Perpetually Sleep Deprived

"I have a problem with my trans son. Not because he's trans, but because he inhaled all our food like fucking Kirby."

“we know it takes this amount of explosives to work, but what if we doubled it anyway?”

It is implied through gameplay mechanics that the two kingdoms at war in chess both formally permit regnal polygamy, allowing the King to take at least nine wives of equal status, and that marriage can be bestowed as a military honour, but curiously that honour - in stark contrast to the conventional attitudes of the aristocracy - can only be bestowed upon soldiers of the unlanded class, leaving great questions to be asked of the material interests and stability of these kingdoms' aristocracies

also, their horses lack limbs & their castles are small

yknow the smallness of the castles is FAR from their most interesting distinction from the noticeably immobile ones we are familiar with

if you are only a good cook if you have access to premium ingredients at whole foods or above prices then you arent really a good cook

I think about this post a lot because of the phrase "i'll cook anyone's ass under the table."

do you want a warm, weighted, vibrating plushie that acts like a heat seeking missile and intermittently stabs you? What I have just described to you is Felis catus and there is a dark secret to it

stop medicalizing every person you don't vibe with

[Image ID: Tumblr tags reading: #be brave and go. I don't think you being an asshole is some disorder. I think you choose every morning to be a dipshit dirtbag. #and anyone of of us could. /End ID]

I do not agree with veganism as a moral standard. If it is your personal moral stance, that is fine. If you think humans eating meat is inherently immoral, I don’t want to deal with you, you’re hopeless. Vegan ideology behaves more like a sect of evangelical Christianity than a dietary choice.

Veganism is better for the environment, but claiming that it's a morally superior choice ignores cultural and economic factors that make people eat animal products.

It is not inherently better for the environment. That is the thing. When you begin trying to explain that local, sustainably sourced animal protein is better for the environment than imported plant proteins that are farmed 3,500 miles away using slave labor, they start tuning you out. Down is better for the environment than polyester stuffing, leather is better for the environment than pleather. We should work on making animal agricultural practices more sustainable instead of trying to shame everyone into eating plant products that are also farmed unethically and unsustainably.

The idea of two people having sex and it creating another, smaller person who has a combination of their traits sounds like it was made up for fan fiction but alas I've heard tale that it's really happened

I have heard this referred to by some in the disability advocacy profession as “duelling disabilities” and it’s definitely something I wish people would be more mindful of when discussing accessibility.

another useful term is “competing access needs” or incompatible access needs.

This is also one of several good reasons the phrase ‘fully accessible’ means nothing without further context. Your venue is fully accessible? To whom?

Man, woman, man, woman, man, man, woman, woman…. I’m starting to think the gender divide in athletics might be a little bullshit

Wasn't chiropracting invented by a guy who claimed to have learned it from a ghost, or is that a tumblr myth?

Not a myth! https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2025/02/a-psychic-child-bride-and-ghostly-inspiration-the-invention-of-chiropractic/

How are chiropractors not all in prison

In college, my mom briefly dated a guy studying medicine who went to a chiropractic seminar out of curiosity. It was the mid 1980s and the stories about chiropractics weren't so widely known. The guy went to one class, in which the 'doctor' broke the neck of the man he was demonstrating on in front of the whole class. Needless to say, mom's then-bf did not attend any further chiropractics classes and no one in my family has gone near a chiropractor in over 40 years. It really should be illegal.

thank you yes, I did need this today

I fucking love the "toddlers doing big people things with their big people" genre. One of my other favs is a toddler doing taiko drumming with adults.

Because they're NOT just "big people things" -- they're for everyone, and it's so important to start baby being around them young so they have it as a natural part of their lives and routine, and lifelong memories of being part of it.