Also the instinctive reaction to being ordered to stop doing something is to say “sorry” and then the person just feels stupid.

Saturn — NASA. Mathematical magnificence. It's so hard to realise that it's a photo, it's real.

Training Montage by The Mountain Goats // Spirit Hold 2 by Holly Warburton

4. They look cool as hell

[ID: Photo of a laminated paper sign on a wall. The title and the first word of each point are in caps. It reads:

We wear our masks in public for three reasons:

1. Humility: I don’t know if I have COVID, as people can spread the disease before they have symptoms.

2. Kindness: I don’t know if the person nearby has a child battling cancer, or cares for their elderly mom. While I might be fine, they might not.

3: Community: I want my community to thrive, businesses to stay open, employees to stay healthy. Keeping a lid on COVID helps us all!!

/End description]

5. They disrupt the de facto surveillance state.

6. THREE NEW RESPIRATORY VIRUSES: Apparently there’s a ton of nasty crap to catch this fall (November 2022), and kids are especially susceptible to the new respiratory viruses going around right now. Let’s not kill the kids m'kay?

7. If it’s cold out, it keeps your face warm

7.a) keeping your nose warm now has scientific evidence backing up that a warm nose = stronger resistance to airborn viruses/etc.

so not only does a mask reduce the shit u put into the air, it actually *does* keep you personally more safe in a different but equally true way.

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the midnights era red carpet looks

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the first forest.

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Timelapse of acorn growth into a small oak in six months

Best thing I've seen this year

Sprouting acorns is really easy! All you have to do is keep them warm and moist and transfer them to a pot when they make roots.

This is great especially for women in the workplace who have learned kinda self-demeaning patterns of behavior in order to not be seen as a bitch. I started communicating this way in my VERY male dominated field and people definitely started taking me at least slightly more seriously. If that makes sense

I want everyone to know that there are queers in the hollers of Appalachia, in the bayous and marshland of the Deep South, in Southwestern deserts, through the Ozark mountains and up to the Rockies. There are queers in the Great Plains, there are queers in rural America, in trailer parks of the Osage foothills. In the places you least expect us to live, we are here, carving out community and fighting for liberation with pride despite it all. Stop forgetting about us. Stop overlooking our experiences and our impact just because we don’t live in a Big Gay City. And for the love of God, stop looking at us with pity.

Also, there are ALLIES out here.

I live in a no-stoplight town in the south. There are three tractor stores and two animal supply stores within 25 minutes of my house, and we finally got a grocery store, apparently some time this year. We have no McDonald's or any other kind of chain restaurant.

I saw a redneck at the country store face down a guy whining about the trans menace and tell him to act like he had fuckin' southern manners, or move up north.

And that redneck was a better ally than most people online

queer existence is part of the human condition. queer people exist everywhere, in every community. queer people are part of LGBTQ history. and it's way too easy to overlook the experiences of queer folks who live in regions where, for one reason another, other people think they can't exist or don't belong. i fully think that everyone should read about the lived experiences of people outside of their origins. so. i have (America-focused) memoir and nonfiction recommendations!!!

Memoirs Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place by Neema Avashia

Honor Girl by Maggie Thrash

Prairie Silence by Melanie Hoffert

Like Me: Confessions of a Heartland Country Singer by Chely White

Saving Alex: When I Was Fifteen I Told My Mormon Parents I Was Gay, and That's When My Nightmare Began by Alex Cooper

How We Fight for Our Lives by Saaed Jones

Punch Me Up to the Gods by Brian Broome

¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons by John Paul Brammer

Mama's Boy: A Story from Our Americas by Dustin Lance Black

Boys and Oil: Growing up Gay in a Fractured Land by Taylor Brorby

Diary of a Misfit by Casey Parks

General

Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States

Sweeter Voices Still: An LGBTQ Anthology from Middle America

Queering the Redneck Riviera: Sexuality and the Rise of Florida Touri

Men Like That: A Southern Queer History

A Night at the Sweet Gum Head: Drag, Drugs, Disco, and Atlanta's Gay Revolution

Y'All Means All: The Emerging Voices Queering Appalachia

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