To me the same question about ds9 was always answered by the explanation that utopia is a state that must be maintained, not an endpoint that must be reached. When you’ve got a good thing going, you can’t just stop paying attention to what your leaders are doing and just trust that you’ve reached a point where they’ll always respect your interests. You have to stay involved to maintain the things you’ve achieved.

Yeah it was a super dumb argument. Sure the sanctuary will probably be better for them, but it’s not like they can consent to that either!

Stuffed pig if she’s a big girl, if you’ll excuse the prejorative, they’re just extremely common in that industry.

Library, lol

Yes, will be picking them up from the library when my holds come in.

sorry officer I’m actually married / otherwise uninterested in dating you…

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I just sent this to one of my work besties. This is gonna be me in 12 hours.

I was thinking of a way to make this joke but this is probably the optimal version so I’m gonna go philosophical instead.

This is a great example of how ingrained gendered metaphors are into our society and is, itself, a meta metaphor. While such categories can be an extremely useful tool to communicate the complex relationships between people and things, we have to remember their limitations. Assigning moral implications to specific combinations or transformations actually limits the usefulness of bothering to assign those categories to begin with. Connectors are (almost) as diverse as human sexuality, and all of them, and all combinations of them, are needed to create the beatiful and varied world we connect with each other in.

Thank you for coming to my TEDTalk.

With that background I’m surprised it wasn’t.

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Honestly they don’t even do that anymore. Now they watch from the comfort of their couches while people with cancer debase themselves publicly on tiktok with the hopes of reaching them. At least these bitches had to put on a sun hat. They also convinced us that both the commons and the bread and circuses are things we should have to pay for.

All of his vids are like that. A really common one is people that don’t realize you have to show the cat what a scratching post is and that that’s ok to scratch vs the couch. Just because animals don’t talk doesn’t exclude them from the communicative requirements of any other relationship. I’ve also communicated to my cat that she may receive single finger strokes to the cheeks in exchange for a nice wet nose to nose snoot boop. It’s all about communication folks.

As a side note I use it as a metaphor to explain the importance of creative expression to my psych patients. Dogs gotta chew, cats gotta scratch, humans have to express creativity. If any of us aren’t given healthy outlets to meet those natural drives we start doing them in the wrong places in ways that harm ourselves and others.

Ooc what do you usually consider interesting? Genuine question; trying to look at this through your eyes.

Yeah I just couldn’t get it to load quite right. Glad you found it anyway!

The time Jackson Galaxy watched a cat completely ignore his usual best meat treats and instead eat a fucking donut.

Ota (open to air) is actually really common wound care advice. Wound care nursing is a pretty big specialty (like it requires a master’s and extra school) and most of the time they roll up on the unit and tell the patient to gently wash it then stop touching it. They tell me it’s not worth it to dress a lot of wounds because it actually traps bacteria. Honestly the part of this I find less believable is that a full thickness burn on the hand of all places would have to be super tiny like smaller than a pencil eraser to not get a plastic surgeon involved.

Will be perusing when I get home.

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