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A traffic camera in Montreal

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The other problem with the whole "Christmas is secular!" nonsense is that its other most common use is as a defense of the nonsensical double standard a lot of culturally Christian atheists have, where Christian practices and phrases are generally accepted but anything a different religious group says or does gets stigmatised as "pushing your religion on everyone" even if they're literally keeping it to themselves

It's like how homophobes see pretty much any same-sex affection as obscene but are often more than content to let actual obscenity slide as long as it's at least implicitly straight

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tbh i like that more and more games are introducing a "narrative mode" instead of an "easy difficulty", cause a big thing about the easy mode discourse was centered around "are people capable of playing hard games", which showed a lot of elitism and sometimes ableism, but with the introduction of "narrative mode", it completely shifts the paradigm away from "hard mode is for real gamers, easy mode is for noobs" and towards "this is just the game mode for you to experience the story", which not only smooths over that problem, but also enables devs to really rethink how they want to approach designing their game and telling a story to their audience, which i think adds in a lot of possibilities beyond just "is the game easy or hard"

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scurvy has got to have one of the biggest disease/treatment coolness gaps of all time. like yeah too much time at sea will afflict you with a curse where your body starts unraveling and old wounds come back to haunt you like vengeful ghosts. unless☝️you eat a lemon

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for when the tv knitting needs to be a shape, I have been referring back to this pdf for years for basic garter stuff. also handy when designing your own lace rot 😊

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I did wonder why he was so quiet this morning

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my cat Meatball’s hanukkah sweater started kinda coming off, so my girlfriend went to fix it, and as she did so she said to him, in her most tender and maternal voice, “aww, is your shirt coming off? whore”

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I LOVE EVERYONES OCS I LOVE READING THEIR STORIES THOUGHTS & ADVENTURES

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May I ask for birds that remind you of gemstones please if that hasn’t already been asked?

Well, this is predictable, but...

Fiery-throated Hummingbird (Panterpe insignis), family Trochilidae, order Apodiformes, Costa Rica

Photograph by Alfredo Irizarry

Velvet-purple Coronet (Boissonneaua jardini), family Trochilidae, order Apodiformes, found in Colombia and Ecuador

photograph by paola rendon

Rainbow Starfrontlet (Coeligena iris), male, family Trochilidae, order Apodiformes, Ecuador

photograph by Luis Alcivar Photography

Wine-throated Hummingbird (Selasphorus ellioti), male, family Trochilidae, order Apodiformes, Guatemala

photograph by Luis Burbano

Fiery Topaz (Topaza pyra), male, family Trochilidae, order Apodiformes, Manacapuru, Brazil

photograph by Kátia Oliveira

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No other website could ever possibly bind mutuals together stronger than tumblr. It's like this: I'm scrolling past your art which is beautiful and warm I love it I hope you get on the trending page, oh you finally posted your fic i'm so proud of you, i'm sorry that you're having a hard time with work, school or you think you're hard to love, you're not because I love you and it's so easy. you're being silly tonight on the dash, it's good to see you after your hiatus. I also like that ship, they're keeping me up at night, can you share your joy with me? I saw your tags on my post, did you see me like it? hey it's been months and I've grown quite fond of you. see you tomorrow, same time or perhaps when the sun rises for me and sets for you. Isn't that wonderful?

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"extremely islam-critical, AfD-supporting Saudi-Arabian immigrant doctor kills 5 and injures 200 in a terrorist attack" sounds like a headline you'd see in a fake newspaper made for a shitty sitcom but it is in fact real news

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Willow Ptarmigan (Lagopus lagopus), male, in winter plumage, family Phasianidae, order Galliformes, Alaska

photograph by Tim Bowman

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castiel. swan song

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Reposting for the knitblr crowd. Finished my Goldenfern sweater! It took me a whole semester, mostly because I hurt my wrist and couldn't knit for 6+ weeks, then I had to frog because i forgot to alternate skeins and it was obvious. And THEN I had to force myself to stop knitting during dead week and finals. But once I got home after my last final exam, I finished the sweater an hour later.

Pattern is Goldenfern by Jennifer Steingass, yarn is Friendly Products Variations Fingering, 75/25 superwash merino and nylon in Burnt Amber and Sunflower Topaz.