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It's pride month so I'll allow myself to express one opinion on the internet :

There are no "exact color" of pride flags.

I see more and more sites and posts talking about the exact hex codes for the lesbian flag, or the right purple for the ace one, and how it should be more or less saturated and I just want to say: pride flags were meant to be sewn in your kitchen. To be spraypainted and to be recognised.

There are no "exact colors" of pride flags because you should do them with what you have ! Nobody should care if you use a crimson red instead of a cherry red or whatever ! Be free ! wave your colors ! The colors you have !

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It recently came up in conversation with my toddler that some birds can talk, and this has caused her great concern.

See, we were talking about how movies are pretend and how in real life, animals don’t talk. I mentioned that there are some birds who talk a little bit, but not like the animals in movies, and she just looked at me like “???”

So I informed her that some kinds of parrots can copy sounds that people make, and can learn how to say words. I thought this would give her a giggle, as fun new facts often do, but she was just deeply perplexed and a little worried about this.

“Birds can talk?” “Do they ask questions?” “What do they say?” Why do they talk?” “Do chickens talk?” “What about Blue Jays?” “Why do some birds talk?” “How do they talk?” “Birds TALK???”

We showed her a video of a parrot doing the “Hello, pretty bird, give a kiss” thing, and she was dead silent the whole time, hugging her comfort pillow with her knees to her chest. We asked if she wanted us to turn it off, and she shook her head. But we also asked if she wanted to see another one, and she shook her head even harder.

I don’t know why it has distressed her so greatly to learn that some birds can mimic human speech; but then again, I don’t know why it doesn’t distress the rest of us more to know that some birds can mimic human speech.

I keep thinking about that post that’s like “The first person to hear a parrot talk was probably Not Okay.” Because that’s exactly what happened. She had never been introduced to the concept, and her entire worldview got SHOOK.

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do you think they know how much they contributed to online literacy? to the spirit of curiousity? to the idea of doing research yourself instead of always having it laid out in front of you?

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Starstruck is truly a lovely campaign to watch, and I love everything about it, especially the absolutely high-risk, high-reward choices the characters make and the randomness factor of it all

But also, I will never forget when, in the finale fight, Lou came up with the plan involving gnosis and the ship (which was again a very high-risk, high-consequence/reward moment) and told Brennan to, and I quote, "make some insane rigmarole for me to say yes to, please"

Just the literal best and funniest character choice ever (I'm in love)

What was also very funny was to see the face Zac was making while Brennan was listing down the consequences if they didn't make it, at a make-or-break point in the battle.

Like, tell me this isn't the face of a person reevaluating every choice that led them to that moment:

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speaking of zac. he has bewitched me mind body and soul recently. cloho oyama has me on my knees.

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i don't even have a caption for this one. i just love this bit so much

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saw this on twitter and though tumblr folks would appreciate it

edit: realized I forgot to add alt text to the image! updated now. i don't have much experience with alt text so if I inadvertently made it harder for a screen reader let me know and I'll try to fix it!

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i need everyone to see the funniest fucking pigeon rescue in the world

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An orca attacks a billionaire's luxury yacht in the Mediterranean Sea

The man and his bevy of bikini-clad passengers survive the ordeal, floating to a nearby island. They're harassed by stinky monk seals for hours, hungry and dehydrated, their skin burnt bright red by the sun, before they're rescued

Somewhere, 6,000 miles away, Alec Hardison types something into his phone, and a mechanized fish swimming alongside the orca issues a precise series of whistles and clicks. The orca responds in turn. The Leverage opening theme plays as she joyfully leaves the scene of the crime

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The recent Game Changer episode is just further proof that it’s never PvP—it’s PvS, for Player(s) vs Sam.

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When you try to fit in

(via)

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brennan answering the question "what would make a dragon unfuckable to a monsterfucker?"

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Far worse, in my opinion, than the famous “he wouldn’t fucking say that” is “he WOULD fucking say that, as part of his facade, but you seem to think he would mean it genuinely”

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I think we need to appreciate this part of Brennan Lee Mulligan's WIRED interview a lot more:

"The evangelical right in this country needs to manufacture outrage to hold onto its voting block. [The satanic panic about DnD] was arbitrary, as the targets of their outrage always are. Fight the power."