knowing when your friend is out of the house, because their phone capitalises their messages

noticing they’re down because that was the wrong emoticon

lol vs lmao vs hahaha vs ahaha

subtly wrapping your schedule around the edges of timezones on the other side of the world

conversations that play out over a week because you’re both perpetually idle but you want to know how they’re doing

not being able to wake up for an alarm, but leaping halfway across the house for the message alert you’ve been waiting for

talking to the same person about different topics in three conversations simultaneously

knowing when your friends have been spending time together because they start to type alike 

Ack! You are not a flaw! Humans are not a merely biological species. Like, what percentage of the tools we use for survival are biological, would you guess? Certainly some…like, the ability to go outside, to do physical labor, to procreate…all those biological things are important (and necessary) to the species. But I would say that our cultural abilities (community building, information sharing, morality) are just as necessary to the survival of the species as our biological abilities.

Trying to find an biological reason for every human trait vastly underestimates the extreme complexity of humanity. We are so complicated that explaining all of our traits and abilities is far beyond the current goals of evolutionary psychology or evolutionary biology. 

What the evolutionary benefits of asexuality in particular are, I don’t know. But I do know that there is evolutionary benefit to variety, and asexuality is part of the wonderful, exciting variety of the humanity. 

“Are you a boy or a girl?”

“I’m a radio host.”

“Yeah but what’s your gender?”

“Mostly void, partially stars.”

“Okay but what’s between your legs.”

“Unless I’m crossing them, empty space, mostly. There is so much empty space in this world. Emptiness is everywhere. Emptiness is everything. You, I, we all are drowning in emptiness.

Music For Cats Is Real And It’s The Purr-fect Way To Win Over Your Feline

Teie, a cellist with the National Symphony Orchestra, teamed up with animal scientists to develop Music For Cats, a collection of songs that will be catnip to your meowzer’s ears. What does this music sound like, exactly? “A series of whirring, lilting, and, at times, squeaky musical tracks designed for cats’ brains and ears.”

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