lactose intolerant and in denial

She/her, 25, language nerd

[lastoneout]

Wordle just continues the long trend of proving that humans are not immune to squares. Fuckin' minecraft, tetris, 2048, scrabble, sudoku, the companion cube, dice, and now wordle? Forget cats, it's humans who can't say no to an interesting box.

[weirdlandtv]

Pulp sci-fi illustration by Italian artist, Aldo Di Gennaro (b. 1938).

[auckie]

This is probably the most culturally important thing I’ll ever seen in my lifetime if I’m being honest. I want this affixed over my mantle, embroidered into my denim, and emblazoned into my flesh so that generations to come may never forget this 1938 gem of an illustration. Put this on my gravestone and name my children after Alfo Di Gennaro. This is what it’s all about.

[crabofdoom]

Artist was obviously a leg man, but I have never seen a female alien love interest designed as THIS alien before. She’s uniquely hairy, bugged-eyed, lines would indicate at least a partial exoskeleton, she has escaped being saddled with the mammories that a non-mammal being would not have, yet she’s got it bad for Space Force Leatherhead and he is so into her. I can practically hear his prose of her cabochon eyes of nebula violet, glowing with the passion to know and be known, in the starlight. The green of her body turning more vivid as discovery (and carnal knowledge) consume her conscious mind.

To suggest a red-blooded, human man could love Greedo’s cousin? Desire her??

This is fantastic, in every sense. How many lives did this change forever?

[balkansoul-deactivated20220924]

me and my humanities mutuals. hand in unemployable hand

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

if you want to hook up with someone and they want to hook up with you and you’re both honest about your feelings I don’t think you should worry about how either of you identify

if the mismatch in labels distresses you more than the sex would please you, then don’t. that’s also fine.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

you can always sit down and reevaluate later, if it’s significant to you

but it’s important to prioritize what is actually fulfilling and comfortable over what the imagined court of public opinion might say if it scrutinized your intimate life

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

also: you are not the shepherd of anyone else’s sexuality. it’s not somehow your responsibility to ensure they don’t violate the terms of their stated orientation.

your responsibility is to your own feelings. if you feel misgendered by someone’s desire and hooking up with them would distress you, then don’t. if it doesn’t bother you? trust that they know their own feelings and attractions, and don’t fret over the idea that you are guilty of wickedly luring them away from their true orientation.

if they want to fuck you, that’s their problem. you don’t have to preemptively answer for an identity crisis you project onto somebody else.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

The thing that gets me about a lot of pseudoscientific medicine is the baffling way in which they view the human body.

It isn’t the inaccuracy that gets to me; we have a long history of just fucking guessing how the body works. It’s not even the extreme simplicity of their models. It’s how vulnerable they seem to think it is.

I mean, the skin is a barrier. It keeps stuff in and it keeps stuff out. Yes, there is some limited permeability; if you smear the right kinds of things on your skin then a little bit will get into your body (this is how topical anaesthetics work, and why we wear gloves in chemical labs). But some people are like “smooth this acai berry cream on your skin to boost your immune system!” [note: you DO NOT WANT to boost your immune system], or “put a raw potato under your armpit to draw to toxins out of your body!” or some shit. I look at those foot bath things that fill up with yellow rust as you use them and people go, “all that yellow stuff is the toxins being drawn out through your feet!” and I am horrified at their mental model for how the body works. They know your insides are protected by skin, right? Right?? If I thought my body was that permeable I’d wear a hazmat suit at all times. What if I touch some mud that’s got Toxins in it and they all get absorbed into my body? What if I use the wrong root vegetable under my armpit and it sucks all the vitamins out of my blood instead? That’s terrifying!

“Drink alkaline water every morning to keep your blood pH high!” Friend, how vulnerable is your blood to pH changes? You know that a fairly small variation can kill you?? If I thought this worked I’d never eat fermented foods again. I’d never clean with vinegar in case my Super Permeable Frog Skin absorbed all the acid into my blood and I died of acidemia.

“This essential oil gives you energy! This one boosts your immune system!” They’re for smells! They make smells! In your view, how much of my metabolism and immune regulation are dependent on what my environment smells like?? Am I going to die because I bought the Strawberry Surprise scented candle instead of sandalwood and my body forgot how to make ATP?? What???

The extreme fragility that they perceive in the human body, with apparently no barriers or regulatory mechanisms, vulnerable to such tiny changes in diet and environment, would terrify me. If I thought of the body like this I would never leave the house.

[liberalsarecool]

Republicans normalize racism. Writ large.

[itspileofgoodthings]

my dad taught me history in high school (all girls, private, catholic school) and one of my absolute favorite things about him was that, unlike every other teacher I had, he was never calm when a bee or, more accurately, a hornet or yellowjacket, flew in the window. he would stop whatever he was doing, reach for a book or rolled up piece of paper, and say with great dramatic flair, “ladies, the enemy is here.”

[pushpop]

who has the cat version of this PLEASE i remember seeing it before

[privatejoker]

[lelouch]

[andhumanslovedstories]

A real rough one for Scurvy

[andhumanslovedstories]

Here’s an evening update to prove she is beautiful

[destielementary-my-dear-watson]

[sneasels]

I hate nerds who know numbers and shit!!! Pokémon is for babies like me!!!!!! “I ev train the 252 over 4 base attack to iv 250 and based vitamin trajectory scale of 364/2 days dream drop distance 2:0 Final Cut Pro”

yeah? well I feed my lycanroc a bean and he says arf

[gaycism]

I mean Jesus fucking Christ this is not right

[mrevaunit42]

My friend told me the best example to explain the vast difference between a million and a billion

"A million seconds ago was last week. A billion seconds ago we were still dealing with the Soviet union."

[beeperbopper]

This is why when we talk about “rich people” who aren’t paying taxes or who are wasting money, we’re not talking about the person who makes 1 or 2 grains of rice worth of money a year. We’re talking about the person who makes the giant fucking Costco sized pile of rice.

[bagofbonesmp3]

if I became a published author i would delete all social media forever nothing good has come from writers having a Twitter account

[bagofbonesmp3]

validated by twitter

[exitwound]

interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume?

me: mhm so that’s called a lacuna. it refers to when manuscripts have missing parts, lost to time. for example, the epic of gilgamesh has

[somanyjacks]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if the phrase "self care" doesn't resonate with you, try calling it "system maintenance" and see if that clicks.

[wormsslime]

[dumbasscats]

My kitten Charlie loves the laundry hamper. He’ll meow and whine until you put it upside down so he can become a kitty roomba.

Via Reddit

[aryesdanger24]

KITTY ROOMBA

[sexhaver]

i know we all like to rag on Kyle Ron stans for being delusional but apparently they believe that people made fun of this picture because Mr. Ron wasn't "a greek sculpture" as opposed to laughing at it because his shoulders are in 16:9 aspect ratio and his pants are approaching his nipples

[captainsnoop-deactivated2020041]

i hate it when game devs put “fixed several issues” in patch notes 

no. tell me what you fixed. i wanna know what the glitch was.

you know those patch notes that are like “fixed an issue where if the player sat in a bush for too long, they’d become the size of a skyscraper” 

i wanna read those. tell me those. 

[necroesque666]

[sindri42]

[sindri42]

[wulffridge]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Love in the Sims patch notes that they specifically made sure schoolchildren will die. They programmed it for everyone else to leave and deliberately made an exception for schoolchildren.

[headspace-hotel]

CAN NO LONGER PRESS THE CREATE HUNGARY BUTTON MULTIPLE TIMES