Harpsichordical

Black ppl deserve to feel safe and welcomed on the internet, on fandoms on whatever community or hobbies they want without having to deal with antiblack racist attacks, microaggressions or enablers of antiblackness . And if u genuinely consider urself to be left leaning or an ally or woke you should do and try to unlearn the colorism, texturism , eurocentrism and antiblackness

whenever people try to act like harry potter being comfort media for them matters at all i'm just like. cool i also grew up with it, i also have incredibly fond and nostalgic memories attached to it. but i'm also a complex individual capable of basing my actions on more than just immediate comfort and enjoyment

they should revoke your driver's license if you have over 1000 observations on iNaturalist

i am a (holy shit red shouldered hawk) hazard to everyone on the road including myself. wait pause turn around i need to get a pic of that sky lupine along the highway back there

Geological horror. You find a geode and crack it open and the crystal lining its walls is human blood that can't be genetically matched to anyone. You find a human skeleton but every one of the bones is made from rock, a rock that you know can't be whittled into those shapes. You find layers of clay and loam that sport ancient fossils at the top and the still-rotting corpses of modern animals at the bottom.

This reminds me of the blood river in Antarctica. For like a century scientists had no clue why this river looked like, acted like, and felt exactly like blood. Turns out it’s just really high in iron.

Blood Falls isn't just high in iron, it's the byproducts of extremophile bacteria that have been isolated under a glacier in a iron- and sulfur-rich anoxic brine for the past 5 million years.

ever since I read between generations: collaborative authorship, I notice it everywhere; throughout history but online more than anywhere; the ease with which adults discredit children as individuals in our thirst for phenomenalizing their capability for thought through work. The profundity of a work of art made by a child is generalized to be attributed to the abstracted concept of “child”, and their lack of agency, the estrangement through this lack of agency as those who know less leeching into a supposed unworthiness of individual recognition. At most we get a first name and the age of the child. There are countless reasons why the names of child artists are lost or omitted: time, a purposeful anonymizing from a parent or guardian out of caution, a disaster like war or ecological destruction or trauma which accordingly of course anonymizes an infinite number of artists and artworks of any age, etc. But so few of these reasons excuse the lack of individual recognition given to that child. A blatant injustice that makes my head spin. This video in particular really gutted me because when I first saw it on instagram I knew that this child was not going to be accredited for this piece that they made and likely never would, because unless they grew up to be an artist who continued to make work then the attribution would be, phenomenologically, to the abstract of “child”. The speaker knew the child artist’s first name, the child was in her class, the speaker was so reverent of this child's piece, and despite the fact that at this point the child would be an adult at the time this video was posted, the speaker did not give her full name. And the “grace” of giving even her first name is more than most children will receive when their work is made public and deemed phenomenological. Excusing lack of recognition as anonymity for protections sake is an easy way to escape the responsibility for considering authorship and consent. But I would argue that an equal gravity should be given to the act of sharing a child's work without recognizing their person hood and the value of their intellect. By stripping them of the agency to be seen as an individual entity one strips the capacity to believe this child deserves recognition. These children are not separate entities from adults, their thoughts are not the seeds for some grander matured mind. So much more thought should be given to valuing accreditation to their individuality equally with adult artists.