Fey Naomi

It is true, German CITIZENS deny to knowing the extent of the holocaust. Most claim to not know hence the saying ‘Davon haben wir nichts gewutts’ (We knew nothing about that). If u wanna put that under scrutiny, that’s fine. I’m not their PR team. But it’s clear ur trying to accuse of some sort of Nazi shit or Holocaust denier.

This is not about the people involved with the German camps, they knew what they were doing. Fuck them.

As for the cop thing, dawg I’m literally right, I know half of u would call the cops if a real situation took place.

Like I said multiple times, its a claim that has been debated and u can debate. But they claim to have not known shit. They knew about the deportations, but claim to not of known of the extreme crimes taking place afterwards.

I was taught people found out the true horrors of nazi germany after the war. Thats not me saying that shit never existed. People are taking something I said a month ago and calling me the worst shit imaginable.

I understand you feel attacked by this, I've definitely repeated denialism I was taught—at school or elsewhere—that I later learnt was incorrect, and it feels bad. But it's important to understand what actually happened and not disseminate lies about the holocaust, both out of respect to its victims, and to understand how the holocaust happened so that it may be the last time something like this happens.

It is true, German CITIZENS deny to knowing the extent of the holocaust. Most claim to not know hence the saying ‘Davon haben wir nichts gewutts’ (We knew nothing about that). If u wanna put that under scrutiny, that’s fine. I’m not their PR team. But it’s clear ur trying to accuse of some sort of Nazi shit or Holocaust denier.

This is not about the people involved with the German camps, they knew what they were doing. Fuck them.

As for the cop thing, dawg I’m literally right, I know half of u would call the cops if a real situation took place.

It is true, German CITIZENS deny to knowing the extent of the holocaust. Most claim to not know hence the saying ‘Davon haben wir nichts gewutts’ (We knew nothing about that). If u wanna put that under scrutiny, that’s fine. I’m not their PR team. But it’s clear ur trying to accuse of some sort of Nazi shit or Holocaust denier.

This is not about the people involved with the German camps, they knew what they were doing. Fuck them.

As for the cop thing, dawg I’m literally right, I know half of u would call the cops if a real situation took place.

I’m sorry your week sucked, have some TURTLES.

Behold: one of nature’s best examples of min-maxing.

Armor plating isn’t uncommon in vertebrates. Pangolins, ankylosaurus, armadillos, and placoderms all share similar stat allocation to name a few.

Some, like pangolins, just throw all the keratin they can into their skin and end up with tough scales. That’s the same stuff fingernails and hair are made of, and also the stuff that makes our skin waterproof. Others, like ankylosaurs, also grow little bits of bone into their skin. A bunch do both. These are common, efficient, easy-to-evolve traits that occur multiple times in history.

Turtles said fuck all that.

I’m doing it my way.

(Well not ALL that, they do still have keratinized scaly skin on their limbs, but still)

They took their rib cage, sternum and spinal column- you know, things that normally go inside your body, and put ‘em on the outside instead. Shoulder blades and hip bones grow inside the rib cage, too. Then, as if that wasn’t enough, they covered the whole deal in keratin scales. Some turtles even have a hinge on their belly (plastron) that lets them close up completely. I promise, there’s a turtle in there.

What could go wrong reverse-engineering an exoskeleton onto a vertebrate?

Turns out, a lot.

Take a nice deep breath in, and exhale it out. Can you feel your ribs move? Feel them expand and contract, working with your diaphragm muscles to pull large quantities of air into your body?

Show-off.

Yeah, when all your ribs are fused into one big dome it turns out you lose a lot of lung function. The good news? With your body fully enclosed and stabilized in bone, it’s not like your abs and obliques are doing anything now. Might as well put them to work pumping your lungs. Except, not directly. Some muscles pull on the liver, which attaches to the right lung. Other muscles pull on the stomach, which pulls on the left lung. It’s pretty inefficient all around, so you may not get enough oxygen exchange to be a marathon runner, but as long as you don’t have to worry about predators you know what they say about slow and steady.

However that’s not always enough. What if, say, you did have to worry about predators a little. What if, hypothetically, you took a few points away from pure defense and gained a little more swim speed and mobility? You, like many semi-aquatic turtles, would need a backup source of oxygen. A breathing plan B.

In turtles, plan “B” stands for Butt. Some turtles (lots of freshwater semi-aquatic ones) can pump water in and out of their cloaca, which is sometimes enlarged and lined with specialized membranes that maximize surface area for gas exchange. Basically, improving any part of this fucked-up breathing apparatus is so difficult that it’s evolutionarily better to evolve proto-gills in the ass.

I was going to make a different joke here but these turtles are literally called “Northern Red-Bellied Cooters” and I really can’t top that

Turtles are cold-blooded, which of course means they don’t do shit in the winter. Turtles who are unfortunate enough to live in places that get winters bury themselves in the mud in a type of hibernation called ‘brumation’. You may wonder, how do they breathe THEN?

Easy, they don’t. They slow down their metabolism a crazy amount and spend the winter months doing anaerobic respiration. We can do this too, it’s why your muscles burn after working out. If your body doesn’t get oxygen, your cells can still burn fuel much less efficiently and produce a lot of lactic acid as a byproduct. Turtles can counteract the extreme acidity, buffering it and sequestering it with the bone in their shell. Literally, they leach calcium and magnesium out of their bones to prevent their acidic blood from killing them over the winter.

Just waking up from the winter, chock-full of acid and ready to snap.

I think part of what it comes down to is postal code vs zip code. US has a 9 digit Zip code formatted like “12345-6789” (Though many only know the first 5 digits) which basically pins down exactly where we are (provided you have the full number). Whereas Postal codes formatted like “A1B 2C3” are Canadian. In fact I believe every country has a unique postal/zip code, which to various shipping services, is an indicator of where a package needs to go.

unless a person is actively making materials/etc for children, they do not need to worry about your kid.

your child gets respect as a human. that's it. nobody's private life/artistic endeavors/unrelated interests must be controlled for the sake of your kid.

educators and athletes and artists do not have to live in chastity because your kid might see us on our days off. we do not owe it to your kid to only write poems about bunnies and only sing songs about tying your shoes. i do not care how much a person has given to children, if they are acting as an adult in adult spheres, they are allowed to. they are adults. it is your job as a caregiver to raise your kid and keep them out of adult spheres, not our job to keep ourselves out of those spheres just in case.

guess what! adult role models are going to bars and hooking up and dancing and being adults! this is so they have the mental energy to do all the child-centric things.

"it makes me feel weird to picture them like that!" i don't know how to tell you this but actors aren't actually their roles. the customer-service personality your waitress has is probably not her actual personality. the way teachers interact with students is not the way that they interact with their private lives, and it shouldn't be.

"this tells kids this kind of behavior is okay!" actually it's showing kids a normal and natural progression of a person's life, boundaries, and bodily autonomy. it's showing kids that adults are dynamic human beings. kids already know this. they know there's places they're not allowed and things they don't understand yet. it's just that you have icky feelings because you were raised in a society with black-and-white morality.

celebrities don't owe your children perfection, modesty, sobriety. and you know something? it's way healthier when they don't. "this is a person, who gets up every morning and does their job - but also has adult interests, which you'll learn about later" is way healthier as a role model than "you should be perfect like the curated image of this person and if you're not perfect you should be deeply ashamed."

it is about the policing of black bodies, of minority communities, of queer expression, and of women in the workforce.

it is about real people in the real world. the notes are full of people who express the same thing: teachers who cannot buy wine with their dinner, social workers who have to cover up perfectly appropriate tattoos, queer folk who worry about bringing up their partner in the workplace. there are real-life, horrific, and ongoing consequences for this. real people get fired because they were in a picture holding a single beer, or they were seen wearing a too-saucy costume at halloween, or they kissed their partner in public on their day off. women have been fired for being the victim of revenge porn; their illegally distributed image instead just being seen as evidence against their character. there are queer artists that are actively being silenced because of this rhetoric. trans people fear using the fucking bathroom because of this rhetoric.

this is about the return of white nationalist slogans to a public stage. this is about how we are even seriously debating the phrase "think of the children". the children are not thought of during discussions of climate change, gun control, educational spending, free health care, student debt, access to childcare, access to food, or just getting the fucking vaccine and wearing a mask.

they do not care about the children. they want to protect their own bigotry by manipulating your empathy towards kids. that's what this post is about.