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LOL they literally are!

Favorite bird genre has got to be 'that's literally just a dinosaur'

Groove-Billed Ani

Hoatzin

Pheasant Coucal

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Last week in trauma therapy, I realized that an incident when I was a child has been causing all my fears around putting my writing out there and trying to market it.

I had discounted it as something unpleasant that happened when I was a kid, but I'm an adult now so it's no longer a big deal.

Apparently it was a huge deal to little me, because I've now been having panic attacks when I try to write.

I'm just learning that things that happen to us when we are kids that don't seem that terrible from an adult perspective are actually pretty damaging. That panic and fear or rejection was extremely real to us as small, vulnerable, naive kids, and that doesn't just disappear because you grow up. Trauma stays in your brain forever.

I'm tired and sad and a little angry about it, but also relieved, because now I know where that particular fear has been coming from my whole life, and my therapist is confident we can get it worked out.

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LOL

Where's my Breakfast?

Oil on Panel 30x30 cm

Artist: Daniel Arthur

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Well fucks? Get to it!

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Was looking for a book today when I saw these various animal books all on the same shelf and noticed their titles made a nice little impromptu poem about veterinary medicine

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It’s crazy and fucked up that being yourself is actually the solution.

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I am so goddamn proud and grateful for this man.

Cory Booker has been talking in the senate for over 20 hours now

He’s not filibustering. He’s protesting the current administration.

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I don't know that I've ever seen anything this cute.

via

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One day someone will come along, and they will know everything about you and love you and support you and make you safe.

(It's you.)

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"What can I do for you, my lady?"

"I need a suit of armour modified," the lady said.

The armourer took her measurements, checked the pieces, and gave her an appraising look. "You've had this a while?"

"Yes. Since before... Ah..."

"Thought so. You'll need new thigh pieces and a wider skirt."

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hi, a lot of you need a perspective reset

the average human lifespan globally is 70+ years

taking the threshold of adulthood as 18, you are likely to spend at least 52 years as a fully grown adult

at the age of 30 you have lived less than one quarter of your adult life (12/52 years)

'middle age' is typically considered to be between 45-65

it is extremely common to switch careers, start new relationships, emigrate, go to college for the first or second time, or make other life-changing decisions in middle age

it's wild that I even have to spell it out, but older adults (60+) still have social lives and hobbies and interests.

you can still date when you get old. you can still fuck. you can still learn new skills, be fashionable, be competitive. you can still gossip, you can still travel, you can still read. you can still transition. you can still come out.

young doesn't mean peaked. you're inexperienced in your 20s! you're still learning and practicing! you're developing social skills and muscle memory that will last decades!

there are a million things to do in the world, and they don't vanish overnight because an imaginary number gets too big

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When a man loves cats, I am his friend and companion with no further introduction. -- Mark Twain

The Little Writer (1913)

— by Charles van den Eycken

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Reasons I think I could be your new favorite author:

I wear red Chucks.

I drink good coffee.

I love cats, perhaps to an unhealthy degree.

I am Goddess, older than time, Mother of All Creation, She who set the stars in the Darkness and breathed life into the Void.

I say "fuck" pretty regularly.

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People are neither inherently good, nor are they inherently evil. Rather, people are inherently people. -- Terry Pratchett, paraphrased.

Not "humans are inherently good" or "humans are inherently evil" but a secret third thing (humans are inherently social animals which means that we're very good at cooperating and being compassionate towards those we perceive as being part of our community but we're also very good at being tribal and violent towards those we perceive as threats to our community and everyone defines their community differently)

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Kitty!

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🔥 The beacons are lit; the library calls for aid

The Trump administration has issued an executive order aimed at dismantling the Institute of Museum and Library Services - the ONLY federal agency for America's libraries.

Using just 0.003% of the federal budget, the IMLS funds services at libraries across the country; services like Braille and talking books for the visually impaired, high-speed internet access, and early literacy programs.

Libraries are known for doing more with less, but even we can't work with nothing.

How You Can Help:

🔥 Call your congressperson!

Use the app of your choice or look 'em up here: https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

Pro tip: If your phone anxiety is high, call at night and leave a voicemail. You can even write yourself a script in advance and read it off. Heck, read them this post if you want to.

Phones a total no-go? The American Library Association has a form for you: https://oneclickpolitics.global.ssl.fastly.net/messages/edit?promo_id=23577

🔥Tell your friends!

Tell strangers, for that matter. People in line at the check out, your elderly neighbor, the mail carrier - no one is safe from your library advocacy. Libraries are for everyone and we need all the help we can get.

...Wait, why do we need this IMLS thing again?

The ALA says it best in their official statement and lists some ways libraries across the country use IMLS funding:

But if you want a really specific answer, here at LCPL we use IMLS funding to provide our amazing interlibrary loan service. If we can't purchase an item you request (out of print books, for example) this service lets us borrow it from another library and check it out to you.

IMLS also funds the statewide Indiana Digital Library and Evergreen Indiana, which gives patrons of smaller Indiana libraries access to collections just as large and varied as the big libraries' collections.

As usual, cutting this funding will hurt rural communities the most - but every library user will feel it one way or another. Let's let Congress know that's unacceptable.

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