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Happy Tuesday Afternoon in Late June to all who celebrate.

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I got a robot vacuum, but now my husband and I have a disagreement about what to call it.

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guys. i really like you. it's nice to be on this dashboard together

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isnt the world so beautiful....all the little ways we're immortal...71 million years later they still sleep like you

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“How can we distinguish what is biologically determined from what people merely try to justify through biological myths? A good rule of thumb is ‘Biology enables, culture forbids.’ Biology is willing to tolerate a very wide spectrum of possibilities. It’s culture that obliges people to realise some possibilities while forbidding others. Biology enables women to have children – some cultures oblige women to realise this possibility. Biology enables men to enjoy sex with one another – some cultures forbid them to realise this possibility. Culture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural. But from a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural. A truly unnatural behaviour, one that goes against the laws of nature, simply cannot exist, so it would need no prohibition. No culture has ever bothered to forbid men to photosynthesise, women to run faster than the speed of light, or negatively charged electrons to be attracted to each other. In truth, our concepts ‘natural’ and unnatural’ are taken not from biology, but from Christian theology. The theological meaning of ‘natural’ is ‘in accordance with the intentions of the God who created nature’. Christian theologians argued that God created the human body, intending each limb and organ to serve a particular purpose. If we use our limbs and organs for the purpose envisioned by God, then it is a natural activity. To use them differently than God intends is unnatural. But evolution has no purpose. Organs have not evolved with a purpose, and the way they are used is in constant flux. There is not a single organ in the human body that only does the job its prototype did when it first appeared hundreds of millions of years ago. Organs evolve to perform a particular function, but once they exist, they can be adapted for other usages as well. Mouths, for example, appeared because the earliest multicellular organisms needed a way to take nutrients into their bodies. We still use our mouths for that purpose, but we also use them to kiss, speak and, if we are Rambo, to pull the pins out of hand grenades. Are any of these uses unnatural simply because our worm-like ancestors 600 million years ago didn’t do those things with their mouths?”

— Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Harari, Yuval Noah)

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Hello! You very kindly sent me the file of your book a while back and I finished it approximately 30 seconds ago and ran straight here to respectfully shriek!

Couldn’t put it down, highlighted…quite a few chunks there for later perusal, felt extremely Perceived, several hand-to-chest “oof” moments.

I will refrain from leaving a wall of text essay in your ask box but just wanted to say thank you for writing and being willing to share! This one is going in my “shake in people’s faces until they read it too” pile.

Now if you’ll excuse me I must get under my weighted blanket and stare into space while all those hard to hear but healing truths soak in

Oh! Thank you for saying so! It really means a lot to know that you found yourself Perceived.

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"this makes us human, that makes us human" im more interested in what makes us creatures tbh

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me and my dog like to have blanky time which is where we lay on the couch under her favorite blanky. thanks everyone for listening grab your favorite blanky at home and try it out

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I have a 2396 day steak in Duolingo.

Two thousand. Three hundred. Ninety six. Days.

And they have to go and ruin the whole thing.

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we been knew its just a nail in a coffin tbh

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I have to admire people who can write a self-insert character. There's no way I could do it. I am a non-insertable self. A story negater. If a story happens, I am not there. If I am accidentally there, I will leave. If I can't leave, I'll pretend I can't see it. There's just no chance there is a story in my vicinity and I'm thinking, oh, now, this is business for me to get all up in. I'm never making eye contact with The Chosen One, it would never occur to me to seek out the vampire den, I am not interested in going to Magic School for Special People. I just want to get my groceries and go home, thanks.

But there are people who can see themselves doing all that? Beautiful.

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They're amazing. I'm forever stunned by custom bookbinding, and this is such a gift.

FTH - Bind number two for @thatfiend-blog1 the iconic Demonology and the Tri-Phasic Model of Trauma: An Integrative Approach by @mouseonamoose (Nnm on AO3). Because I firmly believe they’re a set I also included Angel-Centered Therapy Through a Multicultural Lens: An Integrative Approach as a surprise. ThatFiend also won a 2nd chance bind of Starstuff, courtesy of @themoonmothwrites Thank you for bidding, I hope you enjoy the books!

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I mean, that is, except for Measurehead, who has abs and no body hair and is, canonically, non-horny.

Disco Elysium is on the opposite side of the scale from that marvel theory of “everyone is beautiful and no one is horny”. No one is beautiful* and everyone is horny. And honestly, I know which of the two I vastly prefer

* yes, they’re beautiful, but not in the flawless-skin, perfect abs, no-body-hair, immaculately-styled-wig, poreless skin Marvel™️ perfection way

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being a pepper plant has to be so weird.

Imagine evolving capsaicin specifically to stop mammals from eating your fruits, and then a mammal comes along that not only will eat your fruits, but likes them specifically because of the capsaicin, so much that it starts using its weird paws to distribute and care for your seeds, which turns into a strong selective force that literally starts evolving you into producing MORE capsaicin and makes you a WAY more successful and wider ranged species than you ever were before

simply because this mammal LOVES Pain Chemical. that evolved specifically to produce pain in mammals. It's not that the capsaicin isn't WORKING. It's just that these freaks like it.

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I've been really loving SugerPop Psychodrama. I just wanted to ask, since it's been 3 months since the last update: are you planning on finishing it?

YOU BET YOUR LIFE ON IT!

Things have been hard, rough, wonderful, exhausting, and Just Like A Lot. Right now, I'm extremely overworked at work, and I don't have mental capacity for much of anything. But! All that will end in about two weeks. And I just cannot wait to get back to a place where I have the capacity for writing for pleasure.

Thank you so much for asking. Sorry for the long pause. We will resume the blorbo therapy with great excitement soon.

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They're so close! Only three days left!

DOGE just froze funding to vital Federal and Indigenous conservation programs devoted to supporting the very delicate and tenuous existence of the black-footed ferret.

I fell in love with these animals as a kid traveling to our National Parks. Their rarity and ferocity made me sharply aware, even as a child, of just how much of a responsibility we have toward our environment. I can't bear the thought of them being a fucking casualty of Trump and Musk.

Look at them! They do war dances.

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Tumblr has decided that:

--cat looking at camera

--empty room

--little rabbit scritching its whiskers

--a scene from a PG movie from 1985

are mature content and must be kept from innocent eyes.

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This is delightful.

But also: someone please introduce me to feminist lesbian pop music. I need this in my life.

Some of my favorite posts on r/BenignExperience from the past week (PART THREE!!!)

Part one, part two, part four