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crocheted & embroidered lichen installation

fascinating to watch society increasingly work itself into contortions about how to make a principled distinction between boy tits (pedestrial!) and girl tits (taboo!) because even as the rigid gender binary is slowly chipped away, we can’t handle the fact someone somewhere might be turned on

some breast cancer survivors have breasts but no nipples; are their chests nsfw? if they have their nipple transplanted to their forehead, must it be covered? if i have my nipples moved to my forehead but then later acquire tits via hrt or breast implants, then are they nsfw? why is a trans man’s chest post top surgery sfw but not pre? why is a flat-chested woman’s chest never sfw? what if someone refuses to disclose their AGAB? must they wear Schroedinger’s Sports Bra at all times? if someone transitions, has top surgery, then decides to go back to identifying as a woman, does their chest become NSFW again, or does it remain SFW?

so many philosophical questions! and what a waste of human brain power and technical ability to spend it all on arcane points of content moderation. at what point does this all become such a drag on our economy, that we have to jettison our hangups or else permit innovation to grind to a halt?

them: SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST MEANS HUMANS MUST BE INDIVIDUALLY SELF-SUFFICIENT AND COMPLETELY INDEPENDENT

biologist:

Like literally the only reason we didn’t go extinct is because we are aggressively social creatures who community organized and helped each other when faced with disasters that drove other species over the brink. 

 (Like we’re so aggressively social that we looked at APEX PREDATORS and went ‘they look soft! Friend????’)

(The answer was yes because wolves are also aggressively social and they adopted the strange tall not-wolves just as eagerly.)

humans @ wolves: holy shit these things are so cute i wonder if they’ll let us pet them?

wolves @ humans: holy shit these things are so cute i wonder if they’ll pet us?

Just in case people want source, here you go: humans are compelled to help each other in disaster situation, humans feel an innate urge to help others. We will help strangers too, not just family, and it has been tested. 

Also we’ve always taken care of our elderly and disabled. When life was literally “hunt and gather every day to live”, we saw value in taking care of those with disabilities. 

reblog to make a libertarian mad

late summer / early fall thoughts

Some of these Night Vale tweets get deep and I love them for that

maybe i’m a goddamn bleeding heart hippie liberal but i’m totally down with paying an extra .50 cents for a thing of fries if the person who makes me those fries doesn’t have to work 3 jobs just to survive.

most studies show that prices would only have to go up by 1 to 3 cents in order to raise employee wages significantly

or, you know, the ceo’s could take pay cuts but that would be so hard for the poor multimillionaires

As a working class consumer, that comment is really important. I see a lot of liberals who mean well but unfortunately have this kind of saviour mentality that doesn’t allow for the fact that poorer consumers don’t have as much leeway to make the kind of sacrifices they’re volunteering consumers as a whole to make. It’s really important to show how completely moot that conversation is and how easily this problem could be solved if we as a society stopped allowing the wealth to hoard such a massive amount of our resources.

prev had extremely beautiful and profound thoughts i had to share

This just in: men are good. Masculinity is good. Being a man is good. Yes including cis men. Especially including trans men. If you’re someone who loves men, that’s good. Male love is good: the way men love each other, the way men love themselves is good. You should not be ashamed of loving men or of being a man, you should not shame others for loving men or being a man. Maleness is not a threat or an evil or unsafe.

it's been talked about plenty but it just continually blows my mind how many people are completely fixated on social justice at a macro level while totally incapable of showing basic decency to the people around them.

Story Time!

Upfront: I am a Black Woman. I currently live in Portland, OR.

In 2020 I had been living here permanently for about a year with a roommate who I didn't know before I'd moved in. She was a white woman, younger than me by over 10 years, who was very left and self-identified as someone who cared about social justice.

As you might know, in the summer of 2020 there were major protests here in response to police violence and murder. One day I was chatting with the roomie and it came out that she had been going to those protests (I wasn't aware). I was very agitated because, well, covid. When I mentioned that going to the protests put her in danger of catching it, she said:

Who cares about getting covid when the police are killing Black people?

Friends. FRIENDS.

My brain froze because I just could not fathom how she could make that statement.

She knew that I didn't have health insurance. She'd heard that there were worse outcomes for Black people. And at this point -- before vaccines or any other protections beyond masking and hoping you didn't get it -- if she caught covid it meant I would certainly get it, too.

In arguing about this with her she claimed that it wasn't that dangerous and that really only elderly people and the immunocompromised were really in danger. When I yelled: I AM IMMUNOCOMPROMISED she apologized for not knowing that.

But she still wanted to keep going to the protests. Even though I stated that I needed her to not.

Because Black Lives Matter is important, you see.

Not my Black life, though. Not as much.

I ended up having to move out. In the middle of a pandemic. I no longer speak to her.

opens box that reads "i wanna draw again". inside lies a note. the note says, "mental illness and difficult circumstances have taken years of interest, accessibility, and skill away from me. i want to forgive myself for that. i want to heal my relationship to my hobbies. i want to feel connected to something that once made me feel good, but the cyclic discouragement is difficult to overcome." i turn over the note. on the back it reads "wannta drawe sexy bodies awooga"

fUuuuuu-

Infighting only helps our oppressors.

Infighting only helps our oppressors.

Infighting only helps our oppressors.

Infighting only helps our oppressors.

Infighting only helps our oppressors.

You don't have to understand someone completely to respect them and fight for their right to exist.

!!!

a friend of mine has been saying "de-escalate all conflict that is not with the enemy."

we have real, life-threatening forces to fight back against.

Welcome to the funniest set of memes I’ve ever seen thank you

Omg guys we should build a tower tall enough to crack the vault of the heavens

This is a great idea and nothing can go wrong

no entiendo lo que dices puedes repetir las instrucciones