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Normal_Reptile

@pun-ishingiguana

I dig puns, am a pure earthborn lizard, not an alien. Don't trust the cat.
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You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar when I met you!

You were working as

a waitress in a cocktail

bar when I met you!

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Either my head will burst open or the world will – one or the other.

Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra

Either my head will

burst open or the world will

– one or the other.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Wow, Daegu (South Korea) went from not protecting Daegu Pride in 2018 the way they should've to receiving education sessions on Queer culture and becoming public allies and vowing to protect Pride from then on and doing exactly so every single year culminating in this year when their hobgoblin of a mayor tried to destroy Pride, and now even protesting in favor of Pride? Growth.

It's important to note that the courts also supported Pride and the mayor publicly threatened the police chief, yet the police still went to protect and support Pride.

"South Korean news agency Yonhap estimated that about 500 protesters and 1,500 police officers were at the scene. The festival ultimately continued, with the parade taking place as planned."

ID: tweet from @marksnotnice: Trying to find a free public restroom will radicalize you.

this has been retweeted by josh! @queersocialism, who adds: not even just a public restrooms but the continual decrease i spots to just like sit down outside - smoke a cig, or even just take a break from walking briefly - and knowing the lack of places to sit coincides with the rise in homelessness & subsequent anti-homeless infrastructure 💔. end ID.

A bunch of teenagers doing TikTok trends accidently knocked over a piece of Stonehenge and the entirety of Stonehenge became Regirock in response. It was not happy.

Aside from the other stuff, why do I feel like “teenagers accidentally knocking over Stonehenge while doing a TikTok challenge” is something that wouldn’t even surprise me if it happened in this weird timeline that we live in?

snek <r***********o@gmail.com> submitted: Hello!! i saw submissions were open so i ran over to submit this guy! tried to identify him on iNaturalist and it said it was a wheelbug, but the only wheelbugs ive ever seen are VERY different from this guy and in a quick google search i couldnt find any sexual dimorphism. found in the woods in [removed] :) (please remove location)

Hello! Yes, it’s a wheel bug, but it’s a nymph. You’ve likely only seen adults before :)

Yooo! I saw two of these this morning in the back yard and I wasn’t sure what they were! Awesome :)

OH I AM SO HERE FOR WEIRD DICE WEDNESDAY

pictured:

  • 55mm d20 (dark elf dice)
  • d100, d60, d48, d30, d24, d16, weird d12, weird d8, d7, d5, weird d4, and a d3/re-skinned d6 (dark elf dice)
  • 33mm liquid core d20, which i forgot to shake before taking this picture (dark elf dice)
  • d20 but every side is a 1 (heartbeat dice)
  • 10mm d20 and d8, from a 7pc mini polyhedral set (dark elf dice)
  • 2d20 and a d8 from a retro dice set, sporting a funky digital font (orcansee games)
  • d20 and d6 from a set of chessex lab dice (set IV, gemini black/white with pink), showing the little design of an erlenmeyer flask with a d4, d10, and d20 inside
  • d8 and d6 from a set of chessex dice (vortex electric yellow with green), chosen for being the most and least opaque respectively

the last two are from the first dice set i ever bought, which i chose specifically because they looked horrible. they're marbled florescent yellow & transparent, with bright green ink, and they're even worse in-person

i also have 3d20 made out of silicone, which i sadly don't have on me right now! vibrant as hell and more on the squishy side than the bouncy side, all from normal human designs on etsy

dark elf dice also sells 45mm metal d20s and a d120, both of which i'm hoping to get eventually <3

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very jealous of the liquid core - Paper

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I think one of the cases of not just mammal bias, but human bias that's most egregious is, unsurprisingly, the quaternary. Because funnily enough a lot of research focuses on humans and our ancestors but even when it's not specifically about them, it's very typically animals we would have interacted with. Animals that would have had little bearing on the lives of humans get brushed aside a lot imo. Like good luck getting people to care about inverts from the last couple million years like people at least care about inverts from the early paleozoic

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EXACTLY. It's like the moment humans show up, nothing else matters. Drives me *bonkers*.

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