I stand by my claim that tumblr users are on average more curious and intellectually playful than users on pretty much any other major website. I've thought this a lot with regards to how many of the popular memes on here are history, science, or philosophy themed, in a way that doesn't just strike me as surface level repetition of a factoid (cf. reddit), but actually represents more thoughtful engagement with an idea. Thinking about all the really clever ways that "this is not a place of honor" has been used and reworked, or the Ea-nasir jokes, or even something as simple as those "juice reward" memes. And the boyfriend memes! Those have mass appeal here, and they're all shit like "yeah we shifted your boyfriend down an octave", "yeah we mythologized your boyfriend", "yeah we compressed your boyfriend into a .zip file". You know, like... for all that's been made of the tumblr userbase's susceptibility to convincingly-worded falsehoods, people here really do seem willing to contemplate things a little harder than people on reddit or twitter do. As someone who spends time on a number of different social media sites, the difference is pretty stark.
And I'm just thinking about this in light of the fact that, as soon as polls are introduced, everyone immediately starts using them to do game theory. Like, not even the usual suspects here, just random tumblr users! And I don't think this is because they know game theory and are doing it intentionally, I think it's because a lot of people here just have that sort of playful, tricksterly intellectual impulse. It's wonderful.
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its awesome that u now understand gender isn't binary yay awesome but u do understand its not like trinary either right like it isn't, man, woman, third option nonbinary. right? like its more complex than that and there are countless ways to experience gender. you get that right? right? and you also understand that sex isn't binary either, right? please? please tell me you understand that?
So much of paleontology is "what did this beaked thing eat?" And then your best guess for years turns out to be so so so wrong.
Like Gastornis was thought to be a carnivore for decades and then carbon isotopes were like, "nah this thing was basically a giant goose honk honk".
Art by Ja Chirinos
Oviraptor was thought to be an egg eater, then much ink was spilled about whether it ate mollusks, and now it's thought to be an omnivore, but mostly a fruit/seed eater like a parrot.
Somehow this Adobe Stock image is the only art of an Oviraptor eating plants I can find. How is that?
And even birds with some teeth are getting in on these dietary mysteries.
Longipteryx was first thought to be a kingfisher-like hunter of aquatic prey, but it has since been found with seed contents in its guts, making it another surprise frugivore.
I love updating Old information with newer better info! So cool.
genuine question tho: What drives the assumption that a sample of stomach contents in an individual animal is representative of ALL individuals and all occasions? Is there a stats model at work here?
-because; we keep doing this with actual living animals as well? many animals are opportunists! if you're hungry you'll eat things outside your usual preferences.. some animals are obviously more limited- obligate carnivores need meat.. but we all know cats will ALSO eat many other things. Geese eat fish and snails and eggs and seeds; and Deer eat birds and small rodents and eggs. and horses.. well, let's not think about what horses will eat.. My point is, there's a high likelihood of MORE DIVERSITY in many of our assumptions.
I think in the case of Longipteryx it wasn't just the seeds but also the presence of gastroliths that make it unlikely Longipteryx was a specialized fish eater as originally thought.
You are right though, a single specimen with stomach contents doesnt tell us the breadth of an animal's diet.
A great example is Microraptor, which we are lucky enough to have 4 confirmed specimens with gut contents preserved, and they all consist of different prey (birds, lizards, fish, etc.) When the first stomach contents were found (pieces of a bird) it was immediately posited that Microraptor was a bird specialist, but obviously that hasn't passed the test of time.
I dunno who still needs to hear this basic shit in the scifi year of 2025, but (as much as I'm generally eager to say that people kinda just do stuff and then rationalize their actions after the fact) dudes are actually able to resist assaulting women. Even women that dress provocatively. Even women that are flirty and affectionate. It's like not even difficult. The idea that seeing some cleavage or the silhouette of a butt will turn good men into helpless unwilling rapists only exists to excuse men for abusing their power (which comes as no surprise etc).
Women were getting sexually assaulted in the 1800s. Women get sexually assaulted in Amish communities. Women get sexually assaulted while wearing burqas. Women get sexually harassed in video game voice chat (where they functionally do not even have bodies).
Men spend time in naturist communities and act respectfully. Men grow up in naturist communities and become so accustomed to naked women's bodies that nudity loses meaning to them.
If men can go to strip clubs without needing to be put into straitjackets then they can survive the sight of a woman in activewear.
Want to bring up some anthropological examples of societies where rape simply was not an issue women were concerned with, specifically two I think about a lot:
A world in which women move freely without fear of men: An anthropological perspective on rape by Maria-Barbara Watson-Franke
Guajiro women of the desert, however, do not live under the cloud of rape, they are not afraid. A personal experience will illustrate that. I remember walking with my guide in the desert late in the evening. It was already after 11:00 PM and we still had some way to go. I felt uncomfortable but said nothing not to upset her. The next day, however, I brought up the issue to avoid such nightly walks in the future. She replied, yes, she had been scared, too. This, of course, confirmed my conviction that the desert was as unsafe for a woman traveling at night as the big cities. When I then mentioned that a man in Europe had attacked me, she looked surprised and replied: “You were afraid of people? Oh no, there is no reason for that. I was thinking of the snakes.” How different our fears had been.
Secrets Of The Love Huts by Fiona MacGregor (also see this article):
It may seem a risky practice to Westers minds, but to the girls, who are usually aged between 13 and 15 when they first move into their love huts, and their parents, the tradition helps create young women who are confident, independent, and respectful of their own sexuality. [...]
Nang Chan is a delicately built and softly spoken young woman, but she has strong opinions on the important role the love huts play in creating powerful young women and helping girls find true love: “The huts give us independence and are the best way to find out which boys we really like,” she explains sitting on the bamboo steps of her tiny hut as several small piglets scrabble around in the rust-orange dust beneath her feet.
Stories of women in undeveloped countries heing dominated by men and having few or no rights have been told so often that it can almost seern us if this is somehow the "default" human state. Yet in Kreung culture, which has remained virtually unchanged for centuries, women are not judged on their virginity and the rules of sexual conduct are determined by teenage girls as much as by male religious, social or political leaders.
"When boys come to stay the night if I don't want them to touch me they won't. We will just talk and sleep. If I have a special boyfriend and we're in love I will be intimate with him, but if I stop loving him and find a boy I think is more attractive and prefer, I will stop having sex with the other one," says Nang Chan. [...]
The male/female friendships that develop during the girls' time in their Love Huts mean that it's good for building a sense of community and means that men and women have stronger bonds with each other and a lot of respect, adds her father. Kreung women and men consistently say that "men and women are equal and that they make decisions together". If a situation arises where a couple really can't reach agreement they will turn to their parents or other elders to help them reach a resolution.
and then I learned about Robert Wun.
I feel like I've lost my mind a little. This is ART! this is what couture is SUPPOSED to mean. WOWW!
https://www.robertwun.com/collections/fall-winter-2026-couture
Five years ago, Hong Kong-born designer Robert Wun was working from his kitchen -- now he dresses some of the world's best-known entertainer
THESE are BEADED Designs.
Look at this SWAG! this is luxurious! it's also Ready to Wear.. it's Actually still CLOTHING.. so much of the rubbish on the runway is barley-a-costume Sculpture.
I'm in love with all the hats and headwear! (even the future-astronaut bubbles)
ANYWAY- GO LOOK at his collections!
WEAR THIS ART TO THE Met Gala CHALLENGE!
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wait... is this whole outfit BEADED?! I need better photos. omg.
I can't find it on his page. BUT- I've never been this excited about a couture designer.. his stuff is ON FIRE! Woww.
https://www.robertwun.com/collections
zoomed in here: https://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/fall-2026-couture/robert-wun/slideshow/collection#16
it looks like he used fuckin' Delica Beads..? they are SO TINY. you all need to understand this.. is like.. weeks of handsewn beading.
If you need perspective of how much space the Bison needs to feel comfortable... Imagine for a moment that you are a cow, and on the other side of the intervening distance are wolves. As a cow, are you comfortable with the amount of space you have until wolves?
Humans are scary animals, even if you think you look harmless, to wildlife you don't and that is how it should be.
Just to let everyone know-according to the people there this guy was the correct distance away. There was a truck that passed by that honked and pissed off the bison, and the bison took it out on the guy-probably because it thought he made the noise.
It's the rare instance of 'no, this visitor was actually doing everything right; some jackass in a truck that pissed off the bison is at fault.'
What started as a yearly trip for a grandfather and his grandson turned into a visit to a Montana hospital after a bison attack at Yellowsto
What started as a yearly trip for a grandfather and his grandson turned into a visit to a Montana hospital after a bison attack at Yellowstone National Park.
Carl McDaniel, 65, was hospitalized with a broken femur after a bison charged and tossed him into the air Friday evening at the park’s Bridge Bay Campground, according to McDaniel and the National Park Service.
He was visiting the park with his 13-year-old grandson when they decided to take a walk after dinner.
Along the way, they encountered a large bison that appeared to be rolling around in the dust and was not bothering anyone, McDaniel told CNN.
“We were about a hundred yards away,” McDaniel said. “He was not aggressive; he was not having problems and we took some pictures and decided to walk on.”
McDaniel and his grandson snapped a quick photo and continued with their walk, video of the encounter shows. At the same time, a truck drove by, and the driver laid on his horn in what appeared to be an attempt to get the bison to move, McDaniel said. There is no audio on the video.
The bison then appeared to become agitated and began running toward the pair.
“There was little time to decide what to do. At that point, he was within 100 yards; he could be to us in seconds, so I told my grandson to run in one direction and I went the other to try and draw him away,” McDaniel said.
The animal then pushed McDaniel with the top of its head, sending him flying into the air before he hit the ground, the grandfather said.
“When I was on the ground immobile, unable to move, he was right on top of me. He could have stomped on me, he could have gored me, he could have done almost anything to take my life, and he did not do so,” McDaniel said.
After McDaniel hit the ground, photographer Mike MacLeod, who captured the encounter on video, had to step in, he told Cowboy State Daily.
“I was really afraid he was going to gore the guy on the ground, so I stopped videotaping and ran at the bison, yelled loud, and was trying to be as big and intimidating as possible,” MacLeod said.
After the bison took off, people rushed over to McDaniel, who was in a lot of pain, MacLeod told Cowboy State Daily. Yellowstone EMS arrived soon after, he said.
“Park emergency medical personnel responded and transported him to a nearby hospital,” the National Park Service said in confirming the incident in a statement to CNN.
This is the second bison attack at Yellowstone this year. A 12-year-old was injured near Mud Volcano on June 26, according to the agency.
After Friday’s attack, “all the people that were there were amazing; they were all positive, they were trying to help as best they could,” McDaniel said. A nurse started tending to his leg, while another bystander held his head.
He was then transferred to a hospital in Bozeman, a two-hour journey during which he was in intense pain. He said he was grateful for the paramedic who helped him along the way.
McDaniel broke his femur, the body’s strongest bone, in four places near his hip and suffered several bruises. He had surgery Sunday and could stand by Monday.
“I will be doing physical therapy for the next few days to get to walk, but it was not as catastrophic as it could have been,” McDaniel said.
The National Park Service advises visitors to stay at least 25 yards away from bison at all times and to never approach the animals. “If the bison follows you, spray bear spray as you are moving away, and seek cover behind nearby trees or cars,” the agency said.
I am forever of the opinion that SO many people would be so much happier if they stopped trying to fit their relationships and feelings into "just friends" and "romantic partners". man those are two boxes. twoooo. you are an entire living being. you are alive and your brain is full of electric signals and your body is sending crazy chemicals all over the place. you cannot always cram your experiences into two neat cookie cutter shapes. you are alive on this stupid gay earth please relax and have fun. I love you
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it's absolutely buckwild that this was on CBS, that it was the most successful show on CBS at the time, and that it was part of a long legacy of the network championing feminist shows and shows about women
what happened? wasn't changing tastes, wasn't declining ratings, it was editorial fiat from network head les moonves. the network was remade into an aggressively revanchist space that preferred its women dead, naked, and demeaned on the autopsy table
Linda Bloodworth Thomason, one of CBS' biggest hitmakers, reveals the disgraced mogul kept her shows off the air for seven years: "People as
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getting the worst vibes from hudson's bodyguard. this guy is unprofessional and unfit for this job. he likes the attention to much. he should not be interacting with fans, he should not be in the fandom, he should not be going along with rpf nonsense. and he definitely should not have social media presence fans can find and follow and use to snoop around. the fandom is where the threat is coming from.
he does not understand his job, or maybe he does but doesn't take it seriously. he should be strategically visible, when necessary, but avoid attention any other time. he should not feel accessible to fans. I'm not saying we (as fans) should be scared of him, but we should not feel so comfortable with him.
a bodyguard is the "physically enforce boundaries" guy. for fans, media and hudson. that means regularly upsetting fans, media and hudson, not letting them do what they want at the moment because it's not safe. there should be a reasonable level of deterrence there. and he can't be looking for approval from either of them.
it's fun that he's hot and that he seems to get along great with hudson. but first and foremost he should be good at his job.
THANK you! 100% agree. It's starting to feel like he's platforming to self-promote. (also just a creepy things to say tbh).
The 1st time i clocked him - Paris Fashion week video: he was grabbing and holding Hudson and sort of propelling him along. I thought - did he actually push him so fast Hudson tripped on the door sill?!
I've NEVER seen close protection detail put their hands on their client like that unless it's a crisis! Super unprofessional.
all the rights that come with marriage you should be able to have without marriage btw. you should be able to designate a person who can visit you in the hospital regardless of your relationship to that person.
The version requiring the least amount of paperwork is contacting healthcare service to update your in case of emergency contacts. That will get them in the door.
If you have people you wish to be your legal next of kin, find local government and local health service info for
Powers of Attorney
Medical decision maker/shared decision maker
Advanced care directive/POLST
Documented in case of emergency contacts on medical records
Living will
Will
Follow advice from local resources about how and where to file these documents. Ensure copies of anything relating to legal next of kin, nominated shared decision makers, care directives, etc. are filed with your primary care physician, local health services, your health insurance, and make sure the people nominated have certified copies. If there's multiple people, email them a copy of the documents together and include each others' contact details so they can coordinate getting a physical copy if needed in an emergency and they're closest/easiest.
Even if you have a great legal next of kin by birth/marriage, it is pertinent to nominate and document if there's people in particular that you trust. If your parents and siblings are likely to bicker, who do you trust most to make decisions for you? If you're in a car crash with your first person and they also can't advocate for you, who's next?
Local legal aid services are another resource for making these documents binding.
For fuck's sake, talk to the people you nominate. Discuss with them your wishes around what to do in worst case scenarios. Document them and review those documents yearly and update when necessary.
If you're wanting to visit someone close to you, the answer to are you immediate family? is yes for visiting. Life pro tip: a cousin can be amongst the closest living relatives while also not necessarily being a legal next of kin or decision maker. Be mindful of reasons why visiting might be strictly limited, but if you're someone's closest inner circle, then yeah, you know how to answer that question; you're family. Be careful about legal next of kin shit when it comes to decision making, tho.
The specifics of all this can vary wildly locally. Your closest legal aid website will talk you through the steps of the processes you wish to pursue.
What helped me write trauma better is remembering that the nervous system learns predictions. If danger used to come after quiet, calm can feel threatening. If kindness used to come with a price, kindness can feel suspicious. So healing is not just “they know they’re safe now.” Healing is the slow, annoying, deeply unfair process of teaching the body that the old prediction is not always the present truth.
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We're at the "JK Rowling is personally funding litigation to try and destroy AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL" stage of rabid UK terf brain.
Screenshot via Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net on bluesky
Tldr Amnesty International, global human rights organisation, published a report called 'A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK'. In it is detailed, amongst others, a whole bunch of transphobic groups and organisations, including Beira's Place, JK Rowling's trans exclusionary sexual violence support service. JK Rowling threw a shit fit and got Amnesty to take the report down by threatening libel. This was obviously not enough, because you can't appease a fascist, so now she's going to bankroll a bunch of lawsuits anyway through the JK Rowling Women's Fund.*
You can read an archived version of the report here, please save it and share it.
*Not so friendly reminder there is no way to engage in the wizard books without enabling this shit.
there is a screen reader / magnification program that is the only one the low vision clinic knows of with these features and it is $650 Canadian Dollars behind specific approved vendors that require you to be geographically close to them and get government approval of a degree that I am only just now reaching after being visually impaired for going on seven years. I feel normal about this
if you can code a program that does any or all of the following:
Magnifies a display beyond standard options with keyboard / mouse movement inputs or voice commands,
Can read text on the screen,
Has different color filter options for text / background distinction,
Can change and magnify the cursor beyond standard amounts,
Works on Windows or more than just Windows,
Has a keyboard echo (says the character you've pressed on the keyboard out loud)
... there is a genuine, GENUINE need for you to code this and put it at a more accessible price point than $650 Canadian Dollars which I also just learned is a SUBSCRIPTION FEE AND NOT EVEN PERPETUAL. if you are reading this and able to code I am begging you. would genuinely change lives
I just saw a post about a low cost Open Source project for a kindle alternative... that seems like the type of group, coding and tech engineering that might tackle this. I'll see if I can find more info.
In BC there's a group of University / College students that make and repair assistive tech. if you DM me your province I can see if they have affiliates in other places.
