demontrender:

Do people not realize polyam ppl are oppressed when they make their stupid little jokes making fun of polycules. Like seriously:

• People are not allowed to marry more than one person
• People get kicked out of their homes for being polyam
• People get disowned for being polyam
• People lose their jobs for being polyam
• People can lose child custody for being polyam
• People can lose their houses for being polyam

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As a polyam person myself, I’m sick and tired of people treating us like a joke.

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guerrillatech:

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headspace-hotel:

average-monster:

I see a lot of talk about how neurodivergence evolved and stayed in the gene pool because it was somehow ‘useful’ to our ancient ancestors. While I don’t necessarily disagree with this theory, I would like to propose an alternative. A theory that we already have physical evidence for. Humans just love each other and care for each other. Don’t you think that a species that cared for it’s people while they recovered from broken bones, or nursed their elderly well beyond their ‘usefulness’ would leave a member out because they didn’t make eye contact, or couldn’t stay focused on a particular task, or whatever other trait you associate with neurodivergence? I really don’t.

Sure, maybe it was useful to have someone around who didn’t mind making arrowheads all day, or who knew absolutely everything about all of the local flora and fauna, or who keyed in on every little distraction. At the end of the day, though, these people weren’t kept around because they were useful, they were cared for because they were loved.

This. This. This.

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madeofwhitebone:

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Critically endangered antelope saiga makes comeback

hope-for-the-planet:

mindblowingscience:

The population of a rare type of antelope has more than doubled since 2019, in a remarkable turn around in fortunes.

According to the first aerial survey in two years, the number of saiga in their Kazakhstan heartland has risen from 334,000 to 842,000.

There were fears the animal was on the brink of extinction following a mass die-off in 2015.

Distressing images of carcasses strewn over the steppes made world headlines.

Continue Reading.

The saiga antelope is not a particularly well-known endangered species, but they are nonetheless important to their local ecosystem. This is an amazing comeback for them, particularly after the terrible die-offs they faced in 2015.

Since the picture with the article only shows a baby saiga, I need you all to know that this is what the adults look like. The world would be a darker place without this beautiful, silly creature.

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the-home-kvetch:

allfrogsarefriends:

honestly even when the pandemic is over (whenever the fuck that happens), there are still gonna be thousands of people disabled bc of what covid did to their lungs, brains, kidneys, etc and we’ll probably see ourselves suffering another eugenics movement bc thats literally what happened after spanish flu, ppl were disabled and dipshits were like “these Unfit Unwell ppl are a drain on our resources”

Hi I’m one of these people! Covid gave me ME/CFS and POTS, made my (probably pre-existing) EDS much worse, and caused part of my spine to fucking dislocate (because of the inflammation combined with the EDS).

Please hold people accountable for saying eugenics type shit, including “people need to work for money,” “disabled people are taking up resources,” and “disabled people shouldn’t have kids.”

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kaijuno:

There’s something so funny to me abt a local group of 12 year olds just fucking wrecking this shit like what could their motivation possibly be I need to know

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talesfromthebandgeekmafia:

flyingiseasy-landingnotsomuch:

Meanwhile, in Switzerland.

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