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manuela palmberger

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European grass snake/snok. Värmland, Sweden (April 8, 2016).

#snake #grass snake #baby #snakes

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Unmute !

#thats how i would land if i had wings

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hey boss i can't come in today it's a sunny day and there's a lovely breeze coming in through my window, yeah it's rustling the branches of the tree outside that's finally bloomed so it's pretty serious

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Sångsvanar.

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Handle with care

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Controversial take if I've ever heard one

#they both understood

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Vermilion Cardinals (Cardinalis phoeniceus), family Cardinalidae, order Passeriformes, Colombia

Males are red, and females are brown and gray

photograph by Andres Vasquez Noboa

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ophelia..

#she bubble....

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Hi, I'm also a lesbian from balkans, would love to make friends!

Hi! I am a 22 year old lesbian from the Balkans looking for friends my age or older, preferably near me, but I am not picky lol

I'm a pretty shy person. I enjoy reading and am trying to read more books by female authors. I like short horror stories and greek mythology. Also, I play video games.

If you'd like to be friends with someone who is introverted, a homebody, and enjoys talking about all sorts of mundane stuff, I'm your person.

Interact with this post, and I'll dm you!! (also op thank you for making this blog <33)

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I went to a restaurant with a friend yesterday and upon entering we saw these splendid blueberry tarts under bell jars on the counter and we made jokey small talk with the waitress like oh, people will fight over these if there's not enough for everyone, it'll tear families apart, are you making more later? and she said no, I'm afraid that's our entire stock for today, but there are 18 slices, it should be plenty! It was a small village restaurant with only one menu du jour so there weren't any other dessert options but they don't usually get that many customers—but then a couple of large groups arrived and most people noticed the tarts like we did, and went ohh blueberry tart, it's been a while, I can't wait, and it became clear that when we'd get to the end of our meal there would be winners and losers in the blueberry tart rush

But later as we were about to order dessert I wasn't hungry anymore and I was like well that's too bad but someone else will be glad to get 'my' slice of tart—and my friend said yeah, me :) You should order it anyway, I'll eat both! At first I thought she was joking, but no. I said, there's not enough for everyone, you can't take two, and she said, we were going to order two slices, what difference does it make? and I was baffled that she couldn't see the ethical difference between two people eating one slice of tart each vs. one person eating two, when there's a limited quantity of tart. I felt like we were in a simplistic social justice metaphor it was so obvious, but there was no changing her mind. When I said "it's just... not nice" she said "okay" with a shrug, and what can you say to that. She added, you don't know any of these people and I was like, why are we reverting to tribal dynamics in a non-apocalyptic setting, how would you feel if we'd arrived a bit later and seen others ordering two desserts knowing you'd get zero? And she said, I would think that's their right, and I felt kind of amazed.

I pointed out that if she didn't think it was a wee bit wrong, she wouldn't ask me to order her second piece as if it was for me, and she said yeah maybe we don't need to do that, there's no law preventing me from ordering two desserts. What about Kant's categorical imperative Okay I guess you're not breaking any laws by taking more than your fair share of a thing other people also want, just failing a kindergarten-level morality test. I felt embarrassed for sounding like an annoying preachy rigid person so I dropped the issue, and as she ate her two slices she'd smile at me every time we overheard someone order coffee without dessert—like "See? There'll be enough, no one will be deprived of tart because of me!" as if that cancelled the fact that she didn't care in the first place. I guess it was one of these tiny issues that can still significantly alter the way you perceive a person. I tried to tell myself not to be so bothered about this small thing but I was! so bothered. And I felt like writing a letter to some agony aunt like "should I end a friendship over irreconcilable blueberry tart ethics"

#the discourse on this post is insane #i stand with op

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I hate when you're looking for something and folks are like "oh I'm sure it's somewhere." well aye that's sort of the base assumption for most things but cheers. big help

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depressing post from a sub mainly about westerners naming their children kayleighgh nova and sephiroth uzumaki

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Eurasian nuthatch/nötväcka. Värmland, Sweden (April 22, 2019).

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Great spotted woodpecker/större hackspett. Värmland, Sweden (April 22, 2019).

#she look