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Veronica Lake

in  Ramrod  1947

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seeing someone comment landfillcore under a holiday decor haul a few years back permanently changed my consumption habits. what an evocative word. I think about her all the time

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Azzedine Alaïa - Fall 1987 RTW

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i agree with british people when they say fooking ell

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Garden Variety Dykes: Lesbian Traditions in Gardening, 1994

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Hi, there's a really good chance I'm imagining things, but isn't there a name/term for when we latch onto "cute"/marketable endangered species and that gives incentive to protect their habitat as well? Like when keeping one animal alive allows for the argument to be made to keep a different "uglier" animal alive, or put resources into protecting a plant species? I could swear there's a name for this but I can't find anything so I could also just be mixing it up with something

The term you're looking for is "Charismatic Megafauna" or and it works in two directions:

People are more likely to identify with a large mammal than say, an ecologically vital insect or slime mold, especially if it's something regarded as "cute" like Pandas or Orcas or Elephants. People give more of a shit about the enviornment and do what you ask if they give a shit about the animal in question.

Picking a Keystone Species at the Very Tippy Top of the food chain (Apex predators like Tigers and Orca), or that needs VAST amounts of space kept pristine (Pandas, Elephants) means that you also have to preserve THE ENTIRE FUCKING FOOD CHAIN UNDERNEATH IT, and by extension, the habitat all them critters live in. So signing a law to protect Penguins protects not just their land nesting sites but the ocean they hunt in and the fish they eat and this protects vastly more species than protecting The-Actually-Load-Bearing-Deep-Sea-Sponges would.

So if you were ever wondering "How come there's all these fundraisers for cute things like giraffes and gorillas? Where's the love for the ugly little guys like freshwater clams and earthworms?" the answer is "RIGHT BEHIND the big sexy poster animal. We sneak them in like hiding your dog's pills in cheese."

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This is badass: Medieval Nubian Fashion Brought to Life. Click through to the link because there’s more replica clothing and it is all stunning!

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I can see our lives together will not be easy. True. But they'll be fun.

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your future wife is waiting for you at the local public library

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To all of you who think Jesus's atonement is beyond you:

BAD NEWS! He already forgave you and paid for your sins and there's NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT! You CANNOT escape his eternal and infinite love!!

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spleep

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So true

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@fadel-aldani1 has been raising funds since SEPTEMBER and the campaign has only gotten

€1,037/10,000

Not even 1/4.

I will post updates when I can.

Reminder that I can draw for you if you donate: x

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Fontainebleau State Park, Louisiana by Lana Gramlich

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Free Gaza spotted on a pro-Israel billboard in Los Angeles, California