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Emmet Gowin

Indexes Purchased with funds provided by the William Talbott Hillman Foundation © Emmet Gowin, courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York

#bugs #🦋

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flew to dallas tx yesterday then drove up to northern co today to help my bestfriend move. a whirlwind of travel and no sleep and so much driving. it was a 15ish hour journey today and i am exhausted.

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1A* ^_^ !!

ty!!!

#art #fairies

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last nights solar storm was the strongest in 103 years, and the aurora it produced was stunning.. it felt like being in a kaleidoscope 🥹

#nature #i can't believe i missed this 😭

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#f

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a woman holding her boob should be considered a neutral pensive gesture like when a man scratches his beard

#w

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5 YEAR PLAN

get free

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FROG CHOIR FROM MAJORA'S MASK

#loz #frogs #pngs

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"people in real life: hey man how's it going" is a killer phrase. instantly neutralizes whatever insane discourse you find online. gonna start using that from now on

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Heiko Hellwig: Silicon Cities (2017)

#art #tech

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Bruce Munro: ‘Waterlilies’ (2012) Location: Longwood Gardens, Pennsylvania

100 shining colorful waterlilies made of 65,000 recycled CDs float at Longwood Gardens in Kent Square, Pennsylvania creating a light installation.

#art #t

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I don’t think we as a society talk nearly enough about how intricately connected cats and women are. cats are associated with women so heavily, not just in English but in other languages as well. the stereotype of the ‘crazy cat lady’, the fact words to refer to cats are often also used to refer to female genitalia, ‘cat fight’, ‘catty’, etc.

Cats have suffered alongside women, too, which is not something I have seen brought up. Cats were targeted during the Witch Hunts as well, and suffered similar fates as the women they hunted. During this time, cats were nearly driven to extinction, and the mice and rat population go out of control— which is believed to have heavily contributed if not outright caused one of the most famous plagues.

To this day, I think we need to analyze if it’s truly a coincidence that cats are often portrayed as mean or uncaring because they do not behave the same way as dogs— “man’s best friend”— that their boundaries are violated for fun and then people criticize the cat for reacting, for self-defense. They will mutilate a cat so it cannot defend itself, and then abandon it when it is understandably upset, when it can no longer feel safe.

If you look at the statistics, more cats enter animal shelters than dogs, and tend to stay for longer. Personally, my local humane societies seem to have almost exclusively cats. In part, this is because cats are more effective at reproducing than dogs, and there are very little if any resources dedicated to to TNR. This is also because people will not spay/neuter their cats, and then will abandon the cat and/or just the kittens.

I do not think it is entirely coincidental that cats are so heavily associated with women, and they are villainized for not being dogs. That dogs are called “man’s best friend”, but somehow that does not mean cats are called “women’s best friend”— instead diamonds are, for whatever reason, despite women’s shared history with cats, and shared experience of being villainized for having boundaries. They are made the villain for being cats instead of dogs, they are called uncaring and “assholes” because the way they show love is not identical to the way a dog does.

I feel like there is no way it is entirely coincidental, the way cats are hated and the way they are so heavily associated with women, with females.

#:o #cats #f

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I'm so in love with how our wedding cake turned out!!!!!!

#food

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irl tumblr meetup with the mutual circle but no one says what their url is so u have to guess who is who

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there's a lot to hate but i think my least favourite thing about AI generated images is that now every time i see a really cool artwork on the internet, instead of childlike wonder i experience suspicion

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#art #bears

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anyone else feel like googling stuff isn’t the same as it used to be. like the results are just…. so bad and never what i’m looking for. i have to type “reddit” after everything i ever ask google just to find a real person who has answers to my questions