I dunno what's going on either

unlike rabbits, a baby hare can run, fight, or flee almost immediately after birth.

file under “no gender, just vibes”

imagine meeting a handsome young man who’s seen as a player and sleeps around a lot and you notice a scar along his arm and ask where he got it. he just look down at his feet and said “i used to be a soldier in world war one”. He’s been sleeping around and hooking up so much cause he’s been trying to find his soulmate for years but hasn’t yet.

Imagine going on your first date with someone and you really hit it off and then the next day you notice a grey hair and call them on the phone excitedly screaming and they both just sit on the phone hysterically crying and laughing.

Imagine sitting in silence with your partner and having them say out of the blue “i feel so old when im around you… but… in a good way” and thats the moment you know that they love you.

imagine having a dog thats 18 in human years and it starts to get gray patches of fur because they loves you so much.

imagine noticing you look older and freaking out but then stopping and getting super confused because “im not dating anyone right now…. which of my friends is my soulmate… WHICH ONE IS IT!?!?!?” and then they hopelessly date everyone they know in order to find out which one it fucking was. it was the pizza delivery guy the whole time. they went on 27 dates that all ended in confusion and heartbreak and it was the god damn pizza delivery guy from a month ago the whole fucking time. 

imagine someone dating their partner for 5 years and then having an affair. only after the affair do they start aging.

imagine nuns who start to age after they ceremoniously “marry god”

imagine people getting surgeries to look older cause they dont want people to think theyre alone.

imagine having parents who wont let you date anyone but they start to notice you aging and then you have to have a terrifying “surprise im gay and i have a boyfriend haha oops” conversation

imagine seeing couples with teenage kids and the couple both looks 18.

You can see some of them, if you look closer while you clean the cups between serving customers, have distinctively ancient Roman flares to their outfits. Others are rocking asexual and aromantic pride flags. Some have both. Many, in fact, if not most.

You hand the plate with a heated muffin to the regular who has started looking greyer lately with a congratulations and a smile, then - once he’s walked away - jerk a thumb at the group of women (one of whom, you notice, is also wearing a trans pride pin) and hiss to your manager, “Is there a cosplay event in town?”

Your manager looks at you with slight disappointment. “The Vestal Virgins and friends,” she says, “their business has kept a cafe or before that a restaraunt open here for two thousand years.”

For a moment you look at them with sadness - no soulmate in over two thousand years? - but then you look again.

These people are having a wonderful time, clearly fulfilled, clearly they love each other - just not in whatever particular requirement there is to count as a soulmate. And how strange, you realise, that society and lifespan is so tied to something which cannot even be properly defined, if these ancients are clearly not missing it.

One of them has a printed t-shirt. It says I belong in a museum on the back. You’re pretty sure you recognise her as the curator at the local natural history museum.

Suddenly, the fear that has sat in the pit of your stomach for so long - what if you never find The One (or The Polycule)? What if you never start aging - fades away. It’s clearly not the end of the world if your world never ends.

“If they’re that old,” your most annoying colleague interjects, “why don’t they run the world by now?”

– https://searchmysite.net/ Search engine for the indie web, personal websites, digital gardens. You can also find them in websites like Neocities, Indieweb, Blogarama, and write.as. There is also a big list of personal websites.

– https://search.marginalia.nu/ Search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and promotes websites that aren’t usually at the top of the list.

– https://www.worldcat.org/ Search engine for items in libraries (books, but also maps, articles, sound recordings, theses, etc.)

– https://scholar.google.com/ Search engine for scientific papers, reviews, etc. It’s still google, but a lot better than the normal search engine counterpart.

– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines A list of search engines sorted by subject, area, and more. If you’re searching on a specific area, it might be worth checking if there is one focused on that area.

– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_databases_and_search_engines A list of academic databases and search engines.

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do not taste plants if you don't know what they are

do not identify a fruit as edible just because it tastes sweet

hope you didn't eat any fucking seeds, bro

I saw the photo in my feed and went ohh, dude, no, we do not handle yellow rocks with our bare hands until we know for sure what they are. And I know that orange...

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and that's where I started cussing at the computer monitor. But someone else had got there first:

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

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