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www. the way the sun shines through the leaves dot com

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tucson aint got much but it does have a bridge shaped like a rattlesnake

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i have gone back to being @toadbeast

hang out with me there

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ok so it turns out as soon as i post this i get an email that theyve restored my old account. so uh. what do i do now??

i dont particularily miss my old blog but i do miss my old dash. like i dont remember half of who i followed and it makes me sad :(

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i dont particularily miss my old blog but i do miss my old dash. like i dont remember half of who i followed and it makes me sad :(

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I feel like I forgive people too easily, but the problem is that that forgiveness is usually temporary: I'll be mad at hell as you, then we talk and I get your side of the story, forgive you, walk off and go "WAIT A MINUTE im still mad." it's not great

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September 15, 2021 at 05:09PM

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watercolors by trans artist tuesday smilie

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Me sexting: what would you do if you found me with my hands tied ;) My feminist bf: I Would Free You

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DESPITE IT ALL, WE HAVE EACH OTHER

no matter how much hopelessness they corner us into, they cannot stop us from taking care of each other.

somewhere to start today is by helping nada, who is less than 40% of the way towards her goal.

https://gofund.me/e06f31d3

please continue to share mutual aid, whether its in your own neighborhood or across the sea. please continue to find both what's urgent and what's beautiful in the world.

thank you always, take care.

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that and a great and terrible beast

the most powerful thing in the world is divorce

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the most powerful thing in the world is divorce

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I'm working on clearing out some old tabs, and ran across this piece from last fall. The short version is that your gut microbiome and other microbes that accompany you in a series of symbiotic relationships throughout your lifetime persist even after you die. While you might assume that these bacteria and other little beings would perish along with you once you're no longer warm and living, it turns out that they shift gears upon your death, being part of the massive effort to return your remains en masse to the nutrient cycle.

There's honestly something rather poetic about that. Here you've spent a lifetime being the center of a holobiont--a sort of miniature, migratory ecosystem. And these many millions of life forms that you have given safe harbor to for thousands upon thousands of their generations are among the funerary vanguard caring for your remains after you're gone. They pour forth from their ancestral lands--the gut, the skin, and other discrete places--and spread out through even the most protected regions of your form.

And then, just as you constructed your body, molecule by molecule, from a lifetime of nutrients you consumed, so do these microbes go through the process of returning everything you borrowed back to the wider cycles of food and growth and life and death. The ancient halls where their ancestors lived in relative stability are now taken apart in the open air, and their descendants will disperse their inheritance into the soil and the water through the perpetual process of decomposition.

I've always wanted a green burial, and I find it comforting that when my remains are laid in the ground, they'll be accompanied by the tiny ecosystems I spent a lifetime tending, and who will return the favor by sending my molecules off in a billion new directions.

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hey cool criticism of misogyny, really interesting how you invoked the spectre of "real men" to do so though. "real men don't mistreat women" is categorically untrue and is trying to make up some mythical form of masculinity that doesn't repress women

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i am not going to join the streams of people electionposting besides this one post. because I do think it's unhelpful; tumblr is a specific bubble. but I'm so fucking disappointed. both in some of my local (city & state) stuff and in the presidential stuff. I can't really summon any other emotions rn--like I'm angry, and I'm scared for my family members in red states/swing states, and I'm anxious for the future, but mostly I thought this would be better. i thought Californians would vote against slavery.