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[radicalityincident]

Seriously anyone engaging with age verification bill discourse in terms of whether or not you think age restricting content is good or bad are completely missing the point.

These bills have nothing to do with keeping young people from doing certain things or protecting the children or whatever. Their point is and always has been one thing: If your operating system knows who you are it is impossible to have any real form of privacy on the computer.

Thats it, thats the whole thing. They want to link your every single usage of computers to your real world identity, and like they have been doing for all of time, they are hiding under the guise of protecting the children.

[koifee]

Happy pride month ft. The Pitt day crew!🌈🏳️‍⚧️

[justplaggin]

witch hat atelier — ch. 23 || ep. 13

[claypigeonpottery]

all sold or reserved

@spec-squared I couldn’t help notice you tracking down all my pottery, so I gathered it all in one place for you 💙

[claypigeonpottery]

sold

here’s this one finished

and more otters 💙

all sold

[letsdontdie]

Put them in less stressful situations!!

[herpsandbirds]

What's you're favourite caecillians outside south america?

I LOVE ALL CAECILIANS

Off the top of my head, there are some cool African caecilians, such as...

São Tomé Caecilian (Schistometopum thomense), family Dermophiidae, endemic to São Tomé and Ilhéu das Rolas (Africa)

"Cobra Bobo"

Grows to a max length of up to 30 cm (12 in).

Associated with moist soils in forests and coconut plantations.

Caecilians are amphibians, like salamanders and frogs.

They are not worms, nor are they snakes.

photographs by vanessamata & gmucientes

photographs by m_burger

[pankendev]

there are places in the world today that are experiencing 40°C for the first time in recorded history. of course there's no way to know whether chucking billionaires into volcanos will appease the sun god but i feel we're doing the scientific method a disservice if we don't at least try

[isuggesteatingtherich]

i have an easier suggestion

[nikoco11]

something i have harbored

[oneterabyteofkilobyteage]

original url http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/9352/

archived on 2009-04-27 20:46:18

[pastperfectcontinuous]

bell hooks mentioned going through a time in her life where she was severely depressed and suicidal and how the only way she got through it was through changing her environment: She surrounded her home with buddhas of all colors, Audre Lorde’s A Litany for Survival facing her as she wakes up, and filling the space she saw everyday with reinforcing objects and meaningful books. She asks herself each day, “What are you going to do today to resist domination?” I also really liked it when she said that in order to move from pain to power, it is crucial to engage in “an active rewriting of our lives.”

[ritavonbees]

I have come to think of the suicidal impulse as the brain waving a flag to say three things:

something needs to change here

this is urgent

I don’t know how to do it

death is the ultimate metaphor for drastic change. it’s a general specific. whatever your problems are, it is very likely that dead people don’t have to deal with them. a real solution to your problems may demand a very narrow range of action that’s likely to be out of reach at this moment, but death is sold on every street corner, so it feels like a more realistic fantasy than happiness.

you don’t really want to die per se but it’s also not completely random chemicals swamping your brain for no reason. you want the pain to stop, you want to be somewhere else, you want to be someone else. it’s urgent. you don’t know how to do it. the end is not the end but a means that feels within your reach right now.

this is the wisdom of bell hooks: daily rituals of meaning and resistance and solidarity are part of slowly building a future where you can make the change you really need. and only alive people can do that. every step you take towards change and power is another step away from death.

[a-realclassact]

I’ll also add this quote by Huey P Newton:

“I do not think that life will change for the better without an assault on the Establishment, which goes on exploiting the wretched of the earth. This belief lies at the heart of the concept of revolutionary suicide. Thus it is better to oppose the forces that would drive me to self-murder than to endure them. Although I risk the likelihood of death, there is at least the possibility, if not the probability, of changing intolerable conditions. This possibility is important, because much in human existence is based upon hope without any real understanding of the odds. Indeed, we are all—Black and white alike—ill in the same way, mortally ill. But before we die, how shall we live? I say with hope and dignity; and if premature death is the result, that death has a meaning reactionary suicide can never have. It is the price of self-respect.

Revolutionary suicide does not mean that I and my comrades have a death wish; it means just the opposite. We have such a strong desire to live with hope and human dignity that existence without them is impossible. When reactionary forces crush us, we must move against these forces, even at the risk of death.”

[artmagine]

The beautiful art of Thomas Blackshear II

[kingfucko]

i went to his website and saw even more great art! sharing some more which i particularly appreciated

[hypotheticallya1e]

kidfrey doodles bc wha monday is tomorrow ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

[fractally]

don't worry about me when I say this but I think in a way being hunted for sport would be a relief. my nervous system would be like, wow. finally, a proportional reaction

[like-shooting-stars]

I’ve seen a lot of people talking about the snugstone and how they were surprised to see it colored in all these blues instead of the traditional reds that come with fire magic

Not to mention it’s the color of Qifrey’s eyes I don’t have the time to go into that

And I was thinking. You know what other spell I saw animated and went oh wow that’s so pretty and not the colors I expected it to be animated as?

Qifrey’s water dragon. Which does in fact have the traditional fire magic coloring

All of their magic contains bits and pieces of each other in one way or another they are making me ill

[pardalote]

Plugging away on this little project, about 1/3rd the way done.

Having fun making the components!

[cidham]

amir khusrow (1253–1325 CE)

[cherepashkadrabbles]

This is back on my dash! And listen, I love to see Amir Khusrau getting appreciation, but this translation ignores a lot. The original rhymes! And scans! And does playful things with register! And conveys a tone of affectionate banter between the two speakers, not least because it has them both addressing each other as sakhi (translated above as “girl”) in the last two lines. I think taking some liberties with line order is worth it to preserve more of the rest—and I think there’s a better translation of sakhi. And so:

He only visits once a year, I splurge big on him when he’s here, His kisses make my tastebuds tango. Who, bitch, your man? Nah, bitch, a mango.

[aspecmemesdaily]

Thanks @wellpardonme for sending this to me!

Day 733

[enbynini]

I’m pretty sure sakhi means “friend” or “companion” though in hindavi, the original language of this poem. It doesn’t literally translate to “bitch” (although i like the way it’s translated!) Affectionate, yes, but not in the way we translate profanity into affection to call our friends “bitch”. It’s like “GIRRRRLLLLL” Source: i speak urdu and hindi

A closer equivalent to calling your friend “bitch” would probably be calling your friend “saali”, the literal translation of “bitch” is “kutti” but it’s more derogatory than affectionate, and although “saali” (“sister in law”) falls into the category of profanity, it still has scope of being used in friendly banter.

[cherepashkadrabbles]

All true and valid! As is probably obvious from the translation itself, my tendencies are to prioritize localization and register unless the context or audience demands a more literal translation. (A more detailed write-up of my translation process is here.)

“GIRRRRLLLLL” in fairness is probably a more correct translation of “sakhi” here and one I did consider — or at least I have a draft with “gurrrl” — but in the end I went with “bitch” because (a) read out loud, it felt like it broke up the meter less, and (b) a very good friend of mine regularly calls me “bitch” and means something close to “sakhi,” so this one’s for them.* But I would love to see other translations making other choices!

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[spoollirf]

ouuughhh ube banana i guess,, idk if that would taste good..,,,,,