killyridols:

in time, i suppose, i can let this go too (somehow) by tin nguyen, 2023, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches

identifying-cars-in-posts:

cerayanay:

t-counter:

evilwizard:

t-counter:

evilwizard:

the gimmick blogs are like tumblr’s rogue gallery. yes we’ve got some heroes, yes we’ve got some villains, but more importantly if you look over here you will see some freak who devotes all their time to counting the number of “t’s” in a post

T Count: 15

Letter Count: 198

Your T Percentage: 7.58%

Average T Percentage: 6.95%

You used the letter T 1.09 times as much as average!

YOU EXIST???

Sometimes you create a guy and it turns out they already exist

Sometimes that guy has skills beyond your comprehension @identifying-cars-in-posts

1993-1997 Mazda 626

more-than-ideas:

Nathalie

voice-of-illogical-sense:

repmet:

*crouches to go into stealth*

the cracking of my knees alerts the guards, I am immediately killed

53v3nfrn5:

“Fetching is your Dior” Campaign (1976) ph: Chris Von Wangenheim

nurse-log:

moonkitty:

moonkitty:

im a proud “ive never used chat gpt” user btw

i honestly dont think I’ve willingly used a chatbot since….. cleverbot in 2012. i genuinely dont know why so many people care about this ai bullshit. sorry im with the boomers on this one. i need human creation, emotion, and thought to be interested, pal

Plus since ChatGPT is sanitized you could never get interactions like these

lamp2003:

oh okay. heart steps right out of my chest and falls down the stairs

modernvintage:

sepdet:

ignescent:

spacedandelions:

somethingaboutsomethingelse:

scienceoftheidiot:

hjarta:

just learned that magnolias are so old that they’re pollinated by beetles because they existed before bees

They existed *before beetles*

Why is this sad? Why am I sad?

https://xkcd.com/1259/

Bee Orchid

Bee Orchid

xkcd

This is how I feel about Joshua Trees. They and avocado trees produce fruit meant to be eaten and dispersed by giant ground sloths. Without them, the Joshua Trees’ range has shrunk by 90%.

(my own photos)

Not only they, but the entire Mojave ecosystem is still struggling to adapt since the loss of ground sloth dung. their chief fertilizer.

Many, many trees and plants in the Americas have widely-spaced, extremely long thorns that do nothing to discourage deer eating their leaves, but would’ve penetrated the fur of ground sloths and mammoths. Likewise, if you’ve observed a tree that drops baseball or softball-sized fruit which lies on the ground and rots, like Osage Oranges, which were great for playing catch at my school, chances are they were ground sloth or mammoth chow.

You can read about various orphaned plants and trees missing their megafauna in this poignant post:

The Trees That Miss The Mammoths - American Forests

Trees that once depended on animals like the wooly mammoth for survival have managed to adapt and survive in the modern world.

American Forests



First quote from the linked article. Found it poetic.

tooies:

“humans are naturally selfish and evil” factoid actually just statistical error. former united states president ronald w. reagan,

rosa-mortuis:

candyspider-deactivated20230731:

candyspider-deactivated20230731:

“i cant watch shows about fantasy kingdoms without thinking about how they should be abolishing the monarchy” that my friend sounds like a skill issue

if im watching the lord of the rings extended edition i am a monarchist for 682 minutes

e-102:

escuerzoresucitado:

not-terezi-pyrope:

not-terezi-pyrope:

“Should trans women be allowed to compete in women’s sports” I don’t think there should be women’s sports. I think it’s a silly artificial construction that only upholds the gender binary while it’s benefits are incidental and would be better addressed directly.

Care about giving people with different body types and muscle mass a shot? Split your league by weight categories like boxing, or some other direct physical measurement. Gender is at best a poor proxy for these and we only do it because we still treat women are a different species. “But that still wouldn’t be fully fair to everyone?” Sport isn’t fully fair, it’s about rewarding people with the most biological advantage. That’s the whole point of it.

You want to give more sporting opportunity to women and minorities specifically? Okay then do that. Create your own opportunities league, but if we’re giving up the pretense that it’s about essential biological advantage then you better let trans women in.

What’s that, the extra league would be treated as a novelty afterthought and would lack the prestige of the real main event? You mean like how women’s events were treated when they were introduced? True! In fact women’s leagues are still largely treated as secondary now, and you know how we can fix it? Make the main leagues open to everyone with weight, height or muscle mass categories so that people with different body types can excel. Like I suggested before. Problem solved.

Women’s sport is bad actually.

Can’t wait for the terfs to find this and be like “mask off!!! The TRAs want to abolish women’s sport!” Yeah lol die mad about it. You may be happy with your condescending secondary leagues but not me. Open up sport categories based on attributes that actually matter to the sport, not binarist fiction.

If you are convinced that all woman would still universally lose to all men even when correcting for things like gross muscle mass difference, then you’re a misogynist by the way.