“National parks have been vital in protecting huge swaths of land, including sacred sites and unique ecosystems, from land developers and other forms of destruction and are some of the last places in the continental United States where many animals are able to live safely from overhunting and unnecessary culls.”
and
“National parks are, just like the rest of the US, land stolen from indigenous people who are now denied access to the lands that their ancestors lived on and cared for for thousands of years, even when having access is vital for a community’s survival, whether that’s through food sources in the form of hunting/fishing/gathering or the ability to continue cultural practices.”
and
“National parks provide places for people to feel connected to nature and to able to observe plants and animals and land masses that they’d never be able to see otherwise, and many national parks also include other services like horseback riding lessons and educational events to help people better understand their planet.“
and
“National parks, including with the famous motto ‘take nothing but photos, leave nothing but footprints,’ push an ahistorical and frankly dangerous narrative that separates humans from nature, turning people into observers of our world instead of active participants, and does damage to the plants that adapted and evolved at the hands of foragers to benefit the most when they’re harvested.“
A reblog is a little green arrow button on a post where you are able to share the post, help circulate the post, and help the author of the post feel abject terror and/or pure joy.
It kind of like sharing a cool rock you found.
Because tumblr doesn’t have an algorithm in the same way that other social media sites do, reblogs are the main way that the post stay alive and circulating. They are how tumblr keeps running.
Some people do a lot of reblogs, some people only do a few here and there. Then there’s me, who has a massive rock pile of pebbles that I bury people in to show them my cool rocks 😂
Hope this makes sense! Let me know if you have any other questions :)
I forgot, it’s not always green, it’s this button:
I sat with a crying second grader today. (The age range is outside my wheelhouse but I was the most convenient adult.) He was crying, the other adults said, because his brother took a phone he was playing on. “Phone addicted,” everybody said. “If he would get up and play games with the other kids he wouldn’t be crying.”
He told me everyone lets his brother take things from him because his brother is younger, and doesn’t know better. He told me he doesn’t want to play because he’s tired, he has too many extracurriculars this summer and can’t get good sleep because “everyone in my camper is so loud when I’m trying to sleep.” He’s exhausted and only eight. His mom’s an acquaintance and told me she and the kid’s father are going through a separation — mom and four kids left the house to stay in a camper.
But people will seriously not listen to kids crying over seemingly minor things because on the surface it looks like a tantrum. If kids are given the space to articulate themselves they often will.
I’ve found that if a child is capable of having a conversation (that is, old enough to speak and express themselves, not injured or upset so badly that they literally cannot stop crying, and not behaving violently), then 90% of the time their reason for being upset is legitimate, or at least understandable.
Please remember that this also applies to teenagers and preteens, they might be acting like a knowitall who doesn’t give a shit, or a first class jerk, but chances are fair they feel like shit for one reason or another and adults just chalk it up to teenage angst instead
Almost every time you see someone, child, teen, or adult, who is having some emotional meltdown over something minor, it’s a “straw that broke the camels back” situation.
Kids and teens may have bigger reactions or it may take less to overwhelm them, but it’s important to remember that they are still people and it’s hard being a people.
“..unspoken love is more tangible.” What? No is no ya fucken reprobate, have ye ever actually BEEN in love? If we’re in a relationship, and u dinny have the courage to tell me that shite, am packing the bags, how’s that for tangible. Is nae 7th grade, we submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known OUT LOUD lit fucken adults. Did no have this lonely childhood and existential crisis and spend all this money oan therapy no tae hear you tell me am worth this love out loud and am supposed tae ken because u hoovered the rugs last Saturday
to be completely honest i think British and Irish and Scottish accents are so so cool. i LOVE THEM SM NOT IN AN IRONIC WAY JUST IN A WOW U SOUND SO COOL WAY. BUT ALSO LIKE ALL OTHER ACCENTS ARE SO COOL?? like i could just listen to all people with all different accents talk for hours. id definitely do that
some emojis are just so like idk i just feel them so much they’re so not like other emojis in terms of emotions and associations, so non-ironic, so fucking AURGHHH
like 🫂 (google if not showing). just a masterpiece. it’s so emotional. it’s one of the only emojis that i can use in an emotional conversation and don’t have a reputation of an asshole after.
So I was having a conversation with a friend about old anime and in the middle of it she forgot the word “canonical” and she instead inflicted a spectacular new aesthetic and slew of mental images on me by saying the phrase “Biblically Accurate Ouran High School Host Club”.
Etymologically, “bible” simply means “book”, so any film or television adaptation of media originally published in book form that’s true to its source material can technically be described as “biblically accurate”.
god apparently Walgreens has a policy where employees can refuse to complete a transaction if it goes against their moral or religious beliefs…like lets get this straight a pharmacist can refuse to give a customer their prescribed medication because they disagree with it. and technically theyre supposed to hand it off to another employee. but this doesnt always happen. literally leaving people without condoms or contraceptives or HRT or any number of things because the employee simply didn’t want to. Incredibly ghoulish policy that has no right to exist. I’m sorry if you work in a pharmacy and can’t do your literal job because its too “morally challenging” for you, you should not have that job!
ppl always wanna be like “but freedom!!!!!!” like ya freedom to get a new fucking job that doesn’t require u to do things that are “against ur morals.” go work at hobby lobby dipshit.
Not for nothing, but they go to work these jobs because they can do this.
To a lot of evangelicals in medicine, this sort of thing is the main reason they do it. To them, refusing to dispense birth control and HRT and condoms isn’t an inconvenience, it’s their calling.
If your RPG game has sex scenes it should have skill checks as a part of those sex scenes. Let me fail my roles and do bizarre and comedic shit! Let me bungle my charisma roll and say some deeply strange and unsexy shit, let my character slip and fall mid scene, let my character simply stare at somebodies genitals while slowly formulating a plan of attack, let them bust out their deeply unimpressive “secret technique”, let the get distracted and stop midway through because they need to check something.
I don’t want to watch your perfectly crafted and extremely sensual sex scene, I want to play the game!
Bard: I seduce the chambermaid.
DM: Okay, roll charisma.
Bard: *rolls a 1*
DM: Mid-sentence, you fart loudly. It echoes down the hall. The tavern cook sticks his head in. “Enjoyed my beans, did you?” he says.
adobe is actively pushing to make art styles intellectual property covered under copyright law and artists online are doing shit like this
you guys are all so fucked like you dont even understand what youre doing do you seriously think this is in your favour for the love of god hello am i alone in this world. youre leading yourself to the slaughter
Also, if your problem is AI art: Adobe is also making an ai art generator
Adobe does not want to ban AI art. They want it to only exist in the hands of wealthy copyright holders. They want art styles to be copyrighted for the same reason: so they can make money from owning other people’s work. So they can sue you for drawing something too similar to an art style they own
Adobe is not your friend. Expanding copyright law is far more dangerous for artists than AI will ever be
Got called ‘madam’ for the first time today which was unexpected but what really got me was that when I looked down at the guy’s nametag it was my fucking deadname on there
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Oh neat, you found the fae you traded your name to!
hey jsyk while hellofresh is dummy expensive and i wouldn’t reccomend it if you already know how to cook (if you’re a beginner like i was when i had it for 3 months, then it’s worth it), you should know that ALL OF THEIR RECIPES are free on their website and they all fuck hard
i will say that all the cooking instructions for veggies are pretty much the same (season with salt + pepper and roast on the top oven rack at 425F), but if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.
that being said, it also introduced me to methods i wasn’t at all expecting. i would have never thought to use cream cheese in my meat sauce, and now all my friends are constantly asking me to make my special rigatoni.
happy cheffin! :)
I am a person who uses Hello Fresh for realsies because it is a bit cheaper than groceries here and definitely cheaper than takeout, but we also remake the recipes when we want a specific one and don’t want to wait for it to come around in the rotation again, and therefore I know The Secret Translations of Proprietary Ingredients:
“Cream sauce base” = make a roux, add milk according to how much cream sauce base you’re supposed to have (ex: 4 oz cream sauce base = 4 oz milk)
“1 packet stock concentrate” = either one tablespoon Better than Bullion or, if you want to be really accurate, Savory Choice Broth Concentrate packets are available on Amazon and allegedly that’s what they use
“Italian Heat Spice”/“Blackening Spice”/“Fry Seasoning”/etc.: I promise you someone on Reddit has figured out what spices they use and in what proportions for each mix, if it’s not just a straight up branded mix (like McCormick Grill Mates Brown Sugar Bourbon spice mix)
“Roasted Garlic Herb Butter” (and other compound butters, like truffle butter) = they’re literally Epicurean branded butters, they do not hide this, you can buy them online
“Sweet Soy Glaze”/“Ponzu sauce”/“Hoisin sauce” = literally Kikkoman brand condiments: they don’t hide that, either
“Sweet Thai chili sauce” = any sweet Thai chili sauce from the grocery store will do. We use Blue Dragon or Taste of Thai because that’s what we can get in our grocery store.
Got called ‘madam’ for the first time today which was unexpected but what really got me was that when I looked down at the guy’s nametag it was my fucking deadname on there
the most “cocomelon shit” i’ve ever experienced in my life was the time i was in calculus II and some girl in front of me was googling “assorted animals” and scrolling through pictures of clipart pigs and horses and shit on her laptop completely focused like it was her tax form
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