i’m a part of what i hear

jenna / 29 years old / i was younger then; i saw everything

[camtot]

🍊🍊

[placeforthegenuine]

hey i notice the odyssey’s having a bit of a renaissance, maybe you’d like to read my grad school paper about it/about how we remake our identities after undergoing trauma

“It goes against my grain to repeat a tale”

What The Odyssey and The Things They Carried can tell us about storytelling and post-traumatic identity formation

[brechtian]

It’s an Ursula k le Guin free your mind from the idea of deserving kind of day

[zegalba]

Paul Cooper: 'Living Sculpture' (2001)

[catilinas]

more benches in museums

the benches need to have backs!

[snuh]

[nodovess]

[montereybayaquarium]

Harmful changes to Endangered Species Act

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Monterey Bay Aquarium denounces Trump-Vance administration weakening…

New regulations undo core elements crucial for protecting vulnerable species and their habitats.

[stealthwitch]

Diary of a Redwall Mouse

July 22nd: breakfasted on a lovely array of fresh strawberries and goat’s cheese with honey, oat cakes and barley porridge. For luncheon we feasted on a catch of smoked trout, vegetable stew, and of course a couple of flagons of October Ale

July 23rd: countless deaths

[paverics]

“my father is a boy and my mother is a girl so i’m mixed” is the funniest possible response to someone asking your gender and it came from 6’5 Viking footballer and notable weird little guy Erling Haaland on a Snapchat

[tpwrtrmnky]

Tbh I think the "but data centers are important infrastructure, not just AI" talking point misses that like

Ok so roads are important infrastructure. A lot of stuff that's important happens on roads. Now, let's imagine that quadrillionaire Matt Stench has decided that the next big tech innovation is the Wide Car. It's a car that takes up six lanes despite seating only one passenger.

The Wide Car is supposed to be the future, and everyone's going to be driving Wide Cars, even though nobody who makes Wide Cars is turning a profit. Employers are offering Wide Cars as an employee benefit, and getting "nah." Some employers are going as far as demanding their employees drive Wide Cars, and the result is that people take time out of their workdays to get in the mandatory gas usage for their Wide Car before driving home in a regular car.

In spite of the fact that the Wide Car is clearly set to fail, there's an enormous push to expand to twelve-lane roads to accommodate a bunch of Wide Cars that simply will not materialize. This is not an organic response to demand, but a speculative investment that amplifies the existing issues with road development for no good reason.

That is the problem.

[tpwrtrmnky]

Oh and the road infrastructure project is buying up resources other people could have used for literally anything else. With money they promise they'll be making from Wide Car sales any day now.

[tpwrtrmnky]

Okay so what I'm getting from the notes is that when you try to transplant some techbro nonsense into an offline equivalent, you have to be careful to avoid simply inventing something the Americans are already doing in real life

[reputayswift]

“I’m coming over, you better not be Vintage American Girl Westie Coconut With Chariot And Tiara when I get there.”

my unruly ass:

[mildmayfoxe]

the thing about having snacks is if you buy any snack you’d think that’d be enough. but no. if you don’t have the right kind of snack when you want a snack then you’re fucked

[christmasxmas]

[anguilliforme]

would you still love me if i was a small iridescent freshwater fish

[sabertoothwalrus]

I love when someone is explaining instructions to a group I’m in and they look at me and it reminds them to say something about using preferred names/pronouns or that there’s vegan food options available. I go by my given name/pronouns and I’m not vegan but I’m proud that I can provide this service

[batbetbitbotbut]

[beardedmrbean]

[poetrylesbian]

this sculpture is from 2011 by artist sara swink

[killer-fille]

cats have been bothering humans since at least 2011