This is relevant once again. I apologize if you are a real human getting blocked/reported.

i don't support all women's rights & wrongs some of you are terfs

exactly

absolutely could not live with myself if i did not share this with all of you:

Voting did matter. Even the worst democrat or in all honesty the next worst republican was not going to do all this exact same crazy shit. Voting cannot fix a broken system but if the system asks you to weigh in on how much more broken it wants to get, you can tell it "no, not that far please" instead of effectively "I don't care, go hog fucking wild"

So please vote in the midterms, for the least evil options on the ballots, instead of telling them you just don't mind who they put in charge of whatever the hell they want.

looking at chronic pain/illness scales i always get a little stumped on "it stops me from doing work/daily activities" as a descriptor because what if i'm just a wimp who cant handle a 2 yknow. what if i'm just a baby who doesnt know true pain.

If you can't handle it then its a not a '2'

The pain scale is about YOUR pain, right now. Not pain you can imagine. Not pain you had before. Right now.

As your pain toelrance changes, what you rate things will change, but we don't GAF about that. We are asking about NOW.

“never kill yourself” is such a funny phrase to me that i think it’s accidently started working. its like an affrimation. say ‘never kill yourself’ enough times as a joke and maybe you won’t try to kill yourself over minor inconviences anymore

never kill yourself but i don’t know how to make the gifs with the funky fonts so you can have this seal instead

It's called hard sci-fi because it's not as easy

I thought it'd be fun if I made aliens that respirate CO² into O² like plants but I started thinking about how I'm not actually sure how exactly those chemical processes work and now I'm on the wikipedia page for nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate

I feel like the media literacy ogre for biochemistry

but have you ever even heard of the fynbos biome ?!!?!?!?!

a biome so unique in south africa that it's earned an entirely new biome classification for itself. so many plants are endemic to this area, and ofc it's under threat of extinction.

It's a wonderful place! I had the privilege of visiting the fynbos last year and it was as amazing as these photos show and more!

I finished the Star Trek Doorway quilt. It turned out lovely. I know it looks simple but this was a complicated build. I honestly don’t know how I managed to get the height and width to line up with the outer blocks. #startrek #quilt #handquilting

Many lgbt teenagers and young adults growing up on the internet today have socially conservative beliefs that they voice at all times that they got from their conservative parents which they’ve never challenged because they think the life experience of being gay or trans makes them politically progressive

This is why I hate it when people say something homophobic and then go “so you’re really accusing me, a whole ass lesbian, of being homophobic 🙄” like yeah

Just because you’re part of an oppressed party does not mean you cannot hold bias against other groups or members of your own group. Bias is learned and ingrained through society and family and it takes real work to unlearn it. No one is perfect, no one is without bias and you are in fact going to fuck up now and again—what matters is if you learn from it and grow.

this is what people are talking about when they say "do the work"

I really wish people would understand that there is a vast gulf of cultural difference between “nomadic ethnic groups” and “ethnic groups which are not and have never been nomadic, but which were repeatedly violently expelled”

The Saami people are nomadic. The Buryats are nomadic. Uyghurs are not. Jews are not. Many Native American groups, including the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Creek are not. This distinction may seem small and academic but it is absolutely vital to understanding modern day conflicts involving these groups.

Some cultures are itinerant, with physical movement from place to place as an inherent part of their identity. Some cultures were violently displaced, with a cultural identity that carries the scars of being forced to relocate, against their will. It is victim blaming of the highest order to treat the second type as though it is the first.

Schleich is using AI.

Many people are accusing Schleich of using AI to create some of their recent figures.

Schleich denies this.

Maybe they are lying, maybe the social media team simply isn’t aware, or maybe just maybe no AI was used in the creation of these figures.

However, I don’t really care because they 100% are using AI elsewhere.

Personally, I still think AI was used to create the figures but I have no way to prove it. Meanwhile they outright admit to using AI in other areas.

We cannot let this go unanswered. Please let Schleich know your feelings on the matter. Please be polite in your communication with them as anything aggressive could be written off.

I fear after years of being the go to for many adult collectors, they now only care to cater to children who are less discerning about the products they receive. Schleich’s quality has severely dropped and that is extremely saddening to myself and others who have collected Schleich for years. They may not care to listen to us at this point but I have to try.

I am baffled by how many things that people formerly agreed was unacceptable are fine if AI does it. Companies will buy shitty ads or logos that would never have been greenlit if humans made them. Lies and errors in important documents are fine if an AI instead of a human filled out the documents. Surely we all agree that the product images in advertisements should be of the product?? Why is it okay to lie about what the product looks like if the robot generates the fake image and not the human??

I routinely tell my chickens that they're good chickens, but just between you and me, they are mediocre chickens at best.

Showed this to my mom and she was like "É, mas também com galinha num tem muito jeito não" which roughly translates as "Yeah, but with chickens, it's not like you have a lot of room for excellence."

I am actually Northern Irish but also actually Deaf so my accent is kind of (very) weird.

I’m doing my best, ok?

I smell woodsmoke. I JUST got windows in, if my house burns down tonight then I swear to fucking god

But! It would get the termites!

I was thinking of that earlier today actually because when we found termite-infested trees on the farm we'd cut up the wood and just burn it immediately so they couldn't spread to the house.