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Absynthe Walker

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The secrets scientists don’t want you to know about:

  • Their caffeine consumption habits
  • How many showers were skipped
  • That they are actually fake scientists unlike their brilliant colleagues

It is our duty to spiritualize the periodic table

Carbon, the bridge, that which can be anything, the bond maker, the peace bringer, it of substance and warmth and strength and body

Oxygen, the destroyer, it who breaks and it who breaks and it who burns, the spark of the entropy that is life

Hydrogen, the pure, the begining, it who made all else, the one point kept, the capper of carbons ends, the ignition of oxygens fire

You. You get me.

I’ve stood inside a fusion reactor and brushed gloved fingers across graphite shielding tiles that still shimmered from exposure to fusing hydrogen. I've stared into a furnace and watched plumes of carbon nanotubes coalesce out of invisible vapor.

I can't even begin to imagine anything more awe-inspiring than the nuclear binding energy of helium. If I weren't jewish, I wouldn't mind doing a religion to it. Obviously there's nothing supernatural there, but it's still magical, you know?

You get it.

my favourite jerma bit is when he read out a message from a donator who wanted to propose to their girlfriend through the stream, but then jerma tripped over his wording and accidentally proposed to the donators girlfriend and the chat just filled with "jerma HATES love" "jerma STEALS VIEWERS FUTURE WIFE."

Yes, we fucked up a lot. but it is not all doom and gloom. Good news about Białowieża Forest! January 20th 2023- Largest recorded herd of bison recorded on outskirts of Białowieża Forest

European bison have now rebounded from vulnerable to near threatened, which means they are no longer at risk of global extinction in near future.

That still means habitat needs to be protected. Old growth forest still needs protected, but little of it is left.  Forest that’s not old growth but is old regrowth also needs that so it cane become that old growth some day

The trend is not relentlessly downward.Do not be complacent, but also do not be hopeless or blind to what others did decades ago and are now coming to fruition.

where I live they've cut mostly all old growth. it's farm trees now. depressing

where I live they’ve cut

mostly all old growth. it’s farm

trees now. depressing

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

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'unrepairable' bullshit; reforestation is absolutely an achievable goal. Yes, it will take multiple human lifetimes. That doesn't mean it's hopeless.

^^^This. You are NOT allowed to give up hope or let the efforts of thousands and millions of your fellow human beings and ancestors go unrecognised like this! Get your ass up and stop moaning, and go plant a tree! If you live in the northeast, give money to the people reviving the American Chestnut. If you live in any part of the east, plant a fucking sycamore. These are the keystone trees out here, and if you can't plant one, then go LOOK for them! The American Chestnut Foundation needs citizen scientists to go out and look for old trees so they can collect pollen and help keep the revival genetically diverse and that's something you CAN do, right now.

If you live in the UK, look up Reforesting Scotland, an organization for doing exactly that. Or the Great Northumberland Forest if you're in England, or The Native Woodland Trust in Eire. India has Greenvein, and there are many others that I found just looking up the Reforestation category on wikipedia.

HOWEVER, as a desert-dweller I want to make clear that forests are not the only biome that needs protection and restoration! If you live somewhere that isn't supposed to be a forest; that is chaparral, desert, prairie, or wetland, remember that those biomes are equally important and healthy too--and beautiful! And don't forget aquatic biomes too, like kelp forest, sea grass prairie, rivers, and lakes! (Corals are very charismatic but they are just like forests in that they're often myopically considered the only worthy biome.)

If you live in the gulf coast states of the US or other swampy areas, then champion your wetlands! Successful campaigns have replanted mangroves, which offer important protection against hurricanes and coastal erosion--this is badly needed in Louisiana and Florida for example.

If you live in Southern California, Arizona, and New Mexico, you live in chaparral country and desert country, and those are delicate and ancient biomes that have been devastated too and need help, particularly because so many people look at them and say, 'what a worthless waste with no life' and that is not true my friends! Deep roots are what old growth in deserts and prairies look like, and to that end we need to change how we think about farming and let deserts BE deserts, particularly since the deserts in the southwestern US are so badly treated by local industries, and so unique on earth!

I am lucky enough to come from roots that paid attention to the helpers and the revivals, the (successful!) effort to rescue California Condors was a success story that was local that I got to see happen in real time. You cannot sit there and succumb to apathy and giving up, I know you're tired and fed up but the only thing different now is that the information isn't buried, not that things are somehow worse. They aren't worse, in fact they are getting better because so many people KNOW now and are out there WORKING ON IT. You have to do that too! There's no 'or' you just have to!

You are not allowed to give up on our home!

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Video Description:

Man in an office is holding a stunt safe foam rubber cinder block:  This is a prop foam rubber cinder block, that way we can smack an actor with it, and it won’t kill him.  [man throws the prop at his coworker’s head].  But if it DID kill him, I’d still get off scot-free

Coworker [off-screen]:  How would you do that, Scott?

Scott:  Because there’d be no concrete evidence.

Coworker: [throws foam rubber cinder-block at Scott’s head]

please note that for both impacts someone did foley work to make the foam brick go 'bang!'

the truman show dir. peter weir

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this is what dating an instgram influencer must be like

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I always thought this was the most unrealistic part of all of The Truman Show. If Truman grew up with people around him regularly stopping their normal conversations to do a quick product ad, not only would he think it was normal, he’d also start doing it himself. He’d drive the producers nuts by regularly doing ads for things they weren’t paid to do ads for. No Truman! Talk about the toothpaste! The toothpaste! The mouthwash company didn’t pay us nearly enough for you to hawk their products! Maybe we can charge them an unexpected Truman marketing surcharge. Now how do we get him to talk about the toothpaste? Maybe if we have his wife tell him his teeth are getting much whiter.

But he would really drive them crazy by doing ads for things that aren’t products. “Mmmmm, water! Cool and refreshing.”

Alternative interpretation: Meryl’s actress is panicking in this scene. Truman is becoming more and more aware of his situation, the illusion is breaking, and they’re all in trouble. Her and everyone else’s coverup skills were tested to the limit when he drove over the bridge. Her improv skills are breaking down. Not knowing what to do, she defaults to an advertisement - at a bad time.

Most of the time the advertisements are better-placed. For example, Meryl showing off the Chef’s Pal, saying she got it for free at checkout. That’s more within the realm of normal human behavior. If you get something really neat for free, you’d probably share the news with your spouse. Or “Y'know, you really oughta throw out that mower. Get one of those new Elk Rotaries!” These aren’t conversation-stoppers, they’re natural and plausible enough that, if they did affect Truman’s own speech patterns, it wouldn’t be very perceptible.

But to start shilling chocolate like that at this moment? Right after the crossing-the-bridge incident? When Truman is doubting the authenticity of their relationship and the entire world around him? I’ll also note her tone of voice is different, and more obviously artificial, from the earlier product placements, which fit more in line with her character. Even considering his manipulated view of human nature, that is not something normal people do. And that further breaks the illusion for him.

And yes, this would be what dating an Instagram influencer is like

And yes, this would be

what dating an Instagram

influencer is like

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Every child abuse survivor who has done even 2 secs of healing inherently understands why we should not be mindlessly supporting “parents rights.”

Just another way the right is using warm fuzzy language to describe truly heinous things.

Thank god for the adults who taught me things my parents wouldn’t. Thank fucking god.

sorry but it’s actually so horrific how little of a sense of community people have, how little regard they extend towards the other humans around them. killing people for being loud on the subway or turning around in your driveway. loading your gun and waiting at the door because a child ran your doorbell unexpectedly. ring cameras, neighborhoodapp, community watch group Facebook pages. you’ve assigned yourself the role of the one true peacekeeper and casted everyone else around you as a threat to be controlled. there’s no connection or love or compassion. just a deep distrust and hatred.

and the people who face the most significant consequences from this are the ones who are already deemed as outsiders. people of color, especially Black people, disabled people, people with mental illnesses, homeless people.

and so many people are willfully promoting this complete alienation from each other. the obsession with true crime, the hatred directed at children for existing in public spaces, the policing and controlling of where homeless people are allowed to be / what they’re allowed to do, the constant fearmongering about public transportation. you are building a society of FEAR. you are conditioning yourself to distrust everyone around you. you need to make an active, conscious effort to engage with the world and the life around you in a healthy manner.

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giving u $5 in exchange for the promise of a tbh who says sth like "i promise i am eating a real meal" (so that i can send it to friends who r worried about my eating habits lol)

My 15yo would like his cat to be internet famous. So. Y'all know what to do, yeah?!

Feel free to repost. He's hoping to see it in unexpected places!

you may notice i use the phrase "my beloved" frequently. this is because i am in love with the world and everything in it. hope this clears things up <3

girl help the pessimists found me

"girl help i am staunchly refusing to realise my own naivete in a world almost completely made up of things that couldnt care less about me or are actively exploiting me"

Girl help the pessimists are mistaking an inherently meaningless universe for an inhumane and joyless one rather than recognizing the opportunity to make one’s own meaning and joy and to spread those things to others