Conversations after Midnight

Hilary. Michigander. Pansexual & polyam plant mom. Francophone/phile. Writes sometimes.

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

10 Steps to Maintaining a Healthy Self Esteem

1. Seek to know and understand yourself

2. Be aware of things that trigger changes in your mood

3. Be aware of people who undermine your calm, who shake your confidence, and who love to bring you down

4. Know how to soothe and relax yourself

5. Be patient with your struggles and expect to sometimes fail

6. Develop a few friendships with good friends who REALLY care

7. Know where you want to go, and what you want to get from this life

8. Set yourself some goals, and think through steps to take you there

9. Do something for others, and be gentle, warm and kind

10. Be kind to yourself, and practice self love and self care.

[catonhottinroof-deactivated2023]

[ladylabsinthe]

Konstantin Alekseevich Korovin    Terrace. Paris,   1908

[orchid-a-day-deactivated2023040]

Dendrobium chapaense

Syn.: Dendrobium jaintianum;  Dendrobium longlingense; Dendrobium meghalayense; Dendrobium tamenglongense

November 6, 2021

[thecollectibles]

Art by Kevin Gnutzmans

[thecollectibles]

Art by JEFFRI HONESTA

[hjarta-deactivated20260124]

just learned that magnolias are so old that they’re pollinated by beetles because they existed before bees

[scienceoftheidiot]

They existed *before beetles*

[somethingaboutsomethingelse]

[spacedandelions]

Why is this sad? Why am I sad?

[ignescent]

https://xkcd.com/1259/

Bee Orchid

[guerrillatech]

[esoanem]

This is a map of the range of all giraffe species. By my count that puts them in just 16 countries out of the 54 in Africa (of which 5 are island countries with no territory on the continental mainland). That's 30%, quite a long way shy of all, and as you can see many of those countries that do have giraffes only have a tiny portion of their territory within giraffes' habitats

[datasoong47]

Wow, I knew they weren't in "every African country", but I didn't realize just how restricted their range was

[blacktabris]

Good teachers don't mind saying "I don't know" or that they need to look it up and will get back to you.

[thegreenpea]

Not only that but giraffes in different areas have different patterns and it's so cool

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

the phantom of the opera and the hunchback of notre dame? opposite ends of same spectrum 

[fan-grell-411]

And beauty and beast falls somewhere in the middle

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

someone do a graph

[bemusedlybespectacled]

you rang?

[feral-bard]

I couldn’t resist

[project-fandom-leap]

This is the science I’m here for

[retrogamingblog2]

[theniftyfifties]

Margaret Philips wears an evening gown photographed by Henry Clarke, 1957.

[blogging-at-your-funeral]

[lessdanthree]

what drugs were they on when they made this

[meanmisscharles]

Cab Calloway rotascoped!

[badgyal-k-deactivated20190901]

Whoever thought of this was drinking absinthe

[protectblkwomen]

Thanks, Now I have nightmares

[brunhiddensmusings]

this was long before cartoons were ever thought of as ‘for kids’, the target audience of this one was roughly 20-40 betty boop cartoons featuring cab calloway singing, yes, but slang has changed so much you dont realize he was singing about opium, sugar daddies, death, weed, sex, booze, and gambling back when gambling was nearly as tabboo as sex and drugs. ‘minnie the moocher’ where cab calloway is a dancing walrus is specifically about someone who does literally everything on that list but die

most of the animation studios had their ‘thing’ to make their animation stand out, disney had fluid motion linked with quality music, warner brothers had top notch dialogue with carefully crafted facial expressions, MGM had comedic timing down to the individual frame that no live action comedian could dream of achieving, terrytoons had the budget of a ham sandwitch and a fistfull of nickels fleischer studios however had authentic jazz and heavy toned subject matter, often crossing the line of what we think of as ‘cartoon violence’ into realistic

[peathefeary]

idk why this is making me so emotional???

[mcloveleigh]

I love this. I’ve always had a love for cartoons

[melaninondeck-deactivated201907]

Cab Calloway, he was a legend performer and entertainer, although he’s listed as a jazz singer he did much more with his voice, his singing style and delivery was very unique. Cab (with his band) was the first black artist to sell over a million copies of a single record and he paved the way for many artists to come. Happy Black History Month.

[impormable]

sorry to make this long post longer, but I feel like it needed some actual photos of Cab Calloway, who is, in fact, the greatest

[thestoicgod]

G.O.A.T.🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[minusthelove]

Okayyyyy but my guy was MOVIN

[hiddenhiding]

This is the only essential business:

[thatsbutterbaby]

Aert Schouman (Dordrecht 1710-1792 The Hague) -  Study of Verbascum and sweet-peas (Lathyrus odoratus).

[allthingseurope]

Saxony, Germany (by Maksym)

[liberalsarecool]

End the Electoral College. Give statehood to Puerto Rico and Washington DC.

Investigate voter suppression and strengthen voting rights.

The most votes wins.

[anti-capitalistlesbianwitch]

The electoral college is undemocratic, antiquated, and based in racism. Abolish the electoral college.

[headless-horseboy]

The electoral college ensures that mostly City states cant completley ignore rural states but fuck them i guess

[anti-capitalistlesbianwitch]

First off: there are no states that are mostly cities. If you add the population of NYC (the biggest US city) to the next five biggest cities in New York, that only makes up half of the state’s total population. And cities are not monoliths; everyone doesn’t vote the same.

The Electoral College is not about fairness; in fact, it gives disproportionate representation to electoral power to the states with the lowest populations. When you take into account the number of electoral votes and the population for each state, a person’s vote is worth more or less based on the state they live in. For example: the vote of a person in Wyoming is worth the most, 3x the average American. On the other hand, the votes of Texans are worth the least. Every vote in the US is not worth the same.

As for ignoring certain states, that’s exactly what happens under the Electoral College. This is a map of the general election campaign events for the 2020 presidential election. The two presidential candidates held over 200 events, visiting just 17 states and ignoring 33 (and the District of Columbia). 

The current Electoral College system ensures that 11-12 battleground or swing states hold most, if not all of the electoral power. Former Wisconsin Governor and one-time presidential candidate said the quiet part out loud: “The nation as a whole is not going to elect the next president, 12 states are.”

It should not be controversial to say that every vote in the United States should be worth the same and that election results should reflect the will of the people. The Electoral college is undemocratic, antiquated, and based in racism; it should be abolished.

[gifcraft]

[conflictingheart]

A cow catching snowflakes

[emraim]

[problemheart]

I’m so happy right now there is nothing wrong now

[thathardcorekid]

Honestly