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Finally being on Tumblr, I realize that every internet community is broken. Coming from Youtube, where freedom of speech has literally killed people, Tumblr is the polar opposite. You get judged for your choices in art because it’s not politically correct. They look on each other saying, “At least we’re not as bad as them,” but they end up being worse than each other at the same time.
“You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe. An intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle.” - Eckhart Tolle
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Make no mistake: email-, Facebook- and Twitter-checking constitute a neural addiction. -DanielJ. Levitin, Why the modern world is bad for your brain
An interesting analysis by a neuroscientist on the negative effects of multitasking, email and social media on our brains. Makes one want to stop using as much as one can to increase ones mental focus. -Danny
This is a modification of tortoise pose, the full expression of the pose is that the legs are spread, forehead to the floor…When you first start practicing Kurmasana, quiet centeredness can prove challenging—the pose requires pinning the arms and legs down to the earth and curving the back like a shell. When your attention moves inward like this, you experience pratyahara, or sense withdrawal, which is the fifth of the eight limbs of classical yoga that Patanjali describes in the Yoga Sutras.
migas: “ halasana - plough pose (by {IP} by Amelia) ”
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Jesus wept, I’m broken. 😍
I developed ovaries just for them to explode all over the place.
South Africa: Drought Leads to Failed Crops, Water Shortages
Associated Press, Jan. 10, 2016
SENEKAL, South Africa–The main street of this dusty South African town is lined with empty buckets, marking each residents’ place in line as they wait for their daily water ration to be brought in by unreliable trucks.
Keeping watch over her buckets, Pulaleng Chakela sleeps in a wheelbarrow on the side of the road to save her spot in the line. The 30-year-old wraps herself in a little blanket as temperatures drop overnight, and asks a male friend to sit nearby for safety.
“If I don’t wait here all night, the water will be finished,” she said.
A flatbed truck carrying three 5,000-liter tanks arrived midmorning when temperatures had already reached 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit). Murmurs of relief are soon replaced by angry shouts as residents learn they have been further rationed from filling four buckets to just two. In the chaos, Chakela slips two extra buckets in the line. The situation is so unfair that she feels no guilt, she said.
Chakela is joined by dozens more residents of Senekal, a small town in South Africa’s rural Free State province, one of four regions declared disaster areas as a drought dries up South Africa’s heartland–along with much of eastern and southern Africa–bringing with it failed crops and acute water shortages.
The drought is a sign of a changing climate the whole region must prepare for, say experts. The El Nino weather phenomenon has returned to southern Africa, marked by delayed rainfall and unusually high temperatures, according to the World Food Program.
The environmental effects of El Nino are expected to last until at least 2017, affecting the food security of 29 million people due to poor harvests, said the WFP report.
The conditions in Senekal should serve as a warning to the rest of region to prepare themselves for the dry years ahead, said Tshepiso Ramakarane, manager of the Setsoto municipality, where Senekal is located.
“For the next 10 to 15 years, the situation is likely to get worse,” he warned, adding that only days of sustained rainfall can solve the town’s woes, despite the occasional scattered shower. “We are in the middle of a crisis.”
Other towns in the district have even less water, but Senekal is in worse shape because of its poor infrastructure and distance from the nearest dam, pointing up the vulnerability of many places in the country to drought due to poor sanitation and running water systems.
The local municipality has now been forced to buy well water from surrounding farms at 1 cent a liter, distributing about 50 liters of water to each of Senekal’s 8,000 households at no cost.
Those who can’t wait up to ten hours in a line, however, have been forced to buy water directly from the farmers at premium prices.
Makhantsi Khantsi, a single mother of four who works as a security guard, said the farmers are charging her nearly seven times as much as they make the municipality pay and that’s on top of the $10 she has to shell out for the 10 kilometer (6 mile) cab ride.
For laundry, the options are even more grim, and Khantsi and a dozen others use the stagnant, algae-ridden water collected in an abandoned sewage treatment tank to wash their clothes.
“When you are desperate, what must you do?” asks Refiloe Mangati, as she washes her children’s school shirts by hand, scrubbing with too much detergent and rinsing quickly in the hope the algae–and the tadpoles–won’t stain them.
On the farms surrounding the town, hot gusts of wind pick up dust on empty fields where there should be crops.
“We have not planted a single seed,” said Borrie Erasmus, who grew up on the Biddulphsberg farm, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) outside Senekal. This is the first time in the five decades he has worked his family farm that he has missed the spring planting season.
If it rains for a few days before autumn, he may still plant sunflowers, but that won’t offset the more than $60,000 Erasmus has already lost this season.
“One bad crop can put you back three or four years and now we have no crops,” said Erasmus. Even if the weather returns to normal, it will still take at least five years for farmers to pay off the loans they’ve had to take out to survive.
South Africans, already facing a weak currency, will soon feel the effect of rising food prices as the country may have to import corn, Agricultural Minister Senzeni Zokwana warned on Monday.
Over the Free State, the few clouds gathering in the distance may bring some temporary relief, but farmers here say they need more certain intervention.
“We’re hardy farmers, we’re used to getting by without much, but these are such extraordinary circumstances that there is a need for government to help,” said Erasmus.
I don’t understand why women aspire to look like plastic dolls.
Drawn on eyebrows, makeup to cover visible pores, even skin tone…
I get why the beauty industry promotes it. You can’t get that look naturally and so need to buy their products. But I don’t get why women *want* to look like that.
Almost every girl I see has her eyebrows drawn on now, because it’s fashionable. This might offend ¾ of my tumblr followers, since it’s the “in” thing but… Why does anyone want to look fake? Why is a plastic doll the thing you want to look like?
*Another example of me never understanding society. Or even my own gender.*
me to my dog: i'm so glad your dog consciousness exists at the same time as my human consciousness
hazel:
me: so we can be frands
‘This is the time when we do not need any religion. All we need is love.’ - Younus AlGohar