the stray pups of yokohama

god i remembered that fucking “little white cuck ball” picture and im cackling

THIS WAS A REAL CRITICISM OF STAR WARS IT GETS ME EVERY FUCKING TIME

some notes based on my travels

DID MY YAOI STICKERS ARRIVE

it was my bachelor degree 😑

they should do an MMO where everyone is a shapeshifter and you can go live with animal herds in the wild if you want for a time but you are never entirely one of them, noting that the wild animal npcs partake in behaviors with or make calls to one another that you may not understand the logic of but can try to learn to repeat the musical cadence of. this is true of even the human npcs, whose musical language is the most intricate and complex to learn of all and who will ostracize you readily if you do not use it properly. other players are not marked as players and there is no chat feature. as an elk you may not know if the wolf chasing you is an npc or another player who does not know the same of you, and there is no chat. maybe the players would develop a sort of musical cadence to identify other shifters. no one would like this game and it would not be fun. but i would like it

were you a person? was i one? did it matter?

two sheep. standing still

i wish people were normal about fat characters. god bless

“fat people irl too” obviously. i am a fat person. but the fact that theres a culture online where if you even dare draw fat bodies or draw your favorite characters with them you’re accused of fetish mining is Very Fucked Up!!!!!!!!!!!!! not even to mention the infantilization of fat characters as uwu huggable soft cuties. fat people are PEOPLE. for fucks sake

also. also. there are actual legitimate and internalized/normalized biases that people have against fat people irl and that DOES become present in how people write or interact with fat fictional characters. presenting a fat character as only ever either an ~uwu soft bean~ or a gross sweaty pervert/discord mod/whatever or a sex object that exists for your pleasure REFLECTS ON HOW YOU INTERACT WITH REAL FAT PEOPLE!

Ive said this before but swear the biggest skill to learn as an adult is how to resist high-pressure sales tactics. You do NOT have to answer questions with anything other than "Sorry I'm not interested." No matter how nice they are or no matter how many follow up questions they ask or even how agitated they get when you stand your ground. Just keep saying I'm not interested. Don't answer their questions. Don't give them an opening to try to push back on your reasons. Be a fucking brick wall of I'm not interested.

When we bought our car, I told Sean to let me handle it. I walked in and said "We have X for a down payment and cannot pay more than Y in monthly payments." My Y number had some leeway, but I didn't mention that.

First thing the sales guy did after I laid down the rules was turn to Sean and go, "What's your number?" And Sean said. "Oh, no, you negotiate with Gayle."

So, strike one for the sales guy. Could not divide and conquer us by implying THE MAN would not surprised at what I laid down.

Sales guy then had to confer with his manager and left us at his desk for several minutes. I have a vague recollection (this was 16 years ago) of Sean and I amusing ourselves doing bits about the other people there to look at cars. I am sure we did not give off the stressed or nervous energy they were hoping for.

Guy comes back. His first offer is fifty dollars a month more than I told him we could pay. I looked at him and said "I gave you our upper limit."

"Well, but what's another 50 bucks a month?"

"Something I can't afford."

He didn't know what to do with my open and unashamed admittal that I had a budget because my money was finite.

He went back to talk to the manager again.

It took two more rounds of "I told you what I can afford" before he finally came back 20 bucks under what I'd stated as my max.

The trick to resisting high-stress sales tactics is doing the math at home, knowing exactly what you can afford, and then walking into the room and stating that number minus 15%. Then refusing to budge from that number. Never, ever, meet then where they want. Always meet them where you want. Because at the end of the day, you can walk away and go somewhere else and say "I told the people at Z what my terms were, and they refused to work with me. Here are my terms. Meet them, and you make a sale today."

this is the funniest tweet i’ve seen in months bye

these are all the geek equivalents of Lovecraft’s Cat’s Name

his cats name couldn’t be that bad!!!! it’s a cat, what’s the worst name?

i am wrong, what the fuck

Me every time this post comes back

go Google why chainsaws were invented, it’s really fun :)

why.

I’ve seen everything at this point, so why were chain saws in-

oh what the FUCK WHY

Thanks I hate it.

I could have gone my whole life without knowing it, thank you motherfucker

To be fair, its not AS bad when you read into detail. But ya. Still like getting slapped in the face with a cold fish.

i’m boutta google why chainsaws were invented now.  feel like i’m going on an adventure.

really speaks to how i’ve been around the internet, that that wasn’t what i was expecting it to be, but it was also really close to what i expected it to be.

Every time I see this post it’s gone in a completely different direction and every time it’s cursed as fuck

Surgeons really went vrrr vrrr say goodbye to your pelvis mother

$0

Sell it higher you fuck I paid my sanity instead of money

Sell it higher you

fuck I paid my sanity

instead of money

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Truly the post ever.

I wish to un-learn the chainsaw thing.

because what the fuck.

dude I love the chainsaw thing, it’s tourture!

Wait till you guys find out about Mr Hands

what is Mr Hands?

NO. DO NOT.

too late.

HOW DID YOU NOT LEARN YOUR LESSON…

hic hic … im very bad at that.

yknow what…

at least it’s not the children of god cult

yall have got to stop doing this where you talk abt shocking material with absolutely no warning as to what it's about. ESPECIALLY the mr hands thing. anyway for those who don't know and don't wanna get jumpscared or triggered: it's a beastiality case where a man had sex with a horse and it killed him bc it's a horse and iirc the horse also died but i dont remember off the top of my head and im not about to google it again. i also dont know much abt the children of god but i remember it involves SEVERE child abuse so

A girl!!

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On her way to fight the patriarchy

OHHH I HADN'T SEEN THE UPDATE oh my god i love her

A girl!!

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Actually, all artists will go insane if you draw art of their art. The same goes for fic writers. It could be a stick figure and we'd still love it. We're also kissing you on the lips

Learning anything about marine mammal training will make you re-evaluate so much of your relationship with your own pets. There is so much force involved in the way we handle domestic animals. Most of it isn’t even intentional, it just stems from impatience. I’m guilty of it myself!

But with the exception of certain veterinary settings where the animal’s health is the immediate priority, why is it so important to us that animals do exactly what we want exactly when we want it? Why do we have to invent all these tools and contraptions to force them to behave?

When a whale swam away from a session, that was that. The trainer just waited for them to decide to come back. If they flat out refused to participate in behaviors, they still got their allotment of fish. Nothing bad happened. Not even when 20-30 people were assembled for a procedure, and the whale chose not to enter the medical pool. No big deal. Their choice and comfort were prioritized over human convenience.

It’s almost shocking to return to domestic animal medicine afterwards and watch owners use shock collars and chokers and whips to control their animals. It’s no wonder that positive reinforcement was pioneered by marine mammal trainers. When you literally can’t force an animal to do what you want, it changes your entire perspective.

I want to see that mindset extended to our domestic animals.

kinda dumb comparison bc obv caged zoo animals can't run into traffic or attack other pets or even people like an untrained pet / livestock animal can. flipper won't maul your neighbour's children bc you didn't teach them that recall and impulse control are not a choice

This is my typical recommendation for keeping a dog from running into traffic:

I think this is gonna be one of the divisive things like toddler leashes where it's 100% evil when the person using it is lazy and mean but 100% justified when it's the only choice that works (like mom with 3 kids and one of them in is a runner phase, sometimes leashing the kid is the only way)

If I see you using a shock collar in a lazy evil way, I will struggle with the impulse to restrain you in the same way.

But it isn't just that marine animals aren't dealing with cars. It's also that marine animals haven't been subjected to the bonkers breeding standards that have been used on dogs. Some dogs are both very strong and very stupid and it's hard to keep them out of the danger without getting your arm dislocated.

I urge every dog owner to try and learn how to control their dog in the most humane way possible. If a dog isn't totally mentally fucked up by bad breeding, it's not that hard to figure out how to not need excessive force. Either your dog likes you enough to enjoy doing things that make you happy, or (some breeds just dgaf about your feelings when they're invested in something) you need to know what situation to not get into. Like don't walk a husky on your lunch break and be disappointed that they refused to return home in a timely manner - they don't tolerate short walks.

And please stop breeding mentally fucked up dogs. I don't care how cute they are, they have really sucky lives.

genuinely curious as to what you mean by mentally fucked up bc i've only ever seen like, discouraging physical health issues in breeding such as modern pugs (which is why retro pugs are a thing, aka breeding them the way they used to be bred and not yk, the way that causes so many issues today) but mental problems, as far as i know, aren't traits that get bred for, they're the result of improper breeding by often backyard breeders or puppy millers, and not part of the standard

i could be wrong ofc! and i'm also just curious lmao

I find it easier to explain "mentally fucked up" in horses than in dogs because the fucked up dogs are often brushed off as "don't have enough attention or training" where in horses... people who own racehorses will not argue that their racehorse doesn't have mental issues.

Clydesdales and other huge horses tend to be non-aggressive. Because if a horse has hooves the size of a dinner plate and weighs as much as some cars, people do NOT breed them if they are prone to panic or aggression. Sure, the stallions (unfixed males) are more aggressive than the geldings (fixed males) but there are LIMITS on tolerable aggression, tolerable anxiety etc etc. An aggressive Clydesdale has a high chance of causing injuries that far exceed the value of the horse.

Racehorses? Oh, Buddy has anxiety issues? Uh, lets see if making a barn cat hang out with him and travel with him keeps him from panicking himself into a heart attack. Oh, he still panics... uh, does he do better with another horse? Oh, he does not do better, he gets aggressive and now we have humans who got their ribs kicked in. LETS KEEP TRYING BECAUSE HE RUNS REAL FAST. No, lets not geld (fix) him, breeding is a good source of money! Just, IDK, get more insurance and keeps trying new animals as his friends. Maybe Buddy likes goats? (There are tons of news stories about race horses travelling with goats and cats and dogs and whoever to try to keep them chill, because the race horse is too aggressive with horses)

They keep breeding the high anxiety and high aggression horses because they make money, and they keep getting more fucked up.

It isn't as obvious with dogs, in part because it's hard to tell what is a fucked up dog and what is a dog that needs more attention. There are gray areas, but sometimes you reach a point with a dog where the % risk of them getting injured because they are aggressive or anxious just gets too fucking high. Greyhounds are kinda fucked up, being obsessive sight hounds who zero in on what they wanna chase and cannot reasonably be trained to not chase, and some rescue dogs are badly fucked up because backyard breeders and breeding mills just churn out animals without anyone giving a shit for 5 sec about prone this breed line is to panic or aggression.

But it still happens in dogs bred for show lines because "they have a pretty coat" and the breeder is hoping the puppies are not too aggressive or obsessive to be trained to go in the show ring - or maybe they can sell the puppy young before anyone notices they are not suited mentally to the work.

gotcha, ty for the thorough answer! i was mostly thinking abt dogs but the horse thing is interesting since i'm not and never have been a horse owner my knowledge there is lacking

genuinely so tired of the male love interest in every m/f romance being the most hugelarge tallman to ever growth spurt. I need to see some women swooning over little five foot five rat dudes who need to be tucked in their gf's pocket lest they blow away like a napkin in the wind.