Hope Beyond Reason. Love Beyond Limits.

Hello, world! I hope you enjoy your time in this little gallery. Header image is by Anna Zakharova on Unsplash

[escuerzoresucitado]

cuddling

[headspace-hotel]

they're holding hands...

[estel-and-agape]

Doing this with my mutuals

[rowan-e-ravenwood]

new top contender

[aromanticduck]

[Image description: a gender selection screen where the options are 'female', 'male' and 'let me be free'

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[goldensunset]

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

[yugirimistwalker]

The trolley is about to run over all sentient life in the galaxy. You cannot switch the tracks, but you can still save everyone’s lives by pulling one of three levers, all of which involve sacrificing yourself. The red lever will destroy all trolleys, but will also kill you as well as all public transportation across the galaxy. The blue lever will merge your own consciousness with all trolleys, allowing you to control them and stop the trolley from running everyone over. The green lever will use your body as a catalyst to synthesize organic life and public transportation together - organic life will no longer be stuck in the cycle of creating public transportation that rebels against its creators, and both forms of life will finally be free.

[whirligig-girl]

[ruemilley]

for make a terrible comic day

[paradosical]

that one scene from seasons of fear

[aralintheobsessive]

if you want butterflies, you need to live with caterpillars.

i am not being metaphorical, i work in a garden center, stop buying plants 'to bring in the bees and butterflies' and then immediately poisoning every caterpillar that dares to consume a single leaf

you will not get butterflies if you kill all the things that turn into butterflies! what are you doing!

[bbyologist]

This! The people that I share my garden with hate this about me but every ounce of weed killer/insect repellant that gets used in or around my part of the garden needs to be really well justified or I will be making a scene about it.

[a-book-of-creatures]

Is it socially acceptable to use opaque watercolors, or is that considered gouache?

[hope-for-the-planet]

70% Drop in Levels of Forever Chemicals Observed in Seabird Eggs Tracks Regulatory Success

These pescatarian birds are directly exposed to PFAS contamination due to the island's position near the St. Lawrence Seaway.

Over fifty years of data show a peak in PFAS (also known as "forever chemicals") content in seabird eggs in the 90s, followed by a decrease as regulations went into effect. The most recent findings show a 70% decrease of most common PFAS.

While continued vigilance a regulation is needed, this data indicates that regulations are working to reduce PFAS concentrations in marine ecosystems.

[sattarehi]

Yes!!!! I did a review of literature on PFASs in human drinking water about half a year ago, and there is a lot of really good progress! Please celebrate this, please don't let this solution be forgotten (at least so quickly) as the ozone layer or acid rain.

We are making genuine progress! Producers are dramatically altering how much they use PFAS and how much gets released in effluent, but also there's a lot better understanding of how to remove PFAS from the environment!

Environmental problems CAN BE SOLVED.

[citrinekay]

I love getting comments on really old fics. It's like a little tap on the shoulder that says, "hey the art you create is going to last forever even if you don't think it matters anymore"

[myalgicencephalomyelitiscfstom]

[estel-and-agape]

I’m fed up to the back teeth with being the Lady of Shallot. I want a go at being the knight.

[depsidase]

[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 9 August 1956, 20,000 women in Pretoria, South Africa marched against pass laws: apartheid laws curtailing freedom of movement for Black and Indian people. The Federation of South African Women-organised demonstration delivered a petition against the laws with 100,000 signatures and the participants sang "Wathint’Abafazi Wathint’imbokodo" meaning ‘Now you have touched the women, you have struck a rock’. The protest kickstarted a wave of civil disobedience across the country over two years in which thousands of women were arrested, until leaders of the African National Congress panicked and called it off. August 9 is commemorated today in South Africa as Women's Day. More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10880/south-africa-women's-day This story is one of hundreds featured in our book, Working Class History: Everyday Acts of Resistance & Rebellion, available here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/working-class-history-everyday-acts-resistance-rebellion-book

[everythingfox]

Genius

[aniseandspearmint]

I love it when pets do the thing where they've clearly figured out that certain steps result in an outcome, but they can't quite DO it themselves.

The cat understands that their food is in this container, and that their human gets it, and brings it to the dishes, and then there's food.

But having no thumbs has prevented them from their triumph.

[mala-taste]

I on the other hand love that he insists on using the bowl even though he could probably just rip/chew a hole in the bag.

Which indicates that he's probably not quite sure WHICH of the steps are crucial so he's earnestly repeating them all.

(kids do this too - it's called overimitation and there are experiments on it.)

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

An attempt was made.

[shetheyslain]

Dahling you simply must read this book! It’s all about this devious little caterpillar who simply gorges himself on all manner of divine things

[wordfather]

having one lock of white hair is such a classic character design like hell yeah now THATS a character

[darthfalafel]

@aspennntree