Budsofstone @budsofstone@computerfairi.es

I don't "assert dominance" but have been known to assume mating postures to trigger courtship. Also totally uninterested in road kill -- if it can't lay eggs, don't want it.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/06/23/this-cartoon-is-entirely-false/

Hi hi. This pride month, can there be actual convos about how fucked it is that people interested in testosterone replacement therapy, & other androgens, can’t obtain it without a prescription unless they wanna go to jail for a minimum of 4 years?

I know it’s bleak & grim. But it’s very important to discuss, imo, if we want actual trans rights. T should be descheduled. We should be saying this loudly, even if you personally don’t want it or have nothing to do with it. & this should be kept in mind when saying “just do diy hrt.” To be able to do such without majorly risking your entire livelihood is a privilege. A major one. Please try to think abt those who can’t risk it.

& in the meantime, TALK ABOUT IT!!! Inform people that T is a controlled substance, bc a shocking amount of folks don’t know this. Make a slogan, openly voice that ur in favor of people having bodily autonomy including when it comes to using anabolic steroids, tell someone you know who’s on a 5 year long waitlist with an endocrinologist just to avoid a prison sentence that u love them & wish the world was better to them.

( anyone arguing abt how risky other forms of hrt are to diy please fuck off. I’m well aware of this, & you’re not the center of this conversation. transmasc & intersex people get talked over & ignored entirely in far too many conversations for me to let my replies be another one of those instances. )

( fuck it, tags for visibility, this is an issue I care deeply abt. #diyhrt #hrt #trans #transmasc )

'Meredith,' some guys ask, 'why won't you shove AI into Signal?'

Because we love privacy, and we love you, and this shit is predictable and unacceptable. Use Signal ❤️

#NewSpecies!
New sea slug from the #yellowsea just crawled in:

Pseudobornella qingdaoensis

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B7FCCAAF-DFD7-5A81-ADA0-B2EF6C9CAA80
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1241.155540
#ZooKeys #Pseudobornellaqingdaoensis

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #malacology #nudibranch #slugs #seaslugs

Can we give all COVID variants names like this so people will FINALLY take it seriously?

The reason Texas is part of the USA is that Mexico made slavery illegal.

Remember the Alamo? A lot of white people don't know is that what the "brave" people in the Alamo were fighting for was slavery.

That's also why it took two years after the civil war ended for enforcement of anti-slavery in Texas. (it wasn't because of slow communication, as is told in revisionist histories, it was because white people willfully defied the law).

Freedom is always worth fighting for.

Happy Juneteenth!

Bachelor vs spinster

On a eu un visiteur sur le balcon, ce joli scarabée non identifié. environ 3cm de long. Il est venu se reposer quelques instants sur le tronc du citronnier avant de repartir.

Edit, on me dit que ça pourrait être une cétoine, Protaetia morio

#Entomologie #insectes

#Gaza #Ice #Palestine #laprotests @palestine

Este señor se rifó. La neta está bien chido que cuando le piden ejemplos de socialismo diga lo que dijo.

#Comunismo #URSS #LAProtest #LaRaza #ICE #ICEProtests

Just when you think you couldn’t love Tommy Lee anymore he delivers this bit of solid Gold.

"An Open Letter to the president"

From the Drummer of Mötley Crüe, Tommy Lee

Dear Fucking Lunatic,

At your recent press conference - more a word salad that had a stroke and fell down stairs, you were CLEARLY so out of your depth you needed scuba gear. Within minutes of going off air your minions were backpedaling faster than Cirque De Soliel acrobats... In India a week ago, i couldn’t get past the bit about your being the most popular visitor in the history of fucking india — a country of a BILLION human souls that’s only 3000 years old, give or take.!!! Trust me - Gandhi pulled CROWDS.. You pulled a cricket stadium and half WALKED out...

Do you know how fucking insane you sound, you off-brand butt plug? That's like the geopolitical equivalent of “that stripper really likes me” — only 10,000 times crazier and less self aware.

You are fucking exhausting. Every day is a natural experiment in determining how long 300 million people can resist coring out their own assholes with an ice auger. Every time I hear a snippet of your Queens-tinged banshee larynx farts, I want to scream!

We are fucking tired. As bad as we all thought your presidency would be when Putin got you elected, it’s been inestimably worse.

You called a hostile, nuclear-armed head of state “short and fat.” How the fuck does that help?

You accused a woman — a former friend, no less — of showing up at your resort bleeding from the face and begging to get in. You, you, YOU — the guy who looks like a Christmas haggis inexplicably brought to life by Frosty’s magic hat — yes, you of all people said that.

You attempted — with evident fucking glee — to get 24 million people thrown off their health insurance.

You gave billions away to corporations and the already wealthy while simultaneously telling struggling poor people that you were doing exactly the opposite.

You endorsed a pedophile, praised brutal dictators, and defended LITERAL FUCKING NAZIS!

Ninety-nine percent of everything you say is either false, crazy, incoherent, just plain cruel, or a rancid paella of all four.

Oh, by the way, Puerto Rico is still FUBAR. You got yourself and your family billions in tax breaks for Christmas. What do they get? More paper towels?

Enough, enough, enough, enough! For the love of God and all that is holy, good, and pure, would you please, finally and forever, shut your feculent KFC-hole until you have something valuable — or even marginally civil — to say?

You are a fried dick sandwich with a side of schlongs. If chlamydia and gonorrhea had a son, you’d appoint him HHS secretary. You are a disgraceful, pustulant hot stew full of casuistry, godawful ideas, unintelligible non sequiturs, and malignant rage.

You are the perfect circus orangutan diaper from Plato’s World of Forms.

So fuck you Mr. President. And fuck you forever.

Oh, and Vance, you oleaginous house ferret. Fuck you, too. You'll be as useful as a chocolate teapot against a medical crisis you Bible thumping cock socket loser!!!

New #Mansplaining Hall of Fame just dropped

I keep trying to remind people:

Socialist style policies in the US were very popular in the US for the first half of the 20th century. We got Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the FHA, WPA, minimum wage, on and on.

What happened?

The Civil Rights movement, court cases, and laws said they couldn't restrict all of that to white people only anymore. And suddenly, all those government programs of helping people out became deeply unpopular among a major portion of the country who used to be strongly in favor of them. Completely coincidentally, I'm sure.

Racists love government handouts so long as they ensure they only go to "the right kind of people".
@oldladyplays

the problem with LLMs

https://bsky.app/profile/craigshackleton.com/post/3lrnweyuz2c2c

In college biology class, when the topic of convergent evolution comes up, the books always seem to like to use euphorbia and cactus as a good example of the phenomenon.

I just learned about the genus Hoodia in the dogbane family, and frankly, i think it's much better example. (compare the Hoodia in pic 2 to the cactus in pic 3)

#NewSpecies!
New deep sea isopod from northwest #pacific just came in:

Haploniscus erebus

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/13D95A2E-8536-59AC-950D-7E6D636BAF09
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.101.137663
#ZoosystematicsAndEvolution #HaploniscusErebus

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #arthropods #crustacea #isopods #deepsea