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everyone who says they’re not going to vote if biden gets the nomination knows they’re also passing up on voting for other shit, right?
like, just some of the seats up for voting this year:
35 senate seats
13 governors
a shitload of state legislature and other local elections
every single fucking house of representatives seat
you know the shit that’s been happening in the house since 2018? you know how the senate has been stonewalling fucking everything? did you know that Mitch McConnell’s seat is one of the seats up for grabs this year? if you give a fuck about non-shitty laws being passed and not giving the republicans control of every government branch (again), then you should fucking vote.
and in case that wasn’t pants-shitting enough, the 2020 census means that the state governments elected this year get to choose the redistricting process that determines districts for the next 10 years. if the republicans take your state legislature, it is practically a guarantee that your state will be gerrymandered to hell. if you give a fuck about gerrymandering (and trust me, republicans do), then you should fucking vote.
if you let all this shit slide by staying home on election day, if you give up your vote because the only election you know or care about it is the presidential one, that’s not fucking praxis.
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Nynaeve, to the younger four TR kids: You should all go to bed, it’s getting pretty late.
Moiraine, just coming into the room: What are you all still doing up? You should all get some rest.
Nynaeve: We are going out for ice cream right now, Moiraine. All of you kids grab your cloaks we are GOING OUT FOR ICE CREAM, MOIRIANE.
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How do different identities accept and reject the label “queer?”
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Overall, queer was approved of by 72.9% of respondents, with 37.2% of respondents specifying queer was their preferred umbrella term.
Queer is the most widely preferred umbrella term, and the 3rd most approved of umbrella term, behind LGBT+ and LGBTQ+.
Groups that do not prefer the use of queer as an umbrella are: straight respondents, exclusionst-identifying respondents, transmedicalists, truscum, sex-negative respondents, and sex work critical respondents.
Queer as an umbrella was preferred above other umbrella terms by all gender identities, and by all orientation groups other than straight.
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Your sixth most recent emoji is how your guardian angel feels about you
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Let’s take a moment to talk Shit.
You can tell a lot about the health of a pet by its poop.
Changes in its color or consistency are among the first warning signs that a pet may not be feeling well.
In birds, you will usually see changes in poop long before the changes in behavior that indicate illness, like irritability or lethargy.
When most people think of pigeon poop, This is what usually comes to mind:
Nasty white streaks
Or splatters
Or gross colored splats
Any place feral pigeons frequent.
But this is what poop from a healthy, well fed pigeon looks like:
A small, compact ball of the indigestible fiber left over from the hulls of the seeds they eat whole, with a tiny white cap of urate.
You can see the consistency from the others underneath it, where nesting straw has been mashed into them as Pippin has come and gone and arranged, and rearranged individual blades.
A reliably well fed and hydrated pigeon will usually leave stools that keep their round shape on impact with a texture slightly softer than well worked playdoh.
Pigeon poop can be sloppy after a big drink of water following a 6-12 hour period of having gone with out.
The bowel movement after their first drink of water in the morning, for example, may make a sloppy mess, but in a healthy, well fed pigeon, the solid part will still be brown, and there will be more water than the white urate.
Look at this third picture again:
That wet mess of solids on mostly urate, with a mucus-y shine and slimy texture, is indicative of a heavy gut load of intestinal parasites.
Not just most ferals, but most racing, performing, and exhibition pigeons (since there are often housed out doors) are infested with the nematode Capillaria, the round worm Strongyloides, or the protozoan Coccidia.
While usually sub-clinical, an active infection of Salmonella will turn the poop a distinctive sulfur yellow to lime green.
But poop is only pure white,
Like those streaks and splatters most people associate with feral pigeons, when the birds have not had access to solid food in 12 hours or more.
Nearly all feral pigeons perpetually teeter on the brink of starvation, and it shows in their poop.
They are strict granivores, meaning that they can only digest seeds: the embryonic tissue of plants.
With cities being so carefully landscaped, often with the only plant life available being in the form of flower beds and trees, with grasses only in public parks and mowed too short to bloom and seed, the food they can actually digest is mighty hard for the average feral pigeon to find.
Barn ferals tend to be much more healthy for access to seed and animal feed.
But spilled garbage and the hand outs of the people that like them enough to feed them are literally all the food city ferals have access to.
Most of that is bread.
And while bread is made from grain, milling that grain and baking it into bread breaks it down, making it easier for a HUMAN to digest, but HARDER for a pigeon.
They like the taste of it, and eating some as an occasional treat won’t do a pet bird any harm, but that’s the VAST bulk of the food feral pigeons have access to.
It would be like a humans having to wander for miles every day to find food, but only being able to find potato chips, snack cakes, and the occasional slim jim.
That human would not have a long, or healthy life.
Now imagine that person ALSO had two different kinds of lice, mosquitos, and a parasitic fly sucking their blood from the outside, a painful cheesy growth in their throat that could block off their trachea or esophagus if it goes untreated long enough, two species of worms eating the nutrients they manage to find before their intestinal lining gets the chance to absorb it, and a protozoan eating their intestinal lining, with no hope of getting any of those things treated.
And you have a pretty accurate representation of what it’s like to be a feral pigeon living “free”.
I am all for wild animals living free in the environment for which they were adapted.
But pigeons are not wild life, and they were not adapted to cities.
ESPECIALLY not on the continent of North America.
The pigeons that were brought here as military messengers, meat, and entertainment had been domesticated for thousands of years already.
When homers were no longer faster and more reliable messengers than phone lines or radio waves, they were no longer profitable to keep, pigeons were released.
This was common practice in the places they came from.
But in Europe, Africa, Turkey, and Aaudi Arabia, where Rock Doves are native, there WAS natural habitat for the exclusively cliff nesting birds to relocate to, as well as open lofts that would welcome the boon of free livestock.
But there is nothing like their actual habitat: A high cliff near the sea, between desert and grass land, in north America.
So, as lofts shut down and were (as they still are to this day by racers) habitually destroyed to discourage the birds no one would buy from returning, there was nowhere for the unwanted birds to go EXCEPT the tall, concrete buildings, and the metal structure under bridges and billboards.
The problem of feral pigeon mess, from the structural damage caused by the pure uric acid they excrete on an empty stomach to their potential as vectors for zoonotic disease is one of our own making.
That’s why I don’t re-abandon feral pigeons that come into rehab by releasing them.
I get them medical care. Heal their wounds, treat their infections, clean out their parasites…
And then I treat them like any good shelter would treat a stray dog:
I evaluate their temperament, and find them a permanent home where they can be well cared for and as happy as possible.
I fiercely love pigeons.
And for the same reason that seeing mangy, thin stray dogs roam the street treated an invasive pest species; ignored at best and chased off or exterminated at worst, would horrify and haunt the average american…
My goals are to make hoards of feral pigeons a thing of the ignorant past by encouraging the development of shelters for them like we have for dogs, cats, parrots, and other exotic pets.
Wildlife, like Mourning Doves, should absolutely be returned to the wild if at all possible.
Urban wildlife, like raccoons, are natives that have willingly ventured into cities and found them a welcoming, supportive environment, for which that animal happened to be naturally well suited.
Invasive wildlife, like Collared Doves, happen to be well adapted to the new environment into which they were released. T
hey can be a danger to natives, so culling is preferred over release in the event that they can’t be penned.
But still being wild animals, being caged stresses them severely.
Pigeons fit NONE of these categories.
They are not wildlife.
They did not “invade” cities.
They were abandoned there the minute they ceased to be profitable, they had no where else to go, and we treat the mess like it’s their fault.
We have done pigeons a terrible disservice by having entirely forgotten that they are domestic livestock.
And any one that calls a pigeon in north America a “wind animal that should be free” perpetuates and encourages that abandonment of responsibility.
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Your fifth most recent emoji is what your soulmate thinks about you
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god the bush fire situation is so fucking devastating as an indigenous person because not only is my home being fucking ravaged by fires and has been for months, but people only seem to care about the animals.
and don't get me wrong, care about the animals! i care about the animals! they're MY native animals, they're part of my culture and home and they're living breathing creatures.
but there's so so so many things in place already to help animals, shelters and charities and sanctuaries, and by all means help them more, but the government does not care about aboriginal australians. shit, scomo doesn't give a flying fuck about anyone who isn't a white cishet able bodied christian.
aboriginal australians are losing our homes, you say people aren't endangered but WE ARE. we make up a tiny percentage of our country, and a vast majority of us live in poverty and unsafe areas. not only are we losing our homes, we're losing our identity, our lives, our families. this land means more to us than it ever will to people crying over the koalas. the koalas mean more to us than they ever will to you.
remember who lived alongside those animals for thousands of years.
there's a million things i could say about why we need help more than the animals, but in the end white people will care more about what's small and fluffy than people of colour, especially people whose land they're living on, right?
(id: a picture of the sky clouded with smoke from the bushfires, the top half is black and the bottom half is red and orange, with the sun in the middle. it looks very similar to the aboriginal australian flag, and was taken minutes after sunrise on january 1st.)
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Is anyone going to talk about the "Talking Vegetable Hoax" article title in the first one?
if you need me I’ll be thinking about this newspaper from veggietales: the star of christmas
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You are nonbinary and love women!
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Also color doesn't bleed if you use cold water even if your laundry sauce is cheap. I separate clothes by which intensity setting I need (standard, delicates, etc) and just use cold for all except my underwear which I do separately and run on hot for disinfecting purposes.
Can confirm this
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look i love the good omens fandom and all, but some people gotta get this idea out of their heads that in order to be non-binary, you must be androgynous. being non-binary is a complex specturm and people can use binary pronouns and still be non binary. people can still present as male or female and still be non binary.
and there's this idea that calling Aziraphale and Crowley non-binary is a "cop-out". thats entirely skipping over the fact that Crowley is clearly genderfluid (presenting as female multiple times, having a canon deadname, being referred to as she/her in the books). Aziraphale, though presenting and going by male pronouns, is still an angel. Neil has made it clear that all demons and angels are non-binary. it was something stated back in book Good Omens, not something added on just recently.
non-binary elements can be seen with the other demons/angels as well. like Micheal, though having a male name, presenting as female. or Beezlebub being an androgenous character. or Pollution going by they/them pronouns and being reffered to as 'sir', while presenting as female.
this is the most non-binary rep i have ever seen from a show. where literally most of the characters are non-binary and it is demonstrated throughout. this wasn't something just offhandedly mentioned, i have seen really shitty cop-outs before. This was not one of them. At all.
and even if you ignore all of what i just said, dont forget that Good Omens is a love story. And that Crowley and Aziraphale canonically love each other. And Neil has stated that the lines "you go to fast for me" and "to the world" were romantic.
just because they arent two gay men does not at all mean it is not queer rep. It absolutely is. gay men and women are not the only people in the lgbt+ community. we are a vast variety who all deserve representation in media. and the fact i see some of my fellow lgbt peoples trashing on non-binary representation really, really saddens me.
i personally felt represented as i am a transmasc person. i am on the non-binary spectrum, go by he/they pronouns, and mostly present as male or neutral. i dont mind being referred to as a guy, but i am not fully male-aligned. thats why i related to so many characters. Thats part of the reason this show is so important to me.
and i do want to say, im not here to get into argurments. if you disagree with me, cool, scross past and ignore this. but i will not take time out of my day to argue with strangers in my dms or in the comments section. im only here because i, as a non-binary person myself, wanted to explain how Good Omens is a good source of rep for trans/non-binary peoples
goodnight
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A good debunking article by Jane C. Hu about a dog that’s been making waves on instagram for supposedly “talking” by pressing buttons with words on them. Excerpt:
On the one hand, yes, any person who spends a lot of time around an animal learns to pick up on their signals. My dog has learned to paw at blankets to tell me she wants to get underneath them and to offer a high-five in exchange for whatever delicious thing I’m eating. But we necessarily project a bit of ourselves into interpreting what another being wants, especially when we don’t speak the same language. (Even when talking to other humans, we often hear what we want to instead of what the person is really saying.) […]
But caution is warranted, too. While Hunger often describes her interactions with Stella as “talking” or “chatting”—in one post, Hunger even claims that “I just had a conversation with my dog about having an açaí bowl”—there’s an important distinction between Stella’s button pushing and actually understanding language in the way that humans do. “The tricky bit is that we humans are easily fooled by the sound of words, and we think that by using a word, one must know the meaning behind it, and intend to use that word, just in the way humans do,” says Horowitz. “That’s definitely not always the case. A lyre bird mimicking someone yelling ‘timber’ because they’ve heard someone yelling ‘timber’ is not themselves meaning to say ‘timber!’ ” Stella pressing the bye and outside buttons in response to Hunger’s question about going out to get açaí bowls doesn’t mean she actually understood the full gist of that sentence.
We read into what she means by pushing buttons, and her “vocabulary”—and hence, our interpretation—is limited by what buttons are available. Horowitz gave an example of this: “What if the button said on Mars instead of later. Would we think that Stella meant it’ll happen on Mars?”
When evaluating animals’ behavior, Hare says it’s important to think about the myriad ways it can be explained. British psychologist Lloyd Morgan came up with a rule that came to be known as Morgan’s canon. As Hare explains it, it’s “Occam’s razor, but for behavior—any time you see a behavior, it doesn’t mean it’s underlain by the same psychology when it’s performed by two different organisms. You prefer the simplest explanation until you can rule it out.” In Stella’s case, a simpler explanation might be that she’s pressing buttons because she knows something good might happen, or even that she’s reading cues from her people and pressing the “right” buttons. (Think Clever Hans, the horse that could “do math” but was really just very skilled at reading its owner’s facial expressions.) It’s “likely [that] the dog is intentionally communicating and it knows if it interacts with these buttons then good things happen. Maybe it even has some idea about what type of good thing might happen,” says Hare. But we need more rigorous evidence to determine what, exactly, Stella knows.
Read the whole article.
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2018: 20GAYTEEN // dubbed by hayley kiyoko
2019: 20BITEEN
2020: 20ENBY / 20TWENTY
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Heck yes! Konmari has a whole story in one of her books about how she threw away a screwdriver because it didn't spark joy for her. But when she needed a screwdriver, she didn't have one! She realized that living with a screwdriver made life easier and more enjoyable than living without one. So she started treating functional items that don't cause you to feel EMOTIONAL joy like they were treasured valuables and then her emotions eventually caught up with her behavior. THIS IS ESPECIALLY HELPFUL IF YOU'RE DOING KONMARI WHEN YOU HAVE DEPRESSION! Nothing sparks joy as an emotion so you have to use OTHER criteria for determining what "joy" is. And the easiest one that isn't an emotion is "does this make my life easier?"
So you should convince yourself that they are sparking joy, and you should prioritize their status, because they are making your day, everyday. Then, gradually, you will start seeing some sparking joy concepts from those items.
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Babe do NOT fight yourself! I am ace and I will absolutely fight my bi ace girlfriend if she tries to fight herself. >:( I love her a lot.
i wanna see bi tumblr and ace tumblr fight
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IM LAUGHING SO HARD I DIDNT THINK SEXUAL DESIRE WAS A REAL THING LIKE I ALWAYS SAW PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT HOW THEY WANTED SEX BUT I THOUGHT THEY WERE JOKING OR EXAGGERATING OR SOMETHING THATS WHY IT WAS SO HARD FOR ME TO REALIZE I WAS ACE BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT WENT WITHOUT SAYING SEX ISNT THAT IMPORTANT IM 19 YEARS OLD I CANT STOP LAUGHING LITERALLY 99% OF THE POPULATION EXPERIENCES SEXUAL DESIRE AND I THOUGHT IT WAS A JOKE
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