"sometimes i miss my sanity" –wedge antilles

i don't understand how we can use out of context old testament verses to hate one another when 1 john 4:16-21 literally could not be any clearer if it tried

mafia goon in the 1940’s who just started transitioning:

also this is part of a disturbing but sadly not uncommon attitude that progress = women (specifically women most of the time) showing more skin. because not showing skin is "following irrational religious modesty mandates" like the man on twitter says

I’m a dog groomer and the number of our regulars named G- well, you know what - is not so worrying as the fact that I’ve had to explain to every single colleague over the last few years why I feel uncomfortable writing that word on the whiteboard for the day’s schedule and I just get weird looks.

it just gets better

if you read about any biology you can quickly lose touch with what is astonishing and miraculous vs what is mundane, from animals that steal chloroplasts to become photosynthetic, to cloning technology being old hat, to trees that didn’t biodegrade for tens of millions of years, to naturally occurring lateral gene transfer between vastly different species, to the creation of gametes from adult cells, to the ability of some cancers to induce blood vessel growth, to desert shrimp that lie dormant for years, to the sensitivity of human touch receptors, to the fact that human hardware has a latent ability to see UV but their corneas block those wavelengths, to birds that echolocate and live in caves, to human skin being covered in enzymes that destroy RNA, to individual trees becoming genetic tapestries branch by branch, to life forms that gain energy from the electron potential of metals in their environments, to plants that recognize their siblings and adjust their behavior accordingly when growing next to them, to metamorphosis

Just vaccinated three kids and got kicked thank GOD I am selling them today

The grinding process for sharpening anything to a cutting edge on a grinding wheel, or even using a whetstone or even sand paper, would cause a large amount of friction heat that would cause a poor insulator substance, like the flesh of a banana, to heat up and become mushy dramatically fast. On a grinding wheel this would mean sending flying bits of banana flinging across the walls

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