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So let me get this straight:

Sea otter: has functional legs, can walk on land, but can give birth in water = "fully-marine mammal"

Seal: basically a paraplegic slug dog out of water, can only flop around on land, but has to give birth on land = "semi-aquatic mammal"

yeahhh I might show up to a marine biologist conference with a set of bullet points and my own projector about this one

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Laura Makabresku.

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Antarctica Abandoned Stations

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This rat's motto: be french, do crimes

please look at this graffiti my sister saw in paris

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Fisherman's Bastion, Budapest, 1934. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

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TOMASZ KAWECKI / "UNTITLED" / 2021

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before blaming others, think: whats the 1 constant in all your failed relationships? its that cursed egyptian amulet why do u even have that

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Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1908

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I did not expect "life sized bird whose individual feathers are carved out of mother of pearl" to be a genre spanning continents and centuries, and yet:

This is a partridge cup by Nürnberg maker Jörg Ruel (circa 1598-1602).

Model of a pigeon with mother-of-pearl inlaid feathers (Japan, Meiji period, 1880)

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Memories of the Guadalquivir, Photo by Sasa Gyoker, 2018

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Suzanne Moxhay (British, b. 1976, Essex, England, based London, England) - 1: Arcade, 2023 2: Entrance VIII, 2019 3: Interior with Open Door, 2021 4: Vault, 2021 5: Waiting Room, 2018, Photography

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Late Summer Sun, Philadelphia -- September 13th, 2023

Etsy

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Items from the Preslav Golden Treasure, a hoard of Byzantine items uncovered near Veliki Preslave, Bulgaria, in 1978. Dates to the mid 10th century AD

from The Veliki Preslav Archaeological Museum

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“I am astonished in my teaching to find how many poets are nearly blind to the physical world. They have ideas, memories, and feelings, but when they write their poems they often see them as similes. To break this habit, I have my students keep a journal in which they must write, very briefly, six things they have seen each day—not beautiful or remarkable things, just things. This seemingly simple task usually is hard for them. At the beginning, they typically “see” things in one of three ways: artistically, deliberately, or not at all. Those who see artistically instantly decorate their descriptions, turning them into something poetic: the winter trees immediately become “old men with snow on their shoulders,” or the lake looks like a “giant eye.” The ones who see deliberately go on and on describing a brass lamp by the bed with painful exactness. And the ones who see only what is forced on their attention: the grandmother in a bikini riding on a skateboard, or a bloody car wreck. But with practice, they begin to see carelessly and learn a kind of active passivity until after a month nearly all of them have learned to be available to seeing—and the physical world pours in. Their journals fill up with lovely things like, “the mirror with nothing reflected in it.” This way of seeing is important, even vital to the poet, since it is crucial that a poet see when she or he is not looking—just as she must write when she is not writing. To write just because the poet wants to write is natural, but to learn to see is a blessing. The art of finding in poetry is the art of marrying the sacred to the world, the invisible to the human.”

— Linda Gregg, from “The Art of Finding”

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what if we did large-scale mutual aid. like what if everyone in a community contributed, idk, like, a percentage of their annual income into some kind of a mutual aid fund. they could appoint community leaders to allocate funding for community needs like health and other social services, rental aid, transportation to get to work and other places, maybe even for building community spaces that would be free to use. has anyone thought of this

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every time I find a pill on the ground I take it home with me and draw a picture of it with crayons. here's the collection so far.

^ the very first pill I found & drew. couldn't identify it (markings rubbed off) but it looked very beautiful to me.

^pill no. 2: fluoxetine. my greatest find and finest crayon drawing. sorry to whoever lost their fluoxetine. I'll save it for a special occasion. I used a sharpie pen to clean up some lines on this one I think.

^ pill no. 3: ibuprofen. accidentally closed my laptop on this one, destroying it. and getting goop on my laptop. I found another one though. People drop a lot of painkillers. The first 2 used only colors from the classic 24 pack of crayons, but I had to break out extras from my childhood crayon collection for this one.

^pill no. 4: benadryl. this pill was crumbling inside its plastic when I found it, but it was intact enough to take home and draw! Hooray.

^pill no. 5: midol. this one was real scuffed up. I actually found an entire bottle of midol on another occasion, and someone's last 2 weeks of birth control yet another time, but those are the kind of things I leave behind because someone's likely to miss their entire bottle of midol or sealed birth control and come back for it.

^pill no. 6: unfinished advil/ibuprofen. I find a lot of painkillers, as mentioned, so I guess I got bored. I also have a drawing of acetaminophen that I am not posting because I don't like it.

^pill no. 7: severe tylenol. I didn't know such a thing existed until I found it on the ground. "severe tylenol" makes it sound like the tylenol is mean. this was among the more challenging ones and it's kinda rushed, but drawing the plastic was fun. just did this one an hour ago.

in case you're wondering, I do keep the pills when possible. I like to hold onto my reference material. they live in a separate box from my vintage ibuprofen collection.