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Monterey Bay Aquarium
noise dept.
if i look back, i am lost
@theartofmadeline
Sweet Seals For You, Always
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let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
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Aqua Utopia｜海の底で記憶を紡ぐ
I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
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People still doing "do you think voting can fix this" memes when the answer to the question "when did voting last end an authoritarian regime" is "two days ago"
Super secret sauce on how to end an authoritarian regime by voting:
you have to actually vote
even if you don't really like the guy you're voting for
Source: I was there
Seriously anyone engaging with age verification bill discourse in terms of whether or not you think age restricting content is good or bad are completely missing the point.
These bills have nothing to do with keeping young people from doing certain things or protecting the children or whatever. Their point is and always has been one thing: If your operating system knows who you are it is impossible to have any real form of privacy on the computer.
Thats it, thats the whole thing. They want to link your every single usage of computers to your real world identity, and like they have been doing for all of time, they are hiding under the guise of protecting the children.
When the story has a sequence where the characters each get personally tortured with their exact personalized greatest fears and traumas
Abed is not the only autistic character in the study group. He's just the character that knows he takes psychic damage from masking.
(yes I got to that in the most stereotypical way possible, after watching this vid https://youtube.com/shorts/RdL7xWe3veg?si=B212nU-ZP2EQ3oME , followed by reading a Batman/Criminal minds crossover while thinking about Paget Brewster's character on Community and then realizing that Jeff is 100% a high masking GenX AuDHD loophole finder).
Other people doing the work to put together the threads.
Roses are red, my favorite season is fall,
Dumpling.
One of the most important things to unpack and unlearn when you’re part of a white supremacy saturated society (i.e. the global north) and especially if you were raised in an intensified form of it (evangelicism, right wing politics, explicit racism) is the urge to punish and take revenge.
It manifests in our lives all the time and it is inherently destructive. It makes relationships and interactions adversarial for no good reason. It undermines cooperation and good civic order. It worsens some types of crime. It creates trauma, especially in children.
Imagine approaching unexpected or unacceptable behavior from a perspective of "how can this be stopped, and prevented" instead of "you’re going to regret this!”
Imagine dealing with a problem or conflict from the perspective of “how can this be solved in a way that is just and restorative” instead of “the people who caused this are going to pay.”
How much would that change you? How much would that have changed for you?
Please.
Glad everyone is getting so much joy from early Quaker names! Looking forward to seeing any future pets/children/bands/drag acts named after stuff on this list.
tag yourself, i'm Patience Fish
Categories Include:
Band Names: Charity Kill, Jane Snowball, Love Butcher, Revolution Sixsmith, Humble Thatcher, Thank Holland
D&D Character Names: Peregrine Doyly, Lancelot Wells, Squire Boone, Chardus Alatheo Eyre, Grissel Toldervy, Rutoron Rettle
Stripper / Porn Star Stage Names: Virgin Kent, Dykes Alexander, Charity Nutt, Patience Rawbone, Sarah Sparkling, Fountain Sterrey, Reuben Rawbone, Discipline Matthews, Jane Snowball
Pro Wrestler Stage Names: Wilde Wilde, Hercules Cross, Constant Shield
Lumberjack Folklore Characters: Old Adams, Cotton Brown, Silence Williams
Lumberjack Folklore Cryptids: Patience Fish, Barb Bee
Fake Names Your D&D Characters Made Up To Get Into A Formal Event: Eustace Cockery, Corn Russell, Marvelous Scanfield, Elizabeth Poope, Gey Poope, Job Bland, Love Beer, Rich Whale
Soulsborne Boss Names: Returned Elgar
Sonic OC Names: Robert Were Fox
from @reparrishcomics
The poor Poope family. There was no hope for them. I hope their descendants got to move abroad and change their names.
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we’re doing this again I guess
today's children are gonna become teens and clown the shit out of us for 'eepy' and 'blorbo' but they'll say it in cocomelonese so we won't understand them
today’s eepy blorbo is yesterday’s heckin doggo is last week’s smexy bishie
I hate that you're right and that I understood all of that.
"being a human is so boring why can't I be one of the COOL animals" okay hey. I hear you. but I actually really super love being an omnivorous persistence hunting primate with a stomach capable of dissolving many literal poisons and the ability to smell geosmin (released in the soil after it rains) at five parts per trillion. I super enjoy being a bipedal terrifyingly agile mammal with some of the most efficient sweat glands in the animal kingdom. I find a lot of joy in being an endotherm with mimicry abilities that rival most other animals with vocal chords. it's sick as hell I'm having a lot of fun
awawa :3 awawa....
[ID: tags reading "and i'm using that vocal mimicry to go awawa!!" /end ID]
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I think it's the galactic orbit thing that really did me in
WHAT DO YOU MEAN SHARKS HAVE BEEN AROUND THE GALAXY TWICE
It’s a very good design
Still one of the best facts I know, along with trees having been indestructible back in the beginning.
We may be incredibly young compared to stars, but life itself is incredibly old. We're heirs and scions of the primordial power. There are stars that are incredibly young compared to Life.
Depending on the definition of "Human," humans may be older than Orion's Belt (Alnitak is the oldest star in the belt, about 7 million years, which may be after when humanity's ancestors diverged from Chimpanzees)
Humans may also be older than Eta Carinae. Its age is listed as <3 Million years, and the famous Australopithecus fossil "Lucy" is about 3 million years old
Humans might be older than the Trapezium Cluster (300,000 years old, so Homo Erectus was around I think and that's somewhere around the start of anatomically modern humans)
Cats are older than Betelgeuse. One of the oldest felid fossils, Proailurus, is about 25-30 million years old, Betelgeuse's age is estimated at 8-14 My.
Sharks are older than Sirius (about 230 million years old), I think so are crocodiles.
Animals might be older than Vega (700 million years) but it's really hard to tell because that's into Precambrian times and fossils are extremely difficult to find, plus it's sometimes hard to tell what kingdom stuff from those times even belongs to.
Life on Earth is older than Procyon (1.37 billion years)
Life on Earth is NOT older than Alpha Centauri (around 5.2 billion years old, older than the Sun and by extension Earth)
Life on Earth is WAY younger than Tau Ceti (8-10 billion years) or Barnard's Star (second closest star system to the sun, about 10 billion years old)
It's very common for people to get harassed online for being blunt or saying something in a very neutral way (ie: without any disclaimers or repeated reassurances or fawning) and part of that is because tone is very hard to read through text but I also think that uh.
That excuse doesn't really hold any water when it's very easy to just remember that the people you interact with online are in fact human beings who don't always talk like they have an entire PR team whispering in their ears and checking everything they post.
If you were talking to someone irl and they said that they really like apples, you wouldn't expect them to immediately follow that up with "but there's nothing wrong with oranges and I think strawberries are great and I enjoy the cherries too and there's nothing wrong with you if you like pineapple and grapes are great in fruit salad and—" but that's the sort of behavior expected online.
And when people do add a million disclaimers and clarifications, then they're attacked for that too! They're accused of backtracking or doing damage control or trying to bury the controversy. There's genuinely no way to win and it fucking sucks.
Someone will shoot off a quick post while making dinner and then log back on a few hours later or the next day and see that there are dozens of strangers suicide baiting them or saying that they should be killed for being the literal devil because their post was worded like a human wrote it instead of a team of 10 trained and well-paid PR employees.
I get myself in trouble all the time in writing, because when I think through what I'm saying so I don't hurt someone accidentally, I sound like the most long winded pretentious asshole ever, and when I don't think too hard, half the words are missing and I sound like a mean asshole.
I suppose the good news is I have a pretty thick skin about it, and can turn that accidentally cruel into very deliberately cruel on a dime.
(Also known as good luck unpacking your speech patterns when both sides of your family think verbal abuse is how you show you care).
you have to stay alive. you're going to be such a beautiful middle aged freak. young freaks will see you in the street and know that things can be okay.
I was 22 when I got my first bookstore job, and at the time my entire experience of "old people" was my grandparents, none of whom had been particularly healthy, and none of whom I was close with. To my young eyes, all they did was sit around and be old. That was life after 60.
The owner of the bookstore was this grand old dame of 76 who had been in the business for 40 years. She'd had three kids with a husband who was extremely gay, and as soon as those were old enough, they split up. She read on an epic scale, was an avid follower of the opera, sang in several choirs, and scheduled arts programming for a private club. She had gentleman callers (so they styled themselves) at the store continuously the entire fifteen years I worked there--yah, into her NINETIES. She never took up seriously with any of them, because they couldn't keep up. She was impeccably dressed and put together every single day of her life, drank regularly, and said they would pry her estrogen supplements out of her cold, dead hands. She had a gang of elderly single lady friends, though, and they went out every night of the week. They knew everything and everyone, collectively. She got her first smart phone in her mid-80s and became extremely Online. I bet she's on Tumblr now. She is 96.
This blew my mind. Life didn't have to be over...ever.
We worship youth in our culture. Only the young have futures, and the aged exist to enable the lives of the young. We act as if by the time you hit forty, you've had your chance. You are now expected to step aside and scede life to others.
FUCK THAT. I have a lot of life ahead of me. I have places to go and books to read and people to fuck and food to eat and music to dance to and emotions to feel and nazis to punch and stories to tell and hearts to break and ventures to capitalize and empires to conquer. I am going to be doing this for the next fifty years, minimum.
Life has so much in it. Do it all, forever.
Criminology books will be like "There's a special kind of person called Criminal and their psychology is very interesting because, unlike a human being, a Criminal is capable of doing a crime, such as parking badly or committing a murder. I'm a scientist btw."
I'm gonna disable reblogs on this post soon probaly because I can already tell I'm gonna end up having the same conversation in the notes one hundred william times with one hundred william different people, but I'ma put this here first:
The very idea of drawing such a hard distinction between lawful and criminal behavior is itself normative, naive, and ultimately fictitious. There is not such a thing as a dichotomy between criminal and lawful acts. There are antisocial and prosocial acts, but that is no wise the same thing; under our current way of doing things, which acts are or aren't considered criminal is an entirely political question.
Oh, you've recognized the social causes of crime? Great first step! Now look into the social causes of law.
