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fyi

Gender reveal parties, and big planned reveals, literally were not a thing ten, fifteen years ago. Don’t let anyone pull that “it’s a tradition!” crap on you, youngsters. They’re LYING. People would either get the ultrasound or not to find out about the genitals, and tell people or not. That was that.

The fuss over “revealing” a baby’s gender in utero stinks of pushback against the shift toward a more nuanced understanding of gender. I mean yeah part of it is social media, and trends catching on, but don’t think for a minute this isn’t part of some regressive attitudes creeping into the mainstream with a cute (blue or pink) bow on it.

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Upside to stop and go traffic- I could get a picture of these absolutely iconic bumper stickers.

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it sucks that the united states birthed the genre called Country. its way too new of a country for that. thats like being a weightlifter and then some scrawny kid comes in and says he invented The Weight. Country Music should have been from like china or something

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i am not immune to the "character's eyes glow when they use their powers" trope

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One of the coolest things to remember is that because prey animals have eyes on the side of their head, they are looking at you when they're in profile, not facing you! Hot tip for artists and animal lovers!

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The fact that I’m in the historic preservation field and still everyone I know is celebrating the Nottoway plantation burning down because we have standards

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I listen to music with headphones not because J wanna go deaf or be disrespectful, but so I don't have to hear the electricity in the walls and dog whistles and other NOISE that DISTRACTS me and ANNOYS me.

But there's more.

I want to hear every instrument that takes part in the melody. The breaths of the singer. The leitmotifs, every note, has meaning.

Music is a form of art, and I have trouble focusing without it. Even if it seems distracting or extra to you, it actually fuels me.

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kyaaaa I'm late to vampire school *runs out while holding a dude by the neck in my mouth*

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My dad raises grass-fed beef cattle and I help him sell it, mainly by maintaining an online presence. For a while, I kept having the most ridiculous conversations with people who I assume were marketing students. I didn't want to be rude so I'd try to let them down gently but this one guy just kept insisting that with his magical marketing skills he could grow our business.

What he could not seem to comprehend is that we could not grow our business, at least not without significant time and monetary investment. Cows take two years from pregnancy to the size that you can sell. If we buy adult cows, our margins become razor thin or even negative. Even if we somehow could acquire some cows, our barn and hay fields are already near maximum capacity. Renting another field would be relatively easy, building a bigger barn not so much.

Cows are living animals, they aren't widgets that can be produced infinitely. Besides that, many businesses inherently cannot grow, because if they do they'll become something else. The delicious bakery down the street cannot produce much more than they do, if they began mass marketing and production they'd eventually be selling the equivalent of Twinkies. We grow grass-fed, organic beef, if we expanded how long would that last? Eventually we'd become the very factor farms that we hate. Some things can only ever be made on a small scale and they are usually the best things.

But also, what are they teaching them at marketing school and how is it so disconnected from reality?

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Fasciation - a type of deformity in flowers🌼

It can happen as a result of random mutation, infection from disease, bacteria, or hormone imbalance

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Most people aren't fake when they're nice to new people - they're just facing forward and meeting you normally. Very few people are just a total ass and keep it hidden only for as long as necessary, just turning their best side towards you because they need you to think they are normal. But if someone whom you're only known to be nice - even when it's inconvenient to them - acts like an ass in front of you and you alone just once in a moment of weakness, that doesn't mean that they were secretly just all ass all along. It just means they trust you enough to leave their back exposed.

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Consider becoming a penpal to an LGBT prisoner through Black and Pink’s program

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Consider becoming a penpal to an LGBT prisoner through Black and Pink’s program