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obsessed with this person who thinks that im monopolizing the notes industry and taking them away from "real artists." like. hello

being abused or neglected really makes it clear how many things are skills that nobody really treats as. skills. exercising autonomy is a skill. listening to your body is a skill. resting is a skill. being liked and being loved are skills. nobody tells you how to do this shit because nobody even told me I was supposed to have learnt these things when I was a kid. I kind of just have to manually figure out what makes me freak out and work from there. unfair as shit

Good Articles on fur, fashion, and sustainability

I found a journalist who has been covering fashion for 15 years, who has written some great articles about the fur industry and sustainability. If you're really interested in these topics, here is some insight at Amy Odell's Back Row blog:

TL:DR: The fur industry has been shrinking for years as production and/or sale of new fur products gets banned in countries, states, and cities, and as clothing producers go fur-free.

An aside: an animal rights group put out what they say are leaked documents from the International Fur Federation. (PDF) Page 7 says "don't shoot the messenger" because, from their own analysis, the future of the fur industry doesn't look especially thriving.

TL:DR: Despite interviewing lots of textile sustainability experts, no one has been able to point to any good unbiased studies supporting or denying that claim. But then, lots of industries claim they're the "green option" without it being necessarily proven scientifically. That's capitalism!

More from Odell:

[ID: the legendary sword Andúril stabbed clean through the screen and keyboard of a MacBook on the floor /End ID]

i gave my sister $100 for her bday, but i gave it to her in $1 bills that i folded into origami. so that’s how she pays for delivery food & now the pizza girl thinks she’s a stripper

You’re really good at origami holy sh

i learned it specifically to make these for this exact situation 

Aren’t you the same bitch that gave your sister $100 dollars in nickels?

same bitch

Yeah, neither of these things happened 👍🏼

listen here my good hoe, i can’t find photos of the 2000 nickels or the 20 stars, but i did not spend weeks planning meticulously inconvenient birthday gifts over a period of years just to get whaled on by internet gremlins. here is some equally compelling evidence for an anecdote i was saving for later:

it weighed 68.6 lbs

Cory Booker has been talking in the senate for over 20 hours now

He’s not filibustering. He’s protesting the current administration.

For those of you from outside the US or those of you who didn’t pay attention in government class, in the US senate there’s really no limit to the amount of time a senator can speak. So sometimes if they don’t want a bill to pass they just. Don’t stop talking. To hopefully get past the deadline to vote on a bill. This is called filibustering.

Senator Cory Booker isn’t doing that. He’s disrupting “the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able”. Just in protest. This doesn’t usually happen.

He’s less than 20 minutes away from breaking the record of the longest speech given on the senate floor

Cory Booker has officially broken Strom Thurmond’s record for longest speech on the senate floor and he’s still going

For those of you wondering what he’s been talking about this whole time, his staff wrote down a bunch of stuff for him to read like stories from people across the political spectrum opposed to what the administration is doing. He’s also been telling personal anecdotes about meeting important civil rights leaders and other democratic senators have been pausing him for “questions” but the questions have been as long as a small speech and have both served the purpose of giving him a second to sit down and updating him on the news that he’s been missing while he’s been talking.

scientists in the 1990s, putting a Get More Purple gene attached to a harmless plant virus into an already purple petunia: please get more purple

the petunia, sensing an apparent honest to god Get More Purple Disease, using the previously undiscovered RNAi antiviral ability to shut down all other purple genes along with it just in case: you put VIRUS in petunia? you infect her with the More Purple?? oh! oh! her children shall bloom white! jail for mother, jail for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!

Btw the thing this discovered is like. A foundational lab technique now and has revolutionized genetics

If you would consider your handwriting mostly but not 100% cursive, you can count that.

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We ask your questions anonymously so you don’t have to! Submissions are open on the 1st and 15th of the month.

I hate when you catch yourself having a thought that hints at deeper insanities than previously imagined

whenever I am given a choice of flavors I always always always have plain chocolate ice cream

just now I opened the freezer and saw that my parents had a choice between plain chocolate and moose tracks.

“the moose tracks look pretty good,” I thought

“NO!” shrieked the tiny demon that lives inside my mind and churns out madnesses

“but what’s the matter?” I asked it

“TO CHOOSE OTHER THAN CHOCOLATE WOULD BE DISLOYAL!” it screeched

“I am thirty or forty years old” I told it, and grabbed the moose tracks, for which it has been punishing me with a miasma of dread and guilt

The physics of balancing toys 🙃

Me and my friends hanging out

@elodieunderglass thought you'd like these little guys

they're GREAT! thank you!

wouldst thou like to live fergaliciously