Honestly all former and present members of the US military should probably ask themselves this more often. (PS. Sorry, not American, don't need to 'respect the troops')

it's baby 🥹

The arc of the moral universe is a warped 2x4; sometimes you have to put your entire weight on it, maybe jump up and down a few times, to get it to bend towards justice

god i fucking hate to see all these piece of shit libs be like "Mr Hegseth SIR you are INSULTING the proud traditions of Our Men In Uniform and desecrating the memories of their many noble actions at such legendary locations as Bud Dajo, Hiroshima, My Lai, Haditha, so on, so forth"

And that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November. Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet

The idea that kids and teens are to blame for acts of fascism and censorship because the state or corporations say they’re doing it in the name of “child-friendliness” is so ass-backwards. You’re targeting the people with the least social power in this situation.

A wee dollop

A tiny Jurassic pterosaur, Bellubrunnus, wingspan, less than a foot (its head is the size of my fingernail)

There is no liberal or progressive way to criticize someone for dodging the draft, are you fucking serious If your belief is “everyone should have obediently gone to fight in the Vietnam war”, that doesn’t just make you a conservative, that makes you a conservative by the standard of 50 years ago

liberal Democrats version of fighting is to look at a maniac posting ethnic cleansing rhetoric on main, and saying “erm🤓you didn’t wear a uniform. you don’t deserve to slaughter helpless people. that’s reserved for those in uniform.”

We need to stop letting anti-vaxxers get away with positioning themselves in opposition to "the mainstream". My dudes, you are the fucking mainstream. Some of the most powerful people on earth believe and promote your lethal bullshit, that is in fact why it's so goddamn dangerous

In the vein of the famous "yall can't even boycott chick-fil-a" post, y'all can't even keep your cats indoors

I swear every post about invasive cats in former European colonies is something like "how dare people scapegoat these poor innocent animals! humans are the REAL virus!", but the last one I saw was posted by a white lady with a racial slur in her username, which is a little on the nose I think

100 favourite short horror stories, in no particular order, with a description and where to find them / where i read them. Thanks to @oldnick42.bsky.social for the idea. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Tapping the sign again

It's interesting that people who would never make fun of someone for not understanding a joke/sarcasm in real life will happily make fun of people who do this on the Internet, where, in the absence of vocal and facial cues, it's objectively harder to tell when people are joking/being sarcastic

Okay. You all ready for a feel-good thread? Because one literally fell out of the sky for us last week and it's only fair we share this heartwarming tale with you. 1/?

Absolutely nobody asked, truly not a soul, but I'd like to elaborate *why* I like gory horror. 1) Visceral response. If I get that stomach-turning sensation out of the visual horror on display, that's just as important to me as the tension during a suspense scene or the flinch at a jumpscare. (1/9)

I do find it very funny when people say "I like horror movies but not when they focus too much on gore" and expect me to agree with them, because that's, like, the "intellectual" opinion? And I have to be like, no actually I really like that bit where that dude's chest gets cracked open

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Spectacular animated short showing different interpretations of the Crystal Palace dinosaurs as interpreted in the 1850s, early 20th Century, 1990s, and today! youtu.be/OH57rtnKCEM?...

My friends describe this to me as an ADHD reset button. I dunno if that applies to you but I think you'll like it too.

quality thread by a smart person that you should read

by age 30 you should have one friend for every major animal group to spam. seen a good crab post? forward to your token crab person. bat post for the bat person. cicada post for the cicada person. bear post for the bear person. jellyfish post for the jellyfish person. and so on and so forth.

it's hotter than the islands are today / and andrew cuomo's truck has broken down

riding the subway is the ultimate test of "minding your own business" and "existing near strangers" which is why the majority of americans fail completely

Got cryptkeeper dysphoria, born a boy but I transitioned to a ghoul yeeheeeheeheeheee

When something bad happens in a major US city you get a wave of comments about how big cities are not Representative of Real America (tm) and oh my god y'all it's propaganda, it's 100% rightwing propaganda to "other" the people in diverse population centers and try and make you not care about them

bsky: *passionately arguing over whether or not you should mask up during a protest* me:

not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates

Since this is an argument again: part of broad anti-fascist cooperation is understanding that your co-protestors come from places where the US flag is primarily associated with atrocities. Whether you choose to fly the US flag or not, you need to see these people as people, whose histories matter.

me IRL

Well this couldn’t have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...

If some poll somewhere showed that half of Americans believed the sun revolves around the earth, some breathless nimrod would sprint to the New York Times and fart out an op-ed on how the Democrats need to embrace geocentrism

what, and I cannot stress this enough, the fuck?

The frustrating thing I encounter again and again is the conflation of historical complexity with moral complexity. "You could give a four hour lecture on how we got to this point in history" does not in any way contradict "and what's happening now is unambiguously morally wrong".

Lighthouse Mimics (Farimendax carolinae) are pack hunters that evolved from deep-sea fish. When a ship passes by, a lone hunter uses its lighthouse-like lure to trick the crew into redirecting the boat, leading it to crash into shallow rocks. The stranded sailors become the pack's next meal.

Babygirl

Banana slugs ARE hermaphrodites. Maybe White House isn't disputing this fact, they think it's "dirty" or "non-newsworthy". That's almost worse. The strange wonders of nature delight our curiosity. As for being offended by slug sex—well, that says something about the listener and it's not pretty.

Aquarium teacher~

Thank you to everyone for another great year of MMM. I've got to get back to my full-time job of being a spooky little guy, and Stephen the Paca starts college in the fall, so we're very excited about that. Keep it creepy, y'all! #2025MMM

#2017MMM champion Short-Faced Bear and his friend Panda congratulate #TeamPolarBear on his win, pictured here: #2025MMM

"I'm... ... ... ... ... ...finally here." "Okay, but why the big pause?" "Cuz I'm a POLAR BEAR!" #2025MMM

I'm all in on #TeamPolarBear now. We can't let the cats have three championships before the bears have two. It's restoring balance, or something. #2025MMM #SecondBearkfast

Worst game of Got Your Nose ever! #2025MMM

Since I'm a free agent, #StephenThePaca gets to pick who we're rooting for in the #FinalRoar. ...Stephen likes the tree. #TeamGinkgo #2025MMM

RISE AND BRINE #brachiopod #fairyshrimp #brineshrimp #anomalocaris