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"these researchers published a paper on something that literally any of us could have told you 🙄" ok well my supervisors wont let me write something in my thesis unless I can back it up with a citation so maybe it's a good thing that they're amplifying your voice to the scientific community in a way that prevents people from writing off your experiences as annecdotal evidence

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I see a lot of ‘cis’ women say they wish they were androgynous in the way men were or they wish they were pretty in the way men were. This is your sign to go try to do that. You may find you enjoy being an androgynous woman. You may find you no longer identify as a woman. You may find you don’t like androgyny. You will not know until you try. Cut your hair if you’ve always wanted to but have been afraid to. Shop in the men’s section if you’ve been too nervous to. Wear clothing with an androgynous  silhouette. Experiment with binding, take baby steps with compression bras if you want. Wear unisex scents. Live life. Try things you want to try. A lot of cis women do not understand the joys of mens pants and mens deodorant. I think everyone should try both of those things.

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Holy shit.

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You’re an ancient Greek man coming home from 4 months of war to find your wife 3 months pregnant. Now you’ve embarked on a solemn quest: to punch Zeus in the face.

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“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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me holding a gun to a mushroom: tell me the name of god you fungal piece of shit

mushroom: can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters

me cocking the gun, tears streaming down my face: I’M NOT FUCKING SCARED OF YOU

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I must not mock Gen Alpha. Mocking Gen Alpha is the mind killer. Mocking Gen Alpha is the little-death that brings total generational solidarity obliteration. I will engage with Gen Alpha lovingly. I will permit them to be cringe. And when they grow up I will turn my eye to their accomplishments. Where mocking has gone there will be nothing. Only generational solidarity remains

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I...tried to make a meme and got carried away and made A Thing that is like partially unfinished because i spent like 3 hours on it and then got tired.

I think this is mostly scientifically accurate but truth be told, there seems to be relatively little research on succession in regards to lawns specifically (as opposed to like, pastures). I am not exaggerating how bad they are for biodiversity though—recent research has referred to them as "ecological deserts."

Feel free to repost, no need for credit

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Okay, so I want to start this by saying that I love Epic the Musical, and I think it is really well done. But the theme of ruthlessness doesn’t really fit as well because more often than not it’s wit and mercy that save the day.

1) The lotus eaters: Polities vs Eury . Eury wants to burn the place to the ground while Polites wants to talk… Polites is right, if they listened to Eury they’d be left with Lotus Fumes and no idea where to find food… like yes they did get led to the Cyclopes cave but even then there was still one lotus eater who warned them. (The one that said scary cave ). Ruthlessness would not have helped here, talking and exercising caution were the best options

2)The Cyclops: Here it wasn’t a matter of ruthlessness or mercy it was a matter of adaptability and pride. He adapted well at first, appealing to mercy but drugging the cyclops just in case. As such when violence became inevitable his wit saved him. Athena may have told him to kill the cyclops, ruthlessness, but his sparing it wouldn’t have mattered and may have even kept him safer if he had just kept quiet. If he had listened to Athena he would have risked alerting the other Cyclopes or waking the cyclops he had just defeated…

3) Ocean Saga and Poseidon:

Lowkey, not much he could have done here either way… like yeah… Poseidon says that he wouldn’t be doing this if Odysseus had killed his son but also if Odyssey had just stayed quiet this wouldn’t have happened either. Well executed ruthlessness or mercy could have got them home here

4) Ceirces: He escaped and saved his men not due to his own ruthlessness but due to circes and Hermes’ help and mercy…

5)Underworld saga:He’s blaming himself for being to merciful to enemies but that was only true in one case and even then not really. What got his men killed was not a lack of mercy but the presence of hubris

6)Thunder: he chose ruthlessness 3 times here and all 3 came back to bite him. The sirens which are used against him in an argument for his release, Scylla, which is the reason his crew betrayed him, and then again when he chooses himself and Zeus banishes him for it. It should be noted that the last one was a no win situation

7) Escape and home: here both ruthlessness and mercy saved him: the mercy of Hermes and Athena who answered his call and delivered tools to help him and his ruthlessness to Poseidon and the suitors…

Wow… that was long and is probably full of errors… anyway, just had to throw that out there. I love Epic the musical, but with all things I love I overthink them… Anyway if you read this mess, you’re awesome, thank you and let me know what you think.

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TW: Pedophilia

Teenagers are rarely taught the reason why they can't consent to sex with adults.

And that's because teaching them that would completely unravel our coercion-based society.

It can be difficult to explain in detail the exact reason and all the specifics in a way that they will understand. But the simplest way to phrase it is that in some cases, even when someone agrees to something and even when they appear enthusiastic about it, there's too much of a power imbalance that it's no different than forcing them. Also, having power and being abusive doesn't require a conscious expectation to be obeyed.

Imagine a world in which every teenager understood that and was easily able to call out anyone who tried to convince them otherwise.

They'd know that there's no such thing as an employee consenting to working for a poverty wage, working in unsafe conditions, working long hours, or working without taking breaks. They'd know that there's no such thing as consenting to paying a bank overdraft fee. They'd know that there's no such thing as consenting to student loan debt. They'd know that there's no such thing as consenting to medical bills. They'd know that there's no such thing as consenting to generating profit for banks or landlords in order to have a place to live and being evicted or foreclosed when you lose your source of income. They'd know that there's no such thing as consenting to a police search. They'd know that there's no such thing as a child who's okay with their parents spanking them. They'd know that being dependent on someone does not mean that you can never criticize them. They'd know that if it's considered abusive to simply play along when someone obeys, then it has to be much more abusive to actively expect to be obeyed, which many adults do to them.

And people who benefit from a society based on coercion masquerading as freedom wouldn't like that.

So instead, teenagers are taught something dismissive. They're taught that what they want doesn't matter. They're taught that they're too young to know what love is. They're taught "it's the law". They're taught things that are insulting to their intelligence, which they'll naturally rebel against.

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SERVICE DOG PSA

So today I tripped. Fell flat on my face, it was awful but ultimately harmless. My service dog, however, is trained to go get an adult if I have a seizure, and he assumed this was a seizure (were training him to do more to care for me, but we didn’t learn I had epilepsy until a year after we got him)

I went after him after I had dusten off my jeans and my ego, and I found him trying to get the attention of a very annoyed woman. She was swatting him away and telling him to go away. So I feel like I need to make this heads up

If a service dog without a person approaches you, it means the person is down and in need of help

Don’t get scared, don’t get annoyed, follow the dog! If it had been an emergency situation, I could have vomited and choked, I could have hit my head, I could have had so many things happen to me. We’re going to update his training so if the first person doesn’t cooperate, he moves on, but seriously guys. If what’s-his-face could understand that lassie wanted him to go to the well, you can figure out that a dog in a vest proclaiming it a service dog wants you to follow him