Beanatarian Ralph Weasley

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marrowskies

Anonymous asked:

I thought it would delight you to know that ants do have a sort of funeral mound for their dead

iguanamouth answered:

yes there is a name for this! necrophoresis is a process with social insects where the bodies are taken to a specific location on the outside of ( or within ) the nest - ants tend to keep them all in the same place, and the way an ant is signaled to be “dead” by its other members is through the release of a chemical called oliec acid

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theres even been a few experiments where live ants were coated in the same chemical and other ants treated the live ants….exactly as though they were dead and tried dragging them into the pile

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fireflysummers
cavehags

Thus is the defining characteristic of gay millennials: we straddle the pre-Glee and post-Glee worlds. We went to high school when faggot wasn't even considered an F-word, when being a lesbian meant boys just didn't want you, when being nonbinary wasn't even a remote option. We grew up without queer characters in our cartoons or Nickelodeon or Disney or TGIF sitcoms. We were raised in homophobia, came of age as the world changed around us, and are raising children in an age where it's never been easier to be same-sex parents. We're both lucky and jealous. As the state of gay evolved culturally and politically, we were old enough to see it and process it and not take it for granted--old enough to know what the world was like without it. Despite the success of Drag Race, the existence of lesbian Christmas rom-coms, and openly transgender Oscar nominees, we haven't moved on from the trauma of growing up in a culture that hates us. We don't move on from trauma, really. We can't really leave it in the past. It becomes a part of us, and we move forward with it.
For LGBTQ+ milennials, our pride is couched in painful memories of a culture repulsed and frightened by queerness. That makes us skittish. It makes us loud. It makes us fear that all this progress, all this tolerance [...] can vanish as quickly as it all appeared.

The 2000s Made Me Gay, Grace Perry

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runawaymarbles

Coming from a reference group where everyone’s first queer movie was either Rocky Horror or Brokeback Mountain, it’s fascinating to talk (in person!) to gay teenagers who grew up with Korra and Stephen Universe and She-Ra. 

arsonforcharlie

my main thing is when i see posts like "i'm not sure if i'm a lesbian or trans or nonbinary or whatever and i'm already 16, what the hell" because dear LORD wee one it is FINE, when i was 16, and i am Not That Old and raised in a pretty accepting environment, i was really only super aware of one of those concepts as an actual option, with transness being a vague sort of thing on the horizon of my knowledge but not really in the context of transmasculinity, and the idea that you could just be neither being right out. and i considered gayness to be not really an option because at that point in my life the only real connection i had felt with that community was that half the kids in my school called me a dyke. one of my friends was trans, and their main expression of that was school-mandated spirit week crossdressing days because they couldn't have dreamed of getting away with it any other time. to see kids feel like they're late bloomers because they haven't settled on agender or genderfluid before they're out of high school- it's positive, but a massive culture shock

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sashaforthewin
waxtrax

Factory Fan Bass: By attaching a disk with holes to the fan, it converts blinks of lights to electric signals and generates sound from a bass amplifier. Different numbers of holes can generate a musical scale, and turning on/off of the power makes it roar.

Created by Ei Wada + Teruo Takahashi(from the iron factory) + Nicos Orchest-Lab

Played by Ei Wada

from Electronicos Fantasticos

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hater-of-terfs

Exxon lobbyist confesses to his crimes

mostlysignssomeportents

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50 years ago, Exxonmobil’s scientists warned that continued use of fossil fuels would render our planet uninhabitable by humans. Exxon’s response? They buried the reports and embarked on a disinformation campaign modeled on the tobacco industry’s cancer denial.

#ExxonKnew

That campaign continues, even as floods-of-the-century crop up every month or two, as thousand-year heatwaves strike again and again, as wildfires stain our skies the color of blood and zoonitic plagues shut down all activity for years at a time.

https://exxonknew.org/

Exxon, of course, claims that they’re good corporate citizens, committed to preserving the habitability of the only known planet in the entire universe capable of supporting our species.

It’s a total lie.

Exxon spent millions on corruption: disinformation and influence campaigns (AKA “bribes”) to make tens of billions — and imposed trillions in costs upon the rest of us, and incalculable losses in the form of lost human lives and natural wonders.

https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/30/based/#high-bidders

Exxon denies this — in public. In private, the people who direct these campaigns are immensely proud of their work and keenly aware of the fact that other large, corrupting industries are always on the lookout for talent who can corrupt on their behalf.

For the past eight years, Keith McCoy has been the top Exxon lobbyist in Washington, DC. When Unearthed (Greenpeace UK’s media arm) contacted him pretending to be a corporate recruiter with a lucrative offer, he jumped at the chance to boast about his corrupting accomplishments.

The resulting nine-minute video confirms everything that Exxon’s critics — and anti-corruption campaigners — have said for decades. It’s a gleeful, boastful confession that catalogs the company’s many lies and cheerfully identifies them as such.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v1Yg6XejyE

In the video, McCoy describes how Exxon uses front-groups to sow doubt about the climate emergency and the need to eliminate fossil fuel consumption.

https://www.channel4.com/news/revealed-exxonmobils-lobbying-war-on-climate-change-legislation

He names the senators whom he has (successfully) lobbied to blunt or remove climate protections from Biden’s $2T stimulus. It’s a heartwarmingly bipartisan parade of biddable officials-for-hire whom Exxon has helped out with an often lucrative side-hustle.

On the Democrat side, there’s Joe Manchin (D-WV), Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), Jon Tester (D-MT), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Chris Coons (D-DE) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ).

While the Republicans are Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), John Barrasso (R-WY), John Cornyn (R-TX), Steve Daines (R-MT), and Marco Rubio (R-FL).

McCoy is especially fond of Joe Manchin, whom he calls “a kingmaker” whose office holds “standing weekly check-in calls” with Exxon lobbyists.

https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1410432121710252037

McCoy speaks fondly of the Trump years, and invites the interviewer to google “trump exxon” to get a sense of just how many gifts his employer received during 2016–20.

He also frankly admits that Exxon front groups like the American Petroleum Institute are “whipping boys” sent to hearings in Exxon’s stead, to absorb the performative criticism of lawmakers who nevertheless fail to take substantive action to curb Exxon’s slow genocide.

And he describes how Exxon secretly funded “shadow groups” to “aggressively fight against some of the science.” He stresses — probably correctly — that nothing that Exxon did was illegal.

He neglects to mention the work Exxon has done to ensure that this unimaginably terrible conduct remained legal.

But he isn’t shy about Exxon’s ability to influence policy otherwise. For example, he admits that the only reason Exxon has publicly endorsed carbon taxes is that they know they can prevent any carbon tax from becoming law — it’s all a show.

Exxon corporate, confronted with the video, claimed that it was all reflective of Greenpeace’s bias against giant, sociopathic polluting companies and asks who we’re going to believe, an oil company or our own lying ears?

Do watch the video, if only to hear McCoy describe how he baits the hook for senators and then “reels them in.”

“I make sure I get them the right information that they need so they look good. And then they help me out. They’re a captive audience. They know they need you.”

McCoy has since posted a groveling retraction on Linkedin, claiming his “statements clearly do not represent ExxonMobil’s positions on important public policy issues.” He doesn’t explain why he made those statements if they’re not true.

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6816098352954961920/claiming

Exxon has “condemned” the statements and claims McCoy — the company’s most senior lobbyist — “wasn’t involved at all in forming policy positions.”

https://twitter.com/exxonmobil/status/1410389476199784450

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lukessideboob

You know maybe amatonormativity exists but it's hard to say that when I'm 90% sure gay people were not being encouraged to seek out relationships by the wider culture until maybe 2005-ish

im-fucking-asexual

what's amatonormativity?

lukessideboob

A Tumblr-based sociological theory that boils down to "compulsory alloromanticism" but I've also seen it defined to include monogamy as another expectation under the header of amatonormativity

srsblog4srsposts

Amatonormativity is not tumblr based- it was not created on tumblr nor was it popularised on tumblr. Amatonormativity was not even coined by asexual people or with asexual people in mind exclusively. 

Amantonormativity was coined by feminist academic Elizabeth Brake in her book “Minimising Marriage” to refer to:

the assumptions that a central, exclusive, amorous relationship is normal for humans, in that it is a universally shared goal, and that such a relationship is normative, in that it should be aimed at in preference to other relationship types. (Source)

Amatornormativity doesn’t just affect asexual and aromantic people. Whilst it’s often asexual and aromantic people you see talking about amatonormativity (because we become hyper aware of it due to how it affects us), it actually impacts the lives of people of all orientations, including LGBT+ people.

Amatonormativity in practice is…

  • The assumption that all single people are unhappy with their status and looking not to be single.
  • “Coming of age” milestones often revolving around romantic accomplishments (first kiss, first crush, first love, marriage, etc).
  • Non romantic partnerships (sexual or platonic) being looked down upon.
  • A sort of relationship hierarchy where marriage is at the top and everything else falls somewhere below it.
  • The expectation for romantic partners to be more important than jobs, hobbies or other commitments in a person’s life. And the belief that people who choose to pursue the former are selfish.
  • People who are not seeking exclusive romantic relationships being seen as less mature, stable, trustworthy or settled.
  • The structuring of laws and society on the basis that eventually everyone will be in a committed romantic partnership (marriage).
  • The toxic idea of a “friendzone” (which of course, overlaps with misogyny), where friendship with a woman is seen as “second prize” to a relationship with her.
  • People settling for someone they’re not really happy with or compatible with just to fulfil the desire or expectation to have a partner.
  • Non-aromantic asexual people trying to normalise their orientation by saying they can still “fall in love” or “have relationships” “just like anyone else”.
  • Asexual people or people who don’t feel attraction to anyone feeling pressured to seek out and enter into relationships.

And much more…

Violations of amatonormativity would include dining alone by choice, putting friendship above romance, bringing a friend to a formal event or attending alone, cohabiting with friends, or not searching for romance. (Source)

kyraneko

Also the way turning down a request for a date, while single, is often viewed as some sort of terrible insult instead of an analysis of poor compatibility.

Also the idea that it’s wrong to break up with someone unless they’ve done something objectively terrible enough to “deserve it” rather than because the relationship isn’t doing anything for you.

jabberwockypie

It also encourages people to stay in abusive relationships because it pushes being in a relationship is the highest priority/being alone is terrible.

ace-and-ranty

Also....

“I'm 90% sure gay people were not being encouraged to seek out relationships by the wider culture until maybe 2005-ish”

Yes.

Yes, they were.

They were encouraged to seek out heterosexual relationships.

You can’t uncouple Amantonormativity from Heteronormativity. One is built into the other. Heteronormativity means there is one right way to have a life, and that way is being straight, is falling in love, being monogamous, is complying to certain standards of beauty, it’s being white and thin and abled. 

ALL of those things go into the ideal norm that is oppressing ALL OF US. It doesn’t matter in WHICH way you stray from the heteronormative ideal --- if you’re polyamorous or if you’re gay or if you don’t fall in love or you love while disabled. ANY WAY you stray from it is punished. 

jenniferrpovey

Amatonormativity is not just “you must fall in love.” It’s “You must fall in love in the right way with the right person.”

So yes, amatonormativity is absolutely linked to heteronormativity.

And, as ace-and-ranty hinted, it is also linked to the supremacy of monogamy. Amatonormativity also excludes all forms of polyamory.

alarajrogers

It also has something to do with why gays successfully got gay marriage before they got, say, “federal protection from discrimination in adoption cases” or “the right to be gender nonconforming in public school”. People who think it’s weird to see a man in a dress can still wrap their head around “he wants to marry the man he loves” because all you did was swap the expected pronouns.

Amatonormativity does pressure people into heteronormative relationships, but it also exists within the gay community and allies, to place a monogamous marriage to a same-sex partner above, say, a polyamorous polycule, or an asexual living with a queerplatonic friend.

fuckingaromanticadventures

^ what everyone else said.

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uniquepersonality
adampvrrish

not to talk about doctor who but remember being a lonely depressed teenager and hearing him say '900 years of time and space and i've never met anyone who wasn't important'

bughaw-blu

he was like ‘just this once-everybody lives’ and i chased that shit with homosexual determination for every day since, like maybe through pure force of will i could save everyone i loved from a system that wanted us dead

jestersoftproveprophets

Doctor Who isn’t necessarily the best-written show, it’s nothing world-stopping, but god, if it didn’t help me through being a depressed teenager. It wasn’t just ‘never give up’ or ‘love conquers all’, it was them looking the audience dead in the eyes and saying, ‘I see you. You are important and special, and you deserve to give yourself a good life’. And I will always thank it for that.

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fireflysummers
amuseoffyre

For those of you who may not be aware, in Scotland there is an officially registered tartan called Pride of LGBT.

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yaminoendo

@thebibliosphere

checkeredtablesloth

This is so cool, because tartan patterns were originally family symbols. Almost every Scottish clan has a unique one. Even my family has one. It’s like saying LGBT+ is a family, one you can belong to even if your blood family doesn’t accept you.

spongiform-encephalopathies

Um, I'mma need a kilt in this tartan like YESTERDAY.

lilac-writes

I just want to add in here that specific tartan patterns being associated with a family or clan is a somewhat recent phenomenon. Long before that it was a matter of personal taste and an expression of social/economic status. The more colours you had in your tartan, the richer you were. Certain dyes were also difficult and expensive to obtain. You didn’t have red unless you were very wealthy and powerful, and you definitely didn’t have purple unless you were richer than god. 

This is basically the fanciest, most extravagant tartan imaginable. If you went back in time to like medieval Scotland wearing this everyone would lose their minds. 

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