motherbunny:

truth is if you can’t respect weird people who you don’t know/aren’t autistic then you don’t actually respect autistic people. yeah, sure, you can have your autism site or whatever but are you nice to the person on the bus who’s moving around weirdly? are you nice to the middle aged man in the grocery store wearing chunky noise cancelling headphones? do you think that the little kid who just will not stop talking about her odd stamp collecting obsession is weird and annoying? you don’t just get to be nice to freaks and weirdos once they tell you they’re autistic. you still have to be fucking nice to people and that includes the ones that you don’t want to be kind towards

why-animals-do-the-thing:

radley-writes:

great-and-small:

As summer is approaching, I’d like to share this bird-friendly beach etiquette reminder. A lot of people let their dogs roam freely on the beach, but dogs that chase wildlife can have a detrimental effect on the animals that have no choice but to share the shoreline with us. Please enjoy the summer with your pets and make sure to give wild animals plenty of space!

Potentially controversial opinion here, but this goes for any other natural place too. Your dog shouldn’t be running off-lead and disturbing wildlife outside of specific designated dog areas. The amount of damage free-roaming dogs cause to the rare ground-nesting birds on the heathland near me, despite constant appeals for people to keep them on-leash, is disgusting. And for the love of FUCK, stop letting your dogs run off-leash in fields with livestock. Especially pregnant ewes and young lambs.

“But my dog is a nice dog and my dog would never hurt any animal!”

1. I don’t believe you.
2. The other animals don’t know that. Stress is enough to make ewes miscarry. Having to panic and flee costs precious energy. Dogs trampling nests is enough to destroy eggs.
3. Keep your fucking dog on a leash.

Important generally but also specifically for shorebirds. Many are endangered or threatened and nest in very specific places, and one loose dog among eggs or chicks can devastate a colony.

whatbigotspost:

soberscientistlife:

Always nice when math helps make it all the more clear how ridiculously reasonable the worker demands are.

This is what the studios have brought everything to a grinding halt for.

a-forger-and-a-point-man:

Don’t forget the first victims when you go see Oppenheimer this opening weekend. Unforgivable not to include them in the narrative.

We love us some Nolan and Cillian but this is also a story that should never have taken place.

For further reading:

This is what happens when the US government goes nuclear-crazy during the Cold War and mines a shit ton of uranium. Lambs born with three legs and no eyes, and human stillbirths and agonizing deformities for those that survive. For decades it was referred to as a Navajo-specific hereditary illness. No one made the link to the mines and the drinking water.

ort-smort:

Welcome to the Alpha Gamer Pad, Abe.

ok now get ouTTA THERE BUD RUN RUN RUN-

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jarmes:

afloweroutofstone:

They’re about to break so many laws it’s not even funny, I can feel it in my bones

It’s about PayPal. This is all about fucking PayPal

He’s still pissed they fired him. He’s still pissed they didn’t like his idea of calling PayPal X

20 years and he has not learned a single thing. He’s still throwing a tantrum about people not liking his bad name suggestion decades ago

zoomar:

Imaginary pictures from an occult flea market.

nailgunstigmata:

hes an old man to YOU to me hes a beautiful young maiden. and also an old man

sloppystyle:

blackafemmetalks:

What it meant to be a woman in many African pre-colonial societies was not rigid. “Among the Langi of northern Uganda,” writes Sylvia Tamale, dean of the faculty of Law at Makerere University Uganda, “the mudoko dako, or effeminate males, were treated as women and could marry men.” There were also the Chibados or Quimbanda of Angola, male diviners whom, some scholars have argued, were believed to carry female spirits through anal sex.

[…]

This practice of same-sex marriage was documented in more than 40 precolonial African societies: a woman could marry one or more women if she could secure the bridewealth necessary or was expected to uphold and augment kinship ties. The idea that a female could be a husband perplexed Europeans, and often lead to fantastical conclusions.

Wanted to share an article about pre-colonial African gender identities! The article is really great!