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and my POOKIE isn't gonna be in town for PRIDE, this is BULLSHIT

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i dont wanna sleep because then i'll have to get up and people will Want Things and (loud raspberry)

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gods speaking to me but she's also fucking with me a lot of the time so it ends up that i just sound even more mentally ill than the average person who says 'gods speaking to me'

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i can must should and will eat your knees

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THIS SONG IS FUCKING AWESOMEEEEE🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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Happy pride month to my dad. When I came out as bi to him, this man googled what it ment, look at me and said "ohh. Yeah. You get that from me. You'd have far more siblings of I only shaged women." And went right back to his work emails.

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"You can say that [orangutans] are not dependent on social support and approval, and if you admire this in them, that an orang is irredeemably his own person, 'the most poetic of the apes', researcher Lynn Miles told me once in an unguarded moments. What she had in mind was the difference between orangs and chimps in the way they carry on their discourse with the world.

Chimps are much admired for their tool use and for their problem-solving relationship with things as they find them...the orang is, let us say, not so replete with enterprise. Give an orangutan the hexagonal peg and the several shapes of hole, and then hide behind the two-way mirror and watch how he engages with the problem.

And watch and watch and watch--because he does not engage with the problem. He uses the peg to scratch his back, has a look-see at his right wrist, makes a half-hearted and soon abandoned attempt to use his fur as a macramé project, stares dreamily out the window if there is one and at nothing in particular if not, and the sun begins to set. (The sun will also set if you are observing a chimp, but the chimp is more amusing, so you are less likely to mark the moment in your notes. An orang observer has plenty of time to be a student of the vanities of sunset.)

You watch, and the orang dreams...when casually and as if thinking of something else, the orang slips the hexagonal peg into the hexagonal hole. And continues staring off dreamily."

Vicki Hearne, "The Case of the Disobedient Orangutans"

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What did these scientists from the Museum, working with colleagues from the Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras, find on the beach in Colombia?

The Constantine S. Niarchos Expedition featured here was generously supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).

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Wild that folks keep saying beekeepers abuse bees as if bees are not both venomous flying animals and fully unionized

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i do believe that trans men have male privilege, but that is to say trans men have male privilege relative to trans women, male privilege that inherently functions differently than cis male privilege. so trans male privilege as in we don’t deal with transmisogyny and can benefit from transmisogyny, not trans male privilege as in society treats us like cis men or we have privilege over cis women in the way cis men do. so really it depends on what the subject of the conversation is. which is often the case for subjects like this 👍

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This is one of those true, declassified government things that always sounds made up but one of the things Henry Kissinger did with his career was use the CIA to help turn small, prosperous socialist nations into fascist dictatorships just to keep those nations powerless and possibly to keep socialist systems *looking* doomed and futile to the American public, like maybe just to scare Americans out of demanding better infrastructure or universal income. Yes it sounds like an insane conspiracy theory a maniac would invent. It also happened multiple times and several generations of people around the world are still living in misery because of it.

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[CISGENDER BUTTON]

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ID: a reply from bottlepieces reads, “Modern art is not celebrating special talent. It celebrates mediocrity.”

adriftinhilbertspace replies, “if modern art celebrates mediocrity where's your exhibit” end ID.

me normally: i'm not personally a huge fan of modern art

me around right wingers: I love modern art sooooo much and I think there should be litter boxes in schools also

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An obnoxious Leftie take I have is that we need to make it common knowledge that the medical term for a miscarriage is a “spontaneous abortion” it makes it much more difficult to say something should be illegal when it is understood medically as something the body can just do sometimes.