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so we were talking about gender diversity in anthropology and my professor was asking for the definition of each letter in “LGBTQA” and when we got to the A i said “asexual” and my professor says “actually it stands for ally” and i unhinged my jaw and a swarm of locusts flew out of my mouth and attacked every straight person in the room true story
i’d just like to take a moment to appreciate one of my new favorite fishes, the longnosed lancetfish
You mean the Atlantic Seadragon.
what A BEAUTY
WOAH
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New Zealand’s Auckland Zoo is celebrating the first-ever successful breeding and rearing of Lesser Short-tailed Bat twins, a threatened endemic species known as Pekapeka in Māori.
See more photos and the video at Zooborns!
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The Kool-aid man destroys the last remaining ancient wonder of the world to give a kid a sugary drink.
Goblin Traveler, pen doodle. At some point I am going to actually scan these drawings.
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The Guardian‘s website decided to have a rainbow “G” in its title during the past few days in order to support LGBT rights, and to thumb its nose at Russia (a few other news broadcasters/outlets did, too), just as Google did last week with its rainbow doodle. I’m sure they feel very pleased with themselves. But did they do anything symbolic in support of Nigerians, Ugandans, Malawians, Zambians when they needed support most, when the hate that US televangelists were funding throughout subsaharan Africa was coming to fruition, in tandem with opportunist political manoeuvres by savvy local politicians? Nope. These are powerful corporations. They can do a whole hell of a lot more than include pretty pictures and colours in “support” of causes (this sort of gesture is similar to other inane nonsense like buying red stuff to spread “awareness” of HIV and AIDS). Google and the Guardian: what about doing something substantial, like countering the monies that US evangelical churches siphon to African countries with funding for the LGBT communities in those key warzones?
Russia’s disgraceful treatment of LGBT people has also given US liberals a fake moral premise to take the piss out of Russia (see US internet passim – reporters have even started making stuff up to get hits). These are the same people who have nothing to say about the US’s own anti-LGBT laws, who are uncomfortable saying anything about how political prisoners like Chelsea Manning have been relegated to the rubbish heap of US history, while those whose actions she spoke up against remain quite free to receive my taxpayer dollars as part of their salaries/retirement. While companies with cute graphics project themselves as serious, sophisticated, ultra-modern advocates of LGBT rights (and don’t do “evil”), they are just old-fashioned nationalists who do nice things that don’t cost them politically or financially.
This just in: the Cold War is over, people. And anyway, that war was actually fought in Africa and South/S.East Asia all along. For all the morally superior US Google-liberals, over the weekend one of our readers posed a question for you: “Should other countries boycott if the US hosts an Olympics because of its drone program?”
—Enough of the liberal pieties on Sochi and gay rights on Africa is a Country (via thefemaletyrant)
IF I COULD BOLD EVERY WORD OF THIS I WOULD. IF I COULD MAKE EVERYONE READ THIS SEVENTEEN TIMES UNTIL IT SUNK IN, I WOULD.
By the way, the whole “reporters making shit up just to get hits” thing is really not a joke.
LGBT solidarity and awareness of oppression is great, but this endless hypocritical, worthless posturing, I can’t. Maybe Google and the Guardian doing those things actually helped LGBT people in the US/UK by giving them more recognition that their lives and issues matter? Maybe, IDK. If so, that’s the only benefit to come out of this, and the self-congratulatory bullshit is really starting to pile up from where I’m sitting.
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