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YUP!

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OnlyOver30's

reblog if you're a sick individual who's attracted to women over 30

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Oh, grocery stores will train you to run a register, just learn quickly!

Not enough jobs are willing to do training anymore, no matter what the situation. Grocery stores won't teach you to work a cash register, businesses won't teach you how to use their programs, even the arts won't teach you anything

Everyone wants a triple threat, expects you to just have those skills. In the old days? you could show up to a random theater barely able to dance and they'd teach you, and then the incel living in the walls would make you a world class singer and actor and you'd be headlining your own show in a few years

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Technologies "Fulton recovery".

by fomajc on instagram. im losing my shit over this

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Why EPL Oxnard??

my mom’s trans allyship is on another level

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But reminders are fine.

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*trumpet solo*

I first became fascinated with it a few years ago when I noticed it out an airplane window on a flight from Texas to Southern California. In an expanse of endless desert, suddenly, a vast body of water. When I got home, I immediately looked it up on a map. The Salton Sea.

It’s the largest landlocked body of water in California. It sits right on top of the San Andreas Fault at over 200 feet below sea level. It is more than twice as salty as the Pacific Ocean. It is completely toxic. And I had never heard of it before then.

(photo essay under the cut)

In the early 1900s the Colorado River was diverted through a series of irrigation canals in order to provide water for the farmlands of Imperial Valley. One of the head-gates broke during a flood, and the desert basin filled with water for 2 years before it was fixed. The unexpected lake soon became a popular vacation destination; it was stocked with fish, and resorts and hotels popped up along its shores. It became known as a great place for sport fishing, waterskiing, and yacht parties. Big name celebrities visited. At one point, it had more annual visitors than Yosemite.

Salton Sea has no outlet, and is only filled via agricultural runoff. As the water evaporated in the hot desert sun, the lake became more and more saline. Chemicals began to build up from the run off causing toxic algae blooms, and mass die-offs of fish and birds started in the 80s. By the 90s, the beaches were littered with fish gills and bird bones and the resorts were abandoned. The lake began to dry up as irrigation run-off was diverted away. The exposed lake bed is also toxic, and the high desert winds kick up the dust, making the air poisonous. 

Despite the unpleasant odor, the noxious air and the summer temperatures regularly reaching 120°, a renaissance of sorts began in the early 2010s. Artist and nomad colonies began to spring up around Salton Sea. Bombay Beach, once a popular resort destination, is now mostly a ghost town, but the folks who remain have turned the ruins on the shores into an outdoor art installation gallery where the found-art sculptures are cyclically destroyed by the elements and then replaced with new ones. Many of the houses and RVs in town are themselves art pieces.

In nearby Slab City, a settlement of off-the-grid lifestylers, you can find even more folk art. Salvation Mountain is a manmade hill painted with bright colors and bible verses and maintained by a community of volunteers. East Jesus is a sculpture garden and art installation. 

This past weekend my partner and I finally made the pilgrimage to the Sea. California has the benefit of being home to a huge array of biomes. In just a couple of hours you can travel from snowy mountain peaks to lush oases to endless sand dunes. Driving the hour or so south from Palm Springs towards Salton Sea is like driving towards the end of the world.

Bombay Beach especially enamored me. The beach is crusted with salt and millions of tiny shells and bones. It smells awful, like sewage and chemicals and low-tide and rotting fish. You drive out onto the beach and park anywhere amongst the sculptures and deteriorating resort ruins. The art feels raw in a way I haven’t experienced before. It reminds me of seeing paleolithic cave art. Humans made this, with no motivation other than to create something intriguing or beautiful or sad. Not much can live out here, but what you find fills me with a great adoration for humanity. Despite the asphyxiation of the natural world, the human spirit persists.

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Fisher and Trapper oddly enough, do not play well with each other.

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Hmmm....

"Everyone loves you, but no one likes you. "

😥😥

🥺🥺

😟😟

💔💔

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New Red shirts

At my job, we were given new red t-shirts. A couple of my courtesy clerks were joking about how I wouldn’t wear one cuz “Ben always the blue manager shirts! Like a Crip! He probably bleeds blue” I heard this and instinctively said “I do bleed blue, blue and yellow , foo! SLAVA UKRAINE!!” The 4 employees around me just stared at me for a few seconds and my closer Jacob says” oh that’s right, your last name is Ukrainian!” Thank you for remembering dude. Fun night.

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NICE!

Omg official Das Bunker approval

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Diskord...

Thanks for always sticking around...

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The homie Victor Ortiz rolled by today.

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Trying to remember my guitar’s names from years ago...

1994 Peavey Predator/Strat copy - The One, First, other random names from my 20′s.

2000 BC Rich Mockingbird (Bronze edition) - Lycia, Oddball, The Mutant (I still call it that to this day).

2005 Epiphone SG/G-400 - Red, The Main, Double Horn

2003-2004 Aria Pro 2 PJ Bass - Justin’s former steed, Plucky, not sure what else...

2011 Fender Squier Vintage Modified Jazz Bass - Jazz Gallup, The Low End, Black & Chrome.

2021 Fender Squier Bass VI- Wonky as Fuck, Smith, Zee Weapon

2022 Epiphone Les Paul Studio (Wine Red finish) - Red Blend, UB40, Crimson & Chrome.

2022 Fender Squier Stratocaster (H/S/S config) - Sister, Number 2, Black & Maple. I don’t have kids or pets, I have instruments.

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HA!

Kodachi Kardashian!!

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B17 The "Belle"

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Might have said the wrong thing

Kind of a joke but oh well. I’m sure she’d give me another chance but oh well...