I am once again thinking about digging holes

It's so fucked up that digging a bunch of holes works so well at reversing desertification

I hate that so much discourse into fighting climate change is talking about bioenginerring a special kind of seaweed that removes microplastics or whatever other venture-capital-viable startup idea when we have known for forever about shit like digging crescent shaped holes to catch rainwater and turning barren land hospitable

100 year old rhododendron and the woman who planted it

And they actually met 😭

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/04/09/solar-eclipse-new-york-teacher/

logging on to tumblr dot com after watching my little weewoo show to see what my pocket friends are saying

online communities are so strange because people slip away so easily. you can be on here for years, folding people you've never met into the fabric of your daily life, and then they disappear, leaving only ghost posts scattered across tumblr behind. or their blog stays dormant, for weeks, months, years, until you're only still following them because you remember that they love sunflowers or they were kind to you when they didn't have to be or the last thing they posted was sad and raw and you still worry about them sometimes.

and sometimes they come back when you least expect it, years later, even, and there's this sudden rush of relief like there you are, there you are, even though you barely knew each other.

there's a strange kind of love to it. i don't know you and i want to hold your hand across miles and time zones and oceans. i can still see the imprint of you in this community you left. you don't anyone will notice or care when you're gone, but we notice and we care and we wish you well.

i hope you're all okay out there. i hope the sun is shining on your face and you are breathing deeply. i miss you.

I actually think about this so much you have no idea.

I mourn every friend that's gone off somewhere

bisexual confusion -> bisexual clarity

BI BUCK CONFIRMED FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the way he looked him up and down...

i don't think chess sets be like

I'm so sorry but

yeah

Chess piece designers: I don’t remember what a human looks like but I can carve the fuck out of a horse

My cats have this meow that means "please come with me to fix this" after which they'll lead me to the problem in question, usually a empty (or 'empty') food bowl or a closed door they want open. They look at the 'problem', they look back at me, clear message.

What fascinates me is how this illustrates what they percieve as being in the realm of my 'power.' I control the food, I control the door, sure, but my cats love to sit on the balcony in the sun, and it has happened plenty of times that on a rainy day they come get me, go to the balcony and show me... the rain. "Please fix this" they say. "Please get rid of the wet"

"Silly kitty," I say, "I can't control the rain." I then walk into the shower and turn on the rain.

I hope this is a universal cat owner experience. Every single night he begs me to turn the sun back on so he can watch birds on the balcony. I tell him no, I cannot do that.

But I can turn lights on and off in the house and he's fairly certain I'm just not applying myself properly here.

Holy hell, we're in trouble.

Jessie Arms Botke (American, 1883-1971), White Peacocks and Datura. Oil with gold leaf on board, 31 ½ x 25 ½ in.

Credit to @wizardofbarge

Here's an article about it from the new Yorker

The judge was a Reagan appointee lmao

1. The person who twerked in court was Richard Montez, co-owner of 360 Queen Entertainment (a business that organises drag performances).

2. The New Yorker article is a really good read.

3. I'm in love with this picture from said New Yorker article. Dude on the left is a Big Mood.

honestly good for him? he didn't know what he was supposed to be ruling on, so he asked for a demonstration, and the demonstration convinced him it was art. good on him for being willing to accept new data

You couldn’t write this, people would tell you it’s bad writing

Let me tell y’all, as someone who does drag in Austin, TX, seeing your friends become part of national media coverage because of this is pretty fucking wild.

The far right kind of honed in on Brigitte (queen in pink) as the object of all their ire, and the moment she saw that happening she kind of seized on it. Brigitte is AFAB, nonbinary, and asexual out of drag (these are all things she’s very public about, I’m not outing her). She knew that a right wing hate movement that is obsessed with portraying drag as something sexual done by pedophilic gay men wouldn’t know how to deal with her. So she stepped up and basically was like “you want to make me the face of this? Fine. I’ll use that opportunity to show every single one of you how wrong and ridiculous you are.” And it’s been such a curve ball for them, it’s been working. They don’t know what to do with an AFAB queen. She ruins all of their arguments. They don’t know how to write their laws in a way that excludes her from doing drag without being so broad it excludes literally half the population of Texas from existing, and that’s what is a huge part of these laws not holding water. She also has been pretty tirelessly doing a lot of very public activism, and was the only individual drag performer part of the suit against the state of Texas.

It hasn’t been easy for her, because obviously being a public figure like this means getting a lot of hate. But it’s also cool as hell. And leads to hilarious moments like the fucking Daily Mail writing bullshit like “Bandit CLAIMS she was born a woman” and her literal biological mother being like “so as an authority who was indeed there…”

lol and in the same trial as the twerking, she explained to the judge what a breast plate was and why she wears one sometimes, and used Dolly Parton as an example.