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A new study has revealed that Barcelona is the most massified city by tourism in the whole world, with an average of 201,772 tourists per square km, and 916 tourists for every 100 inhabitants. That means that almost 90% of people in the city are tourists.

Just to get an idea of how many people this is: Barcelona is only 1 city (a pretty small city, too, when it comes to surface) and yet it receives more tourists than the whole countries of Australia and Brazil combined.

This is a huge problem for locals, who are expelled from their homes due to the touristic pressure and gentrification, where rents reach extreme heights that only wealthy foreigners can pay. As a result of the increase in tourism, Barcelona's quality of life has lowered drastically and inhabitants have become poorer (tourism creates low-wage temporary jobs that end up killing the other industries that paid better and had better conditions, at the same time that housing becomes too expensive for anyone who wants to live in it for whole months or years instead of short-term stays) and living in the city has become a nightmare for many, where loud tourists don't let the neighbours sleep, our services are over-saturated, pollution from cruise ships and planes cause hundreds of inhabitants every year to die a premature death, communities are erased as people are forced to leave their neighbourhoods which they can't afford anymore, and closing down of shops needed for locals to live in to be replaced for tourism-oriented shops.

And in this desperate context, the government is planning to destroy natural and agricultural areas to make the Barcelona airport even larger, increasing the destruction of what's left of the city and its community just to fulfil the capitalist expectation of eternal growth in a finite city with finite resources and to make money for a few.

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Was talking to a coworker today who explained that her grandfather was like Snow White “but Californian. And an old man.” in that the creatures of the forest would follow him around and presumably duet with him.

“When he died the ravens sat in the trees outside for a week, watching. Taking turns. A horde of raccoons tried to break into the house every night, tearing at the siding. Eventually they gave up, but it was unsettling.”

“Aww. They were checking on him!” I said, like a normal person. Internally, I thought “Maybe you could do the thing you do with dead pets, where you show them to the living pets so the living pet understands they’re gone. But I guess if you did that to a bunch of scavenging species, they’d be like “Well, that’s very sad but he IS food now.” So what you’d need, for human sensibilities, is some sort of transparent corpse barrier. Like a see-through coffin oh that’s what the dwarves were doing! You’ve stopped paying attention to this conversation about the loss of a beloved family member you gotta phase back in.”

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Long before the introduction of color film, a Russian chemist and photographer named Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky used an innovative technique. He took three individual black and white photos, each through a colored filter (red, green, and blue), to create fully colored, high-quality pictures. The photo of this woman, taken by him, is around 107 years old!

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one of the coolest things transitioning did is that there's life and joy in my eyes now. i look like a girl but specifically i look like a girl who cares about her life and likes to be alive

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Anti-piracy ad from 2004

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fireflies lighting up a rural Pennsylvania field at dusk