By the way with the supreme court reopening Lawrence and considering making anything other than cishet vanilla sex illegal, the "kink at pride" debate needs to die, right fucking now. We're about to see firsthand why kink and queer rights are so closely tied together and what we need is to stand in unity. This also means queer discourse needs to die, right now.

Listen, everyone. You have pride because of leather daddies and Trans Women of Color. You have pride because of the same people you're ashamed to accept into the community.

We're all about to become targets, and we can't win separated. And we especially need to protect our most vulnerable, we need to protect the members of our community that will get targeted the most.

Discourse needs to end. The United States' fascism and hate is getting worse, and anyone that knows their world history knows things might get really bad here soon, and it's more important than ever that we can stand together. If we get caught up on labels or "is this person really LGBT" or anything like that, the people that hate us all for existing will divide and conquer and we will all lose.

Op said it best

…wait, it’s NOT a sex toy ad?

I really dig the official Paralympics logo for the shooting competitions

Customer Service Wolf.

That wolf embodies the thoughts of most in customer service

I can relate to this wolf on so many levels.

I have been this wolf enough times that I might just need to eat someone.

I’m thankful for my 10th grade history teacher because:

“I have to teach the book.” He said. “You have to read it and I have to give a test on it to make sure you know what’s in it.”

“Okay,” we said. “This is what school is.”

He also said “but I don’t have any rules that say I can’t teach you more than one book.”

“But this isn’t English class,” we complained.

“No it’s not,” he replied as he handed out photocopies of a different book I do not have the name of. I would learn later that he paid for the photocopies himself, because he could not afford to buy a set of books for us, and the school wouldn’t help. We had to turn in the photocopies at the end of the lesson. He’d done this for years, and the packets of paper were sets of folders containing well read photocopies and some pages were crumbly and he’d replace whole packets or pages in a single packet at a time. He had a whole cabinet full of these folders, broke down by chapter, out of a different book. Some of the packets included photocopies from more than one book, some news articles, a couple academic papers. We were not always required to read those, but we were promised extra credit if we did.

“Write me an essay,” he’d say.

“Ugh,” we groaned. “What about?”

“The differences between what’s in the packet and what’s in your books.”

And we would. He’d accept full essays and he’d accept a simple list of differences, but that was always an assignment. Point out the differences.

“Which fact do you believe?” He would ask us.

“The packet,” we’d answer.

“Why?” He’d ask.

“Because they don’t want us to have them,” we’d answer.

“Good,” he’s smile. “With this chapter, I’m not going to give you a packet. I want you to make your own packet based on the information in this chapter in your government supplied textbook.”

“Ugh,” we groaned.

But we learned how to do some simple research, and we were told that Wikipedia could be edited by anyone, but everyone that edited had to present sources. We had to come up with twenty pages worth of extra information on the chapter in our textbook. The textbook’s chapter was something like ten pages long. We had to do our essay/lists on what was left out/added/changed. It was a good two week long project.

“Why am I making you do this?”

“Because it’s busy work,” someone answered.

He frowned. “Because one day you’ll be presented something as fact and you’ll have to decide if it is fact or not.”

“How do we know the difference?”

“Maybe one day one of you will grow up and be able to give a simple answer to that question because I don’t have that answer.”

“You just didn’t want to do the work to make a packet yourself, huh?”

He smiled. “That is an advantage to having minions.”

And then he laughed like an evil vampire and we watched a movie.

This is one of those Tumblr things where I don’t much care if it’s a true story or not, because it’s an extremely good idea for how to teach history — and, based on my own super-brief stint in attempting to teach young stubborn kids via unconventional-but-effective methods (primarily with the goal of feeling like I was educating them in a helpful and lasting way), this is a fantastic idea.

You know. I get a lot of notes and tags on this post saying “and everyone clapped” and honestly, thats fine. I haven’t been in tenth grade in over fifteen years. This is paraphrased based on the experience of being in this man’s classroom for a whole school year. I 100% don’t remember his exact words or phrasing. This is a ~takeaway~ from the lessons this particular teacher gave us. I AM happy people don’t trust it’s authenticity because you shouldn’t trust everything you read. That’s the whole reason I wrote this in the first place.

However, the vampire voice was real. He was a character named Count Vlad who knew history because “he lived through it first hand.” He came out every time we watched a movie in that class, which we did often. We were way too old for this sort of teaching. We knew it. He knew it. He didn’t care. Count Vlad critiqued movies based on historical events with how accurate or false they were for the sake of selling movie tickets.

He was honestly one of my favorite teachers.

girl are you the first preserved dinosaur butthole cause you are “perfect” and “unique”

outfits to wear on a first date

@rox-and-prose

Anti wolf heck collar

“The purpose of the collar is to protect the dog wearing it when it has to fight the wolves. The collar base protects the dog’s throat and carotid arteries, while the spikes are intended to deter bites to the neck or even injure wolves trying to do so.”

“And what do you get from serving humans that you do not get from running free?” sneered the wolf.

“Free food, unconditional love and tactical upgrades,” replied the herding dog.

I see your anti-wolf dogs and raise you Spanish War Dogs.

I see your Spanish war dogs and raise you the Tibetan Mastiff, which was actually bred to fight tigers and has fur so thick that it doesn’t need armor

They’re also what I like to describe as ‘fuck you’ big

you want a fuck you dog ok i see your tibetan mastiffs, and raise you the caucasian shepherd dog 

they were bred to hunt bears, and they are fuck you dogs.

All I see are Good Pupps. 

All I see are Fereldans trying to one up each other on their knowledge of dog breeds

A dog named Beanie wearing an anti-coyote vest

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/12/beanie-the-dog-coyote-vest/577540/

^ If you live in an area with coyotes I actually recomend those

Reblog to make your puppets heckin punk AF

And then there’s this guy

The above cat is @cat-cosplay

Please give credit!

We’ve done functional armor too.

@carnalreincarnated @climbermedic well this went in a bunch of directions.

Splendid.

“Cry ‘Havoc!’, and let slip the cats of war!”

THE ONLY GREEK GOD TWINK IS HERMES, APOLLO IS ON THE HUNKIER SIDE OF TWUNK AT BEST. DIONYSUS IS THE GOD OF FEASTING AND ORGIES AND PARTYING DUDE LOOKS LIKE JACK BLACK. HES GOT MEAT. HES GOT CHUB. STOP LYING TO YOURSELF.

HADES IS NOT A TWINK. HADES HAS NEVER BEEN A TWINK. HE IS ALMOST ALWAYS DEPICTED WITH A BEARD. NONE OF YOU KNOW WHAT TWINKS ARE.

OP, mythology is fluid, and if you think Dionysus was never depicted as a twink then you haven’t studied enough mythology

MAYBE READ HISTORIA BY BOPHADES

I can't seem to find this book. Do you have any more information on the author?

Yeah Boryphus of Sarmatia often romanized as Bophades was a (likely fake or at least pseudo-eponymous) proto-historian from the area we now know as Iran. Little is known about him, but what of their writing and theogony we have was recovered from the wreck of what was probably an early roman treasure ship returning from Rhodes to Rome. The writings themselves were found along with some rather anachronistic bronze artifacts believed to be an early Greco-Roman mechanical computer, far more advanced than anything thought possible at the time. Boryphus is known for his dry wit, and what is likely fantastical satire on contemporary political events and mythological history.

Absolutely gutted this didn't end with "Bophades Nuts"

He's a fascinating chunk of history that dips into some wacky conspiracy theories about "lost eras". I.e. the theory that there are entire civilizations missing from the historical record due to things like catastrophic geological events erasing ruins or disasters like the burning of Alexandria destroying records of their locations. Specifically his relationship to the Antikytherian mechanism and the Roman treasure ships leads some credence to his odd theogony.

But there's even evidence to back up his non-pseudo-eponymmous existence. There are archeological arguments to be made in changes to the sediment around Antikytheria around the 2nd century that line up with mass-extinction of plant life that Boryphus mentions in Historia. Specifically, he mentions fruiting trees similar to almonds that don't actually exist. Or so we thought! Even in historical circle, the problem posed by evidence for Bophades' Nuts is something that starts fistfights.

ty for stealing this one much appreciated

people in the notes suggesting it was "improper" for the juror to do this or that it "introduced bias" to the court proceeding 🙄 the ice agent in question accused a moc of assaulting him / resisting arrest. how is the agent being a white supremacist not relevant. what universe are you living in

As a member of the world’s SECOND oldest profession, I assure you this is just one of many ways the justice system is systematically fucked up.

For anyone who wants to know how to fact check something you are told while on jury duty without getting fined:

First, you need to understand that the rule that jurors can’t just google things is coming from a good place. Like imagine that you are on a jury that’s considering, say, a medical malpractice lawsuit and one of your fellow jurors comes into the jury room and says to you, “I think the victim’s expert was lying because WebMD totally contradicts everything they said.”

And you might be like, “But WebMD is notoriously unreliable website and the expert you’re talking about is a researcher from Mayo Clinic.” But this person cannot be swayed.

Like, we can all agree that would be bad.

So even though these rules can contribute to unjust outcomes as in the case above (and seriously, the fact that the defense attorney didn’t fact check that is probably grounds for legal malpractice), they also prevent jurors from just looking up bullshit online and taking it more seriously than the actual experts the court has put on. And I think in the era of anti-vaxxers/QAnon/COVID denial/etc., we can all understand why it’s a bad idea to trust that people can tell fact from bullshit online.

So in light of this, how do you as a juror fact check something?

The key here is that you have to ask the court for information. Jurors can ask questions of the court during deliberations, so if something you said sounds off to you, you can ask for more information.

The key term you want to use here is “credibility.”

The job of a jury is to decide what are called “questions of fact.” Long before the trial even starts, lawyers will have hashed out all the “questions of law” --- like, what the statute of limitations is; what laws, exactly, were allegedly broken; whether the court you’re in even has jurisdiction; stuff like that. Jurors are responsible for deciding which side’s version of the facts has more credibility.

For instance, if the prosecution’s witness says X and the defense’s witness says Y, the jury is responsible for deciding which is true, X or Y. And you do this by weighing which one is more credible.

So in this case, if the juror had known to, he could have told the judge, “In order to properly assess the ICE agent’s credibility, I need more information about his tattoo. I have doubts about whether he was telling the truth about it, which would impact how credible I would find his testimony. Can the agent please provide evidence that it really is what he says it is?”

There are a lot of problems with our legal system, and I think one of the biggest is that jurors aren’t educated about what they can and can’t do. Juries have a lot of power, if (and only if) they know how to use it.

the pope bottoms for his god, what you might call a celestial power bottom

Please remember that almost everyone around you is traumatized. I didn’t understand this when I was younger. I wondered why people acted so strangely and irrationally. Maybe all children wonder this. The author Robert Anton Wilson said (paraphrasing), “We have never seen a completely sane adult human.” No one makes it out of this life alive. It’s not their fault. Mercy, kindness, forgiving — these are what makes one human. They are other names for love. People break in the strangest of ways.

“Under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being." — Robert Anton Wilson

i want to be annoyed that the bi loveseat is just a fun and quirky reminder that biphobia exists but the creepy plastic hands combined with a “nobody believes you” cushion just makes it fucking immaculate biphobia horror couch

I love this but not for the intended reason

ń̶͓̮̝̝̗̝̭̗͎̝̪͎̹̝̽o̵̗͓̒́̐̃͘b̶̳̯̥̘͗̔̎̀͝o̵̢̡̺͈̘͖͈̥̤̖̭̓̌͋̅́͌̀̆͌͊̇̅͜͝d̷̨͈̝̼̃̉̍̾̾̌̃́͆̂̍ͅy̷̢̡̟̤̗̜͓͖̆͋͐̋̓̚ ̴̢͔̝̦̻͈̠̓̄̆̍̄̄͛͒͌b̷̡̧̼̖̹̯͍̰̔̐̎̿̊͜͠ê̵̹͍͈͙͍̹͙̬̱̗̳̈́͆̍́̈́̉͠͠ͅͅḷ̷̛̊̀͑͂̇̋͒ì̴͇̅̐̅̽̌͐̇͊̂̀̚͘͝ẽ̸̩̻͆̉̂͆͋́́͐̑͌̌̓͘͝v̷͕͕̓̈̎̀͆̔̒̌͆ͅĕ̵̡̬̩̦̯̠͎̠̫͍̻̳̥̲̍̇̐̃̈́̇͘̕ş̸̨̢̧͙̙͔̤̳̪͌̍̅͆͜ͅ ̴̮͎͖̗̲̘̠̫͚̓̈̐̉̄͊̄y̷̫̍̃́̈́̈́̈́͐͊̆̄͒̿͝ŏ̶̘̟͈͕̥̇̒̃̊͌̓̊ù̵͉͎̟̺͔͚̟̯̥̳̤̠͈̩͇͌͠

I hate everyone that made me see this

*hyping myself up to go outside* you are strange and unsettling you are strange and unsettling

tony hawk on his hello kitty phone

someone finally said it 😩👏👏☕️🐸