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Lulavet, you useless lesbian
Lulav // 1991 // she // America (MN)
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Formerly @spacetrucksix on Twitter
Check out kosherqueers.gay for a good time ;^D
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Originally I was just going to browse homoerotic Homestuck watercolors, but then I decided to talk about feminism.
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there is only one transformer who can do what u have done
hes a tow truck from the chain gang and his name is tron valtron
#according to the like that was already on this post i got in on the ground floor a literal decade ago#les misérables#kyoot#transformers
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Am I being gaslicked? I could have sworn "reify" meant "assign a concept (undue) controlling importance in decisionmaking" or literally "make something your king" via, like, (SP)rey/(FR)roi, but supposedly it has never meant that and is instead "make mentally into a thing; make (an abstraction) real or material" via (LA)res?????
Why tf do you need a fancy word like "reification" when you could just say "thingification" or "bethinging"? That's a much more faithful translation of (DE)Verdinglichung, which it was apparently invented to translate. Even, like, "causify"/"causifaction" is a better version bc that maintains the sense of (NS)þing->(DE)ding/(LA)causa->(FR)chose, i.e. "a matter for legal consideration"->"a thing".
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So so lucky that I got to have this HOT DWEEB in my arms for a week
#it blinded me with library science#gpoy#scopophobia tw#rae is so so smoochable and also initiated some private displays of affection#which like! no one ever does that. it feels so nice to be wanted.#personal
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putting you under my tongue so you absorb into my bloodstream faster
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#laugh rule#kyoot#undescribed#scopophobia tw#intense 'get that white baby off my phone' reaction from me#from now on I will only do chores when Jon Tester deadnames me to request them
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if you want to experience that magic of transgenderism, hold your friends paws and piss in a circle together
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could you (you, personally) survive a revolutionary girl utena situation
every single one of us survives a revolutionary girl utena situation every time we shed our layers of self-deception and cross the thresholds that separate us from the ones we cherish. every time u penetrate and dissolve the mythology of love as a unilateral sacrifice and instead choose to meet in the shared space between hearts u are surviving a revolutionary girl utena situation.....
#sorry to be a coward and a lesbian but I am reblogging the version where akio remains unfucked#shoujo kakumei utena#kyoot
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Ms. PhilosophyTube is right
#abigail thorn#boston#JUST got done yelling at my hot massachusetts gf about how much driving in boston sucks#personal#it blinded me with library science
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Wait, I'm unfamiliar with ball-jointed dolls — are the fingers subdermally poseable, or are they swapping out different hands to get those different gestures?
The Birth of Venus by Botticelli figure/bjd
Part of The Table Museum collection by Freeing
Link: |X|
It’s super breathtaking:
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cant wait for this scene to be animated next week !!!!
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Robert Wun Spring 2024 Haute Couture
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...may have made a mistake in re: tagging this post ldkvbjaklvbjkj
Discovered that there are cheevos, so I have been booping everyone who posts about booping, a thematic number of times.
23 for Caesar getting stabbed. 15 for phosphorus in the username. Seven for Gandalf cuz that's how many letters he's got.
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Discovered that there are cheevos, so I have been booping everyone who posts about booping, a thematic number of times.
23 for Caesar getting stabbed. 15 for phosphorus in the username. Seven for Gandalf cuz that's how many letters he's got.
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The Bathroom was a key invention in neurodivergent rights. Sorry I hate it here I need to exit the situation for several minutes and you can't tell me not to on the off chance that I actually have to piss. It's genius. Everyone say thank you bathroom for everything she's done for us
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"With “green corridors” that mimic the natural forest, the Colombian city is driving down temperatures — and could become five degrees cooler over the next few decades.
In the face of a rapidly heating planet, the City of Eternal Spring — nicknamed so thanks to its year-round temperate climate — has found a way to keep its cool.
Previously, Medellín had undergone years of rapid urban expansion, which led to a severe urban heat island effect — raising temperatures in the city to significantly higher than in the surrounding suburban and rural areas. Roads and other concrete infrastructure absorb and maintain the sun’s heat for much longer than green infrastructure.
“Medellín grew at the expense of green spaces and vegetation,” says Pilar Vargas, a forest engineer working for City Hall. “We built and built and built. There wasn’t a lot of thought about the impact on the climate. It became obvious that had to change.”
Efforts began in 2016 under Medellín’s then mayor, Federico Gutiérrez (who, after completing one term in 2019, was re-elected at the end of 2023). The city launched a new approach to its urban development — one that focused on people and plants.
The $16.3 million initiative led to the creation of 30 Green Corridors along the city’s roads and waterways, improving or producing more than 70 hectares of green space, which includes 20 kilometers of shaded routes with cycle lanes and pedestrian paths.
These plant and tree-filled spaces — which connect all sorts of green areas such as the curb strips, squares, parks, vertical gardens, sidewalks, and even some of the seven hills that surround the city — produce fresh, cooling air in the face of urban heat. The corridors are also designed to mimic a natural forest with levels of low, medium and high plants, including native and tropical plants, bamboo grasses and palm trees.
Heat-trapping infrastructure like metro stations and bridges has also been greened as part of the project and government buildings have been adorned with green roofs and vertical gardens to beat the heat. The first of those was installed at Medellín’s City Hall, where nearly 100,000 plants and 12 species span the 1,810 square meter surface.
“It’s like urban acupuncture,” says Paula Zapata, advisor for Medellín at C40 Cities, a global network of about 100 of the world’s leading mayors. “The city is making these small interventions that together act to make a big impact.”
At the launch of the project, 120,000 individual plants and 12,500 trees were added to roads and parks across the city. By 2021, the figure had reached 2.5 million plants and 880,000 trees. Each has been carefully chosen to maximize their impact.
“The technical team thought a lot about the species used. They selected endemic ones that have a functional use,” explains Zapata.
The 72 species of plants and trees selected provide food for wildlife, help biodiversity to spread and fight air pollution. A study, for example, identified Mangifera indica as the best among six plant species found in Medellín at absorbing PM2.5 pollution — particulate matter that can cause asthma, bronchitis and heart disease — and surviving in polluted areas due to its “biochemical and biological mechanisms.”
And the urban planting continues to this day.
The groundwork is carried out by 150 citizen-gardeners like Pineda, who come from disadvantaged and minority backgrounds, with the support of 15 specialized forest engineers. Pineda is now the leader of a team of seven other gardeners who attend to corridors all across the city, shifting depending on the current priorities...
“I’m completely in favor of the corridors,” says [Victoria Perez, another citizen-gardener], who grew up in a poor suburb in the city of 2.5 million people. “It really improves the quality of life here.”
Wilmar Jesus, a 48-year-old Afro-Colombian farmer on his first day of the job, is pleased about the project’s possibilities for his own future. “I want to learn more and become better,” he says. “This gives me the opportunity to advance myself.”
The project’s wider impacts are like a breath of fresh air. Medellín’s temperatures fell by 2°C in the first three years of the program, and officials expect a further decrease of 4 to 5C over the next few decades, even taking into account climate change. In turn, City Hall says this will minimize the need for energy-intensive air conditioning...
In addition, the project has had a significant impact on air pollution. Between 2016 and 2019, the level of PM2.5 fell significantly, and in turn the city’s morbidity rate from acute respiratory infections decreased from 159.8 to 95.3 per 1,000 people [Note: That means the city's rate of people getting sick with lung/throat/respiratory infections.]
There’s also been a 34.6 percent rise in cycling in the city, likely due to the new bike paths built for the project, and biodiversity studies show that wildlife is coming back — one sample of five Green Corridors identified 30 different species of butterfly.
Other cities are already taking note. Bogotá and Barranquilla have adopted similar plans, among other Colombian cities, and last year São Paulo, Brazil, the largest city in South America, began expanding its corridors after launching them in 2022.
“For sure, Green Corridors could work in many other places,” says Zapata."
-via Reasons to Be Cheerful, March 4, 2024
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smash or pass a gentle summer rainstorm
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Can't believe that 4.5% of respondents would rather get NOT ONLY every human but all life on Earth killed in a hostage negotiation than do a bit of light gourmet cannibalism. Or that 5.1% of respondents don't have the moral fortitude to pick one.
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