If you can't be arsed to just copy/paste your X/Twitter post language over here and choose to post a screenshot instead, please at least be arsed to use alt-text. The more people able to access information about this extrajudicial execution, the better The post with alt-text.

With alt text. Also, even if she hadn’t put the “no” *in writing* and instead had invited him over, a “no” doesn’t just vanish as a option going forward and is ALWAYS IN PLAY at ANY TIME but anyway this is literally a “no” in writing

They can’t help themselves

Checking closely for rocket frog

Honestly more than we usually get to see

Dressed as a small colonizer (L) for 1976 bicennential&making the hometown paper. Digging the shoes, prob my mother's. My oldest notes to me that I have been alive for almost a quarter of this country's history. He's been around for 1/10 of it. Wonder where/whether it will be another 50 y from now.

There is a gull couple that does similar here and comes back every year to the same place to nest -- these are this year's babies

Wikipedia *on it*

Sometimes the beauty of this place simply overwhelms

This description of one of Spangler's books is really something, including a veritable nesting doll of integers within the ordinals. He likes ordering and cataloging his bigotry, which tracks with the Nazi ethos.

37/The The ground bug Lygaeus equestris is a deep red, black-patterned insect with a penis that is 2/3 its body length (coiled up out of sight). If it were human, the penis would be abt 4 ft long. In this bug species, males w/shorter genitalia tend to have more success.

34/The Japanese yellow swallowtail, Papilio xuthus, has light detectors on its genitalia. Egg-layers may use them to guide where to put the eggs. If these light-detecting cells are destroyed in males, they can't mate. As I noted elsewhere: Imagine if we had these--*you could see w/your vulva*

33/There's this moth species, Olceclostera seraphica. The male has structures on its genitalia that it can play like a washboard to produce vibrations during copulation.

27/Some snails shoot "love darts" at each other, little arrows of calcium that may set the internal physical stage for the sperm of one to prevail. These snails are hermaphroditic & also have penises. They aren't taking any chances on a miss here.

26/1 The seed beetle Callosobruchus subinnotatus has “enigmatic jawed genitalia" that can slice or tear through a partner's copulatory duct. The jaws leave little V-shaped scars&possibly allow for transfer of nutrition from semen to recipient. This is the genitalia:

23/Here are some other examples among the wide & terrifying variety of bacula (penis bones) that exist:

22/The tiniest penis bone (baculum) of them all may belong to the pika. The Icelandic Phallological Museum has a hamster baculum on display, and it is ridiculously tiny. The pika is what puts the L in the acronym "PRICCL" for mammalian groups w/penis bones. L=lagomorphs

20/Barnacles have "famously muscular" penises& 1 barnacle species holds the Life On Earth record for longest member relative to body size. They also are "sequential hermaphrodites," serving up only 1 type of gamete (egg or sperm) at a time. Darwin was almost pathologically obsessed w/barnacles.

14/The word "fascinating" originates from the Latin *fascinus*. A fascinum or fascinus was a representation of a penis with wings that children wore as a protective amulet. Things were different then.

12/1 species of planarian, Macrostomum hystrix, can make both sperm and eggs and in a pinch (read: dearth of mating partners) can stab itself in its own head to inject sperm that eventually make their way to the eggs.

11/Some lizards even have penis (&maybe clitoris) bones. Primates do (as do Rodentia, Insectivora [archaic, but e.g., shrews], Chiroptera [bats], Carnivora [lions, tigers, bears, oh my], &Lagomorphs [rabbits, pika]; it all spells PRICCL). Komodo dragons have double dick bones, is what I'm saying

10/This is half of the whole penis of the pine oak snake. Snakes&lizards have "hemipenes," so two heads on a fork, basically. This is one of them, a hemipenis 🐍

7/Oldest known erection is 1.5 mm, frozen in amber, along w/its owner, a small harvestman. ~99 million yo, the lil owner caught sight of an alluring mate, responded in a hydraulic rush of fluid, & was immediately swamped by sap. It looked like this: [Sketch by WG Kunze after Dunlop et al. 2016.]

6/Compared to other primates, humans rank 21st in terms of penis "fanciness". Here are a few that rank ahead of us: [stump-tailed macaque penis (top right) has to slide underneath a structure in the vagina to enter. Sketch by W.G. Kunze after figure in Primate Sexuality, Dixson 2012.[

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When the dek takes an unexpected turn

Two steps forward, one step back

“a phased, measured, and carefully thought-out project”

using pronouns is just fine, apparently, for the most evil kind of othering

The capital A here is a special stage in the systematic, vicious otherization of human beings