Imagine Being In One Of Those 50/50 Marriages And You Want To Make A Really Nice Dinner. You Make It

I want to make people see how much has been taken away from them.

Did you know that there are dozens of species of fireflies, and some of them light up with a blue glow? Did you know about the moths? There are thousands of them, bright pink and raspberry orange and checkerboard and emerald. They are called things like Black-Etched Prominent, Purple Fairy, Pink-Legged Tiger, Small Mossy Glyph and Black-Bordered Lemon.

Did you know that there are moths that feed on lichens? Did you know about the blue and green bees? The rainbow-colored dogbane beetles? Your streams are supposed to teem with newts, salamanders, crawdads, frogs, and fishes. I want to take you by the hand and show you an animal you've never seen before, and say, "This exists! It's real! It's alive!"

There are secret wildflowers that no website will show you and that no list entitled "native species to attract butterflies!" will name. Every day I'm at work I see a new plant I didn't know existed.

The purple coneflowers and prairie blazing star are a tidepool, a puddle, and there is an ocean out there. There are wildflowers that only grow in a few specific counties in a single state in the United States, there are plants that are evolved specifically to live underneath the drip line of a dolomite cliff or on the border of a glade of exposed limestone bedrock. Did you know that different species of moss grow on the sides of a boulder vs. on top of it?

There are obscure trees you might have never seen—Sourwood, Yellowwood, Overcup Oak, Ninebark, Mountain Stewartia, Striped Maple, American Hophornbeam, Rusty Blackhaw, Kentucky Coffeetree. There are edible fruits you've never even heard of.

And it is so scary and sad that so many people live and work in environments where most of these wondrous living things have been locally extirpated.

There are vast tracts of suburb and town and city and barren pasture where a person could plausibly never learn of the existence of the vast majority of their native plants and animals, where a person might never imagine just how many there are, because they've only ever been exposed to the tiny handful of living things that can survive in a suburb and they have no reason to extrapolate that there are ten thousand more that no one is talking about.

It's like being a fish that has lived its whole life in a bucket, with no way of imagining the ocean. The insects in your field guide are a fraction of those that exist, of all the native plants to your area only a handful can be bought in a nursery.

Welcome to the Earth! It's beautiful! It's full of life! More things are real and beautiful and alive than a single person could imagine!!!

Don't forget, Trump was the one who tried to ban TikTok in his first term, and Republicans voted to pass the TikTok Ban Bill.

He didn't save it. He just flipflopped when he realised it made him look bad with young people.

And now TikTok are sucking up to Trump and effectively acting as an ad section for him.

Don't fall for it.

‘progressive’ misogyny is men telling women they aren’t able to be at the forefront of conversations about womanhood because it might hurt their male feelings

Gendies like to say "sex ≠ gender." And this is correct.

And if we agree that sex ≠ gender, then riddle me this: why do you people try to force your way into sex-segregated spaces and sports based on gender identity?

Could it be that you may just be incredibly dishonest people who move goalposts and change rules based on what benefits you in the moment?

“progress flag” you’re like a terrorist to me

srry but i’m starting to dislike being a part of the “LGBT+” community. and it’s not even like everybody. it’s just being a lesbian is already hard and lately it feels harder b/c the label is being transformed to include everyone under the sun?? it’ll be non lesbians doing it then other “lesbians” just eating it up?? and nobody does this foolishness with gay men so it’s like?? we can’t have shit like omgggg do y’all get what i mean

"TERFs reduce women to their genitals and reproductive organs!"

So why are you crowdfunding "bottom" surgery in your bio? Why is having the genitalia of the opposite sex so important to you? Why do you get envious of the opposite sex for their ability to get pregnant, have periods etc? Why are you so desperate to claim you're having a period when you start hormones?

If gender expression has nothing to do with genitalia and reproductive organs, why are you so desperate to change yours? If a woman is not someone who was born with the female reproductive organs and genitalia, why are you having "bottom" surgery?

I don't think it's me reducing women to their genitalia and reproductive organs...

i'm still thinking about that handful of posts earlier this week that were all saying versions of "masculinity is punished"

when a tif says it, she's usually just restating basic misogyny stuff in gendie vocab

when a tim says it he usually means someone called him a creep

i love it when terfs call themselves radical cause like, nothing more rad than falling for right wing pro establishment propaganda

Firstly, here. Second, seems pretty radical to be a radfem when even our most basic level speech on women's rights ignites the anger of EVERYONE