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i just found out tumblr was storing over three GIGABYTES of cookies on my device without me knowing and that's why it's been running so fucking slow recently... incredible. anyways everyone go clear your fucking cookies. don't let this website run a goddamn video game's worth of disc space in the background for no good reason.

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"When life gives you lemons" FALSE LEMONS ARE A HYBRID OF A BITTER ORANGE AND A CITRON, MEANING WE GAVE OURSELVES LEMONS

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Need a man 🧔 who will treat me the way Swedish 🇸🇪 romance scammers ❤️😈 on FB treat me 😩👌😏

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Bringing this back because the hammond organ turns 90 today!

Hammond organ fandom, listen up!

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Imagine though if animals had the same continuous growth that plants have.

"Yeah man I gotta build a bigger barn for my horse again, it doubled in size again since last year. Yeah it's 6 years old now. I'll have to rent a skyscraper for it once it's 10 if it keeps going like this. At this rate only my grandma, who's 60m tall and uses the cooling towers of the local nuclear power plant as tea cups, will be able to ride it."

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Über das Älterwerden

Das große Glück, noch klein zu sein, sieht mancher Mensch als Kind nicht ein und möchte, dass er ungefähr so 16 oder 17 wär‘.

Doch schon mit 18 denkt er: „Halt! Wer über 20 ist, ist alt.“ Warum? Die 20 sind vergnüglich – auch sind die 30 noch vorzüglich.

Zwar in den 40 – welche Wende – da gilt die 50 fast als Ende. Doch in den 50, peu à peu, schraubt man das Ende in die Höh‘!

Die 60 scheinen noch passabel und erst die 70 miserabel. Mit 70 aber hofft man still: „Ich schaff‘ die 80, so Gott will.“

Wer dann die 80 biblisch überlebt, zielsicher auf die 90 strebt. Dort angelangt, sucht er geschwind nach Freunden, die noch älter sind.

Doch hat die Mitte 90 man erreicht – die Jahre, wo einen nichts mehr wundert -, denkt man mitunter: „Na – vielleicht schaffst du mit Gottes Hilfe auch die 100.

--Wilhelm Busch

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Valletta, Malta | themodernleper  

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Valletta, Malta (by Mike McBey)

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Siggiewi Village Square, Malta 📷 @maltadoor

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Storm hits the Ricasoli Breakwater Lighthouse in Valletta, Malta. 24 February, 2019, by Kurt Arrigo

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Golf Courses ARE Being Converted

The Solarpunk "fantasy" that so many of us tout as a dream vision, converting golf courses into ecological wonderlands, is being implemented across the USA according to this NYT article!

The article covers courses in Michigan, Pennsylvania, California, Colorado, and New York that are being bought and turned into habitat and hiking trails.

The article goes more into detail about how sand traps are being turned into sand boxes for kids, endangered local species are being planted, rocks for owl habitat are being installed, and that as these courses become wilder, they are creating more areas for biodiversity to thrive.

Most of the courses in transition are being bought by Local Land Trusts. Apparently the supply of golf courses in the USA is way over the demand, and many have been shut down since the early 2000s. While many are bought up and paved over, land Trusts have been able to buy several and turn them into what the communities want: public areas for people and wildlife. It does make a point to say that not every hold course location lends itself well to habitat for animals (but that doesn't mean it wouldn't make great housing!)

So lets be excited by the fact that people we don't even know about are working on the solutions we love to see! Turning a private space that needs thousands of gallons of water and fertilizer into an ecologically oriented public space is the future I want to see! I can say when I used to work in water conservation, we were getting a lot of clients that were golf courses that were interested in cutting their resource input, and they ended up planting a lot of natives! So even the golf courses that still operate could be making an effort.

So what I'd encourage you to do is see if there's any land or community trusts in your area, and see if you can get involved! Maybe even look into how to start one in your community! Through land trusts it's not always golf course conversions, but community gardens, solar fields, disaster adaptation, or low cost housing! (Here's a link to the first locator I found, but that doesn't mean if something isn't on here it doesn't exist in your area, do some digging!)

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gonna buy this god-forsaken web site and charge all y'all $8 a month to edit reblogs.

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Another update from my enduring fascination with creative spam mails: I sometimes get mails that go "oh I recorded you jerking it to porn through your webcam, give me Bitcoin or I'll publish the video", okay sure, who doesn't get them. But today I got one from someone who went one step further and said, not only do I have footage of your porn use, I also recorded you bitching on the phone about the people in your life! And also WOW you really believe everything the mass media says huh? Maybe learn to think critically and use a search engine?! In conclusion, give me bitcoin so I don't let people know how gullible and gossipy you are!

I wonder what part of my sordid private life they'll wiretap next. Maybe they'll record me secretly watching new Marvel movies or paying for Windows or something.

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Heidevolk fans rejoice, some ex-members made an album that's in much the same spirit!