I don't get out much

Unmute !

2010. A Japanese woman sits down to take photos of her shiba inu dog for her blog. Suddenly, a man leaps out of a time portal. "Sorry, I can't let you do this. I cannot tell you why." She asks: "Is it forbidden knowledge from the future?" He sighs: "No, it's just too fucking stupid to explain."

MY ULTIMATE CREATION

We’re coming close to ten years on this puppy

Walking home from a long day of school🍂

Tattooed women from Bildnerei der Gefangenen (Artistry of Prisoners) by Hans Prinzhorn (1926)

They should invent a falling asleep that is easy

hey i love sleep and i will help you. follow these steps:

i fall asleep every night within 15 minutes, and i leave my phone outside my room (or in the corner far out of reach if i'm expecting a call or something). when i wake up, i exit the bed immediately and drink some water to wake my body up. i really love sleep, and i hope everyone who reads this can get the opportunity to get sleep easier

The oldest living dog is currently 24 years old, if you’re younger than 24, there are dogs that are older than you. The oldest living cat is currently 28 years old, if you’re younger than 28, there are cats that are older than you. The oldest living horse is 51 (possibly), if you’re younger than 51, there are horses that are older than you.

The point of this post? I don’t know. I find it comforting. If you’ve only lived a dog or cat or goldfish or horse lifespan then don’t compare yourself to the achievements of others who have lived a human lifespan.

The oldest living sea sponge is 10,000 years old. If you're younger than 10,000, there are sea sponges that are older than you.

“I need a break from fighting with myself”. 2024 by Max Arnautov

bringing this back for thanksgiving

I want to make something really clear that I think Anti-Choice people have failed to understand that Pro Choicers definitely saw coming.

An exception for Rape, Life of the Mother, and Incest mean nothing when you have to prove it in a court of law, or get a team of lawyers and judges to sign off on it which can take weeks or even months.

Weeks a person dying hasn't got. Women are now dying. Actually dying. Because hospitals legally could not save their lives until they could wake up a judge and get their lawyers, and another sides lawyers awake and up and figured out if it was actually necessary or not. All people with no understanding of medicine, and no attatchment to the person suffering who simply doesn't want to die.

There's a lot more I could cover, like the increase in illegal abortion, abortion tourism, the massive increase in infant abandonment... but I'm going to leave it here.

People are dying. People who should be alive. Who would be alive if abortion was legal and the hospital could have simply treated their patient without waiting for a dozen men with no medical experience in another building to decide if their patient actually needs treatment or not. And yes they do have to wait. Because if they don't they get charged with murder for trying to save a life.

Your policies are killing people. Not theoretical people. Not fetuses with no conscious thought or pain. Adults with lives. Teenagers with a whole life ahead of them. Mothers with children who need them. Real people with conscious thought, with fear, with pain. People who meet every definition of personhood.

i love it when botanists fight in the annotations

guy in 1939, taking his time to line up his typewriter to painstakingly write the family name: its equisetum hyemale!

guy in 1948 scribbling on a slip of paper: no dumbass its equisetum prealtium

guy in 2020 on a sticky note: hey fuckass! its equisetum hyemale, are you smoking crack? are you on fucking crack? update annotation.

love the gradual decrease in formality present here

1939 guy: fully printed, probably using a typewriter, affixed using archival glue

1948 guy: hand written ink on a printed label, appears more worn around the edges than the original label despite being younger (presumably due to materials used)

unknown but presumably recent: scrawled yellow sticky note with pencil

Elon is recruiting randos from Twitter to compete for the chance to work themselves to death figuring out how to take away your welfare.

I hate when I make a post like "hey you can be a girl if you want? Or boy? And if you're a girl, you don't have to be! You don't have to be a boy either" and then redditors see it and are like "ugh demeaning language. I haven't been a 'girl' since I turned 18! I'm a woman, damn it"

And it's just missing the point so hard. Boys and girls are how kids talk about gender. If you're going to come at me with a elementary school understanding of gender, don't get mad that I'm responding at your level.

Also it's important that the message read properly for any children in the audience: you can be a boy or a girl now. Not later, not "when you grow", not when you're a woman or a man. Right now. There is no reason to wait.

Seriously, you can do it right now. Give me five minutes in a room with any doubter, a spoon, and a cup of strawberry yogurt. I'll convince you that you can be a girl or a boy, a man or a woman, neither or both, or even combinations (I knew someone once who was a bigender woman/boy. They were not a girl or a man, but they were a woman and a boy)!

Anyway the point was to say it simply enough to make it stick. Brevity is the soul of wit, and sometimes four short lines can stick where endless long posts and documentaries don't.

"you can be a girl if you want to" is the kind of sentence that might save someone that a long post about transgenderism might not. I'm sorry if it seems overly simple: that was on purpose.