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[axololtls]

[nikowashere]

#１６１１

困ります自転車置きざり知らんぷり。

[nyaa]

I don't think it's healthy that you use this blog like a retired football player rewatching highlights of his career and feeling like his life is behind him.

‎ thank you for a good pinned post

[comparatist]

in the post-exam phase i've resorted to watch two to three movies per day. i saw 'train to busan' in the morning and now it's 'gone girl' in the afternoon. i've also downloaded pdfs of two the 'girl with the dragon tattoo' and 'the girl on the train.' 🍀🍒🏳️‍🌈

[walkingcontradictionwithanxiety]

of giants, glaciers, stone, and wolves.

of giants, glaciers, stone, and wolves.

Kummakivi Balancing Rock This rock stands in the middle of the forest balancing on another much smaller rock. There is a legend that the rock was …of giants, glaciers, stone, and wolves.

[jamiblogs]

I feel so blessed for what i see. General Luna | Siargao Island (surfing capital of PH)

[jamimaie]

Two books I bought at a thrift bookshop today. I was so surprised that the books I found are apparently similar to my current life situation and so I decided to buy it. Will definitely start reading at least one chapter every night soon as Im done with urgent workloads.

[denicemagbanua]

Do you hear the whispers of the sea?

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[godvinv]

Singapore Zoo

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Clearing the Smoke

Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro is using disinformation and a pliant media to fend off criticism over the Amazon fires.

On Aug. 19, night fell over São Paulo in the middle of the afternoon. Brazil’s largest city was unexpectedly engulfed by darkness when a thick smog covered the sky hours before sunset. Soon after, as the rain poured down, residents reported pitch-black water with a burning smell filling plastic bottles and buckets.

Explanations and theories about what was behind the unlikely phenomenon ensued. Experts largely attributed it to a passing cold front and heavy clouds, but they diverged regarding the role played by wildfire smoke coming from the Amazon region and whether it had originated in the northern states of Brazil or in Bolivia and Paraguay. Meanwhile, hashtags like #PrayForAmazonia and #SaveTheAmazon were trending on Twitter, internationally—boosted by celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio and Madonna—and headlines worldwide quickly warned of a “catastrophe,” linking the burning Amazon to Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s policies of allowing deforestation for agriculture.

But for those following the mainstream news channels in Brazil and President Jair Bolsonaro’s Twitter, the apocalyptic scenarios felt a lot less urgent. The conservative-leaning national newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo, for example, prompted its readers to submit their best pictures of the “horrorlike” evening in São Paulo, and a well-known Brazilian news portal compared the event to the Netflix show Stranger Things and Batman’s Gotham City. The next day, when an armed man held 38 people hostage inside a bus in Rio de Janeiro, the thrilling police operation promptly took over the country’s headlines and breaking news coverage. Across social media, however, Brazilians immediately began to call out the national press—while asking for international attention���for its silence around the fires in the Amazon. “The death of the Amazon will not be televised,” some wrote.

Despite a recent poll showing that 88 percent of Brazilian voters are concerned about the deforestation of the Amazon and 90 percent want the president and Congress to take action, the issue is still polarizing. Marina Silva, an environmentalist and former presidential candidate, was attacked by Bolsonaro’s supporters on Twitter after writing an article about the “holocaust of the Amazon.” Many are also calling other public figures and journalists alarmists and instigators of a leftist conspiracy. One user went so far as to question NASA’s credibility, claiming that the agency had altered its satellite images to jeopardize Bolsonaro’s government. Claims of fake news were further fueled by the widespread sharing of outdated photos of the forest on social media.

Not unlike his supporters, denying and twisting facts seems to be one of Bolsonaro’s favorite Trump-like strategies to deflect attention from his anti-environmental policies. Since taking office and in keeping with his campaign promises, he has continuously taken steps to undermine the authority of environmental agencies and to open up protected lands to agriculture and mining. Recently, the president fired the head of INPE after the space institute released data showing a significant increase in deforestation in the Amazon; Bolsonaro dismissed the numbers as lies. Following international outcry over the fires, the government has taken the position of blaming the blazes on a dry season. But numbers from the Amazon Environmental Research Institute show that the 10 municipalities with the most number of wildfires in 2019 are also the ones with the highest deforestation rates. The fires are clearly deliberate.

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[leam1983]

Like I've always said, all of us are eternal twentysomethings on here. We might specify otherwise in our bios, we might occasionally put up posts that betray our actual age, but the bulk of the user base that concerns us just goes on with its life, assuming that everyone is generally young, variably employed, variably Progressive and variably obsessed with one or two fandoms.

Then there's everyone else, like artists who genuinely only think of Tumblr as a portfolio platform or any of the original photobloggers left from the site's inception - if they haven't just jumped ship and created a Wordpress account to more easily curate their little gallery's front page.

I've also found people who have single-post Tumblrs that serve as proto-Carrds or proto-Linktrees. I've seen engineers using Tumblr posts to dump code snippets with commentary for later reference, and the fair few straight-edged journalers who never Reblog anything but who post one entry per day without fail.

The flipside of this is that it creates this weird impression that Tumblr is an online version of Logan's Run: nobody's going to bat an eyelash with you around so long as you don't mention or reveal your age. Once you do, however, you might come across weirdly puzzled users who think the very Gen-Z-friendly slang used in app descriptors means the platform wasn't designed with anyone above the age of 30 in mind.

Then you realize that for a weird subset, you're fucking old at 38.

The old school lack of transparency on tumblr is amazing because you assume the people you follow must all be equivalent to you and then you see someone write “I brought my youngest to college today” and someone else write “my mom wouldn’t let me listen to Ariana Grande when I was a kid” and then your head explodes

[sayinghello]

Hey guys! I've just created another blog where I'll be blogging and posting more pictures on rather than just one per post shared from my Instagram. If you'd like to check out more stories from me, head on over to www.sayinghello.me I'm still really new to blogging so come say hi and leave me a comment/advice if you're free :) Thanks and have an awesome day you!

[nikowashere]

Dotombori Osaka

June 21st, 2019

[comparatist]

tis' a beautiful morning. ☘️

bless ya'all 🦋🍁

[walkingcontradictionwithanxiety]

Garden Flowers Up Close and Personal with the Bees

Garden Flowers Up Close and Personal with the Bees

As summer wanes the flowers in my garden are looking rather spent. Still, they are full of color and attracting bees. I sat and watched them recently…Garden Flowers Up Close and Personal with the Bees

[jotham-y]

Sultans are usually buried in a domed polygon-shaped tomb along with family members and other high-ranking people in society. The turban worn by the Sultan is sometimes displayed on top of the tomb (I'm sure this one isn't the original turban from the 1300s). . #bursa #exploreturkey #visitturkey #türkiye #osman #sultan #ottoman #travel #travelphotos #photography #travelgram #exploretheworld #picoftheday #instadaily #traveling #worldplaces #bestoftheday #travelblog #mypixeldiary #photoblogger #beautifulworld #beautifulplaces #earthexperiences #yourshotphotographers #igdaily #justgoshoot   #путешественники #путешествие #путешественник #peopleofturkey (at Osmangazi Türbesi) https://www.instagram.com/p/CL4CeHGg7s4/?igshid=olh5co9bxjsl