[hungwy]

ads have taken up a considerable percent of your lifetime semiotic experience

[ttnn77]

PUPPY LAMB BY ME WITH MY PC MOUSE. CLICK FOR HIGH RES

[everyday-cutephoto]

[devilsskettle]

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

[sapphling]

pet rent is a stupid and exploitative fee along with rent in general but it's kind of obnoxious seeing Pet Parent™ types complain about it by saying that landlords should charge additional child rent instead as if that's not, like, something landlords would be chomping at the bit to do to impoverished and especially racialized tenants if it was anywhere in the vicinity of legal

[twobeesornottwobees]

printers behave like that because the medieval monks they put out of work are haunting them

[mollyjames]

no please, I can change! I've been living in Seattle for the last 16 years!

[mollyjames]

[catadromously]

the kids aren’t cooked, you just need to hang out with them in the woods.

[catadromously]

I mean you meet these young people trapped in their classrooms or nuclear families in paved over neighborhoods, you are going to see them at the lowest points of forced routine, atomization, gutted autonomy, academic stress, you are going to see them at their worst. you’re going to see addictive behavior. bad social skills. lashing out. uncreativity. laziness and distraction. they do look totally cooked.

you need to take them into the woods

I do outdoor education work, and within minutes of any elementary to middle schooler getting free permission to mess around with their friends in a clearing, they’re curious and driven again. they’re asking each other questions and yeeting pinecones at trees (science) and using their bodies. sometimes for evil. as is developmentally right. they want to know the names of birds! they want to teach someone pokemon! they want to build stuff and kick stuff and tackle each other and you into the snow!

they’re basically fucking institutionalized for 90% of their lives but their spirits are alive. you need to take them into the woods you need to treat them like animals with powerful inner lives and they’ll show you they are.

and you, if you feel like you’re relating too much, remember that you can also take YOURSELF to the woods

[goldensunset]

*trying to say i enjoyed something* this thing made me feel sick and made me writhe around on the floor

[kosmogrl]

average day in 2026

[gladluckbrian]

[pterribledinosaurdrawings]

how it feels to message a friend who's having Problems that you can't do anything to help with.

[amnhnyc]

Meet one of the world’s smallest reptiles: the Nosy Hara leaf chameleon (Brookesia micra)! It's named after the islet off the northwest coast of Madagascar in which it's found. An adult grows to be just over 1 in (2.5 cm) long, and a juvenile can fit on the head of a match. Scientists think that its miniature size may be an extreme form of island dwarfism—a process by which species decrease in size over generations in response to an island’s limited resources. This species was described as recently as 2012. 

Photo: Frank Glaw, Jörn Köhler, Ted M. Townsend, Miguel Vences. PLoS ONE, CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons

[silvermoon424]

Bro absolutely COOKED with this.

[ohnoitstbskyen]

If you ever hear the phrase "fascism is aesthetics as politics," that's what this post is talking about.

It's not about being tough on crime, because the absolute toughest most brutal measure you could take against "crime" as a social problem is to alleviate poverty, and increase access to education, healthcare and social mobility.

It's about performing "tough on crime" as an aesthetic by enacting violence against a prop, i.e. minorities and the impoverished, who are fetishized and objectified to represent "crime." They are brutalized as punishment for crime, but never with the purpose of alleviating the problem of crime.

This is why a lot of conservatives and other right wingers can get straight up angry when you suggest things like reform or social measures to reduce crime. They don't want crime to be reduced, they want an eternal war against "crime" because it provides an arena for the righteous to demonstrate virtue by brutalizing their enemies.

[norwoods-dni]

[larkstonguesinaspicpart1]

[coughloop]

Wait how the hell does she have two different bangs at once

[larkstonguesinaspicpart1]

You cannot comprehend the powers of an italian woman from new jersey

[papenathys]

A Handful of Nuts by Ruskin Bond, first published as Strangers in the Night: Two Novellas, 1996

The same story, modified and published as part of the Rusty series by Penguin India, 2003. Note how the homoerotic undertones have been diluted.