turing-tested:

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eggastential-biscuits:

turing-tested:

turing-tested:

turing-tested:

turing-tested:

“Many species of polychaetes undergo epitoky whereby sexually immature worms transform into pelagic morphs capable of sexual reproduction. After fertilization, they release their gametes through rapid disintegration.”

worms are out here having insane sex we can’t even comprehend

“what do they mean by disintegrate?”
“oh yeah no he fucking disintegrated”

hey uh why is this a video of daffy duck now

Shouldn’t you know?

i cannot stress enough how much i do not know why this video got changed because i am not the one who changed it

this was supposed to be the video btw

This is wild, I saw this post when it first came around, I recognize the reblog chain up until Farnsworth at least

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fierceawakening:

funkybunnsfw:

will tumblr allow this one?! we will see! X)

Help it’s cute

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derinthescarletpescatarian:

captaindibbzy:

I think it’s important to let guys be gender non conforming without telling them they’re a girl, cause actually misgendering people is still shit even when you are pro trans. “You’re a girl, an egg waiting to crack, and that’s ok” how about you are a boy and a man and it’s still ok if you want to do something that doesn’t align with traditional ideals of your gender. You can still be he/him in a skirt and makeup.

“If you wear pink/like floral scents/write with gel pens/whatever then you’re a girl” is not the progressive statement that some people think it is.

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queerstudiesnatural:

some of my favourite sign fails <3

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evil-warlord:

VS

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rizblogs:

you know whats going to happen is that 10 years from now there are going to be leaks, re-election talking points, journalists making a quick buck by telling you “what really happened in palestine”, ex soldiers telling you how they feel so bad for doing something so abhorrent that they were just following orders and every shit actor on that hollywood list taking back their solidarity lamenting in that “they just didnt know! they followed trusted news sources!”, average people saying they had NO CLUE that america of all nations would take part in something so awful, that they had NO CLUE that america of all nations would fabricate propaganda and i just want you to know if Palestinians end up forgiving them i will not and neither will the world

we saw this all happen in real time and we saw your response and we have receipts

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fishtrouts:

Crows are kinda bad at this kind of thing..

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owlmylove:

the flesh is unwilling and honestly, the spirit isn’t too keen on the idea either

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insufficientlyadvanced:

bourtange:

3liza:

powerburial:

i love how theres no rules for pronouncing words in English, you literally just have to learn and hear someone say every single word

if anyone is wondering why this is, it’s because they stopped teaching American children (and many British) the rules (which exist, and have been standardized and written down for centuries) sometime at the turn of the 21st century. if you are gen x or older, have English degree-holding parents, and/or had any really old teachers who were still teaching into the “fuck grammar” era of public schooling, you unlock a special level of English comprehension where you can pronounce 99% of words perfectly without ever hearing them at all, as well as the ability to code switch to a higher-“class” dialect of English at will, which is extremely important for any social interaction where you have to deal with people who are judging you for such a thing, which happens a lot more often than you’re aware of unless someone has already told you about it. usually no one tells you about it unless they’re teaching it.

there were a lot of reasons for the shift, most of them can be blamed on Reagan and Thatcher (like everything else). it was pushed through to school curriculums and popular culture as a “de-snobbification” of english education where everyone’s regional and ethnic accents would be normalized and accepted, what actually happened is that language gaps between rich and poor kids was crowbarred farther apart as you could no longer learn to talk, write, or read fancy in a free public school, leaving only the wealthy kids who got tutors and private schools and educated parents with a formal English education able to choose to code switch or to struggle considerably less in college when professors usually start expecting you to know grammar and etymology already and don’t think it’s their job to fix your high school teacher’s fuckups. (it is, but that’s a different post)

this is why almost everyone on YouTube is speaking only approximate English (see the #youtube grammar tag) a lot of the time and one of the big reasons people with average hearing and reading and processing function have started needing subtitles a lot more in the past ten years, when they didn’t before

this gets brought up on Tumblr a lot, see prior discourse about cursive not being taught anymore (not actually a good thing, prevents you from reading anything handwritten before 1990, bad for handwriting ergonomics especially for hypermobile people [see: why do so many hypermobile and autistic people get into fountain pens]) and the new yorker article about “vibes based literacy”.

anyway the lesson here is every time the education establishment announces they are about to make education “less formal” and that this will benefit “everyone”, because hooray we all thought learning cursive and sentence diagramming and Greek word roots was boring, right? what they are actually announcing is that you will still be judged for not being able to use those formal skills, but now only rich people will be able to learn them from tutors as basic education becomes increasingly privatized.

specifically on the topic of pronouncing words, a conlang nerd sat down and brute-force compiled a numbered list of rules for correctly pronouncing english words that gets it right for nearly every word 23 years ago (the date explains why his phonetic transcription is so weird, sorry)

this is a sick resource for me as a non native speaker but i’d also like to complain because it finally prompted me to look up what all the funny IPA symbols mean exactly and now I found out that my native german’s pronunciation is a lot less straightforward than i’ve been telling myself. you win this time anglophones.

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wayneradiotv:

gomjabbar:

gomjabbar:

that one song from persona: trinity soul that’s a swanky chill jazz song but then this rando starts rapping over the music one minute in without warning and they’re the worst bars you’ve ever heard in your life

im in the house like carpet

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transgothicgenre:

transgothicgenre:

guys i have a confession to make i literally betrayed the noble unicorn

ALT

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ne0nwisp:

dehydratedlydia:

mih-nah-mina:

amtrak-official:

Amazon is being sued by the FTC and 17 states for being an illegal monopoly

Amazon sued by FTC and 17 states over allegations it inflates online prices and overcharges sellers

The Federal Trade Commission and 17 state attorney generals filed an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon on Tuesday, alleging the e-commerce be

AP News

hi hey please talk about this as much as you can constantly over time

so often i’ve seen big-ass Stupid Bullshit News about Stupid Bullshit become absolutely nothing after like 3 days. i’m so fucking tired of it because it means that nothing changes, since we’ve forgotten what we need to change.

now amazon is getting sued. awesome! this is the first time i’ve heard of it. the suit was filed presumably somewhere between a few hours and a day ago, so that’s understandable.

is this really, really going to be covered after, i dunno, three days? i honestly don’t reckon so. amazon has enough money and probably apathy to make this not as much of an important lawsuit as it should - and maybe could - be.

i would love to be reminded every day for weeks and then months that amazon is being sued for operating an illegal monopoly. i want to read every joke, hear every update, see every move that’s made until this shit is wrapped up. i don’t just want to operate on hope and, inversely, a lack of faith on this one.

i want my anger over the way things are run to be grounded in things happening right here and right now, instead of historical events that make you go “that sucks. can’t change the past! :)” and move on, because that changes nothing in the present or the future. please talk about amazon getting sued by the federal trade commission and 17 state attourneys-general for breaking antitrust laws by being an illegal monopoly.

time to schedule post this a few times this month!!

sceduling this to post every day for at least a month

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doubleca5t:

if you want the rewards of giving someone the strap you must submit to the mortifying ordeal of fumbling around with a contraption

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