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While watching the Tinkerbell film franchise we can see that pixie hollow functions differently to our own society, for example while all the fairys work in assigned jobs, we never see any evidence that they receive money for their work, furthermore we never see any fairys spending money, however they seem to have all their essentials provided for them. When Tinkerbell arrives at pixie hollow she is assigned a house, and we see that each fairy receives a daily ration of pixie dust. Even when Tinkerbell abandons her job in the first movie we still see her receiving pixie dust. By watching the films critically we can deduce that pixie hollow is a communist utopia that uses no form of currency. In this essay I will

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i need y'all to get that headlines about climate change are supposed to spur people to action, and scientists sound the alarm because humanity still CAN do something, not because it's inevitable and Literally Everyone Will Die

the mood swings have been insane lately. one okay productive day costs me two weeks of grief and apathy and anger. hot girls get it 

here’s an idea: notice toxic trends in your behavior and, idk, change them

the fact that people are complaining on this post that they can’t change their behaviors that hurt others because they have x mental illness and We Can’t All Be Neurotypical Karen is absolutely fucking wild. do you realize your arguments have come full circle to being indistinguishable from the most crude, generic “mentally ill people are inherently dangerous and/or abusive” ableist rhetoric? you always have the agency to address the ways in which you are hurting others (or yourself). maybe not instantly. maybe not effortlessly. but it IS within your abilities and it is something you owe to your community and yourself

studys show that actually everythings fine :)

man the Appalachian mountains really aren’t shit huh

The Rockies are new, young and virile and fresh from the Laramide orogeny, tall and lanky teenagers on the geological scale. the Appalachian mountains are old, formed hundreds of millions of years ago before dinosaurs walked the Earth. They are ancients, elders, witnesses to half a billion years of life coming and going. To be tall is not a virtue. To be small is not a sin. The Appalachians are eroding under the weight of time, slowly shrinking and returning to the Earth from which they sprang. Appreciate them while they are still here.

The earth is unfathomably ancient, and you garner no love from her when you insult her eldest children.

Give me ALL the geology discourse

we respect Gaia and Her children on this blog, regardless of religious beliefs 👏👏👏

Love how this switches between science and poetry.

@vaspider, those roads are paved with the dissected crystalline core of the Allegheny Orogeny.  More than 300 million years old, the time when the great coal forests were growing, insects the size of eagles and modern mammals roamed those forests, and amphibians were learning to operate on land.  When these mountains were eroded to a broad flat hilly low-land, amphibians had developed water impermeable scales and hard shell eggs, the coal forests were gone because scavengers finally evolved the ability to digest the lignin in wood. Geology and poetry go hand in hand.  The understanding and appreciation of deep time.  I could explain about the Grenville basement, the Cambrian carbonate shelves, the subduction and basin dynamics leading into the Taconic orogeny followed by the Acadian and Alleghenian, the contemporary Ouachita, Caledonian, and Hercynian orogenies, and name the various microplates, island arcs, and microcontinents that preceeded the collision with Africa.  All with detailed timelines carefully constructed from the logic puzzle that is geostratigraphy… Or I could talk about a shoreline not unlike the modern Atlantic coast, calm for more time than there is between that moment and today was shattered as that coast became a blender.  While life was going from slimy gelatinous disks to the great reptiles, a dozen landscapes like Japan, Madagascar, and the Philippines were crushed and folded like clay in a child’s hands.  When two supercontinents slammed into each other in a slow motion crash, birthing a mountain range that dwarfed the modern Himalayans.  And then erased into a flat plain. When the dinosaurs took their first steps on Eastern North America, there were no mountains, no hills, nothing to mark what was likely the largest mountain range ever created by this planet.  They would never see them, never know of the colossal roots left behind deep beneath them.  It would not be until chimpanzees and our ancestors parted way that they would rise once more…