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#agree with the sentiment of this tweet but.#I disagree that you should allow it because you’re a good person so you deserve it.#it doesn’t matter if you’re a good person or not.#everyone is both good and bad and neither. everyone deserves both everything and nothing#allow it because it makes your life better. because it’s not hurting anyone so why not#no qualifiers necessary
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Not to be a hopeless romantic, but was anyone going to tell us that 2023 was the year scientists were able to visualize quantum-entangled particles for the first time and they literally look like yin and yang??
This feels like a good time to plug Tao Talks with Derek Lin, which is an insanely in-depth YouTube channel where Taoist Scholar (and bilingual translator) Derek Lin walks through the Tao Te Ching line by line, word by word, with more care and precision than you'd get in a full college course. For free!
He's also very relaxing and lo-fi, so it's not my fault if you doze off in class and sleep better than you have in ages... but I wouldn't know anything about that.
#y’all I’ve been reading about Taoism lately (highly rec taoisme: de weg om niet te volgen#by Patricia de Martelaere btw)#reading Tao te ching now (translation by Ursula k le Guin)#and goddamn I’m thinking in ways I’ve never thought possible#it’s such an different but amazingly interesting way of thinking#like I don’t want to say too much about it because I for sure don’t even grasp at most of its wisdom yet#but anyone who wants to just. completely expand their ways of thinking#learning about Taoism is a good way to do it
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Natural - Massimiliano Alioto , 2018.
Italian , b. 1972 -
Oil on canvas
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Rockwell Kent Moonlight, Winter c. 1940
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Abiodun Olaku (Nigerian, b. 1958)
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there's a cherry blossom tree in DC that keeps blooming every year even though it shouldn't and the park service keeps thinking it's dead and then it keeps blooming! well they're removing a lot of trees to rehabilitate the area and they've said it's finally time for stumpy to go and they're going to mulch it and use the mulch to enrich all the other trees so it can help everything else keep going. and they're also going to plant spliced little pieces of it all over so that stumpy can live forever and this is genuinely sending me into a spiral
STUMPY MY BELOVED!!!!
For added context on what rehabilitating the area means: there are structural issues with the Tidal Basin seawall that cause flooding like this independent of rainfall. Big portions of the sidewalk in Stumpy’s section are regularly submerged, which is bad for the land and the trees themselves, not to mention an accessibility issue for visitors.
It’s sad that Stumpy and many other trees in the area will need to be cut down, but it will ensure the continued survival of the other trees in the area, and Stumpy himself will live on in his cuttings!
I believe Stumpy will be taken to the national arboretum and his clones will return to the tidal basin after the rebuilding.
Someone left him a bottle of bourbon as an offering.
The Japanese Embassy came to pay him honor this week.
Stumpy and his cohort are part of the original gift from Japan more than 100 years ago, and many have lived this long bc the National Parks takes care of them. Normally the trees live about 40-50 years.
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John Brosio - Abercrombie, TX, 2023
John Brosio (American, 1967), Ambercrombie, TX, 2023. Oil on canvas, 22 × 28 in.
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It’s solar and wind and tidal and geothermal and hydropower.
It’s plant-based diets and regenerative livestock farming and insect protein and lab-grown meat.
It’s electric cars and reliable public transit and decreasing how far and how often we travel.
It’s growing your own vegetables and community gardens and vertical farms and supporting local producers.
It’s rewilding the countryside and greening cities.
It’s getting people active and improving disabled access.
It’s making your own clothes and buying or swapping sustainable stuff with your neighbours.
It’s the right to repair and reducing consumption in the first place.
It’s greater land rights for the commons and indigenous peoples and creating protected areas.
It’s radical, drastic change and community consensus.
It’s labour rights and less work.
It’s science and arts.
It’s theoretical academic thought and concrete practical action.
It’s signing petitions and campaigning and protesting and civil disobedience.
It’s sailboats and zeppelins.
It’s the speculative and the possible.
It’s raising living standards and curbing consumerism.
It’s global and local.
It’s me and you.
Climate solutions look different for everyone, and we all have something to offer.
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my teeth were perfectly designed to tear abd rend the soft white flesh of the gentle beast known as the mozzarella
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Liminal space studies
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etho's completely normal and sane desktop setup.
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Jakob Koganowsky (Austrian, 1874–1926) - Farmhouse in the Summer Light
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ARRIVAL (2016) dir. Denis Villeneuve
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The Icebergs, 1861 - oil on canvas — Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826-1900)