soimthedragon

These are everyday scenes of no one special. Just me. They spill over from the piles of full notebooks that are lying around. Maybe they’ll find a place here. For those of you who spend the time and read information about other people for no reason: I'm 30, bisexual,librafluid/agenderflux, polyamorous, nymphomaniac, and polytheistic. Am currently going to school for Library sciences, having finished an art and English degree. That's right, I'm the crazy writer/artist. Wanna know anything else? Feel free to ask. For all things Witchy see: @bed-knobs-and-broom-sticks For all things Mythology see: @eimasteandroktones

[henrykathman]

Thanks to my brother for telling me about this story. [Alt text below]

Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows

Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in different ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees

[Alt Text: Original comic created by cooltimeonline. A man laying on a therapist's couch, talking to the logo of the Guardian, "Oh the Guardian, I'm just feeling real low." The Tv shows a picture of the cow from the article and responds, "COW TOOLS CONFIRMED," gaining the man's attention, who says, "Oh shit, for real?]

[puc-puggy]

[fipindustries]

art history will be like "this is the most revolutionary painting of its time!" and you will look at it and is just a normal painting of a lady sitting under a tree and then an art historian will explain "this is the first time a painting ever used this specific shade of blue which challenged all understood conventions of how to depict light and launched a movement known as auzureism, and also the lady is looking at a sparrow which in its time it was a sign of fierce sexual liberation and it was considered scandalous" and then you find out the painter was expelled from the academy of art of stockholm because of the painting and that the king of sweeden paid three thousand marcs (equivallent to ten million dollars now a days) to have the painting in his room and the painting still looks like a generic painting of a lady under a tree

[abwwia]

Harmonia Rosales, Birth of Oshun,, 2017, Oil on Belgian Linen, 55" x 67" Harmonia Rosales/UC Santa Barbara

[arrghigiveup]

[source: https://twitter.com/nasacertified/status/1273798595314167814]

[bisexuhowl]

#watching this monkey peel of the stringy bits#drop them on the baby’s head#meticulously remove them#and clean off the stump#then wolf down that banana#is just really great#like a fussy little person

[hclib]

Edith Linoff’s Hanukkah Decorations

In 1950, Edith Linoff (later Edith Linoff Edelman) won Minneapolis’ second-annual Hanukkah decoration contest with this display at her home, 4816 W Lake Harriet Blvd. At the suggestion of Rabbi Morris Gordon from Adath Jeshurun Synagogue, the Minneapolis Junior Chamber of Commerce first added a Hanukkah lights competition to coincide with their annual Christmas lighting contest in 1949. Linoff did not win that first year, but she did take third place. In her autobiography, The Wisdom of Love, she described those first decorations:

Out [sic] amusement room looked like a chapel. We decorated our windows with colorful transparent paper and they looked like stained-glass windows depicting the story of Chanukah.

Over the fireplace we had a big scroll saying: “Freedom of Religion.” It included excerpts from an ancient Chanukah prayer and from the Constitution of the United States. We had American and Jewish flags on the mantle.

Below the fireplace we made a huge blue and white “Dredle” or spinning top.

In the bay window we had a big banner saying “Happy Chanukah,” and below it was a huge electric menorah, a Star of David design with light bulbs on it.

In the east window we had a banner saying “Shalom,” which of course, means peace, and other tinsel-like decorations. It was quite a show.

With her home so festively adorned, Linoff invited friends, neighbors, local school classes, and community groups into her home and taught them about the celebration of Hanukkah. Linoff continued the tradition for several years. In 1949 alone, she welcomed over 500 visitors during the holiday season.

Photos from the Minneapolis Newspaper Photograph Collection and the Small Collections in the Hennepin County Library Digital Collections.

[nightvaleofficial]

[dumbpuppyfag]

please stop harassing black people off this website. it's like stormfront for toddlers on here. it sucks, stop it

[dumbpuppyfag]

idk how "black people should feel welcome on this website" became something you have to say out loud. if black people aren't comfortable or safe on here then that is our failure. be anti-racist or die.

[dumbpuppyfag]

it's not enough to be passively non-racist. whether you're chasing people off here yourself or choosing to ignore "discourse" (meaning the rights of black people to basic respect), the end result is a big whites-only sign outside your little clubhouse. when the tide is pulling toward bigotry, refusing to swim against it just means you'll be carried along too. passivity is acceptance. get mad, get loud, don't value the comfort of the oppressor over the dignity of the oppressed.

[girls4losers]

i gotta remember this

[butterflypeaflowertea]

sometimes i wish i could tell other women that you can just stop removing your body hair and in many cases the consequences will be way less severe than u expect. you can go to the beach with all your leg hair intact and nobody will stop you or say a thing. you can stop waxing your upper lip and people won’t stare at it the way u might be bracing yourself for. you can quit plucking your brows and eventually they will grow back into themselves and no one will even notice. like for sure women are punished for not participating in beauty rituals but i also feel like so much of it is like The Panopticon sometimes where you just convince yourself that if u stop that kind of gendered upkeep everyone will be mad and stop talking to u forever when in reality you just keep existing and nothing remarkable happens. it’s not always easy but you can kind of just stop for real

[fatscination]

Jean Souverbie - Maternité au Bain

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

it has gotten better before. it will get better again. and again and again and again.

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

@theyhaveacavetroll

[jaws41493]

I'll make it better.

[theehorsepusssy]

[shadowblade8192]

[felixcloud6288]

Listening to a podcast

"Let's take a word from our sponsor."

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*Go back 15 seconds*

[felixcloud6288]

Oh we're all feeling this one aren't we?

[kitsuleif]

[thefugitivesaint]

Langston Hughes (1902-1967), ‘Tired’, “New Masses”, Vol. 6, #9, Feb. 1931 Source

[tockthewatchdog]

we need to give this tweet more credit for im pretty sure coining "die mad about it"

[invertprivileges]

checks out, thank you melanie

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

*descends gently from the heavens on winged sandals i stole from hermes to hand you a single 3x5 index card containing a simple sentence of immeasurable power, written tidily in sharpie: ᴛɪɢᴇʀs ʜᴀᴠᴇ sᴛʀɪᴘᴇᴅ sᴋɪɴ *

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

And Lo It Is ᴛʀᴜᴇ And It Is ɢᴏᴏᴅ

Bonus Heavenly Message: the same applies to cheetahs and polka dots!

[demigod-jack-hearth]

[winterlorn]

Great news! Belgium today becomes the first country in the world where sex workers can sign a legal employment contract and gain access to all employment-dependent social security (which includes saving for a pension, paid pregnancy leave, paid sick leave etc.). It gives sex workers more rights and makes them less dependent on the goodwill of their employer because they now have state protection through a legal contract.

[winterlorn]

Belgium’s sex workers win maternity pay and pension rights in world first

Move by lawmakers hailed as ‘huge step forward’, ending legal discrimination against sex workers

Belgian sex workers have gained the right to sick days, maternity pay and pension rights under the first law of its kind in the world. Lawmakers voted in May to give sex workers the same employment protections as any other employee, in an attempt to clamp down on abuse and exploitation. The law, which went into force on Sunday, ensures that sex workers have employment contracts and legal protection. It is intended to end a grey zone created in 2022 when sex work was decriminalised in Belgium but without conferring any protections on sex workers, or labour rights such as unemployment benefit or health insurance. Under the law, sex workers have the right to refuse sexual partners or to perform specific acts and can stop an act at any time. Nor can they be sacked for these refusals.