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The b*tch of people pleasing is that anyone in your life who makes you feel like you need to scramble for their approval probably isn't going to eventually say "that's good enough, you've earned it, you can relax now."

The only way to "win" a rigged game is not to play.

YouTube video by UArizona Mining Engineering & Mineral Resources America's First Metal Industry: The Old Copper Complex

The Old Copper complex, was an ancient Native American culture around Michigan that mined (>5,000 mines) & worked the 99% pure native copper for tools, weapons, and ornaments as far back as 9,500 yrs. Fascinating! #MichiganCopper More

#OreCup ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🍎 🔭🪐

Ryan Moulton @moultano Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists. You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth, made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?

Strata the torbie cat stretching in the sunlight

🙀 Belly

A least weasel. It fits in the palm of the hand.

If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”

State Senator Louise Lucas, I must apologize, I was not familiar with your game

A schematic of the multiple types of communication and weapons systems: laser guided munitions, GPS aided bombs, SATCOM jammer

The diagram for what Palantir does is like if Richard Scarry got super paranoid and did an Apocalypse picture book

Racist and misogynist who co-authored the papers laying out the structure of DNA has died.

A final fuck off to James Watson and to every news source who’s naming him as one of two co-discoverers of DNA structure without mentioning Rosalind Franklin. 🖕

divergentcoachkelly on Threads * 2h ADHD is knowing exactly what you need to do then watching yourself not do it like you're a scientist observing a very dumb experiment

10/10 take. No notes.

The "Trump v. Hawaii" standard they're citing to justify this was the case in Trump 1.0 when SCOTUS greenlit his Muslim travel ban, emphasizing that your rights are only as strong as your neighbors

Poets.org it was a dream Lucille Clifton 1936 - 2010 in which my greater self rose up before me accusing me of my life with her extra finger whirling in a gyre of rage at what my days had come to. what, i pleaded with her, could i do, oh what could i have done? and she twisted her wild hair and sparked her wild eyes and screamed as long as i could hear her This. This. This.

Listening to Florence and the Machine’s “Everybody Scream” and thinking of Lucille Clifton’s “It was a Dream”

Poems are spells, songs are spells, screams are the most primal of spells

What should you do about the nightmare we find ourselves in?

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Yeah, this was set to "Hide" in my settings. Fuck right off with that.

The year limped on with a malign heart, never quite letting go of its fever. Even as it moved towards the inevitably of ice and long hours of darkness, the village sweated out visions. Evening chatter in both pubs was filled with augury. Ghosts gathered. - #CLNolan, The Growling of the Land, 1912

There has to be a way to create this scene without AI. Oh please someone make it happen and prove me right... :)

Mr Measured just ran in here to tell me he saw a video that said all the little girls dressed as Rumi, Mira, and Zoey on Halloween last week sealed the honmoon so things can get better now so if you need me I’ll be sobbing in a corner 😭

Terry Pratchett if you’ve been alive this whole time pretending to be a polar scientist, I swear—

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#garweek

imagine if it happened this week after everything else we've been blessed with

New Slogan: Get Paid. Get Laid. Vote Democrat.

Just going to save this to use as a reaction image whenever someone comes out as trans

Cute gray kitten staring into the camera

Since you probably don’t have four week old foster kittens, I will share this one with you.

I went a third of a century accepting, on the testimony of a cartoon, that coyotes chase roadrunners before I ever saw the real thing.

If we go on strike, our union of 12,000 workers are calling on customers to NOT BUY STARBUCKS.

Sign our pledge to not cross a picket line and we'll send you local calls to action - nocontractnocoffee.org

New York City: a muslim socialist is going to become our mayor

Dick Cheney: over my dead body

For the witch, there are times when the river becomes a fluid scrying, a constant flow of omens. It's tutelary spirit whispers wisdom in her ears, its magics ripple across her psychic skin. She becomes one with its shaping song. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

Yup. The Dodgers represent the city of Los Angeles and the people of Los Angeles. This administration has waged war on the people of Los Angeles.

"Ich askid ChatGPT." Well *Ich* askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.

the real hero here is the defense attorney who is in court thinking of all the same sandwich puns we are and can’t giggle, can’t smile, can’t even make a rye remark