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#17 years later #and this scene destroys me

“…last year this photograph of children looking at their smartphones by Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’ in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam [went viral.] It was often accompanied by outraged, dispirited comments such as “a perfect metaphor for our age,” “the end of civilization” or “a sad picture of our society”.

…It turns out that the Rijksmuseum has an app that, among other things, contains guided tours and further information about the works on display. As part of their visit to the museum, the children, who minutes earlier had admired the art and listened attentively to explanations by expert adults, had been instructed to complete an assignment by their school teachers, using, among other things, the museum’s excellent smartphone app….

The tragic thing is that this — the truth — will never go viral. So, I wonder, what is more likely to bring about the death of civilization, children using smartphones to learn about art or the willful ignorance of adults who are too quick to make assumptions?” José Picardo, Medium

a-wild-haggis

#adults are fucking idiots#me included but i mean proper adults#like old adults

datboarboss

My first thoughts were mean ones and im fucking young

nanonaturalist

Watch as I Grow Mad with Power

I have recently discovered Plants. Did you know: if you find a plant you like, you can just… collect its seeds? Or, you can dig it up and plant it somewhere else?? OR (now this one is crazy but stick with me) you can take part of it and grow it into a new plant?!?

Amazing! First, I started small: I noticed some milkweed was spilling floaty seeds everywhere, so I borrowed a couple, planted them, and several months later I had so many Monarch and Queen caterpillars I had to give some away.

Next: I noticed a baby morning glory vine had popped up in my side yard. I didn’t want it in my side yard, so I dug it up, put it in my brand new flower garden, and several months later it has taken over the entire back half of my yard.

Then: my coworker brought in some lemongrass cuttings she’d done, and I planted it in my yard. It exploded and it’s the most massive lemongrass bush I’ve ever seen.

Now that I’ve done my “hands off” experiment with the back yard (conclusion: invasive grasses will completely take over and prevent any natives from taking root), I am ready to become the master of my realm. But I’m still broke as heck. So!

Milkweed vine (Matelea?) and Monarda seeds nabbed from the field at work!

Every mango I ever eat ever again! (Three germinated, started #4 last night)

Ruellia simplex which I *cough* may have borrowed from a park. I took five because I didn’t have scissors or a knife and I didn’t trust my ability in making cuttings but ALL FIVE ROOTED and some are starting to bud!!!

Red yucca from the parking lot at work

It’s contagious! My coworker went for a walk in her neighborhood, and saw a strange tree with these 15 inch long seed pods that look like giant string beans. So of course she took one to give to me. It matured over the weekend, and today I popped it open and LOOK AT ALL THESE SEEDS!!! It’s a Catalpa tree, which is native to the eastern and southern US states. It makes HUGE F-ING flowers which it drops everywhere, making a huge mess. They get TALL. And I have a HUGE HANDFUL of them. What am I going to do with 100+ Catalpa trees?!?! My (not very large) yard is already filling up with trees (though I eagerly await the total consumption of my house into thick wooded forest in the middle of my housing development). I’m thinking Bonsai 😂

September 11, 2018

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I’m in awe.

downwithneocolonialism

abolishtocreate

The USA are a hellscape

sandersstudies

My sociology professor had a really good metaphor for privilege today. She didn’t talk about race or gender or orientation or class, she talked about being left-handed.

A left-handed person walks into most classrooms and immediately is made aware of their left-handedness - they have to sit in a left-handed seat, which restricts their choices of where to sit. If there are not enough left-handed seats, they will have to sit in a right-handed seat and be continuously aware of their left-handedness. (There are other examples like left-handed scissors or baseball mitts as well.)

Meanwhile, right-handed people have much more choice about where to sit, and almost never have to think about their right-handedness.

Does this mean right-handed people are bad? No.

Does it mean that we should replace all right-handed desks with left-handed desks? No.

But could we maybe use different desk styles that can accommodate everyone and makes it so nobody has limited options or constant awareness that they are different? Yes.

Now think of this as a metaphor. For social class. For race. For ethnicity. For gender. For orientation. For anything else that sets us apart.

muscari-melpomene

WHY DOESN’T THIS HAVE MORE NOTES?

sandersstudies

Because I posted it about 90 seconds ago, calm down.

linaofthemyscira

vbekvjnfjv the reply tho

the-memedaddy

meirl

ericlwlr

tewks2

Aren't these federal safety standards?

crap-userrname16

spontaneousmusicalnumber

That Midwest feel: When the tornado sirens go off and you panic for a second before remembering “Oh, it’s Wednesday”

thesixthstar

what does this mean

rvengefulobster

It means it’s Wednesday, bro. If a tornado hits on a Wednesday it can’t hurt you. Those are the rules.

kirboob

If our love ain’t like this it isn’t love

kirboob

I just realized they were trying to make a heart shape and not make it look like they were bumping asses

thebestoftumbling

wrong-url-motherfucker

Government, Monty Python Style

xanthewalter

Still brilliantly funny all these years later.

seriously-what-is-my-life

BEST INSULTS

that-greek-gold-rush

whenever i find monty python casually just on my dashboard i just blink a few times and then get super fucking excited because i don’t see them as much as i’d like to on tumblr

dansecoppelia-blog

If I don’t reblog Monty Python when it crosses my dash, assume I’m dead.

thefingerfuckingfemalefury

Probably killed by the violence inherent in the system

really-shit

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Z House is a CLT (cross-laminated timber) prefabricated house situated within a forest with several mature pines. When moving throughout the residence, different views are open to the viewer, merging the interiors into nature. In the central core of the building is a semitransparent wooden box with two-floors dedicated to daytime activities and leisure. In the evening, the box glows from inside creating the mood throughout the house. Blog | MORE #ARCHITECTURE