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I couldn’t resist to get this book. I love eco brutalism, the mix of concrete and plants 🌱

Brutalist Plants by Olivia Broome (Hoxton Mini Press)

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Farhad Moshiri (Iranian, 1963-2024), Control Room, 2004. Embroidery on black velvet, 50 x 68 cm.

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"do it scared" ok but I would like to do something some other way occasionally. Like at least once. For a change.

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God, there really is nothing like 20s detective fiction to remind you that prejudice is a social construct.

You'll have a story with a crossdressing thief which is mildly transmisogynistic but completely devoid of modern vitriol; it literally comes off as "here is a fun oddity that lets me be Clever about French grammar"

And in the very next story you will learn fifteen different slurs for Italians

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They say nobody is coming to save you, but many people have saved me, even if they didn't intend to.

It can be as small as a smile from a stranger, a nudge from an animal, words from a writer, the lyrics to a song, an observant friend.

We are all saving each other every single day in tiny seemingly insignificant ways.

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“To protect their copyright, streaming sites do not allow for screenshotting of any kind.”

Hey remember VHS where you bought a box to plug into your tv and you could legally record whatever was playing and then own it for free forever

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Instructions for living a life:

Pay attention.

Be astonished.

Tell about it.

Mary Oliver, from Red Bird: Poems

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is anyone else disgusted by the enormity of their desire or is it just me & richard siken

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got a major pest problem this year actually

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genuinely best thing to come out of american politics in a while is this whole earnestly calling republicans "weird". never underestimate the power of cringe to turn the tide of a political campaign.

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i know someone who works in conservation, who on the side has a large outdoor aviary and roughly 20 rainbow lorikeets they’ve taken in as they’ve been dumped/unwanted gifts or long-term pets/pets that have been released/etc, and she’s very knowledgeable and keeps them in great condition

i love seeing them though because we have a terrible and hilarious game. in the aviary i will be leaving out fruit skewers and things for them, and then i’ll dramatically lie on my side and pretend i died. it takes about 5 minutes, and then there’s an entire flock of lorikeets climbing on me, squeaking, nibbling and investigating.

the next part of the game is popping up my head and going “boo!” which is where the real fun begins, because the little rainbow nightmares jump, and then get delighted and start happy squealing and bouncing around (and chewing because they truly never stop)

while we all love this game, ive been cheerfully informed from the outside it looks even funnier, because it looks like I’ve been jumped by a group of lorikeets and they won

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at least sisyphus only had one never-ending task. i have like 50 and all of them cost money

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petition to bring back saying "huzzah!" when something goes your way and "alas." when it doesn't

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today at work a coworker warned me that my patient’s owner let us know her cat is homophobic, meaning he tends to attack gay people violently on sight, which I thought was a joke. but that cat saw me and may have been the angriest cat I’ve ever worked with and DID in fact bite me through Kevlar gloves because he hated me so much