Dreaming of the Sun Rise

[thotsxo]

[homofied]

Fourth: “honey” but like condescendingly

[anxietyproblem]

[egberts]

[collectivefandomstuff]

At a Gala

Bruce: [from the corner of his mouth] please behave

Dick: [downs his third flute of champagne, cheerfully] I always behave!

Babs: [grabs Dick's arm] I'll keep an eye on him

Dick: [pouting] You crash into a buffet ONCE-

Damian: [darting behind them] Shield me!

Babs: Did someone pinch your cheeks again?

Damian: Father, these people are monstrous!

Bruce: [in a stressed whisper] BeHavE

Dick: [already on drink no. 5] at least Jason isn't here.

Babs: [peering across the room] is Cass trying to steal Mrs Hannigan's necklace?

Damian: -tt- probably another inane dare from Brown.

Bruce: [through gritted teeth] I knew it was too easy to convince her to come with us tonight

Damian: [hisses viciously when a middle-aged woman comes too close]

Bruce: Look I know none of you... actually none of US want to be here but- wait, where's Tim?

Everyone: [looks around]

Tim's voice, whispering over the PA system: white columns are lies

Babs: On an unrelated note, when is the last time Tim slept?

Bruce: [eye twitching]

Damian: We have lost Grayson

Bruce: Barbara!

Babs: Shit, I got distracted. Where the hell did he go?

Damian: He is over by the bar.

Babs: [glances around the sea of people] Where?

Damian: Now he is ripping down a tapestry.

Bruce: Where?!!

Damian: And wearing it as a toga.

Bruce: [frustrated] Damian! Please point him out!

Damian: [sniffs] It is rude to point, father.

Bruce: [whispering furiously] Your brother is dressed in a historic wall decoration!!

Tim's voice, whispering over the PA-system: no one actually likes Émile Zola everyone just pretends to to seem intellectual

Damian: I passed that piece earlier, it is a replica.

Babs: [tired] Damian! Where did he go?!

Damian: He is approaching the balcony

Bruce: I see him!

Bruce: No, that's just Mr Hannigan.

Damian: Grayson has found the buffet

Babs: oh no

Bruce: Not again

Damian: There is no need for hysterics. Grayson has simply stolen a few trays and crawled under the table.

Damian: Cain appears to be joining him.

Damian: I will... supervise. [stalks off towards the buffet]

Bruce: [whispers after him] Behave!

Babs:

Bruce: I don't deserve this

Babs: You chose this. I'M the one who doesn't deserve this.

Tim's voice, whispering over the PA-system: Modern art is just art for people who can't see beauty in the real world because they don't like their own lives

Babs: [thoughtfully] He's got a point.

[mercedesbenzodiazepine]

[alphacrone]

i know so many of us have been trained since a young age to be so accommodating as to fear ever expressing an opinion, but as we get older we need to understand that being “accommodating” to the point of total indecisiveness is a very uncomfortable way to go through life, for you AND those around you. it’s ok to have an opinion on something. it’s ok to make a decision. your friends won’t hate you if you’re the one to end the “where do you want to eat” “oh anywhere is fine with me” discussion by suggesting a restaurant. you’re not high maintenance if you say, “noon is more convenient for me” when someone asks you what time you want to hang out. make decisions, have opinions, be part of the planning process, understand that you’re not being inconvenient, you’re just contributing. 

[randomslasher]

YES THIS. I hate how many of us have been raised to think having preferences (or heaven forbid, needs) makes us an inconvenience to others. It’s so hard to overcome, but it really is okay to have opinions.  

[free-your-mind]

[couriers-mile]

Soon may the wellerman come

your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb

[laikaspaceprotector]

so much to do, so much to see the name of the ship was the billy of tea

[gay-irl]

gay🥵irl

[sosuperawesome]

Mahdieh Farhadkiaei on Instagram

[spacetoday]

[showerthoughtsofficial]

The fact that the location of the world’s oldest tree has to be kept secret encapsulates everything that’s bad about humanity.

[hyperappreciation]

There’s a story about that, actually.

According to the smithsonianmag.com, the world’s oldest bristlecone pine was a nearly 5,000 year old tree later named Prometheus. In 1964, a man named Donald Rusk Currey decided to use an increment borer to determine its age (a process that cuts a small hole into the center of the tree trunk, and is not intended to kill the tree). Unfortunately, the borer got stuck. He and a park ranger cut the tree down to remove the equipment, and when they counted the tree rings, they realized their mistake. Oops. This incident lead to better protection of the remaining bristlecone pines.

There’s some wiggle room about what can be called “the world’s oldest living tree.” The world’s oldest living single tree is the tree that the OP is referring to. Its name is Methuselah,and it is also around 5,000 years old. Since its location is unknown, nobody knows what it looks like. But it might be this tree here:

But technically, it isn’t the oldest living tree. Let me explain.

It turns out that root systems of trees can send up genetically identical saplings (aka clones) via their root systems. Like so:

Which means the original trunk can die, but since the root system is attached to other trees which give it nutrients, it lives on. The root system can theoretically do this indefinitely. So the tree trunks could be fairly young, but the roots could be large and very, very, very old. So the oldest “tree” isn’t a small grove, it’s a logic-defying forest.

I’d like you to meet Pando.

This male quaking aspen covers 106 acres and is ancient. I’m talking an estimate of 80,000 years. The trees you can see are just “shoots” he sent up, and their average age is 130 years old. He is his own forest. If trees could talk, I’d love to hear what he had to say.

He might be dying, due to insects and drought (hmm, wonder what could have happened to cause that). A section of Pando is being studied in an attempt to find a solution. But in the meantime, we can enjoy him for his beauty.

TLDR: Yes please, protect the trees from humans!

[milamai]

[a-titty-ninja]

[timberphoto]

we can build a treehouse in the pine trees.. 

[noschitts]

[zzoloftqueen-deactivated2024112]

How are you using your First Amendment Rights? Give specifics to show Antifa peacefully protests and shut up stupid anons. They make it hard for true anons to ask legitimate questions.

The average night protesting in Portland starts with a group of people gathering in a park, providing mutual aid, food and medical supplies, protective gear and coordinating rides etc.

This is becoming a common time when the police will meet up with us. When we are peacefully in a park around 8pm. There is no curfew in Portland and has not been since the first couple weeks of protests. Portland Parks do not close until midnight.

They waltz throughout the crowd taking shields and helmets, slashing water supplies, knocking over mutual aid tables, questioning, and unlawfully searching people.

They then announce that we are not allowed to march on the streets to wherever we are going... even tho there is usually not much traffic in these neighborhoods the hours that we are marching. Marching in streets has a looooooooong history of being a part of peaceful protests in America and around the world. Blocking traffic is not violence.

We usually march to one of the police precincts, their union building, a courthouse, or the ICE facility. We are marching and chanting. We are listening to speakers on microphones and megaphones.

They decide at some point to declare us standing in the street an unlawful assembly, we don’t change anything, they declare it a riot, we don’t change anything, they tear gas or bull rush and beat us.

I don’t know how to explain an average night in Portland better than that. That’s the play by play.

We also do 24/7 stakeouts for people who are being threatened with eviction. We collected warehouses full of supplies and fascilitated them being delivered all across the west coast for people displaced from the fires. We crowd funded for children’s respirators for the people who have been getting tear gassed in their homes. We have art therapy in Parks, we have musical benefits for families needing assistance with medical bills, we have resume building workshops...

While I personally do not believe that peaceful protesting is the only valid form of protest and I am much more inclined to look at the methods of more insurgent resistance groups throughout history, I fail to see how what we are doing can be labeled as violent. Yes, there have been exceptions certainly, but on a whole I don’t get it.

Remember: the feds were originally sent to Portland over graffiti charges. Graffiti is not violent.