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The North Sea, by Patrick von Kalckreuth

if you're chronically ill (mentally, physically, or both) and someone asks you "have you tried yoga and meditation?" you should be entitled to legal compensation i think

#perfect pfp for a reaction image :)

bobbole

Japanese mother of pearl fantail dove, 1880

random-brushstrokes

Alexandr Alexeevich Borisov - Seals (1912)

From the diaries of the artist: «It was very difficult to work; I had to cut the brushes, make the bristle short, rub the colors was almost inconceivable. <… > The hand is cracking, it is breaking; the roaring hands refuse to serve. But you draw, all thirsty to put on the canvas these bizarre, gloomy, full of peculiar beauty paintings of the Far North» (source)

purr-in-ink

🐾 My links 🐾

urgetocreate

Elizabeth Chaplin (French-Tuscony 1890 - 1982), Sitting on the Bench, 1916-18, Oil on canvas

filmgifs

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 2003 — dir. Gore Verbinski

wholeheartedsuggestions

forgive the version of you that didn’t know any better

wholeheartedsuggestions

forgive the version of yourself that knew better but did it anyway. forgive every version of yourself. we are constantly learning from our mistakes.

wholeheartedsuggestions

forgive the version of you that didn’t know what to do and could not have foreseen what the right choice was, if there even was one. forgive the version of you that made a choice and regretted it.

donniehaspronouns

this might piss some people off but I don’t think some of you actually ever tried to unlearn your hatefulness. you just came out as queer and decided your new targets really truly deserve it this time.

donniehaspronouns

you. you get it.

2productive

sirenofthegreenbanks

this is from "research as a leisure activity" by celine nguyen, publs. on stubstack in 2024. it's a very good read

#yes yes yes

bookshelfdreams

English: Hyperconsumerism (n) 7/10, not bad. Certainly accurate. Kind of clinical, maybe a bit too abstract, but gets the job done.

German: Konsumterror (der, n) 10/10. That's exactly what it feels like.

bookshelfdreams

This has been getting a bunch of notes over the last few days so I want to make something clear:

Terror in German doesn't mean intense, overwhelming fear (as it does in English) but exists only as a shortening of Terrorismus (terrorism)

#yes

east-of-nowhere

“Home is where the trees look normal” is the sweetest, saddest, most nostalgic truth I’ve ever heard.

zer0stratus

Legolas Greenleaf

omegasmileyface

The ruling will have enormous impacts for transgender residents in the state.

HOLY SHIT

definite-human

"The Montana court separately declared that transgender people constitute a suspect class under the state's equal protection clause. In legal terms, a suspect class is a group that has historically faced such severe discrimination that any law targeting them must meet the highest level of judicial scrutiny to survive—the same standard applied to laws that discriminate on the basis of race. [...] The practical effect is sweeping: any Montana law that singles out transgender people will now face strict scrutiny, meaning the state must prove the law serves a compelling interest and is narrowly tailored to achieve it—a standard that laws almost never survive.

"Because the decision rests entirely on the Montana Constitution, it is insulated from the U.S. Supreme Court. Under the principle of adequate and independent state grounds, the federal Supreme Court cannot review a state court's interpretation of its own constitution, so long as that constitution provides more protection than the federal one. [...] What this means in practice is that Montana's transgender residents now have a constitutional shield completely independent of the Supreme Court of the United State’s decisions."

(emphases mine)

#ce #oh wow!#a sigh of relief for many. much further to go