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Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About Well, well, well. The “age assurance” part of the UK’s Online Safety Act has finally gone into effect, with its age checking requirements kicking in a week and a half ago. And what do you kno…

UK age verification law stops young sex assault survivors from contacting support agencies. Smokers can't get quitting help. Like education institutes using porn filters that stop nursing students from learning about breast cancer or helping new mothers feed babies
www.techdirt.com/2025/08/04/d...

Toad, literally singing in the rain, serenades his seeds. From "The Garden" In *Frog and Toad Together*

All the next day Toad sang songs to his seeds.

Oh no. I realized on further inspection that there’s “discourse” about that going on here too.

Morals aside, "taking care of people who got hurt" is basic How To Team 101.

How is somebody supposed to wanna go hunting if they know that as soon as they break an arm doing it, the whole crew's just gonna shrug & go "sorry you're useless now byeeeee"

There were also multiple stashes of mammoth ivory around the campsite.

Lots of food. Solid balanced diet once you count all the plants they seemed to have been actively managing. Stashes of ivory for art/tools/trade.

kinda sounds more like Fat City than desperation to me idk idk

I also really like to steer clear of "This ancient people did this thing with their food for [biochemical reason]!"

That's something we can see in hindsight, bc we do chemistry.

More often, people did things with their food because it made it last longer or TASTED GOOD.

Craving fat, sugar, & salt are survival instincts. It motivates critters to put in extra effort to get foods that pay off.

I know it's very hip & chic or whatever to freak out about craving "bad foods."

But getting pleasure from high-calorie foods is. like. why our ancestors lived to make us

We're so afraid of food & pleasure that we can look at Neanderthals who, to me, were prob melting fat out of bones for Love of the Game. Because their environment was rich enough that they didn't *have* to do that

& conclude "It must have been desperation. No other reason people would do this!"

Thread (and a reminder that fatphobia and orthorexia aren’t, like, inevitable, historic fact, or that great for any of us)

This is just SUCH a great thread that gets at many of my frustrations about how we talk about our ancestors, and how our present-day hang-ups about food (and the way we've turned mistrusting its pleasures into a social status symbol) bleed into our understanding of the past.

Anyway, this is just a reminder that early humans were human. They took care of the sick and loved art & saturated fat.

Thinking that everything they did was a grim survival tactic?

That's usually us projecting our issues onto the past. Not what their own lives were actually about.

Meanwhile ancient humans & their real life "paleo diet" was all about carbs & required an industrial-scale fat rendering facility

also they were hoarding art supplies

don't let the haters slow u down, Neanderthals

‘The discovery of the decade’: Researchers have found the culprit behind sea star wasting disease An international research effort, including scientists from the University of Washington, has finally revealed the cause of sea star wasting disease: a strain of the bacterium Vibrio pectenicida.

The culprit of the mass seastar deaths in the Pacific was not a virus as thought, but a Vibrio bacteria strain
www.washington.edu/news/2025/08...

Almost all queer discourse is a loser seeing someone else being queer in a way that makes them happy and deciding this is the worst sin that could ever be committed against queerness, because they can only imagine it as a state of abject misery and to hell with any existence which suggests otherwise

Anyway, back to watching Jerma react infomercials.

I feel like people forget how recent it was too. Like they think we’ve had it for a long time but it’s only been a decade.

I’m not going to use the term, but considering the fact that I *still* see people using it interchangeably for “cisgender” means you shouldn’t be using it to describe any trans people unless you’re claiming they’re not actually trans!

Deleted those posts bc I don’t want to dig up old discourse but learned the assholes being manipulative are the same ones pushing that discourse in the first place.

Why would you use a term that only like a decade ago meant the same thing as “cisgender” if you weren’t trying to call us cis?

I’ll make this cissexual discourse simple. Since y’all make a distinction between sex and gender then consider non-binary both my sex and my gender. Call me a non-binary non-binary if you please. My sex is neither cissed or transed it’s just exactly what I want it to be. Neither of those.

“If it’s really that bad just go to the ER” is not the helpful comment you think it is.

Yes it is that bad. But if we went to the ER every time our symptoms flared, we would literally live there.

That’s chronic illness. We have to learn to tolerate the intolerable.

I’ll believe the two people are rapists who have been accused yeah… that’s it. The rest of it is bullshit.

I get so confused over this shit. So uh… I thought I got misled and turns out I got misled in the other direction.

Wtf is going on?

I hate manipulative people so much. Just fuck you fuck you fuck you.

Obesity is hot. I’m tired of pretending it’s not. Fat people deserve to exist without shame. Doctors should focus on helping us live in our bodies- not pushing weight loss. I worry about how I’ll be treated as I grow, but I know I deserve care either way.

Pleassee help fast. We wont survive homelésss

this is literally about finding the name of my rapist so i could report what happened, but you’re the one keeping women safe right now

so i see it's just fully sex pest solidarity night huh

the alt right has completely won the culture war. its so so so normal to just "ask questions" about sexual assault victims and their rapists

It was only around for a few minutes, so it’s probable you didn’t see it, but apologies if you saw my earlier reply to this. I deleted it after I realized I misunderstood what was going on here.

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