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I figure folks I've recently followed/interacted with might like some token of my being an actual person, so here are kelpies drawn by me and my preK kid who is utterly fascinated by them, especially their most gruesome aspects.

I do not need AI to draw a creepy flesh eating water horse. Aa you can see, I perfected my horse art technique by the age of 8 and have refused any impulse to improve since then.

I was on Pinterest for a while and kept seeing all the Tumblr hype and this place is in fact as refreshing as for profit social media in 2026 can be. Which is not to endorse for profit social media in any sense. But people actually write long things, and read them here and I like that. Among other things that I also like.

I have a handful of tags I follow at this point but please don't think these are the limits of my interests/priorities/values. I am open to recommendations and conversation, and to sharing more about myself as needed to create safety for others while maintaining safety for myself and my family.

Hopefully that all sounds sincere and not Fed ish. I'm not sure if feds on Tumblr is a concern.

There's no liberation without child liberation. There's no liberation without decolonization and landback (including Palestine and the US). There's no liberation without dismantling white supremacy. Gender Euphoria for all. Reproductive autonomy for all. I don't surrender to fatalism or the illusory certainty of the Lenski Model. It ain't over til I sing and we don't know what's possible until we do it.

tl;dr: There's no evidence the interview that this was mentioned in even exists, no evidence the route of the cable has ever changed, and the whole story seems to originate from one dude's podcast.

For those saying this story was "fake," Rebecca Watson actually did a video yesterday gathering all of the evidence including the podcast interview where an actual exec for the company shared the anecdote, compared with construction timeliness and public reporting. Everything lines up with what he said. There's no reason to believe it was untrue just because some redditor positioned themselves as an authority or whatever.

This is not true for IGM (intersex genital mutilation) victims. When i say intersex infants and children are being mutilated, i am not disparaging bottom surgery- i mean that the intersex ""corrective"" surgeries performed against our will do not meet the same standards. They aren't something we choose, they're forced on us. Victims of IGM are often left with chronic pain, issues with genital function and sensation, poor aesthetic outcomes, and scarring (which affects both the visual appearance AND can cause functional issues). These surgeries are completely unnecessary and done largely at the doctor's discretion, often without the knowledge of parents (either because they were not told or they were fooled), and the victim is almost always deeply unhappy (and often dysphoric) as a result. Doctors get to decide to mutilate us, lie to our families, and then also mistreat and abuse us for the rest of our lives. Further, outside of the surgical procedures, growing up intersex means routinely going through violating and invasive "inspections" of your genitals by doctors. I can recall having doctors, nurses, and volunteers demand to see my genitals as a young child, touching and examining them without my consent- same for my breasts once i hit puberty. Just about every intersex person i know can say the same. It's routine and constant medical and sexual abuse from medical professionals.

Mushrooms are cool and weird and worthy of study. But they get a bit overly mystified at times, in ways that cause people to destroy them unnecessarily. Mycophobia is a real thing that can harm ecosystems. Lots of natural lifeforms are cool and weird and kinda want to elaborately murder you.

for those not as invested in this shit as I am, the movie ends with the protagonists not having sex and deciding people who like having sex are shallow and weird. Yknow. Agreeing with the facist government banning them from having sex.

also, for the unaware: mclaughlin v. florida was a 1964 supreme court case that struck down a florida anti-miscegenation law that criminalized cohabitation (and thus, as implied, sex) between white people and people of color of opposite genders. anti-miscegenation laws made marriage and sexual relationships between white people and people of color, most often specifically black people, a FELONY in several states in the united states up until the 1950s and 1960s. though it was already struck down by the supreme court, the state of alabama didn't repeal their law until 2000! there were THREE ATTEMPTS at codifying anti-miscegenation into the us constitution!

like yes, the issue here is partially straight white people's ignorance on the united states's history of homophobic policy, but it's also really important to recognize that arguably the majority of the issue here is straight white people's ignorance of the united states's history of codifying eugenics and antiblack racism.

The answer is home. If everyone had departed, no one would have been left to tend the ancestors’ graves. When you walk past a plantation, even if not outfitted soberly or joyously in the history of slavery, you are forced to remember something. And it is a vile, bloody remembrance, but it is also one that should strike awe at the human mastery of existence that is evidenced in the blues, in the experience of the divine in the spirit-body, that keloid-covered, scarred Black body, that violated, hungry, sparely clothed body, the labor-flattened, thick-soled feet. Had these graves not been seen, daily, over generations, had we not been witnesses to them, I do not know how it would have been possible to sustain hope, or at least to pretend to.

American exceptionalism, that sense that we are somehow special and ordained as such, is a myth sedimented on Southern prosperity: oil, coal, and cotton. Every piece of evidence of our national distinction has relied upon this wealth of the nation. As you certainly have already gleaned, I do not think genocide, slavery, and exploitation were worth it. Nor do I believe they should be tidily set aside in moments of patriotic fervor or national piety like the Fourth of July or the following days: President’s, King’s, Labor, or Memorial. But even if you are a lover of the national romance, integrity requires that the stories be at least halfway honest. It is not enough to set aside a little time or attention here or there to grieve our national sins, then, soft as butter, turn back to proclamations of greatness. Because history is an instruction. And what you neglect to attend to from the past, you will surely ignore in the present.