idk just a bunch of gay shit

The neurodivergent experience is talking about your brain as if it's a separate entity from your self

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A cowboy rode into town and stopped at a saloon for a drink. Unfortunately, the locals always had a habit of picking on strangers, which he was. When he finished his drink, he found his horse had been stolen. He went back into the bar, handily flipped his gun into the air, caught it above his head without even looking and fired a shot into the ceiling.

“Which one of you sidewinders stole my horse?!”, he yelled with surprising forcefulness.

No one answered.

“Alright, I’m gonna have another beer, and if my horse ain’t back outside by the time I finish, I’m gonna do what I dun in Texas! And I don’t like to have to do what I dun in Texas!”

Some of the locals shifted restlessly. The man, true to his word, had another beer, walked outside, and his horse has been returned to the post.

He saddled up and started to ride out of town. The bartender wandered out of the bar and asked, “Say partner, before you go… what happened in Texas?”

The cowboy turned back and said, “I had to walk home.”

Fun fact, this may actually account for many of the “imaginings” we have of extinct animals.

I had a molecular biology professor who referred it to “vacuum packing” where many extinct animals are rendered slimmer or muscular than they may have been, since things like body fat and fur are not preserved during fossilization. So our view of animals like dinosaurs may be entirely inaccurate.

There’s actually a book, All Yesterdays, in which the artist, CM Koseman, draws modern animals as we might have interpreted them to look if we found them extinct the same way do dinosaurs.

Fun examples include:

The manatee

An elephant

Swans

And literally the picture of the hippo

Another funny thing to add to this…because of how fossils are formed, it’s possible we don’t know what type of dinosaurs were different species or the same species.  If we compare the skeletons to modern animals, snake skeletons often look pretty much the same so if all snakes were extinct we may believe they were all one species of animal instead of hundreds.  Meanwhile, all dog breeds are considered the same species Canis lupus familiaris (technically domestic dogs are a subspecies of Canus lupus, the Grey Wolf, but you get what I mean) despite their skeletons being drastically different from each other (compare a pug skull to a great dane and to a poodle…they’ll look different).

So, if all snakes were mistaken for being only a small handful of species and modern dogs could be mistaken for a BUNCH of unique different species…think about how that knowledge can reflect onto our current understanding of extinct animals.

alternate title: young children gawk at flaming homosexuals

Another alternate title: the bailey school kids need to mind their own damn business

the covers with women are equally gay

so basically having these obnoxious kids pry into your personal life is mlm/wlw solidarity

Roommates making fun of me bc I tried to pick up my cat and she went slack so I couldn't, and I scolded "you turn back into a solid right this instant"

something weird

OH HELL YEAH

THIS IS IT

THIS IS MY FUCKING JAM NOCTURNAL SUBWAY DOLPHINS IN SLIGHTLY OMINOUS LIGHTING FUCK YEAH

IM NOT SURE IF IT’S A GENRE BUT “HYPERREALISTICALLY RENDERED ANIMALS DOING WEIRD SHIT WITH PHYSICS IN EXTREMELY URBAN BUT TOTALLY DESERTED SETTINGS” IS A THING I SEE A LOT OF AND I NEED MORE.

Tyree Callahan, The Chromatic Typewriter

reddit sent me an email recommending this article, and it just rubs me the wrong ways, and makes me a little frustrated with how a huge part of the scientific community views astronomy.

First of all, why does humanity collectively need to have a “goal”? No creature on this planet evolved because it was like,, striving towards something.

Most of the time, becoming a multiplanetary species is framed as necessary for preserving the human race, lest it go extinct. And I have to ask... why should we care? Their first justification for becoming multiplanetary is because eventually the sun will die:

Which makes me laugh because, that’s 5 billion years from now???? Our species haven’t even been around for a million years, why do you think suddenly we’ll last longer than not only any other species, but life itself??? Longer than the Earth itself?? It’s unlikely that any of Earth’s current species will be around then, unchanged from how they are today.

Also, there’s always this talk about “colonizing” other planets. I don’t think it’s inherently wrong to want to live on other planets, but the term “colonization” has certain connotations as though we’re entitled to any planet we deem vacant. Which can become really complicated really quickly because we only have one example of Life. Hypothetically, there could be life on other worlds that don’t fit our definition of what Life is (and we might not fit in their definition of Life either).

ggghfhfj just,,, maybe I’m just nihilistic but the eternal existence of humans isn’t That Important

wish women’s fitness was more about boosting our energy and getting our bones and joints ready for our old age and getting strong enough to punch men and less about losing weight while getting a bigger ass

Wish women's fitness was more about joyfully moving our bodies to heal our minds and less about avoiding the shame of not being fuckable.

Loving that OP isn’t even calling out the place by name.

Hey @mistresskabooms do you think something like this would work for us?

@candidlyautistic check this out! :o

This is pretty cool!

For my peeps with executive dysfunction!  

Oh my -god-

HOLY SHIT WHAT A GREAT IDEA OP

Cat derps out while bathtime. 

Disabled children deserve to see themselves in every genre, in every setting, not as the victim, not as a morality pet, not as a reminder of horror, of tragedy, but as a character, we’re allowed to be characters

...... yeah can i get your girl's number?

Wife material. This dude is insane.

just ember island things

Today’s gay disaster:

So two firefighters came into my store this morning. Now, we get firefighters in the store once in a while, probably because our complex is perpetually setting off the fire alarm, and every time they show up my whole team fawns over them like they’re walking sex gods and I don’t really Get It.

But y’all. Two firefighters came into my store this morning, and I Get It. Because that woman was so goddamn attractive, with her dark eyes and her muscles and her strong hands and her charming smile and her casual confidence just lounging around like she owned the place and a;dlfghadfghdfg I have never looked at ANYONE and immediately stopped breathing but y’all it HAPPENED. This woman was so stunningly handsome that I literally cannot tell you what the other female firefighter in the room looked like beyond “I think she was blonde.”

But you know what, I’m BoH so I didn’t have to talk to the stunningly handsome firefighter, and that was fine. I minded my business and tried (and failed) not to look at her. Until the next guests came in, and I said “Hi, welcome in!” reflexively like I’m supposed to.

And this firefighter. She looked at me with this cheeky little smirk, and she said, “Hey now. You didn’t welcome me in.”

And instead of saying something coy, or charming, or clever, the words that actually came out of my mouth were: “Well, you’re very attractive, and it threw me off.”

Y’all she chuckled and she WINKED AT ME. And I’m pretty sure I died on the spot.

She was so charming that I didn’t realize until an hour later that she wasn’t wearing a mask and I’d forgotten to be annoyed about it.

So today I get to work and my boss hands me my paperwork and… a lighter. A nondescript blue plastic lighter, which I flip over a couple of times looking for initials and then, not seeing any, I ask, “Whose is this?”

“It’s for you,” my boss says, with that look on his face like he’s trying not to give away the punchline of a joke.

And y’all, it’s relatively early in the morning. I haven’t been getting a lot of sleep lately. I haven’t had my coffee yet. So forgive me, because my dumb gay ass asks, “What for?”

Which it turns out is exactly what he wants me to ask, because he says with a big grin, “Heard you wanted to get someone’s attention at the fire department.”

All day long at regular intervals he points out flammable objects around the store.

I swear my entire team is out to get me.