When I was 12 years old my mother died. I was aching and tired with grief. I would walk alone to the church to lay flowers on her grave, and another mourner gave me some change to get the bus home.

When I was a teenager my drink was spiked while I felt safe in a bar with my friends. I hazily remember being given water and cold toast, and the barman called my dad to come get me.

When I was in my 20s I flew alone to Australia. I have a fear of flying, and it took so long to get there that I saw the same sunrise twice. A stranger held my hand through severe turbulance.

Yesterday my son was screaming in a busy shop. I couldn't get him to calm down. I just held tight to him and waited for it to pass. An old man touched my shoulder and told me I was doing a good job. I've added him to my list of unforgettable strangers.

stop doing wlw cop characters society has moved past this. do something else

~ Shell Pendant.

Date: A.D. 1200-1500

Place of origin: Mexico

Medium: Shell

Nina Dul

Scars on your forearm show that once when you were twenty you got an infected cut while driving with your girlfriend through the Yukon Territory and your arm swelled up like an inflated balloon and you didn't know where to even begin trying to find a hospital or clinic so you stopped at a random house that had a red cross outside of it and the lady who lived there turned out to be a nurse and drove you to the doctor's office where the doctor was like "we gotta drain this but I don't have any anesthesia" so he told you to ball your shirt up and bite down on it while he cut you open and he drained an astonishing amount of fluid from your arm then stitched it up with a single stitch and charged you five canadian dollars for the entire affair.

I asked my friends on Discord if they used "psipsipsi" or "swswsw" when they are trying to call kitties, and I got a wide array of answers and it got me wondering--

How do you

Thank you to @space-glitter-gay, @frogs-under-logs, @justoneofthosebibliophiles, and Virginia for the blessing and the other options!

And to thank you for your answer, here's a photo of our adopted kitten:

also y'all need to stop censoring words on tumblr dot com!!!!!!!!!!! writing 'm*lested' instead of 'molested' only leads to people who are actually triggered by that not be able to block that stuff from their dash. if you write the word properly, everyone can curate what they see and block certain words. this is not an algorithm driven website. you can and should say what you mean.

My favourite thing is when the pixel art videogame lets you walk on the bed and it makes it look like you are under the blankie

I hope everyone understands, when I say “most endangered habitat on earth”, I mean temperate grasslands.

They’re more endangered than tropical rainforests, coral reefs, the arctic tundra, all of those go-to environments that get more of the spotlight.

Where I live, maybe 25% of the prairie remains in a natural state and that number is dropping. Even these fragments are mostly missing the keystone species that maintain their health, like bison, wolves, and prairie dogs. I know this is the case for other grasslands like the pampas and steppe as well. Vast lands empty of many species that used to call them home.

If you live on temperate grasslands, hold onto them tight, because they’ve been exploited like no other land and most people don’t even know how far the devastation goes.

please please pleaseeee listen to this post and learn the value of temperate grasslands. it makes me very sad that not only have these landscapes been destroyed by colonizers, but even most of the people who live there now don’t see their value. when i say i love midwestern landscapes, people call me crazy just because they’ve never seen the beauty of the tallgrass prairie :(

Me: I read about this rare plant/animal/insect that's important for the local ecosystem and about to go extinct. It looks cool as fuck. Let's find out how to get it in my garden.

Google: oh yeah, those things are a pest. They'll ruin your beautifully manicured lawn. Here's to get rid of it. Why not buy some roundup while you're at it.

Me: >:(

does anyone know how to make a desicion

never mind i figured it out it's like when tracy chapman said leave tonight or live and die this way

Oh my goodness, the woodpecker 😆 (other two are Oriole and female Grosbeak)

(via @lazarus-lazuli )

Good news! It only took him 3 tries 🎉🎉🎉 congrats cringe husband

It’s called copula deletion, or zero copula. Many languages and dialects, including Ancient Greek and Russian, delete the copula (the verb to be) when the context is obvious.

So an utterance like “you a bitch” in AAVE is not an example of a misused you, but an example of a sentence that deletes the copular verb (are), which is a perfectly valid thing to do in that dialect, just as deleting an /r/ after a vowel is a perfectly valid thing to do in an upper-class British dialect.

What’s more, it’s been shown that copula deletion occurs in AAVE exactly in those contexts where copula contraction occurs in so-called “Standard American English.” That is, the basic sentence “You are great” can become “You’re great” in SAE and “You great” in AAVE, but “I know who you are” cannot become “I know who you’re” in SAE, and according to reports, neither can you get “I know who you” in AAVE.

In other words, AAVE is a set of grammatical rules just as complex and systematic as SAE, and the widespread belief that it is not is nothing more than yet another manifestation of deeply internalized racism.

This is the most intellectual drag I’ve ever read.

Reblog every time

hating furries is just a silencer on the gun that is hating on lgbt+ tbh

NO need to leave this in the tags go off

This is what trying to get info on insects is like and it pisses me off

Information Wall (with Hat)

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