IT'S OKAY TO BELIEVE

Hockey fan, Caps stan. She/her, mid-40’s, USA. Icon is Caps legend Devante Smith-Pelly

[pharmersonly]

gay people in my phone let’s enjoy looking at laila’s back and shoulders together

[feyd-meowtha]

[chryza]

Debating silently showing this to one of the flight attendants while boarding

[chryza]

I SHOWED IT TO MY FLIGHT ATTENDANT WHEN HE GAVE ME MY COOKIES AND HE LAUGHED SO HARD HE TOOK MY PHONE TO SHOW IT TO THE OTHER FLIGHT ATTENDANT

[bippysaurus-rex]

I don’t know how you got a good grade in being a passenger on an airline but that’s a totally normal thing to achieve and I’m not seething with jealousy at all.

[celebrinienjoyer]

hockey canada giving mack the c:

[thefugitivesaint]

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), poem 85 from “The Gardener”, 1914 Translated by the author from the original Bengali. New York: The Macmillan Company.

[grammarpedant]

It is an hundred years hence now. Go open your doors.

[dailyclassicart]

Akseli Gallen-Kallela - "Wild Angelica" (1889)

[cristalplanetheart]

[recklesslyinfatuated2]

Unrestrained summer fun.

[gallusrostromegalus]

Today in "Animals that it didn't occur to me might be able to go to the beach and enjoy it, but apparently do and now that I'm seeing it makes perfect sense": Camel!

[alex51324]

Maybe the Loch Ness monster was just a very lost camel...

[immoveableobject]

re: ovi/nicke fic with an appendectomy: https://archiveofourown.org/works/10955646 :) boy do i remember this fic! lives in my head rent free (positively)!

Thank you, anon! This is very kind of you! ❤️

[ironychan]

TIL anyone who's going to overwinter in Antarctica has to have had their appendix out. Because removing an appendix that's not causing any trouble just as a precaution is way better than having one that's about to burst when you're on the ass-end of the planet with no way to be rushed to a hospital if shit gets real.

[ironychan]

No, by the way, we absolutely did not think of this ahead of time. A dude named Leonid Rogozov got appendicitis in Antarctica. Fortunately, the expedition's doctor diagnosed him quickly and knew how to remove an appendix. Unfortunately, our man Leo was the expedition's doctor.

What did he do? Well, he set up a mirror, gave his belly a shot of novocaine, presumably told a colleague, "hold my vodka," and he removed his own fucking appendix. He survived.

[sunlaire]

this picture has such "i lived bitch" energy

[doyouremem8erme]

yknow what im just leaving this whole tag thread out here

[donniehaspronouns]

“what if kids identify with something and it ends up just being a phase-?” good. stop teaching and expecting kids (and adults honestly) to formulate permanent traits and ideas of themselves. everything in life is a phase. that doesn’t make it any less legitimate while you experience it. let people explore themselves and know it’s okay if what you think about yourself changes.

[mywordstovictor]

I have a friend who identified as trans for a bit but doesn’t anymore. Verified cisgender. Gave it a good shot. Good for her. Stellar ally. Her dad being a dick about it still damaged their relationship. It doesn’t matter that the identity didn’t last. The memory of how he reacted does.

[mamawasatesttube]

the thing about media literacy is that understanding why the author chose to specify that the curtains are blue is the same skill set as understanding that the way the author characterizes all black characters as angry or all chinese characters as meek and silent is racist. it is the same skill set as being able to identify when a news source is biased or when someone is feeding you propaganda. the ability to ask "why did this person choose to present this premise in this specific way?" is a critical skill in a world full of misinformation. why are the curtains blue? maybe it's a characterization detail. maybe it's extraneous worldbuilding. why is this character written as being right all the time? maybe you're intended to disagree with them. maybe it doesn't matter. maybe you should still ask why.

[melonkai]

departure from my usual content but this is theeee jeffmike article of all time and im so sad it got deleted so im archiving it on my account. please enjoy the ancient texts.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[beemovieerotica]

[clovercocoa]

highlights from the reddit post

[your-dewey-decimal-number-is]

567.913 and 551.55

sauropods and storms (re: tornadoes)

[last-haven]

#*squints at the climate needed to form a tornado*#do tornadoes...not exist on other continents?#wild I hadn't considered that before.#surely South America has them?#they have the same pacific in the west Atlantic in the east make up#Wikipedia has told me that tornadoes can and do happen in other places#just the vast majority of them happen here

The US gets so many (and so strong) ones because our geography is perfect for them--the Rockies in the west provides dry, cold air, the Gulf of Mexico provides wet, warm air from the south, and the plains are the breeding grounds where the forces of air will collide. You also get cold air punching down from the north, making the conditions volatile. With all the right conditions, they can happen anywhere, we're just the poor bastards that live in the perfect breeding grounds for tornadoes.

[fivedayslater]

I see, fascinating! Seems like we need the stars to align to make it happen, and they just happen to constantly all the time in the us midwest!

[last-haven]

Actually, we have THREE Tornado Alleys really--the Great Plains (aka the classic place for them), Dixie Alley (tornadoes tend to show up down south more in the late fall/early winter months), and the Ohio River Valley Alley. There's been a trend of stronger tornadoes that has moved eastward, so the later two are newer names, although I'm not sure how popular the Ohio River Valley one is.

[thornescratch]

NEVER SURRENDER, THE COCKROACH CAPS REFUSE TO DIE.

[soppingwetratboy]

Best sex position is guy who’s not there but is fundamental to everything

[leebrontide]

Ok the US Attorney General says that she will remove ICE if MN drops all our sanctuary laws, complies with ICE, hands over all our SNAP, Medicaid and voter rolls. They demand control over our voter registration so they can "ensure free and fair elections".

They want to control our elections.

I am dead serious people call your representatives. Get volunteering. Get protesting. Get LOUD.

They released a letter full of straight up lies. Spread the truth. MAKE NOISE.

Source

[rederiswrites]

How interesting. How very interesting. They rejected my Blaze of this post.

Well, y'all. Make of this what you will, eh?

[a-krogan-skald-and-bearsark]

Then I guess we'll just have to Blaze it the old fashioned way, eh?

[megpie71]

Boosting signal. AGAIN.

[depsidase]

[sublimepizzastarfish]

Shame might not work forever, but it *is* working *right now*.

Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping.

Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.

Key quotes from the article:

Researchers have known for decades that there are two primary types of people who perpetrate violence. The first is the small fraction who are independently motivated to commit violent acts. The second, and much larger group, are those who commit violence to seek approval and status from others. This is especially true among men who use violence to affirm their masculinity. Research on gender is particularly relevant for understanding ICE, which has an overwhelmingly male workforce and uses messages of masculinity and domination in its recruitment materials. A lot of men may be joining ICE because they think it will allow them to bond with other men and gain power in our society. ... To put it another way, the vast majority of men are only willing to engage in public violence if they feel like the people around them will approve of — and reward them for — that violence. ICE Watch works because it surrounds men seeking approval with people loudly expressing their disapproval. And the noise has the added benefit of drawing large crowds of bystanders who can quickly outnumber the ICE agents, who then have to decide if they want to escalate a situation or perhaps abandon their activity altogether.

And, the kicker? Where it takes 2 or 3 agents to make an arrest elsewhere, they are traveling by the half dozens in Minneapolis:

ICE Watch organizers have also observed that it takes many more agents to make a single arrest when they are around. In other cities, ICE traveled in groups of two or three, but in Minneapolis, we primarily see groups of 6 to 12 agents. The Department of Homeland Security has pulled agents from other cities to ramp up efforts in Minnesota, which guarantees there will be fewer deportations from the places they left. Plus, ICE's fixation on breaking up ICE Watch groups and detaining observers — often white citizens — has interrupted its original mission.

ICE Watch is shaming ICE (among other things, including documenting their crimes and providing a lifeline to those who are kidnapped).

And it's working.

And even if it wasn't working to the efficacy as shown, it's (1) cathartic to jeer at these fascists, (2) shows support to the community that you are not alone in thinking these agents are scum, and (3) still helping because everyone who joins ICE is a social pariah and knows it *because of this outward and ongoing shame*.

It doesn't matter if they think we're degenerates. Sometimes the things us "degenerates" say will stick and hit a nerve.

[leebrontide]

These boys are falling apart so fast ICE is trying to recruit therapists. Which is what inspired my earlier post about how treating these guys is a huge liability therapists don’t want to take on.

Also it is critical to us in the target area to signal unambiguous support for our neighbors and that those opposing ICE have significant and broad support.

[onbearfeet]

"ICE is trying to recruit therapists" is a profoundly heartening sentence, and I thank you for it.