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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
eeby-deeby-cooper
afloweroutofstone

Midwestern Democrats are on fire recently. Over the last few weeks, the Minnesota legislature has passed measures which would turn the state into one of the closest things the US has to a social democracy. They have passed bills:

  • creating universal paid leave
  • codifying abortion rights
  • legalizing weed
  • making public college free for families earning under $80k
  • universalizing free school lunches and increasing public education funding
  • creating plans for 100% carbon-free energy by 2040
  • investing more in public housing and homelessness prevention programs
  • creating a new child tax credit to cut child poverty
  • creating a refuge for those seeking trans healthcare
  • instituting automatic voter registration
  • expanding voting rights to former felons
  • banning anti-gay "conversion therapy"
  • creating a new tax to fund public transit
  • banning worker non-compete agreements
  • strengthening anti-trust rules in healthcare
  • creating new labor protections for gig economy drivers, teachers, construction workers, warehouse workers, and more
  • investing in efforts to prevent chemical pollution
  • creating billions in bonds for public infrastructure and lands
  • strengthening gun purchase background checks
  • indexing the gas tax to inflation
  • creating a public board to regulate pharmaceutical costs
  • increasing support for public defenders, and
  • expanding access to health insurance and drivers licenses for undocumented immigrants
  • and still more!!!

Extremely, unfathomably based

prismatic-bell

The parties. Are not. The same.

I cannot explain how much I want to move to MN right now but I also don't want to leave this house an would have to be one of those weirdos who pays to have the whole house moved to a new foundation and also I just redid the whole hvac and water system so that shit would have to come with me too :D Maybe I'll just rent a cheap room for residency
garakjuice
nitlon

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garak what the fuck you are literally in your own tailor’s shop surrounded by thread scissors, if there’s a tiny loose thread on the shoulder of that jacket you don’t need to fucking bite it off with your whole mouth what’s wrong with you

efficiency because he has his teeth with him and might not have scissors also one of those displays to remind customers to not be karens in his shop because if I walked in to a tailoring shop and saw the owner gnawing on clothes I'd be on my best behavior.
pocket-jew
mostly-funnytwittertweets

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calleo

Men’s sizing does vanity sizing as well.

A 34 at Old Navy is not a 34 in Dockers is not a 34 in Levi’s is not a 34 in Wrangler is not a 34 in–name any other brand.

I know this specifically because my waist is currently 36″. I measure it every few months as I’m still actively and intentionally losing weight and would lie to get back to around 30/32.

If I’m buying Old Navy mens’ pants, a 36 will fall. off. I have to buy a 32″ waist, which ain’t 32″, it’s 36″ because it fits my waist perfectly.

With Wrangler, the ones I have are true to size.

Dockers do the goddamned opposite of vanity sizing and if it’s the RELAXED style I’m a 38, if it’s their ‘normal’ styles it’s 40.

Levi’s are a 33 or 34 depending on the line.

It’s not as bad as the unhinged vanity sizing in womens’ clothes, but your waist size and the pants size are likely not going to match.

Happens with suit coats and dress shirts too.

vanity sizing sucks just tell me the numbers and make the clothes match the numbers
chickadeeee
homunculus-argument

I love how both corvids and parrots are in general highly intelligent, but where corvids generally have strict hierarchies, solve disagreements in the pecking order by fighting, and have a strong dislike for anything new or foreign until they figure out how to make use of it, parrots are just here to party.

The New Caledonian crow, who knows how to specifically build a tool in order to build another tool, never engages in play. These motherfuckers are smarter than some people with the right to vote, and they are Extremely Serious Birds. They don't have time to play, they got work to do and kids to raise.

And then there's the kea, straight-up titled "clown of the mountains", that has a specific vocalization for "playtime!". Scientists decided to try what happens if they play the Play Call for two fully-grown adult keas that are together in an area and can clearly see there is no other, third kea to make the call, and they just go "great idea, disembodied voice! it's TIME TO FUCKING PARTY!" and start wrestling.

Imagine working really hard in order to make it into a top university to study astrophysics, making it to your first Very Serious Class, sitting down full of serious determination, and the dude next to you is taking notes without using his hands, with a glitter pen he's shoved up his nose. And his notes are good.

homunculus-argument

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It's your first day of Bird University and you already fucking hate this guy.

trixree

So there's this gene in humans called PLXNC1 or "Plexin", right? So Plexin is associated with increased neuron function and is generally thought to be correlated to human's increased cognitive ability for the use of language, i.e., "language learning". Super cool, right?

Humans aren't the only animals with advanced language learning that have Plexin in their genome. We can actually find homologous plexin between humans and PARROTS!

Using genomic alignment search tools, we can actually break down the sequence of human Plexin and directly compare it to the Plexin found in parrots. (This was actually a project I ran for an upper division genomics class, and running the program literally takes like... ten minutes.) I wanted to see how similar the plexin gene was between humans and parrots, so I queued up the human sequence against all of the available records from parrot genomes and sorted by greatest percent identity (i.e., which bird species had the closest plexin to ours?)

It was this funky dude right here:

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THAT'S RIGHT BABY! The kea, notorious for being a straight up motherfucking prank god, carries Plexin with a 79.42% identity comapred to humans'.

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THIS LITTLE ASSHOLE HAS A HOMOLOGOUS LANGUAGE LEARNING GENE WITH US!!!! A GENE THAT IS THOUGHT TO BE CORRELATED TO HIGHER LEVEL LEARNING AND INTELLIGENCE!!!!! AND THEY USE THEIR INTELLIGENCE TO WREAK HAVOC ON TOURISTS

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Also these guys have been found to literally have predictive reasoning skills, which we consider REALLY FUCKING ADVANCED for a lot of animal species. They pass the Aesop's fable test with flying colors. They're so goddamn cool, I love them so much.

The kea really said: "I will use my superior intelligence to have a good fucking time" and that's so powerful honestly

etraytin

One time at the zoo, a kea chewed a hole in my pants because I ran out of treats to give him.

defilerwyrm

reblogging for the Plexin thing, which is fascinating, and also to join the chorus of calling OP on their bullshit because corvids are extremely playful animals. Like…they’re kinda extremely famous for loving to get up to mischief. There is a reason why Raven is a Trickster archetype in quite a few cultures. As a matter of fact, they create and use tools FOR PLAY.

dduane

I'll never not reblog this. (Not least because something tells me that one kea has a whole nestful of sunglasses somewhere.)

headspace-hotel

yeah I was reading this thinking "wait, basically all animals play, and I KNOW crows play."

exvind
bogleech

This time my twitter suspension was because a old lady was admiring the proud boys and I think her son was one of them so I told her every proud boy belongs in a grave. So here on tumblr I’d like to go on to say that she should be forced to watch while her proud boy son is tied down and decapitated by a belt sander. As in the belt sander should be used to sand his entire head until its down to a stump. Actually does that count as decapitation? Does the head have to be “cut off” and technically still in one piece somewhere to be decapitation? What do you call it if the head is simply worn down then?????? Oh man this is going to bother me that we don’t have a word for that

I mean honestly, this feels like when a large corporation asks you to round up to donate your change to charity.

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I mean, she’s an entire dragon.

This is a not-all-there-anymore Blood Elf.

This is how you know NPCs are completely blind to what your character is wearing because no sane person would look at this guy and go, “Yeah, there’s our champion.”

world of warcraft I swear I have a handful of much more normal characters Calleo just isn't one of them he's the one I took every fucking bizarre thing I've ever encounterd in RP since whenever BC came out and just rolled with it That's a warlock wyrmrest accord blood elf

Well, I finally got Covid.

Woke up this morning with a scratchy throat that I can only describe as “in a weird place”; like not just at the far back of your mouth, but deeper down and so barely there that you think you’re imagining it.

So, just on a hunch I took one of the at home Covid tests I have.

Positive. Like very clearly positive.

Fuck.

Let work know, take another one a couple hours later, different brand and everything, still positive.

Go in to confirm, yep, fucking positive.

So I wasn’t feeling the worst, just a little tired and with that scratchy throat.

Got told to expect calls Monday because I qualify for antiviral treatments as my BMI still hilariously classifies me as obese (also I found out I’m down to 185 again!) which means I’m high risk.

Also got told to try to remember to move around because it does help but holy hell does that take…energy…that I do not have.

See I took a short nap and woke up feeling like someone had beat the hell out of me with a rolling pin. My calves in particular feel like they’ve been stomped on, I’m more tired than when I began, my nose just randomly runs then stops again, and my whole head feels full of water.

I know I can still smell and taste though because I purposely started making a super spicy (and with various types of onions, garlic, and peppers) soup that I could easily smell and taste.

The random sneezes are fun and I’m really enjoying feeling cold all the time.

At least I have no fever and I can breathe all right (apart from the random coming and going of a stuffy nose),

I want to sleep more.

Like a lot more.

And, for the record, I have been wearing a mask at work and out in public since 2021 and have had four vaccine rounds.

This sucks.