Don’t reblog screenshots of tweets reacting to scary headlines
Don’t reblog screenshots of headlines
Avoid posting scary current events without clear, actionable steps for the reader to take
Be wary of those whose understanding of cruelty is more about what the victim is rather than what was done to the victim eg “op doxxed an indigenous person for calling out their hypocrisy”
Be wary of those who encourage harassment via “isn’t this the guy who did xyz?” If they knew for sure, they would say so.
Am I helping minors or am I hating pedophiles?
Am I helping trans people or am I hating terfs?
Am I helping Jewish people or am I hating nazis?
Am I helping the marginalized or am I making them more paranoid?
Fear is the mind killer
Disgust is the mind killer
Suicide baiting is the mark of the impotent
Screenshots of headlines/Twitter and onliners calling you racist antisemitic scum for not sharing their screenshots of headlines/Twitter?
Mind killers! Don’t do it.
To be clear, it’s not wrong to post about current events that you as an individual can do little to assist. But recognize when your online “awareness” support amounts to
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[screenshot of random Twitter user reacting to a headline of dire news]
[screenshot of random Twitter user mad about it]
[screenshot of random Twitter user mad about it]
[screenshot of random Twitter user with a snarky clapback to no one]
[screenshot of random Twitter user mad about it]
“If you don’t reblog this post, you are literally as culpable as Joe Biden. Look at me. Look me in the eyes. You have blood on your hands until you reblog this.”
Harvestmen are like the Warhammer 40k Dreadnaughts of Arachnids with their inflexible bodies they jut look like a sarcophagus with eyes coming out, like some bug killed in battle was entombed in some hellish walker that looks like a 5 year old’s shitty drawing of a spider
etymology is so funny. canary yellow means “the color of a bird that comes from some islands that were named due to having a lot of dogs there”
dog-island-bird-yellow
can you elaborate
canary yellow refers to the bright yellow of certain varieties of domestic canaries, popular cage birds.
domestic canaries were bred from the wild Island Canary, a finch native to the Canary Islands.
the Canary Islands are an archipelago owned by Spain.
their name comes from the fact that they used to have a lot of dogs there back in the old days. I think there’s still probably a lot of dogs there today too.
as an aside, canaries are one of my favorite examples of the oddities of domestication. we have done far more to them than just making them more yellow.
we’ve made them white, black (well, gray), and red. we got the red ones by hybridizing them to an endangered finch and crossing back to canary, essentially just having stolen that bird’s red genes.
we have made some plump and given others silly hair.
we’ve made them frilly. we’ve made them tall.
and we’ve also made these things. why did we make these things?
here, a nice whatever this is showing off the red genes we snuck into its genome. and it is also showing off those legs
this was the original thing with the red btw. it’s not doing too great due to illegal trapping and habitat loss although I think we don’t cross them to canaries anymore.
it’s also in the same genus as American goldfinches! :)
don’t be scared to ask that person out. the worst they could do is say ‘no’ and then begin attacking you with their bare hands, ripping the skin off your face and tearing out chunks off flesh from your arms and disemboweling you
I am Kayin, the creator of the Indie freeware game, I Wanna Be the Guy, as well as I Wanna Be the Guy: Gaiden, who is also working on Brave Earth: Prologue!
