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Edmontosaurus is one of the few non-avian dinosaur genera for which we know almost the exact life appearance. This is thanks to several fantastically preserved skin casts - whatever the hell the Saurolophines were doing in life (and death) led them to be mummified 23 times more often than the next most common dinosaur mummy, the Nodosaurs. Thank you, Saurolophines!

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East coast people pass Midwest people in a store and the Midwest people will strike up a conversation and the east coast people will get all creeped out cuz of how the weird strangers are trying to ask them questions when they're just minding their own business

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I'm east coast people

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Im midwest people

Hows that local weather been treating you, huh? Hoo boy, ive sure been experiencing local circumstances

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*crouches to a defensive stance in the middle of fucking costco*

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This is southeast coaster erasure. We will be trapped in conversation until one of us dies.

obstinatecurator

Midwesterner: Mornin neighbor

East coaster, immediately regressing into a Nathaniel Hawthorne character: Father warned me there were devils outside the Township

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a while back my best friend linked me to a thread on homemade My Little Pony transformation hypnosis tapes

that’s a really loaded sentence so let me ease into it

they were like, hour long recordings you were supposed to lay down and listen to and focus on nothing else, that started off with some relaxation techniques then eased into like, “feel your hands becoming hooves. remember pinkie pie’s happy memories. imagine yourself literally becoming pinkie pie. imagine your pink mane. you are literally pinkie pie”

all with the goal of putting you in a mental state where you were convinced you were this cartoon pony. and it was full of people like “wow! this was so relaxing. i felt like i literally Became rarity”

the problem is that human brains are kind of, buggy? so people, especially if they listened to the tapes too much, started like, accidentally going to this mental state they’d created at random inopportune times. the thread was suddenly full of people desperate to know how to stop it because they were turning into rainbow dash in the middle of driving on a highway to work, or whatever

anyway, i’m just burdened with that knowledge forever, now. i think about it a lot

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this post radiates unfathomable amounts of dark energy

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iammyfather

This is the part that the wealthy hate about most people being satisfied with what they have. If we strive for more then they can threaten us with it, but if we don’t care they have nothing to steal nor to threaten.

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In case you ever feel badly about spending the money you work hard to earn.

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What does an octopus feel like?

Cephalopods, including octopuses, are mollusks. They’re close cousins to slugs, snails, mussels and scallops. An octopus is a little like a normal mollusk turned inside-out. It has a soft body, and its shell has been reduced to two small plates where its head muscles anchor, plus a powerful, parrot-like beak.

Octopuses feel slightly squishy, but also quite strong and muscley. They also feel velvety and slippery at the same time. Their suction cups are really strong and grippy!

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‪nothing to grasp in‬

‪this empty unfolding sky ‬

‪of phenomena‬

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how y’all look at the (usually) adult man who impregnated her

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Helleborus Winter Jewel // Onyx Oddyssey

Helleborus X Hybridus Winter Thrillers // Grape Galaxy

Chocolate Cosmos

Black Calla Lily

Asiatic Lily

Black Velvet Petunia

Karma Choc Dahlia

Just a few flowers I’d put in the “goth section” of my dream garden, alongside gargoyles. I’d probably throw in some Persian shield for foliage, maybe some other dark coleus.

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Flowers to impress ur goth gf

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Don’t forget

Echeveria affinis

Haworthia yamada black

Haworthia black dragon

Haworthia nigra

Aeonium zwartkop

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The Cat and Lavender, another card for Woodland Wardens, my flora and fauna themed oracle deck! My show at Gallery 205 in Columbia, TN opens Friday the 13th, and the original graphite drawings, plus large prints of the first few cards, will be on display.

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“Patriarchy is the biggest hindrance to our success,” cofounder Richie 'Reseda' Edmond-Vargas has said.

“In a bare, brightly lit classroom inside the Correctional Training Facility in Soledad, California, Richie ‘Reseda’ Edmond-Vargas taught one of his last lessons on patriarchy and toxic masculinity to a group of men who, like him, were incarcerated there. Several years after developing this curriculum, Edmond-Vargas was preparing to transfer to one last facility before ultimately returning to society.

On long sheets of brown paper he broke down tenets of toxic masculinity, asking men to consider the payoffs and costs of buying into values like violence, objectifying women and having money. Men threw out suggestions relating to the costs: bad relationships, loneliness, life in prison.

“We’re all pretty clear on the problem,” Edmond-Vargas says, “What’s the solution?” In response, a facilitator with the group, also incarcerated, stood up to read a passage from bell hooks’ book on toxic masculinity, The Will to Change.

This teaching moment was the result of years of work between Edmond-Vargas and Charles Berry inside the prison. The pair started developing curriculum in 2013 to educate other incarcerated men on how their lives have been affected by patriarchy and toxic masculinity. The full program, which launched February of 2014 under the name Success Stories, includes a variety of intersectional feminist texts with a focus on bell hooks.

Today, both Berry and Edmond-Vargas are out of prison. Edmond-Vargas, based in Los Angeles, launched Success Stories as an official nonprofit organization this week. The organization secured partial funding from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to introduce its curriculum into three new state prisons and just kicked off a fundraising campaign to support the expansion and work toward establishing a national presence.

Read the full piece here

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bell hooks’ The Will to Change

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hot take: be nice to people

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hotter take: people includes yourself

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Installations across NYC depict kids in cages with audio of children crying. Protesting the separation of families and detention of children in cages happening at US Mexico border. The installations are being dismantled by police.

Kids at our border are living in cages. This stops now.

Sharing is an act of protest.

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https://www.instagram.com/nokidsincages/

https://twitter.com/nokidsincagesus

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The Mermaid of Lily Lake by Andy Ivanov

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Beautiful

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so you’ve probably seen the post going around detailing the horrific human rights abuses in what are, undeniably, concentration camps in the US…. accompanied by the suggestion that the only thing you can do is call your senators.

it’s unfathomable to me that someone would see we have actual nazi death camps in our country, and think the solution is writing to the politicians who allowed it to happen.

i have yet to see a post on any social media that has meaningfully helpful suggestions for how to get involved, so:

this article offers a number of suggestions including getting involved with your local chapter of Sanctuary Not Deportation, which connects faith groups to offer sanctuary to immigrants fleeing ICE. it also has a comprehensive list of immigrant-lead organizations to get involved with or donate to, as well as a link to crowdfund for detainee’s phone bills, which allows them to contact their families, legal counsel, and inform the outside world of the realities they are facing in detention.

here is a link for finding detention centers near you. there are many rallies directly outside of these camps you can participate in, and physically going to them is crucial in liberation efforts.

posting bond for detained immigrants is still one of the best ways to get people out of the death camps, even though ICE is increasingly unwilling to participate. the linked article has a list of both federal and state-by-state bail funds/organizations.

host a refugee if you have the room. Room For Refugees is still trying to build a network in the US. keeping people out of ICE’s grip and preventing detention in the first place is the best thing we can do because these camps are becoming more and more impenetrable.

help the legal organizations helping immigrants near you; if you’re anywhere close to NYC the New Sanctuary Coalition needs volunteers/donations, and if you’re on the border get involved with Texas Civil Rights Project.

on top of free legal aid, the NSC specifically also organizes rapid responses to ICE raids, which is one of the most important things you can do – there are many local networks already in place, but here is how to organize a rapid response network if your city doesn’t have one.

one of the easiest things we can all do is learn the rights of immigrants in this country, and how to react to ICE raids. spread this information to everyone you know and keep the toolkit in easy access on your phone.

the only government policy that can make an immediate and tangible impact is municipal policy; push your local politicians to support or build sanctuary city initiatives – here is a toolkit for local political action.

finally, get involved with local antifa and leftist orgs! follow their social media to get updates on calls to action and protests happening near you. i cannot stress enough how important it is to be aware of efforts in your own city. antifa international’s tumblr is one page you can follow, but please research the orgs specifically in your area that are fighting the rise of fascism. the torch network has a list of chapters in several cities around the US, but again this is just a place to start.

i encourage everyone to find at least ONE thing from this list you can do, beyond donating. i know we are all stressed and have our time/energy zapped by capitalism, but if we do nothing, nothing will change. and please share these links wherever you can – copy and paste this post or at least share the first article i linked.

fascism is here, NOW, and we need to step up, because no one is going to invade us to free the camps this time.

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Boosting twice because I can and have been trying to find out what I can do that is useful because the fuckheads and office are NOT going to listen. And yes, ain’t no one going to invade us and put a stop to it. We gotta do this y'all.