Reblogged sailorspencer
I drew this stupid burger I saw that brings me comfort and joy
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i think the whole Having A Job thing would be less bad if people in management positions were capable of planning and abstract thought
Reblogged sailorspencer
Harvester (DigiFX Interactive - PC - 1996)
Reblogged aughtpunk
If you tell a yankee "its never okay to kill people for the US no matter how poor you are" you can trigger secret dialogue that makes you understand why Malcolm X hated liberals the way he did
Reblogged daxdraggon
Just figured out something about Diesel that makes me feel like such a dumbarse
do share please
So for those who don't know, Diesel is a typical housecat. He has typical cat behaviours and enjoys typical cat things. He's my neighbour's cat, not mine, but I feed him even though I probably shouldn't, mostly because somebody has to.
Like most cats, Diesel enjoys tasty food. He gets wet food each afternoon and can get pretty pushy in the hour or so pre-food, which is normal for cats. Sometimes, he also gets pushy at random times of the day, including a couple of hours after already having wet food, which is also not unusual for cats, so I just chalk it up to his annoying cat behaviour. It'll be a few hours after his dinner and he'll stand in front of my computer screen staring at me and I'll go to make a coffee and he'll run to the fridge and meow at me, and grab my leg when I try to leave the kitchen; it's all very annoying but hey, some cats are annoying, whatever. It's particularly annoying because he mostly seems do to it when I'm super hungry and then it feels awkward to fix myself something while he's looking at me like this, then pushing him away from my food, and somehow after I eat he's never
He does it when I'm hungry.
If you can see where this is going then you're a lot smarter than me, because it wasn't until this week that I started paying attention. When Diesel started badgering me and luring me into the kitchen, I started going. I started making myself some food. I sit down to eat it, he jumps up to smell it like normal; I push him away like normal and he goes to eat some of his dry food (the same dry food that's been there all day but he's been ignoring and bugging me instead) while I eat my soup. Afterwards he stops bugging me and either goes off somewhere to do his own thing or comes over for a snuggle.
Diesel's not leading me to the kitchen to ask for wet food. He's leading me there to tell me to eat. I'm being fuckign. Handled. By a half-stray housecat.
He's currently purring at me and asking for post-dinner snuggles but it just feels condescending now.
Me: Diesel do not eat my soup.
Diesel: I am confirming that you have food and not yet another craft project to get lost in. Good. Now I will go to my bowl and we can eat together.
Reblogged daxdraggon
“If a society puts half its children into short skirts and warns them not to move in ways that reveal their panties, while putting the other half into jeans and overalls and encouraging them to climb trees, play ball, and participate in other vigorous outdoor games; if later, during adolescence, the children who have been wearing trousers are urged to “eat like growing boys,” while the children in skirts are warned to watch their weight and not get fat; if the half in jeans runs around in sneakers or boots, while the half in skirts totters about on spike heels, then these two groups of people will be biologically as well as socially different. Their muscles will be different, as will their reflexes, posture, arms, legs and feet, hand-eye coordination, and so on. Similarly, people who spend eight hours a day in an office working at a typewriter or a visual display terminal will be biologically different from those who work on construction jobs. There is no way to sort the biological and social components that produce these differences. We cannot sort nature from nurture when we confront group differences in societies in which people from different races, classes, and sexes do not have equal access to resources and power, and therefore live in different environments. Sex-typed generalizations, such as that men are heavier, taller, or stronger than women, obscure the diversity among women and among men and the extensive overlaps between them… Most women and men fall within the same range of heights, weights, and strengths, three variables that depend a great deal on how we have grown up and live. We all know that first-generation Americans, on average, are taller than their immigrant parents and that men who do physical labor, on average, are stronger than male college professors. But we forget to look for the obvious reasons for differences when confronted with assertions like ‘Men are stronger than women.’ We should be asking: ‘Which men?’ and ‘What do they do?’ There may be biologically based average differences between women and men, but these are interwoven with a host of social differences from which we cannot disentangle them.”
— Ruth Hubbard, “The Political Nature of ‘Human Nature’“ (via gothhabiba)
Yes.
Here, have a study (x) showing that mothers underestimate their daughter’s physical capacity from as young as 11 months old (though in reality it’s identical to that of their son’s at the same age). And if you think that parents acting on those expectations won’t alter their children’s development, then I have a sloped bridge to sell you.
Reblogged orcboxer
Winter boots.
Reblogged daxdraggon
wizard college is going to kill me I swear to god. I just saw someone without a component satchel reach into their pocket and pull out a handful of LOOSE tapioca to use as a substitute for blood in their fell ritual. and it worked. I've never been so fucking mad.
experiencing microaggressions apparently
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Meet the fin-tastic favorites of our Interpretive Programs team! 🐙🐟
Each of our staff members connects with the ocean in their own way, and their favorite animals reflect that. From the Melibe nudibranch’s sweet scent to the giant Pacific octopus’s masterful multitasking, to the monkeyface prickleback with a name that’s as fun to say as it is to spot, each creature holds a special place in our hearts. 💖
For our team, it’s not just about what’s beneath the surface, but the deep appreciation we have for the incredible diversity of life that calls the ocean home. There’s wonder in ocean life, and caring for it helps us all.
What’s YOUR favorite Aquarium animal? Share with us – let’s celebrate the wonders of the ocean together! 🐟👇
Reblogged chickencourtesan
people talk about how we need to bring back "don't feed the trolls" rhetoric for modern internet ragebait and I agree but also I think the most useful thing from the Old Internet that I miss is LURKING
be a lurker. just read things and think about them without feeling the need to weigh in or call out or disseminate everything you encounter. it's so nice and so freeing and it's a good way to learn things.
I have frequently regretted getting involved in shit that didn't involve me online but you know what I've never regretted doing? Lurking. literally lurk moar
Reblogged aughtpunk
thank you so much adblockers. thank you. I love you. thank you so much
Reblogged aughtpunk
YOU'RE NOT HELPING WITH PUZZLE NIGHT
Reblogged sailorspencer
can not overstate that the reason hand-tailored items were so common 100 years ago is because every family had a dedicated home tailor called a "wife" who did 100% of the domestic labor do NOT romanticize a pre-readymade clothing life unless you're willing to go to bat for every individual having a secondary part time job as a tailor
it's correct to observe that clothing quality has gone on a downward trend and it's correct to say that clothing was higher quality before the advent of ready-made clothing, you're right to criticize ready-made fast fashion clothing but ready-made or modernity themselves are not the issue.
the problem with the wastefulness of the modern fashion industry will always be capitalist imperialism, the demand for people in the imperial core to have luxury trendy goods for abysmal prices at the cost of dehumanizing labor conditions, and the fatphobia that perpetuates a lack of size inclusivity. having perfectly tailored and constantly adjusted clothing is a luxury that was maintained through a slave labor force picking all our cotton and relegating 50% of the population to feminized domestic labor. you do not have the god-given right to be fashionable at all cost.
Reblogged neopetsfurry
today i found out that my backyard is an ancient my little pony burial ground.
fanart of her
That’s Little Whiskers, a Teeny Tiny Pony from 1990.
Girls get so much hotter after 30