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I love you vulture

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Shin Godzilla

A not so known thing about me, I LOVE godzilla as a character/concept. Look at my lizard boy.

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Butches / masculine lesbians being talked about like objects in lesbian spaces is so bloody tiring. You know I'm a person not goods on a fucking palette right?

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Can we merge or are you going to be weird about it?

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Proposal: TILBG

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Green eyes shouldn’t actually be considered an eye color. It’s just not common enough, it’s a VERY SMALL percentage of the population, 1-2%. Green eyes are also caused by an irregular mutation. Most people have blue or brown eyes, so those are the two eye colors.

All the “green eyes” positivity is actually a bad thing, by the way. Having green eyes is linked to higher rates of retinal melanoma. You’re celebrating something dangerous that can cause suffering.

And besides, most people with “green eyes” lean closer to blue or brown anyways. They should just make up their minds and be brown eyed or blue eyed. And if it’s too hard to tell, they should get corrective surgery (because green eyes are dangerous, and associated with more difficult medical care!) or at the least wear contacts so they don’t confuse people. But also they should be required to

I hate to sound like this, but green eyes are a far more recent development than blue eyes in the mutagenic history of humans. So humans weren’t created to have green eyes.

And hazel eyes? Those are just a variant of brown eyes—come on, they’re far closer to brown than green. They just have a couple greenish traits. And there’s no way there’s that many green eyed people, or a wide variety of eye colors… It’s just not natural.

I don’t have a problem with green eyed people, they didn’t ask to be born that way—but there’s just too few of them for it to be an actual eye color. We don’t need all this “green eye positivity” or putting green eyes in media. The internet is making people delude themselves into thinking it’s more common than it really is.

‼️ THIS POST IS ABOUT THE TREATMENT OF INTERSEX PEOPLE ‼️

✅ I HAVE GREEN EYES THIS IS SATIRE ✅

⚠️ PLEASE DON’T SEND ME ANY MORE THREATS OF VIOLENCE IN DEFENSE OF PEOPLE WITH GREEN EYES?? ⚠️

💧 THIS POST IS NOT ABOUT EYE COLOR?? IT’S ABOUT INTERSEXISM AND BIGOTRY 💧

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perisex trans people, i am begging you to stop using cafab and camab, these are not your terms, those are for intersex people who were forced through IGM to be forced into society's sex binary, they do not refer to a doctor looking at you as an infant and going "yep, thats a girl, put an F on the birth certificate"

*cafab/camab stand for "coercively assigned female/male at birth"

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"Scientists Confirm Crabs Really Can Experience Pain After All"

Earlier this year, for instance, a study found that shore crabs showed signs of anxiety in the face of electric shocks and bright lights, learning to avoid the stimuli over time. This is consistent with predictions that crustaceans can experience pain.

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What does "and possesses the qualifications" mean?

Why, it could mean anything. Born citizen. White. Male. Property owning. Has French kissed a dog. Whatever legislature decides.

Scary as shit.

If you vote in North Carolina, you're going to see this on your ballot. Looks pretty straightforward, right?

But it's a trap placed by the GOP. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Voting "For" this referendum will remove the phrase "and every person who has been naturalized" from this section on voter eligibility in the NC constitution. This could place the future voting rights of about 400,000 naturalized US citizens in the state in jeopardy.

Just a reminder - it's already illegal for non-citizens to vote! There's no evidence that this happens in significant numbers anywhere in the country, and North Carolina has restrictions in place against it happening at all, like the voter ID law that's now in effect.

(The voter ID law disproportionately affects POC, as well as transgender voters, both of whom are more likely to vote Democratic as well as lack the needed ID, but that's another post.)

Voting "Against" on this measure will leave the state constitution unchanged.

Here's the whole bill (PDF): https://dashboard.ncleg.gov/api/Services/BillSummary/2023/H1074-SMBK-89(sl)-v-2

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3 Year Name Retrospective

Approximately 3 years ago, I dropped my previously used name and took on a new one; Ezra. At first I used it simply with close friends, then expanded out to colleagues, and finally this last year changed it legally. I thought it'd be funny to do a look back at a few things I learned that I couldn't have foreseen before making the switch.

1. Ezra is gender neutral, except when it isn't.

One of the reasons I chose the name was because it was more androgynous. As a butch woman, I enjoy embracing masculinity a bit, and thought a name reflecting that would be kinda dope.

Except, despite being a name used by both men and women, in most peoples minds and several cultures it's very much exclusively one or the other.

In the US amongst white suburbanites, it's basically 100% assumed to be a male name. However, almost every person I've met from abroad sees it strictly as a female name. Funny enough, I've not personally met a single guy named Ezra in my personal life, but at least 6 women or non-binary people with the name.

2. Ezra is odd to pronounce for lots of non-English speakers.

Of those non-English speakers that I've met or have in family, I've found many have a difficult time pronouncing the name. The Hebrew phonetic structure doesn't convert well into things like romance languages or Slavic languages.

All well and good, except I'm around speakers of those languages often, and don't want to put extra strain on them. I've been suggesting the pronunciation of "Esura" to make it easier.

3. A lot of "famous" Ezras kinda suck.

Seriously. Miller, McCandless, and several others. Everytime I learn about a famous person that shares my name, I always brace for the bad...

... and yet all the ones I've met in person have kinda rocked.

4. There's a joke involving a band, you won't forget it.

If you're even remotely near people born in the 80s or earlier, they're gonna reference the band.

Nothing against the band, but buddy, I get it, we've heard it.

Anyways, it's been a good fit and a great change. But those are my thoughts.

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The first Green Heron I've ever seen!

On a lovely day in August, my favorite park was graced with this cute Green Heron perched on a sitting log. It was hunting for the plentiful fish in the fond, and I snapped this photo as it stretched it's wings out.

This bird was remarkably close and very patient with not only me and my weird camera noise thingie, but the child standing to the side trying to also catch fish with a net.

After a few moments and a good fish catch, it took off into the brush in the background to eat it's prey.

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Felipe the chinchilla just turned 17! 🥰🥰🥰

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Cleopatra lived closer in history to us than we do to stegosaurus!!!

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Brown-headed Cowbird, photographed in Connecticut