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It rings true: my collection of bells ringing through time.

Woman at the zoo: Why do they look so sad? 😔

Sign literally 10 feet away:

Monkey and Snow Leopard

(for a dear friend on Twitter)

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They've had many lives and many ages: cats I've met in my time travels.

I love it when people try to project relatable motives onto animals and completely miss the fact that the actual motive is even more relatable than whatever they've come up with. They're like "oh, the mommy cat is showing me her kittens because she's proud!" no, the mommy cat is showing you her kittens because the little bastards are driving her crazy and it's your turn to babysit.

Anthropomorphic Landscape - Portrait of a Woman , ca. 1570 Brussels.

Royal Museum of Fine Art, Antwerp, Belgium

The Palmist // Leonora Carrington // 1999

Jax😚💗‼️

made this comic to distinguish my very different opinions on these two very similar sounding phenomena based on a stressful conversation i had at work. id in alt

What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding.

Friedrich Nietzsche, On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense

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I have some rather fun vintage bear imagery collected here.

I remain baffled and disturbed by the sheer number of people who genuinely believe a zoo animal can survive, let alone thrive, in the wild. Animals that are bred for reintroduction programs are handled completely differently than general collection animals, and even with all that preparation, many will not make it. To think a random animal in a zoo can be set loose and do just fine is more ignorant than I can comprehend.

"Freedom" is a human concept. And projecting your very human desire for freedom onto animals is one of the most gross froms of anthropomorphism.

Kitty Girls (drawn in order by me, melonami (twt), and _lilmarimo! (twt))

She said he could take a shower on her ship

Thom is a depressive rescue worker in the hypercapitalist dystopian space future - read his story in dozens of tiny illustrated hypertext fiction fragments over at rezq.space. read in any order!

You can follow me where i post most at Bluesky

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They've had many lives and many ages: cats I've met in my time travels.

TV show that personifies the four fundamental forces of the Standard Model as cute anime girls and allegorises the various difficulties that arise from the unified field hypothesis as forms of relationship drama.