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citationless behavior

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Violet-backed Starling (Cinnyricinclus leucogaster), family Sturnidae, order Passeriformes, Kenya

photograph by Simon Odhiambo

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Glad u exist homie

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Violet-backed Starling (Cinnyricinclus leucogaster), family Sturnidae, order Passeriformes, South Africa

photograph by Marco Valentini

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Long-tailed Silky Flycatcher (Ptiliogonys caudatus), family Ptiliogonatidae, order Passeriformes, Panama

photograph by Genover Sanatamaria

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Just smoked some shit that lets me step in the same river twice

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Beautiful Nuthatch (Sitta formosa), family Sittidae, order Passeriformes, Mishmi Hills, AP, India

photograph by abhinav sharma

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Pompadour Cotinga (Xipholena punicea), male, family Cotingidae, order Passeriformes, Brazil

photograph by Anselmo d'Affonseca

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Lotta confusion as to "why are the granola save the whales hippies right wing conspiracy theorists now?" And I think the answer is twofold:

Any social movement in the anglosphere is gonna have a certain amount of reactionaries who happen to be temporarily aimed at a good cause. A lot of them were always low-key right wing.

When you have no ability for class analysis, it is a very short idealogical step from "distrust of pharmaceutical companies" to "distrust of modern medicine as a whole" to "judeo-bolsheviks are poisoning white babies for profit"

This trend will continue until people have access to non-predatory healthcare. Conspiracism thrives when people are failed by the systems they rely on.

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just saw a post that said "I just reduced a dog to its base components (dog powder, binding reagent) with alchemical techniques." is this a real/popular belief within alchemy? who came up with it?

No. Alchemists did not believe that there was a fundamental "Dog Substance" which defined a dog. They believed that dogs existed in the Formal sense, and that matter yearns for forms. In the sense that water flows downhill, matter flows towards form and takes the shape of bodies.

The elements of earth, air, water, and fire, would occasionally find themselves mixed in the shape of a dog, but there was no Dog Essence. Dogness was not something that could be distilled from a substance.

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the student said, "i'm reading a zen buddhist cookbook. with no recipes." and the teacher replied, "ah, dogen's instructions for the cook, written in 1237?" "yeah," said the student, "it's saying not to let rats fall into the rice pot"