#the right stuff articles

[keeskiwi]

So much more of the natural world feels close and accessible now. When I started birding, I remember thinking that I’d never see most of the species in my field guide. Sure, backyard birds like robins and western bluebirds would be easy, but not black skimmers or peregrine falcons or loggerhead shrikes. I had internalized the idea of nature as distant and remote — the province of nature documentaries and far-flung vacations. But in the past six months, I’ve seen soaring golden eagles, heard duetting great horned owls, watched dancing sandhill cranes and marveled at diving Pacific loons, all within an hour of my house. “I’ll never see that” has turned into “Where can I find that?”

-Ed Yong, When I Became a Birder, Almost Everything Else Fell Into Place

[hansoeii]

I just found out that screenrant published an entire article just for my good omens angels illustration and I feel very honored right now 🤧 just wow

This is so sweet!! 😭

[booasaur]

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters - 1x02

[whenyoulosesmallmind]

Nicklas Bäckström & the Washington Capitals (+ nickeovi) ― Immortality, Clare Harner | insp.

credits: x. x. x. x. x. x. x. x. x. x.

[miketownsends]

i simply do not think there is another catcher out there who is as good with their pitching staff as Cal is!

(put the full article link in the source bc Tumblr was being weird about the link)

[yepthatsacowalright]

“When I asked Phoebe Bridgers about the band's reputation for giving voice to a certain strain of middle-aged male angst, she said, ‘Something middle-aged men and teen-age girls have in common is the act of finding yourself, and being kind of self-conscious. Maybe some beliefs that vou've held on to for a long time are finally being shed. The teen-age girl in me is obsessed with The National, and feels very spoken to and seen by them, maybe for the exact same reasons that they speak to middle-aged men.”

- The Sad Dads of the National

[hylianengineer]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

Unfair unfair why is the universe mean to me. I'm tired I hurt I want a break aaaaaaaaaah.

I don't even feel like I get to complain because one of the things I'm screaming about is my grandpa being in the hospital again which is way worse for him. But aaaaaaaaaah.

I need a break I need a break how the fuck does one ask for time off work without a good reason other than 'my mental health is falling apart I haven't had more than a day or two off in a row since March my brain is like permanently soup now and my depression has returned.' I need a break. It has to be soon or else The Big Project will resume and kick my ass some more. I should be preparing for The Big Project, phase 2, but really, it could wait a week. It could. Also, it's my project. What's gonna happen if I don't get it done? I don't get to publish a paper. That's it.

[primeministerofantarctica]

do you think kazuki and rei ever told miri they used to be hitmen or is she just going to have a VERY interesting family research project

[isfjmel-phleg]

What if interactions between girls and boys in children's fiction were not necessarily Statements About Gender Roles to be critiqued but examinations of friendships and social development and personal growth through learning to relate to others. It's okay if Mary undergoes character development and then uses what she has learned to help someone in a similar situation who happens to be male. It's okay if Marianne rescues a friend who happens to be male and then has to loan him her pencil so he can try to return the favor in the end. It's okay if characters of any description help each other, care for each other, out of a place of genuine mutual affection. It's okay if we take these friendships in good faith instead of trying to find ways for them to be Actually Secretly Heinous.

[yidiyada]

TikTok just introduced me to this article from a few years ago that I’ve somehow never come across before and I’m gonna share some of my favorite parts from it

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[the-light-of-stars]

German Chancellor Scholz: "Israel has the obligation to defend itself and the accusations made against it are absurd" - Meanwhile Israel's Minister of Finance calls for "voluntary emigration" of all "arab" palestinians in Gaza and denies the existence of the palestinian people

"Scholz: Israel has the obligation to defend itself against Hamas. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has defended Israel's actions. Israel doesn't just have the right but "the obligation" to defend itself against the militant-islamist Hamas in the Gaza strip. It cannot be accepted that Hamas recovers and gathers weapons to attack Israel again. "The accusations that are being made against Israel are absurd" Scholz said in Berlin about for example accusations made by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan against Israel. The German Government will always point out that Hamas is a terror organisation and that Israel is a democracy. Scholz meets Erdogan in Berlin on friday."

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"The accusations [about committing genocide and ethnic cleansing] leveled against Israel are absurd" meanwhile, the israeli Minister of finance: "Yeah the palestinian people doesn't exist and we want to ethnically cleanse the land they're on"

"Israel's Minister of Finance for "voluntary emigration" of Gaza residents. Israel's extreme right wing Minister of Finance has called for a "voluntary emigration" of Palestinians in the Gaza strip into multiple other countries. "The voluntary emigration and taking in of arab Gaza residents by the countries of the world is a humanitarian solution that will end the suffering of Jews and Arabs at the same time." wrote Bezalel Smotrich on the platform X, previously Twitter.

In the past Smotrich has already denied the existence of the palestinian people."

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The german Government: "It is absurd to accuse Israel of committing a genocide and ethnic cleansing and those who accuse them of doing so are hateful antisemitic terrorist sympathisers and should be put on trial or deported!"

The israeli Government, meanwhile: "Yeah lol we're doing ethnic cleansing"

[kazz-brekker]

writing anything set in middle-earth is just an exercise in how many research tabs you can have open at any given moment

[icewindandboringhorror]

sometimes looking at like Self Help Strategies lists for the symptoms I'm having is always just like:

thing that I already do

thing I have tried 10 times

thing I already do

thing that I don't have the money to do

thing I already do

thing I've been doing since I was 10yrs old to no avail

thing that is impossible given my situation

thing that doesn't apply to me

thing that I already do

thing I have already tried

hrmm, oh wait, maybe finally- OH, yeah.. okay. thing that I already do but it was just phrased slightly differently

thing I have already done

[hide-your-bugs-away]

wet beatles jumpscare 😔

[variousqueerthings]

And twenty years after government officially declared that being trans is not a mental illness, why is trans healthcare still located in NHS mental health trusts instead of in ordinary district general hospitals?

Gender Identity Clinics: Genesis and Unoriginal Sin

[transmechanicus]

NEWS WEBSITES STOP NAMING MEMBERS OF SLEEP TOKEN IN YOUR ARTICLES, YOU DESERVE TO DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!