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Do you ever look at a sparrow and think, "that bird is really wasting her potential?"

No. That thought would clang against the simple dignity we sense in nature, the dignity of a living thing inhabiting a life.

You are that sparrow. You are the branch she rests upon.

You embody that same dignity.

#thanks civilla d martin!#(you can tell i haven’t been to normal church in ages since i looking that up made me realize sacred music is deprecated #it’s all gospel library! since when?)

theo-the-door

Trans guy going on T, call that Project Male Hairy

donniehaspronouns

if y’all hated the last tapestry I made I got something even better. happy pride!

also didn’t block this one so don’t even ask

(link to the chart)

calypsolemon

people need to stop advising each other on how to spot AI images/ videos based on increasingly unreliable minuscule details and start advising each other on how to find fucking sources. Not only because 9 times out of 10 your most reliable "tell" that an image or video is AI is finding the source account literally tells you in the bio, but because this is also applicable to spotting when somebody is Lying On The Internet. Something people increasingly seem to forget absolutely can and will happen without the use of AI.

calypsolemon

right click > copy image link > paste link into google lens > exact matches will almost always yield you more reliable results than the bbc sherlock levels of divination the average tumblr user will advise you to perform to determine whether the funny cat picture is real or made by a computer

cotton-glass

I made a quiz about ryan gosling characters!

onebeeoneclover

Hey!!

#idk who that guy is i don’t know anything

I’ve noticed a lot of buff women in my store this past week or so. Anyways, happy pride to me

#prairiepost

hutsonwoolyums

put in the tags one hyper-specific thing you can explain because of your job

#there isn’t a company that exists that can make good string cheese packaging #they can package every other kind of cheese!#but not string

spookberry

lowkey kinda hate how all the pride flags are just stripes, can we get some shapes up in here pls

OK bisexual (czech)

Hell yeah 🤙

Biczechual

the change from AD to CE feels really emblematic of how surface-level and meaningless the supposed secularization of the western world is

jewfrogs

Common Era is definitely preferable over Anno Domini, if only because christ is no lord of mine, but it’s only less christianocentric in that it doesn’t overtly make reference to christ in its title. the benchmark is still the same. you’re still measuring when the common era began using the (supposed) birth of christ, separating history into “the period before jesus” and “the period after jesus”. this conception of history is no less defined by christianity than it was before, except that now it’s easier to ignore because you’ve draped it in a “secular”, “modern” veneer and done nothing to actually unpack the ways in which western society intrinsically centers christianity.

iamemeraldfox

Okay now I need a point in history that could be a benchmark to start counting the years from, and would be a common point for most of the world

What year would it be today?

sarah-ankh

UTC

Coordinated Universal Time.

The system by which every computer in existence now keeps count of the passing seconds.

And I mean that literally. To a computer system "now" is a number that represents the total number ov seconds that have passed since midnight on the 1st of January, 1960.

1960/01/01 00:00:01 is literally the beginning of time as far as a computer is concerned.

This would be the year 66UTC

telewrenevision

I like this idea but if we changed it now then next year would be the year 67 which would make a lot of people angry

avita-anarchy

Personally, I think our whole calendar needs revision. The year should begin on the winter solstice, months should be 28 days long with 4 weeks of seven days, the first day of the year should be standalone from any months. On leap years, add a day to the end of the year. This would give us thirteen months and a standalone new year day.

Another daily system that would work nicely mathematically would be five or six day weeks. See, the frustrating thing about our year is 365 is semi-prime, with its prime factors being 73 and 5. So while we could do 73 weeks that are 5 days long, breaking those weeks up into matching months can't be done. 72, however, is a really nice number, because it is divisible by 12, which is a handy number thanks to having several factors. So, if we want to keep our normal 12 months, we can set five days (six on leap years) as their own, standalone week, and divide the rest into 12months of either five 6-day weeks or six 5-day weeks. This way, every month is 30 days long and weeks don't overlap between months.

As for the year, I propose year 0 being either the year the Mongol Empire was proclaimed unified under Ghengis Khan, (1206 CE, so the current year would be 800), or the year the Roman Empire became unified under one ruler (27 BCE, making the current year 2053), or the estimated year of the unification of the Egyptian empire (3150 BCE, so this year would be 5176). The establishment of a significant empire seems a pretty notable point of reference for the course of human history.

Alternative year 0s could be when the first human to go to space (1961, so this year is 65), or year 0 of the start of the Maya calendar's 12th baktun (1619, so this year is 407) since the new world and old world continents were well in contact with one another by then.

#i’ve seen one where if you put a one in front (this year is 12026)#then year zero is think the first time people built a building #or something like that i’m not 100%

nerdygaymormon

gay-mormon-wizard

im sorry, i know this is a perspective thing, but all i could think was "new queer identity just dropped: mormons" and then i had to make that one meme

amethystmoons

Were yall taught evolution was real growing up?

yes

no

nuance

didn't grow up lds/results

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I'm curious if this is a mormon thing or if it was just my parents. I was always taught that Adam and Eve and evolution are two different but both real perspectives on something we don't fully understand.

#i had a seminary teacher who used to work in a lab #and he told us that if anyone didn’t believe in evolution he’d being them down and show them #at home it was up to me to figure out tho

whereserpentswalk

Fuck hostile architecture, I want unhostile architecture. I want benches to be designed to be as easy as possible to sleep on. I want little places for pigeons to nest to be purposefully put on buildings. I want people designing public spaces to think about what they'd be like to skateboard on. I want "Please loiter" signs. I want people to be kind. I want...