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theflowerhat on ig

excerpt from the original post: this is dictamnus albus—commonly called gas plant. on hot days, it emits a citrusy, flammable oil that briefly ignites when exposed to flame. it’s completely harmless to the plant, but incredible to witness.

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Yes, Madam! (Corey Yuen, 1985)

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It's strangely amusing how confident he is shouting such gibberish 😂

my fucking god all men need to be murdered

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it’s crazy that they’ve invented online robot sex slaves for men but not cigarettes that are good for you. our society’s priorities are so fucked dude

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u/a1oner_bvcksn6

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"mortal harm" 😂😂😂

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u/theaverageboxer

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they're hiring me at the extra virgin olive oil factory as the oathsworn knight who protects the chastity of the olives

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““If women remain passive I think there is very little hope for the survival of life on this Earth””

— Leonora Carrington, What is a Woman?, 1970 (via expandedfield)

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War on Science is going according to plan.

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"30 years old isn't old man" what privilege do you live in where your life expectancy is far past 30 years

This post blindsided me so bad I spent a full minute staring at it in shock

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I can't pretend like so-called "leftists"/"liberals" who compare Trump and Elon to teenage girls to make fun of them and show how "progressive" they are isn't misogyny

There's literally no reason for you to compare two adult men arguing like idiots and making everyone's lives worse to women and especially girls. They don't "fight like those stupid teenage girls", they fight like other idiotic men of their age. And that's exactly what you need to point out. They're not morons bc they're "like women", they're morons who are men and who fight each other like men. There's nothing "women-like" in the way they act

IDGAF if you say "it's not that deep", comparing them to teen girls is literally on the same level of misogyny as calling annoying men "pussy","bitch" or saying an emotional man "is like a woman". It's not progressive to be misogynistic in honor of making fun of conservatives. You're just misogynistic and use it as an excuse to be misogynistic while looking progressive. That's it.

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During one semester of PE in high school I got put in a section called Team Sports. This was significantly better than a regular unit because the athletic kids were able to play and I largely got to sit and watch.

Months were devoted to what they called Pickle Ball but I’ve since learned was basically ping pong with larger than average paddles. The paddles had been through the absolute wringer, all padding had been rubbed and torn off by a relentless stream of bored adolescents like myself.

This presented me with a unique opportunity. I had a pencil, nominally used to keep score. I had a blank wooden panel. And I had large stretches of time sitting on the sidelines.

Every day I’d pick a blank paddle. I’d doodle little animals, bizarre monstrosities, and a bunch that were just a huge eye in the middle with the words “Big Brother is Watching”. What can I say; I was reading 1984 at the time.

When we finally finished with the paddles and moved on to badminton I completely forgot my dozens of illustrations.

It wasn’t until several years later that it got brought up again. I was hanging out with a friend and their younger sibling. We were listening to them lament their high school experience of the day. “But I won the Pegasus paddle, so that was cool.”

“Wait- what?”

“Yeah, most of them are just Big Brother, so they’re not exciting, but there’s only one Pegasus so we fight over it. Last week I had an elephant I really liked though.”

“You guys fight over the paddles with art on them…?”

“Yeah!”

My friend turned to me and asked, “Didn’t you make all those drawings?”

Their sibling lit up, “You made them?!”

I sat in silence as the complexity of the world and the waves we leave behind as we move through it washed over me. I contemplated how intertwined I was with the rest of existence to create such a beautiful moment.

I had made art on a whim out of boredom and it had an effect on someone else’s day, someone who through random happenstance years later was telling me about it all unknowing.

Their sibling was delighted when I drew them another pegasus on the spot and announced that they’d be the talk of PE now that they’d uncovered the mystery artist.

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me

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- Lundy Bancroft, Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

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every time I hear overly vague “therapy speak (i.e “I’ve been at capacity recently I want to honor those boundaries so please respect my desires as a community member and re-analyze how your positionality has affected your place as someone in community with me, I’d like you to do some decentering” type of stuff) I think of my old Italian professor who’d say “I love the term “taking accountability,” it’s so funny, it’s so American. What does it mean?! Are you going to do anything? It means nothing.” She was so real for that.