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on racism and human nature 

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...

It world be really great if I could actually fall asleep at some point, instead of having past trauma and mistakes torment me.

ARTPOST: Dragoness in sarong and beach hat! 

Hey y'all, it's summer time! We might not be hitting the beaches in person, but there's never a bad time to do so in art!

Suggested listening: Toad the Wet Sprocket's "Walk on the Ocean"

Picture by furaffinity.net/user/theeldert

🎵 Ohhhhh birds just wanna have fu-un
They just wanna, they just wanna
Birds just want to have fun

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West River Democratic Socialists asking for bail fund help (copy/pasted) 

immediate help needed. relatives and comrades are being arrested NOW at the blockade in ȟé sápa (black hills, occupied očhéthi šakówiŋ territory). please share quickly and widely and donate what you are able.

please donate via venmo:
@westriverbailfund (6892 if asked to confirm phone).

or via PayPal to:
westriverbailfund@gmail.com

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dumb Kobold™ thought i had 

the kobold urgently gestures that she has something serious she needs to whisper to you

so you crouch and put the side of your face close to her, but instead, she gives you a kiss on the cheek and snickers to herself

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It's the last day of Pride Month, so here's a reminder that if you think you'd be happier as another gender but worry you'll never have enough "proof you're trans", then you're trans.

Truth is, there's no such thing as "enough proof" - it's just about trusting your feelings. <3

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can we declare "real name" policies on social media to be an unmitigated disaster and an utter failure at every possible level from start to finish yet

*opens muzzle, emits modem handshaking tone sequence*

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anyway, defund the police and fund libraries instead

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is correspondence between lizards called scale mail?

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So apparently I missed a celestial event earlier. I was hatched under the summer solstice, new moon, AND a (partial) eclipse.

Which I believe under White Wolf rules makes me a Crowning Mokolé, one of the rulers of the were-saurians. So I'm gonna shift Archid now and rampage through the city until someone starts feeding me cheeseburgers and offers to rub my belly.

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Happy Solstice, all y'all!

Summer Solstice, New Moon. Exactly the configuration in the skies the year I was hatched.

If you do your math just right, that means you can tell exactly what year it was then.

(Yes, it was 1686)

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if anybody in #seattle has any estradiol and spironolactone to spare, that'd make me feel a lot better

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Soreth to the dog after he eats his food in 20 seconds and runs over to stare at her:

"We're not going to let you starve. We're also not going to let you turn into a blimp"

Dog: *belches in Soreth's face*

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Black lives matter.
Trans women are women.
Trans men are men.
Enbies are valid.
No person is illegal.

Science is real.
Humanism is for everyone.
Love is love.
Self-care is important.

Defund the police.
Defund the military.
Abolish ICE.

Build resilient community support networks.
Be a helper, if you can.

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