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I’m the weirdest kind of extremely online because I would be severely offline if it wasn’t for tumblr. you genuinely can’t reach me anywhere else other than tumblr I simply don’t use other social media. I don’t even like texting or calling people. I only like hanging out with people irl and being on tumblr and reading the weather forecast

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the world is strange and big and beautiful and a lot of it statistically is bugs

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Zoozve, my beloved

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The women long for Chicago's semi-comprehensive rail service

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woke up this morning, rolled over, and very confidently tried to blow out my alarm clock like a candle. absolutely no precedent for that.

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Was walking around the lake and it was really turbulent. There was a mix of anxiety that the waves would ascend the wall and claim me, and a joy as my brain couldn’t help but compare the way the waves crashed to those fountain shows.

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Real Low Poly Sturgeon Hours have been extended to 10 PM tonight

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Clown Torture. You see an exhibit called that, and you must ponder, what is the clown torture. So you enter the media room, as as media rooms typically are it's pitch black. Yet, immediately, you can hear the visceral screaming of the aforementioned "Clown Torture". Y'know, things like "No, stop!". At this point, you'd might as well turn around, because what else do you expect from an exhibit. Named clown. Torture. But that corner is only a few feet, you you turn it as you do with most corners. See, to go around a corner, a turn must occur, at least if you're not doing a diagonal in an area where there was far more space. Unlike the small hallway to the media room, dark, narrow, secluded from the otherwise bright rooms that also exist here. But no, today it is clown torture day. You go in and see several televisions rotated in various ways, and a pair of projector screens. One projector, of course, is the clown (turns out there were several clowns, but their torture was less loud) kicking and screaming. Same thing is playing on a smaller TV, those box ones. I think it's a CRT, but I'm also too young to really know what the era of CRTs actually is because by the time of my birth post 9/11 the technology would be outdated within the decade. I think. Anyway, clown torture. There's certainly clowns here, you think. Exactly what you'd expect. Not really serious torture, but generically distressing. Or specifically distressing, because CLOWN. TORTURE. You can tell the image on one of the TVs has been intentionally rotated so that its sideways; clown holding a bright red broom, with an ambiguous glass object on top held against a ceiling. From a distance it vaguely made you think of a hanging. But the clown is a clown, so he's just dawdling around as he tries to figure out how to move the broom. Right, the other projector screen. It's just a clown on the toilet, looking rather bored. Pants on, crumpling some random papers. Really feels invasive, just straight up prison security camera vibes. The screaming is still going by the way, though the second projector is now showing credits, so the screaming is lessened. Finally, clown entering a house, getting bombarded with glass objects. Very much distressed. The projector starts to mirror this scene as well, though the timing is offset, so it's just crashing glass dominating the soundscape. You've been in this room for just a bit too long at this point, so you leave.

And frankly the most that can be said is, yep, that's clown torture alright.

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Bagworm moth (Psychidae) larval and pupal cases

Photographed in Southeast Asia by Nicky Bay // Website // Facebook

Shared with permission; do not remove credit or re-post!

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i’m so glad earth only has one moon, if there were more i’d have to pick a favorite and that sounds too emotionally taxing to even fathom

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pants are a different color than the vest - 0/10

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Lammergeier aka Bearded Vulture (Gypaetus barbatus), Accipitridae, order Accipitriformes, Uttarakhand, India

photograph by Swagata Ghosh

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Even his glasses have subtitles

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I took some photos on a night walk and made this study based on them. I wanted to embrace ambiguity with shapes/form because I have a real tendency to be super focused on clarity, so I kept it fairly quick.

So this is 5 pm now.