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A Chilling Enthusiast and not a minor 🌛 too weird to live too rare to die

[cyberglittter]

hengdi wang ss26 demi-couture

[jellyfish-everywhere]

EVERY BODY KNOWS SHITS FUCKED

[bipdf]

what's a tumblr influencer? what am i influencing? my mental illness? 😭

[werkwerkelizaaa]

[beardedmrbean]

[starwarsblr]

Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith dir. George Lucas | 2005

[velvetcloak]

Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, irregular choice

[velvetcloak]

Halloween, but high fashion. by Wisdom Kaye

[starcitysirens]

People on twitter are always like 'there's still people on tumblr?'... As if Twitter wasn't full of stolen text posts, gifs and art originally posted here

[enabuns]

This is now my new favorite best friend duo

[multi-fandomantal]

OMDS I'M CRYING I LOVE THIIISSSS

[themakeupbrush]

Dolce & Gabbana Alta Moda 2025

[maroonpascal]

Literally three seconds old, so full of kindness and wonder, discovering everything for the first time, experiencing the warmth of the sun and hearing the first words, oh Creature you deserve the world

[boomer-mythology-destroyer]

[kedreeva]

@teameagleworks

[zaolat]

This video has been getting AI accusations and it isn't! All these types of woods exist! Though some of them are local names, I was able to track all of them down! Here are all the woods shown in the video!

Purpleheart Wood: Peltogyne genus, native to Central and South American rainforests. Freshly cut it's light brown, then turns into rich shades of purple. It turns brown in UV light so it has to be finished with a UV inhibitor to keep those gorgeous colors.

Namnu (various): A type of precious wood found in China/South Asia, sourced from various different species of trees, hence the different examples shown here. High grades of the wood are known for the optical effect shown in the video. Unfortunately the types of trees that produce the wood are all critically endangered, which is why the examples shown are all items or pillars or fragments of pieces. The species are all strictly protected and new trees cannot be harvested.

That example in the video is just that one video that goes around with the inside of a tree that's been struck burning while it still stands, but sometimes trees that have been struck by lightning and are cut down can have neat burn patterns in the wood (example), as the lightning goes to ground, so some people might want that. Who am I to judge.

Chicken-blood vine wood: Species is Spatholobus suberectus and it's only that bright when it's cut, it dries to a more woody color. Here's a page with examples of what the wood looks like when it's dried and some things made with it.

Amber wood: This one took a while. There's a video out there claiming this is "petrified amber wood". That's not possible, I'm a geologist I would know. Since the video is in Chinese originally I presume, "amber wood" must be a translated local name. It's sandalwood, which has that gorgeous bright red color. Even tracked down the video the clip is taken from. "Chandan wood" is another name for sandalwood. Which smells amazing.

Rosewood: The most well known of the woods here in my opinion. There's a number of rosewoods, all in various shades of pinks and reds. True rosewoods are from the genus Dalbergia. Sadly they're all endangered, but illegal harvesting continues.

Purple hainan huanghuali: Dalbergia odorifera, the Chinese rosewood.

Pink oak - Likely pink ivory (Phyllogeiton zeyheri). You need a permit to cut down one of these trees, but it really is that pink. One of the most expensive woods in the world, up there with sandalwood.

Burmese huanghuali: Rosewood...3! This is either Dalbergia oliveri or Pterocarpus indicus, but given that Pterocarpus indicus is descripted as having purplish heartwood, I'm guessing it's Dalbergia oliveri. Though it's not a true rosewood, Pterocarpus indicus is also sadly endangered.

Liudao wood: This is Abelia biflora, though it looks like it has been reclassified as Zabelia biflora recently. Either it only looks like that when the bark is being peeled or it's the lighting in the videos. BUT this wood is used in making Buddhist prayer beads because of both its grain pattern connects to philosophy and its mention in Tibetan Buddhist texts.

[kedreeva]

Thank you for all that work!! I recognized some of the woods (since my siblings in law woodwork) but not all of them, and was going to look into them when I woke up, but you've gone and brought up all the treasure from the rabbit hole!

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[thechanelmuse]

Hazel Scott playing two pianos at the same damn time with ease

[erinbowbooks]

Hazel Scott was a musical sorcerer and a civil rights hero.   She:

 was admitted to Julliard at 8.  

was performing in top venues by 16.  

pioneered “swinging the classics” and made the equivalent of a million dollars a year doing it.  

was the first person of color to have their own national TV show.  

went to Hollywood but refused to be cast as a “singing maid.”  Demanded and got control over her casting, her wardrobe, and how footage featuring her was cut.  

refused to perform in segregated venues and led charges for integration in several northern cities, notably Spokane.  

She was brought down by the House Committee on Unamerican Activities, and has been largely forgotten.  But she was a sorcerer, and a hero.  

[domduongart]

@theladyragnell

[violent-darts]

Let’s un-forget her.

[dream-piper]

So I learned something new today!

[sassinake]

‘Un-American Activities’. Ugh!

[elisecairo]

[bambispaceship]

Indonesian here!

There are some points need to be highlighted:

1. The student alliances are NEVER involved in burning public facility, committing violence, or provoking the deeds to do so.

2. Their solemn goal is to negotiate with government, communication, and that's it.

3. It's some street gangs that was paid to disguised as student (wearing their campus attributes) that start provoking the police by beating, throwing molotovs, or burning public facility, end up with some violence action (some of you already heard about the late Affan, the first victim during the protest, and he's not even part of the protester, he was just completing his food delivering order)

4. You know what's the plot twist? Those street gangs ARE PAID by some people from the government. How the people know? because it's always like that, since 1998 ( <- you can search what happened in Indonesia in 1998). The goal? Is to create a chaos situation, that's enough for the president to put the whole country in a protocol called Darurat Militer.

5. Darurat Militer is when military takes over the whole country, they have the full authority to take everything from people, including life, without question and without procedure.

6. In Darurat Militer, the people are not allowed to question everything the government & military do. It was meant to protect us during war, but now it's a weapon to silence us so the government can continue protecting the corruption they do.

Trivia:

On August 30-31, midnight, they shut down the electricity in Kwitang (a region in Jakarta) and the police were ordered to start firing everyone in the area. I mean everyone, students, online drivers, civilians, everyone in the radius.

During the same time, any live feature on social media WAS BANNED, so the people were completely blinded.

Also, during that time, some health workers & journalists are among the victims. Yes, they attacked those people too.

Up until today, the protest is still going, and the street gang that tries to provoke people to commit violence is still paid. Recent update also tells that they just threw a molotov to an academic area, a campus, and police were sent.

And in some areas, the live feature is still gone, and they start taking down contents on social media that cover the updates of the protest.

[bambispaceship]

Updates!

Even the Dean of the university the gang attacked recently isn't even on people's side. The Dean told press that it was the action of THE PROTESTERS, and denied that there were provokers.

Meanwhile, the CCTV clearly shows that there were some people from nowhere, dressed in black, and they were throwing molotovs to the university area.

[elisecairo]

[bambispaceship]

Indonesian here!

There are some points need to be highlighted:

1. The student alliances are NEVER involved in burning public facility, committing violence, or provoking the deeds to do so.

2. Their solemn goal is to negotiate with government, communication, and that's it.

3. It's some street gangs that was paid to disguised as student (wearing their campus attributes) that start provoking the police by beating, throwing molotovs, or burning public facility, end up with some violence action (some of you already heard about the late Affan, the first victim during the protest, and he's not even part of the protester, he was just completing his food delivering order)

4. You know what's the plot twist? Those street gangs ARE PAID by some people from the government. How the people know? because it's always like that, since 1998 ( <- you can search what happened in Indonesia in 1998). The goal? Is to create a chaos situation, that's enough for the president to put the whole country in a protocol called Darurat Militer.

5. Darurat Militer is when military takes over the whole country, they have the full authority to take everything from people, including life, without question and without procedure.

6. In Darurat Militer, the people are not allowed to question everything the government & military do. It was meant to protect us during war, but now it's a weapon to silence us so the government can continue protecting the corruption they do.

Trivia:

On August 30-31, midnight, they shut down the electricity in Kwitang (a region in Jakarta) and the police were ordered to start firing everyone in the area. I mean everyone, students, online drivers, civilians, everyone in the radius.

During the same time, any live feature on social media WAS BANNED, so the people were completely blinded.

Also, during that time, some health workers & journalists are among the victims. Yes, they attacked those people too.

Up until today, the protest is still going, and the street gang that tries to provoke people to commit violence is still paid. Recent update also tells that they just threw a molotov to an academic area, a campus, and police were sent.

And in some areas, the live feature is still gone, and they start taking down contents on social media that cover the updates of the protest.

[fiveminutesago-mango]

THEY ATTACKED A COLLEGE CAMPUS.

THEY SHOT THEM WITH TEAR GAS.

THEY BEAT THE STUDENTS ON THE CAMPUS.

mind you, they were NOT in a protest. the protest finished at 6 pm. they were attacked by police at 11 PM.