A work in progress

Gay ✌️ Unconfident artist 🎨 Antidepressants saved my life

[bogleech]

I knew poinsettias "faked" having big flowers by just turning some leaves red but I didn't know the real tiny flowers in the middle looked like such idiots

[fernsandmoss]

Sigmar Polke’s agate ‘stained glass’ windows for the Grossmunster church in Zurich

[bowelflies]

leather angler fish mask by Masksmith (source)

[zagreus]

hot take but every “essential worker” who had to interact with The Public through this pandemic should get a fucking pension

[zagreus]

my mental health in 2019: not fantastic but keeping it together 

my mental health after working retail through a pandemic: (imagine hot melted plastic being injected into an ice cold geometrically impossible waffle iron)

[slothgangang]

Some rando: boy i can’t wait until this is all over so i can finally go out and interact with people again, amiright guys!!

Any retail/food service worker anywhere:

[luxwing]

I miss when electronics came in at least six colors and none of the colors were beige

[luxwing]

Why the hell did we stop doing this????

[awenravena]

What is going on with the world??

[dinodaddy-deactivated20221014]

Jesus…

[my-wanton-self-deactivated20191]

In a move that has sparked outcry from archaeologists, historians and locals, the Peruvian government has approved a multi-billion international airport near the famed site of Machu Picchu, Peru’s single most important tourist destination. Bulldozers have begun to clear millions of tons of earth for the project, which will be located in Chinchero, a picturesque Inca town.

Building the airport in this location will destroy an ancient landscape, one shaped by the Incan people with terraces and routes.

Critics also suggest that planes flying low over the nearby village of Ollantaytambo and its archaeological park filled with ruins and a massive Inca fortress with large stone terraces, would cause incalculable damage to fragile Inca ruins there and destroy the peace and beauty of the area.

The new airport will make access to the site much easier, and thus encourage greater numbers than ever before to visit.

But Machu Picchu is already overwhelmed by almost double the limit of tourists as recommended by UNESCO. [see also India’s Taj Mahal - an incredible site simply reeling under a relentless, ineffectively managed tourist, both domestic and international, onslaught]

It’s the constant battle between protecting the past and profiteering from it.

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https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/may/15/archaeologists-outraged-over-plans-for-machu-picchu-airport-chinchero

[haiku-robot]

ruins and a massive Inca fortress with large stone terraces, would cause Haiku Bot v2021.1~beta I make mistakes. I am buggy too. Sorry! | HAIKU BOT NO! Paypal | Patreon

[bouletcorp-deactivated20240228]

Petits barbares - Tiny barbarians

[nada-7]

no one is too busy, you’re just not a priority

[butchboy]

this is not true. hate bullshit like this, other humans are not here soley for your entertainment/companionship, loved ones wont always be there when you need them most, doesnt mean they love you any less. they have their own lives & feelings & every action of theirs is not a slight towards you or, g-d forbid, a judgement of ur worth. I get everyone has insecurities and mental tribulations but this type of thinking is just self-sabotaging ur self-worth & relationships.

[garbage-empress]

yeah this is like a recipe for generating a positive feedback loop of co-dependency

[14sorrow24joy34agirl44aboy]

Eldest daughters be like: at this point I don’t know exactly who am I protecting and from what. I just feel a crushing sense of responsibility

[forthegothicheroine]

I’m not a classicist, but I suspect one of the reasons so many of the Greek gods are portrayed so unflatteringly was less because they were seen as villains than because they represented their domains.  Of course Zeus sometimes misuses his power, that’s what a king does.  Of course Artemis’s wrath is wild and painful, that’s what nature can be.  Of course Hades snatched away a young girl from her mother’s arms, that’s what death does.  This is one of the reasons callout posts for some gods comparing them negatively to ‘nicer’ gods are kind of missing the point.

[wumblr]

i hope they find a stupid tiny fish or something on mars and make mining illegal, just like the devil’s hole in california

these endangered bastards and their bathtub-sized habitat (just the surface shelf of a giant cave structure thanks) singlehandedly pissed off SO many businessmen lol

[sulkyskywalker]

There’s a secret multimillion dollar facility that perfectly replicates their environment to try and save the species!

People fucking hate them and business men are very fucking upset about these fish but they are cute and they won! They are protected! So you can’t build or do anything that might harm their environment!

Also the cave is fucking deep and intense and has corpses in it.

[general-multi-fandom-chaos]

i can't believe a bunch of grown men named Josh showed up to some random park with the intention of fighting each other and then let some four year old named Josh win. there's so much hope for our society.

[yugiohz]

how is this real

[oncelerfucker69-deactivated2019]

tumblr, where I have to explain why child labor is wrong to 27 year old libertarians

[higher-order]

Some kids literally have no choice but to work because their family is desperately poor. Are you going to prevent a family from having that extra income because it gives you moral fuzzys?

[the-knights-are-not-dead-deacti]

tumblr, where I have to explain why child labor is wrong to 27 year old libertarians

[soy-celeste-deactivated20230905]

Her name is Katalin Karikó. Hungarian. Daughter of a butcher. Her thesis work became the basis of the mRNA vaccine technology. Read the article here.

[racialized]

Dr. Kariko’s struggles to stay afloat in academia have a familiar ring to scientists. She needed grants to pursue ideas that seemed wild and fanciful. She did not get them, even as more mundane research was rewarded.

“When your idea is against the conventional wisdom that makes sense to the star chamber, it is very hard to break out,” said Dr. David Langer, a neurosurgeon who has worked with Dr. Kariko.

so much for capitalism fueling innovation. Dr.Kariko barely managed to stay in academia through connections with other scientists - imagine all the other scientists who had incredible ideas and were pushed out because of lack of funding. corporate markets should not be dictating research, pursuit of knowledge belongs to the people.

[theconcealedweapon]

[bimbocracy]

This is a manipulation tactic that men use to make it such a pain in the ass to set a boundary with them that you don’t attempt it again

[femininechrist]

Say “good idea” and keep it pushing

[anxiouschupacabra]

No but really. When anyone does this to me my response is always “well, if you can’t talk to me without talking about X, then yeah, that’s really the only solution.”

When they get defensive about “our friendship/relationship/etc really means so little to you???” Come back with “Ive always thought our relationship was built on more than whether or not I find X funny, but if it isn’t, then we’re not really compatible.”

It sets the boundary while getting across exactly how ridiculous they’re being.

[nocontextgoodplace]