LordMalecith

Put your arm into it: Yeti Crabs! #LetsChangeThat

ALL stories are political even if you don't engage with them that way. Storytellers are human. They're telling stories about the world they live in, want to see, fear, etc. All of that's political. Always. Sorry not sorry if you think somehow your brand of "escapist" stuff isn't ALSO political.

Another video for #AutismAwarenessMonth!

a photo of a church spire taken from the ground. something many legged and many winged has briefly perched there.

Something landed on the church spire

An illustration…Surreal monochrome with bands and textures resembling flowing fabric. Stars pepper the background.

A false color image of the actual Orion nebula, where you can see many of the features from the illustration, but without the foldy fabric bands.

Absolutely obsessed with this late 19th century illustration of the Orion Nebula by Otto Boeddicker.

zobie page

A "family man" who knowingly & deliberately murdered tens of thousands annually for no other reason than to line his fucking pockets, and devastated thousands of families in the process by denying them treatment & care that should be completely free?

That "family man"?

YouTube video by Trovarion - Straight From the Basement This ICONIC Warhammer Artist Needs Help...

This deserves your attention www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pYe...

Legendary artist Karl Kopinski, who did some of the most amazing pieces for Warhammer during the early-to-mid 2000s, is needing help after a stroke took his ability to work properly.

Help here:

HELL YEH, YOU LOOK AWESOME!!!!!!!

”transhumans support trans humans” illustrated with a space Marine helmet in trans pride colors.

Based design by @Mattstilltrash over on TikTok, go give him a follow.

#warhammer40k #warhammercommunity

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hehe floofy

Screenshot of Daily Express article from Wednesday 12th March. Text: "In order to be world leaders, according to Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband and his green zealots.World leaders in what – self¬destruction? The whole idea that carbon is some sort of atmospheric poison that we must rid our planet of is utter nonsense. If anything, a little more carbon dioxide makes the world greener and increases our growing seasons, generating more food for everyone. The whole idea that carbon is some sort of atmospheric poison that we must rid our planet of is utter nonsense. If anything, a little more carbon dioxide makes the world greener and increases our growing seasons, generating more food for everyone. Farmers actually add carbon dioxide inside their greenhouses to grow better fruit and veg. Climate change is an issue, obviously, but mankind has always been inventive at responding to changes in temperature. We’ve certainly never halted the progress of civilisation before in order to try and alter the climate. It is a wildly spurious and risky gamble. We need scientists to stand up and bravely say climate change is not an existential threat but one we can adapt to. We need scientists to stand up and bravely say climate change is not an existential threat but one we can adapt to."

Meanwhile the Daily Express was telling its readers earlier this week that "climate change is not an existential threat but one we can adapt to" & that "a little more carbon dioxide makes the world greener".

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Ya‘ll are enjoying the Uru and Iyam-ru so damn much - so here, have so more. : ))
#worldbuilding #specbio #scifi #xenobiology

#creaturedesign #specevo #art #digitalart

Doing more train work for today's #NightmareKart dev thread!

To start, I worked on adding proper collision to the train, as well as damaging players who get caught under the wheels. I also added power ups underneath some cars to hint at the possibility of driving underneath.

Gravital (All Tomorrows)

Gravital (All Tomorrows)
Illustration - © Alexei Vella
#alltomorrows #speculativeevolution #scifi

Gravital 2 (All Tomorrows) Illustration - © Alexei Vella #alltomorrows #speculativeevolution #scifi

Gravital 2 (All Tomorrows)
Illustration - © Alexei Vella
#alltomorrows #speculativeevolution #scifi

The Varek look cute. Try proving me wrong.
(Not a challenge)
#scifi #alien #specbio

a flower on legs, literally.

Highly intelligent plants? Highly intelligent plants.
Introducing the Zens, one of our weirder-looking sophonts : )

Read more about these guys here:
www.tumblr.com/transentienc...

Pond at night, filled with dead leaves, toads and newts visible on the water.

Female Smooth newt in pond, Wandering snail nearby.

Male Smooth newt in pond.

Newts in pond full of dead leaves.

Back from an evening looking for #amphibians... specifically to look for the invasive Alpine newts that are _supposed_ to be in our area. Common toads and Smooth newts were observed in good numbers in the ponds... 1/n

welff ii. gouache on paper, 2017

From 2018! Can't image how we got back here!

Ascent has begun! First up, a lovely currate octo! @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 801 #SouthSandwichIslands #MarineLife

bunlith (goth trans bunny fursona) yelling really hard in front of a reddish pink background and black spiky bits and white bubbles flying in the foreground

WHEN PEACE IS JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR DEATH
IT'S OUR TURN TO GIVE VIOLENCE A CHANCE!

-G.L.O.S.S.

Times Radio chose several snippets of my conversation with Andrew Neil to share on their socials and I want to take a minute to walk through them, sensibly. 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗿𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲! Yes indeed they are, whether they are brought on by natural body development or whether they are induced by hormones given by medicine. . Why is it acceptable for a transgender child to endure a puberty that contradicts their gender identity, yet providing them with hormones to align their body with their true self is loudly condemned by those who may not yet understand? Doesn't everyone deserve to look and feel 'normal' and to fit in. This is what is so tragic in trans youth who have made the decision to go through the puberty that aligns with their gender identity. Puberty blockers would prevent a trans girl’s voice from breaking and they would prevent a trans boy from developing breasts. They would prevent the very irreversible pubertal changes that Andrew describes. They would mean that, as an adult, they would be non-identifiable as trans - what a relief in this harsh and sometimes very cruel world we live in. Puberty blockers and gender-affirming hormones for children who are transgender mean that their bodies get to align with their gender. The changes are irreversible and that is what trans youth want and need, and that is what the medical research (and not just opinion) shows is safe and effective

𝗔𝗴𝗲 𝟭𝟭 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗼𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗴!! Puberty starts early, and it is getting earlier. How come it is OK for a cisgender child to have puberty at 11 but not OK for a trans child? Let’s be clear, the trans children that are lucky enough to have an early puberty that matches their gender identity have to have several factors all aligning. They have to have had a solid understanding of their gender identity from a very early age. They have to have supportive parents, and they have to have a supportive doctor. Those three factors rarely align, and that is the tragedy. But when they do, the lives of these people can be improved - in 2020 a study by the American Academy of Pediatrics found that transgender adults who took puberty blockers as adolescents experienced significantly less lifetime suicidal ideation than trans people who wanted these medications but could not access them.

Child C changed her mind!! The great thing about Puberty Blockers before hormones is that it presses pause on puberty for those who need it. It gives time to reflect and think and ponder, for those that need it. Let’s face it, being trans in this world is not yet easy, so there are a lot of questions to be answered. ‘Am I trans?’ is the easy question, but ‘Can I cope with being openly trans in this world?’ is a whole different conundrum. Vacillating, thinking, considering, changing your mind, are essential steps before deciding - and that is what puberty blockers allow. How can this be wrong?! Would we rather people had to make binary decisions or had services withdrawn rather than give people the time they need? Surely we are not that uncaring.

It was inevitable that Times Radio would try and present gender-affirming care in a negative light, and would throw all of the standard transphobic ‘gender critical’ rhetoric about.

These are the sort of responses everyone should be giving…