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And now we said it

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Males be like: Women being able to say no to sex is oppressive to us!

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Guess whose job just started raising Lake Sturgeon (Huso fulvescens)! These little dudes were spawned from one of the first natural spawning runs detected in Missouri for years, and are just starting to transition to a diet of bloodworms! (They scarfed down everything we gave them in no time flat, less than 30 minutes after a 400-mile drive)

That’s right! The Superior Sturgeon is BACK, BABY!!!

PS: @sturgeonposting , these things and shortnose sturgeon were added to the Huso genus along with Beluga! 🤯

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That woman is a middle school teacher too. Imagine working with 11 to 14 year olds day in and day out and thinking “Abortion should be banned. Don’t want to get pregnant? Don’t have sex. These are individuals with bodies and minds strong enough to carry pregnancies.” that takes a level of evil so vast it is almost unfathomable. I got my first period age at the age of 11, the week of my grandpa’s funeral. I was so small and so scared and my teachers were so nice to me and so patient when I bled through my pants. To imagine this woman holding interacting with vulnerable children like that and thinking they should be denied abortion almost has me tearing up.

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lake wants to kill and gnash and gnash my bones I think

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Detect evil but it becomes increasingly clear that whoever calibrated it had some really weird moral stances.

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can u imagine if other pieces of media were as scared of calling their monsters what they are as zombie media is about calling zombies zombies

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“Fat activists have gone too far!!!” And it’s just a visibly lgbt or alternative fat woman asking to not be treated like a disgusting inhuman monster.

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Uhh probably Mean Girls (2004)

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Tag Game! :)

This is the first time I'm starting a tag game, sorry if it's not fun lol. Simple question: What's your favorite movie of all time?

I'll go first, my favorite movie currently is How to Train Your Dragon (2010)*

@ana-the-light-fury @stargazingdustbunny @blueorchid1707

@hiccupshypotheticalleftsock *Also I saw the new 2025 version and although unnecessary, I thought that was pretty good too.

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The closest experience I've ever had to discovering "the vitamin" was buying a 100% wool outfit and wearing it in the winter.

Not only was I not freezing anymore, I was not sweating and overheating either. The horrible sensory nightmare of winter clothes disappeared.

In particular, I bought a pair of wool pants. They were a thrifted pair of fancy dress pants like you would wear at an important office job, and they were easily the most comfortable pair of winter-appropriate pants i'd ever worn. I wore them Every Single Day.

From that point on I realized a lot of my clothes were making me feel bad, and the common thread was polyester. Especially polyester blends.

It's a trap because the polyester clothes are the ones that always feel sooooo silky soft when they are in the store, whereas cotton, linen and wool can feel comparatively rough and scratchy. But when actually wearing them for hours throughout the day, it's the natural fibers that feel more comfortable.

Maybe the secret to sensory comfort is not about the presence of softness, but the absence of overloading sensations. Or maybe the sensory stress and agony is not triggered by texture of the fabric, but by how it breathes and regulates temperature.

Then there's the problem of clothing life span: polyester blends, no matter how soft they seem at first, become rough and scratchy and covered in hard, itchy pills after wearing them 10 or 20 times, whether or not they have been tumble-dried or even washed at all. (I tested it!) Linen and cotton become softer and more comfy the more you wear them, polyester but ESPECIALLY polyester blends become a constant stressor. Polyester blend t-shirts I used to love for their softness now feel bristly and irritating.

So now I'm trying to change my wardrobe to as many natural fibers as possible, and the more natural fiber clothes i have the more I realize that the plastic fibers stress me out. It's so easy to overheat or freeze in them and they're always degrading and becoming less comfortable and it sucks.

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Shut the fuck up about feminine and masculine energy

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alternative white boy with a japanese name how you vex me. your puritan ancestors were walking around named shit like kill-sin and posthumus and onesiphorus and dust. you could have named yourself hate-evil. there's record of a person named persecution by trial in 1619 i mean you look at these records they were having a blast. and you could have been the one to bring these names out of the shadows of obscurity but you didnt want it did you daisuke

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im gonna have two babies and one of them is gonna be given an ipad the second it's able to say mama. completely unrestricted and unmonitored internet usage. and then the other one will be completely tech illiterate. it wont even know what a television is. ill keep them on separate sides of the house and they'll never interact and they'll be homeschooled so they won't know what im doing is bad. then on their 18th birthday i give them absolutely zero support and guidance and just release them into the world. to see what happens

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we are so back