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Why can SHE spend an extravagant amount of money on clothing and accessories while people starve? And why can SHE shut down major commuter transit hubs to build a fake plastic castle in a fake wedding venue? But when I, Marie Antoinette,

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Vote BINGO

(And Amelia/Helena tbc)

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in between all of it, your stupid human heart. no matter where you stash it, you always find that same ache, this desire for some feeling that is beautiful, an unwinnable and unkillable goal. and where can music fit in a life, right now? people are dying. fascism is the rule of order. the cdc is a farce, the epa is dead in the water, america is a fucking shithole.

but the shower you took today was nice. the birds are coming back. someone has started a little conga line of tiny snowmen near your local bus stop; each one a little sillier than the last. without any evidence, you strongly believe they're left there by adults - something about the shape and size of the abdomen and thorax.

people are dying, still. you donate. you protest. another name in the files and still no action taken, the dow is up. a toddler is taken to a concentration camp and is "lost". your paycheck barely covers rent, groceries are obscene, your boss warns you of potential layoffs.

but your neighbor helped you shovel snow, made you a hot cocoa. you and your friends randomly decide to have a taco dinner right now because why not; you're all stone cold sober and shaking ass at 10PM on a worknight. you meet a girl and she shows you her music, her hands shaking. when you have the honor of making her laugh hard enough her blue eyes water; something about the liquification of joy spills into your palm and coats your veins in marigolds.

laundry has to be done. tax season is somehow here (but, like, fuck 'em). every day something happens that makes your breath suck out of your body in a single sharp smack, and you still need to meal plan. AI is stealing water to make advertisements for items you don't even want. you still have to stop to get gas. someone you really respected is shown to have secretly been a predator. you still need to remember to pick up pet food.

and, too; the little poet of your heart. untended to but somehow still alive in the dark: the little poet notices the new leaf on your plant, wants you to dance in the grocery aisle. the little poet covets a new book by your favorite author, wants you to make cookies, scoops the perfect round top of your peanut butter. the little poet puts down little hands over the forever-wound of you; and the little poet says: it is worth it, being here and having this. even if for just a little longer.

greywolfheirs

Me: haha my cat follows me around everywhere she's so needy

Also me after not seeing my cat for longer than 2 minutes: where has my beautiful baby gone? Does she not love me anymore :'(

heedra

if you learn to love bugs with all your heart the world will feel half as hostile and a thousand times as big

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Theres a sentiment I'm noticing in the tags that I'd like to address. I dont think learning to love bugs with all your heart means forcing yourself out of discomfort you have with them overnight. It's about observing a different sort of being going about its life and deliberately trying to reframe your observations through a sense of wonder and delight. It's about cultivating a positive interest and curiosity for their ecology and behaviors. It's especially about trying to uncouple the value we find in them from how 'convenient' they are to us; to face head on the part of us that wants to assign moral evil to another organism who just happens to live life in a way that is not harmonius with ours. You can love insects in this way and still recognize your own health and safety needs. We are animals living side by side within a biosphere. This is how it is, sometimes.

I think this is important to cultivate because, if you are alive at all, you are coming into conflict with countless other people and things that dont owe you an apology for their existance and needs. If you are alive at all, you are encountering countless other people and things that harmful bias and personal discomfort have made repulsive to you. This is about bugs, but its also about way more than bugs.

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It's hard to explain to the uninitiated that you can just go for a walk just about anywhere with a bit of green (and sometimes even in the heart of a city) and find like a dozen neat little unique guys if you're patient and observant.

People get really into bird watching but here's a secret: bugs are WAY easier to find than birds and they let you get a lot closer.

Try to approach the world with wonder and curiosity rather than fear and revulsion. Bugs are a great place to start.

henrykathman

Thanks to my brother for telling me about this story. [Alt text below]

Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in different ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees

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lets-steal-an-archive

#did make me snort

nelc

Objects as spaceships, by Eric Geusz

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My favorite is the fidget spinner space station. It almost feels like someone designed it first and then fidget spinners came out and now everyone laughs at it… instead of the other way around.

nny11writes

It’s Eric! He was one of my best friends in highschool!

He also does series of space cats, and one of the ones floating upside down and looking at you is based on my cat Ginger :D

The kitty herself, Ginger!

He’s a super cool dude and seeing his art on tumblr is nuts!

Check out his website, which includes an area to buy prints

You can see more of his work in general on Instagram

And buy T-Shirts too!

God yeah I will hype him every chance I get lol!

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O love how the one based on the sriracha bottle is still very clearly that but now with FIRE

theweirdwideweb

I like memes that would be funny 1000 years ago.

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there are mysteries in this world, and none of us may ever know the answers.

patchworkgoblin

#hell yeah

gingersnapwolves

another day where I'm forced to ask myself if I'm refusing to learn [insert exciting new technology here] because I'm growing resistant to change as I age, or if I'm refusing to learn [insert exciting new technology here] because it fucking sucks balls

tyrfish-blog

me @ work team meetings when they're all talking positively about AI and I have to confront this possibility

#but I'm pretty sure it's the latter and they're all wrong #I sure hope they're all wrong #it's an ENVIRONMENTAL CHARITY #actually they're all older than me which makes this funnier