[kingpin-of-steel-act3]

[ihatenearlyeverything]

its ok theyre Gods lil helpers

[oatmealbrain]

And boy are they clumsy

[hydrangeafae]

Hi, these bees are babies! They’re not clumsy at all, this is what is called orientation flights. After birth and before beginning their careers as foragers (as all Honey bees cycle through all the jobs in the Hive throughout their lifespan), Honey bees take short flights back and forth, to and from the Hive, to orient themselves with their wings and their home so they can learn its location and how to get back home after foraging! Everyone has to learn, these are just smol little baby turkeys. Bees use the angle of the sun for location so adults have a better and more direct sense of location than any human

[polar-solstice]

IM SO PLEASED TO LEARN THIS!!!

They are just!!! Student drivers!!! 😭

[sindri42]

BONK!

[should-be-sleeping]

[milquetoaast]

source

[dankxsinatra]

[diamondeyes-deluxe]

I work with kids and sometimes we have to do safety lessons with them about like, not telling strangers on the internet your home address or something. And sometimes the kids wont understand why, so you have to impart upon them that, well, some adults want to hurt children. And thats kind of difficult to do, because you have to beat around the bush, both because you dont want to scare them (while still making them understand how serious it is) and because you might lose your job if you explain it too straight forward.

Luckily, for some reason, the villain of one of the most popular franchises with children for the last 10 years happens to be a serial child murderer. So when a kid asks why they shouldnt trust strangers, instead of hand wringing and humhawing my answer out, I can just say "we dont always know when a strange adult has good intentions with children, or when they are William Afton."

[melliflewus]

one of my favorite lines from harrow the ninth is “love is a revenant” which comes from ianthe tridentarius of all people, who only TWO PAGES earlier also says “your fist is so big and my butthole is so small”

[creekfiend]

I've been thinking a LOT about humans' species specific social needs lately, and have this half formed idea about transness as an expression of autonomy in a society which does not meet our autonomy needs. like, everything we do is about a different thing, and I am really starting to think that the different thing is usually unmet species specific needs. and you can see this in many different communities, I was just talking abt this with some friends who converted to judaism and expressed that they felt similarly about that. bc like, really crucially like... trans and queer stuff, as well as conversion to a minority religion, ideally puts you in a community of people who are seeking autonomy in the same way. they are usually motivated by a wide range of more superificial things, but underlying that ... the actual rejection of societal expectations can meet a need, regardless of how that rejection is expressed, and because rejecting societal expectations is punished, it is important for us to have supportive communities to help us protect each other from that punishment and rejection.

and Kuzu said also something really smart about how rejection can also be like... embracing as a positive something people ascribe to you as a negative, e.g. trans women who were bullied for being "too girly" etc. where society is like "these are traits and experiences and ways of moving through the world and identifying with people that you should be ashamed of" and the rejection is then, "no, I won't be ashamed of it, and actually I'm going to build a whole life around honoring and loving the person that I am, with other people who also honor and love this about me and themselves"

and then ALFIE said this other really smart thing where he was contrasting like, transness to his conversion to judaism and he said, "i really think the seeking out community is a huge part of this, and that's why i think especially trans communities that are not intergenerational in the same ways can be sort of crab buckets. like, the interruption of intergenerational queer community & the fact that queerness is randomly distributed across the population is i think very damaging and is part of why it can be very hard to manage all that. there are things that you can learn not just from institutional memory but like, how things like institutional memory works." my friends are so smart. I am often thinking this about forms of marginalization that map onto "ethnicity" type lines and those that do not. this is true also of many types of disability, I think, particularly neurodivergence communities online where people are (often understandably, considering neurotypes) looking for hard and fast Rules and Identities that isolate us generationally. i have a very hard time relating to many younger autists, for example, and I'm only 38. (edit oh my God I wrote 34? I'm not 34. i'm 38. today is a bad cognition day) but we allow our very different experiences of neurodivergence and disability to make us suspicious of others whose experiences of those things looks different or has resulted in different life outcomes. often I think this ties into class in a big way but that's another post entirely, probably. but I think that beyond being annoying or toxic or whatever, this is actually quite bad for people because it is bad for people to have to feel they are a Brand New Thing that No One Understands. it is socially beneficial to feel and believe and KNOW that you are part of a community through time, you're a type of person who has always been present in human societies, there have always been people like you, and how they live was and is usually entirely determined by the social attitudes around The Way They Were/Are. being in contact with people who provide cultural continuity between yourself and this history of People Like You is extraordinarily socially beneficial.

anyway. uh. autonomy. very important human need. one that some people suffer from lack of it more than others. I suffer from lack of it EXTREMELY in ways that produce a type of distress that is EXTREMELY punished societally. because autonomy is not considered to be an important need by the society I live in.

y'all I am so sleepy

[glowstickspinalfluid]

the more i think about it the more im like damn rebecca sugar was onto something with gems as a species.

at first i thought they were just another alien race that's just humans but more specialer with fun colors and magic powers. i mean they are that's how the show got put on cartoon network but like. they're viruses! just straight up human sized, fully sapient viruses! it shows in basically everything about them! they literally reproduce by injecting their genetic information into different worlds and reshape planets to be perfectly tailored to their wants and needs, and once a planet can't sustain their growth, they leave and do the same to the next one. they emerge fully assembled and ready to carry out their purposes, but they need a host planet to provide most of the materials for the assembly. they're ROCKS. the projected "bodies" are just, like, really sophisticated exoskeletons or something, all of the important stuff is encapsulated in a gemstone that's a small fraction of the full thing, and not like a brain is because it's sort of capable of doing things on its own? but all of their functions of life happen inside of gemstones, and they need certain geological features to reproduce because they're entire biology is rock based. they don't seem to really understand other planets and humanity as "alive" because they know they're alive, and nothing else works how they do. when they take over a planet, killing native life would be like, idk, washing fruit before you eat it to get bugs and dirt off. except they're viruses so theyre trying to take over something that way bigger than them. and also gems are big enough to be sentient, and the other things on the planet are also big enough to be sentient, so the whole thing is painful on both sides.

tldr: what if viruses got so big, so sophisticated, there would be no way to deny they were alive. what if they were so intelligent, WE were the ones being debated over if we could be an intelligent species by a VIRUS. what if there's a way for life to exist so foreign to our understanding of biology, there isn't even any solvent. not just not water based, there's no fluids facilitating their function AT ALL. and what if, despite this, they were just like us. it's so crazy i love it so much

[byjove]

ages 0-7: slowly gain sentience

ages 7-12: be an ‘old soul’

ages 12-16: allow the darkness to consume you

ages 16-19: be a kid for the first time ever

ages 19-30: develop dad lore

ages 30-35: court a beautiful lady

ages 35-40: get married, start a family

ages 40-55: promise to clean out the gutters and never do it again

ages 55-60: allow the darkness to consume you once more

ages 60-75: swinger cruises with your beautiful wife

ages 75-86: be an eccentric grandfather

age 86: mysteriously disappear

[movementnudge]

Movement nudge, hand mobility! 🙌

X

[ruffboi-mags]

1) do this even if you're under 40. seriously. I definitely should have been doing something like this for years and I only turned 40 a month and a half ago

2) if you're like me just now trying this going "oh god i've only done 15 and i think my hands are cramping" start lower than 30 and increase by 5 once whatever number you're doing no longer makes your hand cramp up. I can manage about 15 per exercise at the moment.

[creations-by-chaosfay]

If you're hypermobile, be especially gentle.

[sclappin]

How convenient it is to attach small, useful objects to your clothes at waist level

[kaijufluffs]

She's being so big and brave.

[elodieunderglass]

I’ve got three of my own at home!

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[geminiagentgreen]

[system-a-naturae]

[silbervvind]

[gaybichon]

i think i found my new favorite artist on twitter

(source)

[nihilisticlinguistics]

adulthood notes:

The Rodeo Rule: you only have to do it for the first time once.

The Rohan Rule: if you are at a social function full of new people and you want to be liked, find someone doing important work like setup or food prep and offer to help.

The Tutorial Mode Rule: to navigate an unfamiliar situation where you fear you will mess up an interaction, preface the interaction by mentioning that you've never done this before, and let them know if you have a specific concern or question.

The Rocket Science Rule: most new things you want to try seem very complicated but are simple when taken step by step.

The [X] Will Remember That Rule: if you need to make small talk with the same person on a regular basis, try to save one fact or current event in their life from a given conversation and bring it up next time you talk.

The Cool Binder Rule: by wearing clothes and accessories that are to your taste instead of trying to blend in, people will be more likely to compliment you and show interest in you as a person.

[upmala]

“It is ill-advised to dip your feet in the bog, no matter how hot the day has been… yet some do it anyway.”

slurp (2024)

[lesbian-archives]

Garden Variety Dykes: Lesbian Traditions in Gardening, 1994

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

OH it's a lesbian and her enormous sunflower

I thought she had her arm around the shoulders of her wife, who was dressed as a plant monster for some reason

[scientia-rex]

I am so glad you clarified. I was like “I’m glad that woman supports her wife in making increasingly weird ghilli suits”

[nudityandnerdery]

Many of us saw the picture, thought it was two women, one in a weird costume, and thought, "Hey, good for them."

[victusinveritas]

[black-crested-jaybird]

I always think of the description I saw years ago: Self-imposed deadlines don't help me, because I know the person who set them, and they're full of shit.

[37q]

[antisocial-transfag]

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