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Cryptid of the Day: Giant Ants

Description: Greek historian Herodotus reported stories of fox-sized ants in the deserts of Persia around 484-425 BC. Giant ants have also been reported in China’s Yangtze Valley in around the 1st century. It theorizes that what people saw back then was just red marmots. 

Just wanted to specify something because apparently we can't have a single safe space!

Pride month is not for radqueers or xenosatanists

it never has been and it never will be. Go ahead and continue crying saying you're being "attacked" for people telling you that minors and animals can't consent and you will never have the illness you weren't born with. You all disgust me on multiple levels as an ill queer minor. In fact, it's disappointing that a minor has more common sense than multiple of you adults have.

The 2024 Gender Census is now open!

[ Link to survey ]

The 11th annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 13th June 2024.

It’s short and easy, about 5 minutes probably.

After the survey is closed I’ll process the results and publish a spreadsheet of the data and a report summarising the main findings. Then anyone can use them for academic or business purposes, self-advocacy, tracking the popularity of language over time, and just feeling like we’re part of a huge and diverse community.

If you think you might have friends and followers who’d be interested, please do reblog this blog post, and share the survey URL by email or at AFK social groups or on other social networks. Every share is extremely helpful - it’s what helped us get 40,000 responses last year.

Survey URL: https://survey.gendercensus.com

The survey is open to anyone anywhere who speaks English and feels that the gender binary doesn’t fully describe their experience of themselves and their gender(s) or lack thereof.

For the curious, you can also spy on some graphs and demographic data for the incoming responses here.

Thank you so much!

[ Link to survey ]

Image credit: Malachite and rhodochrosite.

objectum is so interesting to me if anyone who identifies with objectum is willing to chitchat abt it a little bc id like to learn, pls let me know!

i hate it when i cant even write a poem about something because its too obvious. like in the airbnb i was at i guess it used to be a kids room cause you could see the imprint of one little glow in the dark star that had been missed and painted over in landlord white. like that's a poem already what's the point

Oh boy am I pissed off about having to participate in capitalist America

i love running on WET BRICKS!!

clip for bigger project iwant to make

the idea that restrooms, locker rooms, etc need to be single-sex spaces in order for women to be safe is patriarchy's way of signalling to men & boys that society doesn't expect them to behave themselves around women. it is directly antifeminist. it would be antifeminist even if trans people did not exist. a feminist society would demand that women should be safe in all spaces even when there are men there.

all sorts of echoes in these caverns

Clear-ish collection of things I’ve found that people have left behind or lost

my beetle prints <3

Gift from a faithful friends

THEY CAME GUYS

Link to them here

they’re mink skulls!

Have you guys ever dreamed of slurping that yummy refreshing pond water,,, ? Because,,, I made a thing,,,

If you like it you can get it here and support my disabled gremlin ass 👇🏼 https://ofdirtandbones.etsy.com/fr/listing/1720933763/eau-de-la-mare-verre-canette

Weirdly anti-millennial articles have scraped the bottom of the barrel so hard that they are now two feet down into the topsoil

I don't belong in this state.

Tell me a soft memory

thinking about whale falls

(inspired by the work of @catadromously )

When I die, I want to be left in the woods for the moss and fungi to inhabit my bones with a sign that says "beware all ye who stumble upon the teeth stealing goblin", is that too much to ask for?

What a distinguished little lad

Hello, my name is Erik.

I’m a cat.

No, wait-

I’m your Phantom of the Litterbox.

Remember when you smiled right to my face? As all my little tears of oxalate They made a shape, revealed a snake Now I'm stop-drop rollin' over all your jokes Every time you tell a lie, I'm prayin' that you choke, Should've listened to the signs and the horoscope, Hope you never cope, hope you slip on soap, Crack your head like an egg, wanna see the yolk, You were such a hoax No, I never knew what it meant What it meant to be content with you Everything I expressed, I professed It never quite made it through Said it's all in my head, all in my head Whenever I spoke my truth No, I won't defend you to all my friends This time I refuse If you bite my hand again I will never feed you, you can call me evil Take it to the grave if you wanna play pretend I won't be mistreated, please call me conceited, Took me way too long to put this to bed Lovin you was lethal, guess that makes me evil.

-Evil - Melanie Martinez

Spinning all your silk and moving all of your eight legs To build a web that’ll spread through the world

OMG i just love that song, my favorite in the entire album

Better off dead than stuck in a maze

The center may seem like a gift

One you arrive, it'll strip you of your life

And you'll wish that you never did

/lyr