Born and Reborn on Samhain

by Molly Buford

@vislokawitch

Us

Aw, yesss 🥰

YASSS, GET IT GURL

@vislokawitch Mike is having a bad day and stealing shoes

@pagan-mushroom A bad day? It seems he achieved the next level of trolling and is having blast 😂

Moszna Castle - POLAND

In their defence, a lot of it is sand.

I'm starting to think that maybe Europe just isn't that big

no but because australia is close to the bottom of the map and the flat map is distorted to fit a square map shape, australia on the flat map is significantly smaller compared to places closer to the equator.

Thank you for being the one single person in the notes who understands map projections. Australia is big, but still significantly smaller than the US.

Australia is not significantly smaller than the mainland US, no. These are the real sizes, not a Mercator projection. I think you're misunderstanding what yanzinator said. The US does have significantly larger island territories than Australia, though.

The continuous US (so, not counting the islands and Alaska) and Australia are roughly the same size:

US: 2,959,064.44 square miles (7,663,941.7 km2)

Australia: 2,969,907 sq mi (7,692,024 km2)

And the person above has the impact of the Mercator projection completely backwards: North America and Europe appear much larger than they actually are due to their latitudes. Most notably Greenland looks like it is bigger than Africa! (It isn’t.)

In the picture below, the pale blue is Mercator and the dark blue is actual size:

And here is Africa vs Greenland:

There is a website where you can drag and drop countries on top of each other to see the actual size comparison taking into account projection

It's pretty cool and also Japan is a lot bigger than I thought it was

Pre smart phone? I, a millennial, grew up in the pre CELL phone era. Does that make me one of the Valar.

Inktober / Peachtober 2023: 13. Rise + Ship

A beautiful sunrise and the Revenge.

"On 7th of January Ukrainian poet Maksym Kryvtsov and his ginger cat were killed by rssian army on the frontline. He was 33 years old. He was writing poems about the war and his loyal cat friend, while protecting his homeland. He could create so much if russia would not start this unjust horror.

Every time something inside me dies when I see news like this. Every Ukrainian from the beginning of their time in school learns about Executed Renaissance - when on the beginning of 20th century a lot of Ukrainian artists, writers, poets were chased and executed by Soviet Union for creating works in Ukrainian and expressing their national identity. Now it’s happening again, same evil, but under different flag. Besides occupation of our land russia also often talks about how Ukraine is fake country with fake language, they burn our books on occupied territories, mock us, our POWs for the fact we’re ukrainian. They were mocking us even before the invasion, I grew up with watching it on social medias myself. And now a lot of authors can’t create because of the war, russia kills them on frontlines, in their homes, russia purposefully targets objects of civilian infrastructure to leave us without heat and electricity. It pisses me off every time when I see russian “culture” being praised by the foreigners, knowing that it’s made on blood of other nations. Either 100 years ago or now. Because while russian authors can live and create, we have fight for our survival.

Before being killed by russia Maksym published his last poem, where he told about how his body will grow as violets after his death. Every time it’s hard to draw something about the war, I feel literally empty afterwards but I just felt it would be right thing to do. It’s awful that our artists have to go through all of this, so damn unfair, and I keep telling myself that justice is waiting for them but I can’t even imagine what has to happen, everything feels not enough.

Please support Ukrainian authors, until it’s too late."

(c) @ fate_221

Flooflers

Hello friends, I'll be trying my luck here. Here's a lucky black cat to start with!!

->PRINT

Edit: sensory issues can be counted under "otherwise medically unable to" if you feel that to be appropriate

I’ve just been manipulated

"Humans will always make gods out of the absurd" is killing me rn

Thank you! I was extremely stoned when I wrote that tag.

is that estradiol in the rathole?

Estradiol In The Rathole is my new band name.

I love that queer can mean ‘I don’t know what I am’. I love that queer can mean ‘it’s none of your business what I am’. And i love that queer can mean ‘I know exactly what I am, but it’s a long list that I don’t feel like reciting every time’.

you did it

you win the award for best addition to my post

i tried so fucking hard to scroll past this

i tried and i failed

i cant breathe.

send help. dying

fuck

I am the snake in my boot

I AM THE SNAKE IN MY BOOT