if you're on instagram get off that thing and go outside

if you're on tumblr hold fast and keep scrolling soldier

i beat myself up for not knowing enough about my special interests a lot but then i remember the average person off the street has no idea what the carboniferous is and i feel better

are you really bad at it or are you in "good at it" spaces

Me: ah shit, I misidentified that yellow rumped warbler as a female goldfinch, I should literally be hung at the gallows for this. I'm such an IDIOT

My friend, pointing at a vulture: check out that fucked up crow lol

“what’s the point if they’re all gonna die in the end” my love im sorry but that is actually just how life works, and we care anyway

We are coming. Fascists beware.

Join the correct side of history.

Chicago:

Boston

New Orleans

Asheville, NC

every post about a woman accused of abuse: if a man did this he'd be crucified

every post about a man accused of abuse: look guys, this is a really nuanced conversation and we can't forget the part right wing media plays in these discussions

The journalist Joby Warrick talks about investigating CIA blacksites in which al-Qa'eda members and "al-Qa'eda members" were held without trial and tortured, during the period of 2005-2006. He talks about the difficulties of investigating stories in which all your sources are likely to be lying to you to some degree, and how he cross-referenced the claims of operatives from different intelligence agencies (both within and without the US) to arrive at something approximating the truth. And he talks about how he was able to identify the locations of the blacksites, but the CIA asked him to alter details of his book so as to hide the locations, and he agreed. His reasoning was that revealing the locations could open them up to an attack, and that could put American lives in danger.

Fair enough, I care about all human lives—even the lives of murders and tortures. It's doubtful to me that a terrorist attack on such a site would have improved the situation; there's always the off-chance that some of the prisoners could be rescued, but there's an equal or greater likelihood it would have simply killed people and intensified the War on Terror to no greater end. But I have to ask, would Warrick or another journalist like him have applied that same logic to secret North Korean prison camps? To Russian or Iranian ones? Would he have withheld their location to protect the North Korean, Russian, or Iranian tortures and murders running those camps? Especially in the latter two cases, I would expect such camps to house real terrorists and criminals in addition to innocents. And I would expect them, as CIA blacksites did and I'm sure still do, to torture both sets of prisoners just as mercilessly.

How exactly, in other words, do the "hard choices" involved in doing investigative journalism without endangering human lives interface with simple national allegiances, for people like Warrick?

just born and suck on berry

my best memory ever

AND YET A TRACE OF THE TRUE SELF EXISTS IN THE FALSE SELF

this post is about plastic dinosaurs

cant beleive it. donasairs.

Scrolled past this agakn and just can't get over how much I love it. We need to make things beautiful again and this is such a wonderful example. The beadwork on the wires of a utitarian object, contrasted with the grey concrete.

lettus andf carrots

official boob post

Claire Dederer, Monsters