im having feelings about the uffington white horse again

so essentially there’s this cool horse drawn into the hills in england made out of chalk and it’s like 3,000 years old.

people carved trenches 3,000 years ago and filled them with chalk in the shape of a horse but what’s interesting is that if you fail to maintain the horse by adding new chalk regularly, it will disappear. for 3,000 years, we’ve been filling in chalk in this horse so it doesn’t disappear.

we’ll never know what the purpose of the horse was originally. we’ll never know if it had ritual or spiritual significance or if it was just art. but we do know that people maintained it then, and, even though the meaning of the horse has long been lost to time, we continue to maintain it now.

the people who made this horse are long dead, but they live through us still, don’t you think?

couldn’t agree more we’re best friends now

America is pretty shit but I think every single non-american I've ever talked to agrees that American breakfast food fucks super hard.

Ah! I see how you can make that mistake! You see, Whimsy Boiled Gutter Beans or whatever the English "people" eat for breakfast is not actually food.

OH MY GOD THAT WAS AMAZING

@myshunomisfits

This is getting on my fucking nerves, so I’m just going to say it here:

Adults who need high levels of support in daily living are not children. 

“Mental age” is a concept rooted in eugenics, and it doesn’t actually exist.

No one should be robbed of agency or dignity because of their need for support. Oh, also, while we’re at it (since disability rights activism that doesn’t tackle age-related oppression is bullshit), kids deserve to be treated with respect too. Shouldn’t be a controversial statement, but it is.

Most people neglect to mention this, but if “being treated like a child” equates to “being robbed of agency and dignity,” there’s something fundamentally wrong with the way we treat children. 

Sneaky snek cat. (via)

I unironically think we should denormalize calling people freaks because it's in fact an ableist slur

It originated from the phrase "freak of nature" which - othering disabled people, that's a great start - is closely tied with the concept of the freak show. While freak shows at the time were a way for disabled people to have a found family and make a living in an unforgiving capitalist society, they still stem from the idea that disabled bodies are a spectacle. Intersex people were also often found at freak shows, so there's an element of intersexism as well. Freak shows objectified disabled people for able bodied people's amusement and the term freak cannot be separated from them

In later years, the term freak was expanded to include people perceived to behave irrationally, which includes neurodivergent people, mentally ill people and especially addicts. The foundation of the bullying I received as a child was triggering meltdowns in me for neurotypical children's amusement in a very freak show-like fashion, so this hits close to home. The usage of freak in modern vernacular more or less boils down to "I don't think you behave in the way I believe a Normal™ person should and for that reason I believe you deserve abuse". That idea alone is excessively cruel and expressing it with an ableist slur makes it so much worse

A person who disagrees with your pretty discourse isn't a freak, you're just an ableist

i promised an exclusive report about the day the worlds longest grill came to this tiny town and here it is. every moment of my life and yours as well has led up to this so please watch

I’ve thought about this video at least once a week for years

FedEx: shits on my box, stomps on my box, kicks it, dumps gasoline on it, throws one of my chickens into the back of the van UPS: whispers at my front door “is anyone home” as quietly as possible before leaving a “we missed you!” note, tries to gaslight me into thinking my address doesn’t exist USPS: sets my package down gently where it’s not visible from the road, knocks on the door and kisses me directly on the mouth

Is this…shipping discourse?

Amazon once threw a package at my door and then took a photo while it was midair. Not sure where that fits in this schema but I did want to tell y’all about it.

omg I’m dying about this

I feel like quarantine has de-acclimated me to human society and if this ever ends I’m gonna need to go into some kind of wildlife rehabilitation program but for people or I’m gonna start scuttling through the grocery store like a weasel or perhaps a pine marten

As a grocery store employee, I will tell you that I feel much more comfortable around the scuttling weasels than I do around the people who pretend like nothing happened.

I appreciate that because I’m pretty sure that at this point I’m never going to be normal about anything ever again

So you want a *different* book about magic schools...

I’m both

Absolutely losing it at this Reddit post

And the update

She buttered Jorts

The outrage summed in a perfect Tweet:

FINALLY

I’ve been collecting the best Jorts tweets and waiting until the moment he showed up on my dash to post them. So here you are, the curated best of the past, oh, day or so: