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hey americans there is a recall on testosterone gel because they found benzene in it! please check the lot numbers on your batches, benzene is really not something you want to be rubbing into your skin, also you might be eligible for compensation because this is just insane what the fuck
It is crazy how much fascist radicalization flows from maladaptive psychosexual rage, and it's crazy how much maladaptive psychosexual rage flows from misogyny, and it's crazy how much misogyny is actually just transmisogyny with the barrel sawn off.
Aaaand op left off the bit about racism and classism
My post: "man it's crazy how many people like pancakes for breakfast"
Your dumb ass: "aaaaand op failed to mention waffles and cereal and French toast"
YOU commented on MY post!!!!!
"How dare you say we piss on the poor." "I didn't say that." "Well stop kinkshaming me!"
tell me my prof didn’t upload the reading by photocopying his kindle reader page by page
bruh
preview of the next demiurge comic...its taking forever because i had to travel and also forgot how to panel. thanks to chiikawa manga for layout inspiration. also tell me if the text sucks to read
Indigenous peoples of the great plains should've never told white people about tornadoes. "I don't know man that shit never happened before you showed up"
hey! donate to uk trans charities today because it’s gonna be a rough one
Folks in the UK, could we have some trusted links to charities?
There's Mermaids which is always a great option, and then Scotland-specific there's LGBT Youth Scotland, to give you just a couple. There will absolutely be more that other people can suggest though!
switchboard.lgbt and akt.org.uk are two i regularly support, and there’s always stonewall !
trans aid cymru is a mutual aid group rather than a charity but ill always shout them out for wales specific trans community support! they have a donation page here
It smells and sounds like spring
Not to romanticize on main but there is really something healing about sitting in front of an open window listening to birds and wind chimes and enjoying a natural breeze. It’s like the world is telling you breath
So most people are familiar with “petrichor,” a word that describes the smell of the earth after rain. This happens because the rain stimulates the rocks, soil, and plants to produce oils, as well as stimulating ozone.
Spring time has a similar thing, a literal smell that deeply effects us as the world wakes up. It’s a smell that’s part of petrichor but here it’s much stronger. And that is geosmin. Geosmin is produced by deep algaes and soil bacterias and as the earth “wakes up” after winter it’s a lot more potent because the ground is more open. So even if there hasn’t been rain fall our noses are very attuned to “hello, the dirt is awakening.” It tickles our little cave man brain.
You can find perfumes and candles that include “geosmin” as an ingredient. Great if you live somewhere where you can’t really open windows or if you have some winter time blues.
this is actually insane? i genuinely pray they don’t get away with it because it’s beyond messed up
Look you can’t mythologize this man. He is real, and he is in danger. They cannot be allowed to get away with illegal searches and arrests
Trans girls really have the prettiest smiles
I always notice it. So wide, so full, so joyful, holding nothing back. It’s so beautiful it makes me want to cry. Seeing a trans girl smiling is like looking at the sun. It makes me feel warm.
That poor pest control guy did not know what he was getting into, but given the state of my yard i feel like he should have known what he was getting into.
He was going door to door offering to spray the base of the house for pests for a discount rate because one of our neighbors signed up for pest control and he walked down my driveway (covered in spiderwebs), up onto my front porch (covered in spiderwebs), and knocked on my door (covered in spiderwebs) and said "hi, I'm John from the bug company, would you be interested in a discount service because it seems like you may have a spider problem."
And I said, "oh, no, I'm sorry, I won't be spraying for spiders, I like them. I want to encourage them."
And he gave me kind of a weird look and was like "why?" And I was honest and said that they were my pest control, they take care of my mosquitoes and and and flies, and then I kind of laughed and said that I should stop because I know way too much about spiders and if he let me go I'd talk his ear off.
And then he made his fatal mistake and asked what I knew about spiders, and if I knew what kinds of webs he'd walked past to get on the porch and what spiders were in my yard.
So then he got to hear my thoughts on brown vs black widows and why I wished there were as many black widows as there used to be but I had a big beautiful one under my patio table right now and even if I prefer black widows because they aren't invasive the same way that brown widows are i still like the brown widows and i had a lovely one who lived in my patio chair from August until the firestorm in January and she was so good and kept eating cockroaches and had made five big egg sacks and how I was so proud of her and I used to have a lot more orb weavers but their numbers never recovered after the tropical storm last year but I had a cute one on the shed that I took a picture of yesterday and of course there are tons of wolf spiders and jumping spiders and cellar spiders if you wanted to count them too and some false widows but I hadn't seen any of them this year and, well, yeah, anyway they're not actually dangerous mostly and widows want nothing to do with you but a bite wasn't pleasant but much better than a recluse bite but I almost never see recluses around here but i wouldn't, would I, because they're not called brown gregarious spiders, oh and there are black footed yellow sack spiders around and you don't want those to bite you but their little toes are so cute and I'm sorry, sorry, sorry like I said I can go off about spiders, but also I don't want to spray because I've got so many pollinators, I've got a whole wisteria vine full of carpenter bees, actually i saw a male valley carpenter bee last week, did you know they're golden and fuzzy? He was so cool! But, yes, sorry, I won't be spraying but thank you for asking, and I'm sorry I was the crazy spider lady at you!
Extremely adorable fuzzy little creature:
A large friend:
Look, this is basically a kitten:
A goth icon.
Strong, independent women that I don't want to fuck with.
They are delightful and they eat actual pests, I love them.
I had almost this exact conversation with the door-to-door pest control guy last summer, but about the wasps. He was outright confused when I told him that not only was he not welcome in my yard, I'd just put out some fried chicken crumbs for my paper wasps to make sure they built their hives on my property because nothing in his truck made better crop pest control than a hungry nest of Red Paper Wasps, except maybe Ichneumons but have to get rid of the lawn before those will move in-
"Red Paper wasps? Those are very dangerous! They're very aggressive!" he sputters.
"Really? They seem to be quite placid." I indicated the Fine-backed Red Paper Wasp nest about 16 inches above his head under the eaves.
He stared.
I picked up a crumb of KFC from the porch shelf with my finger and held it up. One of the ladies investigated, then landed and sat on my finger and munched happily for a few seconds before returning to the nest.
"Would you like to see the common paper wasps? They've got a great nest going on the side of the garage."
"I'm. I'm good." He said, and left.
femboy hooters will be fat tranny hooters by the time I'm done there
Sure ill reblog that
hey thanks I appreciate it
being pro-copyright is like a cartoon "i hate cool things" political stance
"you have to respect an IP owner's right to take down content in breach of copyright licenses" - person who spends their free time stomping on flowers and calling the cops on local skaters
*raises hand* I'm pro-copyright, but only because OpenAI wants access to everything, copyrighted or not
So obviously the current copyright system is broken (most egregiously by it lasting way too long) but surely you can't be against all kinds of copyright in the abstract? If there was no copyright at all then artistic mediums both small and large would suffer and much less good art would get made. Unless you mean to abolish it only after abolishing capitalism and creating a post scarcity utopia, in which case sure. But you can't just remove it completely from current society.
I can. Watch me.
But in a more serious note. If you think removing the concept of intellectual property would result in *less* art being made, have no idea how much art is currently not getting made because the artist who wants to make it doesn't have the rights to the necessary IP to make it. I for one have at least two albums that I started working on and never finished because they were genre-swapped covers of various songs, and I realized I'd never be able to release them because licensing every song I wanted to cover would cost me AT LEAST $500 which was way more than I would have probably made from it.
The only thing preventing Robert Kurvitz from making any of the other games he had planned for the Disco Elysium universe (a setting which he created over the course of over a decade of his life) is that he got kicked out of ZA/UM and he doesn't own the IP anymore.
In the television industry you can't walk two steps without bumping into some horror story about some creator not being able to finish their show because the network cancelled it but also refused to let them buy the IP rights back so they could take it to another network or finish it themselves, and now it's doomed to remain unfinished forever.
There is SO much art that people are currently dying to make but they can't because intellectual property issues prevent them from doing so. It's incoherent to think that getting rid of a system that exists to control who gets the exclusive right to use which ideas in their art would result in *less* art being made.
more than anything on earth fatphobic thin people love pretending their disgust with feedism is some kind of moral fight on our behalf to protect us poor fatties from something terrible like being seen as hot and attractive because of our weight rather than in spite of it
someone else phrased it better but literally the feedist community is majority fat people, like who exactly do you think you're fighting
