Night Angel
#graft
eat?
we must hate the weirdos and freaks. i would personally add puppygirl anarchists with bangs..
cage match to the death between an asexual person commenting "lol can't relate, allos have such weird problems" on a post about sex and a poly person commenting "lol can't relate, monogamous people have such weird problems" on a post about cheating
all these cigarette ed tumblr girls are autistic and men and i am in solidarity with them
i want to know what "more closely related" means and how that came to be and why that matters and to who
as funny as it is to say, "there's no such thing as a fish" is not actually true
"science doesn't know what a fish is" is really not true
"fish" is not a monophyletic category. there is no common ancestor of everything that we call a "fish," and none of the things that we don't
"fish" is a paraphyletic category -- and a useful one! marine biologists use it! "fish" describes a general body plan and lifestyle. it is useful to be able to talk about coelacanths and tuna in a shared category, though coelacanths are more closely related to us than to tuna.
where this bugs me is the repetition of the idea that "scientists" are hidebound and uncreative, unable to comprehend anything that doesn't conform to a specific idea of categorization -- when this is fundamentally untrue! we know perfectly well what a "fish" is. the fact that it's a paraphyletic group is only confounding to pop science, as a funny factoid, not to anyone who actually understands what a paraphyletic group is.
young autistic catholic wedding photos
Paolo Roversi - "The Surreal Art of the Extraordinary Hat", 1985, from Unseen Vogue: The Secret History of Fashion Photography by Robin Derrick and Robin Muir (2004)
how's the doctor gonna get himself off to this one??