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[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

If abortion is “murder,” then parents refusing a simple vitamin K shot to prevent their newborn from bleeding to death should be too.

[𝓔𝓶 ♡ @emkenobi]

We need a new law that bans presidents from having personal social media and posting shit like this. Bring back professionalism, please. Their socials should only be used to post about government updates. I cannot believe our current administration, which is full of adults, continues to post AI memes and videos. This country has become a joke because of Trump.

[i 🫶🏿 @afroxbabyyy]

as a non vegan, veganism is objectively the morally correct position. anyone who denies that is coping bc they feel guilt/like a bad person which is why they’ll weaponize indigenous peoples in this conversation despite not being indigenous to attempt to maintain moral superiority

[🦢 @ZainabSana2622]

How do I change my organ donor status to “for women only”

[hunter @3gpmh]

i once tried journaling but it looked like i was writing a suicide note

[The Saurus @TheSaurus831]

100% of people who voted for this are the dumbest dipshits you’ll ever interact with in life

[talia @taliasbonnin]

Put me unmedicated in a room with RFK Jr. for 30 mins and he’ll come out saying we need Lexapro in the drinking water

[Dr. Simon @goddek]

And just like that… everybody stopped talking about the Epstein Files.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Stop. Staging. Fake. Assassination. Attempts.

[ElBuni @therealbuni]

Una gata embarazada estaba por parir
Así que su amiga paloma fue y se puso a hacerle un nido

[taylor @_boredtaylor]

I love orcas so much it makes me so emotional bye

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Orcas have brain structures you don't have.

Neurobiologist Lori Marino's MRI work on killer whales identified a fourth cortical segment called the paralimbic lobe. It sits next to the limbic system and handles emotion and social awareness. It doesn't exist in humans or in any land mammal. In orcas, it's so elaborated it erupts into the cortex.

Their cortical limbic lobe, the region handling self-awareness and social processing, is exceptionally developed. Their brain weighs roughly 12 pounds, four times the mass of yours. They have spindle cells, the same neurons that let humans reason about other minds.

When an orca surfaces and locks eyes with you, it's running a social assessment with neural hardware specialized for exactly that. It knows you're a separate being. It knows you're watching it back. It's evaluating you.

Here's what should recontextualize the clip. In all of recorded history, wild orcas have killed zero humans. Zero documented fatalities. One surfer was bitten off California in 1972, and the orca released him the moment it realized he wasn't a sea lion. A 12-year-old was bumped in Alaska in 2005. The orca approached, touched him, turned back.

Orcas hunt great white sharks. They coordinate wave attacks that sweep seals off ice floes. They take down moose swimming between islands. They have every capability to kill you. They have never chosen to.

Marino's explanation: the orca neocortex is developed enough to instantly distinguish a human from prey. Other researchers point to orca culture, the traditions passed through pods across generations, in which humans simply aren't food.

That look is recognition and restraint. From a mind built for social cognition at a scale your brain can't reach.

[Meg | The Feminist Budget Mom @_nomadic_soul]

I personally can’t imagine giving birth to a child whose only experience in life would be pain and death, just so I could feel better about myself on some fucked up moral level?

[Bothered Boy🏴🚩Back on my Bullsh*t @BotheredBoy]

This is what people mean when they say that poverty is systemic and a class issue, and not because of personal choices.

[choppa 🛝 @choppaslide]

I think this video should get sent into space it should outlive us all and be a memory of who we were

[lain @prfctsweetie]

being friends with women like this is fucking exhausting

[ج @IUIYIYUB]

كانت ذي اكبر عملية غسل مخ شفتها بحياتي

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Orcas eat great white sharks. They hunt seals, dolphins, and baby whales. They have never killed a single human in the open ocean. Not once, in all of recorded history.

An orca's brain weighs up to 15 pounds. Yours weighs about 3. They have roughly double the brain cells we do in the regions that handle complex thought. A neuroscientist at Emory named Lori Marino put an orca brain in an MRI and found these animals can tell different species apart underwater. They do it by sending out clicks that bounce off everything around them and come back as a kind of 3D sound map (this is called echolocation). From 500 feet away, an orca knows you're a human and not a seal. It skips you on purpose.

The answer is culture. Orcas around the world are divided into at least 10 separate populations, each with its own food rules, its own language, and its own way of hunting. All of it learned from their mothers. One population eats only fish. Another eats only marine mammals like seals and sea lions. These two populations can live in the exact same water and never swap a single meal. A baby orca learns what food is from its mother, and that list stays the same for life.

In the Pacific Northwest, one population called the Southern Residents eats almost nothing but Chinook salmon. Scientists have documented them killing harbor porpoises 78 times over six decades, carrying the dead porpoises in their mouths, and never once eating them. Even when the group was starving. A 2023 study in Marine Mammal Science looked at all 78 cases and concluded it was play. These orcas would rather go hungry than eat something their culture says isn't food.

Researchers studying whale behavior in 2001 found that orca cultural traditions "appear to have no parallel outside humans." Each family group has its own dialect, its own version of the language. Calves spend about two years just learning how to make all the sounds their family uses. Mothers will slow down a hunt on purpose so their young can watch.

In 2005, a 12-year-old kid was swimming in Helm Bay, Alaska when an orca came at him full speed. At the very last second, the orca seemed to realize it was charging a human. It bent its entire body in half and turned back to open water. In captivity, it goes differently. SeaWorld's Tilikum killed three people during his life in a concrete tank. Research from 2016, published in the journal Animals, traced it to psychological collapse from being locked away from the family bonds orcas need to stay stable.

I think calling this a "mystery" undersells the science. Orcas decide what to eat based on culture, not instinct. No orca mother has ever taught her calf to hunt humans, so no orca hunts humans. Only about 75 of those salmon-eating Southern Residents are still alive. Their pregnancy failure rate is 69% because we've destroyed their salmon runs. They won't break their food culture to survive. Whether we care enough to protect theirs is the part that actually matters.

[ash @girIsinthehood]

zendaya puts on them converses and the gay takes over her like the green goblin mask

[baby jane 🍓 @janedazey]

at the age of ten i thought this was the hottest thing ever and you know what? i was absolutely right

[sammm ☆ @onlysammms]

the hottest thing a man can do is agree with me when i tell him to stfu