a diagram of the knee

you understand this post better than like 80% of the notes do

the day people learn that they can express negative opinions about queer rep without misusing the word queerbait is the day i will know peace

I’ve seen multiple people genuinely asking whats wrong with playing their music on a speaker/their phone in public rather than through headphones. While it baffles me that you can’t reason it out I’m taking it in good faith that you genuinely don’t know - so here’s a list of reasons you shouldn’t:

- It sounds bad. It doesnt matter if people like the song, you might be close enough to your phone speaker for it to sound largely as intended, but everyone else is getting a distorted mess. 

- Unwanted noise is extra stimulation in the already overpowering public space. Yes this is particularly bad for neurodivergent people but I actually want to acknowledge that this effects Everyone. Everyone has a stimulation threshold and unwanted music easily pushes people closer to it.

- Its distracting/disruptive. People want to focus on their own conversations, listen to their own music through their earbuds, or just be alone with their thoughts. Your music is intruding. 

- Differing taste. This one is less significant but people around you just dont always like the same music you do. In extreme cases they might actively hate a song you’re playing. 

- People have the right to as close to silence as they can get. If they’re in a shop playing obnoxious music they can leave, they can change the radio in their car, they can skip the song on their playlist. They have no control over what you are putting on and in bus situations they can’t get away from you. 

- Any other number of reasons; Maybe your music is offensive, maybe its uncensored and there are children about, maybe someone just got horrible news and your perky feelgood song feels like salt in the wound, maybe someone’s sick or hungover or in pain and your music feels like a drill to the skull.  You might think your music is good, it might make you smile after a hard day. Nobody is saying dont listen at all, just put in earphones. To everyone around you its the equivilent of a drunk guy singing loudly and off key at the back of the bus. Maybe it makes some people smile to think he’s having a good time, maybe some people are scared his lack of boundaries will mean he could act out, maybe some people wish he would just shut up. 

Your mom finding her friend at a store is like unskippable cutscenes

The fucking worst is that as I get older i completly understand the interest to catch up an unreasonable long time because turns out adults just dont get enough time to hang with friends, so catch up next to the Aldi cheese aisle it is

terfs are so fucking stupid its actually funny

I probably shouldn't be surprised about this, but a lot of people missing the point here. the joke isn't "terfs calling Sigourney weaver, a hot woman, unattractive" and tbh I think seeing this post and going "terfs are so stupid because Sigourney weaver is obviously gorgeous" is even potentially harmful or at least hurtful

the joke here is terfs seeing a picture of Sigourney Weaver, famous actress and cis woman, but because they were told its a picture of a trans woman they're immediately yakking about how 'clockable' she is

Reminds me of when me and a friend were tabling for Mermaids and some TERF came over and told us, in great detail, why we, two cis women, would never "pass". Because its incomprehensible to them that any actual cis people would just support trans rights. I'm obviously taller than any real woman and my tits are obviously fake, and her man hands and "beer belly" gave her away.

She was six months pregnant

I've yet to hear any definition of womanhood as set by TERFs that doesn't exclude huge swathes of women, both cis and trans alike.

@meatmobile I'm sorry to call you out like this but this comment truly ended me

so this happened to me today

fucked up some bird tried to steal your car like that

Here’s to all the asexuals whose feelings about sex fluctuate

Here’s to the asexuals who flit between being indifferent and repulsed and wanting to have sex

Here’s to the asexuals who never know how they’re going to feel the next day

Here’s to the asexuals who have to awkwardly ask their friends not to use the sexual humour they’re usually fine with today because they’re feeling repulsed

Here’s to the asexuals who rarely feel sex driven and don’t know what to do with themselves when they do

Here’s to the asexuals who usually feel repulsed and are uncomfortable or distressed when feeling sex driven

Here’s to asexuals who find it hard to pin down a specific spot in the community because their feelings are always fluctuating

Here’s to all of us

ofmd stands for oh fmy mfucking dgod

Pacific Rim is great because of the absolutely fanfiction level of its plot points. Want to pilot the giant robot? You’re going to need to share your most painful memories. Who will you share them with? YOUR CRUSH

#theres only one robot

Perfect standing wave on a computer-controlled wave pool

If you, like me, did not know what a standing wave looks like, please keep watching this until about halfway through when the whole pool is synced. It’s eerie and cool af

They’ve found the cause of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Babies who die of SIDS have a significantly lower level of an enzyme, the purpose of which is to rouse the baby from sleep if necessary (such as the baby stops breathing). This is extremely huge science and medicine news. There is a biological reason. It’s not random.

Dr. Carmel Harrington, the lead researcher for the study, was one of these parents. Her son unexpectedly and suddenly died as an infant 29 years ago. In an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Harrington explained what she was told about the cause of her child’s death.

"Nobody could tell me. They just said it's a tragedy. But it was a tragedy that didn't sit well with my scientific brain.”

Since then, she’s worked to find the cause of SIDS, both for herself and for the medical community as a whole. She went on to explain why this discovery is so important for parents whose babies suffered from SIDS.

"These families can now live with the knowledge that this was not their fault," she said.

May 11th, 2022!

ANXIETY: I know you’re busy, so I’ll just hang here in the background all day.

ME: Oh, great.

ANXIETY: You won’t even know Im here.

ME: Uh-huh.

ANXIETY: I’ll scream every once in awhile just to keep things interesting.

Regular reminder that "humans are parasites" and "maybe we're the virus, maaan" are ecfoascist dogwhistles.

The average person won't produce nearly the same contribution to climate change in their lifetime as corporatism does in a single day.

[ID: a screenshot of a tweet by necrocommunist @/incelwarfare that says "Climate change isn't because of human being a parasite or whatever, it's because of capitalism. The average person has nothing to do with oil spills and deforestation, please stop saying this shit". /End ID.]

Hey, I say let men in your life know when they are cute. Do it. I went to try new glasses with my boyfriend, and I noticed him going back to a pair he wouldn't usually go for and repeating "actually..." in a soft voice. So I asked him to show me. The glasses where round and thin and made his face look soft. He looked super cute. "Baby, you look fucking cute" i told him, because he did. He's had those glasses for the past week and from time to time I tell him he looks good and he lights up and says "I'm so fucking cute". He is. Men and masc folk are cute, and I want them to hear it more, earnestly, because it's great to see them be shy and giddy and soft and proud and even cuter about it. I don't think I need to justify myself more. Do it. Highly recommend. Godspeed.

this is your periodic reminder that old-timey medicines did not fuck around

Yeah that’d probably handle a cough.

“skillfully combined with a number of other ingredients” what else did they fucking put in there

This picture is the definition of “just fuck me up”

“ONE NIGHT” yeah that’s probably a better name than “YOUR LAST NIGHT”

Honestly you don’t even have to change the genre much. Guy probably went through quite the ordeal because of all the people trying to get to Indy.

Day 1: “Professor Jones, hate to bother you but there’s an assassin trying to kill me, do you have...yes I see it...*gunshots* just to make sure, is there any paperwork I can file or should I just call the police?”

Day 85: “Oh fucking try me, I have 84 papers to grade because that lazy asshole went off to fucking Burma in the middle of fucking finals week, if you don’t leave right the fuck now I will awaken that ancient artifact in the corner and turn your intestines into fucking snakes.”

also, don’t forget: the movies are set in the 1930s-50s

so please imagine this 20-year-old girl who’s had to practically fight god to convince everyone that, no, she would NOT be happier with a degree in home economics and yes, she DOES want to be an archaeologist. she’s had to deal with male grad students trying to steal her research and constant patronizing questions about whether she can really handle the dirt and insects out in the field. even Indy, who stands up for her when the department leadership tries to pull Some Bullshit, sometimes treats her like a glorified secretary just out of habit

when the bad guys show up, they are therefore faced with a young woman who exists in a permanent state of simmering rage. she has a sensible wool skirt and practical oxfords and a baseball bat and you can fuck right off if you’re trying to pull this nonsense right after one of her professors just called her “sweetie” for the dozenth time

Okay idk if the timing and logistics match up at all but i just have a fever thought that his TA is none other than Mrs Evelyn O’Connell. Just think about it.

Jones: Are you sure you’re up for this position?

Evie: Dr Jones I assure you that despite being a woman I-

Jones: No no it’s not that, it’s just that there’s a lot of… weird artifacts that come through my door

Evie: Oh, well I actually have some experience with weird

Jones: and sometimes it can get dangerous…

Evie *smiling*: I can handle that as well

(Later in the school year, during a shoot out)

Jones: You weren’t kidding! *gunshots*

Evie pulling out a grenade and chucks it: These ruffians aren’t half as bad Imhotep, and he was nothing compared to midterms *explosion*

Evie: Oh dear they seem to have brought more friends. Pass me my bag Professor Jones if you’d please. 

Jones: Sure Evie *hands her the bag* 

Evie: *pulls out an old fashion pistol with a large bell* 

Jones: I don’t think that’s going to be enough. 

Evie: Oh it’s not. I’m phoning my husband *fires a flare through the window* 

Jones: I doubt stiff upper lip gent is going to help us right now Evie. 

Evie: I whole heartedly agree Professor Jones.

*A moment later Rick crashes the car through the wall and pulls out a tommy gun. He screams at the top of his lungs as he rushes the bad guys* 

Evie: Luckily my husband is American.

This continued to get better and better as I went.

Army ads starting with "we fight the wars no one hears about" is fucking wild. In what world is that a good sentence to hear as a citizen

Unless they’re traveling through an interplanetary portal and fighting evil brain snakes, we need to hear about the wars they’re fighting.

They really should tell us about the brain snake wars as well though

terfs in the discourse tag

We have terfs who admit that ace discourse was their first step towards radfem ideas. We’ve had multiple break downs of how terfs and radfems try to radialize other people by using ace/bi/pan/nb/queer/etc. discourse. We’ve had multiple break downs of how popular exclusionist arguments use the same faulty logic and arguments that radfems use.

Can exclusionists maybe finally admit that this is a problem and either drop the discourse entirely or try to come up with arguments that aren’t copied from radfems?

This is really important to recognize, because exclusionists don’t often want to recognize this dirty little truth about their community.

note how the “queer is (always) a slur (and should never be used, even to talk about yourself or the queer community or queer academia)” nonsense is directly mentioned as point 2 on the aphobe to TERF pipeline