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the smug high i got from being unaffected by meat contamination is now facing a bitter end as now my precious fresh fruits risk giving me the explosive diarrhea parasite

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jessicaailinn

GOAL BY CAPE VERDE! THE EQUALIZER! IT COULD BE THE GOAL OF THE WORLD CUP!

abyssaldyke

It's spring now which means the kids in my city have started drawing hopscotches on the sidewalk and as a rule I do every hopscotch I see because 1. Use it or lose it (ability to scotch) and 2. If a child got down on the hardscrabble streets of Boston Massachusetts to draw a scotch the least I can do is use it, but in doing the hopscotches, I've learned that about 50% of them are the typical 8-10 step scotch and the other 50% are. Somewhat avant-garde. And of course I'm not vetting the entire scotch before I start it so sometimes it's like haha 8 steps woo! Childlike whimsy! And sometimes they're 20 steps or 30 or they've got a section with three squares instead of two where you have to do a little Charleston to step on all three, or, memorably, FORTY one foot squares. A full BLOCK of jumping on one foot but I'm no quitter so once I've started Jigsaw Junior's fuckin hopscotch gauntlet I'm there til the end just a daily pot smoker in her thirties jumping kasa-obake style through an affluent suburb while some little proto-kennedy watches from his bedroom window rubbing his sadistic little third grade hands together and cackling. It's amazing. I love spring.

shithowdy

it's 1pm at the marsh! come on down, we've got

𝓃𝑜𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝒷𝓁𝒶𝒸𝓀𝒷𝒾𝓇𝒹𝓈!!!

thefugitivesaint

John D. Batten (1860-1932), ''Europa's Fairy Book'' by Joseph Jacobs, 1919

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redlipstickresurrected

Satoshi Kawamata aka 川又聡 aka Kawamata Satoshi (Japanese, b. 1978, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan) - Ghost, Japanese Paintings: Sumi-e Ink, Mineral Pigments

#art tag

art-nimals

Måns Swanberg, Cats

#cat tag

nobrashfestivity

Helen Frankenthaler, Monoprint VII

#art tag

sea-wives

my extensive critically acclaimed movie watchlist: hi

the shittiest movie ever made: press play girl

antiqueanimals

Robert Hainard (1906 - 1999). Lièvres. Color woodcut. February 22nd, 1945.

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rhubarbspring

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dancing-crow

thank you yes, I did need this today

#dance culture

fruitpigeons

DECEM-BIRD Day 18-Canada Goose (words from Wild Geese by Mary Oliver of course)

#birb #mmm art

lesbianrey

kinda feels like we're dealing with the major ramifications of feminism being digested via enamel pins and tshirts with fun 70s throwback vibes and not as a serious critical framework to reshape our society

lesbianrey

the point of this post wasn’t to mock individual people as cringe or stupid for buying pins on etsy, my point was feminism as a movement was astroturfed by capital interests to be an aesthetic and personal identity without a revolutionary character.

sadhoc

i think a big part of expanding your intellectual curiosity and trying to learn new things about the world is to abandon the shame of not knowing things. don't blame "the US school system" (which US school system????), don't blame your teachers, don't blame society, but embrace the fact that you are going to be learning new things constantly, throughout your life. practice saying "i really need to read about that" or "does anyone know of any good sources to learn about xyz?" or "hold on i gotta go check wikipedia/a world map/the dictionary/the news." every single day, there will be something you don't know already. that something doesn't have to be embarrassing. instead it can be an opportunity to learn something new

sadhoc

shame makes you shut down, and dig in your heels, and refuse to engage. curiosity takes practice, it takes conscious effort, and it takes patience. including patience with yourself

wizardarchetypes

When I was a museum curator and when I was a state park naturalist, people constantly apologized to me before they asked a question. All day, every day. “Sorry, this may be a stupid question—“

Every single time, I said, “if you don’t ask questions, I don’t get paid! Please, ask me more.” Much of my job was about reassuring people’s curiosity and creating a safe space in which it was okay to not know things.

I noticed in these jobs that we teach shame. When children asked questions, parents often apologized to me in front of the children. “Sorry. Thank you for taking the time.”

We grow up learning it’s embarrassing to ask questions, even in settings where someone is being paid to answer them. But it’s up to you to move on. It’s so important to move past this. Only you can make the choice to do so.

One of the most important things I learned in my own training was to admit when I don’t know something. It’s crucial that an educator can say, “I don’t know the answer to that question! Let’s look it up together.”

I was the curator of a museum about marine biology, and every week, someone asked me something about the ocean I couldn’t answer. I always thanked the visitor for giving me a chance to learn something new.

The more you say, “I don’t know,” the easier it becomes to say. And then the world transforms from an intimidating mystery to a grand adventure. How lucky we are to never know everything! How amazing that we can spend the rest of our lives being surprised and challenged!

themountainandthesea

My sister and I are going through something right now (she’s become vaccine-skeptical over the past few years and I’m trying to encourage her to get vaccinated because vaccines are an essential public health link), and she’s said to me that she starts to shut down when she feels shamed or guilted. It’s a hard pattern for me to break—actually listening to her instead of talking righteously at her. But she’ll never be open to my thoughts or my resources if she feels shamed and then shuts down. Woof. Hard and important lessons here.

thetidemice

better pictures of my papier mache cat i made when i was 17 (its cat-sized)

#cat tag

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