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WORM UNSTRINGED. THE ALLWORM

#save #i've got to log off #this is too much good shit at once

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adulthood be like: *washes dishes* *puts away dishes* *washes dishes* *puts away dishes* *washes dishes* *puts away dishes* *washes dishes* *puts away dishes* *wash

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this movie is so fucking creepy jesus fuck

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"What! What are you- [laughs] Stupid, give it back! [laughs some more] Let it go!"

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Anita Austvika 

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shoutout to the Twink at the front desk of the natural history museum who let me go into their Yellowstone exhibit for free. also shoutout to my laptop for auto-capitalizing Twink. always nice to see respect for our troops 

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Charlie Heaton as Jonathan Byers in Stranger Things “Chapter Eight: The Battle of Starcourt” (3.08)

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Instagram ads piss me off. Like, yes, I do want those black waterproof boots embroidered with a gold sun and moon, but I hate that you know that about me. I hate the little AI oracles sitting in their digital caves making algorithmic prophecies about my spending habits, then sending sending their electronic servants to me with hedonistic temptations targeted at my weaknesses... I’ve already got nice boots, thanks!

#save

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Take a break

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where do TV shows get this idea that high school is constant drama, nothing even fucking happened to me in high school

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From @kira.and.coco: “Lashes on fleek!” #catsofinstagram [source: https://ift.tt/30CvmRm ]

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tag urself, im aang

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Awning and Lights, Rialto Bridge, Venice, 2001. Lynn Saville. Gelatin silver

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it’s always amazing to watch adults discover how much changes when they don’t treat their perspective as the default human experience.

example: it’s been well-documented for a long time that urban spaces are more dangerous for kids than they are for adults. but common wisdom has generally held that that’s just the way things are because kids are inherently vulnerable. and because policymakers keep operating under the assumption that there’s nothing that can be done about kids being less safe in cities because that’s just how kids are, the danger they face in public spaces like streets and parks has been used as an excuse for marginalizing and regulating them out of those spaces.

(by the same people who then complain about kids being inside playing video games, I’d imagine.)

thing is, there’s no real evidence to suggest that kids are inescapably less safe in urban spaces. the causality goes the other way: urban spaces are safer for adults because they are designed for adults, by adults, with an adult perspective and experience in mind.

the city of Oslo, Norway recently started a campaign to take a new perspective on urban planning. quite literally a new perspective: they started looking at the city from 95 centimeters off the ground - the height of the average three-year-old. one of the first things they found was that, from that height, there were a lot of hedges blocking the view of roads from sidewalks. in other words, adults could see traffic, but kids couldn’t.

pop quiz: what does not being able to see a car coming do to the safety of pedestrians? the city of Oslo was literally designed to make it more dangerous for kids to cross the street. and no one realized it until they took the laughably small but simultaneously really significant step of…lowering their eye level by a couple of feet.

so Oslo started trimming all its decorative roadside vegetation down. and what was the first result they saw? kids in Oslo are walking to school more, because it’s safer to do it now. and that, as it turns out, reduces traffic around schools, making it even safer to walk to school.

so yeah. this is the kind of important real-life impact all that silly social justice nonsense of recognizing adultism as a massive structural problem can have. stop ignoring 1/3 of the population when you’re deciding what the world should look like and the world gets better a little bit at a time.