In Georgia, there's a stray dog who has made it his job to protect this kindergarten class so they can cross the street safely. He shows up every single day, even barking at cars that don't stop

Big fan of angels being autistic btw. "How does an entity like that have a neurological condition" Well they can act like that. Angels having traits that read as autistic. Incomprehensible being trying for their best mimicry of human behavior. You understand

First day on earth pretending to be a Normal Human. Eye contact is weird when you only have two of them. Trying out physical sensations. Touching things with different textures. Picked a leaf off a bush and ate it. People are looking at me weird. Sorry. Say something normal. Do you know when the bus gets here

Second day as a Normal Human. Not used to standing still because I'm usually a four dimensional shape turning within itself. I understand the bus schedule now. Blessed someone's baby today. Trying out smells and tastes. Went to a bakery. People are looking at me again. Loudly announced I love bread

!???

I'm not sure what I expected, but seeing people with those toy horses that are just a horse head on a stick so you can "ride" it doing actual horse show routines, including jumps of a height that actual horses would probably think twice about, was NOT it.

Some of those jumps should be fucking impossible what the fuck

she said hi sorry do you mind if i give birth in your boat real quick

i continue to think women's wrestling is just thinly veiled gay sex

Glad to know women's and men's wrestling are at heart the same

So true queen!!!

IF I DIE I DIE

washington zoo has had it's first armadillo (southern three-banded) birth in 116 years and the baby is so so so so so precious i could cry

congratulations to new armadillo parents Vespa and Scooter!!! (x)(x)

They named the baby Segway.

last night i had a dream that i told a joke that was so funny it killed people. I woke up after killing someone with it and in my tired stupor, rushed to write it down before I forgot it or fell back asleep. I just checked and this is what i wrote down

I know "walkable cities" is considered a buzzword and urbanists are increasingly seen as preachy liberal wonks, but we're literally right. If you spend enough time in an American city outside the literal bubble of your car you will see people carrying groceries along the shoulders of freeways, running for their lives to cross a street, or waiting for an hour to catch a delayed bus. If you read local obituaries about pedestrian and cyclist fatalities, they're not white tech bros in spandex but people in redlined neighborhoods without proper sidewalks. You spend enough time trying to own the urbanist nerds and oops, you start condoning a status quo that is overtly cruel and racist.

I would actually love to be able to walk places without getting smashed into roadkill actually

So at one of my jobs I work with this really nice woman named Liz who has an equally nice boyfriend. Thing is, I don’t know the boyfriends name because Liz only addresses him as boytoy. The term boytoy is used so frequently to describe him that not only does she have no problem using that term but neither do any of her coworkers including myself. One day Liz told me that he would be stopping by and when some dude with a beard came through the door I looked at him and said, “Mr.toy I presume.” And he just looks at me and goes; “The very one.” 

Fucking eh. Relationship goals.

the funniest dynamc between my boyfriend and i is the chef/baker divide runs so deep. experimentally my boyfriend is a genius with figuring out what flavor profiles will not just taste good together but also will be enjoyed by the specific audience he is cooking for. a recipe is not a guidebook so much as a suggestion and he will frankenstein ideas together to get exactly what he wants to happen. he also didnt know that sugar will not work properly if you dont mix it with the wet ingredients in banana bread and when i asked 'why didnt you do it in the order of the recipe' he said 'i didnt really think it mattered'. autistically i exploded his head in my mind

unholy amalgamation:

nature is healing

shout out to disabled people who can't bathe themselves

shout out to disabled people who have some form of incontinence, managed or unmanaged

shout out to disabled people who can't feed themselves (+ ones that can't orally eat at all)

shout out to disabled people who have a limited vocabulary

shout out to disabled people who have aids

shout out to disabled people who need help with every task

shout out to disabled people who communicate via a proxy or form of aac

shout out to disabled people who are stereotypically "gross" because of their disability

shout out to disabled people who would want to be cured and ones who wouldn't

shout out to disabled people who are very visibly disabled

shout out to disabled people who can't and won't be able to live independently / work a 9-9 / ect

shout out to disabled people who need help accessing online spaces

shout out to disabled people who can't actually accurately advocate for themselves

shout out to disabled people who are snappy or aggressive due to pain or other issues

shout out to disabled people who have violent fight response meltdowns and not quiet sad meltdowns

shout out to disabled people who do things they don't consciously want to do

and more

Wearing a huge t-shirt in the house… that’s fashion baby

pls

The fact that they’re still tight about this after all these years is so funny to me like they must think about it every single day

Man it wasn't even the copypasta. I saw folks eviscerating the guy for daring to write YA stuff. Teen love for teens. And how that made him a pedophile. Like that's what's being talked about here. Not the cock monologue. It was the endless hate and vitriol like I remember distinctly my dash being flooded with "he's a grown man who writes stuff for kids. That's super sus of him" and him literally being called a pedophile and other such smears. Like the cock nonsense was the absolute least of what happened. Don't be a derisive dick. If you're referencing that then obviously you were around to see all the toxic bullshit too and you should know all of this

But oh noooo! It was obviously the goofy taste of balls post that did it! Because tumblr is good and always correct /s

It is particularly cruel to me that John Green was harassed essentially off of the internet in the way that he was because the poor man has OCD and is very open about it.

The way he was treated is horrible and disgusting for anyone at all, but John Green has for years and years (along with his brother Hank) tried to make the world a measurably better place while living with a horrific mental illness. A mental illness that makes something like being called a pedophile over and over again horrific in ways that unless you have OCD, or are very very close to someone who does, you will never understand because OCD targets whatever you value and makes your world a living hell over it.

And you know what? He still writes his novels, and he is still out here doing absolutely everything he can to make the world a measurably better place. The cock monologue was just the straw that broke the camel's back.

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Also if anyone did this to my brother I would never ever forgive anyone involved. Never. The fact that they are still engaging with the internet in the way they do, with vulnerability and kindness is remarkable.

The notes on this post are shit so just to be clear: if you’re following me and you think it’s funny to harass someone, or that it doesn’t count if the victim is above a certain age or if the harassment happens online, or that it’s worse to speak out against harassment than to harass someone, unfollow me because I don’t fucking want you to interact with me

On the positive side, here’s two replies that are actually decent:

"Harassing someone non-stop for months, including graphic sexual harassment and disturbing baseless accusations of child abuse, is funny as long as I think the victim is annoying!" -a lot of people, apparently

"As long as it is not ME, it is funny to make one's life miserable, especially if it is factually shown they are none of these! This is just Holding Them Responsible, haha, anyways, don't say a thing to me, that is bullying and worse, and I am not okay with that, I only called for sending a children's book author death threats because he said queer lives matrer! I am the good guy here! It was just a prank bro! It is funny to chase people I don't like but never raise your voice against the millionaire writer who pals around with fascists please, that dude is just a small bean in his private castle, unlike this guy who wrote about teenage love with a first kiss, bully him off the internet forever and send bombs to his house! Haha so funny."

You know what sort of people I reference.

I remember being a coward at the time, I didn't like it. The copy pasta was kind of funny at the time (and we absolutely deserved to lose the ability to edit posts), but the implications of him being a weird pervert for not engaging with criticism from randos....

I remember at the time DMing with a feminist who was big at the time, bugger than me and the culture was such that...neither of us liked this. She was a fan, I was not in particular of his books, but I watched Crash Course.

And we really...didn't feel "safe" saying shit. Because that culture meant that, at the time, if we said anything about how weird and messed up this was we would be accused of "silencing the discomforts of young girls" or "allying with men when women speak" or some such bullshit like this was an actual abuse scandal. It wasn't, it was some people trying to make it seem like it was weird and "creepy" that he was on a "teenage website" and that him reacting to people who said shitty things TO and ABOUT him while KNOWING and WANTING him to see it was an abuse of power because power dynamics, blah blah something something. And they COULD face bullying or a huge backlash for it. Therefore, he should just accept the backlash and whatever personal and cruel things that were said to him, with the intention of him seeing them, and that would somehow not be bullying because he has more money than you.

It was bad, it was ugly, I didn't like it and I didn't say shit because this place was so fucking toxic but meant so much to me at the time and I didn't want to be bullied off of it.

But now I'm old enough to not give a fuck, you can't cyber bully me, and I'm sorry that John was treated like that. It was bad.

Justify it how you want, I don't care. But I think it is and was shitty.

I am, what many would call, a fucking mess.

as a huge lover of birds, 90% of the concern against wind turbines being used for energy is literally just pro fossil fuel propaganda. birds ARE at a risk however there is a lot of strategies even as simple as painting one of the blades that reduces a lot of accidental deaths. additionally renewable energy sources will do more in favor of the environment that would positively impact birds (and all of us). one study found over one million bird deaths from wind turbines. while that is a shockingly high number and we should work to drastically shrink it, at least 1.3 billion birds die to outdoor cats on a yearly basis. it was never about caring about birds

there was a study done in 2015 that shows an even greater possible yearly divide than the 2012 one

This is why we need to keep cats indoors and switch to linux.

yall see “love” and immediately go to “romantic love” if you translate “love is the whole point” to “romantic love is the whole point” you need to rethink everything because love is found in everything. in community, in friendships, in family, in food, in nature so actually love is the whole point and u can die mad about it. hope this helps <3

this reddit thread of living your silliest life is so so good