Reached Out To A Biologist To Request Some Info About An Extinct Species Of Freshwater Shrimp And The

Reached out to a biologist to request some info about an extinct species of freshwater shrimp and the email she sent in response was not only lovely and helpful but also kind of poetry to me? People who study invertebrates are actually the most hopeful and compassionate scientists that we have.

Disgust has absolutely no ethical weight. If you are basing your ethical positions on the emotion of disgust you should stop, it is entirely unjustified and leads to a huge amount of harm.

"What if my friends secretly hate me?" What if they pray for you before bed? What if they hear a song come on and it makes them immediately think of you? What if when times are hard for them, they close their eyes and think of the memories they've shared with you? What if they study your face closely to see how you're feeling? What if they listen to your stories? What if they smile when you text them first? What if

Forget about Habibi Funk (white guy owned reissue music label who have been buying up and repackaging retro MENA music for public consumption) and support Sudan Tape Archive instead

Sudan Tapes Archive

Sudan Tapes Archive

i'm sure it's been said better before but i think the reason i start raising my hackles and hissing every time i get or see a "um that's a THING??/hold on, people DO that?!" type reply on any post about bigotry/marginalized experiences/microaggressions boils down to 1. it feels like performative incredulity and a way for you to immediately insert Yourself as the valiant never-done-anything-wrong subject in a conversation about a kind of violence/persecution which doesn't affect you, 2. marginalized people are CONSTANTLY accused of making things up or misinterpreting or blowing them out of proportion when we talk about our experiences, and even if that's not your intention your comment is very likely to read that way, and 3. if you really truly seriously have never ever ever heard of, like, fat people's eating disorders being encouraged/trans women being socially murdered/autistic people being denied gender affirming care etc. etc. etc. it doesn't actually make me think that you're a perfect angel baby too good to ever even possibly consider that bigotry exists, it just tells me that you either don't have marginalized friends or you don't listen to them/make them feel safe enough to talk about their experiences, because this shit is everywhere! anyways on top of all that it's also just absolute peak obnoxious tumblr phraseology. tumblr users stop valorizing sheltered willful ignorance 2024

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