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I laughed so fucking hard at this

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What an amazing sound - Women from the Rugova region in Kosovo are singing to the rhythms of tepsia (copper pan for preparing traditional food). This disappearing minimalistic style was a popular form of singing among communities throughout the Dinara mountain range. Filmed by Japanese ethnographers from the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka.

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thats him officer thats the gnome that baked me the most beautiful raspberry scone

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Random Prompt #141

Her pockets were filled with shadows. She never left home without them.

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Thanks for playing along with 200 songs!!

🥳🎉🎉

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I appreciate the sound effects they added in.

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IG : @emperorofmischief

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me in my room at 2am

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who decided that the bleep that censors swears on tv shows needs to be 3 times louder than the rest of the show and also a horrible pitch horrible noise to hear in general and I can hear it all the way down the hall and the people on the reality show my family likes to watch swear 5 times per sentence so it's just bleep bleep bleep bleep who fucking made this decision and can we change it

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In 1982, quite by accident, a zookeeper at Izu Shaboten Zoo in Shizuoka Prefecture discovered that capybaras absolutely loved soaking in hot water, and the practice of providing them an onsen, or traditional Japanese hot spring, was born. Source Massimo; video @yu_haradakei.

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Colors of THIS POST by @modmad​

When I was coloring Cal’s art, I asked questions about the characters and they sent me a bunch of post including this one, which this particular image

Got me really inspired and so here ! I hope that’s okay, if it’s not I’ll take the post down :)!

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in guarani there's a standard greeting that literally translates to "are you happy" (ndevy'apa) and the natural reply is "i'm happy" (avy'a) and as americans learning the language we were so distressed like "but what if we're not happy....." and our teachers were like "that's so not the fucking point"

we kept trying to think of any other way to reply but our teachers kept trying to get it into our brains that it's an idiomatic greeting, it literally is not the time or place to traumadump, and as usamerican english speakers we are not some special exception for saying "what's up" with the reply being "not much" instead of "the ceiling"

but anyway while i was working in paraguay -- the country with the largest population of guarani speakers -- i got sent an article by some friends back home like "look! they're saying that paraguay is the happiest country in the world!"

and the methodology was "we went around and asked paraguayans if they're happy and recorded their responses" and i was like. oh. of course you did. and of course you got a 100% positive response rate.

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something that fucks me up so much is that the clones were literally created for the jedi and spent most of their artificially shortened youth learning about the jedi and then when they finally meet the jedi, the jedi had no fucking clue they existed.

and then they get to swoop in and save the jedi on geonosis but they're too late. most of them are already dead. it was the biggest massacre of the jedi in the war other than the one the clones perpetrated themselves.

but then the jedi take them on, even if most of them are initially reluctant, and they live up to the hype. in fact, most of them surpass it. they're not just brave and strong, they're kind. they value the clones more than the clones value themselves, and they spend most of their spare time trying to make the clones realize their own value.

but then the clones start learning about concepts like freedom and the inherent value of life and some of them realize hey, the way we exist is deeply unethical and, perhaps even more devastatingly, the jedi can't do anything about it. the republic needs us too much. we and the jedi are all that stands between the republic and the atrocities committed by the separatists yet most of the galaxy still reviles us for either doing too much or for not doing enough.

so most of them fall back on the comfort of being a good soldier. good soldiers follow orders. good soldiers save people. good soldiers are like the jedi, and the jedi are like good soldiers, and even if the rest of the galaxy is increasingly hostile, at least they have each other. the jedi are not perfect, but they are good, and that is what matters. even if no one thanks them, even if they must die for entire planets of people who think their only purpose is to fight for them and feel little to no gratitude for it, at least the jedi are in the same boat. at least the jedi care about the clones as much as the clones care about the jedi.

how devastating it would have been to suddenly know, without quite understanding why, that the jedi are traitors. even through the sudden strange pounding in their skulls, the artificial fugue state, the clones would have felt personally hurt. the jedi pretended to care about them, pretended to share their same self-sacrificial sense of duty, of honor and loyalty before self-preservation, when really they were plotting against them all along. no wonder the clones wanted revenge.

most of the clones died still feeling that way.