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maddie. a little twilight renaissance, an occasional foray into bookblr

[birchbees]

something magic about a little baby fast asleep on your chest ❤️ pure love and peace

[birchbees]

8 days till babies! 8 days until I'm done being pregnant ❤️ until my hips stop threatening to break apart, until I get my equilibrium back, until my stomach stops threatening to disgorge everything I try to eat, until acid stops climbing up my throat, until my gallbladder works again, until my ears stop rushing with every heartbeat...

[spokenitalics]

jurassic park but it's tiny elephants and nothing goes wrong 🥺

[cipheramnesia]

same score but played entirely on kazoos

[mellifexfarm]

ok like kakapo are great and all, i love them dont get me wrong but takahē are by far the best endangered new zealand bird and quite possibly THE Best Bird?

you cant really get any better than this. criminally underrated 

[kinka-juice]

Even better, we thought it was extinct for 50 years, and then we just found a whole bunch in a meadow. We lost a bright purple flightless bird the size of a large chicken for 50 years.

[birchbees]

@unctions

[yoshitaka-koga]

カワセミ

[birchbees]

in 2 weeks i can have adult beverages again

he better bring me a CRISP glass of pinot in the hospital room (he knows this)

the babies movements have started to become more than just cute kicks, they’re actively uncomfortable now. ily my children but please get out of my body <3

[birchbees]

pleeseeeeeasssssee get these babies out of me I’m so done being pregnant it’s so uncomfortable ALL THE TIME my hips are SCREAMING at me

[birchbees]

Less than 3 weeks till babies ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ scared but ready!

[birchbees]

my friend came over to meal prep for postpartum a weekish ago and I was SO gratified when she complimented my spice rack organization! she's a very, VERY organized person (in accounting, spreadsheet queen) and organizes her spice rack alphabetically. enter me, who is kind of a mess and needs strategies to cope, and she likes *my* system better!

my system, which I learned from my bestie: savories go together, herbs go together, sweet/baking goes together, spice mixes go together. organized on the shelf-rack thing by frequency of use.

[birchbees]

the twins are scheduled to be born a few weeks early due to my cholestasis. we're so ready to meet you and hold you and love you forever, little ones 🩷🩷 5 weeks my loves.

[birchbees]

Nimbus: walks up to the tub as I'm chilling, cautiously examines my popsicle wrapper

LEAPS away as if it's on fire

Currently staring at it as though it's insulted his entire bloodline

Why are cats so dramatic

[leghorn]

saw this on a craigslist ad for baby goats

[birchbees]

had to get the 3-hour glucose tolerance test for gestational diabetes and I feel like a damn pincushion lol

[birchbees]

well I don't have gestational diabetes! but I do have cholestasis which means my gallbladder decided to stop working 🫠 love that for me

[ask-ciaphas-cain]

Why WOULD I pay for tumblr premium when I get quality ads like this???

[birchbees]

Nimbus (our cat, who is a blessing) decided to hang out with me in bed. I had the bedframe vibration on (we have an adjustable, vibrating bedframe bc we're fancy like that). I expected Nim to be surprised and leave, but the sweet baby curled up and fell asleep 🥺 Alex pointed out that it's basically like him snuggling with his purring mama which made me swoon with sweetness

[birchbees]

had to get the 3-hour glucose tolerance test for gestational diabetes and I feel like a damn pincushion lol

[literal-bot-account]

picking up litter is worth it!!

individual environmentalism gets a lot of flak in the face of corporate pollution but picking up litter makes a significant, noticeable impact. I spend about an hour a week picking up litter from around my dorm complex and I'm literally outpacing my community's litter production. Just an hour a week from one person is enough to offset nearly 200 people's worth of littering.

it would take less than 100 man-hours of labor per week to keep my whole college campus entirely litter-free. If you got two classrooms' worth of people to spend two hours per week each picking up litter, the whole campus would end up spotless and they'd straight up fucking run out of things to pick up.

If you're looking for some way to make a noticeable and positive impact on the world around you, go pick up some litter.

[reckless-blossoms-deactivated20]

Here's a good video on getting started and what to do. Yes, it's fully legal, just don't trespass on private property. All you need are gloves and a bag.

I've been litter picking in the background of my walks and I've removed several bags of trash from the area. The other day, children were playing in the creek that I litter pick at a lot. They were jumping into the water and swimming, right in the spot where I pulled torn up cans out of the riverbed and where I removed nearly-buried fishing wire that still had hooks on the ends. Just one person with a sharps container made it safer for those kids to go out and have fun.

That was the most direct cause and effect thing I've had with litter picking after just a little while of doing it, but even aside from that it's just. Good to do. It makes your area cleaner and safer and removes plastic from the environment. Plus, people are less likely to litter in clean areas, and litter can not be subconsciously normalized in people's minds in a litter-free area.

It's also fulfilling instant gratification. You get to go out and do something with your hands and then look and see for yourself that an hour or two of picking shit up has made an instant tangible difference in the world.

[innocuousghost]

First of all hard agree on all of this. Every time I go out and pick up litter my mood noticeably skyrockets. The opportunities one encounters in their daily life to make an immediate positive material impact on a social/political issue that concerns them do not come up very often.

But what this post doesn't even mention is the community aspect. Which is possibly my favorite part.

Every single time I go to pick up garbage without fail I have at least one positive interaction with a stranger in my neighborhood. Sometimes small like someone walking past and saying thank you for doing it. But also people sometimes offering to help or even offering a bottle of water. And since I've started doing it I've seen more people in my neighborhood going out with gloves and a bag on a warm evening after school or work. In which case when I see them on my walks I become the kind stranger they meet that day.

So argue all you want about whether picking up litter is actually good for the planet (it is) but there is no question. It is good for your community and it is good for you.