iamoutofideas:

polyphonetic:

danceintheskies:

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HAPPY 8TH BIRTHDAY TASTES LIKE PRION DISEASE !!!

This says it was posted on September 7202nd, 1993

they don’t know about endless september

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hydrargyrus:

Neptuno (Melenara, Gran Canaria).

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marisashorror:

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Whistling Ghost

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warriorprincess1995:

wreckitremy:

30-minute-memes:

Need to be mindful for our feathered friends!

I’ve queued this to post around the time that alot of babies will be hatching.

Go buy some frozen veggies and feed the babies

It is baby season right now. A lot of babies are being born right now and people keep bringing them into the sanctuary. Sometimes its best to leave them alone.

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headspace-hotel:

headspace-hotel:

headspace-hotel:

screechingcollectivechorus:

headspace-hotel:

headspace-hotel:

I love seeing “self-care” posts that are full of great ideas like drinking water and eating food and generally meeting your bodily needs, and they also say something like “go to bed at 9:00 pm”

My life experiences have shown me that if I feel like going to bed before 11:00 pm, this means one of a few things:

  • I’m getting the flu
  • I’m off my meds
  • I’m about to have a total mental breakdown from stress and exhaustion

Right but these are all times when you’re doing it as a natural response to other stressors. Go to bed at 9pm to take care of yourself, when you’re not at your worst. Then you might not have that break down or at least you’ll have the energy to handle it better

You’re missing what I’m trying to say here.

If I went to bed at 9pm it would accomplish nothing but giving me a miserable 4 hours of lying in bed vibrating with restlessness.

As a child and a young teenager I had persistent, incurable insomnia. I would lie in bed every night for hours unable to sleep and it was awful. I also woke up in the middle of the night sometimes multiple times.

Then, around the time I was 15-16 or so, I started staying up later (going to bed around 12:30) and my insomnia magically disappeared. I started falling asleep within 15 minutes of getting in bed.

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This is soooo true. Sometimes you need the Comfy Time, not sleeping just resting and making space for calm. I love taking some time for the Comfy Time it’s so blissful

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chronicallyonlinesworld:

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morpo

Just read your plastic bug review ( absolutely delightful!) and Id love to hear your mosquito hot takes if you have the time.

headspace-hotel:

bogleech:

Well there’s a viral lie that they’re ecologically valueless and of course, no, there’s really no such thing, and their importance goes far beyond just another food for insect-eaters, but that’s more “scientific facts” than “hot takes” so as far as “hot takes” go:

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  • They’re both beautiful and cute animals, more charming than butterflies.
  • The fact that they’re bothersome vampires is part of the charm, it’s just plain cool that our planet has swarms of night-flying blood-sucking swamp creatures.
  • I completely reject their status as “deadliest animal” on the basis that a mosquito by itself is irritating but inherently harmless. The diseases they can carry are distinct organisms that evolved to exploit the mosquito as a vehicle. It is worth noting that only a few mosquito species can even transmit illnesses to humans at all!
  • Speaking of which I notice people are quick to defend bats, raccoons, rats and other more popular animals that can spread disease, but use mosquito borne illness as justification to want mosquitoes totally eradicated, and I think that’s pretty transparently a matter of petty spite. Take away the diseases and the mosquito is still an “inconvenience,” however harmless, and humans just have a very difficult time with the reality that nature does not exist for our comfort and fun.
  • Can’t help noticing that research into just killing them all off gets more attention and funding than the equally viable and environmentally safer research into simply making them inhospitable to pathogens, and I’m sure that’s driven partially by the above biases, but partially because there’s probably money and clout in being the one to reduce Pesky Bugs from popular tourist destinations like Florida.
  • Even having said all of the above, an animal never needs to be harmless, pleasant, or ecologically “essential” to be worthy of admiration. Each is a unique and special sculpture of evolution and a “character” in the vast varied cast of living organisms. Some of them are allowed to be bad guys. Some of them are allowed to just be background filler. The total sum of the different forms taken by life on our planet is what’s precious about life on our planet, including every part of it anyone has ever feared or hated.
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Something I learned when researching pesticides is that the use of pesticides to kill mosquitoes in areas where mosquito borne illnesses are prevalent has led to them evolving resistance, and to pesticides contaminating the environment so much they’ve been found in human breast milk.

Releasing genetically modified mosquitoes that can’t spread malaria >>>>>>>>> trying to kill off mosquitoes with pesticides that have a variety of harms to the environment and humans

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  yo I love this topic I’ve done research (as a job) on wolbachia    which is another way to get mosquitos that cannot pass on malaria    and other diseases    crispr cas9 is another method but    but I’m love wolbachia my beloved    also a close friend of mine has a paper on the pesticide resistant mosquitos    anyway uhhhh send me a dm if want info on subjects in this post    I am researcher   




mamoru:

there is no minimum amount of suffering before you are allowed to want to alleviate it

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mererecorder:

Iconic historical stage designs for The Queen of the Night sequence from Mozart’s “Magic Flute” - the first image by Karl Friedrich Schinkel in 1815, the second by Simon Quaglio in 1818 (x)

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wilwheaton:

yeahiwasintheshit:

flamingthespian:

corvigae:

corvigae:

I keep having to tear down extremely predatory/misleading Scien.tology flyers in my school’s art building. This is the third fucking time I’ve ripped the fuckers up and I’m getting Real Fucking Tired of it.

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If you see shit like this DO NOT call the number, do not do anything to interact with these fucking people. Take down the posters if you’re able to. They do NOT want to help you. They are a literal fucking cult who openly despise psychology and any actual proven mental health science, and are actively trying to trick mentally/emotionally vulnerable people into joining.

The red flags here are “Hubbard,” the name of their founder, and “dianetics,” the crackpot theory they teach for “auditing” your sins from your past lives.

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I’d like to add what @jaspertheshark said in the tags because I feel it’s important

youre doing gods work. continue ripping them down!

scientology is a cult. it is deadly. it destroys lives. stay as far away from it as you can.

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