"no trespassing" "restricted area" "private property" bro im literally curious by nature
shoutout to nonbinary/agender/otherwise gender nonconforming people who choose to wear cultural clothing typically associated with a certain gender!
jews who wear kippot, muslims who wear hijabs and burqas and niqābs and jilbābs and kimars, sihks who wear turbans, just to name a few!
whether you're wearing these because you have a connection to the gender associated with the article of clothing, or if you wear them because you want to challenge gender roles, or if youre just used to wearing them and don't think your gender should stop you from continuing, or any other reason, i think you all rule!!! im actually a nonbinary jew who wears kippot :] rock on!
and to those who are forced to wear these things, i hope one day you all are in a place where you can have the freedom of choice
If (cultural Christian) angels have bird wings, demons have bat wings and fairies have insect wings, who should get the pterosaur wings?
Obviously, Oily Josh himself
"Ascended to heaven" was a mistranslation he just started flying away in search of food
Goyim: obviously our deity ascended into heaven
Me, a Jew: nah bro he was looking for noshes
Super disappointed to find out this is talking about a particularly warm current and not a powerful Weather Ape
every so often I remember that whales molt
I’m not sure why I feel this way, but imo this is the most cursed marine mammal fact I have ever heard
THAT’S RIGHT AND THANK YOU FOR REMINDING ME SO I CAN INFLICT THIS ON EVERYONE AT 1AM!
Mammals normally shed their skin in small flakes all the time when their skin cells die off, but because whales are living in the ocean -AKA, Bacteria Stew- flaking off like that would cause microabrasions (really tiny cuts) that would mean the whale is continually fighting off infections. So, when a whale needs to replace it’s dead skin cells, it preps it’s new skin underneath, then sheds all it’s dead skin cells at once, like a lizard:
but not having hands makes it hard to remove this gross film, so molting brings many whales clsoe to shore where they can roll around on rocky/sandy coastal seabeds to scratch it off. Here’s a bunch of Beluga coming in for a mass scratch:
And THIS is what a chunk of Sperm Whale Molt looks like, floating in the water before it’s devoured by pelagic microfauna, because you take what calories you can get in the open ocean:
Nature is Amazing!
wish it still held in one big piece like a snake though. Wish you could be swimming in the ocean and you see a huge empty whale billowing like a balloon. like a latex glove a hundred feet long. imagine getting tangled in that. what if you died cause you got caught in an empty whale like it’s a big blanket
"Stop saying 15 year olds with weird interests are cringe, they're 15" this is true however you should also stop saying adults with weird interests are cringe because who gives a shit
shoutout to people who struggle with hygiene due to disability. i mean every aspect of hygiene- people who struggle to shower for weeks or months on end, people who don't, won't or can't brush their teeth for whatever reasons, people who struggle with using the toilet, incontinent people, and everyone else who has ever been made to feel bad for being "gross", for having any kind of odor, looking "bad" or unkempt- you are disabled and these are symptoms of your disabilities. fuck every single person who makes you feel like these are personal failings. you have more pressing things to worry about. fuck people who make your body their business.
"This new deletion policy is terrible for preservation of archival media" that's the point, bro. That's explicitly the point, though they'll never admit it. Major social media platforms straight up do not want archival media to be a thing – it disrupts their business model by existing, and it's hard to monetise. In their perfect world, media more than 90 days old would vanish in a puff of smoke and be irrecoverably forgotten.
thinking abt how in the days of incredibly strict and gatekept access to gender affirming care, just mere decades ago, trans and nonbinary ppl who were afab were just literally not allowed to transition. the reason our history is seen as not as extensive or influential as trans femme history is bc we were quite literally not allowed to exist.
I also always think about the relatively recent ability for women/persons afab to be financially/socially independent. Obviously still a problem as well, can't remember where I read it now and but there was an article I think (?) about ftms in India which had a quote like 'you can't be a transsexual if you're not allowed to leave the house on your own'. Same with lesbians too... gay men have historically had more laws against them for sure, but you don't need laws to stop you when it's literally not possible to live alone/together as a woman/person afab.
that last part!!!!!!!!!
What the fuck do you mean "our history isn't as influential or extensive?" You just haven't seen it. There are trans men in every era, every part of the world. This sounds like some crazy terf angle.
There are so many famous trans men of history I can't even count them. There was the cowboy guy who literally shot people who misgendered him. There was the gangster guy that they tried to cast fucking scarjo to play and everyone got the movie cancelled, thankfully. There was the famous jazz musician that nobody knew was trans until after he died at a ripe old age. There was Brandon Teena, as recently as the 90s - who has arguably the most tragic story of any of the men I mentioned.
1. Don't say things like "women/afab". That's gross. It's unnecessary when you are specifically talking about transgender men and nonbinary people. Just say transgender men, nonbinary people, butch lesbians. Say what you fucking mean, please.
2. The only reason you think this is because this history has been denied of you. While I'm sure that there were a lot of trans men who were unable to live freely because they couldn't leave their house, and that is worth talking about, please do not just say that's how it was for most of history. That is ahistorical and untrue. I am sure I could find evidence of an Indian trans man from decades ago if I looked hard enough, and even then, I know in my heart that they existed. People have been running away to be trans since they had the gender binary forced upon them. The world is much bigger than this view suggests.
what an odd reaction to this post.
like. talking abt the historical erasure of trans men and nonbinary ppl who were afab is not a “crazy te/rf angle” it’s literally talking abt the lived reality for the vast majority of trans men and nonbinary ppl who were afab before about the 1980’s. like i’m sorry but no amount of knowing in your heart that we existed back then is going to magically change the fact that the vast majority of us were not allowed to live openly or didn’t even know who we could be because people who were assigned female at birth were literally seen as property in a lot of places. idk what y’all want.
The mental gymnastics it takes to get from "our history is seen as not as extensive or influential as trans femme history" to go "oh so you think our history isn't extensive or influential?" Like buddy the phrasing "seen as" already implies that this opinion isn't true, it's just a commonly held opinion. The poor are pissing etc.
Also I'm getting very bad vibes from "Don't say things like women/afab. That's gross. It's unnecessary when you are specifically talking about transgender men and nonbinary people." Like hello "nonbinary" does not automatically imply "afab" and it's extremely shitty to say it does!!!
Truth is, it reads more like "she can do everything" and "him, it's just Ken"
And ken is a slang used in French that means "to fuck"
So "Him, it's just fucking"
Which I think is even more hilarious