[faxmachineart]

Today (March 31) is International Transgender Day of Visibility, and I’m sending love to all trans folks today, and always.

[tastefullyoffensive]

by Xergion

[madlori]

This is true! The zoo where I volunteer (the illustrious Columbus Zoo & Aquarium) was one of the pioneers of this program.

Our zoo is known for raising cheetah cubs. Cheetahs have a terrible infant mortality rate and cubs are often rejected, so we get a lot of cubs to raise from all over the country (other zoos and sanctuaries, mostly).

The cubs are placed with a puppy friend when they are wee and small, so they grow up together like littermates. They play together, wrestle, and the dogs (yellow Labs) are so calm, friendly and well-socialized that the cheetahs take behavioral cues from them. When they meet new people, or go into new situations (which they often do, as ambassador animals for cheetah conservation), they check out if their dog friend is feeling chill - which he is - and then they know it’s okay for them to be chill, too.

Basically the dog is a service animal for them.

The cats need their dog friends less and less as they get older and more comfortable, but they still often hang out as grownups.

Our zoo does cheetah runs, where the cheetahs get to chase a lure and show off their speed. Often they’ll have one of the cheetahs run (we have like twelve cheetah), and then they’ll have one of the dogs do the run to show how much faster the cats are. People get a kick out of that. The dogs…let’s just say they try their best.

[cezarywho]

Omg I’m crying, this is so beautiful. 😭

[unpretty]

one time while we were in the car andrew said “i basically think your gender is whatever robot body you would choose to have in a transhumanist future, but then again, that would make my gender a featureless floating orb” and i think about that a lot

[unpretty]

[unpretty]

glad this post is back because it took another two years after stating that their perfect body would be an orb for andrew to realize they’re agender

[gayhaircut]

In 2020 I am going to stop thinking

[herrinn]

begone thought

[todomitoukei]

the new season of saiki k sent me

[omghotmemes]

I don‘t get it

[katsuko1978]

😂

[roobz-deactivated20220823]

I got to the first two letters and I already knew what it said

[alienpapacy]

trending news

[airframeextender]

underwater temple, underwater monk

underwater rhymes and underwater funk

he sleeps in the sea in an underwater bunk

with mirrors all around him hes an underwater hunk

[megapope-deactivated20220531]

he’s got underwater junk in his underwater trunk

on the basketball court he does a nautical dunk

he’s got a little stash of underwater skunk

underwater temple, underwater monk

[cnsystem]

[thesexydancingcrepe]

Sick rhymes

[thesexydancingcrepe]

HOLY COW! SOMEONE MADE THIS A SONG!!👍✨

[dragontrickster73]

this song slaps harder than anything i’ve heard in the past decade

[the-autumn-apple-artworks-deact]

OMFG THIS IS OPPP

[streb-z-fiok]

B R U H

[princesstadashi]

THIS is the reason we all stay on Tumblr–where else would we see a shit post of this caliber and THEN hear it turned into an absolute BOP???

[catchymemes]

[katealot]

Earth: does the same thing it’s done for 4.54 billion years

Humans:

[profeminist]

Source

[oncelerfucker69-deactivated2019]

even if the fraud was like 5% it wouldn’t compare to rich people cheating the system by trillions lmao

[anarchapella]

Also, SNAP “fraud” is like exchanging some of your stamps for cash to buy necessities you can’t buy with stamps, like soap or deodorant or tampons

[gei-ayanami-deactivated20190430]

TBH even if one hundred percent of people on food stamps were committing food stamp fraud I’d still be in favor of keeping the program around

[constant-instigator]

Hey I wanna talk about this.

I work at a drug addiction counseling center. A ton of my clients have, at one time or another, sold their food stamps. This is basically exactly what the GOP is afraid of, right? Drug addicts selling their food stamps.

I have learned, now, to ask them WHY they sold their food stamps. Here is an incomplete list of the answers:

- I need tampons, and you can’t buy them with foodstamps

- See above RE: toilet paper

- I was living in a hotel with no kitchen then. I had to buy pre-prepared food

- The homeless shelter won’t let me keep food in my locker or room, so I have to buy pre-prepared food (Yes, really)

- I had to make rent

- My sister had to make rent

- My son had to make rent

- I needed co-pays to get my medication or I’ll die

- I needed co-pays to get my medication or I’ll loose control of my mental health

But the absolute most common form of food stamp fraud I see? Giving away food stamps to other family members who get no food stamps or insufficient food stamps to feed their families. I see that every month. People glassy eyed and hungry because they gave away their food to their adult kids, their grand kids, cousins, siblings etc.

So, is food stamp fraud rampant? In some places, yes. And I’m not about to chastise people for it.

[shesnake]

Bong Joon-ho on the specificity and universality of Parasite (2019)

[niczka]

I didn’t see anyone post these Cleopatra tweets yet, I have to do everything my damn self.

These had me in stitches.

[antique-scarecrow]

reminder that Cleopatra was a BRILLIANT politician and tactician. Also morally complex and complicated. History re-wrote her into a sex icon as a means of dismissing her influence and achievements. Here’s roughly what she would have looked like by the way:

[loudnproudgays]

HAPPY HALLOWEEN GAYS

[yourdailyhani]

💕

[i-will-help-you-swim]

Reblog if you think asexuality is a legitimate sexuality.

I'm trying to prove something.

[cmoon-rabbit4-blog]

Reblog if your blog is a safe place for asexuals.

[b00bconnoisseur]

Considering i am asexual and my partner and alot of my friends are on the ace spectrum too

Abso-fucking-lutely

[greedvibes]

it’s 2019 and Greed still deserved better

[mystericmoon]

MY LUNGS

[mystericmoon]

PLEASE IM SCREAMING

[c3rvida3]

People will be like, “It’s so ignorant and telling when people who genuinely like me but don’t know I’m gay will be openly homophobic in front of me. It’s like they’ve never considered that anybody could be gay,” and then like two conversations later start talking about how drug addicts and alcoholics are morally reprehensible, irredeemable fuck-ups who don’t deserve sympathy or healthcare.

[c3rvida3]

I’m not conflating being LGBT with being an addict; I’m just saying anybody could be in recovery or currently using without you necessarily knowing it. Addicts are people. They’re your loved ones and your neighbors and your cashier at the grocery store and people you’d never suspect, and they matter.

[c3rvida3]

And you know what else? You can’t claim to support the “good” addicts in recovery, the ones whose pasts are years behind them, if you’re going to demonize people currently using and systematically deny them help.

You can’t claim to love someone and be proud of them and also believe that there was a point in their life when they deserved to die.

[c3rvida3]

And giving addicts this level of understanding doesn’t even mean that you have to forgive people for the horrible things they may have done while they were using. You can accept that a person has grown and changed and want them to get better, and still not want them in your life. These aren’t contradictory statements.

[c3rvida3]

*kicks down the door* AND ANOTHER THING.

It’s shocking how many people pride themselves on their advocacy for marginalized people – POC, LGBT individuals, mentally ill individuals, disabled individuals – and then turn around and have absolutely no sympathy for those struggling with addiction, as if addiction isn’t a huge fucking problem that widely and often disproportionately affects the very people they claim they’re fighting for.

[glamgrilldad]

Here to add that the lovely folks at Queer Appalachia have recently started an additional Instagram account (and do real work in their communities) providing resources with helping with harm reduction for queer folk who use drugs.

[c3rvida3]

Some great information from their Instagram that just launched.

You can also check them out at https://www.queerappalachia.com/