no thoughts head empty just carb

C. Old enough. 🇭🇰🇺🇸

[hamsterobsessed]

Molly has a real butterfly on her head!

[creekfiend]

we are broadly so fucking bad at being good friends to people who Cannot Leave

there are people who Cannot Leave. hopefully it's not the case for their whole lives but it is the case for them RIGHT NOW. and even trauma and abuse aware communities are shitassfuck bad at knowing how to be a supportive friend to these people and I find it soooo fucking frustrating. it's condescension and scolding and unrealistic standards and victim blaming and minimizing all the way fucking down .

[lailah-tov]

It's so important to educate yourself about why people stay in bad situations and how to help someone who can't leave or goes back. Any sentence starting with "You should just" is bad, but "You should just leave" is one of the worst.

[creekfiend]

thank you for those links!

[lamiafemme]

You really start to understand that the “angry black woman” and “mean lesbian” stereotype only exists to shame us for the fact we get reasonably upset about people wanting to horrifically abuse us indiscriminately. Let’s get meaner !

[anistarrose]

if you are a parent, or may become one, or you are otherwise likely to arrive in the situation of caring for a child while they eat, promise me this: if a child doesn't like a certain food or food group, you will ask them WHY. and specifically, you will pay attention to either confirming or ruling out "it makes my mouth itch" or "it makes my stomach hurt," both of which are medically important info that children may not provide unprompted. which i know because this PSA has been brought to you by "i spent my entire childhood and much of my early teens eating peas and lentils while wondering why everyone else liked the Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation so much, like were they a bunch of legume masochists or something, before i finally realized that Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation was in fact a sinister demon appearing only to me, and her true demonic name was: Legume Allergy"

[anistarrose]

good additions to this post:

don't force your kids to eat things when there's sensory issues, or when they're full, or even when they flat out don't like a taste, either, because you'll cause them distress and give them hangups about food well into adulthood

little kids may not have the vocabulary to describe certain sensations so look out for things like "it makes my tongue hairy," and especially, describing non-spicy foods as "spicy." getting the full picture can be hard because parenting is hard but just do your best to understand what's going on and take them to an allergist if necessary

bad additions to this post that i have been doing my best to delete in the comments but they shockingly are out there:

"well what about when my kids LIE about their tummy hurting to get out of eating a food they don't like!!!! why won't anyone think about ME!!!!!"

[psikonauti]

Tani Buncho (1763-1840)

“Dandelions and Butterflies” ,ca.1810-1815

woodblock print

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[zigdirty]

We're not leaving this gem to languish in the comments:

[superbdragoncollection-stuff]

In the US, the situation for food workers is even worse than you think. Behind the Kitchen Door by Saru Jayaraman paints a nasty picture.

Workers having to flirt with cooks to get food because they're literally starving

workers unable to find housing on the terrible wages they get

Tons of racism with non-white workers unable to get into front higher-paying more visible jobs

The "Other NRA", the National Restaurant Association, campaigning to keep tipping, once considered an unamerican practice until 1929, in line.

People say "but i get huge tips". Yeah, the boss can steal your tips like mad cuz there's less accountability, there's no guarantee how much(or specifically how little) you'll get, and it's just a pain in the ass for everyone involved.

Tipping also ONLY exists to underpay servers, as in, that was LITERALLY THE REASON in the Great Depression to adopt it.

[petrichara]

Love, grief, and magic in the mundane

1- @Bluewmist on Twitter / 2- Roly Poly is Taken on Twitter / 3- About Time (2012) by Richard Curtis, image from Mita Park on Unsplash / 4- Sherri Turner on Twitter / 5- Cold Solace by Anna Belle Kaufman / 6- The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green

[anxeious]

[zolltraak]

[wrenchinator-central]

[earhartsease]

and the graph stops where covid starts :(

[trans-girl-nausicaa]

We need to standardize clothing sizes. This is fucking stupid. Pass a federal law or something. I’m sick of this shit.

[mint-offical]

Sizing chaos

The inter-generational struggle to find clothes that fit more than a tiny portion of women

^Interactive data that further explains the reserch.

As someone about to buy a pattern you need to size yourself for (they sell each size individually???), it's all rather bs. I recon we just label mesuements at this point. It's why I love Uniqlo.

[elisecairo]

[katherynefromphilly]

As someone who was alive when Bob Ross (and William Alexander before him — that’s where the approach is from) was on PBS, I can 100% testify that you can paint along with him.

You may need to learn how to set up your paints and such… but this is what people did, live, while the show aired. That’s what the show was for. I had family members create lovely works of art they enjoyed, which I still have on my walls, because William Alexander and Bob Ross both said:

SCREW METICULOUS CLASSICAL ART PRACTICES — JUST GRAB A PALETTE KNIFE AND BIG OLD BRUSH AND PAINT!

They freed a whole generation of people who were taught to paint detail and realism and exact representation of reality — people who largely gave up this kind of thing because it got tedious.

I watched the joy of family members as they rediscovered art as a messy fun spontaneous half hour activity.

Give it a try.

[eudaemxn]

One note about this!!!

Bob uses oil paint!

Growing up my family had Bob Ross painting parties but we all used acrylic! Some techniques he uses will not translate perfectly to acrylic paint! And that is okay!!! The point is to have fun!!!

[hiadammarshall]

I feel naughty sharing these; it's like the 'clothes off' equivalent of a 3D render.

Some pre-renders I captured of my viewfinder.

[kocalls]

[pinkhibiscus12]

this looks like something my grandma would film.

[beautifulmars]

HiPOD: Translucent Ice on Dunes

Coordinating with the CaSSIS instrument on the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, we acquired an image at this site for seasonal monitoring. At the time of year we took the image, the whole scene was probably covered in carbon dioxide ice. Some of this ice is translucent, so you can see the dark dunes through it.

ID: ESP_076844_2550 date: 18 December 2022 altitude: 316 km

NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

[makingqueerhistory]

Nepal Supreme Court rules in favour of same-sex marriage

The Supreme Court of Nepal ruled in favour of same-sex marriage on 18 June 2026, requiring the government to ensure marriage equality.

As reported by Pahichan Media, human rights activist and former politician Sunil Babu Pant welcomed the ruling. “This landmark ruling marks a historic milestone for equality, dignity, and human rights in Nepal, while providing crucial legal clarity and protection for the rights of same-sex couples,” he said. “The verdict reaffirms the constitutional principles established in Sunil Babu Pant vs Nepal Govt, and strengthened through later cases, including Maya Surendra’s first-ever legal registration of non-traditional heterosexual marriage in Nepal,” Pant continued.

June 22, 2026

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

cultures that do an afternoon nap are OBJECTIVELY CORRECT and the world should be learning from them

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

you've heard of the spanish siesta now get ready for places like Vietnam where it's commonplace to see workers pull out a mattress & take an afternoon nap on the office/store floor. very powerful way to roll. give kindergarten-style naptime BACK to the people ✊

[fassyanon]

I want to say that I read somewhere that there is a best time for a nap, so example: if you sleep from 11 to 7 find the midpoint (that gives you 3 AM) add 12 hours and that’s when you should be taking a nap. We would all do better with a siesta

[jayyyneotai]

Toni Morrison and James Baldwin

St. Paul de Vence. Early 1980s