For The Love Of Words - And Love

For the love of science, reason, words, and love in every shade of the rainbow and beyond. Trying to be a decent enough human. Homo sapiens & non-binary (I‘m no robot). Still learning a lot. Find me on AO3 as well... Be kind to each other.

[fluent-in-queer]

✨Rainbow Cakes✨

This drawing was so much fun to do! This is dedicated to the fanfic “Rainbow Cakes” by @redcurlzbychoice! (go check it out, it’s adorable!)

I hope you all enjoy this doodle! 🍰🌈

[redcurlzbychoice]

🌈😍🎂🥰🌹😍🍰🥰💐😊🌈🥰😍🥰😍🌈

Words are not enough to express how I feel!!

Thank you soooo much for your dedication and talent and kindness to draw this beautiful piece of art.

I hope your day, week and life will brighten up as much as mine did!

You astounding, incredible human being! 😍🥰😍

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[tree-whispering]

[ohxoz]

Restoring Vincent van Gogh

[hrjrjj]

[beggars-opera]

[yorgen-sh]

[kittysneezes]

I like this article because it’s not what you think it is.

[aprilwitching-deactivated201808]

the world is a strange and wonderous place

[snorlaxatives]

i think one of the best parts about being a teenager in the early to mid 2010s was that cigarettes were definitely not cool anymore and vapes hadn’t popularized yet so my lungs made it out of my peak impressionable years relatively unscathed

[kaiyves-backup]

[afurioushawk]

[headspace-hotel]

today my wisdom is: the ecological crisis of our planet is not a thing that will Suddenly destroy us sometime in the next century—it has taken decades of continuous work for our biosphere to be preserved thus far, and it will take decades more of continuous work to continue preserving it.

The apocalypse is not a single event hovering in the future bearing down on us while we sit helplessly. We are at least 150 years into an ongoing "apocalypse."

Things will continue to steadily get worse without steady action, but "augh! it's already too late to stop climate change and mass extinctions!" is specifically the worst response

[headspace-hotel]

what I mean is, there is a persistent fallacy that the present situation of a thing is always worse than the past, even if there have been fluctuations in badness.

This is not true. There is a great wealth of specific cases where ecosystems/species/a specific anthropogenic impact on the environment is CURRENTLY, RIGHT NOW, better than it has been at any point in the past 100 years

[headspace-hotel]

I've been researching the history of conservation in the USA...and I think current doomers would benefit from knowing just how bad things got throughout the 20th century.

The eastern USA's natural environments were fucking razed. We went scorched earth on everything.

In the 1930's, DEER and WILD TURKEYS were almost eliminated from my state. Deer. Wild turkeys. Common animals that you can see all the time.

I've seen animals close to my home that a person in the 1970's would not have been able to see. I saw river otters and a bald eagle a couple months ago! Farmer family friend remembers when a bald eagle sighting here made the news. There is a thriving population of elk (16,000 animals) in the Appalachian Mountains, for the first time since before 1850!

We actively tried to exterminate so many species. Bison. Wolves. Mountain lions. The US GOVERNMENT PAID PEOPLE TO KILL CARNIVORES. They're still here. They're reclaiming their old territories. All is not lost

[bogleech]

There was a time most American cities almost never saw a blue sky. Brown and yellow smog was the norm and rivers were garbage sludge that are now teeming with fish. People don't know that government environmental regulation actually did succeed, that the EPA really worked as intended. Now it gets eroded because people think it isn't making a big difference, and they think that because they haven't seen what it's still holding back.

[generalstrikefarm]

The Cuyahoga River Caught Fire at Least a Dozen Times, but No One Cared Until 1969

Despite being much smaller than previous fires, the river blaze in Cleveland 50 years ago became a symbol for the nascent environmental move

Speaking of improvement, there was a time when some rivers in the USA were so polluted that parts of them would catch fire.

[prole-log]

[forcekenobi]

as a child being told "the moon controls the tides" with no additional explanation was like. oh okay. you want me to believe in magic? you're talking about magic right now? okay. fine

[forcekenobi]

sorry. only semi-related but i simply wasn't ready for "the sun is a distant gorilla". thank you NASA

[hyperchaotix]

[icarus-suraki]

[morepopcornplease]

fake Goncharov fans don’t even realize that Scorsese did NOT direct the 1973 cult classic. he was executive producer. 🤦‍♀️

The actual director is Natted JWHJ0715, and they deserve credit!!!

[onstoryladders]

It's Matteo JWHJ0715!!!!! Very talented director (italian mother, license plate father)

[official-lucifers-child]

[mutant-what-not]

[192929020202020]

[napalmdebt]

[my-dailydreams]

[tragbarerpanzrabwehrkomplexfagot]

[machine-saint]

[ceescedasticity]

[puppygirllaika]

so. i just learned that my entirely me-written resume flags as being AI-written by automated HR systems for a few writing quirks and the fact that i followed all the rules of good resume writing, which is apparently a telltale sign of AI use in this fucking hellworld. i've been desperately applying to jobs that i am massively overqualified for for months with no response, not even an interview, and now i find out that at least part of the reason is because some fucking moron decided that following the rules every career advisor has given me for a decade means i cheated and should be disqualified. the ai bubble cannot pop soon enough. what the actual fuck.

[puppygirllaika]

"frequent use of action-result sentences. bullet points all start with action verbs. no career gaps." girl what the fuck are you talking about. that's just resume writing advice being followed. i just did what i was told. it's a fucking resume. you're supposed to do all that stuff. what the fuck do you mean it looks ai generated and wouldn't pass basic detection systems?????????? for following the resume writing rules????????????

[puppygirllaika]

wishing every AI bro and ceo a very [REDACTED]

[egberts]

a lot of people in this world are afraid of looking stupid and those people can be very mean when somebody else is okay with asking questions, because asking means you don't know, and not knowing means you're stupid, at least in their projection. if you're one of these people, i implore you to get comfortable with not knowing and being wrong. curiosity is not a crime. you can't know anything about everything without asking questions first.

[redcurlzbychoice]

To not know anything is the default state of humans at birth.

To ask questions is the best way to become smarter and more knowledgeable over your lifetime.

If you don’t ask, you stay unknowing.

If you think asking is stupid, then you are (and stay!) stupid indeed.