um, hey

I've reached the point where cynicism is a major turn-off for me. You're not smarter than idealists, and you're not helping.

Funny that the stereotypical cynic is an idealist who aged out of it. In my experience, the reverse is true. I was an extreme cynic as a teenager and then I noticed how profoundly limiting it was, and also that "cynics are cool and smart" was a message that was being constantly reinforced by corporate media for some reason.

I also think that the present era has proven that authoritarian leaders don't actually want a population of wide-eyed idealists, they want a population of jaded assholes who are convinced that everyone is lying, any resistance is either a scam or doomed to failure, and nothing can ever get better.

so many creatures putting SO much effort into putting ‘special’ fluids that TOTALLY aren’t water through every organ possible to clean them so they can use them again 2 seconds later. like why not simply sit on a damp substrate and pull water through your body by evaporating the extra out pores in your leaves lmaoooo

‘nooo nooo you don’t get it I need the big organ to run the fast firing nerves to run the machines that make the fluid go to work the big organ’. whatever chordate. lol

troubleshooting time: arid area, low on damp substrate. what do?

good question! you could try closing your leaf pores for a while until more appears… sometimes you can also put more tubes down and feel around until you find some. water comes from the opposite direction of the sun unless it doesn’t ❤️ glad I could help!!

omg useless advice from privileged mfs from wet climates as usual... bet you don't even use CAM.

ok first of all i checked your profile and of COURSE its all meadows, say youre a grass who does C4 without saying youre a grass who does C4 100% speedrun challenge. sorry i wasnt blessed with a whole separate sheath of cells for increasing photosynthetic efficiency and nothing else but some of us actually have to adapt and deal with the VERY REAL AND SEVERE effects of photorespiration... literally imagine having 30 foot deep roots posting this. second of all 'plants in wet climates are privileged' you can literally live in water and use CAM??? isoetes erasure per usual on this website, neglected by an angiosperm monocot no less. why am i not surprised

fraggle rockers in the house tonight

actually its fraggle rock is

are you talking to yourself

mind your business

crucially though I am serene and tranquil

he just threw a “welcome to being a man” at his ABUSIVE FATHER FIGURE on the subject of being CONSTANTLY SUBJECTED TO CORRECTIVE MALE VIOLENCE if you cannot see that that is some TMA SHIT then you are FUNCTIONALLY MEDIA-ILLITERATE

wdym where's my halo? you don't need a halo to be an angel, and i clearly am look at my beautiful holy wings.. wdym they're covered in soot and brimstone? you can't say mean things like that to an angel like me! they're literally radiant and pretty??? wdym "what about your cartoonish succubus tail?" that's literally my fucking angel... thing.. it's got a heart on the end ur not working with me here wdym wdym

*flutters my wings indignantly in a way that makes my boobs bounce* ur all just jealous of my angel thing

i have multiple nominally transfeminist trans women on here blocked because they just can't stop spreading the incredibly easily debunked lie that "(C)AMAB/(C)AFAB" terminology was appropriated from intersex activism. literally even fucking wiktionary acknowledges that this is a "folk etymology" originating on tumblr. it is explicitly an intentional transphobic lie intended to rob trans people of terms that allow them to describe their positionality. COINing is not fucking real. the people who originally pushed this canard want you to say you were "born male" or are "biologically male" instead of "camab" because they support a cissexist, naturalized view of coercively assigned gender as biological fact. they are not good faith intersex activists, they are terfs and other trans exterminationists. STOP SPREADING THEIR PROPAGANDA FOR THEM!