🎶me and my (figurine) husband🎶

Knitting, 2021 - by Joseph Ford, English

this is one of a [series] and they're all fantastic

joseph ford is the photographer and the knitter who made the pieces is nina dodd (ninadoddknits.com)

brutus before he stabs caesar: orange you glad to see me

While the Onion buying InfoWars is indeed extremely funny, very few of the posts I've seen commenting on the sale have mentioned that the families of the Sandy Hook victims apparently agreed to voluntarily reduce their lawsuit payout as part of a deal to ensure that the Onion would acquire InfoWars wholesale, rather than having the company broken up and auctioned off piecemeal, as the latter course could potentially have allowed some of those pieces to end up back in the hands of Alex Jones' cronies.

Like, yes, it is in fact very funny that InfoWars is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Clickhole, but the real props go out to the Sandy Hook families who saw the opportunity and willingly gave up the additional millions of dollars that could have been realised by stripping InfoWars for parts in order to make that happen.

Lemon.

Where did my lemon go

My suspiciously pink lemonade:

I wish I was a stress cleaner. Never once has my response to stress been “time to employ some good habits”

I know most of tumblr is thinking about the USA right now. but fuck the nz government right now too. tomorrow, the treaty principles bill, the 'worst, most comprehensive breach of Te Tiriti in modern times' is being introduced to parliament early, because there were activations planned country wide and the cowards decided to pull it forwards. fuck this government. a friend of mine had to go home early, crying. I've been in shock all day since it came out.

check on your Māori friends, e hoa mā. see what they need. see how you can help. everyday, we see and experience racism. from people around us, up to our government. community care will save us.

it passed its first reading today.

go to the hīkoi if you're in aotearoa.

sign the petition even if you're not.

when submissions open, write one.

reshare Māori peoples voices on social media.

check in on the Māori in your life. fund mutual aid for Māori. send us your aroha.

PEBKAC: Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair (the user is the issue here) Lithobraking Maneuver (our rocket stopped because it crashed into rocks)

Hephaestus :D

Hephaestus using mobility aids? FUCK YEAH! 🤘

Yash Darji aka Yash Earth (Indian, based Vadodara, Gujarat, India) - Indian Flying Fox - Gujarat, Photography

why is there not a nobel prize for wildlife photography

okay I’ll say it nicer:

australia was colonised according to the myth of terra nullius (or empty land). ever since the very early days of colonialism, the land has been framed as something untameable and unliveable. this has justified acts of violence against the first peoples here, in that they are seen as non-people. it has justified the destruction of sacred land in the goal of making australia look more european. (an example: our capital city contains a man-made lake that is now nothing better than a fetid carp pond. it’s disgusting and unnatural). basically, the idea of “taming australia’ has justified endless harm

“everything in australia is weird and dangerous” is not just some silly meme phrase, it is something that arcs back to the very beginning of white settlers laying claim to ‘australia’. and personally I am very sick of seeing it thrown around like it means nothing

Can't wait for people to stop joking about how all the wildlife in australia is scary and deadly...

Yeah and like... I think there is space to talk about the ways Australia is relatively unique or at least different to other places: our snakes and spiders are more dangerous than anyone else's, but our native bees and 'bears' are safer. You might die of sunstroke but you won't die in a blizzard, earthquake, or tornado.

Australia is not especially dangerous, or unfriendly, it's just 'different', but then the question is different to what. Why should deadly earthquakes and forests full of murderous bears be seen as more normal? Why is a desert any more weird or scary than a bog or tundra? Why are cold damp places seen as the only form of natural beauty, why do people see warm dry places as dead when they are full of life, and see warm damp places as full of TOO MUCH life somehow? Why, even in Australia, do we use the aesthetics of red October leaves and Christmas snow, and not celebrations of the beautiful seasonal changes we actually see all around us? Why are white Australians so actively hostile to engaging and connecting with the local cultures that have been celebrating and working with the place we live for thousands of years, and even after hundreds of years still see our home as Strange?

Yes, let's definitely have a conversation about why the European colonists were invested in the belief that the indigenous people didn't cultivate the land.

YEAH, THAT TOO. It's important to remember that the way Indigenous Australians were and are treated would be just as unjustified if they were all hunter gatherers. But they were not, and that lie has been spread for a reason.

Also I read through the replies and people point out that exactly the same sort of exotification into a Dangerous Alien Landscape Which Must Be Tamed happens with Africa, Asia, The Middle East etc. Even like... Scotland and Italy, back in the day. And for similar reasons. And this kind of imagery is everywhere, like play any video game with multiple biomes or cultures etc (real or fictional) and see which ones are treated as Normal and which ones are Weird and Scary/Exotic.

"The Australian landscape is alien and mysterious and will kill you" has been a trope since the very first white people looked at this continent, and it's tiring.

I wish I could explain to my cat that she is an obligate carnivore

like miss girl...my supper is legumes and noodles

W H A T are you so hopefully sniffing for????

I once left a hot pastrami sandwich from subway unattended and upon return 30 seconds later found my cat Burdock digging through it. He grabbed part of it and ran off. I pursued and once I cornered him I discovered he had grabbed not a mouthful of the meat, but instead one of the pepperoncinis and was happily crunching away at it.

thread count is a lie perpetrated by Big Bedsheets. what really matters is the material.

i said this as a joke but then i googled this and

turns out i was right?????? high thread count IS a lie?????

Wunk is NOT trapped

he is encased in glass for your viewing pleasure

I’m so obsessed with this gif bc obi wan looks like he’s so happy but a little bit nervous to see dex he looks like he’s picking up dex for prom. he looks like he’s in love. in love with dex jettster. fuck you satine obi wan wants a big frog thing with four arms not your hillary clinton self 

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in case you ever doubted im a megamind level genius i made this post in 2011 

if you’re so genius how come i just unloaded your Swagg.. it’s 2024 buddy

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