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the TERF i saw last night that was posting in the "conservation" tag had this post on their blog
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the blog was a side-blog of a popular terf blog, it was called "eco feminism" something I forget but they were trying to...connect with other terfs in the biological sciences?
...except they're not in the biological sciences, they're trying to "how do you do fellow STEM" with elementary school biology concepts that have been outdated for 50 years.
"how and why biological classifications are formed" is one of the thorniest, most complicated and debated topics in biology with many open unsolved problems.
Nowadays, organisms are classified into groups almost exclusively according to the information their genetics provides about their most recent common ancestors. Phenotypic traits that can provide information about the evolutionary history of a group are called character states, and they can be considered to "diagnose" or define a clade, but character states are used to support the grouping of organisms into a single clade, NOT the other way around.
For example, lactation has been recognized as evidence that all living mammals share a common ancestor that is not the ancestor of any other living animal (that is, mammals are more closely related to each other than to anything else). However, the definition of "mammal" is not "animal that lactates." A non-mammal could convergently evolve lactation (arguably, several already have) and would still not belong to "mammals," and a mammal could evolve to not lactate anymore and would still belong to "mammals."
This is why a shared trait is not by itself considered diagnostic of a clade, and taxonomists have to use a great deal of caution because their interpretation of organisms as belonging to a group will affect how they interpret those organisms' traits.
Today's taxonomic system does not just group organisms by similar traits. Traits often are lost or evolve several times separately.
"Biological classification" does not actually mean anything except "organism #1 and organism #2 have a more recent common ancestor than #1 and #3 do." Two organisms being classified as more closely related than another doesn't mean they share more phenotypic characteristics. This has been the dominant approach for decades.
Now, for my favorite part of this post:
I struggled to grasp what was meant by "that ridiculous argument they have about fish not being real" for a a solid few seconds before I realized that "they" doesn't refer to scientists, it refers to trans people.
this person thinks "fish aren't real" was made up by trans activists
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tumblr will never be the new pdf now 😔
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Can you fucking imagine being Hawke when they hear about this
"Yeah, turns out you didn't solve anybody's problems. In fact, you actively made pretty much every single one worse!"
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I wasn't about to get into a fucking big dick competition. I know that you've read a lot of books about business management and this and that, but you know what? Sometimes it is a big dick competition.
BRIAN COX as LOGAN ROY in SUCCESSION (2018-2023)
#succession#successionedit#succession hbo#logan roy#tvedit#userstream#dailyflicks#cinemapix#tvandfilm#chewieblog#*#succession*#rip in pieces
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Graph of You Fucked Up
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Dragonsong Desire
Ysayle Dangoulain x Heustienne de Vimaroix
I made a throwaway reference to this title as a bit on my Estimeric romance cover, and I simply had no choice but to make it real.
I wanted the tails of Ysayle's coat and the crystal structures behind her to evoke something of her Shiva form :3
(Textless version under the read more)
#ysayle dangoulain#heustienne de vimaroix#heustienne finalfantasy#ffxiv#there's nothing in the enchiridion that says they *didn't* kiss#romance covers#as always this looks way brighter on my monitor than it looked on my tablet#rip in pieces#in an ideal world the title text is embossed with holographic paper
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I promise I'm working on vampire!Johnny @lovely-lady-fox! I swear. It's just very, very slow ;-;
#it's at 25k now#or 57 pages if you'd like#and it's not even close to done#and all i want to do is write smutty one shots#rip in pieces#and this is draft 2!#the first draft! is also! 25k!#i have written 50 thousand words of vampire johnny now#god help me#the first draft is from moz' perspective but i just wasnt sure i liked it#and now this draft is from vampire johnnys perspective#i think i like it better but i dont know#i'm just typing away#one tiny paragraph at a time
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🪦 RIP to the prosciutto tumblr app icon 🪦
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I have no idea what I’m doing, I downloaded video editing software with no knowledge of how anything works and spat this out in under an hour. Sorry the subtitles don’t look great, sorry it’s not 100% accurate to the Japanese, sorry for the stupid watermark that I only found out would be there AFTER I WENT THROUGH ALL THIS TROUBLE…but whatever, here, I don’t wanna look at this anymore, take it.
#third time's the charm#natsume yuujinchou#natsume's book of friends#text post#thoughts:#had to look up '待望の' was not familiar with that word#(it TLs to 'long-awaited')#also nyanko's va did NOT say his name like that but i have no idea what he said#he was clearly saying what i wrote; that i'm x actor playing x role but he definitely did not say his name lol if anyone is jozu and#wants to let me know that'd be a benkyou ni naru#i've never done this before#here is my service to the fandom#also i made this LAST NIGHT like an hour after the announcement dropped#but it didn't show up in the tags#so at this point this is completely useless#but i was so excited to be the first one to get this out lol#rip in pieces#anyway if at least one natsuyuu fan sees this and it is helpful id be happy#jp stuff
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in case you missed it, here's the news. I frankly do not see how cutting Tumblr's anemic staff in half will improve things. all the bullshit talk about "reorganizing" and "focusing" from the top is just that: bullshit. business speak. this site's burning too much money and they had to cut costs
i have little faith it will make it through next year. it's just too complex and too large of a scale to keep up with less than 70 people (and not all of those people are engineers)
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wlw on mlm violence
#shinobu#demon slayer#giyuu#rip in pieces#sorry for quality i used a program to convert video to gifs#that had p limited options
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Does this moving of accounts mean that you're not going to do "Ask The FNAF Nightguards" anymore?
That's correct, I'm not going to answer any questions with the intent to roleplay as the guards or to draw them, in the future I might draw the characters for fun, but that's it. Plus with the fnaf movie out now I wouldn't be surprised if I drew a thing or two but yeah no more ask-the-fnaf-nightguards (rip)
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Shout out to the boy ever for being dead for 13 years today-
rest in peace(es), you were the littlest of guys ever
whether it was bravery or stupidity that caused you to run back, we’ll never know
#I’ve been cackling for weeks when I was reading about this ep & saw this date was coming up#this is so funny but so fucked up im sorry#rip in pieces#pip pirrup#south park
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