Feathery on Main

Meig (ey/em/eir), 33, New Mexico; Spouse: @Plokool (Max); Palaeontologist; Scottish Jew Intersex * Nonbinary * Pansexual * Demiromantic Anarchocommunist I have disabilities you've never even heard of I don't tag, this blog isn't themed, and Reblogs =/= Endorsements.

[zygodactylus]

“Tfemmes” this and “tmascs” that

All yall fucking suck from a tneut, intersex, and/or nonbinary perspective and the fact that I can summarize three very different experiences into one grumpy emotion is the tip of the iceberg

[herpsandbirds]

Bog Turtle (Glyptemys muhlenbergii), family Emydidae, found in bogs and other calcareous wetlands in the NE United States

T - hatchling, B - adult

CRITICALLY ENDANGERED.

The smallest species of North American turtle, growing to a weight of only 110 g (3.9 oz), and a shell length of 9.4 cm (3.7 in).

photographs by Jess Meck & José Garrido

[tanknaka]

hey

hey friend

dont kill yourself tonight ok

you have a really pretty smile and i know its not always easy to manage one but itd be a bummer if we never had the chance to see it ever again

youre really important and you matter a lot so stay safe and try and have a nice sleep

[the-grace-of-fallen-angels]

I would like a moment to thank the people who reblog post like this so that it eventually shows on my dash.

It is keeping me alive

[the-punforgiven]

I'm just saying, if you're going to worldbuild magic being a "raw, primal force, akin to and interweaving with nature itself" you gotta explain to me why animals don't use it

[the-punforgiven]

I know the normal answer is "they just aren't smart enough for it" but idk I've seen enough media where a character uses a spell in a moment of brain-off panic ilI feel like animals could probably stumble into a spell or two like, accidentally

[the-punforgiven]

Also how funny would it be to see a completely normal regular bear cast magic missile outta nowhere

[the-punforgiven]

Also there is no way ravens wouldn't figure out spells, tbh

They're smart fuckin birds, I believe in them

Either through observing or just figuring shit out ravens could 100% learn how to cast spells I'm sure of it

[the-punforgiven]

Dogs can also cast Magic Missile but every time they do the projectile is shaped like a bone or a stick and they chase after it

[rathayibacter]

group of wizards who ask this in-universe, and after extensive study learn to their surprise that animals are casting spells all the time, just that their magic is so fundamental as to be unrecognizable to humans. turns out the only reason acorns grow on trees is because squirrels keep wishing for them.

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Best thing about Kulindadromeus?

Scientific Importance

Cutie Patootie

Small Bipedal Ornithischian (a group that deserves more love)

Russian! East Russian! And on a Flag!

One of the best known dinosaurs from the Middle Jurassic

Nyoom (runs fast)

FLUFFY (cutie patootie refers to entire animal, floof is about just the floof)

The Scaly Rat Tail

Resting Bitch Face

Social Behavior!

Tiny Angy Baby

A walking Plushie

Voting ended onJul 25, 2024

thanks to @otussketching @raptorcivilization and @shadows-and-science-gone-mad for helping me make the poll

Remember to join us on the stream!

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Same question for a new iteration

Scientific Importance

Cutie Patootie

Small Bipedal Ornithischian

Russian! East Russian! On a Flag!

One of the best known dinosaurs from the mid Jurassic

Nyoom

FLOOOOOOOOOOOF

Scaly Rat Tail

Resting Bitch Face

Social Behavior

Tiny Angry Baby

A walking Plushie

Remaining time: 6 days 21 hours

[legsdemandias]

Do you think tumblr will ever learn the difference between “I’m defending this person because I agree with them wholeheartedly and I am also like this person” and “I’m defending this person because your behavior is dangerous and you need to stop”

[legsdemandias]

IMO, blurring the lines between “I’m defending them because they’re right” and “I’m defending them because you’re taking this too far” is step numero uno to cutting down the very existence of fair trial and democracy–even in places where saying that might seem a little dramatic. 

Mob mentality is extremely strong in humans and it’s also extremely dangerous. Mobs don’t think things through. Mobs kill and they destroy and they can’t be reasoned with. Someone trying to calm a mob down isn’t someone defending the ~problematic party~ It’s time we re-learn that.

[chutzpahchesed]

The Rolling Stones Are Paying Tribute to Late Jewish Musician Amy Winehouse – Kveller

The Rolling Stones are paying tribute to the late, great Amy Winehouse. The iconic rock band released their 25th studio album, “Foreign Tong

heyalma

Amy Winehouse Will Always Be My Jewish Feminist Hero

There’s a shaky clip of old footage of Amy Winehouse in her early 20s explaining that she’s desperate to have six kids, then shouting “Mazel

[afronerdism]

The conversation surrounding cultural appropriation has been so severely mutilated by white “allies” that the original intention behind that conversation has become almost unrecognizable in most social contexts.

[afronerdism]

To explain what I mean, the conversation around cultural appropriation was started by black and native people to discuss the frustrations we feel at being punished socially and financially for partaking in our cultural heritage while white people could take, I.e. appropriate, aspects of our culture that we are actively shamed for and be heralded as innovators. It was about the frustrations we feel when the same white people who shamed us would take our culture and wear it as if they were the ones who created it while still actively shaming us for doing the same.

The original push behind naming cultural appropriation and having these conversations were so that we as a society could evaluate why we were punished for our heritage while white People were not. It was supposed to be about seeking solutions. The idea was to create a society where we could celebrate our cultures with impunity. It was never about telling white people that they “weren’t allowed” to do certain things. We did ask that white People stop doing certain things because they weren’t doing them respectfully and were not invited to do them, but the primary reason we asked them to desist was to reclaim the things they had stolen and to reassign them culturally back where they belonged.

White “allies” saw these conversations happening and instead of trying to aplify our own voices or even try to learn about the complexities behind why we were saying what we were saying, they instead began screaming over us and creating a narrative that was hardly even the bones of what we originally set out to say. It was like they took the conversation we were trying to have, completely decontextualized it, and stripped it of all it’s nuance in order to gain social currency by seeming progressive.

So the conversation around cultural appropriation went from “This aspect of our heritage belongs to us and we find it egregious that we are shamed for it. What steps can we take to address the racism that’s creating this situation as well as rehome the things that have been stolen” to “you’re not allowed to do that because if you do that you’re racist, we don’t really understand why that’s racist but you’re not allowed to do that and if you do that you’re a klansman no exceptions. So you’re not allowed because because”

At the end of the day, did I like the fact that sally was wearing dreads? No. But my primary concern was not that sally was wearing dreads but rather that sally could wear dreads and I couldn’t. THAT was the intended focus of those conversations. It was about addressing the inequality. It was about us. Now the conversation is just about sally and were completely forgotten.

White People are always asking me what they can do to help. You want to know? Stop talking. Aplify our voices and shut the fuck up because you all have pretty much derailed this conversation and many more like it to the point that we no longer are trying to make steps to understand and dismantle the racism around cultural appropriation and instead are just using it as social shaming tactics.

[afronerdism]

TL;DR: read my post. Most things worth learning about can’t be summarized in the bullet points of a buzfeed article. Don’t come into academic circles and complain because everything hasn’t been conviently summarized for you. Stop pretending that things aren’t accessible to you because you refuse to do the intellectual labor that is learning.

[quasi-normalcy]

So what I think is that there's this default belief in patriarchy that men are superior to women and therefore the "masculine" sphere is superior to the "feminine" sphere. And so, as feminists have fought to expand the number of allowable female activities, men (on the aggregate over generations) have retreated from those activities because they're now seen as "feminine", and so partaking in them is incommensurate with their belief in their own superiority. And, unfortunately, as this has progressed, this has resulted in a lot of men sectioning themselves off from, frankly, everything that actually makes being alive worthwhile. It's a misery spiral, and the only way out is to abandon male supremacy.

[quasi-normalcy]

#men gave up deep friendships and reading and poetry and colourful fashion#all things that used to be considered manly in the 19th century#they're currently giving up on studying law and medecine#it's so stupid and sad

(I mean, the colourful fashion was more of an eighteenth century thing, but yeah)

[quasi-normalcy]

#more women in higher education meaning fewer men is incredibly depressing to me. funny in a sad way#what happens when women will finally get into trades? will they just stop working

[sherryzade]

spectacular tags from @luesmainblog

[moonlightvigil8]

One thing i would like to add

This is know as man fleeting or something, and it happens with poc moving to white suburbs in usa too, but what i want to talk about is how when woman start to get into something, like orchestra, the value of it decreases and everyones salary gets lower

So, yeah

[maswartz]

[fractally]

This has been my main argument against "AI" from the very beginning.

OpenAI scraped the entire web. All of which had been a labor of love from humans. Wikipedia is the backbone of a lot of LLMs, and that was volunteer human labor. They stole it and now they're selling it back to us.

And worse, they're trying to destroy the free sources that they stole from. It's destruction of human knowledge on an unprecedented scale. The burning of the library of Alexandria has nothing on this.

[junoniadoesart]

Huge shoutout to prehistoric animals named wholly or partially in the local/native language of the place where the fossil was found. ily Maip ily Kaiwhekea ily Citipati ily Kank ily Tupuxara ily Kaikaifilu ily Erketu ily Shri ily Tapejara ily Wonambi ily Masiakasaurus ily Tameryraptor ily Nanuqsaurus ily Yutyrannus ily Muttaburrasaurus ily Rahonavis ily Beipiaosaurus ily Tuarangisaurus ily Kunbarrasaurus ily Nqwebasaurus...

[cenneidi]

do it grieving

[cenneidi]

do it while the ground falls out from under you; do it while everything you loved goes up in smoke; do it while the dream of your future is still burning embers around you; build anew on the hot ashes of everything you worked for; keep going, keep loving, keep living, even as all you want is to turn back (there is no turning back; it is gone already); do it through grief, which feels like fear in the body

do it grieving

[cenneidi]

The tag I have seen most often on this post is "I needed to hear this," and I am so, so grateful to have said something that was needed. These words came out of the depths of my own grief, and I am so grateful to have made this small connection with others in the midst of it. Grief is isolating and indescribable, but none of us are alone.

That said, these tags were what I needed to hear:

we're all gonna make it

it's okay if you can't see how yet. you don't have to believe in better. for now it is enough to just keep going, and eventually the path will emerge. you are not alone. you are not lost in the woods forever. keep going. I love you.

[greelin]

[GUY WHO HAS THE MANNERISMS OF A NEUROTIC PREY ANIMAL VOICE] yeah i really believe that i am always a pretty calm person. cool. Collected, even

[ohevoyev]

edinburgh, 2019

[boywizard-moved]

[Image ID: a yellow sticker that reads “You cannot be anti-fascitst if you are anti-semitic” in bold black text. It is wet with beads of water on it. /End ID]

[puppetwoman17]

I’ll say this once and only once.

Avatars have always been victims of propaganda. It was like that for Roku, for Aang, especially Kyoshi. Kuruk, Yanchen. Their stories were twisted for the benefit of their enemies and critics.

This thing with Korra is nothing new. She’s not suddenly the black sheep of the avatar cycle just because some narrator who probably wasn’t alive to know her heard something from someone, who heard it from someone else, etc etc.

This is how gossip spreads. Facts change to fiction until the truth isn’t there anymore. You don’t think there would be people benefiting from slandering the avatar who came after Aang, who brought back the air nation and connected the physical and spiritual realms? Who was seen fighting and having arguments with council members?

There is so much that enemies can twist to make the populace hate the Avatar. We see that in the Avatar Day episode of ATLA.

Anyway I can’t wait for Seven Havens. As a brown girl I’m so stoked to finally get rep in one of my favorite franchises. Pavi I’m with you all the way!!!

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

listen just like everyone else i stand with my cancelled wife korra but listen i hated the worldbuilding and setting of LOK sooooooo much that i will accept WHATEVER excuse they throw at me to reset that shit. oh korra caused the apocalypse? good for her. if i had to look at 1920s americana in my ATLA one more fucking time i was gonna abstract

[likeastars]

Im joining the war on avatar Korra on the side of avatar Korra