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mentally preparing myself to have my entire country embarrassed by our president in front of several heads of state

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Most fantasy magicians are functionally engineers. You go to school, learn a trade, and apply that trade for money. I assume many of them would have government good state jobs zapping trash into other dimensions and charging by the ton per hour. Economically similar to designing and maintaining roads.

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it's crazy how drastically european settlers altered the environment here. great example of how indigenous issues and environmentalism go hand-in-hand, at least in the U.S.

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taylor being giddy over eras tour fans getting amnesia from sensory overload is sending me XD

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MA'AM

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it's ridiculously sad that we've reached the point that people will turn down / misuse flood prevention money just because it comes from a politician they don't like. Please note that this is the fault of the local governments in the region, not regular civilians who were impacted by the flooding regardless of political affiliation

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i bet “and, baby,that’s show business for you” is a lyric

also i kinda hope she shows the show business cause i’ve always been curious how it works at her level

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tbh the orange-green combo is kind of gen-z coded imo. We do way more creative color matching than millenials do with their beloved gray.

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I legit thought it was for a few minutes though and didn't even mind tbh 💀

it would be hilarious if this was the real cover

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Taylor Swift

Fearless

Speak Now

Red

1989

reputation

Lover

folklore

evermore

Midnights

The Tortured Poets Department

The Life of a Showgirl

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okay while i wait a ridiculous length of time to preorder a cd that will almost certainly restock tomorrow, let me just say that I ADORE the title.

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the thing is that this easter egg is so fucking obvious if you're even remotely familiar with anything taylor-related, but saying to a normal person "yeah no taylor swift is about to announce an new album and we know that because she just posted 12 pics of her wearing orange on instagram" makes you look. well. in need of medical attention to be honest

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Some 2025 news that doesn’t suck because news always sucks these days:

Some articles found by @reasonsforhope

$300 million in federal funding for Indigenous-led conservation in the Northwest Territories arrives

Portugal introduces paid menstrual leave for endometriosis and adenomyosis

Healthy, sustainable climate 'is a human right', rules UN court

Indigenous Amazonians win landmark ruling against mercury pollution in Colombia

Saint Lucia High Court Decriminalizes Same-Sex Conduct

Ciara Becomes Citizen Of Benin Under New Law For Slave Trade Descendants

Tennessee to become first state in South to protect access to IVF, birth control

All major Las Vegas Strip casinos are now unionized in historic labor victory

Ghana passes Affirmative Action Bill after decades of advocacy

‘Long Overdue’ Lead Ammunition Ban Announced in the UK to Save Thousands of Birds

Yellowstone aspen showing signs of recovery following 1995 reintroduction of wolves to park

Chess Lover Introduces Game to Malawi’s Prisons, Schools and Street Kids

Dutch Cities Are Building These Tiny Staircases to Help Cats Exit Their Canals

Arab women in maritime finalize strategy to advance gender equality

Endangered ‘Blue Dragon’ of the Caymans Roars Back from the Brink as Population Climbs Above 1,000

A Tiny Gecko Species Once Thought Extinct Just Made a Comeback in the Galápagos

Iran’s Asiatic Cheetah Population Rises to 20, Says Department of Environment + Video

Wattled Crane no longer Critically Endangered in South Africa

Gov. Jared Polis signs bill protecting gender-affirming care coverage in Colorado

Judge Upholds Birthright Citizenship in Landmark Ruling Backed by Letitia James

Wisconsin bear with plastic jar on their head has been freed, is safe

Spain offers 17 weeks of paid parental leave to new parents

Thailand ranks first globally for gender equality in women's education

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That's cool! I'm from the U.S. so that what my knowledge/sources come from. It makes sense that people elsewhere would have implemented forest management techniques.

Though now I wonder why European colonists weren't particularly good caretakers of American forests. I suppose they likely felt a sense of ownership over the land and viewed it as a place to be conquered, the same way they viewed indigenous groups here as people to be conquered. Tying into the whole new world mindset, and less government oversight into land usage since the land was all up-for-grabs, as opposed to the mostly pre-parceled European landscape. Plus ideas of capitalism really began to dominate the political landscape over here, with a lot of emphasis on individualism and being able to do what one wanted with one's own land. Or it could also be something as simple as American ecosystems were different enough from European ones that they require different management techniques (I honestly don't know). I'm just spitballing here, but definitely very interesting. I'll have to read up on that sometime.

my family is lucky enough to own a 26 acre mountain property, log cabin and all. Most people would go up there and think that it is fairly pristine nature. There’s the cabin, and a few dirt roads for 4-wheelers, but the surrounding woods look untouched.

But we actually carefully maintain that nature. We cut down the deadfall. We pull invasive plants. We trim the elderberry bushes. We get more animals than almost anywhere else on the mountain because we put up salt licks and water troughs.

some of these same things are true of national parks. A lot of places that you think of as “untouched wilderness” are influenced heavily by human care and maintenance. And this isn’t a bad thing. We are animals too. In many ways, our ecosystems depend on us to keep them healthy. Many “wild” plants that are useful for food or building materials are actually semi-domesticated because indigenous groups cared for them and encouraged their growth so they do better with human care.

we have a place in nature. We just need to be conscious of our actions.

EDIT: since this post took off, I thought I should add some sources

Also a disclaimer that I am not indigenous or an ecologist. I am putting time and effort into learning, but I am not an expert.

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ive been embroidering for nearly half my life and it still blows my mind how cheap it is as a hobby tbh. it can be as expensive as you want to make it, sure. I've definitely invested in nicer tools when I had the finances to do so. But relatively compared to other hobbies it's kinda nuts that a splurge on materials is like. 9 bucks for a pack of some of the fanciest needles you can buy. Silk thread for 6 dollars. The industry gold standard thread is the stuff already available at every single craft store in the USA. If you follow exacting patterns that require a lot of color changes it can add up, but those are often projects that require weeks or months of work. Let's say you had 50 color changes and the project uses most of each skein. That's months of hobby-ing right there, for about 50 dollars plus the cost of base materials which is under 10 dollars.