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speaking from a place of privilege (good url)
being alive is great because there are so many different vegetables you can sauté. but then there are also the horrors
Cuckoo Wasp (Chrysidinae) by Donald Jusa
Tired of the antisemitic caricatures in Minecraft?
It's well known the villagers, illagers, and witches in Minecraft are stuck with an incredibly antisemitic design that despite hope, will probably never be changed. I've looked for a resource pack that only changed those elements (keeping the base game look), and was non-optifine friendly, but found none, so I made my own.
So I introduce Antisemitism Begone!
(Version 1.19 but should work for all versions that include the redesigned villagers) It's far from a perfect solution, but it satisfies my main personal annoyances (I am Jewish myself), and I'm certainly open to any improvements that can be made.
Unfortunately, there's many things I wish I could change but am unsure how (such as re-naming the golems to constructs, or changing how the Ominous Banner looks), but my knowledge only goes so far, and I'm pretty clueless when it comes to these things. So for now it's only visual elements that are changed. If I figure out how to do these things in the future I will certainly update it.
Below the Read More are Images of changes (ID in alt text) and a list of changes made.
people cringing over furries in 2022 like the world is on fire and you decide thats your breaking point
how long will it take for him to find his food?
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HELL YEAH!
I’m still mad about #goyim with golems
BECAUSE
look, in secondary-world fantasy, you can call whatever golems, I don’t care, although maybe do something? with the fact that The Golem was created to protect a community of marginalized people? like that’s really cool and deserves attention
but! in primary-world fantasy, fantasy set in Our World But Magic…please seriously consider where Generic Goyische Wizard #47 got the golem recipe. ESPECIALLY if all actual Jewish people are mysteriously missing from your narrative. (Also please consider when the Golem of Prague takes place. Some of these wizards are from Before Golems.)
Yes, I *did* once start reading a YA novel where Nicholas Flamel commanded golems, and I *am* still pissed off about it.
Demons from Jacques Collin de Plancy's “Dictionnaire Infernal” (1863 edition).
Sphinx moth caterpillar (Hemeroplanes triptolemus) a.k.a snake mimic caterpillar 🐛 🐍
As a sphinx moth caterpillar (Hemeroplanes triptolemus) grows, it becomes more and more difficult to hide. Fortunately for this particular species, its final stage of development offers a new strategy for protection.
At the slightest hint of danger, the sphinx moth caterpillar will dangle from a twig and reveal an underside patterned in faux snakeskin and eyespots that appear to glisten. By sucking in air through tiny holes in its surface, the caterpillar inflates its head to create the illusion of a triangular skull swollen with venom glands. If the shape of a deadly snake isn’t enough to startle away a hungry predator, the caterpillar will lunge as if to strike.
Disability Sun / Disabled Sun ☉
[Image ID: A transparent image of the Disabled Sun, which is the same as the astrological symbol of the sun. It is a large black circle with a smaller black circle in the center. End ID]
So... I wanted a symbol to represent disabilities, one that wasn't the wheelchair symbol. As a wheelchair user myself, I do like the wheelchair symbol, but it also feels like an incomplete image of the disabled community as a whole. Disabled people can come in every shape and size, and for many, many of us, the wheelchair symbol isn't representative.
Disabled people may have wheelchairs, or canes, or crutches, or hearing aids, or service dogs, or different body shapes, or even nothing at all visibly indicating a disability. There have been alternative symbols suggested in the past, but most hinge on showing a silhouette, and there would never be a way to demonstrate all of us with one little bathroom-sign-style human. So, I made this! The Disabled Sun!
This isn't meant to replace the wheelchair symbol, as that certainly has its history and place in our community, it's simply meant to be an optional other symbol for those who choose to use it.
This symbol was chosen for the following reasons and meanings:
Outer circle represents the body; physical disabilities, our relationships to our bodies, disabled bodies in general.
The inner circle represents the mind; mental disabilities, our relationships to our minds, disabled minds in general.
The circles represent wholeness, representing that we are whole, complete people. We are whole, not despite our disabilities, but we are whole including our disabilities. We are not incomplete or broken, nor are we “missing” anything.
Circles also represent unity. In this case, the circles represent the solidarity and unity of disabled people across the wide range of disabilities. It also represents universal design.
The sun represents shining a light on disabled people, and the light we provide ourselves.
It's simple, discreet, easy to reproduce, and has a unicode symbol already. ☉
The symbol is welcome to be used by anyone of any kind of disability, be it physical, mental, neurodevelopmental, sensory, invisible, anything! If you have any sort of impairment and consider yourself disabled, you are welcome to use this symbol.
[Image ID: A transparent image of the Disabled Sun, a large circle with a smaller circle in the center, in the colors of the Disabled Pride Flag by Ann Magill. The disabled pride flag is a mostly grey flag with five diagonal stripes that start at the top left corner and run down to the bottom right corner. In order from left to right, the stripes are red, yellow, white. blue, and green.]
No credit is needed to use this symbol! It would be appreciated if you spread this post around to others to give it some traction, though!
happy fourth day of disability pride month and no other holiday
ID: A screenshot from the season 7 trailer of "Um, actually," a show on Dropout TV. The screenshot shows Brennan Lee Mulligan with a buzzer in his hand, pointing at the camera as he speaks. He is wearing a buttoned shirt with red and black stripes and the sleeves rolled up. The subtitles say: "I will die on any hill." End ID.
this is it. that's the whole guy
They may look a bit scary, but these tadpoles are entirely harmless. The highly-modified mouth parts of Asian horned frog tadpoles [genus Megophrys; these specimens are Megophrys gigantica] allow them to feed on small food particles that are trapped on the water’s surface. This adaptation allows them access to detritus that would normally be difficult for tadpoles to bite. These specimens were found in the Bat Xat District of Vietnam by Benjamin Tapley.
Around a dozen people in my notes lately weren’t entirely sure how a leech and a lamprey are different so I shall talk about my two favorite wet vampires, with “scary” images only under a cut!
LAMPREY:
A vertebrate like you and me!
Big googly eyes
Rows of small, round gill openings
Having gills, it’s one of the vertebrates we call a “fish” and it’s sometimes referred to as a “lamprey eel”
Technically not an eel or related to anything else on earth other than hagfish!
Together the lampreys and hagfish are the last remaining Agnathans, jawless cartilaginous animals older than sharks!
They are quite big, several feet in length at maturity!
No species of lamprey is known to deliberately bite humans; they are specialized in preying on other cold-blooded, gilled aquatic vertebrates, like all those newfangled fish with jaws.
Not all species actually feed as adults, though.
Young lamprey are blind, transparent filter feeders that live buried in sediment!
Despite no direct relation, many species migrate from ocean to freshwater river to spawn, exactly like almost all true eels.
Good parents. Will use their suckers to build a nest out of stones and protect the eggs!
Messy and grisly vampires. Again nothing to worry about if you aren’t a fish, but those that still feed in their mature form rasp a large wound in the victim to vacuum up blood and even tissue. This is frequently deadly to smaller river fish such as immature bass and trout.
LEECH:
Annelids closely related to earthworms!
A sucker at the head end houses the mouth. On the tail end is a second sucker to help grip surfaces or “walk” like an inchworm.
Usually have a bunch of tiny speck eyes around the head, but some have eyes down the body and on the rear end too!
Most are amphibious to some degree and some live their whole lives on land in moist environments.
Only some species drink blood. Most leeches are predators of snails, worms and aquatic insects.
ALSO good parents! Some leeches leave a cocoon full of babies with its own food supply inside, like a yolk, others carry their young on their underside until they’re big enough to fend for themselves.
Careful and polite vampires. Those that drink blood create only a tiny little pinhole with their bite, using a powerful anticoagulant so blood flows freely from the surgically delicate wound. Once full, they detach and drop off on their own.
MOUTH COMPARISON: (MAY DISTURB SOME PEOPLE???)
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Whenever I see people who think they might be trans but are worried that they are “too old” to do anything about it, I think about a woman I met in a local trans social group a few years back. She was in her mid-eighties at the time and had come out three years prior to attending the group. She had lived the majority of her life and discovered in her golden years that she was happier as a woman and went for it. You are never too old.
If you ever go on a dolphin tour boat and your guide permits passengers to feed or jump in the water with wild dolphins, entices the dolphins closer to the boat with various forms of bait, chases after them, or attempts to corral them with other boats for a better viewing experience, please report them to Fish & Wildlife for violating the Marine Mammal Protection Act. Feeding, touching, or harassing any marine mammal is prohibited in US waters. Document the violations if you can.
The beach town where I’m staying for my internship is full of dolphin tour boat companies who condone or even practice these illegal, harmful activities. It’s very disturbing to see locals and tourists alike posting on social media about their ~magical wild dolphin encounters~ without knowing or caring about the danger to the animals. Wild dolphins need to stay wild. They cannot rely on humans for food. They cannot lose their wariness of boats. Not to mention it’s unsafe for you. Dolphins are intelligent, wonderful creatures, but they’re not the gentle, benevolent entities popular media has made them out to be—they’re large, powerful, wild animals that deserve respect. Please enjoy observing wild dolphins from a safe distance, and if you ever find yourself approached in the water, let them pass by you undisturbed.