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"Kowalski, analysis!"

I have to hand it to Donald Trump, I didn’t think the sequel to the 1932 Great Emu War would be a trade war against the penguin nation but he truly continues to be an innovator in the stupidity industry

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So according to this, there are more people who said they are neither cis nor trans than there are people who said they are trans.

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The Photographer's Treasures

The shapeshifter spends several joyously mournful hours going through the box, looking at the pictures the photographer took of them and remembering all the good times the two of them had together, and all the shapes they took on in all those different places.

They are shocked when they see the picture of their true self after pulling out and organizing all the others into a proper album — and they starting weeping and wailing for their lost love at that moment.

They can't remember their lover's face any more, and the photographer never took a picture of the two of them together!

A shapeshifter falls in love with a photographer. The photographer takes a picture of them when they’re themselves without them knowing. The photographer unexpectedly dies, and the shapeshifter slowly forgets what they look like, until they eventually find a box full of photographs.

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Reblogging for the maps ...

does anyone wanna hold hands until we feel a little braver

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NOT a Prince lyric:

"I don't care where we go tonight, take me along with you."

- "Down Boys" by Warrant, released in 1989.

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Yeah, a shame.

what do you mean elon musk did a nazi salute on live tv at the united states presidential inauguration twice and is now erasing the evidence off the internet by replacing the footage with the crowd cheering instead?

would be a shame if people reblogged this, wouldn’t it?

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I want that chair!

Seriously, it looks really comfortable.

But I'd prefer gray to orange.

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So now I'm wondering ...

If you drive it and break it, does that mean you ... (••) ( ••)>⌐■-■ (⌐■_■) ... busted a nut?

Item: the Nutmobile, a giant peanut that has been fashioned into a horseless carriage by an agricultural guild to promote their products

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So get started!

If you never start because you think you'll never finish, you're right.

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Thanks, Hillary!

I hope she understands this is all her fault. She probably doesn't though.

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I think this is the right site for this, in case any of you are interested in erotic underground comix.

Or porn.

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Reblogging because more people voting is good!

Hey guys, I know I've been radio silent for awhile, but I could use your help getting this as far as it can go before the election.

These are the four swing states where you can still register to vote - North Carolina through Nov. 2nd, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Nevada through Election Day. Most states' "same-day registration" options are very recent, and a lot of people don't know about them.

The QR codes on the first page link you to find your same-day registration location in that state.

The QR codes on the second page take you to info on same-day registration in each state. Definitely check them for full lists of acceptable registration documents.

And once again: Please make the pragmatic choice and vote Harris. We haven't done the work to give anyone other than Trump or Harris a real chance to win this election. I know it's frustrating to feel trapped in the two-party system, and Harris is no angel. Maybe we can work to escape this "lesser of two evils" cycle, but not this year, and we need a president who is NOT in mental decline and who HASN'T threatened to punish anyone who disagrees with him.

Hype up your left-leaning friends to go to the polls on Election Day. Thanks to a lot of recent legislation, it's not too late to make your voice heard until like 8pm (poll closing times dependent on locality) on November 5th in these and many non-swing states.

(source: National Conference of State Legislatures)

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Yes, it is.

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Not one game, one EVENT.

Decathlon, because every other species is too specialized.

Humans have always had a tough time winning medals at the Galactic Olympics, but there is one game that they’re weirdly, freakishly good at.

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Why not, I say.

WHY IS THIS ALEXANDAR SKARSGARD'S IMDB PROFILE PHOTO

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On lights at the ends of tunnels ...

Even if/when you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, it sometimes seems like the tunnel is just so damn long, you know?

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All of the above,and I'd like to point out that "can" is the key word in that penultimate paragraph.

You know what the most frustrating thing about the vegans throwing a fit over my “Humans aren’t Parasites” post is?  I really wasn’t trying to make a point about animal agriculture. Honestly, the example about subsistence hunting isn’t the main point. That post was actually inspired by thoughts I’ve been having about the National Park system and environmentalist groups.

See, I LOVE the National Parks. I always have a pass. I got to multiple parks a year. I LOVE them, and always viewed them as this unambiguously GOOD thing. Like, the best thing America has done. 

BUT, I just finished reading this book called “I am the Grand Canyon” all about the native Havasupai people and their fight to gain back their rights to the lands above the canyon rim. Historically, they spent the summer months farming in the canyon, and then the winter months hunter-gathering up above the rim. When their reservation was made though, they lost basically all rights to the rim land (They had limited grazing rights to some of it, but it was renewed year to year and always threatened, and it was a whole thing), leading to a century long fight to get it back. 

And in that book there are a couple of really poignant anecdotes- one man talks about how park rangers would come harass them if they tried to collect pinon nuts too close to park land- worried that they would take too many pinon nuts that the squirrels wanted. Despite the fact that the Havasupai had harvested pinon nuts for thousands and thousands of years without ever…like…starving the squirrels. 

There’s another anecdote of them seeing the park rangers hauling away the bodies of dozens of deer- killed in the park because of overpopulation- while the Havasupai had been banned from hunting. (Making them more and more reliant on government aid just to survive the winter months.) 

They talk about how they would traditionally carve out these natural cisterns above the rim to catch rainwater, and how all the animals benefitted from this, but it was difficult to maintain those cisterns when their “ownership” of the land was so disputed. 

So here you have examples of when people are forcibly separated from their ecosystem and how it hurts both those people and the ecosystem. 

And then when the Havasupai finally got legislation before Congress to give them ownership of the rim land back- their biggest opponent was the Parks system and the Sierra Club. The Sierra Club (a big conservation group here in the US) ran a huge smear campaign against these people on the belief that any humans owning this land other than the park system (which aims at conservation, even while developing for recreation) was unacceptable. 

And it all got me thinking about how, as much as I love the National Parks, there are times when its insistence that nature be left “untouched” (except, ya know, for recreation) can actually harm both the native people who have traditionally been part of those ecosystems AND potentially the ecosystems themselves. And I just think there’s a lot of nuance there about recognizing that there are ways for us to be in balance with nature, and that our environmentalism should respect that and push for sustainability over preserving “pristine” human-less landscapes. Removing ourselves from nature isn’t the answer. 

But apparently the idea that subsistence hunting might actually not be a moral catastrophe really set the vegans off.  Woopie.