the stereotype that literary fiction is all about straight white male english professors having affairs with nubile co-eds and getting divorced is outdated and frankly i WISH that were still the case. now all contemporary litfic comes in three distinct flavors: "internet vernacular: a so-called 'novel' by someone with more microplastics in their brain than actual brain tissue," "downwardly mobile white woman's wry autofiction account of her eating disorder," and "the rustle of mango leaves in the homeland: a paint-by-numbers diaspora novel by an MFA grad who acts like making $50K with benefits makes you part of the ruling class even though both their parents are doctors" like save me philip roth and your upsetting-on-purpose books about masturbating with offal and pining after shiksas who look like the girl on the cover of that one vampire weekend album......

i'd say save me joyce carol oates but she'd have to unblock me first

You know technology literacy is dying because I saw this meme with 76k likes

F11 the full screen button? You’re scared of the full screen button? F10?? It opens the menu bar???

Computers are so scary what if I accidentally hit F12 in a steam game and it takes a screenshot. What if I press shift + F12 while in word and accidentally save my document 😖

If you had to learn what the F keys on your computer do through me reblogging this post, then I'm glad you did. Computer literacy is not a skill that gets taught anymore, and it is absolutely one that needs to be taught in order to be learned. Don't ever feel bad for not knowing something, but ☝️ don't ever stop learning learning about your environment, the tools you use, and especially the people around you

Never stop learning+ Never stop sharing what you learned

dammit jim

Ummmm star trek artttt?????

Garak and Bashir????perchance?????

There my little guys ❤️❤️❤️❤️ I love whatever that have 😭😭😭

are we still doing star trek redesigns

ow

Weird and wonderful compilation of strange bird noises.

ok. i survived 25 years outside the international space station. who gives a shit

Technically most moss is outside the international space station

uhura in the mirrorverse episode oh my god

RAHHHHH SHES SO TONED ITS INSANE

*strightens your doctor*

LMAO THIS IMAGE IS PERFECT, you made my day, oh my god

Another day on the gay space station

Flat-Headed Cats Seen in Thailand for the First Time in 30 Years, Having Been Thought Extinct https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/flat-headed-cats-seen-in-thailand-for-the-first-time-in-30-years-having-been-though-extinct/

Dec 29, 2025

OH MY LORD

lunch date!

Hannibal (2013-2015)

From the article:

“If you look only at the trend of species declines, it would be easy to think that we’re failing to protect biodiversity, but you would not be looking at the full picture,” said Penny Langhammer, lead author of the study and Executive Vice President of Re:wild. “What we show with this paper is that conservation is, in fact, working to halt and reverse biodiversity loss. It is clear that conservation must be prioritized and receive significant additional resources and political support globally, while we simultaneously address the systemic drivers of biodiversity loss, such as unsustainable consumption and production.”

This massive meta analysis (for those not familiar, a study analyzing the results of many studies on similar topics) found that the vast majority of conservation efforts show much much better results than doing nothing. In many cases, biodiversity loss was not only stopped but reversed.

This shows that conservation efforts really work and money invested is put to very good use. Legally protecting endangered species really works, restoring habitat really works, removing invasive species really works, returning land to Indigenous communities works. All of the blood, sweat, and tears being poured into protecting the natural world has been making a real, big, tangible, difference on a global scale.