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If you like frogs. Or possums. Or cool builds. Or happiness. This is the video for you.

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Something magical is happening! ✨

We're playing more Wylde Flowers, let's see if we can learn any new spells and potions!

Come join me in finding out how fast we can befriend the cat!

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Yes there is still ice on the deck. Yes it is iced tea season. They can coexist.

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I’ll pull a clarifying card just to be sure I said

MEAN TO ME

I am being viciously attacked

Daily card draw from The Fool’s Acumen Tarot by AParanoidZombie

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I am being ATTACKED

I am being viciously attacked

Daily card draw from The Fool’s Acumen Tarot by AParanoidZombie

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On related note, a few years ago, the Entomological Society of America officially discontinued the use of "gypsy moth" and "gyspy ant" as common names for Lymantria dispar and Aphaenogaster araneoides. L. Dispar is now known as the "spongy moth," so named for the appearance of their eggs, but I don't think a new common name has caught on for the ant species yet.

These changes we brought about, in large part, by the advocacy of Romani people in academia. You might not think that bug names are a very serious issue, but I believe that language matters. These species became known as "gypsies" because their attributes were likened to certain stereotypes and negative perceptions of actual Roma, so the continued use of those names reaffirmed those negative associations in the public consciousness. Slurs and pejoratives can never be truly decontexualized.

In my mind, one of the biggest obstacles that Romani people face when we are trying to advocate for ourselves is a lack of recognition as a marginalized group that deserves the necessary consideration. Even for seemingly trivial matters, like bugs or comic book characters, the way that people talk about us-- and talk down to us, when we get involved-- is telling. So, I always think that changes like this are a win, because it means that people are willing to learn and grant us the dignity we deserve. And there's nothing wrong with wanting to effect change in your own field, even arts and science.

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good luck with this week, everyone!! sending you well wishes in all of your endeavors

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things that do not cause abuse:

-being male

-being a man

-being a straight white man specifically

-being mentally ill

-being an ontologically evil person who can never not be evil and who everyone should have known was evil the whole time

things that cause abuse:

-repeated refusal to respect other peoples' boundaries, needs, and trust

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Well that was not the read I was expecting but was very enlightening

Deck is Oriens Tarot by Ambisun

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Who wants to see a really stupid drawing I forgot about that I did in like 2012 and forgot about. Just kidding you don’t get a choice