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I'm not talking "to people who know you well" I'm talking "a stranger is checking your id"

#i had to take the face id off my phone because it recognized my younger brother as me #if I adopted a slight speech impediment and grew my hair out then curled it #its plausible

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The most insane take on anything I’ve ever heard is that The Magnus Archives is a fan fiction Alice wrote about Chester and norris.

#I MEAN #I MEANNNNNNM

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correction: israel has killed 15 palestinians in rafah in the evening of february 12. they’ve killed many more in rafah since february started. the death toll is around 400, with 76 killed today, monday feb 13. the iof destroyed khan yunis, the place where gazan refugees from the north were fleeing, and now the iof is attacking and murdering civilians in the last southern city.

do not look away from what the israeli colonizers have done to khan yunis and what they will do to rafah as long as world leaders across the globe twiddle their thumb and america continues to sink billions into this genocide.

just two days ago, the iof snipers killed a doctor in the middle of a surgery in a khan yunis hospital. there is a horrifying video of an old man, shot and crawling into the reception of said hospital, and no one is able to drag him away from the windows where snipers keep shooting at them. this is what our tax money is funding. this is what our leaders are encouraging. the entire world should be dying of shame and disgust, most especially the west, giddily supporting and paying for the nth genocide of brown indigenous people, and the greedy, soulless monsters of the uae and saudi arabia.

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Exactly so I can call you pipsqueak

Having someone match your wit or your weirdness without hesitation is actually so fucking comforting and fun.

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I LOVE THEM SO MUCH

Shivaani stared at the mirror for a second too long and all of a sudden she felt old. Like her skin was sagging and her eyes were drooping, wrinkles cutting through her skin like water through a valley. She stared… and continued to stare as if something would change and she’d turn back 20 years and she’d be standing in front of Seth again, holding an ice pack to his head. Instead of leaning in, letting his hand cup her cheek before he’d kiss her, she’d stay put, never getting any closer to a mystery that puzzled her ever since they had first met. And if they never kissed they’d never fall and she’d never have June and she’d never lose her family and her life and her country and she’d never be only known as 'Seth’s wife' and - And she’d never have to feel the ache in her heart right now with June gone to college in fucking America. She wouldn’t be alone in a house that he promised to keep her happy in. She glanced at the calendar. She was turning 40 in a week. Her dad was a prime minister by the time she was 40. She wondered if he still thought of her when he smelled roses.

cant believe men took sad lonely housewife and made it a pornhub category bc this is making me lose it

#me writing leora angst

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YOU MANIFESTED THIS ENERGY FOR 2024 IN YOUR TIKTOK DMS

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MINE WAS FAME PIZZA GIRLFRIEND AGSKABXKSBXN

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high school is realizing that none of my friend groups can have crossovers for the sake of global peace

#bro idk what you want from me #i get along with literally anyone

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THORNE WOULD FIT THAT CRITERIA

"DILF", a word which here means "the only male character with a speaking role in this piece of media who's actually old enough for me to be horny for him".

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#yes absolutely

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Crow being art bros~

#CROWS #webtoon canvas #crow time #webtoon

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your ligaments

#fun fact about me is that I can actually displace the ligaments/tendons on top of my knuckles on both middle fingers #it's a nifty little trick to freak people out because if you put your finger on my knuckle you can feel it move!! #makes my knuckles look flat!!

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Pits aren't evil, but it's disingenuous to ignore how prevalent they are in dog bite and fatal attack statistics (both on humans and animals). These dogs were bred for bloodsport, and more specifically they were bred to not send out warnings before attacking, that's not going to magically go away just because you're good with dogs or because an individual pit is friendly. If that were the case, the majority of dog attacks wouldn't consist of pitbulls, pit mixes, or other trouble breeds like rottweilers.

Even if the dogs were 100% safe the weird culture surrounding them would continue to be a problem. Why does one individual dog breed need such a zealous defensive squad? Why do attack survivors have to tread on eggshells to avoid offending owners of the dog breed that attacked them? Why do so many people pin the blame on the human or animal victim of an attack when these dog breeds are designed to snap without warning? Why is "bully bashing" so reprehensible, but shit like "chihuahuas are hellspawns" and "cats are so mean" acceptable?

Alright, I suppose we can dissect this.

Claim: Pit bulls are more prevalent than any other breed in dog bites and dog bite fatalities

Fact: this claim is only relaying bite incidents regarding pit bulls and “pit bull type dogs” in the US. Why does that matter? Well these surveys self-admittedly were inaccurate, and no conclusion could be drawn from them, simply because they were relying on the public to accurately identify the breed of dog that bit them and it didn’t account for cases that were not reported or the dog could not be identified as one breed or another. These surveys also did not account for prevalence of one breed over another in the country. Why does that part matter?

Well you could factually say that most smokers in the UK are white. If you then say white people in the UK are significantly more prone to nicotine addiction, that’s a very false conclusion to draw if you don’t account for the fact over 85% of people in the UK are white. This is the same level of false conclusion being drawn from those dog bite surveys because, as I have said before, there are a lot of pit bulls in America. But besides that, they are a very common breed in low income areas. Dog bites are more likely to be reported in a low income area because if a rich person’s dog bites someone, they tend to pay off the victim to avoid the dog being labeled as an aggressive dog and taken away or put down for being too dangerous. Low income families obviously can’t do that. Low income areas will also commonly have lower/less sturdy fencing and other limitations that can lead to a dog escaping the owner’s property. A lot of the bites reported also involved dogs where an owner could not be located, which means strays. A large stray dog of any breed is absolutely dangerous. If I see a stray malinois or something I’m not going to be thinking “ah well thank goodness it isn’t a pit bull” because I don’t particularly want to be bitten by a malinois either.

Bottom line though, the CDC stopped collecting data on what specific breeds were “more dangerous” because there was too much statistical error in the nature of collecting the data for any meaningful conclusion to be drawn.

Claim: pit bulls were bred to attack opponents with no warning which means they can and will attack at any time

Fact: this is another example of a false conclusion.

For one thing, I couldn’t find any non-biased sources claiming that pit bulls specifically were bred to attack without warning, but even if we say that’s true for sake of argument, attacking an opponent dog in a fight without telegraphing their attack doesn’t mean “this dog does not engage in any body language” thus making them unreadable or whatever. They wag their tails when happy, whine when they want something, and yes! They do in fact curl their lip and growl when they want you to stop doing something. They bark at noises or scents they don’t trust, and they bow and roll when they want to play.

They’re dogs. Therefore, they share a lot of the same body language cues as any other breed will give you.

Claim: pit bulls were bred as fighting dogs so they’re bred for aggression.

Fact: dogs classify other dogs and humans in very different categories of their mind in much the same way they classify a rabbit and a cat and a cow in different categories of their mind. A dog that’s extremely reactive to other dogs may not be reactive towards humans at all.

No modern breed was bred for blanket aggressive behavior because that would make them impossible to keep in captivity at all because the second someone went to feed them they’d lose a hand and the second you tried to get two extremely aggressive animals to breed they’d kill each other on sight. Pits were bred primarily to be reactive to unfamiliar dogs and for physical strength. They were not bred to be reactive to humans, and attack dogs are typically abused in some way to make them reactive to humans in the same way they’re reactive to dogs, or at minimum rewarded for reacting excessively to an unknown human to encourage more extreme reactivity.

So why does one breed need so much defense?

Because pits and other “”trouble breeds”” cause your insurance rates to go up significantly if your insurance provider finds out you own one. Because you can live in an apartment for years and get an ultimatum to be evicted or get rid of your dog despite it never showing any signs of being dangerous. Because there are people who will see a bully dog in the street and hit the gas.

It’s not about them being “more important” than cats or micro dogs, no one is saying that. No one has ever been saying that, but a pit bull gets all the hate and aggression and vitriol people throw at black cats but with legal backing on top of that. People defend the breed because there is a culture of “the only good pit bull is a dead one” and actually act on it. Yes, people insult and mock chihuahuas and that’s very rude and all, but how many places have breed bans against them?

Why do people blame the human over the animal?

Well because any dog will bite “without warning” if it’s raised to think failure to do so will cause it pain and any dog that’s never seen a human other than the ones in its house has the potential to be reactive to outside stimuli. And if you run up to a random dog and try to pet it, it’s not the dog’s fault you got bit it was your fault for just assuming you can touch any random animal and not get bitten/scratched/etc.

Do I blame children for not knowing better or victims that were charged by a loose dog? No. Is that what most bite cases are? Also no.

But hey it’s also weird to frame it as “either the dog is at fault or the victim is at fault and you’re blaming one” as like a blanket statement. Because no. That’s not what’s being said or claimed. Some bites are the fault of how the dog was raised, some are the fault of the person who was bitten, and some are a mix of both or just poor circumstances and the worst of happenstances.

Treating it as a breed specific thing rather than a “people need better education on raising and behaving around animals” thing isn’t going to make less bites happen fwiw.

#forever reblog for that one time I got into a fight with my 80 year old relative about how pit bulls where inherently dangerous #pit bulls #dog breeds

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but i have dungeons and dragons to watch

you should probably go to bed

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So I was experimenting with my writing on here, well I have started a Ko-Fi for it! I'm slowly getting little summaries posted so I can start putting up parts of my writing. Please check it out and donate/subscribe to read! I'm gonna get tier stuff sorted soon but I'm working slowly

#writing stuff #queer characters #brad and ivy #sparky #sparky tag

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because you told me not to reblog this post I'm doing it

i havent been on this blog in so long that im now allowed to find myself funny again

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... so we're in agreement that this man is DEFINITELY in an archived statement somewhere, right?

when you’re a 14 month old french infant in a military hospital in the late 18th century and that weird hungry guy comes into your room

#tma #the magnus archives #definitely touched by the flesh #also side note I genuinely thought this was a tma shitpost before I read the wikipedia page #like i thought it was a reference to an episode i'd missed