Quetzalkoala latibulator

[natalieironside]

I dunno, stranger, we ain't got a whole lot to offer ye on accounta t'other day them Yankee cavalry done rode down and requisitioned plumb near all we had, and then the day after that them rebel cavalry done come up from t'other direction and done did the same damn thing, so no, stranger, I's just a humble Miss'ssippi rat farmer and I ain't know a damn thing about no "time machine" or no "2037 eSports World Championships disaster" anymore than I know about no damn Charleston guv'ment. But when you see that Jeff Davis you tell him I want my damn horses back or I'll head on down to Gulfport and take 'em outter his yeller hide.

[natalieironside]

And this mornin some boys in teal uniforms done come through and said they was from "a secret third thing." I ain't even know what the world's comin to no more. Say, you ain't no reb, are ye? You better not be no reb.

[notahorseindisguise]

really sick of all that shit i keep seeing on instagram about the world cup being like "americas sleepover" and people are like "im so happy people are coming to visit to see america isnt all that bad!!"

nobody has ever fucking said that living or visiting the US sucks for white people. its not fucking about them

[fairycosmos]

swinging at the bees nest here but a criticism of trans women i've never really understood is that they just "take the idea of womanhood and co opt it and run with it based on their own whims." like ummm yeah? that's kinda what i did too. i wasn't handed some objective universal definition of womanhood that i faithfully carried out at every turn with no objection. i built my own understanding of what being a woman meant based on the women around me and the women i admire and the things that felt authentic to me and the things i rejected or embraced. like we all inherit ideas about womanhood and then negotiate with them. otherwise we'd all genuinely think the only "real women" left were those fucking trad wives

[str-ngeloop]

refusing to apply first aid to the wound because "it shouldn't have happened in the first place, so what we really should be doing is making sure no one gets stabbed ever again"

[str-ngeloop]

your insistence on bandaging this wound is ultimately just you running interference for all the stabbers of the world and that's honestly really shitty of you

[imathers]

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

yes, India made legal gender change impossible but the doctor down the street who gives me my T shots in a clinic so small that it's just two rooms was excited for me when she said my voice had dropped yes, India made legal gender change impossible but the receptionist who could see that I was a man didn't bat an eyelash when I asked to see the gynecologist and called me sir when he asked how I wanted to pay yes, India made legal gender change impossible but the barber cuts my hair exactly how I want it and never gave me strange looks for being in a men's salon not even back when I didn't pass as one

yes, India made legal gender change impossible but my friends have always gendered me correctly and stick to it even when it confuses other people and my friend's little sibling calls me older brother in Kannada yes, India made legal gender change impossible but my dog learned my new name quicker than the humans and she runs to give me a kiss when she's told to without being confused about who's being referred to

yes, India made legal gender change impossible but I can feel the Adam's apple growing in my throat and my muscles getting stronger, and my smile more real and I'm growing a beard, and I talk more freely

yes, India made legal gender change impossible but I'm here, and I'm alive, and so are you and there are good people, people who care and don't let them make you forget that-- you are not alone.

[facelessoldgargoyle]

i fucking hate the “this is the good luck post.” Girl stop contributing to a superstitious environment with ur anecdotes there’s a million goddamn notes on it it’s statistically reasonable that a bunch of people remember the good things that happen after they reblog it

[yvfu]

this is the statistically reasonable post, reblogging it will have no effect except for putting this post on your blog

[moral-autism]

guys this post really works! I reblogged it and it really did put the post on my blog! you need to try it!

[headspace-hotel]

this fourth of july I am coming out as a hater about fireworks. no more fireworks. fireworks are neither necessary nor good. they kill and harm birds and wildlife, they pollute the air, they are loud and unpleasant, they terrify my dog, and they trigger people's PTSD. I hate fireworks. can we please not do fireworks anymore

[eelhound]

“How does one hate a country, or love one?… I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love for one’s country; is it hate for one’s uncountry? Then it’s not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That’s a good thing, but one mustn’t make a virtue of it, or a profession.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, from The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)

[phoenixyfriend]

Game show called "What's Wrong With You" where a bunch of doctors compete to see who can diagnose a mystery illness (chronically ill patient whose lab results keep coming back normal despite obvious symptoms) first and most accurately.

Pros:

Doctors paying off their medical loans with prize money

Chronically ill people getting free testing (MRIs, CAT scans, X-Rays, bloodwork, etc) and possibly a diagnosis

You can ding points for 'anxiety' and 'you just need to lose some weight'

Doctors are incentivized to find an answer, not just find something billable

Cons:

HIPAA

Wrong Diagnoses made because they were rushing

[epicmusic42]

HIPAA can be bypassed via agreement to air/be on the show. There'd need to be lawyers heavily involved with setting up the specifics of how the paperwork works, but its absolutely doable.

I don't knkw how to handle the issue of wrong diagnosis bc folks were rushing tho

[phoenixyfriend]

More lawyers prepping the young docs to avoid triggering malpractice suits, probably.

[somewhere-south-of-neutral]

Isn't this literally just the plot of the House MD tournament arc?

[phoenixyfriend]

NGL I forgot that arc happened... but I was thinking "imagine House MD, but it's run by @samreich" when writing this post

[valdevia]

Copper rot (Xylaria electrophaga) is a newly described fungus that, through yet unknown means, appears to obtain energy directly from electricity.

The adaptation, believed to have recently evolved from a wood-boring mushroom that fed on utility poles, lets this species enter cables through exposed metal, then grow outwards. This not only damages infrastructure, but often ends in a fire, which it uses to disperse its spores further. If encountering copper rot, it is not advised to touch it, as its white tips can conduct enough energy to cause electrocutions.

(Bestiary)

[chrispshakebake345reblogs]

oh my god i saw this without seeing the username first i got so scared

[valdevia]

Remember, kids!

The actual horror is reading things online without checking the context :)

[the-fantastic-mrs-fuck]

yuppppp

[valdevia]

Wtf it's barely even rewording it now? Thanks a fucking lot from straight up stealing a pageview from me and spreading my art as misinformation, Google

[fashionsfromhistory]

Evening Dress

Girolamo Giuseffi

c.1912

Indianapolis Museum of Art

[mff-doom]

[jenlog]

this is from the 2000’s btw

[anarchopuppy]

Looks like @staff mistakenly censored this comic, which is an ironic and very funny thing to happen

Here it is again. You might want to save it just in case an accident like that happens again

EDIT: HMM. LOOKS LIKE OP WAS BANNED TOO. WHAT A FUNNY. IRONIC. ACCIDENT

[anglaised]

the desire to pretend white women are simply always victims and groomed into fascist movements instead of being willing participants is by design, u have been taught ur entire life that white women are dainty angels that have to be lead and protected and no harm they do is fault of their own, thats why u think literal nazi women are just confused harmless babies, it’s designed that way on purpose

[headspace-hotel]

the nature center I work at has classrooms of kids and parents with kids coming in all the time, and I am amazed at how adults treat kids and behave around kids.

Not even always the sense of being openly mean to the kids, but in the sense of acting like they must behave rigidly a certain way at all times and that if anything is one minute off schedule or if kids have any unstructured time at all it is the End Of The Fucking World.

So many adults hustling kids from activity to activity, all snippy and harried as though every single thirty minute Scheduled Activity Block is an unmissable appointment and the whole building will blow up if someone is five minutes late to something.

We have these exhibits with animal bones and rocks and pressed flowers and stuff that are clearly placed at child height and the way parents will SNAP at their kids to DON'T TOUCH THAT DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING amazes me.

There is so little tolerance for kids acting silly or just being playful or anything, the adults will act so annoyed and stern and harsh for the littlest things.

In those kids' situation I would be shitting my pants with anxiety all the time, The level of uptightness and intolerance for any little bit of disorder makes me secondhandedly anxious.

[headspace-hotel]

Are kids even allowed to play without having predetermined activities scheduled for them down to the minute that they have to line up neatly for.

I saw on pinterest a few years ago some 14 year old girl's school schedule (written out as a cute thing like here's how I plan my day!!) and she had literally every activity down to like, 15 minute blocks scheduled in. and I was like. who could do this without wanting to set themselves on fire. School dominates kids' lives to the point that they don't have time to learn how to be human beings and it doesn't even successfully teach kids to fucking read.

It's like the momentum of tyrannical institutions and structures increases to where nothing the institution is supposed to do even works any more and it's just a bunch of rules and punishments and uptight, stressed wannabe tyrants suffering under their own tyrants, and it can't stop itself even when nothing is fucking working.

It annoyed me because the article I read that was like "Kids These Days don't have enough discomfort tolerance because adults coddle them too much" alluded to kids not being able to engage in risk play and have unsupervised play time, which was so close to an actual point that it made the rest of the bullshit more infuriating.

[headspace-hotel]

It's especially diabolical that I witness this working at a nature center because quiet, unstructured time in the forest is literally what deprogrammed me of all this toxic, uptight bullshit

The forest will gently teach you that no matter what happens, no matter how many people you disappoint, no matter how many expectations you fail to reach, no matter how few people understand you, you belong in this world and you have a place in it. It will show you that everything we are taught to be stressed and hurried about is fake. And it hurts to see kids being excited out of their minds to be surrounded by trees and bugs and all creatures, and the adults so caught up in the boxes and boundaries of the fake constructed world that they scold the kids for being wild creatures full of joy and play

and it fucking breaks my heart that so many people don't have access to places on Earth that haven't been brutally bulldozed and scalped and poisoned into sick conformity...

[lastoneout]

Fun how the bystander effect was coined to cover up how cops are bigoted cowards who let a queer person die and stockholm syndrome was coined to cover that the cops handled a hostage situation so badly the hostages trusted their captors more than the cops.

[heedra]

really losing my patience for any 'feminist' statement to the tune of 'we need feminism because women fill a fundamentally different and necessary role than men and will be better at doing x y or z'. like actually i think we need feminism because it is an unbearable death of the spirit by inches to exist in a world where you are not seen as a fully realized human being because of a single cultural determination, and because a world that enshrines such things creates systems that are fundamentally sick to the core