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I hit the hay all day m*th*rr f*ck*r. 25/8 sleep cycle. If you awake, you a fake. It's bedtime bitch!

[catchymemes]

[wereopossum]

The sheer energy. The beauty of this woman. The women hugging in the background. The man in rainbow parachute pants. This whole video is art.

[life-on-our-planet]

The honey possum, also called a noolbenger, is the only flightless animal that feeds exclusively on nectar and pollen. As such it’s an important pollinator in the grasslands of southern Australia. Grassland Films

[indeedgoodman]

[mjrydsfast231]

Outstanding

[rabbitindisguise]

this is like one of those scenes in anime where they put a drop of magic in the water and it gets purified, except the magic is people being people

[not-quitenormal]

Rage. In my heart. All-consuming. FUCK AI.

[neveragainfools]

For those who don't know, this piece is titled 'Unfinished Painting', by Keith Haring. He painted it about a year before his death of AIDs. I believe he actually finished other pieces between this one and his death. He left the majority of the canvas blank to represent his life and art career cut short due to HIV/AIDs. This was a deliberate choice and commentary about all that we lose (both personally and culturally) by ignoring the AIDs crisis at the time (1989). He was devastated he didn't have time to make more art. 'Finishing' Unfinished Painting is straight up spitting on Haring's grave and shows no understanding to the meaning behind the art. The AI interpretation doesn't even follow his extremely recognizable shape language and symbols. This is why people are angry about AI art. All commerce images and no meaning or humanity

[afeelgoodblog]

[moniquill]

Fact: animals do this for sound triangulation purposes! Owls don't have to do this because -their ears are biologically offset- https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/67167/are-the-asymmetrical-positions-of-owl-ears-consistent-across-species-with-this-t

[andrewhozier]

Michelle Yeoh for GQ

[rumade]

I’d divorce him too lmao

[sustainableseparatists]

[sisyphereantask]

It’s never JUST about the tomatoes.

[probablyasocialecologist]

Basically!

Throughout the day, partners would make requests for connection, what Gottman calls “bids.” For example, say that the husband is a bird enthusiast and notices a goldfinch fly across the yard. He might say to his wife, “Look at that beautiful bird outside!” He’s not just commenting on the bird here: He’s requesting a response from his wife—a sign of interest or support—hoping they’ll connect, however momentarily, over the bird.

The wife now has a choice. She can respond by either “turning toward” or “turning away” from her husband, as Gottman puts it. Though the bird-bid might seem minor and silly, it can actually reveal a lot about the health of the relationship. The husband thought the bird was important enough to bring it up in conversation and the question is whether his wife recognizes and respects that.

These bidding interactions had profound effects on marital well-being. Couples who had divorced after a six-year follow-up had “turn-toward bids” 33 percent of the time. Only three in 10 of their bids for emotional connection were met with intimacy. The couples who were still together after six years had “turn-toward bids” 87 percent of the time. Nine times out of 10, they were meeting their partner’s emotional needs.

The Secret to Love Is Just Kindness

Those who showed genuine interest in their partner’s joys were more likely to be together.

[educatedsavage]

Damn, this made me think of all the “shouting into the void” social media posts everyone makes. Just bids for connection. From ANYONE.

[c-ptsdrecovery]

I think that is ABSOLUTELY what a lot of that is. Our culture is very isolated (even BEFORE covid!), and we’re desperate to connect with others. I read an article one time that suggested that childcare workers stop saying that a child is “Just wants attention” and start saying that the child is “looking for connection.” We’re starved for it even from childhood.

[seymour-butz-stuff]

[sosayset]

When they are speaking about a passion, respond to children as if you would a tenured professor at a prestigious university, and to an adult as if you would a child free of the burdens of adulthood. 

Children are desperate to teach the wonders of the world that they know, that they have just learned, and share it with anyone interested.  Adults pour passion they didn’t know they had into voluntary obligations, and crave a simple acknowledgment of that passion as being worthy and valid. 

“Dear third grader, tell me exactly why you chose <x> as you third favorite carnivorous dinosaur instead of second, as specifically as possible.”

“Hey neighbor, your vegetable garden is absolutely gorgeous this year…and no I’m not just saying that because the tomatoes you gave me last year were absolute perfection.”

[captain-snark]

This is why I find it odd when people disparage/make fun of people for live streaming mundane things like them chilling and eating and going “who would watch that?” 

Someone also chilling and eating and just looking for a brief connection to another human being? Even if it’s on the other side of the screen? Even if they’re not necessarily even speaking to each other. 

It’s knowing that at this moment in time you know what another human is doing across a vast distance and for a moment the world doesn’t feel so large and empty.

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[shadow27]

[witchofprose-deactivated2020041]

This is the FUNNIEST SHIT I HAVE EVER SEEN

[untitled12573]

Reblogging for cultural enrichment

[lab-gr0wn-lambs]

bout time I brought back the Laurel and Hardy flex tape-

[knitmeapony]

From The Killers, 1946. A Film Noir Classic

[theprofessional-amateur]

I’m an archivist, behold my growing collection was of old photos mirroring timeless memes I’ve come across at various places I’ve worked.

[cloudmancy]

AND YET A TRACE OF THE TRUE SELF EXISTS IN THE FALSE SELF

[cloudmancy]

this post is about plastic dinosaurs

[fonchi262]

[jacryptid]

[eternal-fractal]

[zum1udontno]

[fuckthisbjrdplease]

cant beleive it. donasairs.

[niyarest]

write your url by only using emojis

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[mentormoth-deactivated20240331]

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[fencer-x]

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[brunchmoney]

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[omnybus]

The first rule of Fight Club is that fights can neither be created nor destroyed

[omnybus]

The second rule of Fight Club is to not take the Fight Club's name in vain

[omnybus]

Third rule: A Fight Club must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Rule

[brunchmoney]

Fourth rule of Fight Club: G-STRING UNDERWEAR

[vampmilf]

genuinely in fucking tears over this

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[fujieda-ryo]

The Garden of Words / 言の葉の庭 (2013)

[daily-spooky]

[finding-avalon]

I'm so done 🤣🤣🤣

[nimbus-cloud]

@beechichi

:D

[fencer-x]

Man I had a wild moment earlier today where I couldn’t get out of my head the image of some book I read at some point in time that involved unicorns and one of them stabbing a human in the heart with their horn and a piece of it breaking off. That was the only scene I could remember and I was like “99% sure I made that up and even if it exists I won’t be able to find it” so I googled “book with unicorn horn piece stuck in heart” and the FIRST FUCKING RESULT WAS THE SERIES I WAS THINKING OF.

The Unicorn Chronicles series by Bruce Coville! Almost certainly something I bought at table Scholastic Book Fair cause it had a pretty unicorn on the cover.

[happyheidi]