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The sooner yall remember that Hollywood is the propaganda arm of the US military, the sooner yall will stop fangirling over a bunch of your White boy faves making war criminals look good becos that's strategic too.

Also, lmao at these tweets:

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i beat myself up for not knowing enough about my special interests a lot but then i remember the average person off the street has no idea what the carboniferous is and i feel better

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We are coming. Fascists beware.

Join the correct side of history.

Chicago:

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Sanderling (Calidris alba) going nyoom

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D.C.:

Atlanta:

Philadelphia:

(source 1, source 2, source 3, source 4, source 5, source 6, source 7, thread containing pictures 8, 9, and 10; thread contains pictures from other cities, too)

Anti-Trump protests around America on 4/5/2025.

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David Hoffman, London, 1973

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tbh no april fools gag tumblr ever pulls will ever be as good as the lizard election of 2016 staff put more effort into that than the rest of this website combined and it shows

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“…you have to take your chances and try to avoid being logical. Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you.”

— Frank O’Hara, from The Selected Poems of Frank O’Hara; Personism: A Manifiesto.

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you have to admit it: most if not all animals are very brave. they do a lot of things and dont always know whats going to happen. they have beautiful eternal souls because of this

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What’s Left Standing

There is a tree in the middle of it all that no one walks through anymore.

It has outlived names, outlasted maps. Whatever once claimed this land has gone quiet.

And still, it stands.

Not out of will— not really. Will fades. This is something older. Something beneath choice.

The tree does not ask why it was left behind. It has let go of questions that don’t change the weather.

It remembers the years it was not alone, but memory softens at the edges— like bark around a scar. The shape remains. The pain does not.

It has been struck by lightning more than once. And yet it reaches upward, not with hope, but with something gentler: acceptance.

It does not measure time in seasons, but in absences— the weight of snow, the return of birds, the ache of drought.

No one sees the roots still moving through the earth like slow, patient hands searching for something they don’t expect to find.

And maybe that’s what faith is— not belief in return, but the refusal to stop growing, even when no one is watching.

To remain, without witness, without reward, and still call it living.

Still call it enough.

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Years ago I bought this insanely bright, thick rainbow fabric at a fabric store that was shutting down and my friend asked ‘what are you planning to make’ and I said I dunno I just can’t pass this up look at it and she made fun of me for being a fabric hoarder but here we are!! 6 years later!!

Anyway now my nakey little dog has a thick ass rainbow jumpsuit and not only has she stopped shivering like a leaf all the time but she’s also very easy to find!!

Plus, I extended the neck part so that I can tuck her ears in (the tips get so cold that they get crusty from lack of blood flow and my vet recommended a snood) and now I have a rainbow worm

Pattern is Luna Jumpsuit from Rosulikka on Etsy.

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saw a fellow author and a bud of chuck at a protest but they dont know it was CHUCK TINGLE they just thought it was some INCREDIBLY HANDSOME GUY. add THAT to your list of reasons to get out and be proactive

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Hands Off Protest NYC, April 5, 2025

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ADHD is such nonsense sometimes. I was worried my PMDD had escalated and was continuing into my cycle and that I’d never know the warmth of sunshine on my skin or the fresh taste of strawberries.

And then I decluttered the bedroom and removed something I’d been meaning to tackle for weeks and ah, I see. I am not in actual fact on the brink of a nervous breakdown, I was just visually overstimulated and my ADHD was doing the nervous system equivalent of a chihuahua shaking itself to death out of sheer nervous existence. As though I don’t have actual Horrors to be overwhelmed by but no, the chair in the corner that had become a dumping ground for all my stuff was my mental limit.

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Everyone say thank you american indigenous people for cultivating corn, potatoes, peppers, tomatoes, cacao, pumpkin, squash, and anything i missed. Makes life more meaningful globally

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i like working at plant store. sometimes you ring up someone and there's a slug on their plant and so you're like "Oh haha you've got a friend there let me get that for you" and you put the slug on your hand for safekeeping but then its really busy and you dont have time to take the slug outside before the next customer in line so you just have a slug chilling on your hand for 15 minutes. really makes you feel at peace with nature. also it means sometimes i get to say my favorite line which is "would you like this free slug with your purchase"