stop feeling hopeless, start getting ready

If you are in a red state, your state either has an abortion ban in place or is rated by the Guttmacher Institute as likely to enact a ban. Your focus should be on protecting yourself and others who need abortions.

If you are in a yellow state, you currently have constitutional abortion protections but they are in jeopardy. Get active in local political groups NOW to fight back against constitutional amendments to ban abortion. Your focus should be purely on political action.

If you are in Michigan, you currently have a ban in place which is being challenged, and your governor is working to add abortion protections into the Michigan state constitution. Your focus should be on supporting the work that is currently under way.

If you are in a green state, your state has constitutional protections for abortion that are unlikely to be challenged. Your focus should be on helping others to enter your state for abortion care.

If you are in a purple state, your state currently has no constitutional protections for abortion but is unlikely to implement a ban. You have two focuses: pushing for constitutional protections AND helping others to enter your state for abortion care (see green state list).

waiting for mama to come back from the femboy convenience store

other harem series: idk why a dozen different people would be in love with this one guy nu carnival: it is perfectly understandable why a dozen different people would be in love with this one guy

When the ha ha funny bl game plays like yaoi dark souls 😭😭

can't believe this is canon now...

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That is the wettest sounding bat I've ever heard. :')

In fairness Australia does actually have "bat rabies" so you should still be careful handling bats, but it's a lot more controllable than normal rabies (which we do not have). This person clearly knows what they're doing though.

#how do you just. not have rabies#how does that work#genuine question

Well when you are entirely surrounded by water, you have somewhat of an advantage in keeping out anything a migratory bird can't carry across the ocean. We don't have rabies because we don't let it in. Eventually some fucking arsehole who thinks he's more important than our entire country will dodge quarantine for an infected pet or something but so far we've kept it out. We were varroa mite free for a really long time too until somebody fucked that up.

university professors love to create the most fucked up pdf ever known to mankind. it's enrichment for them.

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It's so weird to me when people are like 'but that will cost the government money!' So what? They're the government, they're supposed to be spending money. What, you want them to take your tax dollars and then do nothing with it? Lock it all up in a big government vault and just look at it? Why are you so scared of giving a third grader lunch or a homeless person a house.

We never really talked about it but The Ugly Ducking that grew up to be a beautiful swan was still probably pretty fugly from a duck’s perspective

Like that story isn’t about an ugly duckling that grew up sexy, it’s a fucking swan was judged as a duck and hated itself as a duck until it found out it wasn’t a duck and stopped trying to be a duck.

The actual ducks in the neighborhood were probably still looking around at perfectly normal swans like “damn, look at those busted ass ducks”

This is pretty important, actually. The good ending is finding the other swans, not tearing yourself to pieces trying to impress the ducks.

Why do all the beautiful, colorful vintage bathrooms end up in the wrong hands. Come here. I would treasure you

More arches please

It came to me in a wicked vision.

i love those "americans only know burger" posts cus its true we literally have a word for when something is insignificant or something without value and yeah. its "nothingburger". because whats more worthless than nothing burger....

not only is it real this word is from the 50s

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big fan of clark not being a fan of bruce wayne. all of the tacky one-liners and come-ons roll off of clark's back with barely concealed disgust.

he had a history with tasteless billionaires and he's just about had it with them and their ilk, thinking they own the world just because they had the money to buy it. the clash of his humble midwest upbringing and lex luthor's animosity spelled bruce wayne's doomed first impression at some party or other, where clark gets a face full of wayne's pearly whites, alcohol for cologne, and batty-eyed flirtation. clark gives up hope for a scoop and leaves the party as soon as he's able to.

but then, he falls down the rabbit hole: wayne industries and other properties, learning they offer the best-paying jobs, are a top-rated company, for a reason, all the benefits and the charity works, supporting smaller local businesses. and bruce wayne may be ditzy but he grew up from a tragedy that took his family and now, he's growing a new one. clark figures, rich or not, no person's life should be this dramatic and plastered on newspaper—that means it's deliberate.

and, of course, the after: his partner-in-justice, with a penchant for the shadows and doing thankless work, coinciding with that fake, glittery persona. it made sense in a way it never would've made sense before now. bruce wayne is batman, and batman is bruce wayne.

so, of course, the next time bruce wayne is seen flirting with clark kent at some party or other—now burdened with the knowledge of who exactly bruce is, clark blushes and stutters and begrudgingly accepts his fate.

Real pupper is experiencing UNCANNY VALLEY bigtime!

Imagine if you encountered a humanoid like this in the forest, smiling and waving in a welcoming manner. You'd assume you were about to be abducted by aliens or perhaps fae.

I know it's unfair vilification and stuff but it's also a lot of fun to see old media and stuff where people were SO scared of big animals like lions, sharks, crocodiles and wolves were fully expected to just come and eat you the moment you stepped into their territory. In older media we also made that assumption about gorillas and in still older we thought it'd be whales. But some animals that will actually fuck you up got left behind. Boars will kill you and eat you. They're way more likely to do so than any of those other things actually. Hippos, obviously, got off like bandits always being depicted as cute and dopey. And then there's the squids. Not giant kraken size squids. The eight foot squids that hunt in packs and will fuck you up if you fall in the water at night. I can't BELIEVE people slept on that. It's like all they cared about were the huge deep sea ones we never see. The medium size wolf pack squids were right there.

Oh some of you don't know about the squids. I talked about them in another thread that went kinda viral somewhere or other but one of the reasons you should not swim in the open ocean at night in many parts of the world is that the water starts teeming with these:

And as you can see it is not like instant death, they too are just animals and they are often just gently curious about the presence of humans! But people who study and dive with sharks will tell you you're safe as long as you stay calm and know what you're doing. The world's leading professional night divers and experts on these squids, specifically??? Stress in every interview and article and paper they write in that you simply do not fuck around with these squids. They know what they're doing and they still all have at least one story of being attacked, in some cases having to be hospitalized. Considering just how rarely anybody puts themselves in the pitch dark nighttime ocean on purpose, let alone during a squid feeding frenzy, it sounds like they're quite a bit more likely to consider you potential food than other marine predators. We also don't know how many fatal attacks might have ever happened, because what humboldt squid like to do with large prey is just drag it away into the darkness forever. The two worst attacks ever proven involved two or three squid at a time latching on to a diver (in BOTH cases they were professionals and knew the risk!) and jetting straight downward with enough force that both divers suffered injury from the sudden pressure change alone, including burst eardrums, nearly passed out and they probably would have died if they hadn't broken free. In general, people who die drowning in the dark open ocean are either never found, or they're found in pieces picked over by enough scavengers that the precise cause of death can only be narrowed down to "the sea." But now you know ONE of "the sea's" possible murder weapons :)

There's a short section on Humboldt squid in Wikipedia's entry for Cephalopod attacks on humans:

And if you can get past some of Animal Planet's hokey presentation style, this video includes a bit of interview with one of those professional experts who still got nearly squidded from existence:

There is of course some debate about all this, with some arguing that all proven documented attacks occurred on people with reflective diving equipment, which they say the squid must have mistaken for the shine of fish. However, there are lots and lots of people who have to fish around these squids to survive, who do not have access to that kind of equipment, and also have a consensus that if you fall in the water when big squids are out hunting you might disappear without a trace or perhaps just get your head bitten open. With many modern science guys agreeing with this sentiment, this is one case where the "they're just misunderstood sea friends" crowd is kind of outnumbered. The sea at night is theirs and not ours is all. It's not ours during the day either but since we are neither marine nor nocturnal animals we are double fools in the eyes of the squids, which by the way are these eyes:

No for real:

Absolutely! Also, the Humboldt squid will hunt in packs, sometimes with one flashing brightly to draw attention while the others approach in near unseeable camoflage!

Beautiful footage of the nefarious sea demons also :)

Also because I can't reblog every addition together:

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I absolutely adore Humboldt squid. I saw a doc once where a scientist was cage diving to study them, and one of the squid squeezed it's entire massive body through the cage bars, bit the guy and squeezed right back out.

Why isnt this an animal that's already long gone viral like honey badgers once did. This is the animal that actually gives no fucks. People really are just that obsessed with bigger squids I guess? But the bigger ones frankly come across as big softies in comparison. One big sea monster can never be as intimidating as a thousand coordinated man sized sea monsters.

This is why I thought that if mermaids had a cultural equivalent to lycanthropy it'd be weresquids. Fun fact nocturnal marine life increases activity on the brightest nights ie the full moon.

This is all fascinating but I'm reblogging it exclusively for the phrase "got nearly squidded from existence."

Shoutout to Vic Michealis for being the first person to ever score negative points on Game Changer. The only person to truly understand that the game is the players vs Sam and stick to that no matter the cost. The real winner, if you ask me.