me trying to remember what newfoundlands are called earlier: big dog he's an island
big dog he's an island :)
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me trying to remember what newfoundlands are called earlier: big dog he's an island
big dog he's an island :)

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everyone on the block hates me because I have to take my pet loose sheet of aluminum siding on a walk every day at 3am
A 15-year-old boy is about to base his entire personality on the last movie you watched for the next 10 years. HOW BAD IS IT?
He is going to get himself killed. Badly.
He is going to (try to) kill himself
The most obnoxious person in the world has just been born
FURRY (derogatory)
FURRY (normal)
Not much has changed? But now he's stuck like this for 10 years? Yikes.
It's cringe but it could have been a lot worse
At least he'll have fun at Comic Con
If anything this is a slight improvement.
He's not a boy anymore. He's a man now.
She's not a boy anymore. She's a girl now.
FINALLY, a son I can be proud of!
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i was speaking with a guy i work with and when leaving i said okay see you monday and he went oh no i wont be in monday. im going bald. and i said ?you're what? and he just repeated im going bald monday. wont be in
update: he didn’t show up on Monday and on Tuesday he was bald

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the vet measured junta on sunday, and as we were leaving the assistant said “he wrote down the measurements for you” and passed me this
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the moon, from earth; earth, from the moon
Meditations (170-180 AD) by Marcus Aurelius, xii. 24 (via Philosophy as a Way of Life, by Pierre Hadot) // The Nebra Sky Disc, c. 1600 BCE, via Wikimedia Commons // Naturales Questiones (c. AD 65) by Seneca, i. 8 (via Philosophy as a Way of Life, by Pierre Hadot) // Galileo's "Two Drawings of Waxing Moon," from "Siderius Nuncius" (1610). Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Washington, D.C. (modified by me) // "Earth Quotes," as sourced from seasky . org // William Anders' "Earthrise" (1968), via Wikimedia Commons // Transcript of communications from Integrity to Earth, from NASA broadcast, image created by me // Reid Wiseman's "Earthset" (2026), via NASA
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this is going to be a silly reblog but i have kind of a fixation on animal qualia and the idea of an animal's umwelt, so i ended up wondering whether pudding was actually "enjoying" this.
which meant i went and read about snail brains.
here's the bad news, at least by human standards:
snails do not have anything like a centralized brain. their nervous system is made up of small clusters of neurons (ganglia) that mostly handle very local tasks. they don't have a cortex, they don't build big integrated models of the world, and they almost certainly don't experience things like appreciation, anticipation, or savoring.
pudding is not looking at the sky and thinking it's beautiful.
snail eyes are basically light sensors - they can tell bright from dark, but not form images. snail "taste" is done through chemoreceptors on their tentacles and around their mouth. those receptors don't produce flavor the way ours do; they just detect chemical compounds and sort them into "approach," "ignore," or "avoid."
so there's no evidence that snails enjoy food, or wind, or views, the way mammals do.
and that does sound kind of sad. but then i thought that maybe we are asking the wrong question.
snails do have valence. they detect aversive things (like salt or dryness) and withdraw from them. they detect non-aversive or beneficial conditions (like moisture) and stay extended. when pudding is stretched out like this, it means his nervous system is basically saying "this is safe; nothing is wrong."
if we define pleasure not as our human experience of dopamine and reward chemicals but instead as "the absence of aversion" - a state where the organism is open to its environment instead of defending itself - then this does count as something positive, even if it's extremely nothing like human enjoyment.
pudding isn't appreciating the wind. but his body is registering humidity, safety, and the ability to keep functioning, and that matters to him in the only way his nervous system can make things matter. he does not think "this is great, this is awesome, i love the weather", because he doesn't think in the way we do at all, but the neurological action in his ganglion tell his body that he is safe, that the moisture is an acceptable level, that it's not too dry or windy, and that there's nothing imminently threatening.
i think a lot of the sadness comes from assuming that a good life has to look like ours: full of enjoyment, meaning, and aesthetic experience. but a snail isn't missing those things. its world just isn't built to include them.
snails don't have a sense of flavor. they don't even have tastebuds. this seems like a gimme, right? but again that might be asking the wrong question about what "taste" is. biologically speaking, it's chemoreception. we taste sweet because it indicates high value, high calorie sugar molecules. we taste salty for salt, umami for proteins. so in what way does pudding's chemoreceptors differ from ours instrumentally? we can say "by our human perspective, pudding can't experience "preference" or "savoring" or "anticipation of delicious food"", but from pudding's perspective we have radically overengineered ourselves for the task at hand. pudding can tell what's salty, what's high value, what has the chemicals he needs. the functional outcome is that he can discriminate food souces based on their composition. is that not taste?
so maybe the point isn't "this is sad because he can't enjoy it," but "this is a reminder that minds come in radically different shapes, and value doesn't have to be rich to be real."
there's something really lovely about the fact that human enjoyment increases when projected onto another being, even if the other being isn't actually capable of experiencing what we would call "enjoyment". watching an animal scratch an itch makes us feel good because we know what it's like to have an itch, but also makes us feel good in unique ways that scratching our own body doesn't. empathy is a great advantage, even on an individual level, because it allows us access to types of pleasure we otherwise cannot experience. in other words: even if Pudding did not exist, we would invent one to share the world with
good thing they didnt have Grindr during the age of sail imagine coming into range of the enemy and in the tense quiet before the storm all your officers' phones go off
sometimes you'll see a bird for the first time and when you look it up you learn that its name is the Common Dirt Bitch and its range is Everywhere and there are 400 million of them in your state alone

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lil baby elmo for @creatingblackcharacters' art challenge! 🎈
i just had to put him in those denim overalls with the embroidered popout graphics because i always associate them with my preschool years 🛝 (where the 90s babies at?!)
wanted to bring people's attention to the new anti trans bill that's been proposed in India. This bill literally erases our identity and our autonomy so it would help if more people were aware of what is happening to us in this country
^Community-led Mobilisation to Reject Trans Bill 2026. Please look into it.
Collective Statement on Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill 2026. Note: Translations of this statement in multiple I
Maybe I should've been more assertive making this post but
THE RIGHTS OF INDIAN TRANS PEOPLE ARE GOING TO GET TAKEN AWAY IN JUST A FEW DAYS. I THINK ITS NOT TOO MUCH TO ASK FOR EVERYONE TO AT LEAST CARE.
I know I was being vague in the original post, and i apologise, genuinely. But to specify, this bill takes away our rights for self identification. Our identity will no longer be in our hands, no longer ours to determine, no longer our own but for medical institutions to determine. It's plain erasure.
Our lives are miserable enough as is in this country so it literally takes nothing for the 90% white userbase of this site to sign a petition or spread awareness. That's all that it takes from your side.
Fellow indian trans people or allies can use this this link to email your member of Parliament about the Trans Bill, made by members of the Queer Against the Trans Bill Collective.
https://webionite.com/reject-trans-b
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I search for safety and comfort but cannot find it; every detail is painful and difficult.
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I urgently need your donations so I can buy food, drink, and safe shelter for my children. Please donate now and don't wait until we are in danger.
I will not forgive anyone who is able to donate and does not.
I will not forgive anyone who did not share my post or offer even the smallest amount of help.
Please don't leave my children and family.
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