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I’m a storyteller I spin yarns I cant help it

Yes I want to go with you to Savannah to see the dead people park I want to kiss you in the darkness and feel your rough fingers and your delicious dark there is a special I feel like a husk just now Drive with you thru miles of the creeping vine that drapes the south It makes the world it’s own Faulkner novel Beautiful and invasive If I go with you to Savannah we will be pursued by ghosts of road trip as motif i’ve taken them with everyone

past fingers tangled over the center console past hands on thighs past thick silences on lonely idaho highway or the joy that was always a rolling boil with him following us virginia creeper through the gates of any cemetary I visit with you we made out on a grave marked FATHER some crumbling bones down below and I used to call him Daddy and he used to call me Daddy too

wish I wasn’t like this wish I could cut the ribbon that keeps me endlessly spinning this yarn knitting together images and ideas a scarf that I force us both to wear choking beautiful but invasive

library-mermaid-blog

Customers who get angry when I read them their total cost are so compelling to me. Take charge of your narrative, Janice. Be the hero of your own story. You are the one who is purchasing $113.67 worth of adult zen coloring books, Janice. It’s not me you hate, Janice. It’s not me.

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Stop obsessing with how personally green you live – and start collectively taking on corporate power

From the article:

Would you advise someone to flap towels in a burning house? To bring a flyswatter to a gunfight? Yet the counsel we hear on climate change could scarcely be more out of sync with the nature of the crisis.

The email in my inbox last week offered thirty suggestions to green my office space: use reusable pens, redecorate with light colours, stop using the elevator.

Back at home, done huffing stairs, I could get on with other options: change my lightbulbs, buy local veggies, purchase eco-appliances, put a solar panel on my roof.

And a study released on Thursday claimed it had figured out the single best way to fight climate change: I could swear off ever having a child.

These pervasive exhortations to individual action — in corporate ads, school textbooks, and the campaigns of mainstream environmental groups, especially in the west — seem as natural as the air we breath. But we could hardly be worse-served.

While we busy ourselves greening our personal lives, fossil fuel corporations are rendering these efforts irrelevant. The breakdown of carbon emissions since 1988? A hundred companies alone are responsible for an astonishing 71 percent. You tinker with those pens or that panel; they go on torching the planet.

The freedom of these corporations to pollute – and the fixation on a feeble lifestyle response – is no accident. It is the result of an ideological war, waged over the last forty years, against the possibility of collective action. Devastatingly successful, it is not too late to reverse it.

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mytotoro

smelsea

From the Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Handbook [pdf]

queeranarchism

60 year old historian Martin Bühler (who identified himself to the press, I do not identify activists without consent) appears to ‘photobomb’ a lot of media images of the G20 in Hamburg. In reality he is a long time observer documenting police brutality. In Hamburg he chose to cultivate the most non-activist ‘white bystander in a suit with a bike’ look he could manage and casually walked in front of police. As police slowed down or interrupted attacks and waited for the ‘bystander’ to get out of the way (being caught on camera trashing what look like bystanders is bad press after all), activists had time to regroup or retreat.

estradoll

oh my god, what a fucking badass

kenyatta

Storm the reality studio and retake the universe.

digg

she’s like a beautiful norse god come to life and she controls the cows

she’s actually Swedish artist and singer Jonna Jinton and she’s singing Kulning, an ancient Swedish herding call

myboyfriendpetebuttigieg

Romanticize taking your crying toddler out of the restaurant.

giraffeshley

People who take their crying toddlers out of restaurants are VALID.

myboyfriendpetebuttigieg

*me watching a parent NOT take their crying toddler out of the restaurant*

This seems slightly terfy or even aphobic.

afairerhousethanprose

Or we could acknowledge that parenting is already hard enough without all the judgement and sometimes you just want to go have a meal and your baby starts crying and there’s not much you can do about.

Romanticize being inclusive of children and families

womenscliterature

shuuuuut the fuuuuuuuuck uuuuuuuuuup

afairerhousethanprose

this whole thing just reads like a rich elderly woman who sees a baby crying and, sniffs in disapproval and says “well clearly they aren’t discipling their children, not like in /my/ day”

afairerhousethanprose

also, “terfy”?? how did we decide parents who are just doing their best should be categorized with like…the most awful people? and especially given the prevalence of actual terfs I don’t see how anyone could think that’s something to joke about

myboyfriendpetebuttigieg

@afairerhousethanprose is a terf

phoetiquette

oh noooooo0o0o0oOOO0O0o

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a man apologizing: hey im sorry you have feelings :(

tetraghost

i wish birds brought ME presents

baelgrave

No, but think about this.

The crows she feeds obviously have their own little lives. They go about their business, and they spot *pretty thing* or /unique thing/ in question. What gets me is that the *first* thing on their minds as recipient of this thing is the little girl that feeds them.

They spot a thing, and immediately must think, “that nice girl with delicious foodstuffs must have this to show my gratitude.”

kedreeva

It’s actually more than that, though, if you read the articles or watch the videos. This has taken place over YEARS- it started with these birds following this little girl around because she was a messy eater and it has turned into a ritual for the family. They have a water station and food stations where they daily set out things for these birds and sometimes (but not always), these birds leave ‘payment’ behind for the food.

BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE

These birds are not just taking food and leaving shinies. These birds are watching over this family now. Their lives have become involved. These crows are keeping track of this girl and her mother even when they are out of the yard. How do we know?

One of them is a photographer, and one day while she was photographing some stuff on a bridge, she dropped her camera’s lenscap over the edge. There was no way she could get it back, so she left it. When she got home, the lenscap was sitting on the edge of one of the feeding stations, waiting for her.

Not only were the birds following and watching over her, they were smart enough to realize she dropped an Important Thing and cared enough to bring it back to her.

baelgrave

I could not have asked for more

i-speak-gae

They are raising an army

hauntedbystorytelling

Three young women eat spaghetti on inflatable mattresses at Lake of Capri, 1939 (AP Photo / Hamilton Wright)

abbiefrank

Love love love

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this is all i aspire to be

lagonegirl

This, also keep in mind that the “American cowboy” has been exaggerated greatly by Hollywood and popular myth - it was really only a twenty/thirty year period in the mid-19th century that essentially ended around the American civil war when barbed wire was introduced and eliminated the need for them.

If you’re ever in Denver, check out the Black American West Museum. Lots of photos, artifacts, etc.

John Wayne’s character in The Searchers was based on a black man named Britt Johnson.

#BlackHistory