Abandoned and weathered half demolished buildings stand on an empty street, their walls marked by peeling paint and graffiti. A path cuts through rubble and grass, leading to a small hill topped by cypress trees and a building. The sky is dull and heavy with clouds.

三春滝桜の娘といわれるしだれ桜で、樹齢は約400年。

Franz Xavier Zirnkilton, My Snail, c.1915-20 (source).

#MySnail

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PERFECT HAND TO HIM IT IS THE SAFE LAND

and to my only grandson, i bequeath the estate in aspen, under the strict stipulation that he dresses like a girl for a year. if he fails, then it shall be given to his evil cousin, whose name i never did catch

"anti capitalist" and "late stage capitalism" are the 2 most annoying things i have to hear. ok u hate communism and cant even say imperialism. what else. how stupid. this has been written about in the beggining of the 20th century and people still dont understand this is the stage of capitalism we live in. the imperialist one. actually i think theyre just ignoring this. nevermind.

Yeah when people say "late-stage capitalism" they don't actually mean imperialism as a stage of capitalist development, they mean the general consumer experience of worsening quality of goods & services (due to things like forced obsolescence and use of cheaper materials & processes) and living costs becoming unsustainably high in the West - it's an expression borne from the vulgar class consciousness that arises when it's no longer ignorable that, in the most basic sense, Capitalism Makes Everyone's Lives Worse And Can't Keep Doing It; it superficially resembles the actual Marxist term but in truth is completely unrelated to it, out of ignorance more than fear or hatred, though how receptive those who speak of it would be to actually learning the reality they're vaguely grasping towards depends entirely on their treatlerite quotient.

my very talented friend emma came over recently and took photos of my home

i think she captured it so perfectly

So many Americans online don’t realize: We in Southeast Asia interact with working-class Americans far more than the rich ones. Why? Because our region is where poorer Americans actually come to work low-wage resort jobs, teach English, or retire on Social Security checks that don’t stretch at home. The ‘ugly American’ tourists? The military guys? The sexpats? Not exactly the 1% yacht crowd. But keep pretending your working class has no global footprint.

This is the thing about people claiming they don’t have the upper hand over the third world by sheer virtue of living in a first world country. at the most basic level your money is quite literally worth more than anyone in the third world. There’s a huge group of people whose entire “business model” or “retirement plan” is just moving to another country and utilizing the exchange rate in a way that at best makes them go from lower class to a high bracket and in worse cases has them start utilizing slave labor and exploiting locals for their benefit, which is easy for a westerner to do regardless of background

REPOST: Partners for Life 🏳️‍🌈🤝

I forgot Kim's jacket rectangle and it was driving me up the wall. NOTE: This is intended to go off on the meme that old soviet posters were unintentionally gay af.

Checkered lily (Fritillaria meleagris).

if tumblr shuts down follow me on this other website that's nothing like it and is fundamentally impossible to even wrangle into being like it due to a format that prioritises algorithmic short form text content and also nobody will join it anyway

OK so it's kind of like tumblr except you have a character limit and the userbase is completely full of humourless millenials and it doesn't have tags and you can't repost the same thing multiple times. BUT it'll have a moderation transmisogyny scandal within 6 months so really it'll feel just like home

task complete - sing karaoke

always waiting

I knew this one would piss some of you off

socks are the primary producers of the laundry biome. they typically mate for life and come in a wide variety of patterns, though—unlike shoes, which many theorize to be a symbiotic species—they lack sexual dimorphism. juvenile socks resemble their parents, but have yet to develop the long necks that distinguish socks from other species of the extremity family, such as mittens

the lint trap is a fascinating example of a decomposer. it relies on the environment to bring food in the form of detritus, which it then breaks down into lint. lint traps have relatively long lives in comparison with other species (especially given the recent downward trends in lifespan, which are likely caused by a combination of genetic bottlenecks and poor nutrition). the lint trap has an unusual relationship with fire—some theorize that it uses fire as a tool to increase resource availability, while others believe that its frequent proximity to fire is due to environmental factors

the apex predator of the laundry biome is, of course, the dreaded duvet cover. duvet covers lead solitary lives, and are rarely seen socializing with one another. its preferred prey is socks, although it is an opportunistic eater and will prey upon much larger targets, such as t-shirts, leggings, and even sheets. aside from its large territory and antisocial nature, its behaviors are poorly known and highly controversial. one major theory is that the duvet cover is an ambush predator, lying in wait for its prey. another is that the duvet cover seeks out prey, using its superior size and large mouth to overwhelm its victims in a matter of seconds. a third, less popular supposition is that the duvet cover lures its victims to it by mimicking the laundry bag, a preferred shelter for many residents of the laundry biome. more research on this topic is necessary