they/them's the breaks

@lord_magnifier Androgyny is not something I owe other people; it is something we all owe God

@areyousurebruv Cool, you crack on insulting your siblings in Christ publicly then 👍

@POISONOMICON Can’t believe you’re doing he/him lesbian erasure on the tl 😤😤😤

if you were a straight guy and you just made like a difficult throw you could be like 'no, I'm Mr Shots, you must have me confused with my wife,'

@areyousurebruv Can we cool it a tiny bit

Orcas eat great white sharks. They hunt seals, dolphins, and baby whales. They have never killed a single human in the open ocean. Not once, in all of recorded history. An orca's brain weighs up to 15 pounds. Yours weighs about 3. They have roughly double the brain cells we do in the regions that handle complex thought. A neuroscientist at Emory named Lori Marino put an orca brain in an MRI and found these animals can tell different species apart underwater. They do it by sending out clicks that bounce off everything around them and come back as a kind of 3D sound map (this is called echolocation). From 500 feet away, an orca knows you're a human and not a seal. It skips you on purpose. The answer is culture. Orcas around the world are divided into at least 10 separate populations, each with its own food rules, its own language, and its own way of hunting. All of it learned from their mothers. One population eats only fish. Another eats only marine mammals like seals and sea lions. These two populations can live in the exact same water and never swap a single meal. A baby orca learns what food is from its mother, and that list stays the same for life. In the Pacific Northwest, one population called the Southern Residents eats almost nothing but Chinook salmon. Scientists have documented them killing harbor porpoises 78 times over six decades, carrying the dead porpoises in their mouths, and never once eating them. Even when the group was starving. A 2023 study in Marine Mammal Science looked at all 78 cases and concluded it was play. These orcas would rather go hungry than eat something their culture says isn't food. Researchers studying whale behavior in 2001 found that orca cultural traditions "appear to have no parallel outside humans." Each family group has its own dialect, its own version of the language. Calves spend about two years just learning how to make all the sounds their family uses. Mothers will slow down a hunt on purpose so their young can watch. In 2005, a 12-year-old kid was swimming in Helm Bay, Alaska when an orca came at him full speed. At the very last second, the orca seemed to realize it was charging a human. It bent its entire body in half and turned back to open water. In captivity, it goes differently. SeaWorld's Tilikum killed three people during his life in a concrete tank. Research from 2016, published in the journal Animals, traced it to psychological collapse from being locked away from the family bonds orcas need to stay stable. I think calling this a "mystery" undersells the science. Orcas decide what to eat based on culture, not instinct. No orca mother has ever taught her calf to hunt humans, so no orca hunts humans. Only about 75 of those salmon-eating Southern Residents are still alive. Their pregnancy failure rate is 69% because we've destroyed their salmon runs. They won't break their food culture to survive. Whether we care enough to protect theirs is the part that actually matters.

Absolutely no one doing it like Joyce

@FinchOWar Imagine taking pride in anything as a Christian. Like were you paying attention

@PerthshireMags I really feel for the guy tbh, I remember meeting him a few times when I was a Labour member and looking to get involved in party stuff before life intervened and he always seemed very sincere. Like if St Paul lost his faith.

George fouracres fine shit

Another one of my elite Instagram/tiktok pulls. He calls this Gorillaism. As someone who has watched a lot of videos of gorillas he’s spot on. The movement, the mannerisms, even his build. Chef’s kiss.

@stinkgump @ohiojesustwink Wait this isn’t porn?

@ohiojesustwink I thought you were exaggerating but it is literally 6 minutes straight of her counting money. This is like the setup for the worst porn you’ll ever watch

I actually love this one because she spends 6 minutes counting the money. It’s Akerman-esque

@nise_yoshimi Gotta cater to your audience

8000 words done in a story about austro-hungarian office workers in the 1990s. Yeah it's the same setting. there's a woman who likes to collect military uniforms

@postoctobrist @real_bogdweller Accidentally killing a rabbitgirl by invading her personal space all night

this sounds like a joke but it’s remarkably easy to exhaust a prey animal to death by accident by just not keeping your distance over a long enough time

you can definitely do lethal wildlife photography if you’re bad enough at wildlife photography

@thecheesyboy @CasualThursday A gimlet is with lime cordial, not lime juice, at least not lime juice as it is kept in bars today

@CasualThursday Is this not a classic cocktail? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimlet_(c…

Worst Drink Order of the Night: Guy: Can I get gin and lime juice… Me: (waiting patiently for the rest of the sentence, eyebrows raised inquisitively) Guy: …please.

@PerthshireMags Say the line, Kevin

@LegoRacers2 @CaneRidgeSSR @KillJamesBond further Cars lore

Cars ride at Disneyland includes a pre-Unification map of Italy, suggesting that Guido and Luigi are Neapolitan reactionaries who oppose the Risorgimento, presumably led by Caribaldi

@PerthshireMags Oh 100%, and it’s a different tea every day too ofc.

@PerthshireMags I eat the same breakfast (porridge with chopped banana) and lunch (cheese sandwich) every working day.

@gem_ste Exactly, the SNP is not Sinn Fein, if there’s no co-operation from Westminster there is no armed wing carrying on the struggle from the other end of things to push things on

I highly doubt it. Even if the SNP gain a majority and demand a referendum, when Westminster says no then what? The SNP simply doesn't have the chops to take the next necessary steps when faced with London's intransigence.

What happens when the global circumstances change so much that there is no way for the number to be adjusted to disguise that those two things are related? That’s the Cool Zone

This is literally what prices at grocery stores do, they disguise the entire world of causation and supply chains and geography and everything, it all just gets turned into a number which can theoretically be adjusted to account for any difficulty in those circumstances