platforming palestinian joy is just as important as sharing the suffering they're enduring during this genocide. despite continued displacement and bombardment, you cannot steal their joy and spirit. happy birthday to this sweet baby 🖤🇵🇸 may they grow up to see a free palestine

There are three breeds of cat:

Chonk

Goblin

Yeah that looks like a cat

2024 April 23

Contrail Shadow X Image Credit & Copyright: Fatih Ekmen

Explanation: What created this giant X in the clouds? It was the shadow of contrails illuminated from below. When airplanes fly, humid engine exhaust may form water droplets that might freeze in Earth’s cold upper atmosphere. These persistent streams of water and ice scatter light from the Sun above and so appear bright from below. On rare occasions, though, when the Sun is near the horizon, contrails can be lit from below. These contrails cast long shadows upwards, shadows that usually go unseen unless there is a high cloud deck. But that was just the case over Istanbul, Türkiye, earlier this month. Contrails occur all over planet Earth and, generally, warm the Earth when the trap infrared light but cool the Earth when they efficiently reflect sunlight. The image was taken by a surprised photographer in the morning on the way to work.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240423.html

Genuinely I think the biggest actual theoretical terminology vs layman's understanding linguistic failure of the last decade is the way the word "privilege" has been ground to dust.

To have "privilege" is to have benefits in life granted to you by institutions of systemic power that in turn place you in a position of power or status over others in a way that is in line with and benefits the institution.

"Privilege" is also absolutely not cut and dry. Institutions of power don't take turns dissecting people into individual parts to decide how to oppress or give benefits to people at any given moment. They treat them as a sum of their parts. That is quite literally the foundational core of Intersectional theory.

But that's a lot of words that require you to actually think about sociological concepts and attempt to understand them in-depth. Unfortunately though, people love simplicity and they hate social sciences - especially theory in social sciences that have been proposed by anyone who isn't White. Which is extremely, dishearteningly ironic in a conversation on privilege.

If we listen, we can always hear the Earth humming.

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A piece inspired by a topic in my geophysics textbook. The frequency spikes are an actual seismographic reading of a specific type of constant ambient noise picked up in the Earth's crust, made up of very low frequency waves—less than 10 mHz—and produced by slow free oscillations occuring across the entire planet. This is commonly referred to as "Earth's hum".

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Terfs overwhelmingly ARE women of color, disabled women, non christian women, and queer women, so……………

Yeah turns out copping for the leopards eating faces ideology actually doesn't protect you. Wild how that works.

The Beast that Bothers

Bothering the beast

If those lyrics resonated with you and you actually consider Taylor Swift a “tortured poet” I’m either going to assume you’re a dumbass or the most basic type of bitch ON THE PLANET EARTH and have never had an interesting thing happen to you in your entire life

I DO obsessively read peoples tags when they rb my art

And, yes, I DO kick my little feets and giggle when I get compliments