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an alcoholic beverage that you constantly replenish with identical mixers and alcohol, to the point where you're unsure any of the initial beverage remains. and yet it is fundamentally the same beverage as it was to begin with. the sip of theseus

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The thing about loving bugs and other little friends, even casually (as opposed to being like an entomologist), is that it's very very noticeable when those little guys start vanishing. When there's less bees and butterflies, when the spots that are occupied by spiders every year stay empty, when seeing dragonflies is a rare treat.

I'm a big, big spider lover. I used to be able to walk around my house and count a dozen orb weavers in different spots. The grass spiders knew me on sight. Now it's special when I find even one orb weaver and the number of grass spiders has been more than halved. Just in the last few years.

Sometimes I feel like I'm going crazy when I tell my sister about how many bees and butterflies and dragonflies there were when I was a kid compared to now.

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Do not like this attempt to turn “mutual aid” into a cop word

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Assembly member mark gonzalez are you telling me you don’t have a fire extinguisher

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Petition to make reporters correctly differentiate between “danger”, “risk”, “violence”, and “property damage”

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jessica helgerson's kitchen, paris

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Wauchula, Florida, USA

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can i offer you some bugs in these trying times

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Peaches in Sunlight - Aimee Erickson  

American, French b.  1967 -

Oil on canvas ,  8 x 10 in.

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when I was a kid I read a sci-fi story where some researcher discovers that all crocodiles since prehistory have had the same congenital heart defect, so they set about curing it. when they do, suddenly their research specimen starts getting stronger and healthier and growing rapidly and developing new appendages, and it turns out all crocodilians were actually stunted sickly forms of dragons. that story really stuck with me because it's basically an expression of the "what if I went to the doctor and they discovered I was deficient in one special vitamin and then I took a pill and all my problems and ailments vanished immediately" fantasy.

unrelated, I started taking daily antihistamines this month for the first time in my life,

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These circles are stationary

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the tv show "the torment nexus game is bad" being a poignant critique of wage slavery and class disparity and capitalism that is popularized in the west by big tv corporation bc it makes them money, then being turned into "the torment nexus game is bad: the game show" by the most souless and therefore most popular youtuber because it makes him money, so then big tv corporation makes their OWN "the torment nexus game is bad: the OFFICIAL game show" to make even more money off the "the torment nexus game is bad" fictional critique of capitalism tv show, and then it turns out that many allegations of torment nexus-like conditions come out of both reality tv game shows but there aren't any consequences. and then Bigger Corporation goes to the soulless youtuber and is like. lets make another "the torment nexus game is bad" -esque game show to make us a lot of money because the people stuck in the torment nexus love that shit. it's called "the torment nexus game is fun :-)" and then the writer of the "the torment nexus game is bad" posts on twitter that he fucking hates his own story and what it has become. you would think this is a plot from a heavy-handed early black mirror episode but it is unfortunately a plot from real life

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no shade but i can tell your trinkets and knick-knacks werent even collected organically over time bro 😂😂

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c gardens like she’s doing the set design on hannibal

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I finished a baby quilt that I was keeping secret because the baby's parents follow me here. Get pranked! I love you!!

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does anyone make like... like real violet gel pens? I feel like the ink always looks blueish or reddish...

i dont suppose they publish absorption spectra