people are saying do it scared, but you also gotta do it alone. you'll miss out on so much you want to do if you wait til someone will do it with you. do it scared and do it alone.
me (scared & alone) out in the wider world trying to broaden my horizons:
Jimmy literally
As usual, @socialjust-ish leaves the gold in the tags and it’s up to me to mine them.
you can hear the accent without unmuting the video
😭😭
There are only around 1,500 native Cherokee speakers left, and most of them are elders
Little Cherokee Seeds is a program where mothers and babies spend all day with first language Cherokee speakers, speaking nothing but Cherokee, so that the babies become a new generation of native speakers. They're also teaching traditional skills and mothering practices to the mothers to pass on.
This is so so important for the survival of the language. These babies are on track to being fluent first language speakers, and they will be able to keep the language going for another lifetime.
I recommend checking out the little cherokee seeds facebook page!!
Okay not to dox myself but I live on Cherokee territory (#landback) and there are a few universities I know of that are working to restore the language among younger Natives. I'm not an expert, but I recommend checking out Dr Sara Snyder Hopkins and the incredible work she's doing to translate old Cherokee writings so we never lose them and Dr Ben Fray who is Cherokee and fluent and teaches it to students as a revitalization effort.
Missing out: A longer one! It's no secret that I am not a fan of outdoor cats in the slightest. They're an ecological nightmare and feral cats are responsible for an astounding amount of harm to native fauna. But there's another side to it. Being an outdoor cat is TERRIBLE. Being in ER Vet-Med I have seen every bad thing that can happen to an outdoor cat; Dog attacks, Hit by car, Parasites, Poisonings, Snake Bites, Cat Fight Injuries -- it's rough out there!
Eggs Benedict (the cat who I don't shut up about recently) is an ex-stray we adopted who has just had the hardest go of it. Fungal lung infection, 3 strands of cat-scratch fever, potentially hit by a car, potentially burst ear drums, worms, fleas and stomatitis so bad he had to have every tooth pulled. This is a reality for outdoor cats. If you love them, keep them indoors.
by HeckoGecko
It's June 1. It's time.
Go be gay.
i love it when people are obsessed with their wives. it’s like yeah that’s literally what you’re supposed to do
me: i’m just working at a gas station :( im not doing anything w my life :(
my foremothers bc i’m not working in a field or pregnant:
caught Grim doing happy kneading paws in the air while the baby played with a twig 3 feet away. you're not beating the grandparent allegations, Grim.....
it was so sweet
my favorite genre of alien picture is little grey aliens just naked in the woods like why the fuck are you here. you have a spaceship. why did you come to earth to just stand in the woods and look at us with no clothes
this is like top tier comedy to me. what the fuck are you DOING man
i don’t expect this to be very widely known but here in vancouver we’ve had a barge stuck on shore since mid november
we’re going on day 25 of barge simpson not moving a damn inch and i for one hope it never moves
They put up a sign
WHAT
Ever Given fans reading this post like:
I think it’s really important, for non-Vancouverites, that you know some additional layers of the joke to this, because this shit’s got history:
- One of our parks has an abstract statue in it of someone reclining.
- In Nov 2012, an artist made a sign as a joke, “Dude Chilling Park”, which looked exactly like our official Parks Board signs (except for the official park boards seal).
- The Vancouver Parks Board removed the sign but, after a whole lot of petitions, they put in an official one a year and a half later, also “Dude Chilling Park”, but now with the proper seal attached.
- Fast forward 7 years later. We have horrible floods. A barge washes up on Sunset Beach and gets grounded there. It has yet to be removed.
- The Vancouver Parks Board, unprompted, adds a “Barge Chilling Beach” sign.
- …Also, they announced this by tweet:
I think one big reason why we don't consider the stars as important as before (not even pop-astrology anymore cares about the stars or the sky on itself, just the signs deprived of context) is because of light pollution.
For most of human history the sky looked between 1-3, 4 at most. And then all of a sudden with electrification it was gone (I'm lucky if I get 6 in my small city). The first time I saw the Milky Way fully as a kid was a spiritual experience, I was almost scared on how BRIGHT it was, it felt like someone was looking back at me. You don't get that at all with modern light pollution.
When most people talk about stargazing nowadays they think about watching about a couple of bright dots. The stars are really, really not like that. The unpolluted night sky is a festival of fireworks. There is nothing like it.
“Rich kids should go to public schools. The mayor should ride the subway to work. When wealthy people get sick, they should be sent to public hospitals. Business executives should have to stand in the same airport security lines as everyone else. The very fact that people want to buy their way out of all of these experiences points to the reason why they shouldn’t be able to. Private schools and private limos and private doctors and private security are all pressure release valves that eliminate the friction that would cause powerful people to call for all of these bad things to get better. The degree to which we allow the rich to insulate themselves from the unpleasant reality that others are forced to experience is directly related to how long that reality is allowed to stay unpleasant. When they are left with no other option, rich people will force improvement in public systems. Their public spirit will be infinitely less urgent when they are contemplating these things from afar than when they are sitting in a hot ER waiting room for six hours themselves.”
what type of bug is this