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[istarling]

I like these guys

[thepineapplepanda]

He's already seen all the important stuff that has happened and will happen, now it's just shower thoughts 24/7.

[kelpcheep]

seems loyalty runs in the family

[trollprincess]

“Nobody’s going to want to sit on high-speed rail for fifteen hours to get from New York City to LA.”

Me. I will sit on high-speed rail for fifteen hours. I’ll sit on it for days. I’ll write and read and nap and eat and then do it all over again. I’ll stare out the windows and see America from ground level and not have to drive. I’ll see the Rockies and the deserts and cornfields and the Mississippi River and your house and yours and yours too. I’ll make up stories in my head about the small towns I see as we go along. I’ll see the states I’ve yet to see because driving or flying there is a fucking slog and expensive to boot. I’ll enjoy the ride as much as the destination. And then I’ll do it all over again to come the fuck home.

[meredithmcclaren]

I regularly, for fun, look up the longest train rides I could possibly have the pleasure of enjoying. The chance to just look out the window and SEE everywhere I am? Without the anxiety of driving? That's the stuff of dreams.

God.

I want this so bad.

[possumcollege]

Folks'll bemoan the experience of riding a train but they'll take a 15hr plane ride where they have to show up 2hrs early for security theater, pay ever-increasing fees to carry smaller and smaller bags, and wait in a miserably expensive, usually crowded terminal before boarding a tightly packed cylinder that smells of disinfectant, preservatives, oil and old hair where you can't get out, walk around, open a window, or sit/sleep/stand up comfortably for hours at a time.

I'm tall. I got bone problems in my spine. I got brain problems triggered by flying. Planes literally force me into a stress position for the duration of the trip unless I pay a few hundred dollars extra for person-scale seats.

Trains sound lovely as fuck.

[poqu]

flower crowns

[poqu]

a little bonus happy torchic!

[kyleandkody]

kyleandkody:

Dandelions /w Kody

[aishiteru-kenshin]

( Monet’s Pond, Seki City, Gifu Prefecture, Japan )

[the-golden-onion]

So I work at a library and about a month ago I helped a little old woman who is legally blind figure out how to listen to our audiobooks on her tablet. We got to chatting and I mentioned that I always listen to audiobooks while I knit, which made her very excited and she told me all about the afghans she used to make when she could still see. She was so sweet and I was so glad to be able to help her figure out a way to still enjoy books without being able to read.

Yesterday I answered the phone at work and when I said my name the woman on the other line got so excited and said “Madeline?? You’re exactly who I wanted to talk to! This is Marie, you helped me about a month ago. How late are you working today?” It was her!! And about an hour later she and her husband showed up, and she was carrying a huge stack of old knitting patterns for me, and her husband brought in a few boxes full of yarn. They couldn’t stay long but I was so touched that she remembered me, and I struggled to not just flat out start crying when she handed me the patterns. When I looked through them later I realized it was her entire personal collection from over the years, including all her personal notes and drawings and even some photographs of her finished pieces. No one in my family knits, and to have someone pass on their legacy to me like that was incredibly moving.

This isn’t what I usually post here, but with life being especially dark lately I wanted to share a moment of happiness and a reminder that a bit of kindness goes a long way ♡

[headspace-hotel]

In the future, children will think our ways are strange. "Why do old people always grow so much milkweed in their gardens?" they'll say. "Why do old people always write down when the first bees and butterflies show up? Why do old people hate lawn grass so much? Why do old people like to sit outside and watch bees?"

We will try to explain to them that when we were young, most people's yards were almost entirely short grass with barely any flowers at all, and it was so commonplace to spray poisons to kill insects and weeds that it was feared monarch butterflies and American bumblebees would soon go extinct. We will show them pictures of sidewalks, shops, and houses surrounded by empty grass without any flowers or vegetables and they will stare at them like we stared at pictures of grimy children working in coal mines

[headspace-hotel]

We will be feeding our grandchildren strawberries and raspberries we grew in our gardens, dragging them along to the farmers' markets for tomatoes and eggs and goats milk and pickles and pecans and salsa and sunflower seed butter and jars of honey, as they complain and drag their feet because Gramma always stands around talking to people for like an HOUR

and we will say "When I was YOUR age, fruits and vegetables came from a supermarket and they were bred to get shipped 1000 miles in a truck and sit on shelves for weeks, and they tasted so sour and watery it was like eating paper compared to these ones. It wasn't even legal in some places to grow your own food"

and they will roll their eyes like yeah yeah just because everything was miserable in the 20s doesn't mean I have to have a smile on my face standing in the hot sun while you listen to that one guy talk about his bees FOREVER

But they will go, because there might be baby goats.

[headspace-hotel]

Since I made this post, dozens and dozens of people have left tags telling me that it was the first thing today that made them want to continue living, that it was the first thing that made them consider that they might be okay years in the future, that they might grow old, that it was the first and only post of its kind they'd ever seen—the first post that boldly predicts a future where we make it.

And many other people have been just spitting, foaming at the mouth fucking FURIOUS. How dare I have the audacity to imagine a future where things get better?

Don't I know how BAD things are? Am I not aware of the TERROR and DEVASTATION of climate change and fascism and biodiversity loss? How dare someone be so bold, so callous, as to imagine something other than misery and suicide. How dare someone suggest it will get better. How dare a person propose that there is a future where we will be okay, in the face of so much terror. Hasn't she seen the abyss opening its jaws before us?

Well? What do you think?

Do you think I've seen the abyss?

[yesterdaysprint]

Daily Mirror, England, January 23, 1923 Image © The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved.

[gameswithfisch]

I forget who originally said it, but there’s a quote about “Great science fiction isn’t predicting the automobile, it’s predicting the traffic jam”

[outgrower-deactivated20221008]

i was about to caption this “me every time my friends and i are just trying to have a nice dinner” or something like that until i remembered that that is, in fact, the exact situation going on in the full strip

[sabertoothwalrus]

get him a ouppy!!!!!

[unovachampion]

今度はあっちへ

[socialistexan]

Rot in Piss, Joe. Thanks for fucking us over for a generation.

[socialistexan]

No, but, I don't think younger people understand, Lieberman is like *the* reason things didn't get fixed under Obama.

When Democrats had the supermajority in the Senate and could pass whatever they wanted, from enshrining Roe v Wade or getting rid of the Bush-era tax cuts for billionaires and corporations, he's the guy that stopped them.

He's the guy that killed the public option. He's the reason we got a Republican healthcare plan passed under a Democratic President.

This man was one of the driving forces behind the Iraq War, he's the one that spread the lies around WMDs in Iraq which led to millions of deaths. He stuck to that lie as late as 2011. When even Bush people had turned tail years before that.

In addition to that, he was a staunch Zionist to the bitter end, and praised Biden for not "caving" to pressure from the left about the IDF's continuing war crimes in Palestine.

This is the man that put forward legislation that created the Department of Homeland Security.

I'm glad this asshole is dead.

[lilithism1848]

[xeansicemane]

I would argue this isn't "People are just too fucking stupid" rather it's "policing exists primarily to enforce terror on parts of society and our community they deem undesirable"

[chrisflemingfleming]

[wheelsgoroundincircles]

1930 L-29 Cord

Once-abandoned 1930 L-29 Cord, Before and after restoration.