IT'S OKAY TO BELIEVE

I SHOWED IT TO MY FLIGHT ATTENDANT WHEN HE GAVE ME MY COOKIES AND HE LAUGHED SO HARD HE TOOK MY PHONE TO SHOW IT TO THE OTHER FLIGHT ATTENDANT

I don’t know how you got a good grade in being a passenger on an airline but that’s a totally normal thing to achieve and I’m not seething with jealousy at all.

It is an hundred years hence now. Go open your doors.

Unrestrained summer fun.

Today in "Animals that it didn't occur to me might be able to go to the beach and enjoy it, but apparently do and now that I'm seeing it makes perfect sense": Camel!

Maybe the Loch Ness monster was just a very lost camel...

TIL anyone who's going to overwinter in Antarctica has to have had their appendix out. Because removing an appendix that's not causing any trouble just as a precaution is way better than having one that's about to burst when you're on the ass-end of the planet with no way to be rushed to a hospital if shit gets real.

“what if kids identify with something and it ends up just being a phase-?” good. stop teaching and expecting kids (and adults honestly) to formulate permanent traits and ideas of themselves. everything in life is a phase. that doesn’t make it any less legitimate while you experience it. let people explore themselves and know it’s okay if what you think about yourself changes.

I have a friend who identified as trans for a bit but doesn’t anymore. Verified cisgender. Gave it a good shot. Good for her. Stellar ally. Her dad being a dick about it still damaged their relationship. It doesn’t matter that the identity didn’t last. The memory of how he reacted does.

the thing about media literacy is that understanding why the author chose to specify that the curtains are blue is the same skill set as understanding that the way the author characterizes all black characters as angry or all chinese characters as meek and silent is racist. it is the same skill set as being able to identify when a news source is biased or when someone is feeding you propaganda. the ability to ask "why did this person choose to present this premise in this specific way?" is a critical skill in a world full of misinformation. why are the curtains blue? maybe it's a characterization detail. maybe it's extraneous worldbuilding. why is this character written as being right all the time? maybe you're intended to disagree with them. maybe it doesn't matter. maybe you should still ask why.

I see, fascinating! Seems like we need the stars to align to make it happen, and they just happen to constantly all the time in the us midwest!

Actually, we have THREE Tornado Alleys really--the Great Plains (aka the classic place for them), Dixie Alley (tornadoes tend to show up down south more in the late fall/early winter months), and the Ohio River Valley Alley. There's been a trend of stronger tornadoes that has moved eastward, so the later two are newer names, although I'm not sure how popular the Ohio River Valley one is.

Best sex position is guy who’s not there but is fundamental to everything

Then I guess we'll just have to Blaze it the old fashioned way, eh?

Boosting signal. AGAIN.

"ICE is trying to recruit therapists" is a profoundly heartening sentence, and I thank you for it.