Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

The Seine in Paris has been declared clean enough to open swimming spots again.

Swimming in the river had been banned since 1913 due to ship traffic increases and water quality decreases.

#GoodNews (hopefully)

Trans mascs deserve to be recognized and have our issues addressed. Doing so doesn’t take anything away from trans fems.

hey i am currently at a black sabbath goodbye web concert and slayer is one of the opening acts and i never listened to them before...are slayer nazi sympathetic? i kinda skimmed the wiki article and they seemed really weird

the old line "the revolution will not be televised" is attempting to make the point that mass media are a tool of power and will not, under any circumstances, tell their stories in a way that truly challenges that power

the editorial boards of the world aren't asleep at the wheel, they know what they're doing by portraying the situation as less horrible than they is, and by not describing protests in ways that encourage more protests.

neat trick about age for people in the back half of their twenties & working on a quarterlife crisis or whatever

think in dozens, not decades

chapter 1: years 0-12 are developing from a neural scream potato into something that can think, plan, & act — minimally functional human.

chapter 2: years 13-24 starts with a brain as the baseline & is all about how to be simultaneously more socialized + more independent — minimally functional adult.

chapter 3: only now does the main story begin ❤️

Sharing the link to the OG blog post that started off all the spoonie lingo for anybody interested:

https://www.butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine/the-spoon-theory/

#spoonies #spoonTheory

Reminder that CAT is on the BDS list to boycott because they're used in domocide as part of genocide. Stop making memes about CAT. Stop white washing the genocide.

Cat people, I know you love cats, but CAT bulldozers kill people in their homes. Please stop.

https://kawn.org/boycott-caterpillar/

still on the way and the new St John's plant (an antidepressant and transmasc ally) is already feeding insects

when their masks are off and he finally asks her what happened, and why was she swimming like that, she says she fully, 100% believed she was a mermaid, had always been a mermaid, and something was hunting her in the dark"

he sees the woman, her arms locked to her sides, moving like a fish, swimming furiously in circles in the pitch black.

she is hard to catch but he stops her and checks her remaining oxygen: she is almost out, on account of swimming a marathon for absolutely no reason. he is able to drag her back up, get her to a stable depth to decompress, and bring her to the surface safely.

the guy is okay, but he's at the threshold, spacing out, and mentally difficult to reach. they try to communicate, and finally the guy just points down into the dark, knowing he can't go down there, but he saw the woman go.

instructor is deep water certified and he goes down. he shines his light into the dark, down onto the seafloor which is at 90 feet below the surface.

"a woman on a dive my instructor led once vanished during the course of the excursion. they were diving near this dropoff point, beyond which the depth exceeded 60 feet and he'd told them not to go down that way. the instructor made his way over to look for her and found a guy sitting at the edge of the dropoff (an underwater cliff situation) just staring down into the dark.

because here's what happens: there is a subset of people, and we have no real idea why this happens only to them, who lose their minds at depth. they're not dying, they're not running out of oxygen, they just completely lose their sense of identity when deep in the sea.

the following toots are a story from Tumblr

basically when you want to get your advanced scuba certification (allowing you to go more than 60 feet deep) you have to undergo a very specific test: your instructor takes you down past the 60+ foot threshold, and she brings a little underwater white board with her.

she writes a very basic math problem on that board. 6 + 15. she shows it to you, and you have to solve it.

if you can solve it, you're good. that is the hardest part of the test.