il pleut, le ciel pleure.

the thing perhaps is - to eat flowers and not to be afraid. | Taylor swift blog: @please-picturemeintheweeds 26

[nemfrog]

Night. O-go the beaver. 1934. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese.

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[bhloomest]

[cupidjoy]

i want Things. i'm sorry marx

[mutant-what-not]

Hunter S. Thompson aims at his IBM Selectric typewriter, Woody Creek, 1989

[ethanmaldridge]

"The America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries."

-Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

[0newishwillow]

“I asked chat GPT” yeah we can tell

[wonlaanimalist]

exclusion zone

Pencil,15x21

[an-ruraiocht]

like did you know that trees lower the surface temperature by up to 19° and grass by up to 24°... access to green space is access to safety in a climate crisis and it is a massive site of inequality because poorer areas tend to have less green space and thus get hotter. urban trees are an equality issue as well as a climate issue. sorry it's not a magic bullet that solves everything but sometimes you need to pick an issue that helps a bit and focus on that. this might not be yours. it's likely going to be mine in the future when my health issues allow me to take it on. if we each pick a thing we can make a difference

[peaceinthestorm]

Henri Martin (1860-1943, French) ~ Dahlias et Pois de Senteurs, 1928

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[wizardarchetypes]

it's crazy 2 me that every time i'm like "the existence of bugs is vital to the very fabric of reality as we know it. if we do not prioritize protect & value bugs, if we lose bugs, the entire world goes with them"

people in the comments will be like "okay but we could at least get rid of ticks and mosquitos because those spread disease."

we actually CANNOT get rid of ticks and mosquitos. not only do we plain lack the technology to lead a pointed extermination effort against them specifically without taking a score of other species down with them, but if we developed that technology and did eradicate mosquitos and ticks, it would be the catalyst of utter ecological collapse the likes of which i think people are not quite comprehending.

the problem is not the existence of bugs. the problem is that our current global systems ensure that specific Peoples in specific places are disproportionately impacted by zoonoses (illness spread between animals and humans).

those same populations also disproportionately lack access to preventative tools & PPE (down to things many of us take for granted so simply as effective bug spray), and crucially access to medical treatment.

the goal should not be an eradicating effort against bugs which would quite literally collapse entire ecosystems, but equitable access to healthcare, investment in medical research to improve preventative and acute treatment for zoonoses, and the destruction of systems which are currently rapidly increasing the threat of zoonoses worldwide (climate change!)

i am not defending the existence of bugs because i think they're cute and because i don't care about the devastating suffering zoonoses cause millions and millions of people.

the point is that the eradication of these species would likewise cause devastation and suffering, and the tools, the money, the minds, the research, the science ALL exist to actually change the world for the better through global public health systems, but it's all being strangulated by imperial fucking systems which have been and continue to destroy everything!

[plains-flora]

july 1, 2021

[weepingwidar]

Hayley Barker (American, 1973) - View from Isa's Room (2022)

[rozieramati]

[birdsareblooming]

sometimes i feel like im climing up this incline again alone but thankully sisypus and the itsy bitsy spider and here with me

[birdsareblooming]

holy shit is that kate bush

[cages-boxes-hunters-foxes]

wait say more about question 🤨

fuckin politics and gender roles and you’re not sure and i don’t know

[fearwakes]

Emma. (2020)

[paranormal-paracosm]

There’s something incredibly poetic about scar tissue itself causing damage more than the initial injury… growing to fill the void left by harm, clinging so tightly to keep us together that it limits our ability to move, to grow. Without it we would not survive. And yet often we have to reopen those old wounds to heal them, to dissect that which once allowed us to live. Scar tissue is stronger than steel, making it harder to be split open again… and so much harder to be treated, to be healed again. The human body is a metaphor.