(manatee manatee)

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

What's your skincare routine?

Slather myself with prescription Retin-A cream and retinol moisturizer. It’s why I never age. Among other reasons.

Retina-A is the prescription brand name for tretinoin cream. Tretinoin is actually pretty incredible from a demetological standpont. It’s a bit of a miracle in that it

prevents wrinkles

actually erases them

is fantastic for most types of acne acne

fades scars and age spots

brings all sorts of hard-to-get-to things to a surface

Pretty much any person’s skin would benefit from a tretinoin product of some kind. You can get a prescription from your primary care doctor.

Retinol creams are different but similar, both chemically and how they work. They’re available over-the counter! Search ‘retinol moisturizer’ on Amazon (or somewhere else b/c fuck Jeff Bozos). It does most of the same things tretinoin does, but more slowly. It’s also gentler on the skin and can be used more often. Whereas tretinoin is more for spot treatment, retinol can be applied in a all-around-the-face moisturizer. It also comes in body lotion options, and prevents hand wrinkles!

Just make sure to wear SPF moisturizer (which is a good idea to do anyway) during the day, because all these products make your skin more vulnerable to sun damage.

I don’t want to post this without also acknowledging the dark history behind Retin-A, which is infamous and can be read about in the book “Acres of Skin” (I haven’t read it). Trigger warning for unethical human medical experimentation, abuse, medical racism and discussion of wounds.

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[rebel-heart-gypsysoul]

Unaltered tweet

[grimnoire87]

I live in a red state. My rural city just had a BLM protest. Trump supporters showed up (alongside a known white supremscist who, hilariously enough, was the one organizing these Trumpers) and did their counter protest. The groups were on two opposing street corners. All of the Trump supporters were Whitehouse, the BLM side was majority white but there were also black people and other non white people (which fits our towns demographics). You would have had to knowingly cross the highway to get to the otherside. It would have to be intentional.

These Trump supporters had already crossed to start arguing with the protestors once. They start yelling things that are purposely inflammatory and trying to challenge folks to go over and fight them. This woman (who was on their side) eventually brings her car over and stops and jumps out and starts physically assaulting people. A gentleman tried to get her to leave and she kept at it and eventually she got maced. Someone BLM side tried to flag down observing police when she started assaulting people but it took like 3 to five minutes before they responded. So she gets maced. And on cue a bunch of white men, ar least one with a gun, cone springing over and trying to act like BLM just attacked her out of nowhere and decided that proves BLM isnt peaceful. It was all very manufactured. At least one guy who filmed the end of the confrontation had tried to disrupt a BLM protest in June. This fact is important.

Because lo and behold, Trump supporters on the otherside say "blm just maced a random woman". They put it online. And of course the cops and ambulance are in the parking lot on the blm side. So now the narrative is "BLM get violent at a protest and mace an innocent woman" and the cops had to show up. And it seems convenient. Because it is.

That woman had been standing on the Trump side shouting at BLM for like an hour. And she made it a point to get in her car, come to the BLM side and assault someone. But they claimed on camera that she was a random innocent woman that BLM attacked out of nowhere.

That is what they do. They see peaceful people and do their best to instigate, and if that doesn't work they assault and then retreat when BLM defends themselves and claim they were the victims. Then more of them rush in and try to fight and then they lie and doctor videos to make it look like BLM are violent out of nowhere. Just like we have been saying for years. They're the ones getting in peoples faces, and assaulting folks. They're usually the ones coming in from out of town. Not BLM or "antifa".

There was video accounts from multiple angles thst show she came over and attempted to fight. But it would have been a different story if no one had a camera out and all you saw was a recording of a man macing a woman. That is exactly how they have been getting away with demonizing BLM.

BLM are not the violent ones. White supremacists are. And the fact that Trump supporters are out in force with them, and are emboldened to assault others without fear of consequences should make people question the "BLM are violent rioters who want to invaders your town and destroy your way of life" narrative.

[ethicalmemes]

Yes he does put a smile on my face #EthicalMemes

[toobusydreaming]

My 3 drawings of Taylor Swift’s cats listening to their favorite Taylor Swift songs on their favorite device. Of course Meredith are old school listening to Fearless on her old cd walkman, Olivia is really into vinyl records. Both of them prefer the analog experience since they believe that an album should be experienced as a whole peice of art. Benjamin on the other hand presaved the album on Spotify and watched himself in the video segments. All of them imagine that these songs are actually about them.

LOL I had too much fun with these. I hope you think these are funny and cute and that you love my cat themed puns. It’s also a nice coincidence that they are covered in Christmas lights, since I created the sketches for the first two before I heard the song Lover.

Please like or repost if you like these, I would love it if @taylorswift saw these ✨

@taylornation

[ethicalmemes]

An alien abduction #EthicalMemes

[thesilicontribesman]

Piercebridge Roman Fort, Piercebridge, County Durham.

[hazy-october]

By Reddit user  u/skumati99

[barbaramanatee]

I don't need romantic love. I'm so sick of people saying I do or saying what if you find the one? What if you fall in love? I won't. I can't. I don't want a relationship and I'm so sick of people saying that I should get a boyfriend or asking to set me up on blind dates. Leave me alone, just leave me alone. I don't want you and I don't want all your hundreds of guys you're trying to set me up with. Just give me some peace. I'm perfectly fine on my own. I don't need romance - the idea of romance repulses me. Why can't you just leave it at that? Why are you so obsessed with my life? What is it to you whether I go to coffee with him or not? People just can't seem to understand how much I don't want romance - they just keep pressing it over and over again.

I wish I could have said all this yesterday. When my friend asked me if she set me up on a blind date, would I go. I answered no. She thought I didn't trust her. Why can't you just understand?

Why are you still obsessed with my love life?

[chroma-imp-draws]

no good art. just aromantic memes

[helenlx1998]

[the-first-old-fashioned]

So thank you for getting to know me, for sticking up for me, for seeing me as a human being

[the-first-old-fashioned]

ooh you and me, we got big reputations

[sweezysempsd]

like or c) @thiswlove 

ps: arts by theartofdreams 

[perennialphilosophy]

Loneliness is a Dangerous Thing

‘Everyone knows there are forms of cruelty which can injure a man’s life without injuring his body. They are such as deprive him of a certain form of food necessary to the life of the soul.’                     - Simone Weil, The Need for Roots

Rootlessness and homelessness, though similar in nature, are also quite different. A person who is rootless may very well have a home, but does not have a sense of belonging, they identify themselves as ‘the other’. 

Since the end of World War II, migration has increased significantly with people opting to set up their life somewhere new, whether this be for a job, education, religion, or whatever opportunity this may provide. A person disentangles themselves from the ties and bonds that they have with one place and form this relationship somewhere new… this is now home.

But home for you may not always be home for the new family that you set up. I have mentioned this before in another post so I won’t go into it in too much detail, but when looking at those with extremist and ‘radical’ thoughts, we find that they are often children of those who have migrated. The parents have chosen to build home in a new foreign land and build a relationship with that place, but the relationship is not so straight forward. This relationship is a half way house between assimilating and holding onto one’s culture; the migrant chooses which parts of the new culture to adopt and which parts of their old culture to hold onto. This might vary from eating and drinking habits, clothing, social life, it could be anything. 

The child of the migrant however, having not chosen but instead having been brought up with this conflict between the two cultures feels lost. This is something I have thought about for a long time, but Arendt put it into the words I have been searching for for so long. 

The child feels a sense of rootlessness. 

Arendt argues that those who feel rootless or homeless will seek out a home for themselves at any cost, which can have disastrous consequences. 

She states that for an individual who feels rootless and homeless, often with this comes the feeling of having an existence that is not meaningful or fruitful. To find this sense of belonging, individuals often turn to exclusionary movements and groups, which actually only increases the feeling of alienation and rootlessness. Now they are in a group that only contains people such as themselves, perhaps from one place, class, religion, etc. all together feeling like outsiders, because of the absence of others of a different background. 

Arendt says that uprootedness has been ‘the curse of the modern masses since the beginning of the industrial revolution’.

Loneliness is a dangerous thing. When a person is lonely, when they feel their roots are not in any ground but sort of drifting from place to place, a person is not themselves. Who are we, after all, without a background against us? Just an entity, perhaps? 

‘To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognised need of the human soul.’

[barbaramanatee]

hey just a friendly reminder

when somebody’s really enthusiastic and excited about something, BE EXCITED WITH THEM. who cares about your “chill” aesthetic - don’t blow them off. squeal and jump around and smile with them. be happy with them. the best thing you can do for somebody who’s really excited is to share that excitement. don’t play it cool.

[perennialphilosophy]

Loneliness is a Dangerous Thing

‘Everyone knows there are forms of cruelty which can injure a man’s life without injuring his body. They are such as deprive him of a certain form of food necessary to the life of the soul.’                     - Simone Weil, The Need for Roots

Rootlessness and homelessness, though similar in nature, are also quite different. A person who is rootless may very well have a home, but does not have a sense of belonging, they identify themselves as ‘the other’. 

Since the end of World War II, migration has increased significantly with people opting to set up their life somewhere new, whether this be for a job, education, religion, or whatever opportunity this may provide. A person disentangles themselves from the ties and bonds that they have with one place and form this relationship somewhere new… this is now home.

But home for you may not always be home for the new family that you set up. I have mentioned this before in another post so I won’t go into it in too much detail, but when looking at those with extremist and ‘radical’ thoughts, we find that they are often children of those who have migrated. The parents have chosen to build home in a new foreign land and build a relationship with that place, but the relationship is not so straight forward. This relationship is a half way house between assimilating and holding onto one’s culture; the migrant chooses which parts of the new culture to adopt and which parts of their old culture to hold onto. This might vary from eating and drinking habits, clothing, social life, it could be anything. 

The child of the migrant however, having not chosen but instead having been brought up with this conflict between the two cultures feels lost. This is something I have thought about for a long time, but Arendt put it into the words I have been searching for for so long. 

The child feels a sense of rootlessness. 

Arendt argues that those who feel rootless or homeless will seek out a home for themselves at any cost, which can have disastrous consequences. 

She states that for an individual who feels rootless and homeless, often with this comes the feeling of having an existence that is not meaningful or fruitful. To find this sense of belonging, individuals often turn to exclusionary movements and groups, which actually only increases the feeling of alienation and rootlessness. Now they are in a group that only contains people such as themselves, perhaps from one place, class, religion, etc. all together feeling like outsiders, because of the absence of others of a different background. 

Arendt says that uprootedness has been ‘the curse of the modern masses since the beginning of the industrial revolution’.

Loneliness is a dangerous thing. When a person is lonely, when they feel their roots are not in any ground but sort of drifting from place to place, a person is not themselves. Who are we, after all, without a background against us? Just an entity, perhaps? 

‘To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognised need of the human soul.’