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Lindsaytriestowrite turned 11 today!

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"watching sports is so fun!" for YOU maybe. me, im about to slam my head through a brick wall over here

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Quinn Hughes, trauma dumpling

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Hozier is that you?

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Found the original and we can all stare at it.

📸: retroartiste

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I got to hold a 500,000 year old hand axe at the museum today.

It's right-handed

I am right-handed

There are grooves for the thumb and knuckle to grip that fit my hand perfectly

I have calluses there from holding my stylus and pencils and the gardening tools.

There are sharper and blunter parts of the edge, for different types of cutting, as well as a point for piercing.

I know exactly how to use this to butcher a carcass.

A homo erectus made it

Some ancestor of mine, three species ago, made a tool that fits my hand perfectly, and that I still know how to use.

Who were you

A man? A woman? Did you even use those words?

Did you craft alone or were you with friends? Did you sing while you worked?

Did you find this stone yourself, or did you trade for it? Was it a gift?

Did you make it for yourself, or someone else, or does the distinction of personal property not really apply here?

Who were you?

What would you think today, seeing your descendant hold your tool and sob because it fits her hands as well?

What about your other descendant, the docent and caretaker of your tool, holding her hands under it the way you hold your hands under your baby's head when a stranger holds them.

Is it bizarre to you, that your most utilitarian object is now revered as holy?

Or has it always been divine?

Or is the divine in how I am watching videos on how to knap stone made by your other descendants, learning by example the way you did?

Tomorrow morning I am going to the local riverbed in search of the appropriate stones, and I will follow your example.

The first blood spilled on it will almost certainly be my own, as I learn the textures and rhythm of how it's done.

Did you have cuss words back then? Gods to blaspheme when the rock slips and you almost take your thumbnail off instead? Or did you just scream?

I'm not religious.

But if spilling my own blood to connect with a stranger who shared it isn't partaking in the divine

I don't know what is.

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On top of the Yankees field cat there was a praying mantis on top of the nationals players hat tonight. Huge night in baseball

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Baby otter first time in the water

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Butchered Tongue being on the Unreal Unearth album is so quintessentially Hozier to me cause he was like yes I’m going through a terrible breakup yes it has changed me in irreversible ways and YES I’m still pissed off and disgusted by colonialism if you were wondering btw

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"new" photos from the reel he posted today, believe they're all from Hinterland Festival on August 2nd ~ 📷 Ruth Medjber of course

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I want more people to know that while the Palestine Olympic team consists of only 8 athletes, at least 69 Palestinian Olympic athletes have been killed since October 2023. This includes athletes who were going to compete in these games and retired athletes such as Majed Abu Maraheel, the first Palestinian Olympian, who died of kidney failure in a refugee camp product of lack of medical treatment.

Remember them during these games.

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LANDO’S DECLASSIFIED F1 SURVIVAL GUIDE HAPPY BIRTHDAY LANDO (13-11-99)

Tip #4: Bring your codependent bff around the world with you as your employee Tip #101: Develop a bunch of hobbies unrelated to racing and be incredibly annoying about them Tip #202: Charm the team so thoroughly that they become your family Tip #355: Form a seemingly homoerotic friendship with your teammate