You Look Nice Today

4. They look cool as hell

[ID: Photo of a laminated paper sign on a wall. The title and the first word of each point are in caps. It reads:

We wear our masks in public for three reasons:

1. Humility: I don’t know if I have COVID, as people can spread the disease before they have symptoms.

2. Kindness: I don’t know if the person nearby has a child battling cancer, or cares for their elderly mom. While I might be fine, they might not.

3: Community: I want my community to thrive, businesses to stay open, employees to stay healthy. Keeping a lid on COVID helps us all!!

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5. They disrupt the de facto surveillance state.

6. THREE NEW RESPIRATORY VIRUSES: Apparently there’s a ton of nasty crap to catch this fall (November 2022), and kids are especially susceptible to the new respiratory viruses going around right now. Let’s not kill the kids m'kay?

7. If it’s cold out, it keeps your face warm

7.a) keeping your nose warm now has scientific evidence backing up that a warm nose = stronger resistance to airborn viruses/etc.

so not only does a mask reduce the shit u put into the air, it actually *does* keep you personally more safe in a different but equally true way.

early homo sapiens b like help i cant stop making bowls . help i cant stop domesticating plants and animals. help i cant stop developing language and architecture and religion

ok im obsessed w this tag

once in grade 6 I saw a 'pottery making club' in a ditch on the schoolyard- I assume at some point someone realized there was actually good quality clay in the ditch and when I walked up there were about a dozen 12 year olds sitting around the few girls who had brought their water bottles out to mix the clay, and a designated spot to put the finished bowls and tablets, and people going off and collecting sticks to make designs with and i really think that's the natural state of the human race

In elementary school I learned that you can make paint out of certain sedimentary rocks on the playground if you crushed them and mixed with water and at one point I had up to 25 kindergarten through third graders making cave paintings on the underside of the slides

The nature of man is such that every so often, someone recreates the neolithic era.

Yeah, every recess

#that's because at the core humans want art and community and funny little objects to put stuff in

thistleandopal

People are objectively correct. This was never true, but now people are less prone to believing lies about it.

Humanity will not survive unless we dismantle capitalism.

Weird how “masturbating and falling asleep in the late afternoon” isn’t regarded as a cherished summertime tradition

Whoever lives like this….. we live in such different worlds that i don’t even want to know you

every sunday afternoon this gets like 4,000 additional notes

chúc mừng năm mới ! hope this lunar new year is one full of good luck and good health for everyone !!

( i wanted to have a bit of fun with patterns with this one - the designs are inspired by encaustic tiles i've seen around vietnam, with a bit of tết flavour :D )

so the house of representatives just passed a bill that will now move to the senate to BAN tik tok completely in the united states and they are expected to argue that “national security risks” outweigh the freedom of speech and first amendment rights. biden has already said that if it gets to him, he will sign it. whether or not you use the app…….this is something to be worried about

before u have the kneejerk reaction of “good I hate tt anyways” or “maybe ppl will go outside” that’s not what this is about! the government wants to remove an entire app with over 170 million american users (who in large have used it as a platform to build community, consume and spread world news, advocate, organize), and try to force people back to us based apps like meta and google. please think about the implications. please think about what else they could potentially do if they get away with this. this could very well set a precedent for free speech & constitutional rights as well know it, and it is imperative we are on the right side of it

By the way, the actual language of the bill would allow them to ban any website or internet hosted app from a "foreign adversary", as described in the vaguest possible terms. This isn't about tiktok and will not stop at tiktok.

now, THIS is the "tiktok ban bad" post to reblog.

Lake Superior , Canada 🇨🇦 / USA 🇺🇸

Welcome to the sea of death.

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead When the skies of November turn gloomy

Call the Great Lakes the Great Lakes the way you call the Fair Folk the Fair Folk.

They're Great. No one ever said they were GOOD.

they also might not be giants. let's not get our hopes up

i just don't want you guys to get hurt

Must have accessories for the fashionable girl on the go!

genuinely a lil pissed how everyone's tagging this with men its kinda about how i wanna see women characters capable of something as blunt and violent as whacking someone with a lead pipe and the tags are really just proving my point. like its not a Pressing Serious Matter or anything but FUCK let some fucking she/her women carry lead pipes and not the adult men you babygirl

apropos of nothing, certainly not the replies on that last reblog, a reminder:

if someone's "criticism" of bdsm hinges on the assumption that all bdsm involves a a male Dom hitting a female sub, that person does not know anything about bdsm and their opinion should not be given much weight!

"bdsm is rooted in misogyny and letting men get away with abusing women" okay. real quick, explain to me what all those nice gay leather daddies and leather dykes are up to.

somebody tell them about the straight men who are subs. I want to hear them explain how it's misogynistic for a man to beg a woman to piss in his mouth.

Hilariously enough I've actually had that conversation several times. They either:

1) Don't believe straight male subs exist. May or may not argue with you directly about it, up to and including calling you a liar if you tell them you've slept with many such men.

1a) Think straight men claiming to be subs are only doing it to get women to let their guards down so they can more easily rape them. (Yes really.)

2) Think the only men who are submissive to women are secretly gay and in denial and the submission is some kind of...Freudian thing. This one is a remarkably popular argument, for some reason.

3) Think straight male subs must actually be??? Trans lesbians??????? (TIRF argument I was surprised to encounter more than once in the wild.)

Also a lot of the time if you try to bring up queer leather culture they will pull out ye olde "butch/femme dynamics are intentionally mimicking the patriarchy and are abusive." Their argument against "what about the leather daddies/dykes?" is "it's still misogyny because the more feminine partner is always the submissive." Pointing out that the "more feminine" partner is NOT always the sub tends to make them either call you a liar or just repeat, "it's still rooted in misogyny! You're role-playing patriarchal violence!"

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A shirtless man with surgical scars on his chest replies to a comment reading, "poor lady what did you do to your".

The man says:

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this is not the neil gaiman website i hate you

Wolf turntable renders

no amount of bird posts i make can ever capture how truly strange bitterns are

i say this with so much love and adoration in my heart. what the fuck is that

(american, least, great, and yellow bitterns)