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Trying my best. Probably failing. Really like to overuse the ❤️ button. #ActuallyAutistic, AD(H)D, and oh good, early onset dementia now too, so if I misunderstand you, I'm sorry. She/her They/them works too 🤷🏻‍♀️ 🖖 🖤🩶🤍💜
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Becoming a historian just so I can answer this reddit post yes, yes, yes, yes, not very, and wut?

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I’ve been watching our kelp forests decline across my lifetime and it makes me very sad because kelp is cool as hell and supports a lot of marine life so I made a quilt about it.

submitted 4 days ago • 54 comments

FYI, searching pride month merch to make fun of bad corporate pride attempts, but accidentally searching "pride moth" turns up some unbelievably beautiful merch from indie artists.

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If you see this post a flower 2 years ago I got this rose named Miranda Lambert (I don't know anything about her as a musician or person, but it's a good rose). They since renamed it Legend of Rossi, I think because the end of a charity partnership. I had no idea you could just grow roses like this

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If you fly, wear a respirator. We have a new, seriously transmissible strain of COVID circulating in the US. We have measles circulating in the US. Protect yrself. Protect the people traveling alongside you. Protect the vulnerable folks yr headed to go visit.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

Let's do a different type of art share... With so much going on with LGBTQ+ & corporate America, why don't we keep the queer dollar in the queer community? 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ In this thread, share your Pride merch, or your friend's Pride merch. Let's buy from each other rather than the corporations this year.

submitted 6 days ago • 221 comments

Puffins are social, so to attract them to Maine's rocky islands, National Audubon's Seabird Restoration Program put out decoys to attract real birds. This puffin is trying to fit in with his new friend by standing on one leg. Seabird peer-pressure can be intense. (📷: Robert F. Bukaty)

submitted 6 days ago • 135 comments

FOR OBVIOUS REASONS, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU ARE UP TO DATE ON YOUR VACCINATIONS NOW.

submitted 9 days ago • 90 comments

Me too, but also "table" means "storage space."

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Men can do the most for themselves by keeping creepy, abusive men out of power.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

ME: I will never call them "skeets" that's an annoying word I hate portmanteaus *weeks later* SOMEONE: It's slang for ejaculate ME: Ugh, definitely won't use it *seconds later* TERF: How dare you call them skeets it's a way men [she didn't mean men] intrude on [cis] women! ME: THEY'RE👏CALLED👏SKEETS👏

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

On X, most of my replies are blue check neo-Nazi repeating insane right wing conspiracy theories. But it’s still better than Bluesky where people sometimes give me a hard time about not using alt text.

submitted 10 days ago • 84 comments