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A selection from Wittenoom in Western Australia.

Wittenoom was a mining town set up to serve a large Crocidolite mine (AKA Blue Asbestos) the whole place is now a designated no-go contaminated zone and is still toxic af despite the actual mine having been closed down and abandoned in 1966.

It’s the largest contaminated zone in the southern hemisphere and I believe it spans an area of about 50,000 hectares.

In 2007 the town was officially delisted and removed from maps but a few residents refused the evacuation so it still had a handful of residents until I think it was 2022 after which nobody was left. Don’t know whether the last two who were left there just moved out or died but my money would be on they died there.

Of all the minerals that are classified as being asbestos Crocidolite is the one considered the most dangerous due to its fibres being extremely tiny and as a result much more easily inhaled and harder to filter out. Pretty sure it’s this mineral that’s been the type of asbestos found to have the highest instance of deaths and disease attributed to it.

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Tbh I don't care about the Odyssey discourse but I saw one tweet where they're like "convenient that they would have a guy who goes on an Odyssey named Odysseus" it was my favorite tweet about the whole thing

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Foxes disguised as monks. On the left from Japan and on the right from Denmark.

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Immediately outed at the normal people function by saying that I ‘reblogged’ a ‘post’ and not ‘skinned’ an ‘elf’

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Well, clearly a society without marriage ( /common-law marriages) would be one comprised of deeply lonely people deprived of strong interpersonal relationships and emotional intimacy. Unlike a society in which you're supposed to find one person and that person has to fulfill every single emotional need, and friendships/ family relationships that are 'too close' are regarded with suspicion, which would never lead to many people struggling with deep loneliness and isolation, or toxic relationships,

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Hot take but I really do think that some of y’all need to consider how/why/when/how often you’re making fun of straight people for being straight

I do it too, I’m not going to pretend I don’t make jokes about the hets, or the down with cis bus, or whatever

But I recently befriended a cis, straight dude and I have watched him be dismissed, degraded, and unambiguously insulted for the perceived “crime” of being straight — all in queer environments where he is allegedly “completely welcome” and surrounded by “friends”

This guy is not a toxic person! But I have seen him be made to feel so small and like his comfort and safety in those spaces are conditional on his silence and acceptance of being treated like a human dunk zone, and I think that some of y’all have had so much shit from straight/cis people that the second you feel like you’ve got an inch, you want to luxuriate in the perceived catharsis of bullying someone who— actually —doesn’t deserve it

And until he very, very carefully mentioned to me in private that it makes him feel bad, I didn’t even clock that I was involved in doing that, that it had become so instinctive for me to make casual jokes like that, and that— well meaning or otherwise —I had been contributing to an environment that made someone I really really like feel like shit

So, I dunno, I think maybe some of y’all should think about that too

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there's a cat in my neighborhood with three little spots on his waist, so i've taken to calling him Orion 🌌

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The Next Generation Delivery Vehicle that the USPS ordered is legit the most fucked up thing you'll ever see in your life.

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there are so many rtumblr songs in here 👉🧠 but they have to go through a saw trap to be presentable

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they should invent an understanding and intellectualizing your feelings that makes them go away!!!

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Had a friend in middle school going through a breakup ask me "why do people say they'll love you forever if they don't mean it?" and I said something like "I think people mean it when they say it, but then people change" but all I was thinking was "girl we're in 8th grade"

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Every time a small child starts crying or having a tantrum in my vicinity and I catch the parents glancing at me I’ve started saying “me when…”.

Friend kept trying to tell his crying kindergartener to calm down and relax and the kid growled “I AM relaxed” while visibly tensing every muscle in his body and I was like “oh that’s me at work every day” and we had a chuckle.

Parents look to other adults like “shit are they mad? Do they think my kid is acting like a demon?” And this response is my attempt to say “no. I think your kid is just acting like a human being.”

I WISH I could fling myself on the ground and cry because I experienced a minor inconvenience.

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It is so annoying when people respond to "the queer community has an anti-masc problem" with "well society loves and praises masculinity!" Okay... yes... but that's not what we're talking about 😭 The queer community ≠ society as a whole. Also? The society that praises masculinity does NOT praise queer masculinity. Cishet society does not praise butches, masculine trans people, or anyone who is masc in a queer way. And unfortunately, many queer people have this same problem.

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