I hate to make a post like this but earlier this evening we came into the custody of the nicest little kitten in need of a home we can’t supply (We already have 5 cats and my dad is deadset on not taking in another).
She was given to us by a small herd of children in our neighborhood going door-to-door to find someone willing to take her in after whoever had her before felt they had the right to throw her in a dumpster. My mom and I being suckers have taken her in for the night and if we can’t find a proper home for her we’ll just have to pray that theres a no-kill shelter somewhere around here with space for her.
She’s super friendly and downright loving (shes sleeping in my lap even as I type this) and has a little collar with a mangled little heart charm on it.
If you or someone you know might want her, please DM me for more info. Signal boosts would be appreciated!
Because my landlady doesn’t like cold places, she is bothering to clean corridors of her house.
She says it is a great problem for her that my fur remains even she doesn’t go.
I think she is more problematic because I patroll around her house instead of her even in such a cold days.
She imagine it will be cleaning if I wrapped by sticky sheet or tied cleaning sheet with my tail will run around her house…… She is lovely troublesome person for me…
[image description: 3 tweets by katie @katiehianna_. Altogether the text reads, “I find it hard to believe that people who go on about stopping benefit cheats on disability are doing it because they “care” about disabled people if thats the only issue they care about and don’t advocate for disabled people in any other way.
If you don’t care about disabled ppl being forced to live in poverty because they can’t get benefits they are entitled to, who can’t access the care they need and who are discriminated against daily then don’t claim that you call out potential benefit fraud for us.
Also this harms us more than it helps us because we get accused of faking our illnesses and we get denied benefits because the government are cutting 80% of benefits and don’t care if the people they deny are genuine or not (they ARE genuine because only 0.7% claim fraudulently)]
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From personal experience, the difficulty and hoops involved in trying to get and keep my disability benefits are incredibly draining. Able-bodied cheaters are not the ones hurt by further difficulty in getting these benefits. Changes targeted to make benefits harder to get- disproportionately hurt those of us who are actually disabled- because we are less likely to be able to put in the time, energy and effort into jumping through increasingly difficult hoops in order to get benefits that we desperately need.
When I walk into the mall and see Christmas decorations up the day after Halloween, I feel the same way Hamlet did when his mom married his annoying uncle so shortly after his father’s death.
C l a u d i u s .
His name’s never verbally spoken in the dialogue, only indicated in the stage directions, so I like to think Hamlet never actually learned his annoying uncle’s name and it’s wayyy too late to ask now
People who believe that small children are proof that gender roles are natural are really on a whole other level.
A young child, using words she learned purely
by mimicking
the way others speak: I want to be a mommy when I grow up.
Y’all absolute Mensa candidates: Wow. This child is a blank slate. Completely unaffected by society. Guess lady-brains truly are the only explanation here, science deniers.
Babies cry with an accent within a day of being born, and can even observe sounds while they’re still in the womb. There’s no stage of life where people aren’t already affected by socialisation, everyone who believes that nature can truly be separated from nurture is naive as fuck.
I absolutely love this post just because of the “y’all absolute mensa candidates” at the top.
So there’s this part of the mammalian brain called the neocortex. It’s the part of the mammalian brain which is basically a blank slate that just process input, figures out and predicts patterns from that input, and suborns autonomic processes to higher-level abstract patterns it works out from all that data. (On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins, excellent neuroscience book, I highly recommend it). And humanity’s whole Thing is that our neocortex has become massively oversized and completely taken over our brain, to the point where it directs the action of the rest of the brain rather than the other way around like in other mammals. That’s basically our whole schtick as a species, being run by this massive blank-slate pattern matching machine rather than preprogrammed instincts.
Other mammals are instincts with some learning thrown on top, but humans are basically only learning, with some residual instincts to make sure we don’t fuck up too bad. That’s one of the reasons why humans take so much longer to develop motor skills than other species, because our brain has usurped the typical mammalian in-born neural motor programming with a blank slate that has to just like … figure that shit out on it’s own. Human babies can’t even see properly when they’re first born, even though they have perfectly functioning eyes, because our brain replaced all that silly mammalian visual recognition software with the neurological equivalent of a blank sheet of paper, a pencil, a shrug, and “you’ll figure it out, go get ‘em tiger”.
And that’s a huge advantage! Evolution can only adapt a species really, really slowly, to changing conditions over millions of years. Typical mammalian neocortices are a fantastic patch on that which allow adaptation over the course of a creature’s lifetime, but they don’t allow for that adaptation to be passed on, and it’s still just a patch on the greater impetus of evolved instincts. But humans. Ohohohoh. Humans are nothing but adaptation. Our ability to mimic and pass on behavior means that we don’t need a lot of those built up evolutionary behaviors which change so slowly, because we just can figure that shit out by mimicry and raw learning anyway. So we just ditched most of it and a lot of what’s left now comes with a “you can learn to override this if you need to” feature. It’s a way, way more flexible and adaptable system than that old clunky “being a bunch of preprogrammed mental software” thing other mammals use.
So the idea that you can assume anything about humans’ intrinsic instincts by looking at their behavior when young is just ridiculous. From the moment we’re born we are tiny pattern matching machines, intaking and copying everything around us, because we literally do not have enough instinct left as a species to exist without pattern matching other’s behavior. We can’t even fucking see without having to learn it from scratch. But yeah, I’m sure intrinsic gendered social skills and housecare aptitude made the evolutionary cut when fucking sight and walking got the axe.
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