Two-year-old Albert Apsassin feeling the spirit at National Indigenous Peoples Day in Camrose, Alberta.
Babies doing the Thing with their grownups will never not be an immediate and loving reblog.
hyperfixations are so scary like yeah this could be a month long thing or i might be thinking of it everyday seven months from now. no way to tell
And even when a hyperfixation ends there is always: The Resurfacing™️
Will it be a year from now? Five years? Ten years? And what will trigger it? No one knows, but still the old hyperfixation lurks, like a creature prowling through the forest of the mind, waiting for the right opportunity to strike again.
Anonymous asked:
Do sharks cuddle?
THEY SURE FUCKIN DO.
many sharks are at least moderately social, and if a specific species of shark has the ability to breathe without actually swimming and tends to have a lot of sharks in a fairly small area, well.
they are just going to Pile. and there is simply nothing you can do about it.
I bet there are people at The Daily Planet who look at Clark Kent and wonder how badly he must have been bullied as a child. Like the guy is huge, and smart, and pretty dang handsome. Yet he’s always shrinking in on himself, trying to look small and non-threatening. He calls himself “mild-mannered” which the whole floor has seen is just code for “I will make sassy jokes with my friends, but anytime anyone starts yelling at me I will just lie down and take it every time.” Everyone on his floor must think Smallville Middle School permanently destroyed his self-confidence.
Obviously it wasn’t his parents, because even Lois thinks they’re okay so they must be awesome. It can’t have been a team sport or whatever because years of questioning has yet to turn up a group activity that Clark appears to understand, let alone have engaged in. His entire old-friend quota from Smallville is his weird ex and that one guy he gets super awkward around all the time.
At this point at least three coworkers are wondering if they should go to Clark’s next Smallville High reunion and start throwing punches. Lois announcing that she’s not ‘allowed’ to go, because she’ll ‘be mean’ has only fuelled that certainty, because given his apparent indifference to Lois’s normal standard of vituperative social interaction, Clark is obviously afraid that if she goes to that reunion she’s gonna shank a bitch.
“NO ONE GETS TO BULLY CLARK BUT US” - the daily planet staff probably
Some kneading techniques that I have observed
Luis's face when his decision to play a deeply traumatized and tragic character plagued by visions is starting to have narrative consequences
drhaniwa
[id: a glazed ceramic bowl in the form of a very round shark, with the lid being its back and dorsal fins, and its pectoral and pelvic fins used to stabilize its round belly.]/end id.
There are people in the comments of the Wired interview who are like "idk what critical role is but they all seem like fun maybe I'll look it up" which is the FUNNIEST possible way to accidentally fall into 2000 hours of content
AUTISM RULES.
ok NOW we can all freak out marvel vfx workers voted to unionize thank god
Or just go to browse and hang out! I promise it will be inspiring :)
Alison Bechdel wrote this book and chose violence
[image: "most people don't even try to get what they want because of the painful reckoning with their parents it entails."]
There's some company, blackstone, blackwater, something like that, buying up houses that go on sale for 30k above asking price. Immediately outbidding anyone who tries to buy. Corporations are also buying property all across america.
Fuck...
Nobody comes to my tumblr for this, but Americans need to understand that THIS is why my generation can't afford to own a house outside of Smallest-Town USA. THIS is also why people my age in bigger cities struggle to find decent apartments that don't consume half of our monthly income.
Housing Speculation is when rich folk, corporations, and wannabe landlords buy up property and sit on it like dragons hoarding gold. The Dutch have a dragon-adjacent term for this because speculation devastated their housing market in the 70s-80s leading to some gnarly Dutch squatting culture. They let homes sit empty, good as money in the bank and watch the value increase as everyone else competes for the remaining houses. That's value they can borrow against, that's a few hundred-thousand dollars if you need some quick cash, that's a property you can rent out for regular income while charging tenants for repairs or maintenance and fining them for wear and tear. If property values go up and laws prohibit raising the rent by a certain degree, in many places they can find shady ways to evict that tenant, make no changes and charge the next renter more. It's probably illegal but if you rent to people below a certain income, you can be assured most can't afford to take you to court.
I live in Chicago. Many of the properties that used to house students, small families, single parents, older people, low-income folks have been gobbled up by little airbnb barons who colonize previously well-established neighborhoods and price out families who've lived there for generations because they can't keep up with the artificially inflated property values. The airbnbs spread like cancer until a handful of people can dominate the "affordable" housing for an entire neighborhood. It's gentrification on meth, but without the kind of localized money circulation or community improvements you get when people live and work and spend within their neighborhoods. It pushes residents further and further from services and resources until all that's left is the locked-in commodififation of an exploitable renting class.
If that wasn't bad enough, it also means that when large areas of habitable property are being hoarded by investors with portfolios of empty houses and airbnbs, that reduces the number of actual residents, which can spoil legislation on a community level. When all the storefront space in a neighborhood like mine is controlled by 4 people, you find the number of businesses and services that catered to lower income families start to become whiskey bars, boutiques, vintage shops, and upscale chain retail, businesses that bring money into the property owners at the expense of community accessibility, turning a once largely Hispanic neighborhood community into a posh little destination for travelers, tourists, and other aspiring business speculators who see every empty building as their next revinue stream. Gut a block of apartments with attached commercial space and build half as many luxury condos above a combination tapas bar and day spa and you've instantly got half as many tenants on that block to vote against your expansion schemes. Replacing low-income residents with higher-rent folks also bakes in support for future "improvements" that further contribute to the commodification of communities.
Property ownership has always been a tool of the most privileged class to extract value from the working class because the only options become rent, move, or live on the street for all they care. At which point, the police will sweep you further and further into the gutter until they have an excuse to send you to prison. This kind of speculation and consolidation allows people with excess resources to buy up the things the rest of us require to function and sell it back to us forever.
These are the same people that invented the fairy tale about how if we work hard enough and save and spend like smart people, then we can be landlords too! We can own businesses, raise families, chase dreams and be happy if we are smart like they are. But if we can't it's because we're lazy little parasites who need to have our lives portioned out to us lest we waste time that could be earning money for the landlord.
I hate these fuckers so fucking much.
It got so bad in Atlanta that in 2022 they passed a law limiting Airbnb-type operators to two physical addresses, and the owner is required to live in one of them. In addition to that, they are charged an annual permit fee + additional taxes.
It’s an excellent start, but only applies to the city of Atlanta -- not any of the kazillions of Airbnbs in the surrounding greater metro area.
"This kind of speculation and consolidation allows people with excess resources to buy up the things the rest of us require to function and sell it back to us forever."
staff return access to my beautiful baby girl named prev tags
Just a little heads up that my print store is having a sale!
Thank you so much to everyone who purchases prints from me, your support means the world~ 💛
Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who bought a print over the weekend; I’m so blown away by your support! 😭 You’re all the best~ 💛
Hey everyone!
This sale is still going on if you’re interested! It’s the summer of sales over at inprnt!
Title: Helena Sparrowhawk
Artist: Jan Matejko
Date: 1838 - 1893
Style: Romanticism
Genre: Portrait