Dancing Out In Space

White-bellied orbweaver, Araneus alboventris, Araneidae

Found primarily east of the Mississippi in North America

Photos 1-2 by xx7trey and 3-4 by kim_fleming

told my roommate dracula was an epistolary novel because it’s made up of letters and she was like. of course it’s made of letters it’s a book

Shirley Temple, Cary Grant / Irving Reis’s The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)

Red-breasted green tiger moth, Chlorhoda metamelaena, Erebidae

Photographed in Colombia by alefox123

Has anyone else noticed that they do this?

aquatic chapter

fatima aamer bilal, excerpt from moony moonless sky’s ‘i am an observer, but not by choice.’

something is wrong with my hamster

A hero without a cape

Her name is Theresa Kachindamoto, and she is a senior chief - political leader of a region with a population of about 900,000 people.

She didn’t run for election; she was appointed, without her knowledge, while she was living and working in a completely different part of the country. She just received a call one day telling her to come back to her childhood home, because she was in charge now.

So she did; and when she arrived, she discovered widespread sexual abuse of children. She browbeat 50 uncooperative local leaders into accepting her decision to annul all the marriages. She then fired four of them when they continued to allow children to be married off in their areas. She still faces widespread opposition from parents who consider it their right to sexually abuse their daughters if they want to; but Kachindamoto very evidently does not give a fuck, and is continuing to use political and legal means to protect children in the region.

She’s not just an anonymous do-gooder; she’s an effective political leader despite incredibly difficult circumstances. Theresa Kachindamoto.

[Image Description: a twitter post from user Al Jazeera English @ AJEnglish that reads “This woman has broken up 850 child marriages and banned sexual initiation camps in Malawi”

Below the text is a picture of Theresa Kachindamoto. She is a dark skinned woman with short hair. She is outside and smiling. End ID]

got worried checking the dates on this post and seeing 2016, knowing how risky this kind of political activism is

good news: Kachindamoto is still in office, and last year (2024) she received honorary doctorates from 2 universities and was given the African Genius Award 🙏

whats-a-leonard-nimoy:

“I got a fan letter from a young lady. It was a suicide note.

So I called her, and I said, “Hey, this is Jimmy Doohan. Scotty, from Star Trek.” I said, “I’m doing a convention in Indianapolis. I wanna see you there.”

I saw her — boy, I’m telling you, I couldn’t believe what I saw. It was definitely suicide. Somebody had to help her, somehow. And obviously she wasn’t going to the right people.

I said to her, “I’m doing a convention two weeks from now in St. Louis.” And two weeks from then, in somewhere else, you know? She also came to New York - she was able to afford to got to these places. That went on for two or three years, maybe eighteen times. And all I did was talk positive things to her.

And then all of the sudden — nothing. I didn’t hear anything. I had no idea what had happened to her because I never really saved her address.

Eight years later, I get a letter saying, “I do want to thank you so much for what you did for me, because I just got my Master’s degree in electronic engineering.”

That’s…to me, the best thing I’ve ever done in my life.

I cry every time.

The look on his face in the last one. He is just glowing he is so proud.

The icons me and the worst girlies I know have in the group chat

Mouse Armor by Jeff De Boer

I love his stated intention behind these projects, ‘Confuse historians’.

a rouge pipe cleaner.... escaped from the craft supplies

worm off the string

@onenicebugperday

Starry Night Insects // Molly Burgess

FYI this artist is on tumblr so you can follow and reblog them directly! @mollyvega

today I discovered Anne rice’s son’s tweets through twitter. im like this is exactly what I should have expected

has anybody done this yet

🎵 in another lifeeeee, I could be ur girl 🎵

In the meantime I discovered that yesterday, in Rome, this happened