[porcelain-dollbones]

snakes really make you appreciate how gross mammals really are. squamates are very dry and clean

[porcelain-dollbones]

a bird is a kind of reptile that has learned to be yucky.

[kosmogrl]

[botanyshitposts]

once i was on a lichen field trip and we drove past a cemetery and my lichen professor was like “graveyards!!!!! great for lichens!!!!!” and i thought he was joking until i found this 2 minutes ago and realized he was serious

[iguessweallcrazyithinktho]

[real-language-facts]

there's a new language with no writing system or speaking system or moving around system or whistling system or way to communicate at all

[typewriter-worries]

where's that picture that ruined my life

[typewriter-worries]

found it

[typewriter-worries]

this comic did the same thing

[gothicprep]

quick note on this:

i know i’m coming by it as someone who is sensitive about the topic of divorce – in other words, it’s something that exists in the context of horrible nightmares to me – but the usage of “larger than life” is interesting here, especially when juxtaposed against “refusing to settle”. it’s one of those moments that make you feel as though psychoanalysis is onto something. refuse to settle for anything other than something that cannot be real… got it. do you, by chance, have stock investing advice?

what’s strange in particular is that twilight is a series about teenagers, for teenagers. in the case of the “widowers” in question, their wives/girlfriends/whatever left them because they were lost in their heads and reimagining their teenage experiences. this is deeply selfish and psychotic, but the essay doesn’t engage with how unhinged this is. the author wants to reserve judgment, but at a point, it becomes an elephant in the room. then she moves on. why?

we can talk all day about how the twilights and the gay hockey shows are displaying vulnerability in men and some women react to it in a specific way (good, apparently) while ignoring that fiction – hold on to your seat – is not real. apparently this is groundbreaking information, but the people in your life matter. their feelings and the sense of stability downstream from the life they’ve built with you matter. i can understand rethinking what your marriage means after finishing anna karenina, but my theory of mind stumbles where it concerns low-rent, lowest common denominator garbage like this.

[torstherapy]

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[beemovieerotica]

[cryptotheism]

Ponder like an uncle but post with a nephews spirit

[sabertoothwalrus]

let's get ✨vulnerable✨

[innerchildabortionclinic]

good morning everyone it's time to be tortured to insanity and then of course tortured for being insane

[creekfiend]

i like "social ergonomics" bc like yeah. furniture is usually made in a way that's like "we think this is probably what is needed for a human to immediately perform any given task" and often we are wrong about what types of furniture or spaces will have a detrimental long term impact on our bodies. ergonomics ideally looks at the evidence of the impact on bodies and then works backwards from there to come up with design.

social ergonomics should mean looking at social structures and analyzing the outcomes they have re: human welfare, and then taking that information back to the design board and redesigning things to hurt people less.

this should also be a zine. someday. but that would require me being able to sit upright

[swordshapedleaves]

My partner is a game designer. He crafts experiences intended to elicit specific behaviors from thousands of strangers as his full time job. He often looks at social structures from this perspective in his free time and we talk about it a lot. and hoo boy are a lot of our systems not doing what they are officially meant to do.

[creekfiend]

i am thinking about this ALL of the time. maybe I should also be a game designer

[propelledbydisaster]

if you’re genuinely interested in game design you should check out Radiator Yang’s game The Tearoom (NSFW, unless you work at the Sucking Off Dude’s Guns factory).

I realize it’s weird to show up on someone’s post to say “you like game design. Have you played this game about giving head in a bathroom?” but it’s a really thoughtfully made game (see the artist’s statement, which is also NSFW) that is also about the effects of surveillance on communities. when, after about half an hour of play, I realized what mindset the game had deliberately cultivated in me, I had to turn off my computer and stare at the ceiling for ten minutes. and that’s Game Design, to me

[creekfiend]

oh thank you for that link to the artist's statement about this game, that was FASCINATING

[kosmogrl]

my jaw is on the floor

[wern]

in general the idea that a person's "bad" behavior can be "excused" by their mental illness (in contrast to sane, abled people whose badness comes from a fundamental evil) is such a strange false dichotomy

i really think that if you understood where people come from in life and what their internal landscape looks like (nurture and nature) you'd get that their actions are the logical result of that. there's this idea that because someone's internal landscape coalesces into a disorder (personality disorder, eating disorder, whatever) then that behaviour and harm has an explanation and is unavoidable, and is therefore not worthy of punishment. even people who don't admit to thinking in terms of punishment fall into this trap

and to me the whole need to judge whether someone is bad and responsible for their actions comes from the culture of retribution and incarceration. that's literally the question that western courts ask. and it's not compatible with a philosophy of prison abolition

first we should be asking why the person is causing harm, then we should be asking how can we can reduce that harm. as part of the first question we can ask what internally is motivating the harm but only in the service of answering the second question. it's not about agency and blame!!

[innerchildabortionclinic]

people aren't wrong in saying you should have sympathy for girls with eating disorders but whenever someone uses online eating disorder communities (like ed twitter) as an example I cannot follow...like those girls are getting hate for being just straight up awful to other people who have nothing to do with them. taking someone else's photo and saying you're using it as inspiration to starve yourself is worthy of criticism

[kuttithevangu]

OK I keep seeing people refer to the Michigan parasite outbreak and then others will chime in “it’s in my state too!” so to clarify this for everyone it is a NATIONWIDE outbreak reported in 31 US states as of today, July 12th 2026. There is no reason to assume it is not present in the rest of them

Cyclospora, the ‘Explosive Diarrhea’ Parasite, Cases Reported in at Least 31 States: See the Map

NBC News’ tally shows at least 26 states have reported cases of the parasitic stomach illness, as health authorities race to find the source

[kuttithevangu]

The CDC is tracking cases but they are significantly lagging behind the states on numbers (their data is weeks behind) so it’s probably going to be most effective to check your individual state’s infectious disease tracking.

This is a parasite that usually causes about 3000 cases of illness per year in the USA, Michigan currently has reported about 2900 (the confusion about “Michigan outbreak” is because Michigan is the first that caught an uptick in cases and has been very proactive about trying to trace them). Last official update from Massachusetts was 18 cases here centered in Greater Boston. The CDC recommends NOT assuming there are no sources of the parasite in your state even if no cases have been reported.

It isn’t an unknown illness but it is an unusual quantity of cases, and the fact that they haven’t been able to pin down the source after weeks of tracking is what makes it particularly concerning this year (harder to contain).

Wash your hands, wash your produce, cook it ideally, and advocate for farm workers to have access to safe and hygienic toilet facilities

[luesmainblog]

that last part is extra important. nearly every one of these produce outbreaks are because of poor hygenic practices on the fields, and particularly, because field workers do not have adequate access to bathrooms. nobody wants to poison your food, but they often don't have a choice. they also often lack proper access to water, cooling equipment (such as sun hats and portable fans), and management; this can make it significantly harder to think clearly and make a wise decision, let alone survive the day. when this comes up in conversation, call this out. make sure everyone around you KNOWS that the reason the lettuce is constantly unsafe is because farms are not giving a shit about worker welfare, and the people growing and picking your lettuce have to walk ungodly distances in 100+ degree weather without water just to take a shit. oh, and if they DO choose to do that, they may be punished for taking an unscheduled break.

if you wanna go further, let everyone know that the majority of labor laws have an exception carved out for agricultural workers.

[kuttithevangu]

One U.S. visa program is growing rapidly. No one is happy with it

Republicans on Capitol Hill are starting to talk about one facet of immigration reform: how to expand the popular H-2A visa program for farm

Worth keeping up with developments in the fight over farm workers’ visas because while trying to get legal documents for workers, agricultural producers are also trying to fight for those legal documents to have fewer human rights provisions in them