fennel 🌿

Weed before cider, you meet the spider. Cider before weed, the centipede.

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

VOLITION - I can't help you. I am totally useless. Everything I've said is lies. I want the exact same bad things you want. To stand here, like a pillar of salt.

sometimes i'll see someone walking around with a really tiny backpack. who the hell are you trying to fool with that

this is what I’m calling him. King Coquí.

big win for coqui representation

I think this is about the temperature but honestly it works for decades as well

ok but let's be fair here, micah, a lot of the "woofs" are because you follow a lot of trans women who are literally dogs

Screenshot from the video game Persona 4. In the halls of Yasogami High, the protagonist talks to a male student labeled "Stylish student". His dialogue window reads: "Hanging out with women, going on dates with them, that's fine. Killing them? Not so much."

happy international women's day

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

american evangelicals already run everything and what we are seeing right now, including this headline, is them trying to close the gap on the 5% of everything they don't run

As always

sometimes a coworker will drop offhand a piece of lore that feels like finding an audio log in a survival horror game

do you think you could drink a 12-ounce can of soda of your choosing every day for a week for 76 million dollars? the catch is that during that week, you’re not allowed to travel to columbus, georgia unless you already had plans to or you just want to

Unironically

Are women bourgeois?

Still not a peep on the things Mamdani can do for trans youth after hospital closures.

No activation of H+H to take patients. Trans patients are a rounding error for the $10B program.

No movement on human rights complaints.

No promise to restore care.

Rarely have I been so disappointed.

Mom, come pick me up, the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity.

I’ll be honest with you kitten. Daddy’s considering taking up arms in the butlerian jihad

There should be an Earth for people who don't hate all living things

the entire pitch of Cuomo was that sure he's a loathsome sex pest but he has what it takes to stand up to Trump, and then the hot leftist starts every phone call with "what's up big dog" and gets Trump to do whatever he wants.

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

I wrote about the background to this case last year.

It’s a grim story, but also an inspiring one. One lawyer literally stood next to the tarmac, warning any officials she saw that they’d be complicit in violating a court order if the planes took off.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

calling insurance is crazy because it's like talking with the nicest sweetest people in the world who all just work for the most awful monsters to walk the earth

Good morning, NYC.

Snowfall: 8”-15” last night.

Forecast: More snow until early afternoon. 

Winds: Gusts of 40-60mph. 

Travel: Roads are CLOSED until at least noon today. Essential & emergency trips only. 

Coastal Flood Warnings: Lifted at 5am. 

Text NotifyNYC to 692-692 for real-time updates.

See, stuff like this is not a problem for bankers. It is a problem for us, as a society. You should simply not be allowed to exchange being a well-adjusted person for immense riches.

screenshot of a tumblr post. the user’s url is whited out because i don’t want people following me there. the pfp is frieren from the anime. reading: why is the symbol of the transmasc the chest scars while the symbol of the transfem is like. transmisogynistic stereotypes ?? i have a big scar across the top of my forehead from ffs and i’ve never seen that represented in any kind of “queer art” ever not even once. it’s so interesting to me what iconographies come to be associated with different trans people. like we’ll get a trans woman and you can tell she’s trans bc she’s got stubble or an adam’s apple (which are both still lovely traits but) which suggest some level of “pre-transition” (whatever that means) whereas men are always indicated to be trans by signifiers of post transition (whatever that means) like scars and body hair. julia serano’s argument about the media depicting trans women as “in the act” comes to mind, reminding us that showing trans women as in the process of transition or in the process of “becoming” feminine (eg putting on makeup) works to suggest that trans femininity is an act or a performance. by contrast i take it that depictions of trans masculinity as almost always “post” transition reiterates the idea of masculinity as a natural state of being. if that makes sense

oh boy my least favorite discourse is back on the menu. here’s my tumblr post about it from a year ago

SHIVERS - Snow falls and there is no answer. Some things are not for mortals to know.