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today is yet another presidential election here and i've been very down all week about it. no results yet, but everybody and your mom knows who will win with what %. me and my family and my homies didnt even go vote bc thats the best option (yes, it is). after 2020 we are still in the same place, only now worse, bc almost everybody active either left the country or are in jail.

them recently showing one of the political prisoners first time in 4 years and not even talking about the others. fucking flags on every building visible from my window and on every third throughout the city. youtube showing me adds to go vote "against all" with upbeat modern music as if its cocacola commercial. free public transport rides today for everybody!!

see you in another miserable 4 years of this ig, yay ✌️

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Slurpin isopod (gouache on canvas)

Commissioned by @franzanth

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dead fish

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"You can say that [orangutans] are not dependent on social support and approval, and if you admire this in them, that an orang is irredeemably his own person, 'the most poetic of the apes', researcher Lynn Miles told me once in an unguarded moments. What she had in mind was the difference between orangs and chimps in the way they carry on their discourse with the world.

Chimps are much admired for their tool use and for their problem-solving relationship with things as they find them...the orang is, let us say, not so replete with enterprise. Give an orangutan the hexagonal peg and the several shapes of hole, and then hide behind the two-way mirror and watch how he engages with the problem.

And watch and watch and watch--because he does not engage with the problem. He uses the peg to scratch his back, has a look-see at his right wrist, makes a half-hearted and soon abandoned attempt to use his fur as a macramé project, stares dreamily out the window if there is one and at nothing in particular if not, and the sun begins to set. (The sun will also set if you are observing a chimp, but the chimp is more amusing, so you are less likely to mark the moment in your notes. An orang observer has plenty of time to be a student of the vanities of sunset.)

You watch, and the orang dreams...when casually and as if thinking of something else, the orang slips the hexagonal peg into the hexagonal hole. And continues staring off dreamily."

Vicki Hearne, "The Case of the Disobedient Orangutans"

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tscosi wip 💫 i had the thought that this show deserves a mass effect-style cool sci-fi poster and then my pen slipped

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post-breakup undercut

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i HAVE to stop looking at shelter cats until i'm moved but BUNNY

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day 17 / apocalypse never

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stations

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Ohhhh I get it! The days repeat each week!

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Blue Birch Marsh, 2024 by Jef Bourgeau

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The difference is that a fetish is bound to the floor while a kink is suspended from the ceiling

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save me bitching

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Fuck moon’s taking poison damage

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save me mutuals I arbitrarily decided were cool. Save me

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this website is so full of morbidly depressed people its kind of refreshing actually. no glamour no spectacle of a perfect life even the biggest blogs here are run by suicidal transsexuals with messy rooms who have strange sexual fantasies. found my people