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One of the reasons I’m not scared of aging/looking older is that I have a lot of old people that I love & admire and I don’t think it would be bad to look like them. I wonder how ppls attitudes about bodies would change if we had more opportunities to hang out w old people

My partner today: “if I was two worms, which one would you love more”

I feel this way about ppl who clip birds’ wings

Tired of pretending I don’t love ska

Me this morning: why does my stomach muscles hurting so bad and feeling so sore? It’s different than period cramp pain what is it??
Me yesterday: I wonder how long I can hold a plank for

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“There go our closest allies.” Nora Summerville, Systems Analyst

U.S. Imposes Tariffs On Remote Island Of Penguins And Seals
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How Trump 2.0 is slashing NIH-backed research — in charts Nature analyses which fields of science and US states are being hit hardest by grant terminations.

NEW: Entire scientific fields have been wiped out by the nearly 800 grants cancelled at NIH, finds a @nature.com analysis of the unprecedented cuts.

About half of all 2024 NIH projects related to LGBT+ health or vaccine hesitancy — gone.

See the other topics and US states hardest hit here:

Sometimes white ppl say “wowww i never thought of it this way before” and you just have to be like 😀 I can tell

Oscar wearing Nietzsche as a tiny hat

“Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.” “Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.” —Audre Lorde April is National Poetry Month. To celebrate, we put together a list of poetry books that tell stories of resistance...

April is National Poetry Month. In celebration of poetry’s vital necessity, we put together a list of poetry books that contain stories of resistance, sorrow, solidarity and hope in our struggles to change the world.

Hell yeah hell yeah hell yeah

The YouTube search bar hates to see me logging on at 5am. Been watching time lapse videos of snails laying eggs for 30 minutes hell yeah

I think the best way to watch lost highway is the way im doing it (on my phone, on my desk, in between meetings)

As an artist and a bird person I must say I am really not a fan of the weird AI macaw mutations that adobe is using for creative cloud project loading screens 😭 they are uncanny and frightening to me. Here’s an oscar pic to cleanse the palette

Tbf? Some of yall do need to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting

New great grandpa single featuring lead singer @al-menne.bsky.social ‘s new voice out now and everyone on earth needs to listen immediately now

If I see the brutalist for a fourth time do you guys think I’ll finally be able to stop thinking about it

“I’ll tell you what freedom is to me. No fear.” —Nina Simone was born February 21, 1933

Tagalongs are still goated

I’m about to go to the opera 2 nights in a row wish me luck doing anything related to this reality for the next week

Blah blah blah, ask not for whom the hotline blings; it blings for thee

If I see the brutalist for a third time do you guys think I’ll finally be able to stop thinking about it

I really like that they put a guy with a parrot in the new dragon age game

After 31 Years of Great Performances, He’s Set to Get His First Oscar Nomination. What Took So Long? The Brutalist actor was once bound for leading-man Hollywood stardom. Now he’s set to get recognized for a very different kind of role.

For the good people of slate dot com I enlisted Elia Kazan and Shakespeare to try to explain Guy Pearce, one of the few contemporary actors to intentionally turn down the big career for a smaller, steadier body of work:

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Oscar the macaw lies on his back and holds his wing while receiving head scratches

Oscar the macaw lies on his back and holds his wing while receiving head scratches

Oscar the macaw lies on his back and holds his wing while receiving head scratches

He is just a baby

Introduction to Indigenous Urban Gardening by Daku Aka

Lot: Stories by Bryan Washington

Solidarity is the Political Version of Love: Lessons from Jewish Anti-Zionist Organizing by Rebecca Vilkomerson & Alissa Wise

Annapurna: Gastronomic Delights from my Fiji Indian Childhood by Nalini Naidu

Four of the books I’m getting my brother for his birthday

Oscar sometimes holds on to one of his wings while feeling cozy. It’s just a weird funny thing that he does—we’re keeping an eye on it to make sure it’s not a hormonal behavior, but so far it’s just him being weird