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Sucks how many people were taught that "horses put their ears back when they're mad" but then never taught the difference between "angry backwards ears," "mildly annoyed backwards ears," "pain backwards ears," "concentrated backwards ears," "sleepy backwards ears" and "just happens to be listening to something behind it."

"Horses put their ears back when they're mad" idk man i think it depends

These are all completely different expressions in completely different scenarios, and only two of them are decidedly negative.

Actually, I wanna talk about the third horse, the one putting its ears back in pain. Over the last 15 years veterinarians and animal scientists have worked out pain scales for most domestic animals by taking photos of the during routine procedures.

We know vaccines painful, and by comparing horses at rest with horses getting vaccinated, we've been able to determine how they express pain visually. By looking at horses with disorders like colic, broken bones, wounds, and so on, we can determine their facial expressions during more severe pain.

At zookeeper school we were drilled through the pain faces of the most common lab animals and livestock. Nowadays I believe this has become a routine lesson in all animal related fields, but the general public still doesn't know that this is a thing that exists.

Here are all the pain face/grimace scales I've been able to find. Please study them if you interact with any of these animals on a regular basis:

Tuesday or something, wagever

Ugh. Reminder again for Firefox users to visit your about:config page, search for the browser.ml.chat.enabled key, and set that to false:

If yours says true then double-click it until it reads false.

Doing that turns off the AI chatbot features in Firefox, but also the stupid new LLM tab-naming feature that's rolling out.

if you want to turn off as much ai crap in firefox as possible, from this post on mozilla's connect forum, you should also set all these to false using about:config:

to get rid of the revamped sidebar, which is also trying to incorporate ai:

unrelated anyone got browser recommendations for when we have to jump ship from firefox

and now keep in mind that all the other browsers are doing this shit, too, but you can't reconfigure them as with Firefox

on A for Effort's last point, is there any browser that offers users even half as much control as Firefox? if so, I'd like to try it as a backup

irritatingly, the list of AI settings in Firefox has grown. to kill them all as of today (Nov 20, 2025), go into about:config and set all of these to false (yes, you'll have to copy and paste them one by one):

in addition to nuking AI, it'll also speed up your browsing

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After 6 years, a new Hbomberguy movie review has hit letterboxd

Home movie footage of a 1946 gay house party, taken by filmmaker Hal O'Neal.

Since the footage has no audio, I also edited a version set to Glenn Miller's "In the Mood."

I believe authors should be cryptic and unhelpful in the interpretation of their own work or even act like they’re dead and never comment on it ever

I'm reading a study on how nurses define the term 'drug seeking', and what makes them more likely to put the 'drug-seeker' label on a patient's charts and. well. let me just throw down some quotes

the article itself put it best when it says: “some comments depict patients trying to apply sound pain management principles, such as continuing to take medication for persistent pain”. no wonder all the other literature on the matter says that women of colour are the most likely group to be labelled drug-seeking. this shit is entirely vibes-based (read: based on the prejudices of nurses and doctors)

everyone just found out how you jrek off. yep. every detail. they know what your jelking to, what you look at, what you're looked up, what you're thinking when you do it, and the intricacies of your techniques. they even have a catalogue of exact times you jerked of. and lemme tell you, they are pleased as punch. ecstatic, even. couldnt be happler with your performance. they're going to crown you king or queen of heaven (or they)

repression doesn’t eliminate desire but distorts it

I love that in 200+ years click-baity fluff piece animal stories have not changed one bit.

(source: The Liverpool Mercury, August 26, 1814.)

I am forever of the opinion that SO many people would be so much happier if they stopped trying to fit their relationships and feelings into "just friends" and "romantic partners". man those are two boxes. twoooo. you are an entire living being. you are alive and your brain is full of electric signals and your body is sending crazy chemicals all over the place. you cannot always cram your experiences into two neat cookie cutter shapes. you are alive on this stupid gay earth please relax and have fun. I love you

Tumblr hates trans women, this is a known fact

Like it's really not a surprise that they (staff) keep banning trans women, they hate trans women and therefore do not apply the same moderation standards they do for other blogs

When I was running the amtrak-official blog and in the closet, tumblr intervened several times as a result of the trademark filings to defend my blog, stating satire, but in May shortly after I came out as trans, I was randomly terminated for a week with no explanation given

Mercury is the most charismatic substance in the universe. Like, there are a lot of things that historical scholars have been wrong about, but you usually understand why; flawed hypotheses, inadequate measuring tools, half-truths, secondary factors that muddy the results. But people across Eurasia saw that shit and just assumed it must be the key to immortality, despite a mercury tonic being literally the opposite of an immortality potion. And they kept trying it despite all obvious evidence. Taoists burned through emperors like lab rats. No other metal has this much rizz

Thinking about the comment liberals love to make whenever a new cis woman gets transvestigated.

"Conservatives can't look at a beautiful woman without thinking about cock and i think that's hilarious."

You think it's hilarious because it isn't happening to you. It doesn't affect you and it never will. It's a joke to you because you've never thought of trans women as people who have to deal with the effects of these hate campaigns. Someone else can probably word this more coherently, but fuck me it bothers me so fucking much to see these people who think they're such good "allies" just come out and admit that they don't see me as a person.

You find it funny when a cis woman gets transvestigated because you know she's a "real" woman. You wouldn't say a fucking word if it was me in her place. You would let the right come for me, you would let them pick the meat from my bones, and when my skeleton is left you would dance it through the streets with crocodile tears in your eyes saying "oh HOW could this have happened" for a day before you went right back to complaining about how people need to compromise more. It makes me fucking sick.

And if it were a trans woman of colour you wouldn't even fucking acknowledge it was happening to her to begin with. You barely acknowledged it when it was a cis woman of colour. I know for a fucking fact you'd let a trans woman of colour rot and blame her for having the nerve to die, you wretched hogs.

The responses always go one of two ways.

"Haha conservatives are so stupid for thinking this woman could ever be a MAN"

or

"Look at her though, she's so pretty! There's no way she could be a TRANNY"

and both lines of answers say the same thing. The Tranny is ugly, the Tranny is repulsive, the Tranny is something Other that we don't desire to see, something we hate, and more importantly, something we are united with the Right in our hatred toward.

The Tranny is not a woman, the Tranny is a Tranny, and it needs to be humiliated and removed from polite society at once. This is the one thing the conservative and liberal will always agree on, time and again. The only difference is the liberal will pretend to be upset about it for a second.