"." Caroline ​ @caro@pipou.academy

Cette vidéo fait partie de celle que je re regarde et re link à chaque fois que je me rappelle de son existence. SI vous aimez les nerds qui nerd délicieusement sur un sujet obscur & passionnant ça devrait vous plaire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niKblgZupOc

"The pumpkin toadlet, which is a frog but not a toad, is so terrible at landing its jumps that its sheer incompetence has become a subject of scientific inquiry." Sabrina Imbler reports for Defector:
https://defector.com/why-is-this-tiny-frog-so-awful-at-jumping/
http://web.archive.org/web/20220616125838/https://defector.com/why-is-this-tiny-frog-so-awful-at-jumping/

This passage elevates the whole thing to high comedy:

> Finding bug-sized frogs in Brazil is an arduous task. Even though a pumpkin toadlet is as bright as a Cheeto, the leaf litter teems with neon fungi and other orange-colored life. “It is extremely hard to catch underneath the leaf litter,” [grad student André] Confetti said. “Especially for me, because I’m colorblind.”

#science #biology #news #herping #frogs #jumpeing 🐘

On peut faire financer son permis voiture grâce à son compte CPF

si ce que j'ai en stock ne vous inspire pas 👀 https://utip.io/hiraiguille/shop je vous donne quelques photos de mes peluches préférées à réaliser

je peux en faire plein d'autre dans ce genre ! n'hésitez pas à demander.

(mais tout ce qui n'est pas dans le lien là-haut sera sur commande, expédié en juillet)

RT appréciés <3

(patrons de choly knight)

je fais du point de croix aussi je vous mets des exemples en dessous ⬇️

was remembering fondly my encounter with some Brazilian bixas (~=femme cismasc gay queens) the other day, and thinking of the nuances of queer gendered language.

see, bixas are boys who like boys. they like pink and glitter and makeup and femme-inflected body language, and most do crossdressing or drag too, and some but by no means all turn out travesti and/or transgender eventually. and many like girls as well as boys, though I've never met a lesbian bixa, but that's easy to imagine (also, call me). but my point is, they're not women.

yet a lot of them use feminine grammar (pronouns and inflections) to refer to themselves and one another routinely. but when they do it, they do it as kind of a joke. I mean it reflects real feelings, but with irony, for fun and joy. and we travestis use the exact same pronouns and inflections, but for us it's actual identity, it matters in ways that it doesn't for them.

and it's a bit magical for me how I found myself, without thinking, using the female inflections to address them ("ah, vc é brasileira?!") and they just tease and sass fluidly ("não, bem, italiana"), and somehow it's perfectly clear to everybody that I'm not gendering them when I call them "she", and they're very much affirming my gender when they call me "she".

I'm a linguist so even drunk hitting on girls who turn out to be straight at a gay bar, there's a part of my brain that never turns off which keeps analyzing how linguistic behaviour manifests. and one thing I've noticed is that my bixa mates of the night often addressed me as "woman", while to gender-play within themselves they'd prefer "girl". now don't get me wrong: because both bixa and travesti are transgressive identities, there's no set rules (e.g. you can be both, that's not even rare). so I'm not being like a friggin USian and claiming that only travestis can be called "woman" or any other rigid definitions. I don't even have to ask to know that they would totally, 100% call one another "woman" as a way of humorously affirming their bixa-ness. but in *that* particular pragmatic context, they addressed me as "woman" in a way that was a little bit gratuitous, a little bit insistent, and exclusive to me; just a bit marked, just marked enough to signal the speech act, to let me know that this was an act of gender affirmation.

none of this is deliberate, of course, language is a thing of the heart, not a thing of pre-planning or rule-making. just like I found myself calling a bixa I didn't even know "brasileira", in the feminine, as an appropriate way to celebrate their queerness, they will have had in their hearts a desire to express that "we recognise you as being of our kin in your queen-ness, and we also honour your difference from us in your woman-ness"; and the desire to conveys that feeling comes out as a prepended vocative that wouldn't otherwise be there, "woman, what even *is* that drink?"

“I wish they could understand — Autism isn’t what you think.”
An excerpt from Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity.
https://devonprice.medium.com/i-wish-they-could-understand-autism-isnt-what-you-think-8ebde19a1d62

dang the only toilet I can find is the big boob moustache merfolk toilet

@caro moissonneuse flotteuse et tractoplouf

“The Forty Elephants were a 19th to 20th century all-female London crime syndicate who specialised in shoplifting. This gang was notable for its longevity and skill in avoiding police detection”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty_Elephants

Pour les personnes qui ont des animaux et peu de revenus (plus spécifiquement : foyer fiscal non-imposable), cette association vous permet de ne payer qu'un tiers de la note du vétérinaire : http://www.veterinairepourtous.fr/

Named After Men: colonial exploitation and egocentric bragging at the roots of the botanical sciences.
https://futuress.org/magazine/named-after-men/

qui veut prendre le reste du stock de la boutique !!!

(bon vous pouvez vous le partager, pas une personne qui prend tout)

il reste six peluches ! cinq modèles différents ! de 45 à 63e

https://utip.io/hiraiguille/shop

#fiber #fiberart

Fediverse in a nutshell #animeirl

I drew this comic a while back, and with the start of another pride month with another slew of terrifying things going on, here is my comic about Feeling Safe and lashing out against the phrase "you don't have to make your sexuality your whole personality"

CW for describing a memory of people being transphobic, but I think it's worth not blurring the entire comic for it