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“Holding The Moon” Knights Ferry, California by Eric Hock

an American crocodile of impressive proportions I saw in Costa Rica

I AM HAUNTED BY A PAST I CANNOT GO BACK TO !!!!!! anyways

so ummm when is it My turn to receive love and affection

Sharon Olds, from "Little Things"; Strike Sparks: Selected Poems, 1980-2002

I don’t even care who fucking wins the presidency this year look at this

This makes an INCREDIBLE difference!!!! For fuck sake go vote!!!!

A few years back a Republican won my house district by six vote. Now she’s talking about making it illegal to protest the Gazan genocide. Pay attention to Congress

For the record, this is EVERY TWO YEARS. Every two years the entire US House and 1/3rd of the senate are up for election. Every. Two. Years. And your local elections are just as important and many of those are in years without a federal election. Voting is not one and done, its upkeep.

Texans! We have a chance to take out Ted Cruz this voting period. Yes all our reps are also up but listen!

Collin Allred is a black democrat from Dallas and former NFL player who has been endorsed by all major News publications in Texas (the chronicle the tribune the austin times etc) and he currently represents the 32nd congressional district. He promises to work to get our rights to our bodies back and wants to expand affordable birth control. He’s a civil rights attorney, he grew up in Brownsville and he is our one chance against Ted Cruz before we are stuck with him for another 2 years PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE research Colin and help us turn texas blue

Gustaf Edolf Fjaestad (Swedish, 1868--1948)

Everyone that’s nice to me Thank u I feel horrible all the time

Reminds me of this from civilization 4

What exactly does this mean

it requires fascism what's not clicking here

Dillington House, Ilminster, Somerset, England

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

HEY wanna read but annoyed on where to find copies of books?

Here's an archive with millions of PDFs of books and papers and magazines and essays and stuff.

I had a tattoo client ask if I ever used AI to design tattoos for me. Man I spent the better part of a decade doing shitty bit work as a graphic designer and now that I have the space to do whatever I want, I'm gonna let the computer generate random garbage for me? What next should I have a computer that eats my dinner and fucks my wife?

I feel like people get so hung up on the results of a thing that they don't appreciate that the process of making it is, actually, enjoyable.

It's like if you have a friend who likes to bake, asking if they'd like to just buy cupcakes from the store instead of making them. The end result of the cupcake is secondary to the joy you get from having made cupcakes.

Art isn't a slog or a chore or something I want to avoid. Art is fun. It's rewarding. It feels good to do it. You may as well be asking me if I want the AI to watch television for me, it doesn't make any sense, I'm not participating and would gain nothing from it.

Exactly this for animation as well

literally though if you feel like your life is slipping through your fingers and every day goes too fast… try doing hard things, not just taking the easy route, like reading and making art and exercising and cooking a meal from scratch and journaling, doing these things without distraction, without being absorbed on a screen… the time will stretch and you’ll be reminded that life is long and beautiful if you make it so.

The Fourth Wall: A Rare View of Famous European Theater Auditoriums Photographed from the Stage