[sunny-possum-pal]

California gulls, we're unforgettable 🍟🪽

[thoughtkick]

“Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

[ohcaptains]

[enyter]

[void0m]

ms paint study from 2021

[diospore]

[magical-awesome-kid]

I’m sorry MS PAINT????

[mademoiseli]

It's kind of interesting how people around my age have made almost a 180° turn when it comes to things like smartphones and social media.

Ten years ago you would have seen people my age clowning on people who complained about other people being on their phones all the time.

I remember this one illustration of a parent shielding their child from a rain of smartphones by using a book as an umbrella. I can't find the post or the original illustration right now, but I remember people scoffing at it.

I remember people sharing an early 20th century photograph of a bus full of people with their noses in their newspapers, using it as an example of people ignoring each other before the era of smartphones.

It was this photograph, if I'm not mistaken.

And now many people around my age (and younger) are ditching their smartphones, getting flip-phones or "dumb phones," searching for analog replacements of various apps, collecting and interacting with physical media again, etc, etc.

I think a lot of it has to do with how much technology & social media have become more depressing over the years, not to mention invasive. The people in the photo above might have been ignoring one another in favor of being engrossed in the paper, but at least the paper wasn't demanding their attention at every moment (nor stealing their data) and once they were done reading the paper, they likely moved on with their day.

But beyond that I also think a lot of us realized that the social media that was supposed to connect us was (more often than not) making us angry and lonely, and that spending every moment of free time in front of a screen was not living.

This shift in opinion has been very interesting to witness, and it makes me hopeful.

[furryprovocateur]

i started reading this book and kept tilting my head at the comparisons the author was using so i started a running list of them

[furryprovocateur]

this author's use of imagery is so questionable

[furryprovocateur]

i actually went "what the fuck" and had to stop for like 5 minutes after this one

[furryprovocateur]

[brosef-von-dudehomie]

I'm sorry, this is a NON-FICTION work about video game consoles?!

"Console Wars" by Blake J. Harris

[momo-y0te]

I’ve got an opinion that will make everybody mad and it’s that I think we do still need pride and we do still need to be fighting for gay rights but if you think we need pride for the people who want to walk around wearing their puppy masks and leashes in public and not for the lesbian girls in middle eastern shitholes subjected to corrective rape and the gay men who get castrated and thrown off buildings I think you have some issues prioritizing

[beardedmrbean]

[dumblr]

[jackkdaniels]

look at me. listen to me. this is directed at americans for the record. the reason you think North American animals are boring is because you live here. there are so many cool and beautiful animals here. we have beavers. we have wolves. we have moose. we have sea lions. we have armadillos. we have mountain lions. we have alligators. we have foxes. we have bighorn sheep. we have manatees. we have bears. we have ocelots. we have BISON. and that’s not even touching on the birds! or the turtles! or the snakes! we have amazing beautiful and diverse wildlife right here and it deserves to be appreciated and protected

[matt-the-blind-cinnamon-roll]

Possums are the only North American marsupial, they eat ticks and keep down cases of Lyme, and they can't carry rabies! We only have two native boa constrictors; the rubber boa and the rosy boa! Bison and the American Alligator are LITERAL MEGAFAUNA LEFT OVER FROM PREHISTORY!

[scifigrl47]

When I was a teenager, I was hiking with my family on Cape Cod. I was not a willing participant to these hikes; I would've preferred to be back at our rental cabin with a book.

But my parents were birders, so hiking we did go.

And about a mile up the trail, a woman came rushing up to us, clutching her binoculars to her chest. "Come quickly," she said, with a British accent. "You have to see this!"

This is what birders are like. They are as excited about a life bird as any fan would be spotting their favorite celebrity. You have to see, you have to.

So my parents rushed off with her, and I plodded along behind them.

To find a cluster of Brits huddled in a bird blind, staring at..

A blue jay.

A goddamn blue jay.

And I was a teenager, but I knew better then to mouth off in front of my mom. So I nodded, and smiled, and bit my tongue, until an elderly man looked at me with tears in his eyes, and said, "Isn't it BEAUTIFUL?"

And I stopped. And looked at it. The way they were. As if it were new. And damned if they weren't right.

I think of that, to this day. That sometimes, you need to step back, and see the world as if it were new. Strange, and haunting, and beautiful, so beautiful.

[falconratesbirds]

Isn't it BEAUTIFUL?

[rosegoutte]

I love birds! I love our wildlife! My home is the salamander capital of the world! I have huge opossums walking through my backyard every night and black bears run through my college campus. I love North American wildlife but of course I have a special appreciation for my wild Appalachian neighbors

[stahsm]

cartoon by Charles Barsotti.

[ryebreadgf]

I'm sorry I really thought easter was a US holiday

where did jesus die. quickly

[hollowerposts]

Being on Tumblr is like sifting through Marine Snow.

[nosimpincurly]

You’re not depressed. You just need $250,000 in your bank account.

[catherinebunnington]

Reblog to materialize $250,000 in prev's bank account

[sluttyquarantinetheory]

The most horrifying thing about being a human is that no matter how intelligent you are or how much customer service training you have, nothing will stop you from being the idiot customer on occasion. At some point you won't read a sign or you'll misread a menu or ask the dumbest question a human has ever formed and there is nothing you can do to prevent this. It will happen. Accept it and continue on your way as one of today's dipshit customers.

[that-house]

need to know what its called when you have a cramp in the sole of your foot so i can properly complain about this bitch

[that-house]

ok thats awesome but which door will lead me out of the fucking labyrinth

[feminismisstillahatemovement]

It's crazy how normalized and unremarked upon this has become the past couple of decades.