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”My practicality consists in this: in knowing that if you bang your head against the wall, it is your head that will crack and not the wall. This is my strength, my only strength.”

—-Gramsci

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scientists in the 1990s, putting a Get More Purple gene attached to a harmless plant virus into an already purple petunia: please get more purple

the petunia, sensing an apparent honest to god Get More Purple Disease, using the previously undiscovered RNAi antiviral ability to shut down all other purple genes along with it just in case: you put VIRUS in petunia? you infect her with the More Purple?? oh! oh! her children shall bloom white! jail for mother, jail for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!

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thank god iwtv gave us the phrase "I could not prevent it" to say about things that you did on purpose and could prevent. honestly so essential

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Folding lava in Kilauea, Hawaii. They are formed by cooling lava.

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Art Nouveau revival-style custom bathroom sink & mirror design by glass artist Lyn Hovey & woodworker Jamie Robertson (1980s)

Scanned from the book, 'Contemporary Crafts for the Home' (1990)

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from nowhere to nowhere

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heart - shaped scallion found In pho . reblog for good luck & yummy soup 500000 forwver

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in light of Trump's inauguration speech declaring multiple national emergencies that require him to take god-knows-what executive actions immediately, I'd like to remember this chapter of "On Tyranny" by Timothy Snyder:

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chappell roan // botticelli’s pallas and the centaur

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I don't post much personal stuff here, but I'm proud of the work I've done for howmanycigarettes, so I want to recommend that people check it out.

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fake idgafer. i saw tht haunted look in ur eyes

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so the tiktok ban was literally just propaganda for the trump administration. like. we all agree with that right. this is just laughably transparent. the ban wasn't even 24 hours. not even a whole day. to quote my infinitely funnier mutual from Discord, "Misha Collins was bisexual longer than TikTok was banned"

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my oldest boba fett headcanon, from before i even knew what a headcanon was, is that this man, who regularly whiled away the hours on kamino as a boy reading novels and who has a job that often requires him to do nothing more than stand around looking menacing for hours on end, definitely has an e-reader app installed on his helmet

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Finding out that Lancelot was apparently the invention of a french writer is absolutely hysterical to me. 12th century french poet sitting around reading arthurian romances and thinking "yeah these stories are pretty good but I think what they really need is a french guy who shows up and fucks arthurs wife"