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I've seen posts going around claiming that petting animals is basically tricking them into thinking they're being groomed, and it's bugging me because, like, there's no trickery afoot. Petting and scritching are grooming activities. They help to dislodge loose fur and foreign objects and more evenly distribute protective oils, among other things. Primates are social groomers, and the human impulse to scritch is the legacy of our primate ancestors. We see an animal we like, even a dangerous one, and the monkey brain says "groom that thing".
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This is one of the oldest surviving recordings of a trans person.
Masoud El Amaratly (1897-1944) was an Iraqi trans singer who became famous in 1920s Baghdad for his folk music. He worked as a farmer before transitioning in his teens. The mustarjil, a term similar to trans man, then moved to the city and sang in cafés. A music agent discovered him there and his fame spread across West Asia.
Enjoy this 1925 recording of him singing the traditional Iraqi song, "Khadri al Chai" ("Please Make Tea"). Check out Ajam's website for more.
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So JKR is anti asexual now to
Anti-asexual discourse has always been a canary in the mine when it comes to anti-LGBTQ stances. First it's trans people, than ace people, then gender non-conforming people, then bi people... it will just keep going until it's every queer person.
I looked up the tweet to confirm it was real (because even now it was shocking), and she doubles down (as she always does) in follow up tweets.
It’s always felt like the way TERFs hate Asexuals is related to the fact that we kinda fuck with their narrative by existing.
They can’t spread transphobia on the back of gender essentialism that says people with penises are animals with no impulse control, if simultaneously it’s generally understood that some people (which includes some people with penises) just don’t have that sexual impulse.
If asexuality is real then a lot of Radfem rhetoric starts falling apart.
Ace people exist, I know 'cause I am!
jk rowling can kiss my ace ass
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crazy how there's collectively maybe a dozen they/them characters in pieces of media that anyone talks about and if you go to look up things about them in queer fandom spaces then you'll still see them getting misgendered a good 60% of the time
nonbinary erasure my hated 😊 ppl do this to my rp characters too like one person KEPT DOING IT like 6 or 7 times after being told repeatedly that they’re strictly nonbinary
And like yeah they’re mostly pink but i feel like it shouldn’t be too hard to get it into your head that they’re nonbinary
#nonbinary erasure#nonbinary#the character that im talking about is also intersex#they were reclaimed from a deleted webcomic and basically became an entirely different character over the span of 3 years#but they’ve always always been nonbinary#i once blocked someone because they wouldn’t stop using she/her on them
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Take a break, this cute tardigrade needs time to cross your dash:
I've never seen them walking before I love him
I never knew they had eight legs. I thought they had six.
I also had never seen them walking before; I thought they kind of, I don't know, floated?
So TIL.
Thanks, OP.
Even with 8 legs they walk like bears, lumbering about!
Tardigrades (and velvet worms) are direct descendants of my goat hallucigenia btw just thought i’d mention that
Source: reddit.com
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Torture to be a fan of any exotic animal when it's like. 90% of the footage of them is gonna be from dodo videos of people illegally keeping them as housepets . Really wish I could enjoy this video of a lynx but I also kinda wish everyone involved would die
the always relevant
and then people are like “oh here’s the fun police 🙄” and shit when you call it out and it’s so fucking infuriating
i wish i could just walk up and sock people in the face for this shit
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She's also publicly stated that she believes that anyone who reads her books or watches her shows and films does so because they explicitly agree with her political views.
There's no "agree to disagree" with her work. Every time you pick up her work or talk about it you are saying to her "I agree with you Joanne" whether you like it or not.
