the most realistic scene in Jurassic Park is when two scientists make a questionable decision — traveling to an undisclosed location with a strange man — on the promise of three years of modest funding

Does anyone have advice on giving fluid injections to cats. I am losing my goddamn mind at all these online guides with cats just. Sitting still while people poke them with needles

the original devourer of the Girl Dinner was of course the noble Ploughman but some of you aren’t ready to have that conversation

Someone on the street yelled “Jesus loves you!” And I yelled back “probably not!!”

I’ve been working on this big sea turtle for months off and on, but I am so excited for how cute the tiny ones are gonna be!!

I'm also working on some tiny little Turtleby for the next update, but in the meantime, some new frogs!

My ancestors (pedants) are spinning in their graves

FAQ Q. If the majority of readers/writers can't recall a distinction between particular words, or a semi-arcane grammar rule, isn't that distinction or rule best forgotten altogether? A. No. Care harder.

Yup. Before coming out as anything, I felt so keenly how imperfectly I belonged in those spaces. And it didn't really hit me until after I transitioned how much grief I was carrying around at not fitting into queer women's spaces, because I had expected to feel more like I belonged after coming out—

Me understanding the message being given: YES, I know that's right! Also me, pedantic, autistic, and unhelpful: yes, that's true, that's why we invented the blues

The weirdest thing about being transmasc by far is the way it turns me in other people’s minds into someone who’s never experienced and can’t understand patriarchal sexual violence If I want to be a man that must mean I have only had good experiences with men I guess And I’m like…actually no haha

Well this went delightfully

My key complaint w/r/t Christopher Nolan movies is that they are all trying to overwhelm me with pure visual spectacle, but for some reason, they have chosen to present that spectacle exclusively in shades of gray, brown, and sometimes dark blue. It's like a conservative man's wardrobe in there.

He remembers the currency that Clash had in his intellectual milieu, and interprets it as a former consensus He doesn't understand that Huntington actually burned his reputation with that book, because it was always viewed - at least by the honest - as tendentious and stupid

Polyphemus: And what is your name Odysseus: My name is Bophedes Polyphemus: Bophedes? Odysseus:

Facks

At first I thought this was bacon

Spun up all the samples and getting ready to pop them in the dye bath

look at the baby

classics profs today: [silently, to self: it's good they're taking an interest in Homer. it's enough that they're taking an interest in Homer. build on the interest. don't waste the opportunity] [aloud:] well heh the notion we have of "character" now is actually a modern [silently] stop stop

I liked Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell a lot but it should be undisputed that Piranesi is on the short list of best novels of the 21st century

NEW: A 5-year-old girl spent months in federal immigration custody here in Connecticut while her family waited for her release. Her case isn’t unique, experts and court records show. My latest w/ @jrabethomas.bsky.social at @ctinsider.bsky.social — www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky

a lot of people simply do not realize how frequently nearly *any* disability diagnosis means that you are not in fact free to migrate, since a significant number of countries view you as a potential burden that cannot be allowed inside their borders

In the UK, while a far-right racist party has gained a lot of clout, power has remained in the hands of well-educated people who speak in reasonable tones. Announcements of segregation or forced detransition are accompanied with an empty mouthing of principles of dignity and respect

I like that they could imagine people losing pretty much all the clothes, but they couldn’t imagine a world where men didn’t wear hats

I call anyone wearing a top hat with any amount of feathers and/or bones attached "Doctor".

The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social

If you’re demonizing mental illness on main, I cannot stress enough how much I don’t give a fuck whether you also struggle with mental illness. You’re being an ableist asshole and you’re going to catch a block 🤷

Amazing that this man can perfectly execute both of the Great New York Expressions - Italian AND Jewish

You know what’s never killed anybody? Collard greens.

1) it's not gender-affirming care when it's being foisted upon ppl w/o their consent. this policy is *invasive* 2) anti-trans GAC legislation is *also invasive* as it's designed to take away control of our own bodies. LET'S CALL IT INVASIVE! LET'S PROMOTE BODILY AUTONOMY RATHER THAN MAKING GAC JOKES

woke: national hot dog day bespoke:

teenagers are awesome. how's that

Ahem

Magdalene Visaggio was once in seminary, training to become a Catholic priest. Now she's a snarky online trans girl like the rest of us. In a challenging new essay for Assigned, she writes about the toll being hated for who she is has taken on her psyche. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Like instead of being Lindsey Graham you can be this guy, that is a choice you can make

I worked with a Chicken Guy for a while (at the retreat center) and he was just my favorite coworker. Chickens are strange creatures, the preponderance of whom lead short, tormented lives so that human lives can be long and pleasurable; they tend to inspire the purest love in pure-hearted people

New yarn new yarn new yarn! Visit the shop to see all the good stuff I’ve been spinning these days :) More detailed descriptions to come!

RIP to the incomparable Sam Neill

Greetings from Vienna, where I just met Keytar Bear’s Austrian cousin.

A funny way of looking at the situation for trans people is that the culture considered the possibility of just accepting a harmless minority without having decades of drama first and then went "Nah, we'll do the drama."

I don’t knit on the train *because* it discourages people from sitting next to me (I knit on the train for genderfucky and emotional regulation reasons), but it sure doesn’t hurt

Journeyman Fiber Arts: a big shop update drops tomorrow! Visit the site around 9 am EST to meet FOUR new yarns fresh from my spinning wheel. journeyman-fiber-arts.myshopify.com

Them: The words מלאך and αγγελος don’t really mean ‘angel.’ Me: That’s right. Them: We must demyth— Me: There’s a wide variety of spiritual beings in the universe, including, but not limited to, angels, demons, devils, powers, principalities, airish beasts, thrones, heavenly f

All of thee metrics are fake too it’s all scams all the way down

Despite what some adults seem to think, teenagers are fully human.