sleepy-bebby:

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sandumilfshous:

elumish:

I honestly think Gen-Z and younger simply does not understand how recent widespread smartphone adoption is.

I am not that old, and I didn’t have a smartphone until probably late high school. For most of my life, many if not most people were not walking around with a magic internet machine in their pocket that they pulled out and used constantly for everything.

reblog if you remember having to ration your text messages and accidentally opening the internet on your phone was the end of the world

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starful02:

mothdogs:

acti-veg:

taxevader69:

taxevader69:

economists really took the divine right of kings and turned it into billionaire CEOs

“it’s kinda fucked up to reject the business practices of jeff bezos when he rightfully earned his position under capitalism”

“About twenty years ago, I attended a lecture by a Harvard professor who talked about how corporations operate like modern-day kingdoms. At one time, she said, people believed kings ruled by divine right, and today we seem to believe the same thing about corporations. Toward the end, she asked, “Do you know what it is that allowed people to let go of, overcome, and reject the notion of the divine right of kings?” I held my breath and got ready to take some notes. Her answer: “They just stopped believing in it.”

- Frances Moore Lappé

- Ursula K. Le Guin, speaking at the National Book Awards, 2014

[*sighs*] gods damn it my communication professor is going to be so pleased about me using this but:

“Man is the symbol-using (symbol-making, symbol-misusing) animal, inventor of the negative (or moralized by the negative), separated from his natural condition by instruments of his own making, goaded by the spirit of hierarchy (or moved by the sense of order), and rotten with perfection" -Kenneth Burke

Basically we created this nonsense, all of it, it is of our own design. We are the ones continuing its existence, perpetuating its power. So we can absolutely choose to dismantle it. Change how we look at it and make something new and better. I vote that we should.

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larkandkatydid:

Photos: Minneapolis Neighborhoods vs. ICE

In recent days, federal immigration agents continued enforcement actions in Minneapolis and St. Paul, while state officials fight the Trump

The Atlantic

Sharing this photo collection from the Atlantic primarily to celebrate the incredible courage of the people of Minneapolis in the face of truly unprecedented state terror.

They are doing this for all of us. This cannot be stressed enough! They went after Somali immigrants in Minneapolis because they were confident that it would be easier than targeting Yemeni New Yorkers or Colombian Las Angelenos. What will stop them from occupying other cities and terrorizing other communities is that they will (again) break upon the resolute courage of the people of Minnesota.

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lies:

anonsally:

lies:

anonsally:

Birding with Toasty!

Today, @destinationtoast and I went for a bird walk in a regional park I hadn’t been to before. We mostly explored a marsh area but also made it into a more hilly area. In the latter, we saw a bird that I tentatively identified as a pine siskin. But it was eating berries, and I am now reading that pine siskins are seed eaters. @lies, any thoughts? It was a very streaky-fronted bird, I thought I saw some yellow on its wing, and it had a lighter eyebrow. I took some photos, which are all fairly terrible, though the one on the right might be helpful?

Other than that, we were very excited to see a marsh wren after hearing it for a while! Other highlights included my first ever gadwalls, a white-tailed kite, northern shovelers, American wigeons, green-winged teals, cinnamon teals, pied-billed grebes, coots, American white pelicans, and a very borbular golden-crowned sparrow.

Hopefully we can go back sometime! There’s apparently a (zoo escapee?) Chilean flamingo that hangs out in the salt ponds, but we didn’t go to that part of the park.

That sounds like an awesome outing! And that there were two Tumblr celebrities there makes it even better.

I’m getting a “female purple finch” vibe from your berry eater. The head pattern in the second and third photos look pretty good for that. I would expect a pine siskin to be thinner overall, with a smaller head and thinner beak.

oh wow! I’ve never seen a purple finch before… at least, as far as I know. I see what you mean, about pine siskins being thinner. I’ll update my checklist and upload the photos.

Here’s another ID question, since I know you love identifying birds on the internet!

Any idea who these two are behind the American wigeon?

Those are gadwalls; female on the left and male on the right.

Aha! Thank you!

lies:

anonsally:

Birding with Toasty!

Today, @destinationtoast and I went for a bird walk in a regional park I hadn’t been to before. We mostly explored a marsh area but also made it into a more hilly area. In the latter, we saw a bird that I tentatively identified as a pine siskin. But it was eating berries, and I am now reading that pine siskins are seed eaters. @lies, any thoughts? It was a very streaky-fronted bird, I thought I saw some yellow on its wing, and it had a lighter eyebrow. I took some photos, which are all fairly terrible, though the one on the right might be helpful?

Other than that, we were very excited to see a marsh wren after hearing it for a while! Other highlights included my first ever gadwalls, a white-tailed kite, northern shovelers, American wigeons, green-winged teals, cinnamon teals, pied-billed grebes, coots, American white pelicans, and a very borbular golden-crowned sparrow.

Hopefully we can go back sometime! There’s apparently a (zoo escapee?) Chilean flamingo that hangs out in the salt ponds, but we didn’t go to that part of the park.

That sounds like an awesome outing! And that there were two Tumblr celebrities there makes it even better.

I’m getting a “female purple finch” vibe from your berry eater. The head pattern in the second and third photos look pretty good for that. I would expect a pine siskin to be thinner overall, with a smaller head and thinner beak.

oh wow! I’ve never seen a purple finch before… at least, as far as I know. I see what you mean, about pine siskins being thinner. I’ll update my checklist and upload the photos.

Here’s another ID question, since I know you love identifying birds on the internet!

Any idea who these two are behind the American wigeon?

Today, @destinationtoast and I went for a bird walk in a regional park I hadn’t been to before. We mostly explored a marsh area but also made it into a more hilly area. In the latter, we saw a bird that I tentatively identified as a pine siskin. But it was eating berries, and I am now reading that pine siskins are seed eaters. @lies, any thoughts? It was a very streaky-fronted bird, I thought I saw some yellow on its wing, and it had a lighter eyebrow. I took some photos, which are all fairly terrible, though the one on the right might be helpful?

Other than that, we were very excited to see a marsh wren after hearing it for a while! Other highlights included my first ever gadwalls, a white-tailed kite, northern shovelers, American wigeons, green-winged teals, cinnamon teals, pied-billed grebes, coots, American white pelicans, and a very borbular golden-crowned sparrow.

Hopefully we can go back sometime! There’s apparently a (zoo escapee?) Chilean flamingo that hangs out in the salt ponds, but we didn’t go to that part of the park.

garyachapple:

ROM - WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR 2025

On January 1st, i went to the Royal Ontario Museum to see the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025 exhibition.

“Organized by London’s prestigious Natural History Museum, UK, this fan-favourite showcases the very best in nature photography from around the globe. Experience our world in vivid detail, beholding extraordinary species through unimagined perspectives. Each photograph, exquisitely backlit, unveils unparalleled quality and depth. Through the lens, viewers become privy to animals’ lives and the challenges they face. Emotive, surprising glimpses of life on our planet are showcased via exceptional talent, technical mastery, and perfectly captured moments.”

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mlembug:

vamptits:

all public transport should be free unconditionally and I’m TIREDDD of pretending this is a radical idea

there is a double standard where public transport is expected to bring profit, but roads and highways are treated as a common good and are built and maintained (e.g. patching holes) through taxes

fuck that

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azurele:

*packing my suitcase for a 3 day trip* hm, but what if I need my terracotta warriors..

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