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If you like the word “queer” reblog.

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storm over waves of wheat

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✦ Bread ✦

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the threshold has been crossed, it is now springtime!!

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People love to talk about the immortality of the machine, but I'm a mechanical engineer, so I know they delude themselves. Most machines are far more mortal than flesh.

How long does a machine last? A car is a very solid machine, expensive, precision designed, and you're lucky if you get more than three decades out of them.

Your enemy is not the flesh. It's entropy. It's the death knell of the energy imbalance. If you want to live as a complex machine you will, by necessity, generate a great deal of entropy until your machine breaks irrevocably.

You want to be immortal? Then don't worship the machine, worship the stone, the forest. Seek that which is either simple enough to never know death or diffused enough to accept every death.

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Poem for Earth Day. From Matthew Olzmann's book, Constellation Route. (Alice James Books, 2022)

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Occupied bald eagle nests in Wisconsin. 1974 vs 2019. Growth credited to the Clean Water Act.

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Folktale Magic

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this is so funny

"but uh when we advocated for indigenous sovereignty we thought you guys were just going to make a big park or something"

"fuck you. ultradense housing that bypasses your stupid zoning rules"

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by samanthacavet

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Here’s a video so you can hear the water and the thrushes. I took it for you because you couldn’t be there. <3

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Highland Cow x Inky Cap Mushroom

Funguary Day 18

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Speckle Park Bull x Amethyst Deceiver

Funguary Day 20

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Jersey Heifer x Dotted Stem Bolete

Funguary day 17

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The thing I keep coming back to, with all the *gestures expansively* is that real life doesn't have peaceful epilogues.

Every single win has to be defended. Forever. I'm sorry. It sucks. The Nazis lost until they stopped losing. The US had abortion rights, and then 50 years later it didn't. Empires fall, and then they invade other countries again. Oppressive regimes are overthrown and replaced with other oppressive regimes. You will never finish the work etc etc etc. Which is why it's so fucking important to be able to acknowledge and celebrate progress, when it happens. The people who came before you didn't put in all that work for nothing, and you aren't, either. You can't save it all for the Ultimate Victory because there is never going to be an Ultimate Victory. There's no such thing as a time when everything is good, and ours shall not be the commune of Heaven.

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