CBrachyrhynchos @cbrachyrhynchos@lgbt.io

i think my favorite thing about being old will be hopelessly trying to explain to my grandchildren why 99% of all media made during my youth is about "super heroes"

"Why is it that when I repeat a word a bunch of times, or look at it for a long time, it stops feeling like a word and just feels like random sounds strung together?"

It's called semantic satiation, and it happens to almost everybody: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_satiation

#Nonbinary pagans, how do you feel about non-pagans using the neopronoun set fae/faer?

Replies with reasons are very welcome and helpful!

Today's Oh Joy Sex Toy strip is all about fatphobia, and how one artist wound up handling his own and his self-image through his artwork:

(CW: casual cartoon nudity, not sexual)

https://www.ohjoysextoy.com/ive-got-a-friend-in-me/

I've responded to some questions on Tumblr recently~

On potentially asking about identity vs. presentation: https://gendercensus.tumblr.com/post/644004154412498944/i-was-wondering-if-you-feel-like-itd-be-worth

The fuzzy area of transmasculine: https://gendercensus.tumblr.com/post/644001590970286081/this-q-isnt-super-related-to-the-survey-but-its

On potentially adding "bisexual" as an identity checkbox: https://gendercensus.tumblr.com/post/643909508189552640/hello-i-would-like-to-politely-request-that-in

#Science appears to ohave figured out why #cats like catnip! It's a mosquito repellant!

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/4/eabd9135

Today I learned freezing soap bubbles are beautiful.

"You know they murdered X, and tried to blame it on Islam"
--Some Matrix end-credits song or something.

https://boingboing.net/2021/02/23/policemans-deathbed-confession-that-the-nypd-and-the-fbi-killed-malcolm-x.html

I made a zine about crows!

You can get it here:
https://smbsy.itch.io/corvidae