ALTHey my name’s Marc. I’m a disabled furry and a queer, intersex sculptor from Honolulu. Pictured above is my fursona, and we both use he and 他/祂 pronouns.
Bastard tumblr blog: before you go outside to pokemon go, do not forget to uwu and stay safe okay!!!!!!! Fuck you
Me: wadda hell…….. ….bulnosaur
i feel very seen any time i see a transfem talking about how misandry/man hating ideology that sometimes disguises itself as feminism is rooted in gender essentialism does nothing to serve trans people as a whole.
believing misogyny is inherent to masculinity and masculine traits alienates transmascs for being comfortable in their existence and excuses the hypervigilent behavior of cis women who are terrified of trans women being in their spaces. we cannot let people use a fear or aversion of men as a weapon against the trans experience.
literally a quote from Marcus Aurelius
HAD to go and dig for the quote. “sex is the friction of a piece of gut and, following a sort of convulsion, the expulsion of some mucus.” marcus was just being reductive, but purrp takes his analysis one step further: he correctly identifies that sex is stupid
how can civilisation be in decline when social media abounds with philosophers greater than Marcus Aurelius
This is a big fucking deal: https://www.npr.org/2023/08/22/1195141913/borrowers-can-now-apply-for-new-income-based-student-loan-repayment
Under the SAVE plan, as long as borrowers make their monthly payments, interest will not accumulate. With previous plans, borrowers with low or $0 payments — too low to cover their monthly interest charge — saw that interest accrue. Now, the government says, that won't happen.
The department says that under the old plan, borrowers repaid, on average, $10,956 for every $10,000 they borrowed. Under the new plan, they would pay back just $6,121.
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Borrowers can now apply at studentaid.gov/SAVE . In an announcement video, President Biden assured borrowers that the application will take "10 minutes."
The program allows borrowers to opt in to a feature that allows the Education Department to access their tax returns from the Internal Revenue Service. This will allow the department to automatically recertify borrowers' enrollment every year, so they don't have to keep applying and updating.
The administration is urging borrowers to apply soon because, after three years of pause extensions, student loan payments are set to resume in October, with interest starting to accrue in September.
studentaid.gov/SAVE
As somebody who used to work in the industry (trying to unfuck peoples' loans, and also investigate frauds schools committed that screwed over stuents) the SAVE plan is one of the most generous options for repayment that's currently available. Which is to say, it sucks way less than many of the other options that exist in the capitalist hellscape we live in where people have to sell their souls to the government to afford an education.
BUT, if indeed you are someone with government student loans, you owe it to yourself to look into this plan.
I still work in the industry and HARD seconding the above, it's far and away the most generous repayment plan out there.
Please retire the "we are made of stardust" phrase I am so tired of it
Stars are made of flesh
I change my mind bring back the original phrase
If I remember correctly, elements heavier than iron are only created when a star dies.
This is interesting because 1) it places a lower bound on when life can evolve, and when life is most likely to evolve, assuming any of a number of certain chemical compositions are necessary and 2) it means that a significant portion of the matter around us was forged by the death of a star.
Stars, when they die, can create new elements and I think that's cool as fuck.
I looked it up, actually it's like this:
Helium and Hydrogen were created by the Big Bang.
Elements from Helium up to Iron are created by stars through nuclear fusion during their lifetimes (In a process called Stellar Nucleosynthesis)
And elements heavier than iron cannot be created except by Supernova Nucleosynthesis, by the collapse and death of a star, and elements from silicon through iron still are mainly created by Supernova Nucleosynthesis, since stars big enough to create them by fusion in life are pretty rare
The stardust makes you alive! It's neat.
This! Yes!
Okay, so, this is a thing we actually know a bit about.
While what you've brought up is the leading theory, and has been for a good while, there are some inconsistencies -- particularly with the far end of the stable elements and the radioactive elements. The amounts produced in Supernova Nucleosynthesis would be far too low to actually account for the amounts seen in the universe.
So, how were they created?
The best theory we have is collisions between neutron stars.
When two neutron stars collide, they produce a supernova with the required energy density to create those ultraheavy elements, which means that not only are you made of stardust, if this theory is correct, you are made of stardust that was released when two of the most violent, extreme objects in the universe collided, possibly billions of years ago, hundreds of millions of lightyears away.
You are the wreckage of a violent multi-star pileup
It all starts with a nightmare, a terrifying vision of Jorbin Peterson at the bottom of the ocean with a talking lobster. Soon enough, Jorbin wakes and begins a fateful journey that will put his wildly inconsistent and belligerently hateful philosophies to the test, challenging everything he thought he knew about himself.
Now followed by a strange manifestation in the form of a handsome, shirtless lobster, Jorbin is struggling to find mental balance. Is he really the suave intellectual giant he sees in his head, or a deeply goofy bigot who’s utterly out of his mind?
No matter what, one thing’s for sure: Jorbin Peterson is an awful hang.
This important tale is 4,500 words of sexless self-discovery between a physically manifested humanoid lobster and a smug, self-important manic who uses vague, half-baked ideas and big words to sound smart when in reality he’s just a weird little guy and honestly it’s not that difficult to see it.
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Y'all they reintroduced kākāpō to mainland Aotearoa and I can't get over the photo of this little guy preparing for his Air New Zealand flight. They packed him snacks??? His water bowl says "only top quality"??? You're so right babe he is top quality 🥺🥺
