Stream of Consciousness

Waiting for the Wind  -   Ciba Karisik , 2015.

Bosnian, b. 1959  -

Oil on canvas,  49.5 × 61.5 in.   125.73 × 156.21 cm.

CHAPPELL ROAN via Instagram (November 3, 2024)

in the vein of "how do you stay safe from getting sick", I wanna say that something I always noticed as a kid was that a lot of the time when I went to people's houses and we would leave at some point to the mall or the park or something and then come back home…I don't remember any of them washing their hands when we got back inside. they'd just immediately lead me back to their room or the living room or something, and then I'd feel incredibly self-conscious about going to their bathroom to wash my own hands. and I always thought it was absolutely bizarre because the way I was raised, the first thing you do when you come back home after taking your shoes and jacket off is go wash your hands. it's common sense. why on planet earth would you not wash your hands. you've just been touching a hundred public surfaces that could have anything on them and you think as soon as you set foot in your own house all the germs you've picked up just evaporate? it's absolutely insane to me to know that so many people don't bother washing their hands. WASH YOUR HANDS.

the amount of people tagging this with variations of "wow I never thought to do this" is actually making me want to scream please for the love of GOD practice proper hygiene

i'm going to get a good grade in knowing which 6-digit code is the most fuckable, something which is both normal to want and possible to achieve

this chart is what haunts me. there is a massive amount of misinformation driving people to think that the problems Trump talks about solving even exist. without a functioning press, how do you campaign effectively against someone whose voters aren't even living in reality in three months

just absolute bugfucking chaos out there. catastrophic communication failure

What if you and me had a little ranch somewhere…a little cow-and-calf operation? It'd be a sweet life. HEATH LEDGER AND JAKE GYLLENHAAL AS ENNIS DEL MAR AND JACK TWIST Brokeback Mountain (2005) Dir. Ang Lee

Didi Jackson, from "Poem With the Last Line as the First"

cannot stop thinking about this tweet… AUGH 😭

#he doesn't joke about flowers BRIDGERTON (2020—) S03 | E05

Tide Pool (1980) by Jeremy Miranda

bro i LOVE indigenous fusion music i love it when indigenous people take traditional practices and language and apply them in new cool ways i love the slow decay and decolonisation of the modern music industry

I WILL !!! I WILL DO THAT

some of my favourite indigenous artists, in no particular order:

Inuit artists:

Māori artists:

Indigenous australian artists:

Another one for Inuit artists is Piqsiq! Two sisters who’ve been doing traditional throat singing since they were kids. They make some really gorgeous, eerie, atmospheric stuff. Highly recommend watching this video of them performing live a cappella using a looping machine, because they might be the coolest people on the planet actually

(Jo March nearly in tears voice) women,,,,

For anyone into North Asian and Central Asian folk music, there's this incredible Siberian folk-pop band called Otyken! The group is mostly women and they're from multiple indigenous groups in Siberia, with songs being sung in their range of different languages. They're so much fun and their music videos are amazing!

cannot recommend Halluci Nation (formerly A Tribe Called Red) strongly enough

Loooove DakhaBrakha! They’re a Ukrainian folk fusion band

do you all see my vision here

having read the silmarillion before reading fellowship of the ring adds a lot of fun depth to the experience, such as understanding that bilbo singing a song about earendil the mariner while a guest of elrond’s is a bit out of pocket of him

once i was presenting research at a conference where everyone who received money from a specific grant had to go to basically be like “and here’s what we’re doing with your money.”

and there was a team there presenting on astrophysics and I truly barely understood a thing they said. my team was there to talk about salamander eDNA, and the juxtaposition between Space Math and swabbing salamanders with cotton-tips just struck me as deeply funny.

Later some of the Space people came by and asked us all about the salamanders and one of them said, “I can’t imagine working with animals and water. It’s all so messy. I don’t know how you stay sane with those variables?”

And I was like, “dude I didn’t even know the math you talked about today even existed.”

And we were both just like 🤝 “love your work. huge fan. I’d rather die than do it though.”

These are smocking patterns. If you stitch these patterns into flat fabric and then pull the threads to gather the fabric, it will produce these patterns on the finished fabric. Smocking manipulates flat fabric into three dimensions.

The beautiful fabric that looked like dragon scales on costumes in the tv show Game of Thrones were produced by smocking, by sewing a particular pattern into the fabric and then pulling those threads just the right amount to gather the fabric into that pattern.

Gun are the problem. Always will be.

if you hired a galapagos finch as a linecook it would perfectly evolve a beak to optimally smoke cigarettes behind the dumpsters