I AM THE LIZARD QUEEN

hackercult:

hackercult:

this place sucks im gonna drink six beers and jack off

pansyfemme:

pansyfemme:

message to cis allies: buying your trans friend lunch will do much more good for the trans community than debating transphobes who will not change their minds publicaly on social media and making all your trans followers see how much people hate them over and over again

if you base your trans allyship more on fighting with idiots than supporting and loving the trans community you may want to rethink things a little. bc i tend to get sick of when my cis friends want to talk more about how many people hate me than anything else about my transness.

vacuously-true:

i-wear-the-cheese:

primavera-cerezos:

it would take 2.3 million years for Jeff Bezos to earn his $183.3b net worth working 24 hours a day at New Mexico’s $9/hr minimum wage.

That’s 11.5 times longer than the human race has existed.

Purgatory Prime

queeranarchism:

anotherdayforchaosfay:

tartersause:

bodhisattvawithoutorgans:

bodhisattvawithoutorgans:

bodhisattvawithoutorgans:

- the lady at the welfare office cancelling my benefits

- the lady at the welfare office cancelling my b

The lady at the w

“Choosing not to work is morally wrong. Being too disabled to work is fine though.”

Okay, now how do you dictate who is disabled enough not to work? This is a major part of how systemic ableism happens.

Think for a second.

Think.

90% of disabilities are invisible. Those with power able to determine if we’re fucked up enough to be unable to work are often ableists. They rarely give a flying fuck about us and would rather we were no longer a “burden” in order to make space for someone willing and able to work.

Landlords are evil, we know this, but how tf can you look at someone and decide they’re opting to just not work? Do you consider the retired to be lazy because they’re not working? My disabilities ate invisible until they’re not, and it took going to court in order to get on SSDI. Because of dumbfuck ableists like you, I have to deal with other dumbfuck ableists telling me I’m evil/lazy/faking it and therefore I’m the evil category.

Kindly take a few seats and sit your dumbass down. You’re making an annoying fool of yourself with this noise.

Landlords aren’t evil because they ‘don’t work’, landlords are evil because they hoard homes, force us to pay for housing and create homelessness.

CEOs aren’t evil because they ‘don’t work’, CEOs are even because they extract profit from what others create (which is wage theft) and force us to do their bidding or get fired, which creates poverty.

Their power and parasitic nature is the problem. Whether they work is irrelevant.

Get this ridiculous ‘work as morally good’ shit out of your system or sooner or later you will find yourself believing some fucked up bullshit.

headspace-hotel:

headspace-hotel:

headspace-hotel:

headspace-hotel:

headspace-hotel:

kylaralynn:

headspace-hotel:

it’s so chilling to walk through an area where the houses are surrounded by blank sterile lawns and see a big lilac bush in full bloom without a single bug on it. No bees, no butterflies, not a stir of activity.

The neighborhood association where I work hires a truck to spray the whole subdivision. It trundles up every driveway and sprays every yard with pesticides. The children excitedly tell me about “the bug man” and know which days he comes on. I know when he’s been there, because in the following days I see the beetles, butterflies, bees, and more, all struggling on the pavement, slowly dying. The children do not realize why they are there. They poke at the bugs in fascination. I hate it.

That’s. Horrible. I have no words

Like

Those insecticides are toxic to humans as well, many are proven carcinogens, and their residues stick around for years inside homes

But even if that wasn’t so, insect populations worldwide are plummeting, and the entire food chain depends on them. Most plants and animals could not exist without insects, period

Keeping the insect ecosystem in balance is important for human health and long term flourishing. Not all species are impacted equally by these toxic chemicals, and the elimination of one species can cause an explosion in another.

For example, some of the major predators of ticks are ants, spiders, and beetles

If you kill all your ants, spiders, and beetles, it’ll take a long time for them to re-establish, but ticks can return because of a feral cat walking across your grass

What’s more, scientists have found that excluding animals from an area makes the amount of ticks that can be collected in that area to explode. We’re talking 2-3 times the amount of ticks actively foraging for things to latch onto. It seems like hungrier ticks seek food sources more and bite people more. This leads to the hypothesis that global defaunation is one of the causes of the explosion in tick borne diseases in recent years

Many birds depend on insects for food, bluebirds specifically eat a ton of mosquitoes

If you wipe out most arthropods, the the small mammals and birds that eat the bugs will visit your yard much less. Guess what that means

Current projections predict that the insect declines will be heavily impactful upon bees, butterflies, and moths, but could increase the populations of…flies and cockroaches.

Not to mention that as all the natural predators of agricultural pest insects suffer, more and more pesticides will be needed to get enough crop yields and it becomes a vicious cycle of poisoning the planet and farm laborers more and more severely to avoid collapse of food systems

Your neighborhood association is creating a bleak, sick, hungry future for those kids and everyone else.

Like, think about it:

If you kill and destroy everything in your surroundings that doesn’t benefit you directly, soon the only critters that can live there are the creatures that are parasites on you directly or that compete with you for resources.

And now they don’t have any predators to keep them at bay.

reblogging this again because researching ticks changed my brain around

like I thought “Yeah re-wilding will probably increase the risk of ticks but we just need to make tick safety widespread and common knowledge”

but then I RESEARCHED it

and the research was like “Actually tick diseases have increased DRAMATICALLY over the past 40 years, and tick ranges are expanding hugely and it’s mostly unrelated to climate change so far. And we did experiments and in areas where there aren’t any animals, the number of ticks that catch onto things passing through the area explodes, it’s like 2-3 times the number of ticks. Which is like, wait, weird, I thought animals spread ticks. But we think what’s happening is that when there’s no animals, the ticks engage in more questing behavior to find food.”

and I was like “Wait, but if the decline of animals is making the ticks look for food more, wouldn’t they…wait. Oh no. OH NO. We’re the food!”

and I looked at more research

and the research said “so the main things that kill ticks seems to be spiders, ants, and beetles.”

and I was like “spiders, ants, and beetles? the things that people see as pests and try to kill with chemicals that contaminate the whole ecosystem?—OH FUCK”

Basically it’s like

Expectation: destroying nature= fewer ticks, which means less disease

Reality: destroying nature= hungrier ticks that want to suck your blood way more and less spiders ants and beetles to eat them for you

esoteric-merit:

charlesoberonn:

birdscreaming15:

actuallyjuststealingmemes:

fuocogo:

connard-cynique:

charlesoberonn:

wonder-meathead:

boyonetta:

charlesoberonn:

charlesoberonn:

This looks like a fucking parody post, or an edgy edit, but it’s 100% official real Flintstones.

Clarification: I don’t hate this book, I love it, it’s amazing. It’s just that taking a step back and looking it out of context is still really funny. Especially the line “We participated in a genocide, Barney.”

ok but imagine them in their cartoon forms saying this dialogue i’m

can we have some context to this, perhaps?

Bedrock is having a mayoral election. One of the candidates is a violent war mongering asshole that riles people up against the lizard people. This reminds Fred and Barney of their time in the army.

Back then the father of said violent candidate was riling people up against the “tree people”. Fred, Barney, and other soldiers fought what they believed to be a defensive measure against the tree people. Turns out, it was actually an invasion, in order to kill off the tree people and take over their forest to build Bedrock.

That’s what Fred means when he says he and Barney participated in a genocide. They literally did.

(Extra fun fact, Barney adopted a tree person baby after the war, and his son Bamm-Bamm is the last tree person.)

just fucking read it

http://readcomiconline.to/Comic/The-Flintstones

There are a lot of interesting things about this post but the AK-47 shaped spear is what really got me

This is just as wild with the context

Some of my favorite moments in the series

From the foreword to 2021 print of the comic.

mysharona1987:

How is this not a crime?

gunsandfireandshit:

marinella-ela:

I love how the dog seems to have figured out not facing the cat head on, interspecies body language win

imissthembutitwasntadisaster:

imissthembutitwasntadisaster:

What if you loved me so much it literally undoomed me haha jk unless

What if I had so much faith in you it literally reshaped the narrative into a happy ending HAHA JK UNLESS

exitwound:

Can everyone i love move into an apartment with me and we will all live forever