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my craziest take is you can be cis in a trans way if you feel like it. Like its literally no big deal. if you wanna be completely cisgender but still feel as if you're alienated from your agab then you can be cis in a trans way

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hell yeah

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The DJ put on her coldest song and we all chattered our teeth and shivered to the beat

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Northumberland folklore

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Just realised I follow three different nonbinary people named Maia. The nickels keep rolling in.

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has everyone seen the blog lowspoonsfood?

the blog is food that can be made without too much effort, with a ranking system by how much effort it takes to make it

they also have category options for gluten free, vegetarian/vegan, lactose free, etc.

if you’re disabled and have trouble cooking, this may be worth it to check out. if you’re not disabled or you don’t have trouble cooking, it’d be cool to signal boost it for those who do need it. for people with very few go to meals, food can be boring and repetitive, so this is pretty cool :*

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Have you ever imagined yourself, on a visit to a major museum, busting through a wall, arms full of ill-begotten African artifacts and ready to return them to their rightful homes? No? Well, you may soon have the chance, thanks to South African video game studio Nyamakop. Earlier this month at the annual Summer Game Fest in Los Angeles, Nyamakop unveiled its latest project, Relooted, a side-scrolling puzzle platformer—think early Tomb Raider or Prince of Persia games—where players join a crew of Robin Hood-esque thieves staging elaborate heists to take back stolen artifacts from Western museums, and repatriate them to the peoples from whom they were taken. As Nyamakop lays out on the game’s listing on the online video game marketplace Epic Games, Relooted takes place in a near future where “the political powers that be brokered a Transatlantic Returns Treaty, promising the repatriation of African artifacts from museums.” But the hitch in the treaty is that it only applies to artifacts on “public display,” leading museums to circumvent the requirement by placing the pieces in highly guarded private collections. And that’s where players come in: scoping out a given facility, carefully constructing an exit route, and then, of course, stealing the artifact and escaping. As Ben Myres, the creative director of the game, explained to Epic in a news post, all of the artifacts in Relooted are based on real-world pieces in Western museums. In crafting the various missions, the developer team spent two years of research narrowing done the list of which pieces, of the hundreds still held by Western museums, into something manageable.

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what is your holy trinity of fruits

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We're beginning to have a lot of result photos of extended metoidioplasty (a fairly new method) and. y'all. They're beautiful.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Metoidioplasty/comments/17z3fx1/extended_meta_by_%C3%B6zer_almost_one_year_post_op/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Metoidioplasty/comments/1jm6n8k/13_months_postop_extended_meta_by_dr_%C3%B6zer_2/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Metoidioplasty/comments/1i5hep9/lets_try_this_again_2yr_extended_meta_update/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Metoidioplasty/comments/1d9dgsi/9_weeks_post_op_extended_meta_photo_pre_op/

There's only two surgical teams doing it at the moment, afaik, but the procedure was also invented less than a decade ago and only really took off in the last 3-4 years. I think it's gonna become increasingly widespread, purely because of the lovely results.

You can not get urethral lengthening with extended meta at the moment, and it's more risky than other methods because the clitoral body is almost entirely detached and then reattached, but those seem to be the only downsides.

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Would you believe this wisdom came from Facebook? Anyway send this to anyone using conservative rhetoric in leftist spaces.

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it's really embarrassing how much self control i have to exert when you put me in front of a tray of convenient and tender meat like if you put meatballs in front if me the fuckers are gone in milliseconds. same true of roadted brussels sprouts or basically anything that's a nice little dense and textured morsel. i am the hors that d'ouvres

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My dad raises grass-fed beef cattle and I help him sell it, mainly by maintaining an online presence. For a while, I kept having the most ridiculous conversations with people who I assume were marketing students. I didn't want to be rude so I'd try to let them down gently but this one guy just kept insisting that with his magical marketing skills he could grow our business.

What he could not seem to comprehend is that we could not grow our business, at least not without significant time and monetary investment. Cows take two years from pregnancy to the size that you can sell. If we buy adult cows, our margins become razor thin or even negative. Even if we somehow could acquire some cows, our barn and hay fields are already near maximum capacity. Renting another field would be relatively easy, building a bigger barn not so much.

Cows are living animals, they aren't widgets that can be produced infinitely. Besides that, many businesses inherently cannot grow, because if they do they'll become something else. The delicious bakery down the street cannot produce much more than they do, if they began mass marketing and production they'd eventually be selling the equivalent of Twinkies. We grow grass-fed, organic beef, if we expanded how long would that last? Eventually we'd become the very factor farms that we hate. Some things can only ever be made on a small scale and they are usually the best things.

But also, what are they teaching them at marketing school and how is it so disconnected from reality?

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vet

My dog is watching me scroll on tumblr rn. No one post any naughty language

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Men when they see toilets : I refuse to pee my piss into this big open hole part. Hmmm.. The floor will do me nicely.

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if conservation is nazi stuff then why are you trying to preserve/keep from going extinct/conserve the pygmy raccoon? this is a genuine question I know it sounds stupid and like a "if you hate society why are you participating in it? i am very smart" question but it's genuine because as far as i know, conservation is about protecting species that are near extinction, so like? what part of that is nazi stuff? what am i misunderstanding? because you are obviously not a nazi. for wanting to protect the critically endangered pygmy raccoon. god i hope this ask doesn't come off as rude or condescending or attacking

That’s a great question and I’m glad you asked!

So the conservation movement as we know it is historically rooted in colonialism, and a lot of conservation breeding practices are rooted in Nazi ideology.

Truthfully, most academia as a whole is rooted in shitty stuff! Just look at archeology! But that does not make fields like conservation or archeology horrible, it just means that we have to be have to be conscious of our mindsets.

Conservation has gotten so much better over the decades, but when we forget its shitty historic roots, we end up ignoring the valuable voices, beliefs, and wishes of local and indigenous peoples and perpetuating colonialistic behavior.

So to answer your questions, I am researching the conservation of the critically endangered pygmy raccoon because I care deeply about the species itself, and I believe that it has intrinsic value that makes it worthy of being protected. I also believe that as an American with the knowledge and skills to do so, I have some responsibility to work to undo the bullshit American companies have done abroad. I make sure to be mindful of colonialists and paternalistic practices and beliefs.

Anyway, to make things a little clearer, is an example of shitty conservation beliefs vs good conservation beliefs:

Shitty conservation:

“I know what’s best for the raccoons of Cozumel. I think the conservationists down in Mexico are doing a bad job of taking care of them. I am going to use all my resources and spend a lot of money to pay the government to give me permits to let me capture them all and export them to America, where I will start a breeding program in American zoos and save the species. The scientists in Cozumel will not have a say in this.”

Good conservation:

“I would like to help save the pygmy raccoon. I have a lot of skills and knowledge I think could be helpful. The scientists of Cozumel have asked for my help, and have told me that right now, they prefer to do in situ conservation. I trust the scientists on Cozumel to know what is best for their animals. I am going ensure they are able to be a part of the decision making process in my research, and I will be transparent and share all my data with them. I am just one piece of this puzzle.”

Bonus:

Nazi “Conservation”:

“I am going to bribe government officials and take all the endangered raccoons and breed them and then put them in private zoos and sell them to elites and allow people to hunt them and do weird things to them. I might try to make a raccoon/coati hybrid.”