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You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah premieres Friday on Netflix.

Supes says the good thing to do, not the popular one eheh 🐦

Some really fascinating decisions in the latest Mr. Beast video:

Mr. Beast recognizes Russia’s claim to the Crimean peninsula

Mr. Beast recognizes the State of Palestine

Mr. Beast recognizes Somaliland

Mr. Beast recognizes the Taliban government of Afghanistan

Mr. Beast does NOT recognize Taiwan

Mr. Beast uses the flag of Georgia (the state) for Georgia (the country)

most politically coherent american man

So what this paint company does is take iron pollution from abandoned mines that are polluting soils and rivers and makes iron based red pigment paints out of it.

Basically they realized hey no one's cleaning this shit up, it's polluting the streams, killing all the fish, making the water undrinkable and there's a huge market for it so why not make money by cleaning it the fuck up?

They remove this stuff by the industrial bucket load from the rivers. The idea is if it's in a painting, if it's in your home, it's not poisoning wildlife.

anyway its cool as shit, please support tf out of these people https://gamblinstore.com/reclaimed-earth-colors-set/

i think its actually just a theory but im a big fan of "azura has grey skin and red eyes and when she turned the chimer into the dunmer she made them look like her" bc. it fits the story more. she didn't do it so the dunmer would be cursed and shown as abandoned but instead because she wanted the tribunal to know, every time they looked at their own people, what they did. everywhere they looked they would see the markings and appearance of azura. unable to escape it.

and also yknow its less "having dark skin is Bad and means you're Cursed" which is. pretty racist of a trope in a fantasy story.

does anyone know if i can like block sites from appearing in my google images searches??? i keep getting those awful ai generated things with a hand coming out of a man's neck and just straight up not what i was looking for, because this was in a search for "curly hair in medieval paintings". it happens every time i search for anything vaguely art-reference-like and it's so fucking annoying and it clutters my search results so much. i don't wanna add specific commands to the query every time too, what i need is like a browser extension or something

okay i found one! it works! everyone come get your blacklist 👍👍👍

I made a list of as many ai sites i could find to block with ublacklist, just copy and paste them in ublacklist's options menu

Did you grow up with a parent/guardian who couldn't cook?

What was their most egregious culinary crime?

I'll start: my mom used to make "chop suey" that was just ground beef, spaghetti noodles, soy sauce, and celery.

Double points if it's awful but you still eat it today because ~nostalgia~ or whatever

One time my friends were over and my dad cooked us a frozen pizza but thought it would be a good idea to add extra cheese by laying some Kraft singles on the top

We were making mac n cheese when mom wasn't home, and we were out of cheddar, so dad just did a 1:1 substitution of generic brand low-moisture part-skim mozzarella. it was somehow impossible to eat, one's entire body just rejected it.

let me eat this grass and chill the fuck out

this is the same girl in a raincoat

It *is* a problem that charismatic species are often focused on for conservation at the expense of less charismatic but important species, but threatened species that are the subject of a lot of public outreach and education are also typically strategically selected.

I suspect that monarch butterflies are an example of this. Milkweed is a highly valuable plant for pollinators and a host plant for like. 400+ insect species. Getting people to plant it to save monarchs is funny because you're essentially finessing people into saving a ton of other insects that they wouldn't ordinarily care about

"Save the bees" isn't misguided, it's just the version of the truth you would tell a 5 year old. If a small kid asks about the colors of the rainbow you don't start explaining that visible light has wavelengths of 400-700 nanometers

A lot of people don't even know that there are different types of bees. things like planting native flowers, stopping using insecticides, etc, benefit all bees and all insects generally

ALSO

it's actually a GOOD thing to have lots of conservation efforts focusing on "Charismatic megafauna," especially apex predators

Because big animals like tigers need a LOT of space

So creating a preserve to save tigers...saves thousands of other species, because the tigers need miles and miles of habitat to live on, and that habitat needs to be healthy to support the tigers

They're called "umbrella species" and they're a great thing.

This is exactly why pandas are great for conservation, and whining about them is myopic childish foot-stamping*. An adult panda needs a 2km square range. A viable population needs many of those joined together into a very big protected area. And if you have that, you also have the habitat for hundreds of thousands if not millions of invertebrate species that are never in their wildest dreams going to get that level of protection afforded to them otherwise

*Also pandas don't stop having intrinsic value just because you personally decide they're 'overhyped' or 'don't contribute much to the ecosystem'. Ethically, that is a species that deserves to exist regardless of how 'useful' it is (side note, absolutely FUCK that capitalist bullshit), and also, if humans are why it's going extinct, it's on humans to bring it back. And if they aren't readily breeding in captivity, the question to ask is 'What aren't we providing in their environment that they need?'**, not the whiny temper tantrum of 'But why won't they meet us halfway? They won't help themselves! I am very smart.'

**It's a tall tree to climb. This is emerging research but it looks like a vital part of panda mate selection is watching a male climb a tree to show off his tree climbing genes. We have not been including these in panda enclosures, so the females have been looking at these males sitting around and going 'Tch. Pathetic.'

Thank you @headspace-hotel and @becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys for reframing this for me in a way that is super positive and encouraging and giving me new information from which to draw better conclusions. I have learned a new way of seeing things today and am very pleased I will be able to offer this perspective to others going forward.

Beautiful women called Storage Space Running Out keep messaging me

Been trying out Morrowind. Have a VERY rough sketch of the Seyda Neen port

Hozier writing Francesca: what if every horrible thing you've ever been through has led you, or will yet lead you, to someone you love so much you'd do it all again. What if the suffering is all worth it, not from a religious standpoint but because of someone you love. What if that's all there is - heaven and hell couldn't care less about us, but we care for one another. We endure the unspeakable for one another. What if heaven won't let us in but we wander together through the darkness for eternity knowing we acted in love and having no regrets. What if heaven can't contain people of complexity and passion like ours. What if we were offered the opportunity and we said we'd do it all again.

she morro on my wind until i never rerelease 😫😫😫