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flyingwiththefishes · 21 hours ago
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it is november, and yesterday it felt like it was supposed to be snowing. in boston, november used a winter month, not a fall month. it is supposed to be chilly; rarely capping over 45F. it is a sweater-and-jacket month. it is a "maybe a scarf too" month. in my childhood, november meant blizzards and sleet.
it did not snow. tomorrow the weather predicts a high of 76.
i have spent so many years of my life studying the longterm possibilities of climate change - the culmination of capitalism wreaking havoc on the bodies of people, animals, plants - but every so often i am still shocked by something small and personal.
in a hundred years, when someone goes outside in boston - will they know the feeling of "snow in the air"?
i know it's a learned feeling, a sensation that maybe only longterm experience can teach. a few years ago, i was walking with my friend who had just moved up from the south. i said it smells like snow and she gave me this look like - what the fuck. i said it feels like snow too, which didn't help. she looked up to the bright blue sky and then back at me and then back at the sky. 12 hours later, we had 3 inches. you can just tell if it's going to snow.
except i can't tell, anymore. i stand outside in a tee shirt and watch my dog dance around a lake. we're in a drought and the skin of the water has peeled back twenty meters. the lake is tamed, quiet, puddlelike and sour. my pokemon go app warns there's a weather condition in my area.
my dog gets too hot from running and sits in the water and i want to laugh about his long frame and how awkwardly he sits - and i can't. some simian part of my brain is scratching the walls. it was supposed to snow. it was supposed to snow, but now it's warm instead.
during the last full solar eclipse, the dogs and the birds and the crickets went crazy under utter darkness. we laughed at them then, promising it will all be okay in a moment. but some part of me is still locked in that long night: some animal sensation.
something is wrong, my body says. i can't afford eggs or rent. i go outside to watch a sunset and listen to birdsong. i don't bring a jacket. allergies are killing me this season, allergies i didn't have as a kid. everyone comments that halloween has started to feel strange, offkilter. that it's hard having "holiday cheer." my body thinks it's april, and then it thinks we're in september, and then june.
something is terribly wrong, she whispers. go outside. it is supposed to be snowing.
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flyingwiththefishes · 21 hours ago
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the colors of the sunrise
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flyingwiththefishes · 21 hours ago
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santa put me on the Nuanced list this year
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flyingwiththefishes · 2 days ago
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i forgot how fucking weird november is theres no afternoon its just night after 2pm
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flyingwiththefishes · 3 days ago
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Most-used word in each US state.
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flyingwiththefishes · 3 days ago
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wow that's a nice inflexible honour code you've got there. i can't wait to see it broken under immense pressure, and you along with it.
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flyingwiththefishes · 3 days ago
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flyingwiththefishes · 4 days ago
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American naturalization test
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flyingwiththefishes · 4 days ago
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flyingwiththefishes · 4 days ago
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flyingwiththefishes · 4 days ago
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this is a fucked up thing to see on a youtube video
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flyingwiththefishes · 5 days ago
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flyingwiththefishes · 5 days ago
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flyingwiththefishes · 6 days ago
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Countries smaller than the 2 billion American parking spaces put together.
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flyingwiththefishes · 8 days ago
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flyingwiththefishes · 8 days ago
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I saw this on Twitter, and do not know the source, but I think it belongs here.
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flyingwiththefishes · 8 days ago
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Fun fact about the early Catholic church is that, despite spending generations being persecuted by the Roman empire, it took less than 15 years under Theodosius I to go from “the empire is Catholic now” to “and also every other religion is banned.” You can literally read St. Augustine move from “state religious persecution is unacceptable” to “state religious persecution is cool actually” over his lifetime as Catholicism came to power. I’m sure there’s no broader lessons to be learned there
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