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vagina_museum, 18 hours ago to random

In May 1988, legislation passed in the UK "prohibiting the promotion of homosexuality" by local authorities. It was in effect for a decade and a half, with massive impact on the LGBT+ community. This is a brief history of Section 28.

rooster, 10 hours ago to random

Transition didn’t fix my life but damn it made me feel like I became an active member in it, capable of making changes.

smilingheretic, 19 hours ago to glasgow

Hey parrot people in #Glasgow: do you or someone you know have some idea where I might find a bird sitter? I've a thirty year old #SenegalParrot in need of care from time to time. I haven't been able to find anyone.

Please boost for a wider audience! Thanks!

#ParrotsOfMastodon #Pets #PetSitters #Glasgow #Birb

nisjasper, 1 day ago to modeltrains German

So my 12 year old kid loves #modeltrains to death: machines, tracks, landscapes, everything. Unfortunately, this is a hobby dominated by grumpy old men, some of whom don't react too cool towards a rainbow family. Are there any familys out there with #trainkids? #Berlin, Germany, wherever? I am thinking exchange of photos or small films, maybe sending stuff to and fro, meetings in Germany at some point. German, English works. Neurodivergent kids/parents welcome. #modellbahn #Modellbau

IdahoLark, 1 day ago to random

I put an owl nest box up at my sister's house last winter and a pair of Western Screech-Owls moved right in this spring. She calls the female Enid and the male DoorDash since he brings her food all the time. #owls

StefanThinks, 11 hours ago to random

Your email found me shirtless in the trunk of my car devouring an entire rotisserie chicken with my bare hands. I was on my lunch break.

danmccullough, 18 hours ago to nature

Last year, we learned our porcupines do not like getting their paws wet. So my wife built them a little stone bridge to cross the 1 inch deep trench 🥹 They seem to have mastered it! Anything to not get wet. Even if they’re already soaked from the pouring rain…

#Nature #Wildlife #Porcupine #TrailCam

17 second, black and white trailcam footage of a beefy porcupine lumbering down an old path to an 8 inch wide trench that carries water from the forest to the brook. It approaches cautiously, check the stones that have been placed as a bridge, and slowly walks across. The video is taken in the middle of the night and it is raining.

TerpieCat, 16 hours ago to random

Don't forget to eat your veggies. #WednesdayWisdom #Lemurs #RingTailedLemurs #NaturePhotography

revoluciana, 13 hours ago to random

People didn't ever call me "angry" for my radical political perspective until after transition.

Maybe it's got nothing to do with me and everything to do with misogyny.

dabertime, 14 hours ago to random

All I had were the clothes on my back, a small bare apartment, and a job that barely covered rent.
I never told coworkers, yet I showed up at work one day to life changing gifts of kitchenware and food.

If disillusioned by the world's lack of empathy, I recall this and that kindness is rarely loud.

LalaKroniq, 16 hours ago to random

Good morning Fediverse! Props to all of us for making it to the top of the hump of Wednesday, if weeks were camels. Now it’s all downhill. Whee!

Teryl_Pacieco, 16 hours ago to writing

"You missed a smudge," said the magic mirror.

"Where?" asked the young manservant, squinting at his reflection - a little taller and richly dressed, not a hair out of place.

"Up along the frame, you'll need the step-stool," his reflection said, pointing at the spot.

"There. Did I miss anything else?"

"You finished early, could you brew some tea?"

"You can drink?"

"No, I'd like some company; there's cake in the pantry you can have too."

#TootFic #MicroFiction #Writing #TerylsTales #Fantasy

Kierkegaanks, 16 hours ago to random

I accidentally cooked a low sodium meal. It tastes like regrets.

msquebanh, 22 hours ago to animals

Couple of photos of Asher, from earlier.

I'm having problems falling asleep & put some melatonin drops into chamomile tea to try to ease body into sleep. I was up later than usual because Mom's been having some more high blood pressure related medical issues recently.

#CatsOfMastodon #CatLovers #BestFriend #FurFriend #SDFcats #KittyKindred

A blurry reflection of me, in one of my cat's green eyes.

GayDeceiver, 18 hours ago to random

Establish dominance by outstaring a Karen.

ChrisMayLA6, 1 day ago to random

So the Migrant Advisory Committee, after a 14 week investigation has found 'no evidence' of any deliberate abuse of the international student visa scheme;

they're coming here to study.

As the FT delicately puts it:

this has 'placed Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in a bind, forcing him to either confront those on the Conservative right who want it scrapped, or ignore the advisory group'!

Watch this space.... which way he jumps will tell us a lot about the future of the (rump of) the Tory party

JeniParsons, 22 hours ago to random

Twelve Shetland ducklings hatched over the last 48 hours and are now in the brooding box #RareBreed

hammerhead, 1 day ago to random

pov: you have found the naughty girl who should not be outside but very much is

alexpsmith, 22 hours ago to random

Do lumberjacks around the world shout, "Timber!" in various languages when felling a tree, or is that just an English-speaking country thing?

I always ask the deep questions.

TheBreadmonkey, 22 hours ago to random

Just been back through my old toots. Like Indiana Jones desecrating a particularly stupid temple. Found a few small golden nuggets, but it's mainly thick cobwebs and huge elaborate deadly traps.

Indi - a handsome young Harrison Ford in classic gear. Brown leather jacket, fedora and man-bag. He's unshaven and probably doesn't eat 4 hash browns for breakfast like I just did. He's contemplating a small golden statue on what I'm going to call a plinth (because I don't know what it's called).
The same, aforementioned chap running away from a giant boulder in a cobwebbed tunnel.

falcennial, 21 hours ago to random

I know two of the horsemen went corporate, Mars the god of war very overt about it and Famine obviously is Nestlé

TheBreadmonkey, 21 hours ago to random

I know everyone has to make a living, but if you work for HMRC I do not respect you.

"HMRC leaves callers on hold ‘for 800 years’, says spending watchdog"

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/15/call-waiting-times-at-hmrc-rise-350-in-five-years-says-nao-report

xinicit, 1 day ago to random

They never mention in the Bible if Lazarus died again. I like to think he’s running a little bodega full of cats, and that he’s converted to Zoroastrianism.

alexpsmith, 1 day ago to random

The thing about conspiracy theories is that the “epistemology” of such theories doesn’t allow for the scientific method and its findings. They just follow the cognitive process of excitable pattern-seeking.

In some contexts, if you look long enough, you will eventually find a match that seems to support any hypothesis. Because the match may itself be indisputable, and critiquing the process is much harder, critics cannot break through. It's also why they're dangerous.

NotThe, 1 day ago to random

First day of hoarding for the apocalypse:

Two bags of tp,
Two bags of cat litter,
Three sticks of deodorant in case the apocalypse thing doesn’t pan out.