Xandra Penclaw, Kaiju GF @[email protected]

While ethnic conflict is a common theme of history, it isn't human nature. This is one of those correlation and causation things. Ethnic conflict, "tribalism", "us vs. them", war itself, that sort of stuff, that isn't built into human nature. That's what happens when things have gone wrong. The natural state, the default, human nature is far more amicable.

And paleontology is shedding light on this as well. The Neanderthals were a species of humans who lived lives remarkably like our own, they built tools and boats and were as intelligent as us.

The initial consensus among paleontologists was to assume we wiped them all out, violently, with spears and dogs, because they vanished from the fossil record within 10,000 years of when we came out of Africa. This assumption, that racial differences would have caused fighting and that we killed them all... well, it turns out that's probably not what happened...

terrifying

women want me. fish fear me. fish women? call me

anyway a lot of the time transphobes will come up with "reasons why people are trans" and a lot of trans people will try and argue that those reasons aren't true but i think possibly a more significant point is, It Literally Doesn't Matter If They're True

its cool to not believe in a religion but trying to force that on other people because you believe nonreligiosity is culturally advanced and superior is a form of cultural genocide and a colonizer mentality homie

a few people have expressed their desire to help me out with a ridiculous medical bill, asking if i would set up a gofundme so i did

please, if you are in a tight spot yourself, take care of you first. this is like, the most absurd time possible for debt collectors to come knocking for me but i suppose thats why they did it. i've made my first payment today and another isn't due until july 18th.

if you can and want to help, thank you! let me know if there's anything i can do in return for you. if you can't, that's totally cool. this is not an emergency need, i'm just broke and its gonna suck paying this off lol (boosts are ok)

https://www.gofundme.com/f/star039s-medical-debt?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1

Alternating Current Press is accepting submissions for two upcoming publications: “Remapping Wonderland: Classic Fairytales Retold By People of Color,” and “Breathing While Black: Black Writers Respond to Police Violence.” The deadline for Remapping Wonderland is September 30. Unclear what deadline is for Breathing While Black. For more information on what and how to submit, see here and here (and scroll down to “Special Projects, Anthologies, and Open Calls”). If you have additional questions about deadlines or information, email them at [email protected]

you know I'm starting to think that this outer world game may not actually be about somewhere in space.

im a laptop

❌ - “small dom”

✅ - laptop

Is it just me, or do USAmericans *in particular* have fairly severe, disproportionate responses to people pointing out that their country isn't the centre of the universe?