Fireflies photograph in trees with long time exposure.

He was right: I do not believe my eyes.

wippy

Middle Jomon Dogu Seed Pod Fragments, Discs and Pottery Forms, Japan, 5000 years old, 'Circles of Stone: Stonehenge and Prehistoric Japan' Exhibition, Stonehenge Visitor Centre, Wiltshire

What I've been up to lately! 🎃🍄🍂

They will be in my shop soon! There's also some paint palettes/trinket dishes and other things Im quite excited about.

I wont say a specific date for the shop-update yet because I'm really trying to take things slow atm, stress has taken a big toll on me recently.

These have been fired since these videos were filmed - and now Im going to do some last details (like sanding a rough edge here, adding a bottle strap there), then get them all properly photographed/filmed in their natural habitat, and prepare the shop and the preview, before they can move to their new homes! 😊

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Attempting a douyin trend yet again

English added by me :)

It's actually kind of fascinating how exclusively english-as-a-second-language teachers only come in lawful alignments. I've had lawful evil english teachers, lawful neutral english teachers, and lawful good english teachers, but never one that wasn't one of the above.

Like how does a person whose entire moral code and sense of ethics is founded on a stalwart faith that There Are Rules That Must Be Followed dedicate their entire life's work to teaching the most chaotic goblin goddamn language currently spoken on Earth, that looted the word "loot", hunted their singular second person pronoun to extinction, and whose spelling and pronunciation are so detached from each other that native speakers have national competitions about getting it right?

Or is it like being a priest. Like you just have to have absolute faith in the ultimate sense and logic of it all, no matter how much evidence you see to the contrary, or you'll never make it in the field.

This is an excellent NY Times interactive article, so the above link is a gift 🎁 link so anyone can read the entire article, even if the don't subscribe to the NY Times. Here are some excerpts.

Below is the final graphic in the article that shows all the people connected with Trump's coup attempt, including some who refused to go along with it:

This interactive article is well worth reading, and I invite you to use the above gift link to do so.

______________ The text of this article is by Michelle Cottle; the graphics are by Taylor Maggiacomo and Norman Eisen.

just learned about the ginkgo trees that survived the nuclear blast in Hiroshima

you cannot kill me in a way that matters

At Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park, you'll also find a Parasol tree that not only survived the bombing, but has since begun to produce more trees :)

But my favourite exhibit has to be from the nearby Honkawa Elementary school museum, commemorating the Canna plant that became a symbol of hope for many when it was discovered sprouting up in the wreckage only two weeks after the blast...after the Americans claimed nothing would grow in Hiroshima for seventy-five years:

Anyways, did you know that there is one single law passed in 1947 that single handedly killed US Labor. You didn't well let me explain what it did. The Taft Hartley Act banned mass strikes, closed shops, wildcat stikes, solidarity strikes, unions donations to political campaigns, secondary boycotts, required labor organizers to swear to the NLRB that they weren't Communists and It passed despite a fucking presidential Veto.

You know what the Democrats should campaign on repealing in 2024? Maybe it starts with a T and ends in aft Hartley Act. I mean it could help them win the Midwest because every man in Wisconsin is a Union

All I'm saying is we were able to repeal the DoMA last year, why not repeal some more shitty laws this year. It would be fun your honor

This is why they don't let me get drunk at parties, I apparently start scaring the hoes or something by explaining the history of American Labor to people and they throw me out of the party

Hey gotta scare people with the battle of Blair mountain as well keep them guessing

Are you kidding, of course I talk about Blair Mountain, how can someone talk about the American Labor Movement without discussing Blair Mountain, the Haymarket Affair, and the Pullman Strike. Those are Iconic events and some of the most important moments in American History

Wild that those aree real things that happen and then you have people oooo strikes and protests are inconvenient.

When someone says that, you are legally allowed to punch them <3

As an ancom from Chicago, I'm familiar with Haymarket (even going to the martyrs' memorial for the first time this past May) but never heard of Pullman until now.

The Pullman Strike was a railroad strike against the poor pay and the lack of democracy in the comapany town of Pullman in 1894 that left 70 dead and was what prompted Labor Day to become a holiday in the US

I looked up the strike today, but didn't get to the 70 dead part.

All the more reason to read, teach labor history, and organize.

The source I used was wrong, it was only 30 dead but it was still a defining event int he US Labor movement

Whale talk… a mother and her calf/baby. The best sound you can hear while diving close to whales. Mesmerizing.

New bowls and a little trans werewolf sculpture going up on my Etsy (link in bio!)

Happy snow sausage

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Wal-mart is the reason that we have so few local department stores now. they would come in, lower their prices so the locally owned/smaller chains couldn't compete and went out of business, and then they raised their prices. THEY STARTED THIS SHIT.

it's a bit like asking which is worse: the British Empire or the US. The latter in both groups took advantage of the damage from the former and then took it too new heights.

Two putonghua (standard Mandarin) speakers

English added by me :)

How do you count seconds?

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