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occasionally subtle
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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Monterey Bay Aquarium
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
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YOU ARE THE REASON
Product Placement
Peter Solarz
if i look back, i am lost
NASA
#extradirty
I'd rather be in outer space đ¸
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Keni
pixel skylines
trying on a metaphor
i don't do bad sauce passes
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@eldritchess25
number one thing i want for public bathrooms is for them to be unisex accessible safe private and clean. number two thing i want for pubic bathrooms is for them to have flat surfaces in the stalls you can put your handheld items down on when youre shittin. ive encountered it in like two bathrooms ever and it changed my life for real.
Crybaby
If you make goth clothing, decor, accessories, etc
please
please please please
please stop putting crosses on literally everything.
I know that they're a staple of goth fashion. I know. But not everyone is Christian. Not everyone wants to wear or surround themselves with Christian symbols. There are a lot of goths who would die happy if we they never had to see a cross again. Please.
This really resonated with folks, huh.
anatomy of a humiliation
[ID: grayscale comic featuring illustrations of fat people in a realistic style as well as narration.
ID1:
"The fat child's family is gathered for a meal. Eating together creates deep social bonds in animals and humans alike, provided everyone remembers the rules."
A fat kid sits in a car, leaning forward.
"When the clatter of forks and knives against dishes dies down, the fat child is still hungry. In the joyous rattle, it was easy to forget the rules. Fat children don't get second helpings."
A young fat boy sits at a restaurant, picking at his food uncomfortably.
"The mother does not look at the child when she says "I swear to god, this one must have gone through a famine in a previous life!" Everyone laughs. The child turns red."
ID2:
A fat teenage boy watches tv, sitting on the floor and resting a hand on his stomach.
"The child's hunger is a stain on their mother's standing, the joke must be made to create distance. Children must answer for their fatness alone."
A fat teenage boy in a swimsuit is standing in front of a pool, looking at it. His head is cut off from the frame.
"All eyes are on the child. There are plenty of ways to look at fat children. Fat children are easy to look at, there's so much of them to go around. The fat child is many different things. A symbol and a surface and a cautionary tale."
ID3:
A fat teen girl studies in school.
"The fat child is greed and overindulgence. The child is moral failure and laziness. Both hoarding of power and lack of willpower."
A fat teen sits on the bench in gym class.
"The fat child is the dreaded image of what the others could be. If they slipped. If they stopped caring. The fat child is a before photo with no after."
ID4:
A fat girl sits in bed and plays on a game console.
"The fat child is convenient. Everyone feels better when there's someone fatter in the room. The fat child is guilty and absolves others."
A fat girl lies prone reading books.
"The fat child is feminised by being fat, the softness and curves. The fat child is masculinised by being fat, the taking up space and gracelessness. The fat child looks older than their years. The fat child has a baby's chubby cheeks. The fat child fails at being wholly anything."
ID5:
A fat kid sits on the ground at the park, gazing at the swings.
"Inside the fat child's head, there is an image of their fat child's body, and inside that body, the child knows, is a truer self. When they shed off the fleshy folds and layers of skin, at their core, there is something weightless and pure. Something that is never hungry.
At night, when everyone has gone to sleep, the fat child imagines the true self, and dreams of being so light they fly off the face of the Earth."
A fat kid is lying down, resting their face on their arms in sleep.
"When all eyes have turned away, keeping their heavy head bowed, the fat child thinks: how can i be so big and feel so small?". End of ID.]
I've had this idea stuck in my head all day
(Thank you to @nebulations for the alt ID!)
using violence to liberate people from sweatshops, unsafe mines, and grinding poverty isn't the same as using violence to impose those things on people. the idea that violence is morally repugnant regardless of context is a belief that every oppressor throughout history would love for the oppressed to hold
I feel like this would appeal to a few people on here
unauthorized fucking thing!!!!!!
(warning: loud chirping throughout)
source: hellgate osprey cam
More context:
the first osprey is the father, the one that comes later is the mother.
ospreys are not eagles, they're ospreys
ospreys only eat fish, that's why they don't register this starling as possible food
the starling got home safely
the starling was not trying to eat the eggs, it was mostly curious and you can see it trying to hop under the osprey every time the osprey tries to sit down again--this is because the starling is still a baby and has the instinct to get under an adult for warmth, even though it mostly has its feathers. this scares the osprey because that is a Foreign Creature near its eggs.
at the end of the video you can see the ospreys starting to turn the eggs. birds do this so the yolk and/or embryo don't stick to the shell of the egg, which is bad for the egg's health.
ospreys have eyes adapted to seeing beneath the surface of the water!
In the face of climate change and persistent droughts, a growing number of people from Zuni Pueblo in New Mexico and elsewhere are adopting the traditional farming practice.
For the past 64 years, Jim Enote has planted a waffle garden, sunken garden beds enclosed by clay-heavy walls that he learned to build from his grandmother. This year, he planted onions and chiles, which he waters from a nearby stream. Itâs an Indigenous farming tradition suited for the semi-arid, high-altitude desert of the Zuni Pueblo in New Mexico, where waffle gardens have long flourished and Enote has farmed since childhood.
âThey are the inverse of raised beds, and for an area where it is more arid, theyâre actually very efficient at conserving water,â said Enote, who leads the Colorado Plateau Foundation to protect Indigenous land, traditions, and water. Each interior cell of the waffle covers about a square foot of land, just below ground-level, and the raised, mounded earthen walls are designed to help keep moisture in the soil.
Similar sunken beds for growing food with less water have been used globally in arid regions, arising independently by Indigenous farmers, including across distinct Pueblo tribes in the Southwest. âWhen you have ecological equivalents you often have cultural equivalents,â said Enote. As climate change deepens, he sees this tradition as one of many ways to adapt while building food security and sovereignty.
idk if this is an usamerican thing or not but it always blows my mind as a small european country resident that yall have many names and types of apples???? what do you mean its not just red yellow or green??? why is it so complicated??? who is granny smith????
'whats your favorite apple' 'red' 'no i mean like what type' '??????' actual conversatiom i've had with a mutual from usa
THIRTY TWO??????
Listen that doesnât even account for all the weird shit local farmers are getting up to.
May I present the best apple:
the world is so big and beautiful
I donât like raw apples but I like them cooked so Iâve experimented a bit. I learned that in medieval Europe people used to put apples in like pottage and soup and whatnot so I tried putting them in soup and theyâre pretty good. They make the soup slightly sweet. I basically chop them up in little pieces and sweat them like an onion. Pretty good in chicken soup.
May i present to op the comedy gold that is Apple Ranking dot Com?
The Grandmaster of Corporate Operations
I was told that Iâd get used to not having a headphone jack. I still want a fucking headphone jack. I hate that phones donât have them. Itâs stupid and awful and I hate it
I explained the concept of "blorbo from my shows" to my 71 year old immigrant grandfather because I referenced it in passing and I thought nothing of it, until today when he said "I think I'll watch peaky blinders tonight and see my blorbo from my shows" referring, of course, to Cillian Murphy playing Tommy Shelby
English isn't his first language so he's not super in touch with modern slang, so I've been accidentally teaching him to talk like a tumblr user. His favorite thing to say lately is "me when I'm a little hater" when he's like talking shit about the neighbor's son
I explained the âx before gta6â meme to my immigrant father and he, in turn, explained to me how back in his day in Romania, they had the same type of joke, except instead of it being gta6, it was about the imminent death of a singer named GicÄ Petrescu, who everyone was continuously shocked by because he refused to die. Every time a momentous event happened people would say, in essence: âThis happened and GicÄ Petrescu hasnât even died yet?!?â
So. He understood the gta6 meme immediately because they apparently had the same thing in Romania when he was young, except way, way more morbid
Rights you have from birth are slowly stripped away by conservative politicians.
Constructs are created to control. Medical debt? Student debt? Remove these constructs and you have instant freedom.
Universal healthcare would remove the employer's control of your health insurance and allow you to move from job to job, or if you lose your job, and still have health care.
âRappers only talk about their money, cars, and clothes!â
Why might someone from a group of people that historically have been denied access to wealth, now brag that they have it?
âRappers only talk about sex!â
Why might someone from a group that have historically been denied sexual autonomy now brag about their sexual escapades on their own terms?
âRappers only talk about drugs and crime!â
Why might someone from a group that historically have been denied the more legal means to acquire wealth and had drugs forced on their community talk about their experiences with it?
And an ignorant asshole.
