all that you change changes you
who benefits from this?
  • hey! call me spec. my pronouns are they/them. 22, chinese&white, queer. in the USA.

    i love writing & researching & editing, and mutuals are always welcome to ask me to proofread/beta/whatever your work! or if you need anything transcribed, my typing speed is 90wpm. i’ve been on tumblr for almost a decade.

    @literalchineseperson is my sideblog with significantly more followers, so i often rb posts that need to be signal boosted there. @hydrochaeriswrites is my sideblog for fic writing/zukka/atla. my stance on anti/proship discourse can be found here.

    interests:

    love, farming/food sovereignty, circus, chinese languages, dnd, being learning disabled in academia, baking, interdependence, dropping out of college (did it twice in the last 3 yrs), dinosaurs + paleontology, writing, math, theatre, attention, nature

    media:

    alice isn’t dead (podcast), pet (novel by akwaeke emezi), the city we became (novel by n.k. jemisin), a:tla (tv show, i haven’t read the comics; zukka is my hyperfixation. please read my fic, u don’t need prior knowledge of the show), kipo and the age of wonderbeasts (tv show)

    mutuals can ask for my twitter & discord, and feel free to message me in general. i’m talkative by nature and happy to hear what’s on ur mind!

    cashapp $heznb

    no dni, i just block people ~ヾ(^∇^)

  • image
  • Bro this rice can move

  • julaibib:
“ Afghan men wait for adhan to break fast during holy month of Ramadan
”
  • Afghan men wait for adhan to break fast during holy month of Ramadan

  • An adolescent bamboo rat (竹鼠) doing bamboo rat things

  • Camellia sinensis, Chinese variety, 十八学士shi ba xue shi (eighteen scholars)

  • the real question is how many people have *you* admitted you have a crush on to

  • tumblr SHIELD. for 3 bucks a month, whenever a blaze post would appear on your dash, a pre-loaded post of yours instead appears on the dashboard of the person who tried to blaze you

  • tumblr BLAST. for 5 bucks a month, whenever a blaze post of yours would be blocked by tumblr shield, it instead appears in all caps at the top of the shielded person’s dashboard for an hour and flashes violently whenever they try to block it

  • tumblr POSSESS. for 200$ a day you can post using another person’s blog, though you cannot change their blog in any other way nor delete their previous posts. at the end of the day they receive half of the 200 dollars

    tumblr TRUE SIGHT. for 6$ monthly you can see when a blog is possessed. tumblr SCRY. for 30$ a day you can read other blogs’ private messages

  • I wish more people knew what changing places toilets are. I literally plan my life around them, but most people have never heard of them.

    image

    [ID: a photo of a changing places toilet with equipment including a ceiling hoist and changing table /end ID]

    For those who don't know, a changing places toilet is designed for disabled people who can't use a standard accessible toilet. It's much bigger and has room to manoeuvre a large wheelchair. It also has extra equipment including a hoist, shower and adult size changing table. The toilet has room for a carer to stand on each side to assist the person using the toilet and there's usually also a privacy screen.

    This means that people who need a hoist to transfer from their wheelchair can access the toilet, people who need incontinence products changing don't have to lie on a toilet floor or sit in a used pad until they get home, and people with intellectual disabilities who need support from one or two carers have enough room.

    Although there's more and more becoming available, there aren't nearly enough of them around, which severely limits where disabled people like me can go, and some disabled people who don't live near one may find it very hard or impossible to leave their house at all.

    In the UK it's also possible to hire portable changing places toilets for events like festivals or Pride. My cousins even hired one for their wedding! Many tourist attractions without their own changing places toilets will also hire them to improve access for a day or more. So if you are involved in organising events, or are able to give feedback to organisers - let them know!

  • typhlonectes:
“ Discovery of a population related to the presumably extinct micro-endemic Blunt-headed Salamander (Ambystoma amblycephalum) Dufresnes et al.
ABSTRACT
“We report on the discovery of a population related to the Blunt-headed Salamander...
  • Discovery of a population related to the presumably extinct micro-endemic Blunt-headed Salamander (Ambystoma amblycephalum)

    Dufresnes et al.

    ABSTRACT

    We report on the discovery of a population related to the Blunt-headed Salamander (Ambystoma amblycephalum), a micro-endemic axolotl from Mexico scientifically confirmed only once since its original description in 1940, and now presumably extinct. 

    In 2018, paedomorphic and metamorphosed adults, as well as clutches and larvae, were found in a cattle pond at Nahuatzen, Michoacán state, Mexico, ~60 km away from the type locality (Tacícuaro). 

    Morphometric comparisons suggested high similarity with the type series of A. amblycephalum, while mitochondrial DNA barcoding (16S and control region) revealed close (but imperfect) matching to a reference sequence. 

    We gathered data on life history and ecology of this population, which could be the only extant relic of A. amblycephalum. Its highly limited distribution and presumably low population density are hallmarks for a high risk of extinction, and alarms on the critical situation of many micro-endemic salamanders of Mexico, hence calling for immediate conservation actions.

    Read the paper here:

    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23766808.2022.2029323

  • terminusantequem:
“Xinyu Han (Chinese, b. 1998), Next Question, 2020. Oil on canvas, 18 x 24 in.
”
  • Xinyu Han (Chinese, b. 1998), Next Question, 2020. Oil on canvas, 18 x 24 in.