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Universal Divinity

[kply-industries]

[what-even-is-thiss]

I just had an argument with someone who was like “why would we settle for food stamps when we could have universal basic income?”

And it’s just like. People need food right now you know.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Hippie church moms donating quinoa chips to my local food bank have done more for me materially than any internet idealist ever has.

[what-even-is-thiss]

People get pissed at me for being a pragmatist in my political ideals but I’ve been in the position where I was out of food right now.

And who helped me with that? Not people calling for some nebulous revolution. Not people telling me that the system was useless. Not people preaching at me to grow my own food. It was a church food bank partially funded by the state of Texas that some southern hippies donated a bunch of Whole Foods nonsense to.

And you know what? I’m sick and tired of defeatism. What can we get done right now, huh? Are you gonna accept something a bit better to help people right now or are you waiting for your perfect utopia to come to you?

Yeah, UBI is better than the quinoa chips. Sure. But right now the quinoa chips are stopping people from going hungry and if all we can do is get the food bank quinoa chips to more people, then I say so be it. That’s something. I’ll almost always take baby steps over nothing.

[waitgn]

[canisovis]

Maned wolf + river otter commission in a celestial style. Digitally illustrated, then printed out and gold leafed.

[qwiddit]

[partlymadeofgold]

This map was designed by Kenyan artist Priya Shah.

You can read about it here: https://minds-africa.org/fabric-map-of-africa-the-art-of-storytelling/

and buy copies of the map here: https://www.miakora.com/fabric-map-of-africa

[treasuredplanet]

I think that when you're overstimulated you should appear kind of grayed out and no one should be able to interact with you like a locked character in a video game

[aaaangel444]

[n64retro]

Pokémon Yellow Version

Game Freak Inc. / Nintendo Game Boy 1998 JP / 1999 NA

[expressions-of-nature]

by Svetlana Kondrashova

[idlesuperstar]

Happy 100th Birthday David Attenborough [b: 8th May 1926]

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

(I have made quite a lot of gifsets of this man over the years)

[idlesuperstar]

Going through The Davey A Archives™ and remembering what an ABSOLUTE GIFT Zoo Quest in Colour was when it got released a decade ago.

[euphorictruths]

Cloudscape With Waxing Moon- Sarah Stivers

[pngzoid]

The Kissing Knife, The Thorn Knife, The Leather Knife, The Black Knife - Chloe Arrouy

[7pleiades7]

The Flower Girl, Capri (also known as Capri Girl with Flowers), (detail), by Sophie Gengembre Anderson (French-born British, 1823 – 1903), oil on canvas, 36 x 28 in (91.4 x 71.2 cm), Private Collection

[weepingwidar]

William Darkdrac (Spanish, 1995) - Sonambulism (2024)

[weepingwidar]

Theodor Severin Kittelsen (Norwegian, 1857-1914) Nøkken (The Water Sprite) (1904)

[pwlanier]

MÄRTA MÅÅS-FJETTERSTRÖM. 1873-1941

Bonad, “Täppan”, wool, after 1942, Båstad, 34x54 cm.

Stockholm Auctionworks