Tree Swallows by Linda H. Dulak - Audubon Photography Awards
barn swallows depicted in the “spring fresco”, akrotiri, thera, greece. c. 16th century BC
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祝日 / Permanent Vacation
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Tree Swallows by Linda H. Dulak - Audubon Photography Awards
barn swallows depicted in the “spring fresco”, akrotiri, thera, greece. c. 16th century BC
hey, listen. I don't care about any of that, okay? I'm going to destroy you.
TAYLOR SWIFT - New York Knicks vs Cleveland Cavaliers game - May 23, 2026
Once upon a time…
I really wish the overused sentence “You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” was less relevant but here we are
Bear religion probably fucking rocks. You're a fucking bear, you're the deadliest thing on earth, once a year an endless supply of salmon just flings itself up the river to gorge on and then you nap for 3 months.
The most delicious food in the world is protected by tiny demons who can defend it from everyone except you. Your natural armor is thick enough that you can just eat the damn hive while they buzz around you. God's chosen animals right there
the species that can take you out are literally wizards with magic boom sticks that instantly wound you from a distance. they're mostly just scared of you though, if you catch one without the boom stick they're very easy to kill. also they leave treasure chests full of delicious food around where they live and if you're smart you can figure out how to open them. going into one of their settlements is basically a dungeon crawler RPG.
Hibernation lasts 6 months in Alaska I think. Truly powerful.
Hey, did you know archive.org has a bunch of free 90s shows you can stream?
The problem is finding them, since no one's organized them all in one place with covers and episode info. I'm trying to fix that with my new website.
It's in BETA right now, and all the content was just added today, so I've barely scratched the surface of what's out there.
Let me know what you think and what kind of shows/movies you want to see!
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Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones (1/5)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) dir. Steven Spielberg
I follow some non-consumer and pro-recycling facebook pages and like. I'm not sure how to explain this exactly, but some of them have a frankly unhealthy relationship with preservation and recycling. People will photograph an ancient threadbare shirt that's full of massive holes and 30% mould by volume and say "this was in my mum's basement and she wanted to throw it out! How do I save it?" People will show a stack of thirty empty margarine containers and say "what use can I find for these? I don't want to throw them out." Someone detailed their strategies for making sure that they only walk around their house barefoot or with slippers, never walking int heir socks, in order to make sure the socks wear out as slowly as possible.
Responsible reuse and care of your belongings is one thing, but for some of these groups, if they monitored food and exercise the way they monitored general consumption it would be an eating disorder.
This isn't a healthy relationship with possessions.
Right after this post was somebody bragging about how they're freeing themselves from consumerism by giving up manicures and pedicures so it's. A very mixed bag of standards.
Mood.
I walk a very thin line between recycling/anti-consumerism and my hoarding tendencies (don't think it's ever reached the point of full blown disorder but I'm very aware it's a constant lowkey battle to keep it that way) and my perfectionism paralysing me into keeping stuff until I can dispose of it in the Absolute Most Optimal Least Polluting way.
Any obsession can become disordered (I don't necessarily mean pathologically, but extreme to the point where it does you more harm than good or more harm than is safe/justifiable), and I think we forget that.
Unless it's made of easily recyclable or compostable materials like metals, glass or organics (NOT recyclable plastic, that doesn't count), it's basically all landfill. Dispose of chemicals and electronics in the appropriate way, put the glass and metal in the bins appropriate for whatever your local area's recycling system is, and everything else is landfill. "Oh, I can save this boot" it's still landfill, just a bit later than it would otherwise be. "Oh, I can recycle this old shirt into a bag" still landfill, just in your cupboard for a bit first.
For products for which a large-scale, practical and economic recycling system does not exist (recyclable plastic doesn't have such a system, it's a grift; recyclable metals and glass very often do have such a system but it depends on the material and product and where you live), there is no such thing as optimal disposal. There is only optimal production. Your environmental impact is measured in the effect you have on new things being produced and shipped. Once it is made in a factory, it is already landfill, it's just staying in your house for a bit first.
Trying to repair old boots at home doesn't save them from landfill -- the question is, did your repairing the boots stop you from having to buy new ones, and if so, did that stop new ones from being produced and shipped to your country? Does buying a new pair instead help because you don't have to buy the materials you'd use to repair them, and if so, did that have any effect on whether those materials were produced and sent to your country? In a modern economy, your effect re: repair vs. new is likely to have absolutely no environmental effect at all for most goods, though it does depend on specifically where you live and what the good is and how it's made. Either your old boots go to landfill and you buy a new pair, or you fix your old ones and the new pair goes straight from the warehouse to landfill because the company bought one too many pairs to sell. (It'll probably go on sale and mope around warehouses for a few years first, same as it otherwise would in your closet; this is a completely irrelevant temporary stop).
Depending on the industry, your individual shopping choices can have an impact, especially if it's part of a larger organised movement like a proper boycott (or even just an unorganised drop in sales as lots of people simply decide to stop buying so much). Your individual shopping choices can also have a big effect on your own budget; repairing old shoes is usually much cheaper than buying new ones. But if you're focusing on the optimal way to dispose of something (again, unless it's something dangerous that requires specific disposal methods or something that's part of an existing large-scale recycling network), you're focusing on something way too late in the game to be environmentally relevant. What matters is the impact on production and shipping; once it's produced, it is already landfill.
Weediness as a quality of Art?
something i wrote down while I was at work
When I was walking in the town I saw some cool graffiti, and I thought, Hmm. Graffiti is a lot like weeds. It pops up in neglected and overlooked places, and thrives until someone destroys it in routine maintenance.
Like an ecosystem, art is a living system.
I quickly began to think of ways that graffiti and weeds are alike.
It is perceived as worthless or threatening economic incentives.
There are active efforts to destroy or eradicate it, which are eternally futile because of the aliveness of the system.
It appears in areas of active, violent neglect, disruption, and abandonment.
Its absence or presence can be a visual signal of class.
I thought, what are some other "weedy" artforms?
Fanfiction could be a weedy artform.
Huh, I thought. Are there domesticated or cultivated artforms?
It became clear to me that the answer was yes.
There are two types. One type is the crops: those plants that have daily necessity for all people. They are often monocultures, often highly exploitative, but they are a daily part of existence.
In art terms, this is pop culture and mass media: popular music, movies, tv shows.
The other type would be the ornamentals: those that are cultivated because they are perceived to have intrinsic value or beauty. These are the poems, paintings, sculptures, the arts that are seen as more intellectually important and more restricted in who has daily access.
Well, I thought then, are there "wild" artforms? And I thought that the answer once again had to be yes: that's textile arts, woodworking, pottery, basket making, arts that are often considered according to their practical value and not given the same consideration as fine arts. They are often romanticized and thought of as artifacts of the past to be preserved, and sometimes they are brought into cultivation (appreciation as fine arts), but they can lose their context and everyday usefulness. They are considered as threatened by economic incentives and efforts to protect them are perceived as wasteful.
Graffiti and fanfiction are weedy artforms. Are there others?
In addition to the qualities of weediness I listed up above, there is another quality: They get some of what they are from their antagonistic relationship with the mainstream view of what has value. They emerge in a space that is "owned" by another entity and thrive because there is no economical way to destroy them all faster than they can emerge. Likewise, Weeds are inherently (by some definitions) disrupting the intent of a space: they exist in defiance of what that space is "supposed to" be.
Fanfiction could be compared to weeds in an agricultural crop field: they spring up in the monoculture of popular media franchises and become more powerful and compelling than the environment that created them, even though many people will overlook their value.
Graffiti could be considered like lawn weeds: its presence has intense connotations of class, and the extermination campaigns are intense, but lawns that are neglected long enough (just like the walls of an abandoned building) can become places of diversity and thriving.
Weedy art could also be any art you create for yourself without special skill or economic incentive to do so, purely through intrinsic motivation. Many people kill these weeds before they grow into flowers, thinking that a common weed without any cultivation could never produce a beautiful flower, but if you let them grow you are often surprised. Doodles, drawings, anything you create could be weedy art.
Weeds are invincible on the evolutionary timescale, impossible to fully eradicate. They are our friends and have sustained us in many ways throughout human history. I read in a paper once a theory that true monoculture is only an idea in the human mind, never able to be truly realized, because weeds will always emerge and disrupt this false idea of perfection.
Certainly, our ecosystems are held together and sustained with life within this gap between how we imagine the world should be (clean, perfect, without weeds) and how the world really is (weeds! weeds! WEEDS!). Without weeds, the biodiversity in the world around us would crash dramatically.
Is this also true of weedy arts? Is the art we value the least and often actively try to eradicate, necessary for sustaining us as creative human beings?
April advanced to May: a bright serene May it was; days of blue sky, placid sunshine, and soft western or southern gales filled up its duration. And now vegetation matured with vigour; Lowood shook loose its tresses; it became all green, all flowery; its great elm, ash, and oak skeletons were restored to majestic life; woodland plants sprang up profusely in its recesses; unnumbered varieties of moss filled its hollows, and it made a strange ground-sunshine out of the wealth of its wild primrose plants: I have seen their pale gold gleam in overshadowed spots like scatterings of the sweetest lustre. All this I enjoyed often and fully, free, unwatched, and almost alone: for this unwonted liberty and pleasure there was a cause, to which it now becomes my task to advert.
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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I love star trek because fans will be like "FUCK he's literally the cutest EVER 🥺🥺💕💕" and then they're talking about this guy
and then you watch star trek, and you're like
damn.
they're right.
he is literally the cutest ever.
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5x26 - Call To Arms
gul dukat the type of guy to go to court-ordered therapy one time and come out immediately weaponizing therapy speak. he shows up to ds9 like “i respect your boundaries but i feel that i’m doing all of the emotional labor in this relationship. frankly, the federation’s presence in this sector is disrupting my self-care” and then sisko tells him to get out of his office