rockalilly

mazzy. 29. ace. bureaucrat by day & unpaid folklorist by night. mostly memes and tiktoks. I don't post a lot.

[dailyclassicart]

Henri Guillaume Schlesinger - "The Five Senses: Hearing" (1865)

[butchfairy]

[camelidae]

While all dragons might wish to be viewed as the fearsome and covetous wyrms of legend, at the end of the day some of them are just little guys dreaming sweet dreams of millet hoards and starlit flights. Don’t let on that you see through them, though, their little egos are worth preserving.

[gryffon]

[thoodleoo]

the world may be a dark place sometimes but there are also 1200 year old paw prints from a happy kitty cat out there

[duckland]

[beardedmrbean]

[theweirdwideweb]

[freebroccoli]

REGRET TO INFORM YOU YOUR SON HAS DIED FROM TRENCH FOOT LOL HE SERVED WITH COURAGE AND HONOR LOL PLEASE ACCEPT OUR DEEPEST CONDOLENCES LOL

[ralfmaximus]

What If We Made Advertising Illegal?

What if we banned all advertising? Not regulate it—abolish it. This proposal would transform manipulation machines, and maybe save democracy

Even as an advertiser (especially as an advertiser), I am convinced that outlawing advertising is the best thing we can do for our world now. More than gun control. More than tackling climate change. More than lowering the price of eggs. Removing these advanced manipulation tools would force everyone—politicians included—to snap back into reality. By outlawing advertising, the machinery of mass delusion would lose its most addictive and toxic fuel.

I started out reading this smugly saying to myself yeah, right.

But by the end I'm sold. Let's ban advertising.

We can start small, maybe with city ordinances. Then roll it out county wide, then at the state level. Once other states see how quiet and sane things can be, they'll adopt the ban too. The ones that don't will remain snarling islands of rage & delusion until the people move away.

Let's ban advertising.

[e-the-village-cryptid]

the entire state of vermont already banned roadside billboards years and years ago. change is possible!!

[squeakitties]

the prawn bomb exploded into shrimpnel

[squeakitties]

a lot of people were krilled

[wizardpepsi]

baseball players in the 20s were all named shit like Dipsy Doodle and Crunch Johnson

[sistertaxon]

[sistertaxon]

[humming-fly]

#they named them like cats in a shelter

[lavendersalve]

[sistertaxon]

[unification]

BEBUS AWARE

[basi-boy]

this video has been the last hinge holding me together for weeks now. I need to watch it once a day or I'll start disintegrating

[torstherapy]

[omtai]

They just don’t release the hounds like they used to

[hobohobgoblim]

in my day someone just let the dogs out. never did know who.

[femmchantress]

I don’t care if Monday’s yuck

Tuesday, Wednesday tread through muck

Thursday maybe eat a duck

It’s Friday, Flat as Fuck

[sugar-coated-prat-dragon]

Katie got so cold on set of Merlin that the costume department had a tiger-shaped hot water bottle made for her to keep warm.

🐯❤️

Of course, she named him Hugo 😂

[angell-of-filth]

[iamnmbr3]

[gardeningwithpina]

Why waste the rain?

I'm obsessed with gardening systems that utilize rainwater without the use of barrels or cisterns. My ultimate fav is using bioswales to catch and filter stormwater on the street.

Fun addition: Dams that utilize trees to catch dirt/ stop erosion, and prevent disaster that can come from broken dams.

[aleeowl]

Also:

SUSTAINABLE URBAN DRAINAGE! SUDS!

We need more of them, in the right places!

Also, using these to reduce stormwater loads in storm events, particularly in places with combined stormwater and sewage systems, could/would be helpful at reducing river discharges of raw sewage. (If climate change is factored in at system level cos more rain in less time needs to be accouted for at rhe large scale designs...)

Plus using constructed wetlands to retain these discharges and treat them before rivers too!

[drwiltz-official]

Reading this, then looking out my window to the concrete "drainage" ditch that pools water and breeds mosquitoes every day of the damn year

[leebrontide]

We have lots of these bioswale's near me. Not only do they work, but they're usually planted up with lots of native plants, so pollinators love them. They also make great supports for fireflies!

And having groundwater is really important for trees to have during droughts. We want to put the water deep underground so when we have a hot dry summer the deep rooted plants still have something to drink.