I Am the Wrinkly Writer

26 | She/Her | Grey-Ace | I am an adult who does not know how to adult, who is trying to juggle grad school, mental illness, and writing a book. My avatar is Keats the nonbinary holiday skeleton, and my header is Alexander Hamilfin.

[scoutsmoocrew]

Me: we don’t know what plants experience or don’t and it seems arrogant to automatically assume they’re completely inanimate and unfeeling

People: lose their damn minds at me

[fumblebeefae]

Oh hey I studied animal cognition so I 100% agree. As early as the 1960’s scientists didn’t believe animals had any captivity for cognition beyond eating, mating, sleeping.

Researchers like Associate Professor Irene Pepperberg, were often mocked for suggesting animals were capable of feeling emotions and reacting to stimuli. You tell that to anyone today and they’d think that’s just crazy, obviously animals have emotions and cognitive functions.

The same attitude is still true with fish and insects now. It’s not too far fetched to think plants may be a little more then what we currently give them credit for

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

my apartment is just one gigantic long hallway with doors going down each side, and I keep getting lost. I swear to god there was a bathroom yesterday where the front door exit is today. At the very end of the hallway is the quarantine room I just got released from. There's a new guy in there now, but I haven't seen him. I knocked on his door today to make sure he was alive. He talked through the door and seems chipper. Not sure if he's real though

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

this was actually not Purposefully a tma reference, but I wish my wife Helen were here

[aru]

Tumblr Code.

[geekishchic]

If I ever see any of you in public, the code is “i fill my ass with orange juice”

that way we know we’re from tumblr without revealing anything

I’m just going to say this to strangers until i find a tumblr person

must keep reblogering!! Im going to be so suspicious if any one tells me this now!

Remember the answer is: ”17 cocks”

always reblog tumblr identification

[amlsh-deactivated20181211]

this post makes me want to gouge my eyes out

[sads]

im laughins so hard who changed it

[ace-beef]

[intensional]

using the new editing abilities on the Facebook messenger for a good cause

[tiredmess]

y’all I CANNOT

[yourdadsghoulfriend]

[givemeunicorns]

Okay so yes we need to put more money into education in the US but y'all this SPECIFIC line of thinking has much less to do with public education and everything to do with the evangelical war on science. This exact “earth age” rhetoric isn’t the result of dumb people, its being taught in Christian schools and touted in evangelical churches. Evangelical lobbies help pass laws that force states to teach creationism alongside evolution. Millions are spent every year by evangelical institutions to convince partitions that science is lying to them, to force them to belive the only place they can find truth is the church. Creationism is just another facet of that and acting like it just “Americans are dumb” rather than a pointed, purposeful campaign to keep people in a what amounts to a cult, is not oy disingenuous, its dangerous

[phoenixwrites]

Thank you, Uni.

[steven-the-slime-deactivated202]

Yeah as someone who was taught the earth was 6000 years old and believed it until I was like, 22: its a cultish weird thing you get shoved into your hea from a VERY young age. We had sunday school classes about how evolution was wrong when I was growing up; and about how feminism and even egaltarianism was wrong as well. Brainwashing doesn’t skip over you based on whether or not you are “smart”. 

[musings-of-a-prodigal]

Brainwashing doesn’t skip over you based on whether or not you are “smart.”

[antique-scarecrow]

And thank you for reminding people that the american education & media system is extremely cult-like in a number of concerning ways. And it shows. The way you see americans handling the pandemic and talking about science– that’s all the result of purposeful brainwashing on a national scale.

[memewhore]

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[badjokesbyjeff]

TIL Albert Einstein was a real person.

I had always thought he was only a theoretical physicist.

[buttergin]

Jeff please we’re begging you to change your url

[linguisten]

In Quarantine, Kids Pick Up Parents’ Mother Tongues

For some families, the pandemic has meant a return to their native languages.

[linguist-breakaribecca]

“With schools and day cares closed, previously dominant languages — such as English in Britain and the United States — are no longer as overpowering. Instead, children are hearing more of their parents’ mother tongues.”

This is… astonishing, and a very bright spot in a very dark time. Children are getting a chance to absorb more of their family languages and are permitted to practice them more, instead of being assimilated daily into a dominant-language-only environment. This means so much for the development of these children, the strengthening of family bonds, the expansion of cultural norms and expectations, and cracking the façade of the monolingual (primarily colonialist) cultures who say that it is one language that unites. The reality is allowed to flourish — that a nation can find unity in strife and speak dozens of languages while doing so.

[prokopetz]

The best thing in the world is when a cat is carefully sneaking up behind another cat, clearly preparing to slap the shit out of them for no reason, but the second cat notices the first cat and turns around to look at them, and the first cat unconvincingly tries to play it casual.

[vapingbaby]

[incredibly-cold]

[thenatsdorf]

American Kestrel. (press play to hear it’s call) (via raptor_rehab_of_kentucky)

[hellenhighwater]

all predatory birds are squeaky toys

[candiceirae]

The bigger ones have a deeper call, but American Kestrels are itty bitty, and first cousins to squeaky toys, yes.

[ordinaryredtail]

Yeah no red tails are fully capable of sounding like squeaky toys, and eagles have pitiful squeaky calls. The bigger ones are not exempt from squeaky toy classification.

[candiceirae]

I will consider myself enlightened!

[ultramarineblues]

There’s nothing quite like watching a big badass looking eagle go “meep”.

The exact opposite feeling of that is seeing a barn owl, looking at its soft looking pretty fluffy face, thinking it emits pleasant hoots like other owls, and then “SCREEEEEE” - the worst freakiest sound you could ever hear in the woods at night comes out.

And so I learned why they’re called “chouette effraie” in French.

[goldensunset]

some of y’all still can’t recognize the differences between platonic, romantic, sexual, mentor-student, and familial relationships, both in fiction and reality, and it really shows

[goldensunset]

some of y’all still think there’s only one type of love and it really shows

[writersblockandapotoftea]

Didn’t the greeks have five words for love? 

[scottishhellhound]

They actually had 7

Eros: sexual love

Philia: deep friendship

Storge: love between parents and children

Ludus: playful love

Agape: love for everyone/selfless love

Pragma: longstanding love

Philautia: love of self

Here’s a link that goes more in depth into what each one meant.

[orion-the-gatherer]

In honor of Valentine’s Day

[transhumanoid-deactivated202106]

boss dropped out of the zoom meeting cause his cat has learned how to unplug the desktop computer when he’s hungry

[cipheramnesia]

Direct action.

[whitepeopletwitter]