A suspiciously stingray-shaped patch of sand

Do whatever you gotta do to make sure you can tell your grandkids good stuff when they ask you what you did during the historic times you lived through

sorry it’s actually so fucking crazy thinking abt how certain places have banned burqinis like literally making a woman take her clothes off in public like that shit is so fascist

genuinely horrific like that’s law mandated sexual assault & we just let it happen. hello. can anyone hear me.

Thank you for posting without the fucking destiel meme

I think about The Man of the Hole so often. 27 years alone. 27 years with no one to speak to but strangers to wave to. Survived a genocide, a massacre that killed everyone he had ever known and later, an assassination attempt. He still tried to warn researches about the traps he built. He was only about 60 when he died in 2022. The people who tormented him in life later desecrated his grave.

I do think it is important to share the stories of the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island and Ishi and the countless other indigenous people who experienced the profound trauma of being the last survivor but it is important to remember that the last Aboriginal families in Australia to be contacted by Europeans were resettled in the 1980s and the Indian government has proposed a plan that will mean total genocide for the Shompen people. The total eradication of indigenous peoples, their cultures, their languages, their ways of life, is not something which occurred in a distant ugly past but an ongoing process.

*takes a drag of a candy cigarette* I never thought I would make it to this many

they're executing the count from sesame street for violating the masquerade

(voice of a person spiralling) its embarrassing but i still havent figured out if its ok for me to be alive

Constantly accusing trans women of grooming is particularly heinous because you can use any genuine attempt to help and support others as 'evidence'

Sharing resources is grooming. Supporting each other is grooming. Warning others of transmisogynists is grooming. Making friends is grooming. Wanting a better future is grooming. Openly existing as a trans woman is grooming

"trying to draw other people close to you in any way is nefarious and suspicious, because you are nefarious and suspicious"

convincing someone to stop obsessing over and harassing you is grooming, we all remember that one right? where they started preordering being groomed into not harassing trans women?

back on my old trans-mom blog, I was accused of grooming on a near daily basis simply for my efforts of telling 16 year old trans kids to not kill themselves. I was accused of grooming for helping adults older than me step by step how to get hrt through their local doctors offices or planned parenthood. I was accused of grooming for helping an adult trans woman escape an abusive relationship. I was called a pedophile for being friends with someone who was also in her 20s.

The problem with studying the deep ocean is that humans need light to look at things, the depths of the ocean are extremely dark, and what lives there is accustomed to spending most of its time in that darkness. So when we go down there with submersibles and turn on Big Lights to see, we invariably and dramatically alter what's going on, in the same way that it's generally difficult to observe the natural behaviors of terrestrial animals if you whip out a megaphone and shout HEY GUYS WHAT ARE YOU DOING at them first.

I put this in the comments but feel it needs a reblog- Check out some of Dr Edith Widder’s work on light in the deep sea! Among other things, she used the bioluminescence of stoplight fish to deduce wavelengths which most deep sea animals can’t perceive and used that to create light filters to be able to film with minimal disturbance! And that’s how we got 25 minutes of giant squid footage!!!!