[ashstfu]

i wish there were more than 24 hours in a day and beverages were $1 and growing up didn’t hurt so much

[butterflypeaflowertea]

every single day i think about how horribly rumi’s poems have been translated from persian into english & how they’ve been turned from gorgeous poems abt islamic spirituality into these… pithy vapid little quotes that white people post as instagram captions. white scholars & translators straight-up falsified and misrepresented the essential themes of and islamic mysticism inherent to his work in favor of turning it into easy-to-consume love poetry & it never fails to make me angry

[butterflypeaflowertea]

here’s a good thread to read through abt this exact topic as a start !!

[lothloriien]

because i know most of you can’t be bothered to look at the thread:

[studentlifeproblems]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

hey want to see something gorgeous but viscerally discomfiting?

[underwhelmingalchemist]

No <3

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

okey doke!

The Mauritius “underwater waterfall” is not a true waterfall but an naturally occurring optical! In the sense that that’s not water falling, it’s sand and silt shifting! Shifting down a 4000-meter-deep abyssal drop. It is in fact exactly as deep as it looks, sorry :)

Other fun facts about Mauritius include:

that’s where Dodo birds were from!

the entire island has an abnormally strong gravitational pull

and also they just discovered it sits on top of a lost supercontinent or whatever. idk that part’s less cool than the gravity thing

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

ok i spent 40 minutes learning how to compress a gif for you fucks, please tell me it works now

[divine-noire]

If I mispronounce your name because it is foreign to my tongue, correct me.

I don’t purposefully allow the accents of your name to fall flat on my tongue like the European English demands or the language to sound chopped and misheard.

If I don’t say your name correctly, don’t shrug and say it’s ok because people have been doing it all your life. Your mother worked hard to name you that name, with all its syllables and apostrophes and hyphens and inflection.

I don’t want to disrespect your heritage, your culture, your great grandmother or grandfather and their struggle.

If I mispronounce your name, forgive me, but don’t let it happen again. Make sure everyone knows your name.

[askasexual]

Names have meanings, and they’re important, whether you believe in magic or not, names are things of power

[makiema]

SHINKAI MOVIES + FOOD

YOUR NAME (2016) WEATHERING WITH YOU (2019)

[grubarchived]

humans are an essential part of the ecosystem. nearly every ecosystem on earth had humans as an essential part of its function. the earth would be worse off than before if we were gone suddenly overnight. send tweet

[interstellarsailor]

I don’t remember dinosaurs drilling for oil and dumping trash everywhere…

[grubarchived]

very gently: yes. some humans have been doing destruction recently. yes, some humans are living in unsustainable ways. yes, the world is suffering for the actions of the humans who exploit the natural world.

however.

this has not been the case for the vast majority of time. this is not currently the case for many people on the earth right now. we evolved alongside earth’s ecosystems, as they evolved alongside us. we are part of it. we are embedded in the world. we have never been seperate from it, and the idea that we are – that our actions somehow could have no consequences for the world at large – is the mindset that allowed the current crisis to reach where it is.

it’s. hard to truly get a sense of the scale of humans’ existence on the planet– under the readmore i’ve drawn out a rough timeline for you. it is very long, so i’ll put it under the cut.

suffice it to say: humans, homo sapiens, have existed on the earth for 315,000 years. we did not invent agriculture until 11,500 years ago. the industrial revolution, the drilling for oil and dumping plastic? that has happened only in the last 250 years. 

we are part of the world. we are in the world. some of us have very, very recently forgotten this fact. but we are remembering, and remembering quickly.

the earth needs us. it needs us to fix the things we’ve gotten wrong, yes. but it also needs us to be humans. to hunt, to burn, to care for the forests and the fields and the grasslands. it has always needed us. we are not interlopers here. we belong. we have simply forgotten our manners.

Keep reading

[antique-scarecrow]

click the Keep Reading

[sioltach]

tiktok is kind of bad for fashion by Mina Le

[lesbianboboberens]

recreational space travel is objectively immoral

[lesbianboboberens]

i am like. absolutely livid.

CO2 emissions for one ~4 person tourist space trip are 50-100 times higher than the emissions from one long-haul air flight. One SpaceX flight generates the annual carbon footprint of 278 people. Space travel is the equivalent of vomiting greenhouse gases directly into the atmosphere and it is like spitting in the rest of the world’s face.

People literally are getting sick from West Coast wildfire smoke in NYC, Philadelphia, and Toronto right now. Extreme weather has caused flooding in Germany that has killed more than 150 people. The heat wave in the Northwest in June killed hundreds. The entire American West is going through a drought with the some of the most extreme conditions they have seen in 20 years. We are living through a climate crisis that is going to get worse and worse and worse and it is not only evil and cruel to refuse to do anything about it (with your BILLIONS of dollars!) but absolutely morally rotten to continue contributing to climate change that will kill millions.

Private space travel is irredeemable and evil.

[ijaazat]

i have a disease called “i believe i will have the love i have been reading about all these years one day”

[bludragongal]

Spider-Man: MENACE

[dronesofthedesert2023-deactivat]

[i.d.: a black and white comic. image 1: a police officer sternly writes in his notepad while another person argues with him. the person says, “but i’m not doing anything! this is bullshit!” the officer says, “that’s loitering. if you’d like to contest your ticket, you can go to the-” he is interrupted by someone yelling, “hey, officer!” image 2: spider-man stands next to the officer’s car. he points to it and says, “is this your car? i’m gonna flip it over.” image 3: the officer yells at spider-man while the person runs away. spider-man says “you better stop me.” the officer yells, “what the [censored word]! you’re supposed to be on our side!” image 4: spider-man holds the car over his head and looks at the officer in confusion. he says, “you do know what the word “vigilante” means, right?“ image 5: the officer’s car is flipped over. the officer stands dejectedly and says, ”… he really is a menace.“

[wishgirls-archive]

2016 was so wack how did mystic messenger, voltron legendary defender, pokemon go, yuri on ice, zootopia, stranger things, and overwatch all come out in like a span of 6 months

[wishgirls-archive]

some additions: haikyuu was going strong, homestuck ended, harambe, scary clowns, skam season 3, tt by twice, LEMONADE BY BEYONCÉ?????, here come dat boi, damn daniel, BNHA season 1 .... H*MILTON

[wishgirls-archive]

HISTORY OF JAPAN CAME OUT????????

[megan-renee]

Your vibe is oddly bitter and reeks of insecurity

sounds like someone needs to go in the water

[dapperboar]

[curiositykilledthecas]

Reblogging again because the art is spectacular. 10/10.

[femcassidy]

i want you all to know that there is an artist (carmen papalia) who, after he started using a white cane, assembled a 12 foot long white cane and began using it in downtown vancouver. the length of the cane made it functionally useless as a device and the only purpose it served was making him an obstacle for sighted people. dare i say… 2019 goals

[femcassidy]

therapist to sighted patient: long cane isnt real and it cant hurt you

carmen papalia:

[id: a dimly lit photo of carmen papalia using his 12 foot “long cane” piece. he walks casually behind it. the cane takes up the majority of both the photograph and the sidewalk.]

[thevioletsunflower]

Okay I went to a conference where this guy was a keynote and he’s so fucking cool. He’s done a ton of art around disability rights. The twelve-foot cane is really cool, but here are some of my other favourites:

From the series on replacing his cane, this is one where he replaced his cane with a megaphone and would stand at intersections repeating “I can’t see” until somebody would stop and help him cross the street

Another cane replacement, this time replacing it with a high school marching band who would change the music depending on if there was something in the way or not.

A museum intervention where he got people at the MET to go through the museum with their eyes closed and experiencing touching things he’d gotten permission to touch (the floor in this image) and just exploring a visual art museum blind.

The Blind Field Shuffle, in which he has dozens of people form a conga line behind him with their eyes closed and leads them on a blind tour of the city - literally the blind leading the blind.

Wish I could find a better photo, but this is a museum gallery he curated where the works are almost at floor height, making them accessible to children, little people, and people in wheelchairs, but requiring abled people to bend down or sit on the floor in order to see them properly.

In short, this man is amazing and I love his work.

[captainlordauditor]

……okay, that last one is my absolute favorite

[puchidol-deactivated20150318]

[kincyr]

I’ve had this queued for 4 fucking years so it’d be reblogged on a Monday. the next time this can be accurately reblogged is in 6 years

[preciousshaw-deactivated2019010]

honestly such an underrated moment

[kar-a-kael]

I might be the only one who finds this interesting, but…

Lots of companies have Room Temperature Rooms? Like, literally any company whose products have an expiry date has to have ( or outsorce) a Room Temp Room in their R&D department. Else how would you know that this great new toothpaste flavor doesn’t accidentally turn into poison in two years.

But you can’t just have ONE RTR. Because what if you sell your toothpaste in Antarctica? Or the Amazon? What if the toothpaste turns evil when frozen? Or melts? Or gets dropped 500 feet off the back of a truck in the Himalayas?

So picture, if you will, a wing of an R&D department full of little rooms, each set to a certain temperature and humidity, each with a rack of toothpaste. Every year or so, a scientist comes in an takes out a tube, and does SCIENCE to make sure it won’t kill someone. Or look gross, or taste weird. Or explode. A lot of toothpaste explodes if, for example, you pretend you flew it across the artic circle (froze) then dropped if off in an Indian street market (melt), then sat in someone’s cabinet for three years (at Room Temperature).

And that’s how they make expiry dates. And why developing a new flavor of toothpaste can take ten years.

Kind of amazing that we got a covid vaccine in less than one, right?

[grigori77]

I’m sorry, are you seriously saying that toothpaste EXPLODES? And not just occasionally but actually FREQUENTLY if the right criteria have been met?

Why doesn’t this stuff come with a warning that THAT is a possibility?

[lierdumoa]

I’m sure they just meant that the toothpaste tube bursts from internal pressure and not that is detonated.

[punkjabi]

[shounenchild]

Notes that make you fucking insane

[lost-in-pride]

France is just the brother of britain ? We shame britain. We shame france. No one gets left.

[evie-black]