unironically people need to learn to say “they haven’t done anything wrong i just find them annoying”

It's not that I think a person, entrusted with control over their own body, could never make the wrong decision, I just think that any entity entrusted with control over someone else's body is definitely going to make wronger decisions

The whole Reddit thing is an especially striking example of corporate brain rot because, like, they managed to build their entire business model on the back of exploiting vast quantities of unpaid volunteer labour, and successfully convinced the entire Internet that this is a normal state of affairs. How do you fuck that up? How do you convince yourself that instituting a de facto demand for your very nearly 100% volunteer workforce to pay you for the ability to use the tools that are required to do their job is anything other than cutting your own throat?

Stained glass bathtubs are impractical at best but that doesn’t mean I don’t still want one

baristas deserve 100 dollars per hour

there's a whole culture of mostly white women whose entire personality is "Don't talk to me before I've had my coffee or ill kill you" and a barista's job is to deal with those people before they've had their coffee

Nothing I’ve read has changed me more than “you do people a favor by accepting their help” like I repeat this constantly to so many people because it’s true!!! People like to feel useful, they like to feel kind, they like to feel like they have an ability to impact people’s lives so just let them!! Not everything is a thing to be owed back — accept people’s kindness without making a competition out of it

Common tree shrew

GET HIS ASS

This animal looks fucking FAKE

the tree shrew is extremely similar in format to the 65 million year old mammals that survived the dinosaurs and their mass extinction to eventually became you and me.  

often referred to as a “living fossil” the little direct physical evidence we have indicates that they have undergone almost no evolutionary changes in at least the last 34 million years. One of gods perfect idiots, no need for revision

watching reddit go into a full death spiral is like watching the specifically trans equivalent of the library of alexandria go up in flames

like yes reddit is also the only place on the internet you can get an actual answer to any question in general. but it’s also a huge centralized community database about which surgeons will fuck you over, who takes what insurance, which doctors you can trust, how to write a template therapist’s letter, insurance appeals, peer support, questions that feel too stupid to ask anywhere else, diy guidelines, “hey this is embarrassing but,” finding trans people in your area, explaining why you need PTO without getting way too personal about it, safety tips, et cetera you get the picture

Someone on trans Reddit just bought the url transgender.org and have put out a call for folks to help turn it into a replacement (and more). Here's a link on r/ftm but it's open to everyone

art tips

Gonna add on to this, if that's ok, because I think a lot of people don't know how to categorize their work:

You don't have to be a professional (ie get paid) to be any of these things. You can claim the title without making any claims to the quality of your work. It's ok.

TIL a family in Georgia claimed to have passed down a song in an unknown language from the time of their enslavement; scientists identified the song as a genuine West African funeral song in the Mende language that had survived multiple transmissions from mother to daughter over multiple centuries (x)

Outside

op this is good commentary but I’m mostly just captivated by how you drew the kid as a teeny little grub with a propeller hat

It's kinda cute how Argentina just sorta reaches her hand out so she can have a border with Brasil 🥰

Alguém aí já tinha reparado nessa mãozinha boba da Argentina?

... é Yuri ou Yaoi?

"Czar Nicholas II committed atrocities on a grand scale. This justifies the American prison system" is an absolutely sizzling take btw.

Lmao

reached the final phase of insanity regarding my fast food job (started viewing all my job observations through the lens of RPG Squidward)

i need to quit so bad

shinzo abe day was incredible. still not over seeing all the rumours about what happened, joining everyone in wondering how the fuck a shotgun assassination could have happened in japan, and then seeing the first photo of the doohickey

Lemme look something up...

This is literally some Looney Toons level bullshit

Ah yes, the first Spanish astronaut

Same-sex marriage in 2003 vs. 2013 vs. 2023

(20 years of change)

More info below:

Nearly twenty years ago, I was volunteering as a hotline staffer at GLAD -- the LGBTQ law firm that brought about same-sex unions and marriages in New England. Every week I would take a lot of heartbreaking phone calls from queer folks who were in states that didn't yet recognize same-sex partnerships. I heard from so many people being separated from their partner and/or their kids, because their families or their workplaces or hospitals or the immigration system didn't recognize the partnership. So many who couldn't provide sick partners with health benefits. So many people who were fired for being queer. So many breakups that ended with the biological parent automatically getting sole custody of the children.

We've come SO far. Like many of you, I worry about a lot that's happening right now politically, and I know there are lots of fights left to fight. But I also try to step back often and appreciate how far we've come. Thirty years ago, I was a scared & closeted school kid, and legally-recognized same-sex unions felt like an impossible dream. The big picture shown above is amazing.

Happy Pride, all. May we look back in another decade and see many more wins for queer folks around the globe. <3

same as it ever was