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@facelessoldwoman​ the resident expert on ancient murder with the beautiful commentary T_T

I’ve been reading about werewolves on Wikipedia and I just have to say. “Werewolves are warriors that descend into hell to fight demons” kicks unbelievable amounts of ass as a concept

My bumbles in the lavender

all i’m saying is the le creuset signature dutch oven in fig would make me normaler

she could fix me

the urge to bite someone cuz you love them

Unmute !

“YOU! I HATE YOU! HOW DARE YOU! BASTARD!”

Despair. New comic on Tapas.

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cmon girlies we’re picking out a 10k+ single chapter fic on ao3 to read stomach down head turned towards our phones held next to our pillows as we move only our thumbs to scroll until our sedatives knock us out

Cats on Shelves Original Screenprint by boyounkim

evergreen basically knotted the suez canal if you think about it

this is such an insane thing for the president of the united states to say as justification for gun control like literally the least reassuring statement possible

I mean, he’s not wrong, it’s just very bad optics or whatever. And yeah, not reassuring.

I was going to ignore this, but upon reflection I am actually pissed off enough not to.

Biden was not trying to be “reassuring”. He was speaking dismissively of a particularly idiotic pro-Second Amendment argument, namely that Americans need powerful weapons in order to be prepared to rise up via militias and overthrow a tyrannical government. This is an old argument and it has been rendered increasingly more ridiculous by the reality of the U.S. military’s overwhelming firepower. But conservatives still make the argument, because their base of gun nuts loves it and they have never learned not to play with fire.

This is not Biden saying “worry not America, we have the means to destroy all who oppose us”. He is saying “do not waste my time with foolish arguments grounded in eighteenth century logic”. The reality is that the government possesses overwhelming firepower, and whether that is a good thing or a bad thing (and I’m definitely not saying it’s a good thing), it would be utterly disastrous if private citizens had the ability to form militias that could truly match it. I should not have to explain to you why; if you don’t get it, we cannot be friends.

But beyond that, look at the way this information is being presented. It’s an image without a link, so there’s no way to see Biden’s remarks in context or to evaluate his tone, unless you actually go searching for it yourself. And I know that you haven’t.

Furthermore, look at the source. The thumbnail is from Fox News, which should already be sending up alarm bells for any one who knows the first thing about the American news media landscape, namely that Fox is and always has been an organ of the Republican party and will reliably present Democratic politicians in an unflattering light. I understand that not all of you are old enough to remember Fox in the days of the Bush administration or even the Obama administration, but I know you remember the Trump administration and you have no excuse for not knowing how these people operate. Learn your history.

But the source of this tweet is not Fox News, per se. It’s the Post Millenial, and I quote from wikipedia:

“The Post Millennial is a conservative Canadian online news magazine started in 2017. It publishes national and local news and has a large amount of opinion content. It has been criticized for publishing COVID-19 disinformation and for its opaque funding and political connections.”

As for the tweet itself, it was made by disclose.tv, a site that is also home to vaccine disinformation and other conspiracy theory content.

Now, let me digress for the briefest of moments. I argued against giving Biden the nomination. I am aware of all his faults. I voted for him with full awareness that we did not share all the same priorities, and that some of his positions were contrary to mine. But as unfortunate as it is to have to make choices like that, it is downright infuriating to see people so invested in the “Biden is just Blue Trump” narrative that they’ll suck blindly at the teats of the conservative media sphere that has, as an overriding agenda, the support of politicians like ACTUAL TRUMP.

This tweet was designed to make Biden look like a militaristic tyrant, and you fell for it. It distorted the truth, and you couldn’t tell the difference, because at some point you decided that positive news was propaganda but negative news was unquestionable.

You are not immune to propaganda. STOP. BEING. SUCKERS.

US Elevation.

by @cstats1

man the Appalachian mountains really aren’t shit huh

The Rockies are new, young and virile and fresh from the Laramide orogeny, tall and lanky teenagers on the geological scale. the Appalachian mountains are old, formed hundreds of millions of years ago before dinosaurs walked the Earth. They are ancients, elders, witnesses to half a billion years of life coming and going. To be tall is not a virtue. To be small is not a sin. The Appalachians are eroding under the weight of time, slowly shrinking and returning to the Earth from which they sprang. Appreciate them while they are still here.

I do want to say real quick again about the age of the Appalachians…

They said “before dinosaurs,” but we have a cave here that began forming between 450 million to 550 million years ago.

There are no bones in that cave. No fossils. No nothing.

That’s because this cave began forming before bones existed on land, and had only just started to exist in the ocean. Shellfish hadn’t evolved yet. Limestone, which forms many caves, was just starting to become a more prevalent rock.

The mountains aren’t older than dinosaurs. They are older than bones.

see that little lump up at the top of minnesota? the sawtooth mountains? so small most places would just call them hills?

those are over a billion years old.

that’s why they’re so small. they’re the last ancient remnants of a lava flow 5 miles thick. the lava didn’t kill any dinosaurs. or any fish. or any animals at all. because there were no animals. you know what there was?

algae.

those mountains were 5 miles tall when the most advanced life on earth was algae.

so i’m just gonna go ahead and keep calling them mountains, even though all you need to climb them is hiking shoes and a nice afternoon. because a place where you can crouch down and touch basalt that was lava before leaves were invented deserves some respect.

The earth is unfathomably ancient, and you garner no love from her when you insult her eldest children.

not only that, the Appalachians predate the Atlantic Ocean and were fragmented. they stretch across three continents, as Atlas in Africa and Caledonians in Europe as you can see here:

the Appalachians are way way old. the fossils that ARE found in these ranges are ancient marine beings, whose fossil remains predate the anatomical structures of beings migrating to land for the first time. THAT’S how old the Appalachians are.

show the elders some respect, they have witnessed eons and are returning to the land from which they grew, it’s the kind of the passage of time on a scale that our human lives could not even begin to comprehend.

Imperialism kills.

They stole the land and killed the children.

Facts.

For context: This guy was the co-creator of Dogecoin.