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FLAPPER FANNY SAYS, by American cartoonist, Ethel Hays (1892-1989).

nicostiel

#I'm not immune to lgbtq lighting

#heartstopper #loooool shes me

southcarolinagoddess

Since it's watermelon season!

My grandfather used to grow watermelons, among other things, and he told me about most of this, especially the orange spot. Those are the absolute best!

angelicguy

i have been given nothing but shiny elongated watermelons with small webbings and white spots. and they make me wanna kill myself

thesanityclause

My grandfather used to tell me the best watermelons are the ones you steal from the back of a truck so I guess we all learned some watermelon knowledge from our grandfathers

#watermelon

itscolossal

Jeff Rubio Chains Ceramic Beads and Childhood Memory in Giant Lizard Sculptures

#ceramics #sculpture #art

todaysbird

it’s crazy how much diversity there can be in one species…these are all pictures of the same bird species (red-tailed hawk)

rubykgrant

all these birds are like-

bunjywunjy

ironically, they are all exactly the same amount of Pissed Off

#birds

kaworunagisas-deactivated201806

slopaganda

on a scale of “dapper” to “fuckboy” how would you rate your taste in gnc womens fashion

slopaganda

wait actually

fuckrealityihaveablog

botaniqueer

I was looking at resources on food gardening– particularly regarding planting dates since I'm trying to figure out what I want to sow for fall and winter harvests, and I found this cool document from Washington State University that goes into a lot of specifics, though I haven't gone through it completely yet

Right now I'm grabbed by this chart on page four that goes into the difference in quality of your home grown stuff vs. supermarket stuff.

As a gardening and hobby biologist I love growing plants but also gardening in itself isn't radical (too individualized still and folks including other leftists overestimate how much food their gardens will cover of their food needs) and for it to be radical it growing food would have to be on the level of communities and society itself (which where I am would mean Land Back and restoring the food forests), BUT it is fun and satisfying to know when we're able to grow stuff ourselves it ends up being better that what you could find at a Fred Meyer for a lot of things.

I also know the reason the things there aren't as good are because of the logistics of making sure the food is able to ship well and stay fresh and not rot in the shelves, which is why when something is able to grow nearby we're able to pursue more unique stuff that wouldn't be easily shippable.

It's also an easy-to-access planting chart as well!

Other things I see right now are different types of garden and guides to root depths (which helps with intercropping).

#gardening

calamitys-child

Just rediscovered potentially the funniest thing I’ve written in recent memory

calamitys-child

Imagine if people wrote all their Les Mis modern aus in the style of Victor Hugo

calamitys-child

An excerpt

mlmiii

[Image ID: a screenshot of what appears to be a Word document, containing the following passage:

“What time is it?” enquired Enjolras.

Finding himself ignorant of the answer, Grantaire reached into a pocket of his jeans and withdrew his phone- an apple iphone, so called in the manner of the bulky computers which were its predecessors, and which were forced over time to become ever smaller and more compact, driven by human ingenuity according to some parties and capitalist greed according to others. Some, typically those with more wealth in their pockets than their minds, would cry hypocrisy at a revolutionary carrying that symbol of the very structure he claims to oppose, that tainted apple, that original sin. Certainly it seemed as such; but even when one is wholly morally opposed to the society in which he lives, it is an unfortunate truth that he still must live in it.

“Half past two,” he replied. /END ID]

#les mis

closet-keys

why none of them got into The Good Place

exigencelost

What I love about this is its acknowledgment that Jason had no intentions at all

egyptiann

this is all 100% true but it always made me really mad that Chidi’s “crime” was having a severe anxiety disorder like he needed understanding and therapy, sending him to the Bad Place for something he had literally no control over was incredibly fucked up

thedreadvampy

I feel like a less-surface theme of the show is that they’re all in a situation where they have been forced into bad patterns by forces outside their control - Chidi has SEVERE anxiety; Eleanor was forced by abuse and neglect to adopt a self-centered attitude from early childhood and, like many people with traumatic pasts, responds by not dealing with difficult emotions; Jason was very overtly raised in an environment where he got no education and all his models for behaviour were criminal and/or self-destructive; and Tahani has been raised in an environment where everything is performative and she is shot down for any genuine expression of unhappiness or non-material want. Just as Michael and Janet are made one way but changed by their experiences, the moral of the story is that things outside your control shape you but you can move away from them. That could easily be really insulting, in a sort of ‘just get over it’ way, but the idea isn’t that they change solely because they decide to be better - all six of them change because their circumstances change and give them the OPPORTUNITY to be better, because they’re finally given the support system they lack.

I like The Good Place because the whole show has since day 1 been predicated on the idea that black and white moral judgements made in a vacuum are bullshit, and that moral choices are informed by things outside our control, whether that be education, behaviour modelling, unfair treatment or mental health issues. That doesn’t mean we aren’t responsible for our actions but it DOES mean we have to understand morality in the context of people’s varied experiences AND asks for the possibility that if their environment is improved, their ability to function as moral agents also improves.

nebula-maker

filthyprotozoan

“sending him to the Bad Place for something he had literally no control over was incredibly fucked up” yea it was fucked up that was the entire point they made in the show. thats why they spent multiple seasons fighting to change the system of the Good Place vs. the Bad Place.

#the good place

sailermoon

babe are u okay ur crying about closeness lines over time by olivia de recat again

#longing

omghotmemes

Senpai says you’re welcome

quintusbenedictus

Reblogging again because I just realized that if I had this advice in high school I would’ve never made a tumblr account.

unpopularly-opinionated

Also works for most of those news sites like WSJ or NYT that only let you read a little bit, or block adblockers. Also some disable the scroll bar but if you go to the right side of the console after hitting F12 and look for the CSS element “overflow” and change it from “hidden” to “visible” then you can continue scrolling for free. Might have to click around on different parts of the page to find it, but it should work.

ralfmaximus

There’s also a Firefox/Chrome extension called Behind The Overlay that does all that with one mouse click. Used it for years; what a time saver.

And if you encounter a true paywall, use Archive.Today to bypass it. Just paste the paywalled url into the blue “search archived snapshots” box near the bottom: