fucking tweet

[luxwing]

Happy Pride to the Woke Mob

[aceattorneygamesfan]

Happy Pride Month to the only straight guy in the entire series. Thoughts and prayers to poor Larry. Stay proud no matter what the gays around you think.

one like=one pry for straight larry 🙏🙏🙏

[worldssmallestlizard]

small writeup for pride month

kind of a continuation of this post from last year

[papertrlck]

Happy pride month. I doodled my DD favorites to subtly share my headcanons.

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

[allegedly-human]

I will. I WILL!!

[barrow-wight-hangout-zone]

I don’t know how it took me this long to play Return of the Obra Dinn. This game was made in a lab to make me insane.

-set on a cursed(?) East Indiaman full of weird little clues

-core gameplay is using logical deduction to carefully fill out records of the voyage and you win by filling in all the names and fates, thereby completing an accurate account FUCK it’s so good

-glimpses of the story appear only in the seconds before someone dies; solving the mystery still leaves many unknowns

-Beafts

[barrow-wight-hangout-zone]

I've looked up some other peoples' playthroughs, and it seems that I was playing with a not inconsiderable advantage thanks to spending the majority of my life collecting otherwise not particularly useful knowledge about the age of sail and the maritime world of the early 19th century. Coming in with a solid background in the social dynamics and hierarchies aboard an East Indiaman let me clear things I've seen other players utterly tormented by.

This did lead to some funny blind spots, though. I was able to coast on immediately being able to pick out the general ranks of most of the crew and then got stuck on things that turned out to be basically spelled out because I was overthinking.

I need four hundred more games like this Immediately. Maybe some ancient puzzle games will scratch the itch. If I didn't have responsibilities that mean I can't fall to madness I might be tempted to try Myst again

[pangur-and-grim]

Queer Books and Authors are at a Breaking Point

Authors, agents, publishers: every part of the industry is seeing the strain of five years of escalating anti-LGBTQ censorship.

[pangur-and-grim]

if you'd like to show support, here are some upcoming queer books:

When Life Gives You Corpses is a brilliant YA about a cursed praying mantis who falls for a young witch. Yield Under Great Persuasion is a raunchy, but surprisingly sweet story of two men repairing their relationship. Fabulous Bodies is a horror story about a queer rockstar rising from the dead.

This is Where the Future Bleeds is a fantasy set in a vividly imagined land, where two women (who happen to kiss) are the key to healing the broken sky. You're No Better is a story about a teen struggling in the shadow of his murderous parent. Oil on Canvas is about a woman who finds disturbing paintings in the home of her dead mother.

and then here's a list of 26 queer books by Black authors set to publish this year, and a 10 upcoming books by trans authors. if you want to fight back against queer censorship, use your wallet! or (if that's not an option) you can contact your local library and ask them to stock a copy.

[adventures-in-a-world-of-fiction]

Blood on the Icehouse Wall is a fantasy with a time travelling lesbian witch and her asexual werewolf girlfriend trying to undo their mistakes.

Salts of Mercury is the best book I've read this year and features a non-binary necromancer explaining why they did all that treason.

An Unexpected Attachment is an erotic novella about an android who's just got a penis attachment and wants to try it out for the first time.

Three Men in Orbit is inspired by Three Men in a Boat and tells the story of three men taking an excursion to a space station and then the moon. One of the characters is a trans woman and the author is openly trans.

[shencomix]

[depsidase]

[do-not-u-dare]

Stole this from somewhere but i think it’s appropriate

[bgm05]

wow players having to stand in lines for a quest because a relevant npc can only talk to one player at a time. is the funniest image on the planet

[bgm05]

i need to correct this: wow classic doesn’t have any npcs that can only talk to one player at a time. these lines actually formed for a quest npc that players had to kill to complete the objective. knowing that i think this image is even funnier.

[thediscossessed]

Literally this

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

My favourite is the guy saying, “This is like being at the dmv”

[pangur-and-grim]

if someone were to make a depressing artsy movie of my life, there'd be at least once scene where I'm checking my savings account with a grimace while Belphie methodically pulls books off my bookshelf with loud rhythmic thumps behind me

[pangur-and-grim]

not right now, buddy. do that later

[smugladies]

TRIBUTE TO ALL SOLDIERS WHO THOUGHT FOR US IN WAR (RIP)