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My greatest desire is to lay in a nice field in the Midwest

weevil I saw :)

#weevil

crimsonender

You know that "every bat fits on this chart" meme post?

I'd like to humbly put this forward.

#golbat really is those feratu...

partywithponies

Strange racists and homophobes on the internet seem to have access to an alternate way cooler version of TV than me. "every white character on TV is in an interracial relationship" "every show has a gay couple in it" "main characters keep having to secretly be bisexual and nonbinary" "every show has gratuitous full frontal nudity" like damn promise?? What channel???

urlocalpyshcopan

as a black gay person real like where y'all be finding this stuff pass the name

brainsforbabyjesus

for real though, those DO NOT WATCH OR YOU'LL CORRUPT YOUR CHILDREN lists put out by conservative christian family groups is where I find all the stellar tv shows. Like, shit I didn't know half of those existed, thanks for finding them for me, gonna go watch 30 hours of gay tv now!

infamousbrad

I think I know how this works.

For personal context, before I went to the '98 Burning Man festival, one of the things I'd read from a couple different journalists was that "everybody" runs around naked. Which, fine by me, I'd already spent a lot of time in clothing-optional spaces, I'm not fanatic about it but it's nice.

So I got there early and set up a public shade structure on one of Black Rock City's main roads and spent most of each afternoon just watching the crowds go by. I don't remember seeing more than one actually naked person the whole week. I think a topless woman passed by my intersection maybe every half an hour, sometimes once an hour. So why in the hell were people, normally pretty smart and observant writers, coming away with the impression that everybody was naked?

Then I remembered an unrelated passage from Joel Garreau's great book about the history of the outer-ring suburbs, Edge City. Mall developers told him flat-out that they tried to keep the crowds in their malls less than 5% black. Not because they themselves were racist, but because they had determined, experimentally, that if more than 5% of the people in the mall are black, the median white shopper will wrongly describe the mall as at least half black, as mostly black. And not a few of them would describe it, at 6% black, as a mall where "only black people go." Why?

Because, emotionally, they were still upset over the last one when the next one came into view.

Same as the journalists describing Black Rock City as all naked. Same as the right-wing religious culture warriors describing television as entirely mixed-race and gender non-conforming. Not because it's even vaguely true, we know that, but because they haven't gotten over their discomfort over the last one by the time the next one comes along. The anger, not the stimulus, is the part that's continuous, so their mind lies to them that it's "all" the thing they can't get over.

kagedtiger

Similar effect for the presence/proportion of women in things, by the way: https://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/human-nature/perception/how-17-equals-496-the-amazing-multiplying-women.htm

jayalaw

What’s the solution then? Or if there’s no solution, should we make things even queerer and more diverse?

dee-the-red-witch

That's literally the solution. Stop giving fuckheads concerned with what the white cis het median control of anything, and you'd be able to make some very broad changes.

daughter-of-sapph0

fuckheads can get over it or they can die. that's the solution

#how interesting!#there's also a graph (no source) in the reblogs of estimated percentage of the population/real percentage of the population #and across the board it shows like minimum 20% increase of perceived % to actual %

i keep having dreams about minecraft bees for some reason

#reoccurring dream topic: getting bees in minecraft into a bee hive

fipindustries

ok this looks ultra mega based, are you kidding me? can you imagine the bullshit i could get up to with this bad boy? fuck yes i want ten

mint-corset

Wait are iPhone bros coping because Apple has to be more universal? Lol.

such-justice-wow

Boo hoo i'll be able to add more physical storage to my phone and be able to change out batteries if they degrade as well as all these other optional features I won't have to touch

lectorel

Continuing in the trend of political cartoons depicting milquetoast moderate positions seem so much cooler and more badass than they are

domina-honoribila

I love how they add totally absurd things no one is asking for to make the idea look crazy. And still, I must emphasize, failing to make this look like a bad idea.

teaboot

"Is this what you want? Is this ugly stupid bullcrap what you want??" the biggest loudest idiot in the room asks, holding up a picture of the hottest looking shit I've ever seen

#first thought: man this would be sooo good for archival work given the Amount of ports #after looking up “30 pin connector”: this was written when i was. a small child.#i believe the eu mandates the use of type c now?

tim-official

!!! SCROLL BACK UP !!!

that;s a post

unusedcactus

#i don't think that is a post actually

gonsplode

a-book-of-creatures

Mutuals feel free to pick me up and drop me off in front of prime real estate that’s all mine

I will be scared but I will appreciate it

emjoy398

birds-in-posts

Burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia)

janmisali

how do you usually search the internet for things?

I type a search term into the url bar of my browser and press enter

I type a search term into the url bar of my browser and click search

I go to a search engine website, type, and press enter

I go to a search engine website, type, and click search

I go to one of multiple subject-specific websites

I ask an assistant on my smart device to search the internet for me

I ask a person who I think might know how to look things up to look things up

I do not use the internet

something else

[show results]

Voting ended onJun 6

#i wonder how the data would change if you surveyed a different site #since there's a very clear bias right now that's probably because of the demographics here #(even though there's only ~220 participants right now)

wh. where did it go

charl0ttan

#oh nice hit 2006 game spore?

meshugenist

tj99er

Why are you doing that? What the fuck is wrong with you??

maidthings

it's uncanny how easy it is

#was thinking about this and was worried i wasn't going to be able to find it #but it's uncanny how easy it was for me to find this (looked it up and this was the first result)

serpexnessie

Average Tomodachi Life Conversation

#really like the detail of This Man's face floating off his body in the last panel #lot of nice details in this honestly

i have a headache but finally!!!!! i can get the pc ports of final fantasy ix and vii on gog since they're on sale!!!!!!!!!!

dragongirlsweetie

ok i am curious. how long is the longest song in your library (not counting tracks that are like several songs in one file like a full album mix or symphony recording or whatever) (also if it is longer than 20 minutes say the name in the tags i am curious)

how long

< 3:00

3:00–3:59

4:00–4:59

5:00–5:59

6:00–6:59

7:00–7:59

8:00–11:59

12:00–15:59

16:00–20:59

21:00–24:59

25:00–30:00