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btw i think if you tried to explain politics to Winnie the Pooh he wouldn't really get it & then if you went on explaining he'd be like 'why can't we all just be nice to each other' and you'd be like you got me there Pooh. I just don't know. :(

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i love six o clock because the clock looks so stupid. "|" like get real

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Homestuck Panty Raid

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So I started working again today, and me and my coworker had to squeeze lemons which usually is a really un fun job but TODAY. We had the mostly lovely batch of lemons to work with. So we rated how smoothly they cut and how nice the insides of them looked for about an hour. An absolutely marvelous time I gotta say

#that is like #the platonic ideal of a lemon

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shout out to all my not traditionally masculine trans guys:

to the ones who don’t feel comfortable calling themselves a man, so they’re always guys, dudes, or boys

to the ones who still love their old “girl” clothes, the skirts and dresses and bright colors

to the ones who love makeup and nail polish and perfume

to the ones who dont bind or dont pack; to the ones who like having the chests and junk they already have

to the ones who dont want hormones or surgeries

to the ones who shave their legs or dont like body and facial hair; to the ones who still have long hair

to the femboys and the fairies and the girlyboys

to the ones who have a high ambiguous voice and like it that way

to the ones with weird genders, complicated genders, fluid genders, non-conforming genders, genders they take so seriously, genders they can’t be bothered with

i love you so much <3 you are men after my own heart <3

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nobody ever understands what i mean when i say theyre behaving like a child because they always assume i mean "you are being unintelligent and incapable" and that im saying it to insult them. because thats what THEY think of children, that theyre stupid and unserious and incapable and that being compared to one is an insult.

but that is not at all what i mean.

the difference between "adults" and "children" from a purely psychological standpoint is how complex their worldview and thought processes are.

children, as a general rule, have not experienced very many things yet. they dont know how most things work, so their entire approach to life is incredibly simple. it has to be! babies cry when they want something because thats literally all they know, kids say "rude things" because they dont know what rudeness is yet. they are operating on incredibly limited information and as such their thoughts and behaviors are limited too.

thats why kids who have had harder lives, or even just kids who have had more diverse experiences, always end up "more mature" than their peers. it has nothing to do with their inherent abilities or traits and everything to do with how many opportunities they are given to learn and grow and change.

so the reverse is also true, people who had very simple (not even easy, just simple) lives are more likely to find themselves in a state of arrested development because they have not had the opportunities to grow and change like others did.

and this is the foundation of seemingly all the horrific injustice and cruelty in the world.

the rich have made themselves borderline inhuman by creating their own separate world away from the rest of us that is incredibly simplistic. some of them live their whole lives never even knowing how strange and out of touch they are.

bigots too. when you look at most bigotry its quite simple in the way it views the world.

sexism took the very broad human spectrum of biology and stuffed it all into two simple boxes that everyone had to fit in because its too difficult and confusing when they dont.

homophobia took the very basic principles of how human reproduction works and lifted them up as immutable law that had to be followed because it was easier than dealing with the social messiness of having more complex and diverse relationships.

the world we live in is bigger and more interconnected than we could ever possibly fathom and many people trap themselves in very simple little bubbles for the sake of comfort and convenience. hence the term "hate to burst your bubble" when you have to tell someone something they do not want to hear.

and this manifests in so many minor yet deeply insidious ways in so many places you wouldnt even think to look.

my biggest problem with the modern "queer community" is its general insistence on simplicity. identity labels have to be very simple and easy to understand unless you want to be relentlessly mocked and excluded. "activism" has been watered down to nothing but simple actions like posting on the internet. the way we measure our oppression and privileges has to be simple and black and white.

its why intersex and nonbinary people are steadily being pushed further and further from trans spaces, the complexity of our existence and what it means makes our peers confused and to them thats practically a fate worse than death i guess.

we are all born beautiful messy blobs of life and feeling and we harden ourselves and carve ourselves into boring little shapes because the consistency of being a perfectly carved yet unmoving statue comforts us. we fear the unknown because we cant control it and we think we must control everything in order to force our lives to go the way we want.

everyone has decided life is a car they must drive as fast as possible to their desired destination when we were meant to just be riding the natural flows and currents around us. so many ancient cultures were nomadic because it was the most logical and effective way to live their lives, they followed the movement of the world around them.

yet civilization exists to try to bring the entire world to a standstill. ive been thinking about the tower of babel so much lately because we are reliving it again right now but WORSE. the whole world being solidified into one big giant machine that runs like clockwork and pays no mind to the whims of nature. a giant unliving unfeeling unmoving Thing that exists just for the sake of proving that it can.

what i think is particularly sad is that all of the complex folk have been desperately trying to get the message across for ages and it never matters.

The Good Place quite literally laid out everything in explicit detail. the characters lived simple lives where they limited themselves for the sake of comfort and then they died, where they were judged by a very simple system and sentenced to a very simple afterlife.

but over time, their exposure to new and diverse experiences changed them. they gained depth! they learned to be more aware of the world outside themselves and as a consequence they bece violently aware of the flaws in the system. the system didnt account for how complex people are.

so they created a "middle place" where people were no longer beholden to their circumstances and could finally have the opportunity to change!

its practically a step by step guide to deradicalization. the middle place is something that can exist right now in real life. we could create rehabilitation centers designed to help people deprogram themselves and learn how to be better.

in fact, i think some of these places already exist. but they are so demonized by western culture in particular that its difficult to actually make them effective.

white supremacy has the world in a chokehold and we will not be able to fix the mess they have made until we can take the power away from them to give back to EVERYONE else.

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I...tried to make a meme and got carried away and made A Thing that is like partially unfinished because i spent like 3 hours on it and then got tired.

I think this is mostly scientifically accurate but truth be told, there seems to be relatively little research on succession in regards to lawns specifically (as opposed to like, pastures). I am not exaggerating how bad they are for biodiversity though—recent research has referred to them as "ecological deserts."

Feel free to repost, no need for credit

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do i ship these characters or do i want them to form a sketch comedy duo

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nobody:

2012 tumblr:

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So we all know that Tumblr is US-centric. But to what degree? (and can we skew the results of this poll by posting it at a time where they should be asleep?)

Reblog to increase sample size!

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anybody else in the club feeling this one

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Whenever I see an influencer do a "I broke someone's TV so I could surprise them with a better one" prank I'm always like. You could have donated that. Someone else could have got a nice TV for cheap. But no. Instead you broke it for clicks

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Welcome to my Tuesday morning PSA about plastics!

So--I was walking along the Bolstadt beach approach sidewalk here in Long Beach, WA yesterday afternoon, and I started seeing these little orange pellets on the ground that looked a little bit like salmon roe (but probably weren't). So I picked one up, and it was most definitely rubber. I went around picking up every one I could find, and while I didn't keep exact count I probably amassed 50-60 of them. I took this picture before depositing them in the nearest trash can.

These are airsoft gun pellets, and you can buy them in big jars containing thousands of them. That means that someone who decided that the beach was a great place to shoot their airsoft guns could easily litter the place with countless little bits of plastic rubber in less than an hour. We already have a huge problem here with people leaving trash, including tiny bits of plastic, all over the beach (you should see the gigantic mess after 4th of July fireworks when thousands of people come in from out of town, blow things up, and then leave again without picking up after themselves.)

But these airsoft pellets have a particularly nasty side effect. You know how my first thought was "wow, those look kind of like salmon roe?" Well, we have a number of opportunistic omnivore birds like crows, ravens, and several species of gull that commonly scavenge on the beach, especially along the approaches because people often feed them there. If I can catch the resemblance of an orange airsoft pellet to a fish egg, then chances are there are wildlife that will assume they're edible.

Since birds don't chew their food, they probably won't notice that the taste or texture is wrong--it'll just go down the hatch. And since they can't digest the pellets, there's a good chance they might just build up in the bird's digestive system, especially if the bird eats a large number of them--say, fifty or sixty of them dropped on the ground along the same fifty foot stretch of sidewalk. The bird might die of starvation if there's not enough capacity for food in their stomach--or they might just die painfully of an impacted gut, and no way to get help for it. If the pellets end up washed into the ocean, you get the same issue with fish and other marine wildlife eating them, and then of course the pellets eventually breaking up into microplastic particles.

You can get biodegradable airsoft pellets; they appear to mainly be gray or white in color rather than bright screaming orange and green. But "biodegradable" doesn't mean "instantly dissolves the next time it rains." An Amazon listing for Aim Green biodegradable airsoft pellets advertise them as "Our biodegradable BBs are engineered to degrade only with long-term exposure to water and sun and will degrade 180 days after being used." That's half a year for them to be eaten by wildlife.

I don't know, y'all. That handful of carelessly dropped rubber pellets just encapsulates how much people don't factor in the rest of nature when making decisions, even on something that is purely for entertainment like an airsoft gun. We could have had a lot of the same technological advances we have today, but with much less environmental impact, if we had considered the long-term effects on both other people and other living beings, as well as our habitats. We could have found ways from the beginning to make these things in ways that benefited us but also mitigated any harm as much as possible. Instead we're now having to reverse-engineer things we've been using for decades, and sometimes--like the "biodegradable" airsoft pellets--they still have a significant negative impact.

But--at least there are people trying to do things better, thinking ahead instead of just on immediate profit. We're stuck in a heck of a mess here, figuratively and literally, and changing an entire system can't be done in a day. Maybe we can at least keep pushing for a cultural shift that emphasizes planning far into the future--if not the often-cited "seven generations ahead", then at least throughout the potential lifespan of a given product.

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andrew hussie shit himself and died so toby fox could make millions of a brand new kinda queer person

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I’m so happy I got this shot earlier holy shit

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it’s genuinely hilarious in an awful way that on the bridge that leads to galveston island texas is a sign that reads “welcome to galveston, the birthplace of juneteenth” as if that’s anything to be proud of……….💀