Be Good & Be Safe.

that's a dog 😭

ireland, i love you, but i think yall have forgotten what wolves look like

The people who police your gender will police your gender even if you're cis.

Eat them.

"OH those body builder women with pancake breasts arent-" eat them.

"This woman has a beard, thats not-" eat them.

"That man has a baby face, that's not" - eat them with barbecue sauce.

Eat them. You will never be gender enough for their definition of gender. Eat them.

Urge These Resorts to Stop Offering Cruel Dolphin Experiences! | PETA

Hawks Cay Resort in Florida and The Kahala Hotel & Resort and Hilton Waikoloa Village in Hawaii are supporting the abuse of intelligent dolphins by partnering with notorious Dolphin Quest or Dolphin Connection. These companies cruelly confine dolphins to tiny lagoons so they can offer tourists “swim with dolphins” experiences for profit.

Dolphin Quest is owned by marine mammal veterinarians—that I’ve actually had the immense pleasure of meeting!—and is quite literally the gold standard in dolphin care. Their animals live in beautiful, natural ocean-water lagoons that are some of the most dynamic, enriching habitats in existence. Literally no different than the “sea pens” activists dream of, but actually self-sustaining! Dolphin Quest also takes their animals out for “walks” in the open ocean, and yet they always choose to return home.

This viral video of a dolphin birth provides a nice underwater look at the habitats. Mom chooses to hang out in the shallows for most of it, but at 2:16 you can see her swim out to the deeper area.

Additionally, Dolphin Quest has contributed millions of dollars to the scientific research of dolphins and other cetaceans, all of which is accessible through their website.

Dolphin Connection is also a lovely little facility and provides a home for a non-releasable rescue dolphin as well as a retired Navy dolphin. I’ve worked with their veterinary staff before and they’re great. DConn also utilizes sea pen habitats.

Don’t listen to PETA.

Okay I can personally vouch for Dolphin Quest they are truly the best of the best when it comes to dolphin welfare. I was at their Bermuda facility for 8 months completing an internship (unpaid so no they don’t pay me to support them lol)

They are constantly improving and diversifying their habitats and enrichment programs- including things like ocean walks and accessing larger areas of the lagoons (though it took a while to convince the dolphins it would be fun!). All their habitats are enriched with natural flora and fauna and are all ocean lagoons.

Their swim with dolphin programs are designed to be diverse and engaging for the animals so they don’t get bored. We also had specific protocols where if a dolphin showed disinterest or left to do something else, we removed all the guests from the water to let the dolphins take a break.

In Hawaii they also taught their dolphins to indicate by touching a specific target that they were done with the program and wanted to leave the session.

The dolphins were always given the agency and ability to say no. I was so inspired by their approach to training and it was a breath of fresh air after working in the horse industry where force and coercion is still accepted and normalised.

Another huge factor was how much playing and positive social interaction I saw when they weren’t in training sessions or programs. I used to watch them on my days off and take photos and it was such a joy to see the dolphins engaging in high energy play behaviour and social affiliative behaviours.

Like synchronised group swimming (linked to positive welfare states)

Honestly I can say that if you want to swim with dolphins that enjoy the programs and are well loved and cared for - Dolphin Quest is the best place to do it!

Can't stop thinking about how Willem Dafoe had to get a dick stunt double for a nude scene because everybody was so weirded out by how big his dick was that the director felt that it ruined the emotional impact of the scene

Honestly don't know if it's a compliment or an insult that everyone was so confused by the fact that the Green Goblin had a monster schlong

i think some of you guys are insane 👍 it's actually possible for a 16 year old to be online friends with someone in their 20s. source: teenagers are actually people who can talk to other people about shared interests.

21 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 that 18 year old is literally your college classmate. you are the same age. You Are The Same Age

like, the moral panic about age gaps in dating is one thing but this reddit thread was literally about Being Online Friends. you can be online friends with a teenager. they are actually people you can talk to. i promise.

it's very easy to not be a creepy adult when talking to a minor. step one: don't act creepy. that's it. that's all you need to do.

When I was sixteen, I and my boyfriend (eighteen) and his little brother (fourteen) all belonged to the same gaming group, which had been started by his father's friend Steve. We played twice a week with a bunch of people twice and even three times our age, and we learned that adults weren't aliens, they were people with their own feelings and fears and they weren't always right about everything.

Those years at Steve's table were incredibly important to my development as a person. And we had something in common: the game.

Here's the truth: when you grow up, as you go through the various developmental stages, there are things which are vital to happen for proper psychological and cognitive development. For example, when you're very young it is absolutely vital that you are exposed to language. A lot of language. Of varying levels of complexity and formality. That's vital for the healthy development of the language centers of the brain and for early socializing. It must happen. If it does not, you see severe dysfunction as they get older.

This is basic psychological and cognitive development theory. It's taught in pretty basic level Psych courses. This is known science.

Socializing with adults, of various ages, both related to you and not related to you, in various social situations from social equals to authority figure, is one of those vital landmarks. And it comes up over and over and over during development. As a young child you must interact with adults, who care for you, so you can understand care and safety. And it gets more deep and more complicated as you develop.

Preteens and teens must interact with people older than them, significantly older, in various ways, up to and including casual friendly socializing as equals, or they will not develop properly. This is absolutely vital. Your ability to function in the real world socially depends on it.

We are fucking destroying our young people with this bullshit.

Source: Majored in Psychology with a focus on childhood development in university. This is what I went to school for.

ppl in the age of cell phones: fucking up their necks

ppl in the age of books: fucking up their necks

ppl in the age of textile art: fucking up their necks

ppl in the age of picking lice: fucking up their necks

ppl in the age of cooking: fucking up their necks

in the age of keyboards: carpel tunnel

in the age of writing by hand: carpel tunnel

in the age of squeezing water out of wet clothes after cleaning them by hand: carpel tunnel

in the age of using hand-sized stone tools: carpel tunnel

#besties i am starting to think the human skeletal system might just be trash (via @cicerfics)

you are not wrong bestie

traveling wingman

Mans is doing God’s work

the other night i saw a kid with the most nonchalant expression wearing a big puffy coat being pulled along on rollerblades by a tiny dog

you know what i'll encourage this. i think my little dog deserves 10k

can we send this guy off to 5 years hard labor in a coal mine already. my final message goodnight

Literal proof that the change in word from "trap" to "femboy", has lead to no major shift in meaning. It still means "dude who is so feminine he looks like a woman to fool straight men to be attracted to him." As a semiotician would say, the signifier changed, but the signified stayed the same.

Of course, trap "jokes" have been around in media about crossdressing for ages. Like Charley's Aunt, a play from 1892 does it. Finnster's streams and vids are just a modern digital crossdressing comedy performance, Charley's Aunt for our generation.

And don't kid me there is no connection. "Femboy" literally became popular because r/animemes banned "trap" as a transmisogynist slur, for obvious reasons. And reddit nerds got angery about it, and "femboy" become their replacement.

And let's be clear, trap narratives are transmisogynist. Trans women get accused of being crossdressing men pretending to be women to trick men into sleeping with them all the time. It's a narrative that has allowed men to get away scot-free with murdering trans women in court. Speculation about trans women transitioning to fuck straight dudes has been made into "science" by sexologist Ray Blanchard.

i think we as a society lost when we collectively accepted that the things we make won't outlast us.

like, well-built wooden furniture can last well over a century, if properly cared for, but trends come and go, so everything's made of particle board and veneer, and breaks down in under a decade. knives and hand tools and kitchen gadgets are stamped out of cheap sheet metal and are built to be disposed of instead of cared for, and only last a few years before wearing or buckling or chipping. houses are built as increasingly short-term investments, made of OSB and squeezed onto tiny lots, with the intention that they be redeveloped in a few decades.

i remember hearing an economics professor comment on roman bridges still being used by cars today, saying that if you over-engineer and over-build a bridge to the point it can still be used 2000 years later, then you've just waisted public funds and labor. and i remember how i grated against that. against the idea that something could be designed to last not only past the builders lifetime, but past the life of a civilization.

l'm not about to stand up and say that industrialization is an inherently bad thing. i think it's great that clothing doesn't cost thousands of dollars and people can basically furnish a home in their 20's for under ten grand, but like. i feel like there has to be some kind of social-psychological shift in knowing that the things we make now won't be around after we die. they won't be passed on and looked after. they won't be loved.

I write code. I send emails. I write documentation. the things i create will be garbage in a couple years, if I'm lucky. I'm drawn to bookbinding as a hobby, because i wish my words would last. i wish they would sit on someones shelf, be pulled down again and again, and live a life of their own. I enjoy woodworking because i can have some hope that maybe, if i make something good enough, it'll be passed from person to person, and maybe, one day, outlive me.

i think a hundred years ago people could expect to leave a tiny, physical legacy in the lives of dozens, hundreds, even thousands of people. I think today most of us can't imagine that. and i think that's kinda sad. idk what to do about it. but i think it's fairly new, and wish i could make a chair that someone will sit in a hundred years from now, and feel comfortable. that i could still touch their life, and make them happy, even if they'll never know who i was.

and to be super clear, that's not to say shitty stuff wasn't made a hundred years ago. it absolutely was. cheaply made things that fell apart have been a thing as long as humanity has been trading. some crappy copper comes to mind. my point is more, if you worked manufacturing, building, creating stuff, and you cared, and you put that care into your work, you could expect a legacy of it. not all of it, things will break, things will be lost, but like. some of it. at the very least.

Reading through the notes on this post, i feel like a lotta folks really missed the point here. Yes, it sucks that the stuff we have doesn't last as long, but that's not really what this post is about. I'm speaking from the perspective of production, of how the constant background radiation of knowing the things we make will never outlive us, has a range of impacts that we haven't really explored. How not leaving behind a physical legacy of our daily work prevents us from feeling connected to the future, from feeling like a part of some future history, of knowing that for most of us, our effort and our work will not survive us.

Yes, you can still find some things that are made to last. Yes, if you can afford to, you can take up a hobby where you build things that will last. Yes, things are cheaper now, and a lot of things are better, but my point isn't about that. It's that, for many people and many positions, the longevity of the production of our daily work has changed a lot in the last 100-150 years, and i feel like we haven't really come to terms with the psychological shift associated with that.

"Biden is funding a literal genocide!"

Yeah - and so will Trump. Like, if you don't vote for Biden, Trump will win, and he will continue to send aid to Israel - in fact, he will likely send MORE aid to Israel. That's the reality of the world we live in.

And, to be honest, any US president will support Israel. Because the USA is Israel's ally. That's how foreign policy works.

So who do you prefer?

Biden, who has helped lgbtq rights, reproductive rights, infrastructure, the environment, lowered medication costs, supported unions, and done MANY good, progressive things,

Or Trump, who we already know is awful. Who we already know will destroy any human rights Biden managed to gain. Who will not help the environment. Who will not help trans people, or immigrants, or women.

Because those are your two choices. And if you think they're the same, you are dangerous to all marginalized people.

Also, I never see it mentioned that Biden has sent aid to Gaza and the West Bank. More than just his role getting aid trucks in through Egypt.

$100 million in October 2023. $21 million in December.

Does this pale in comparison to the aid sent to Israel? Yes. By a lot. Israel received about $3.8 billion annually due to a deal that started to take place in 2016. However, are most of you aware that these deals were made before Biden, or even Trump, were the POTUS?

Are you also aware that Trump has emboldened the right wing controlled government of Israel through his promise and achievement of opening the US embassy in Jerusalem, which while being is a holy site for several religions, has also been a site of major conflict.

Regardless how any of us might feel about Israel, we should open our eyes and see what’s going on. Not only are the people of Gaza and the West Bank being massacred via genocide, we’re actively seeing what a country under extreme (right wing this time) control will do to the people living on and near the land they consider theirs.

If anyone honestly believes Trump to be a better solution after all of those times people have made jokes and comparisons about Florida and Texas being crap holes because of the right wing policies in place, I pray for you. I pray for your memory to be better so you may remember how, under Trump, three lifetime appointments for the Supreme Court allowed for the precedents given by Roe v. Wade dissolved. I pray you remember how many families were separated with their children thrown in cages at the southern US border under Trump.

It’s quite ironic how some will criticize all of Israel and the Jewish people for a government’s actions when you see what Trump has done and still think he’s a better candidate to vote for.

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