somebody is in my youtube comments replying to dozens of unrelated comment threads to say that Jesus and Elijah are about to be reincarnated as women and then join together in a lesbian marriage, and I just wanna say this is one of the best psychoses I've ever had the pleasure of witnessing

i didn't THINK i was systematically collecting all the men with scandinavian names in the dc area and then i hopped on partiful and added a harald, hans, anders, and gustav to an event and uhhhhh

making a video about Charon and Pluto and being flooded with comments saying "this is why Charon should've been called Proserpina" is making me ornery all over again about the internet romanticisation of the myth that was, until very recently, known as "the rape of Persephone"

as a woman on the internet, there's no amount of stupid that you can sarcastically pretend to be that will actually read as sarcasm, because there's no limit to how stupid your interlocutor is willing to believe you are. In a sane world this would be funny but this guy WOULD just believe me 😭

This is cruelty beyond belief Stephen is American. His British wife entered the US legally, didn't commit any crimes, was entitled to a Green Card At her final interview, ICE agents swarmed her, took her 4-month-old child from her arms, and detained her www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

demanding science explain human consciousness is like demanding science explain constellations. you drew a picture around the stars and then asked why the stars have a picture on them. checkmate atheists, i guess

i love social media scicomm cause sometimes you're blowing people's minds with mass extinction poetry and sometimes you're scrolling through science papers idly wondering if you could get away with naming your daughter "oscarella"

love telling the "humans can't be animals because we have consciousness" crowd that I also don't believe in consciousness like it's kind of an oversimplification of my actual beliefs, but it makes them 404 so bad I LOVE it

The UK's biggest and best dinosaur-themed event - #DinoConUK - happens July 25th-26th at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole. Tickets aren't yet on sale but places for accommodation are, and we're taking vendor applications too. Put it in the diary now, we can't wait to see you!

"if humans are animals then we could all go commit rape and murder right now" i'm calling the cops on you

friend of a friend: wait, you're THIRTY?? me: yep him: I thought you were like. At MOST 22. me: ...is that why you were mansplaining so bad earlier? him: no I do that to everyone

scientists should study why putting on a waistcoat makes me feel like the most attractive person in the world. why is the most robust guard against my self-image issues... a jacket with no sleeves. how does this work. it shouldn't.

"you're not allowed to reply until you demonstrate an understanding of what OP was actually saying" ... probably wouldn't actually fix social media because people will find ways to dig their heels in and die on stupid hills no matter what, BUT god I wish we had this feature anyway 😭

I'm one stupidass reply away from a very public and embarrassing crashout and I think that's a sign I need to step away from the microblogging apps we are in a reading comprehension crisis

my bitchy too-woke opinion is that people find it harder to clock satire by women because deep down they don't believe that women are smart enough to be funny on purpose

coffee with cream and no sugar is superior to both coffee with cream and sugar, and coffee with nothing, but they're all pretty good and I respect all three choices coffee with sugar and no cream is an insane drink for psychopaths

Unless the 19 year old who explained this to me the other day was lying to take the mickey (which would be hilarious and she's so valid if that was indeed the plan), the 6 7 joke is that it doesn't mean anything. In case anyone else was wondering. On a semi-related note, you just lost the game.

"The devil went down to the crossroads, and I went to Baltimore to watch the ships come in" I was having thoughts about port cities and/as liminal spaces, so I sampled the sea chantey "Leaving of Liverpool" and wrote a song about it. musicbyastrid.bandcamp.com/track/baltim...

the electronic signs on DC metro platforms say "BRD" while the train is at the platform, which always unscrolled into "Be Right Dere" in my head. I didn't think it actually stood for that, but I couldn't think of anything else that made sense and I'd never bothered to ask. Anyway it's "boarding"

was completely fine but now i'm sobbing bc i remembered that (as far as i know) every language has a word for mother that sounds something like "mama" because that's the first consonant that babies can reliably produce

i know some people believe that if a region has popular anti-gay beliefs in systemic politics then it deserves to be bombed to rubble, but we'd have to move half the music industry outta nashville first and i just think that's too much of a hassle

Plz forgive another post about Astrid Lundberg (@oddpride.com) In my youth, I was chided for writing from an assumed position of cultural literacy; that everyone had seen/read what I had Here, Astrid compellingly makes the case that this is a facet of neurodivergent communication to be cherished🧵

the 1950s pop music hyperfixation has taken me to google maps where i am currently staring at lubbock looking for insight into what was going on with buddy holly & the crickets, which is how i just found out that there's an american windmill museum (it is in lubbock) (it was not there in the 1950s)

Finally laid down a decent demo of Bitter Coffee Eyes, by the way. It's a pop ballad with a big catchy chorus, and I hope you like it :) musicbyastrid.bandcamp.com/track/bitter...

the only upside of being allergic to raw apples is that i don't have to follow or care about whatever's going on in the apple cultivar snob world pink lady: makes my face hurt granny smith: face hurt red delicious: oop look it's face hurtin time

where I would live in the US (realistic)

I was feeling slightly smug about not being one of the people who mix up Jane Goodall and "Diane" Fossey and then I looked her up and learned I've been spelling Dian Fossey's name wrong for years 🙈 Never get complacent, people!

if it ain't broke don't fix it if it ain't baroque you don't need to learn to read basso continuo

Hemophilia is kind of a mean name for a disease. "Hey check it out this guy *loves* bleeding." It's got "stop hitting yourself" energy

can we talk about how many people have managed to demonize both enjoying food and enjoying sex? you're literally a living thing. like that's the whole point of being an earth animal. jesus.

straight men who drive themselves bonkers comparing themselves to peak conventional attractiveness would do well to remember that we had a whole beatlemania about a group of guys whose winning formula was "these three cartoon pirates are best friends with clara bow"

on one hand the antlered-ness of santa's reindeer in the middle of winter seems to imply that they're female, since male reindeer don't keep their antlers year round on the other hand, typically neither male nor female reindeer fly, so

this British woodlands conservation propaganda for children made me who I am as a person The Animals of Farthing Wood is incredibly effective conservation messaging bc it kills off a LOT of main characters, specifically in ways that are SUPER REALISTIC tragic deaths for suburban woodland creatures 🧵

Actually new (to me) Crickets fact just dropped: this one time on tour, the Crickets got ambushed by a bunch of local guys who said they were going to kill them because “their” local girls were crushing on them too much. So Buddy pulled a gun on them (sometimes guys are from Texas 🥀) AND THEN 🧵

is anybody else in the 1950s pop rock fandom or is it just me rotating the original lineup of The Crickets in my head until I lose my marbles

You'd think "pterosaurs" & "kink-shaming" are two things that couldn't go hand-in-hand, and yet, a homoerotic scandal between two intellectual equals led to the discovery of the first pterosaur. Buckle in for some Crazy Rich Prussians & their unlikely connection to the discovery of pterosaurs 🧵

might fuck around and start saying “doggone.” just for the flavor.

Just found out it's possible to get a man to stop kissing you against your will by picking him up off the ground and giving him a lil twirl. Too charmed and startled to stop me from walking away afterwards. Shitty way to find out but good pro tip I guess 💀

My best tip for anyone trying to be an educational content creator: that mindblowing fact you remember off the top of your head? Google it & its context before posting about it. No matter how sure you are of your memory, it's really normal to make factual mistakes while ad libbing off the dome.

if your "unisex" t shirts don't come in an ACTUAL XS (like, actually wearable for average-to-slim-built people under 5'5") they're not unisex, by the way. stop just labelling men's clothing as unisex and calling it a day. you need to make some of your shit SMALLER.

physically cannot stop oldiesposting why does weird online music fandom start with the 1960s look at them they're such specimens 😭

Chuck Berry was arrested for such a diverse list of actual crimes and made-up racism crimes in his lifetime, like I'm genuinely impressed. Stealing a car at gunpoint. Tax evasion. Assault and battery. Consensual interracial sex. What a guy.

I've said this before and I'll say it again, the idea that putting feathers on dinosaurs makes them look LESS cool is absolutely insane and I could not relate less. Feathers are the most badass-looking integumentary structure in the entire animal kingdom. Everything would look cooler with feathers.

@txwatson.com doing a killer job talking me down from a stage-presence-themed crashout

who's coming??

have i ever told you guys i think paul is dead is actually just about twink death? like, was paul mccartney killed and replaced in 1966... orrrrr did he just stop looking like a 22 year old because he wasn't 22 anymore? guess we'll never know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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