All kinds of weird shit you’d think would be vegan aren’t… like some brands of white sugar (bone char) and some beers (isinglass [fish swim bladders]). And there’s always our good friend with a million names, cochineal/carmine/crimson lake/natural red 4/E120, aka bugs that make your food red.

I love lettuce and cabbage in salad!

IME that’s the exception rather than the rule, and usually it’s just tasteless limp water 😔

You’re right it wouldn’t exist right now if Trump hadn’t won, but Democrats don’t have a good record of closing shit like this, either. Guantanamo Bay was supposed to be closed when Obama got elected, Republicans were responsible for that one too.

I blame lettuce. It almost never adds anything to the experience, and when combined with ketchup, mayo, etc it creates a smooth surface to make the other fillings shoot out when you bite into it.

No, the embryo existed for 30+ years, not just an egg. This is also a demonstration of how properly frozen embryos remain viable for decades if necessary/desired; from what I have been told it’s actually a little harder to freeze only eggs.

Bees 2500 years ago, having their honey taken only to have it sit in the dirt for 2.5 millennia:

MOM I WANT MY TAR!

It’s back up now for me

Makes me want to watch Local 58 again.

And this is why any queer person who knows half a lick of history is, at minimum, suspicious of assimilationist sentiments if not outright hostile to them.

🖕 Fuck you too, Pete. You don’t give a shit about fairness, pandering asswipe.

Right now nobody is on the ballot because the primaries don’t happen until 2027.

People are talking about Newsom making a presidential run because it’s extremely obvious he’s gearing up for a run, and part of the way he’s doing that is by dumping ‘controversial’ trans rights in order to court centrists and Republicans. Another is by signaling to big businesses (like electrical companies) that he’s going to work for them, and not citizens.

You can help keep him off the ballot by telling everyone who talks about him what a shithead he is, and how he will trample over anyone to chase lobbyist money.

Why did you take this as an invitation to start 2 years early?

Why do you think this isn’t something any given trans person has already thought about?

Are you volunteering to help keep him off the ballot, or do you just want to yell at me for pointing out the ways he fucks over my community specifically?

I can already hear the vote blue no matter who people in 2027/8 calling me a Russian shill for pointing out he abandoned trans people the second it became politically expedient 🫠 Or if I’m really lucky, arguing with me over how abandoning trans people is actually necessary or not happening or whatever else.

Out of curiosity, did you copy the link from someone else’s comment on another instance? I’ve literally never seen a Blahaj comment get caught by a censor filter for anything, much less a .com

https://time.com/6282514/little-mermaid-ursula-drag-queen-divine/

Ursula is pretty easy to understand, because that’s so 1:1 with Divine and there are direct confirmations.

With Scar one of the supervising animators, Andreas Deja, is openly gay (now, not at the time because it was the 90s) and has spoken about adding campiness and other gay influence to his work.

With other examples it’s a bit more difficult, because to understand it you need to understand how the Hays Code affected the portrayal of queer people on screen. The short version is that queer people weren’t allowed to be overtly portrayed at all, so any characters with queer coded behavior (by 30s to 60s standards) wound up as villains. As this becomes more entrenched in media, these mannerisms became shorthand for villain, so by the time the 90s rolls around the people referencing these tropes might not be familiar with their origin.

For the long version, see the documentary The Celluloid Closet.

Any of the top three.

Yeah, I think the earliest instance of the blue toned gay men’s pride flag is like the 2010s? I know I didn’t see it before then, and I mostly associate it with tumblr and twitter.

If you expand it to include art in general that shit goes back to the Silk Road!

My grandparents remembered the local extinction of American chestnut trees. They still had other nut bearing trees (pecan and hickory), but they missed the chestnuts. They’re gone but my family still lives in the same place, and I’d love if they could add chestnut trees to the other trees on their property some day soon.