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Just a thought I’ve been having, but in order to have a healthy and nuanced outlook on the world and the myriad of perspectives in it, you SHOULD be reading the thoughts and opinions of people that you disagree with. You can even appreciate and agree with certain points someone is making, and disagree strongly about others. It is not a betrayal of your own beliefs to do this. In fact, I believe this is how your own beliefs get stronger, and more informed. They may change slightly. You will learn new things. All of this is good for you and how you relate to and engage with other human beings.

Anyone who would brand you a traitor or an enemy or a morally-reprehensible person for something as normal and basic and healthy as engaging with anything written by people with certain different political beliefs or affiliations does not have your best interests at heart. Especially if they’ve taken the time to compile a list of people seen engaging with such content, publicly post it on a blog with huge reach, and are now imploring people to blindly block everyone on that list and spread this list of “reprehensible people” far and wide.

It’s really chilling. It’s really fucked up.

#catie talks

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Sazaedo is a Buddhist temple built in 1796. Its architecture is similar in shape similar to the shell of a horned turban (‘sazae’ in Japanese) hence its name ‘Sazaedo’. The inside of the temple consists of a double-helix slope, meaning that visitors who come to pray won’t meet anybody coming from the opposite direction. This one-way system makes Sazaedo extremely unique. In 1995, it was appointed as a National Important Cultural Property. Photography by yuuui

@uyjpn

#IVE BEEN HERE this place goes crazy #said with the utmost respect #japan #architecture

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If you (like me) want 3rd party candidates to be an actual viable option in USA elections so you no longer have to vote for Democrats OR Republicans as your first and only choice, then what we need is Ranked Choice Voting. In order for that to happen, we as voters have to do two things:

Vote Democrat this fall, because Republicans fucking hate Ranked Choice Voting, and in several Republican-run states they have outlawed it. So if you want it, you have to keep Democrats in power in your state.

Lobby for and then vote for Ranked-choice voting in your state!Many American states have already adopted Ranked Choice voting and several more are set to do so in 2024. The ball is literally already rolling on this, we just need YOU to help it along.

#us politics

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#little buddy #bugs #insects

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Explaining the Kendrick Drake feud to my New England Old Money friend

#amazing #laugh rule #drake and kendrick

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Today is the day Jake Chambers did and didn’t die.

#the dark tower #stephen king

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So as it turns out James Somerton did in fact fake his suicide note, and did a bunch of other stuff in the meantime

#incredible. incredible #james somerton

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i am about to bestow upon you the secret butter technique. i am sorry, but it is french. i am sorry again, this only works with cow butter. i am certain plant based butters wouldn’t work, and alternative animal butters may or may not work

has this ever been you: you have a nicely steamed vegetable, or maybe you want to make the best butter noodles, but you know that if you put butter on those it’ll just melt and you end with kind of greasy noodles or vegetables? don’t you wish it was instead a luscious buttery glaze?

introducing: beurre monté

you will take a small sauce pan, and begin heating it with 1-2 tablespoons of water (use very little water) and bring it to a hard simmer or boil

turn the heat down slightly, and add Butter. how much? however much you dare. (start with 3-4 tablespoons and go from there)

you are going to either whisk Aggressively or you can pick up the saucepan, still holding it over the heat, and swirl aggressively so the butter is skating around the sides of the pan

done correctly, you will have liquid butter that is still emulsified. you have made Butter Sauce. season it with a little salt, and toss whatever you want in it.

if you’re butter splits, i’m sorry. you didn’t agitate it enough to maintain the emulsion, and now you have melted butter.

you can use this knowledge to make other sauces by swapping out the water for another liquid. white wine becomes beurre blanc. red wine is beurre rogue.

you want to CUM? sweat minced shallot in a tiny bit of butter, add white wine and cook it out until it’s reduced by about half. then whisk butter in hard. a few flecks of minced thyme or fennel frond stirred thru, and you eat that with a nice seared fish? or scallop? or even shrimp? wow. you will Nut

your boxed mac and cheese game can also be elevated by cooking your pasta and making a beurre monté first, tossing your pasta in that and adding the cheese packet. wow. hey; you’ll cum

go forth now with this butter secret

#laugh rule #recipes #food

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Howdy! Are Yellow Ants the only ants that survived what I can only imagine was a fierce series of wars between eusocial insects?

What about Weaver or Army ants? Or for that matter, seeing how the fire ant colony in my backyard has yet to perish after all I did to get rid of them, what about Fire ants the “Queens” of invasive species. I can’t imagine they would go out easily either…

Afraid so! The inspiration comes from Biosphere 2, a real life experiment with a closed ecosystem. By the end of it, only one species of ant remained--a type of crazy ant (though one unrelated to yellow crazy ants)!

#holy shit this is fascinating #I want to read more about the original biosphere 2 experiment #science #nature

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Cindy Rostron by James Giles for Vogue Australia September 2023

#beautiful people #australia #aboriginal #cindy rostron #queue

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#cats

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I am begging everybody, fucking begging them, to slow the fuck down and fucking look things up. Right now, there are a lot of people who are making money off of creating headlines that are meant to make you mad, and it's going to get worse as we get closer to the election.

If someone tells you that there's a secret conspiracy to [do a thing you don't like] and that it's unique to Biden, you better fucking look that thing up, because chances are you're going to find that it's been happening under every administration for the last 50 years. Is that good? No! Should you want to change it? Probably! Is it a unique crime to Biden? Nope!

"Biden said [bad thing] [X] years ago." Well, this bad thing he said happens to be true, but it looks like it was 45 years ago, and he changed his stance 40 years ago. "Biden said [other bad thing] [Y] years ago." What's the source on that? So there's one person who says he said it? And nobody else who was there has corroborated that account? Who posted the story?

These are all random examples of things I've seen over the last couple of weeks, with the details slightly changed from the Tumblr posts and news articles I've seen, because the point isn't the details of the particular story, so I don't want to get bogged down in particulars that don't matter to the point I'm making.

The point of this post isn't the specific things I'm referencing but the fact that in each of these cases, the reality was not what was initially presented. Either the reality was wildly different, or this story can't be corroborated and was told by someone with a clear and very well-known agenda of their own, which means that at the very least, the story should be treated with extreme suspicion.

And on that note, please don't believe that because you're a leftist that you can't be radicalized in the same way that right-wingers are. You aren't immune to propaganda either. I'm not saying you have to like, or should like, any particular politician or political entity. I am saying, however, that you should view a lot of the news with a gimlet eye, and that goes double for anything that makes you real fucking mad.

You need - need - to stop and read the whole article and ask yourself if you can verify the claims and who benefits from this making you mad.

Please. For the sake of the people around you who have to patiently explain to you that you've gotten fucking bamboozled again by propaganda if for no other reason. We're all very tired of you thinking that leftists can't be propagandized.

#You are not immune to propaganda!! #us politics

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from nebraska earlier today. this has got to be some of the craziest tornado footage i have ever seen. from @nickgormanwx

#whoaaa #tornado

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in spirit of finally reaching the third semester in my p5r playthrough, you may have these

#very very good #persona #shin megami tensei

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Ektachrome slides from Star Wars (1977) and The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

#star wars #queue

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#beautiful #laugh rule

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Londone Myers at Giambattista Valli FW 18

#makeup #fashion #beautiful people #queue