In This World

I cry so you don't have to! (My message inbox is always open, questions and opinions are welcome. I don't know everything so, please, let me know if I misunderstand or miscommunicate anything, or just to talk. Triggers are respected, just let me know. Thanks)

[naturalistalife]

🌼🌻🌸🌺🌼🌻🌸🌺🌼🌻🌸🌺🌼🌻🌸

[oncelerfucker69-deactivated2019]

people who aggressively hate cats are weird

[tattooedheartarchive]

people who hate cats are who u should look out for. they hate cats because cats will not be controlled by a human and that fact upsets so many people.

[oncelerfucker69-deactivated2019]

[cinnaluna]

This person…. fixes butterflies….. 🦋

[colachampagnedad]

what’s the mood for tuesday

[clavarioid-deactivated20190317]

[babyanimalgifs]

[fishwrites]

I’m crying I want to have a chicken to fluff too….

PS: lmao avian Keith

[pochacco]

[sailorflorana]

I’m crying this is so good, quality content right here

[fishwrites]

I think I’ve teblogged this before years ago but it’s so sweet…

[stunningpicture]

Lobster in a bucket looks like a gigantic monster on a metallic planet, and the waterdrops look like stars.

[a-breath-of-the-wild]

This is transcendental. 

[breakfastburritoe]

THIS FUCKED ME UP FOR 3 DAYS

[cryingpotatos]

You know, I think one of the biggest lessons that I have learned, and will learn in the course of my life, is to not let my pace get controlled by the things around me. I didn't understand before why it was so important to hold on to my emotions and make a conscious effort to sort through them, even in the midst of so many negative things. Sometimes people would try to undermine what I was feeling, or events would snowball so that I would drown under the pressures and anxieties of life. I still feel it sometimes, but now I can demand peace and happiness from a bad situation, from others, and from myself. And, I've learned that sometimes that peace requires me to take a step back and decide not to get involved in something that will harm me in the long run. That way, I also have the option (not the obligation or responsibility) to decide when I do want to get involved.

Life is a long distance-marathon, and I've been trying to live it like it's a 400 meter dash.

I feel like a lot of people have this problem, and, honestly, it doesn't get better until you learn to change how you think about stuff, the stuff that you feel you should be able to do (if only...), the stuff that keeps failing (but if...), the stuff that chews you up and spits you back out again. The stuff that we focus on without knowing how to process it.

I guess that I'm just trying to say that life isn't irredeemable, that stuff can get resolved if you have help and are open to it, and that you just gotta hold onto your own pace even when the world is crashing around you bc ... that's a way to keep sane. When you've accustomed yourself to unhappiness and troubles, you gotta fight to learn the good stuff again. It's tiring, but it's worth it.

[loafed-beans-deactivated2020082]

I know many of you out there are feeling a bit down. Have a crow to Wouldn’t it be Nice by the Beach Boys to lift your mood.

[my-wanton-self-deactivated20191]

And you just know that right around the corner that crow got into his faded orange VW Kombi van with the surfboards strapped on top and hit the beach.

[milesyart]

This crow is 100% fucking around for no reason other than to fuck around. Birds have two main gaits depending on where they live - they put one foot in front of the other if they live on the ground, or they hop if they live in the trees. Crows live on the ground, and thus walk. They have no reason to hop like this, and they aren’t wired or built to move like this naturally. They might hop to quickly avoid danger that’s very limited, like a car tire coming at them, or to get up onto the curb, but this sort of motion has no purpose other than being fun.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Cities want to opportunistically lay fiber lines during big digs, but Koch dark money is trying to stop them

Kentuckywired is a project to run fiber between cities in Kentucky, creating a high speed network for the state’s operations. It involves a lot of expensive public works – digging up streets and highways to lay down relatively cheap fiber and conduit (the digging is the expensive part).

A citizens’ group worked with Louisville Metro Council to take advantage of the public works project: they proposed to lay down some extra fiber during the buildout that could serve the people of Louisville, as well as laying the groundwork for a smarter city: connectivity to wire up traffic signals, public safety agencies, and so on.

Louisville is one of the most segregated cities in the country, and the poor people of West Louisville suffer all the maladies of poverty, like ill health. Not coincidentally, they are dramatically underserved by the telcoms monopolies of Kentucky.

By combining a municipal fiber network with the statewide effort, Louisville could shave the cost of running fiber from $15m to $5m, and jumpstart its new life as a city where the internet was truly world-class.

But as the plan started to move through the city council, it met stiff resistance from a mysterious group called “Taxpayers Protection Alliance,” who created a misinformation campaign suggesting – hilariously – that the whole idea of wiring up the city was a plot by Google to trick taxpayers into subsidizing its Google Fiber product.

This Taxpayers Protection Alliance is lavishly funded by Koch dark money, laundered through other groups the Kochs fund. The TPA spends that money in dirty fights to carry water for cable and phone company internet duopolies in cities across America, contributing to America’s status as one of the worst-provisioned countries in the OECD.

Once the TPA’s connection to the Kochs was revealed, Louisville council started paying attention to the substance of the debate, and voted to lay down the network.

https://boingboing.net/2017/12/16/kentuckywired.html

[iammyfather]

Believe it or don’t, but Koch believe that access to internet makes people less likely to support a fossil fuel economy.

[gifsboom]

Baby armadillo.

[cosmictuesdays]

Humans will pet anything.

[toffeecape]

How wonderful, then, to live on a planet full of creatures that like to be petted!

[badgengar]

“ How wonderful, then, to live on a planet full of creatures that like to be petted!”

It truly is.

[ceriseal]

@zetabulous

[istealforksfromrestaurants]

[stfuconnor]

[ccorinthian]

luciferofficial:

eouz:

stfuconnor:

I know… I hate that I can’t have meaningful conversations with my friends about Barbra Streisand anymore

old ass cartoonists hate youth so much they will reach at great lengths to look like they’ve made a point it’s truly fascinating

i honestly thought at first that this was supposed to portray how smartphones have given us the ability to look up information we don’t know at a moment’s notice

I fixed it

[socialismartnature]

[proletarianprincess]

lmao is that an anonymous mask on his head

[hipster-revolutionaries]

Lol of course it is :P

Nah but for reals, it’s a pic from the million mask march in London.

[class-struggle-anarchism]

It’s true what he says though - there is no subject position from which it’s ok to talk about inequality - if you’re poor you are doing it out of jealously, if you’re not poor you’re doing it out of guilt/saviour complex, if you are young it’s just a phase, if you’re old you are hankering for times long gone and trying to recapture your youth, if you’re not well educated you just don’t understand the complexity of the situation, if you are well educated you’re in an academic bubble divorced from reality, if your politically apathetic you’re not allowed to complain, if you’re politically active you’re just trying to push your own sectarian agenda…

For every possible type of person there’s an established reason why your opinions on inequality are invalid. That’s not an accident.

[hikingnotes]

Spring time car drives

[pkpaulshow]

[mushki-art]

WHAT

[viktormayrin]

@lordfeederdinkle

[lordfeederdinkle]

Thas’ some bull shit right there

[tamamita]

[monicas]

1999 - The Simpsons predicts everything that happens in the world

[stolenswingset]

The messed up part is that this, along with the Trump presidency, were predicted as jokes. These were seen as things so ridiculous that not only could they not actually happen, the idea of them was funny. So every time a Simpsons prediction comes true, the Simpsons wasn’t really trying to predict the future, they were making a cynical joke because they thought the real future would be better than it actually is. We’re living in the timeline where all the Simpsons’ worst assumptions about the world were 100% right.

[nudityandnerdery]

At least “Smell you later” hasn’t replaced goodbye. ….yet.