Katherine Villyard

Meanwhile, in other-continental business...

“This is a cultural battle. It always has been. We’ve been fighting hard for the rights of LGBTQ people to exist. Just exist. We’ve been fighting for the rights of minorities — Black, Brown, Latino, Indian, Asian, Jewish, Muslim and Athiest — to have their full human and civil rights respected and protected. We’ve fought for equal pay for women, but also equal access to healthcare for women. The reason we’ve had to fight for these things is because they simply do not exist naturally on their own. Equality has never been the natural state of things. Someone has always been able to tip their scales in their own direction. Someone has always been able to set the stakes on the table and bend the rules to their benefit. Young white men feel threatened by all of this. They’re afraid. They think that the battle for equal rights has already flipped the table against them — they think that they are the “targets” of everyone, that they are now the “victims” of everyone else’s scramble up from the bottle of the totem pole. That feeling is frankly bullshit. I mean it’s “real” that they feel that way, it’s very “real” that they feel “oppressed.” But they are in no actual way being actually oppressed. Not unless you mean that being a open fucking bigoted mysogynist dickhead is not exactly fashionable anymore. Maculinity isn’t inherently “Toxic” unless the only things you believe are “masculine” happen to be toxic behaviors.”

imagine if a fuckin……. giant alien just showed up and stuck a huge hand in front of your face and then proceeded to offer you three different houses and wouldn’t stop until you moved out of your old shitty apartment and then helped you fuckin move

I first saw this on twitter and COULD NOT get over these comments:

Baby bird season is incoming and I’d like to remind everyone that birds do not have a significant sense of smell. Bird parents will not reject birdlets because you have handled them.

nakey bird = accidentally fell out, is cold and scared, put back in nest! if you can’t reach the nest, try to put it on a wide branch or fork so predators can’t get at it as easily.

i finished qotd last night! some random highlights mostly from the end:

"If you use em dash in your works, it makes them look AI generated. No real human uses em dash."

“In 1881 the doctor overseeing President James Garfield’s recovery from a gunshot wound repeatedly probed the president’s wound with dirty instruments and his fingers, prompting assassin Charles Guiteau to plead not guilty of the murder by claiming, “The doctors killed Garfield, I just shot him.” But just four years later, germ theory was so widely accepted that the U.S. Army required medical officers to inspect their posts every month and report the results to the administration, and by 1886, disease rates were dropping. By 1889, the U.S. Army had written manuals for sanitary field hospitals, and the need to combat germs was so commonplace medical officers rarely mentioned it. And now, in 2025, the top health official in the United States, a man without degrees in either medicine or public health, appears to be rejecting germ theory and reshaping the nation’s medical system around his own dedication to a theory that was outdated well over a century ago”