sharks and teapots

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[sharksandteapots]

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hi again. [photo: 14.3.2017.]

[sharksandteapots]

hi again. [photo: 14.3.2017.]

[zingara84]

Berlin

[sharksandteapots]

I miss this place!

[zingara84]

Missing Berlin.  Wish I could be hanging out with @erinolearyphoto there right now!

(Walking down this street, I kept hearing this song in my head.)

[sharksandteapots]

hi again, tumblr.

it’s been a long time, and a long journey in my head and gut ...

[cheyannedawndesigns]

The Non-Binary Floral Redbubble | Society 6

Y’all are beautiful and wonderful and I’d smooch all yo’ faces if I could.

[peoplescollectionwales]

Ban the Bomb march from Caernarfon to Bangor.

 Gorymdaith brotest yn erbyn bomiau niwclear o Gaernarfon i Fangor

Copyright National Library of Wales. Please do not remove caption.

[hellyeahscarleteen]

Before the first world war, virtually no American woman shaved her legs. By 1964, 98% of women under the age of 44 did so. Before that war, underarm hair was not a cosmetic consideration. Fashions up to that point, while often clingy and form revealing, covered up most of a woman’s skin. But female fashions became ostensibly freer, and Gillette’s first razor for women came out in 1915, triggering aggressive advertising campaigns on behalf of more than a dozen “beauty” companies. Female body hair was suddenly deemed unsightly. The capitalist drive to convince us that female body hair is unnatural and unclean has been alarmingly successful. The removal industry is worth millions, and uncountable women are ashamed of and distressed by their post-pubescent hair. But the industry is greedy. It must now convince the world that female pubic hair is dirty too. It must now convince people that male body hair is equally unacceptable.

Emer O’Toole at The Guardian, here. (via hellyeahscarleteen)

[cultcrew-blog]

#Bummer no more RIDE UK in print…Still online though @rideukbmx #cultcrew #cultfamily

[protoslacker]

But the Reading University scientists have discovered a hitherto unsuspected side-effect of this kind of geo-engineering. The sulphur dioxide particles don’t just reflect back a portion of the incoming sunlight from above. They also reflect a portion of the long-wave radiation (heat) coming back up from the surface, and that heats the top of the troposphere. The troposphere is the lower part of the atmosphere, where all the weather happens. If you heat the top of the troposphere, you reduce the temperature difference between there and the surface, so the tropical overturning circulation weakens. That means less water vapour is carried up, and less rain falls back down. Result: drought and famine.

Gwynne Dyer at his Web site. Geo-Engineering in Trouble (via protoslacker)

[subrosabrand]

Today’s #shoutoutmysubrosa goes to @ad0m_ and his beautiful Subrosa Noster II build!

A bunch of Subrosa aftermarket parts too! The gold and green looks so good.

Nice build homie! #bmx #subrosa #subrosabrand #subrosasaves #bikeporn #bikecheck

[greyhaven]

In times of bike riding despair and when in great need of motivation ill watch this.  Always manages to timelessly power through year after year in it’s heavily pixelated state. The clip at 0:21 pretty much defines street riding for me. A close proximity two move masterstroke. The quintessential east coast street line. 1:37 is also wondrous 

[hyperallergic]

During the grimmest days of World War II, the Allied and Axis powers raced to fortify their coastlines. Britain dug trenches and built geometric bunkers known as “pillboxes,” while Nazi Germany constructed the 1,670-mile-long Atlantic Wall, an imposing bulwark that stretched from Norway to southern France.

Relics of War on Europe’s Coastlines

[tagamitazuki]

Faint moonlight

[neutrois]

An emerging group of transgender people is looking beyond “man” and “woman.”

Another great article this week that breaks down the basics of non-binary gender identity without overlooking its complexities. It also touches upon the relevance of questioning the gender binary in general: 

But it does something else, too, by inviting broader conversations about how everyone understands gender.

[hashitaka]

[lovefromalgy]

A beautiful and unusual view of spring blossom from Japan :)