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it’s my birthday today :)
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The Bear (2022-present) Sundae (S02E03)
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Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux
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I say you’re asking me to follow you into Mordor, which, if I’m totally straight with you, I think is a really bad idea. But the Shire… The Shire is burning. So Mordor it is.
EDDIE MUNSON in STRANGER THINGS 4
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HE ISN’T JUST INNOCENT. HE’S A HERO.
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“I want to talk about what happened without mentioning how much it hurt. There has to be a way. To care for the wounds without reopening them. To name the pain without inviting it back into me.”
— Lora Mathis, If There’s A Way Out I’ll Take It (via thequotejournals)
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james baldwin, giovanni’s room
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MAGIC! STOLEN!! SORCERY!!!
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Look. There's a creek near where I live that has its own volunteer non-profit organization.
It's just one creek. One trickle of water among millions. But people decided to care about that creek. A bunch of people, volunteers, got together and they cleaned several tons of trash out of the creek.
They got to work removing non-native plants from the creek banks and planting native trees.
They got a nearby water treatment plant to upgrade and stop polluting the creek.
They educate people and tell them about the fish and invertebrates that live in creeks and why they should care.
I think that it matters. I think that making sure your community has clean water matters. I think making sure one specific old lady's house doesn't flood matters. I think one stream where fish can live again matters. I think one patch of green space in a downtown area matters. If nothing else, it makes people's lives less shitty, and that's worthwhile in itself.
Stop asking "how do I save the world?" Start asking "can I get together several people to clean up that creek downtown?"
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cats will see a closed door and they will be like HELLO for the love of god HELLO and then you open it and then theyre like oh okay. bye.
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One obvious finding is that evidence from archaeology and genetics combines to contradict the model proposed by the Coppingers (2001) of a single domestication event that took place within the last 12,000 years. Results presented by vonHoldt et al. 2010 show at least six separate events leading to various forms of “ancient” dog: (1) basenji; (2) an east Asian group, including akita, chow, shar pei, malamute, husky, and possibly including dingoes; (3) a line leading to salukis and Afghans; (4) a line leading to American Eskimo dogs and Samoyeds; (5) a line leading to Kuvasz and Ibizan hounds; and (6) a line that seems to lead to most extant dog breeds.
— Brandy R. Fogg and Raymond Pierotti, The First Domestication: How Wolves and Humans Coevolved (2017)
Isn’t it gorgeous that everywhere humans went they found wolves and formed partnerships with them? And that it happened over and over and over again like a time loop, regardless of the population of wolves or humans. Why do some scientists cling to the concept of a single origin of domestication? It’s so much more moving to me that it happened everywhere, all at once, all the time.
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“I fell in love with the idea that the mysterious thing you look for your whole life will eventually eat you alive.”
— Laurie Anderson explaining her attraction to Moby-Dick
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“I DON’T WANT TO BE THIS KIND OF ANIMAL ANYMORE.”
the book of images, rainer maria rilke / orestes pursued by the furies (study), john singer sargent / letter to felice bauer, franz kafka / disco elysium / study for solstice with two trees, jon joanis / “the return of june”, a river dies of thirst, mahmoud darwish / disco elysium / “the night. the poem”, extracting the stone of madness: poems 1962-1972, alejandra pizarnik / joseba eskubi
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i love when tragedies are like “the love was there. it didnt change anything. it didnt save anyone. there were just too many forces against it. but it still matters that the love was there”
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having crooked teeth is necessary i think. if you have flat straight teeth you are the devil
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God said:
GOD MADE YOU. GOD DOES NOT CARE IF YOU ARE “GUILTY” OR NOT.
I said:
I CARE IF I AM GUILTY!
I CARE IF I AM GUILTY!…
God was silent.
Everything was SILENT.
— Frank Bidart, from “The War of Vaslav Nijinsky”; Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016