Bro why did you censor the snake's cloaca on the snake anatomy post??? It's a snake?

I didn't censor anything, what -

oh. Oh, no. That's meant to be a line to show where the tail begins. Oh no, now I look like some weird prude.

Yeah, that's meant to help people grasp the anatomy and visualize how small the tail is in relation to the torso. Not meant to be some kind of weird snake privacy screen

It’s actually really disturbing how prankster YouTubers/tiktokers (mostly men) are doing digital human zoos where they record themselves publicly harassing, abusing, and prodding random strangers they treat like animals (especially the elderly, children, women, and employees aka easier targets) and yet it’s wildly accepted

And if you criticize these videos or men suddenly it’s all “people can’t take a joke”

Nah y’all are just cruel and deserve an ear boxing

so SAG-AFTRA finally released some official guidance for fans, viewers, creators/influencers, critics, and more during the strike. here's what you need to know:

if you see a publication/news source/journalist talking about a piece of struck work, that's ok. they're allowed to do that.

2. they're asking regular viewers and fans to DONATE TO STRIKE FUNDS, SHOW UP TO PICKETS IF YOU CAN, and please do NOT boycott streaming services or movies in theaters.

3. influencers, content creators, cosplayers, and anything in between is still a bit of a grey area, but they're asking people to use their best judgement. "organically" means UNPAID promo (like an invite to a premiere without being paid, being sent a publicity box, letting the company's social media post a photo of you in cosplay, etc).

obviously this doesn't answer every question, and isn't hard and fast rules for fanworks, but it can at least inform how you personally choose to move forward when posting online and moving publically. i hope this helps!

"Jews engineered COVID-19 to only target white and Black people but not Jews and Chinese people" being said by an American politician running for President wasn't what I had on my 2023 antisemitism Bingo card but honestly I'm more surprised no one said this earlier lmao

He then decided to deny that he stated that Jews and Chinese people engineered the virus, but doubled down on saying that "COVID-19 targeted receptor sites in Caucasians and blacks" and that "ashkenazi jews, ethnic Chinese, and finns (? Guess finns arent white anymore?) were least compatible with the virus"

He also stated that it serves as "proof of concept of ethnically targeted bioweapons" and made the unsubstantiated claim that the Chinese gov was manufacturing some. AKA "I don't think COVID was engineered by Jews and the Chinese, but they could make a virus to protect them if they wanted to"

Obviously Genetics and Inheritance Don't Work Like That, but he's really going mask off as an antisemitic and sinophobic conspiracy theorist here.

Notably he's denied the antisemitism in his statements, but has said nothing to deny the anti-asian and sinophobic portions.

Fucking scary that he feels so comfortable sharing these sentiments as a prominent democratic politician

"Jews engineered COVID-19 to only target white and Black people but not Jews and Chinese people" being said by an American politician running for President wasn't what I had on my 2023 antisemitism Bingo card but honestly I'm more surprised no one said this earlier lmao

I’m curious as to where you all stand

Reblog for demographics!

Inspired by the word searches I shared yesterday, here is a brand new way to discover your gender! The first word you see is your shiny new gender identity!

This is just for fun! A lot of the words in there are random. :)

Holy Fucking Shit

sick of environmental and climate-friendly movements/fads throwing disabled and chronically ill people under the bus and even outright blaming us for the state of our world. “using albuterol inhalants is poisoning the atmosphere” “people who use non-reusable dishes and plasticware are responsible for landfills” “don’t use plastic straws or straws in general” “walk places or ride a bike or use the bus instead of driving everywhere” “don’t use same-day delivery from amazon” how about “don’t dump tons of oil in the ocean or burn a hole in the ozone or pollute the air with fossil fuels to make a quick buck”? how about “celebrities stop using private jets to fly to your vacation home every weekend so you don’t have to see the poors in commercial”?

like yeah, okay if you can walk or ride a bike or elect to not use straws, by all means, do that. but stop acting like people who DO need to use straws, or drive everywhere, or use inhalers, or eat with disposable dishes etc are the leading cause of global warming because we’re not. corporations and people with way too much money are. stop judging us for existing our disabled, ill lives because we don’t have the same options you do. it’s exhausting.

yeah yeah we get it you think schools are awesome. do you plan to do anything about the autistic children being hunted for sport or

I'm getting a cert in disability studies as part of my master's in education & doing research into the impact of the IEP/504 Plan system requiring diagnoses on undiagnosed disabled students, as part of a longer term plan for more research & eventual curriculum design for alternative ways of ensuring accommodation and accessibility that do not rely on disabilities being identified and access to diagnosis (ex: building on the existing "Universal Design for Learning" concept that's becoming more widely adopted, with more specific and disability-oriented design principles, like not having due dates or required days of attendance).

so yes, hopefully!

I'm also really, really not the only one. this specific work is niche and may not even end up being my focus ultimately (I'm just barely getting started!), but it's work that builds on what other people have been doing, and are doing, to address the absolutely fucking dismal state of how disabled students are treated in education.

Special Ed specifically is a fucking nightmare for a lot of reasons, and I have enough personal experience with that to be pretty motivated to address it in whatever ways I can.

In early March, I was featured on a Hershey Canada limited-edition chocolate bar for International Women’s Day. I was humbled to be a part of the ad campaign and hoped my inclusion would send a message about celebrating women in all our diversity.

Instead, it sparked a global campaign to boycott the company. Within days, I was targeted by figureheads of the American far right. Matt Walsh deadnamed me and called me a “vile, woman-hating extremist” to his 1.8 million Twitter followers. Brett Cooper dug up my pre- and early transition photos. Tucker Carlson—then still on Fox News—mocked me with out-of-context quotes from my Twitter and Instagram feeds and equated me with fascists. The day after Michael Knowles broadcast a segment about how “Hershey’s Transes Their Chocolate” on his Daily Wire show, he gave a speech calling for the extermination of “transgenderism” from public life.

The coverage was relentless. Scores of articles appeared in right-wing publications, and thousands of obscene messages poured into my Twitter mentions, DMs, and email inbox. Memes and caricatures of me were shared on social media. I was called a fag, tranny, groomer, and paedophile. I was encouraged to kill myself and threatened with physical violence. [...]

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being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

Blewit (Clitocybe nuda). I love how waxy the cap looks here