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cielsosinfel · 6 months
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I need to start posting my Basil Adventure photos here more. And I have museum and art gallery blogging I kept meaning to do here!! But anyway. Here's some photos from our used books store trips this week (two different days)
This bookstore is well-known for having store cats (their oldest cat Eleanor, one of the sweetest kitties I've ever known, recently passed at 17 years old :( ), and they have a trio of very young kittens right now! I didn't realize until I took basil over the last weekend. (The store allows dogs! As long as the dogs are well-behaved. Basil mostly ignores cats, thankfully.)
Two of the kittens were so obsessed with Basil. I'm not exaggerating, the tortie and the orange kitten both stalked him through the entire shop. I walked in circles and they still followed us lol. The tortie seemed curious but calm, their hackles never went up, but that orange kitty looked like a hunter after prey. It was ready to THROW DOWN.
We went a couple days ago (red sweater day) and the tortie was chilling somewhere but the orange kitty shot up from its nap to chase us around the store. In those last two photos it kept raising it's paw and then slowly lowering it, like it couldn't decide whether to beat Basil up or not. They're so cute... Basil was so confused... I love cats...
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tma-thoughts · 11 months
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bisexualpercyjacksons · 4 months
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pjo tv show episode 5 alignment:
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pisswater-deadgirl · 5 months
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Bob the Drag Queen being arrested at a protest in Bryant Park, New York (2010)
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floridafemme · 25 days
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softwaring · 26 days
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compilation post of my backyard showing tf off,,,
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leverage-ot3 · 1 month
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lesbianjudasiscariot · 9 months
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Hello everyone, here is a comic. I drew this the way I draw all of my comics: with one person (me) and with a punchline planned from the start. Any other way to draw a comic would be very silly and would require me to tag people like @buggachat and @ladybeug if they were somehow in any way involved in the comic making process. Which they weren't. I drew this solo and by myself.
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sydneylinko · 4 months
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Minecraft inventory tote bag that my bf got me for Christmas 🎄❤️🥧
Link to the seller’s Etsy shop if you want one:
:)
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chillyfeetsteak · 3 months
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I first became fascinated with it a few years ago when I noticed it out an airplane window on a flight from Texas to Southern California. In an expanse of endless desert, suddenly, a vast body of water. When I got home, I immediately looked it up on a map. The Salton Sea.
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It’s the largest landlocked body of water in California. It sits right on top of the San Andreas Fault at over 200 feet below sea level. It is more than twice as salty as the Pacific Ocean. It is completely toxic. And I had never heard of it before then.
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In the early 1900s the Colorado River was diverted through a series of irrigation canals in order to provide water for the farmlands of Imperial Valley. One of the head-gates broke during a flood, and the desert basin filled with water for 2 years before it was fixed. The unexpected lake soon became a popular vacation destination; it was stocked with fish, and resorts and hotels popped up along its shores. It became known as a great place for sport fishing, waterskiing, and yacht parties. Big name celebrities visited. At one point, it had more annual visitors than Yosemite.
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Salton Sea has no outlet, and is only filled via agricultural runoff. As the water evaporated in the hot desert sun, the lake became more and more saline. Chemicals began to build up from the run off causing toxic algae blooms, and mass die-offs of fish and birds started in the 80s. By the 90s, the beaches were littered with fish gills and bird bones and the resorts were abandoned. The lake began to dry up as irrigation run-off was diverted away. The exposed lake bed is also toxic, and the high desert winds kick up the dust, making the air poisonous. 
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Despite the unpleasant odor, the noxious air and the summer temperatures regularly reaching 120°, a renaissance of sorts began in the early 2010s. Artist and nomad colonies began to spring up around Salton Sea. Bombay Beach, once a popular resort destination, is now mostly a ghost town, but the folks who remain have turned the ruins on the shores into an outdoor art installation gallery where the found-art sculptures are cyclically destroyed by the elements and then replaced with new ones. Many of the houses and RVs in town are themselves art pieces.
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In nearby Slab City, a settlement of off-the-grid lifestylers, you can find even more folk art. Salvation Mountain is a manmade hill painted with bright colors and bible verses and maintained by a community of volunteers. East Jesus is a sculpture garden and art installation. 
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This past weekend my partner and I finally made the pilgrimage to the Sea. California has the benefit of being home to a huge array of biomes. In just a couple of hours you can travel from snowy mountain peaks to lush oases to endless sand dunes. Driving the hour or so south from Palm Springs towards Salton Sea is like driving towards the end of the world.
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Bombay Beach especially enamored me. The beach is crusted with salt and millions of tiny shells and bones. It smells awful, like sewage and chemicals and low-tide and rotting fish. You drive out onto the beach and park anywhere amongst the sculptures and deteriorating resort ruins. The art feels raw in a way I haven’t experienced before. It reminds me of seeing paleolithic cave art. Humans made this, with no motivation other than to create something intriguing or beautiful or sad. Not much can live out here, but what you find fills me with a great adoration for humanity. Despite the asphyxiation of the natural world, the human spirit persists.
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cielsosinfel · 1 year
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We're in the middle of a major ice storm, all regional public transit including ferries and every bus routes in every county were shut down, I can't walk basil without him sliding at light speeds (I have crampons ✌️)
But at least glaze ice on plants is pretty
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“We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings.” – Maya Angelou
@/fridacashflow
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violetbudd · 3 months
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depressed-linguist · 8 months
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‘There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand’
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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ifckinglovu · 2 years
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