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Hive of stingless honey bee Plebeia sp.

Developing larvae on the left, pollen and honey stocked on the right.

Structures are made from cerumen, a mixture of tree resins, beeswax and propolis.

reddit post

sculpting the land: artistic interventions with the landscape - strijdom van der merwe (2005)

"12 hour allergy relief" lmfao bitch I will be sneezing again in 5, 6 hours. im ignoring all dosing recommendations im not a coward i live this 24/7/365. i have so many histamines some of them are herstamines and they're just for the ladies. title ix. cough sniffle n choke squad every day, every way, we itchin CON TIN NEW WALL-E no rest for the afflicted. pass me another little white pill im bout to sneeze loud as hell. uncle sneezes. grandfather sneezes. don't even put my newspaper down just blast that thing both barrels open mouth rattling like a thundersheet backstage at a high school play: "sandra im Not allergic to the dog" implying being allergic to shit is gay. don't even call that Claritin anymore we refer to each other by our Christian names: Loratadine. what a beautiful name for a baby girl

To restate it–my general theory of history (ok, it’s more like my general hunch of history)–is that all apparent social progress is made as our civilization gets better at processing its trauma, bc cycles of violence/trauma/childrearing (and the normalization of these things) largely explain why the past so often seems so inhumanly violent to us–public executions, chattel slavery, massacres, etc, etc.

And there are people in this day and age who nonetheless glorify those days–the thing that got me reading acoup’s series on Sparta was his series on the Fremen Mirage, the illusion (delusion?) so often received in pop-history and in books like Starship Troopers that there’s this distinction between ““““decadent”““ non-militarized, peaceful societies and “morally pure” societies (militarily strong societies, i.e., societies that have value bc they are good at generating and exporting violence)

And–and I’m just spitballing here, I have very little evidence to back this up–I suspect that if you scratch contemporary subcultures where that kind of idolization of a militarized past occurs, where the atrocities–not even the atrocities in service of some cause, just the senseless, pointless, stupid violence–of societies like Rome and Sparta get brushed under the rug, you will find subcultures where people are much more traumatized than elsewhere by abusive, authoritarian, and outright violent upbringings, where the correlation of “authority figure” and “source of shame and pain” is much, much tighter.

Because if you are raised in, or still live in, a shitty, abusive environment, there are two ways you can deal with this: either you can say, this is awful, this is monstrous, no one should have to live like this (and if you do, so much the worse if the whole world is like that, or if it feels like the whole world is like that, because it is painful indeed to look at the world and think ‘oh my, it is full of pain and injustice and there is nothing I can do about it’), or “well, there’s a reason for all this misery.” The reason is ‘because it makes us stronger.’ Or the reason is ‘because it makes us more morally pure.’ Or the reason is ‘because God (or Lycurgus, or Odin, or the Emperor) commanded it.’ Sometimes–at least for some people–the worst possible outcome is that your suffering would have no meaning. It’s not just “well, I had to endure this, so why shouldn’t they?” Or rather, it is, but the core of that sentiment is, “how come I had to suffer?” and the desperate hope that, well, as long as other people are suffering, too, your suffering must have some kind of meaning. That’s Just The Way The World Is, After All. What’s the other possibility? You got fucked over, for no reason?

Sometimes when I’m reading about history, especially in its grimmer parts, I have this momentary feeling–not much more than a fleeting mental image, really. It’s an image of every human being since the dawn of time, as the tiny child we all once were at some stage, groping desperately in the dark for a way to understand the world we were dumped into. But we’re all, in one way or another, still one of those tiny children, with all that entails: a deep deficiency of understanding, a certain inescapable impatience and hotheadedness, cooperative creatures which nonetheless have a terrible fear of pain. In such a world, it feels like the only reasonable response is to try to cultivate a neverending source of compassion within oneself, to try to be as patient as possible with others, who are often just as alone and afraid as we are. After all, it’s what I hope they would do for me.

Dilara Findikoglu 'Bitter End Waistcoat' S/S 2023

Crafted from leather with an aged finish inspired by 50s corsets, it has an integrated cone bra cup structured with boning and lacing details. It's finished with a zip in front.

Always worth re-sharing this.

INTO

Trans Rules of Engagement - INTO

We are all flawed, traumatized humans at the end of their rope.

ACC01 capsule collection @mercedesbenz_de - @actetm

Happy to report that despite everything, it’s still bart world

Jade Blue & Shane, San Francisco, 1997, Charles Gatewood, Badlands (1999)

average Cis Gamer Bro (top 1% poster on r/darksouls): "sure dark souls 1 had a lot of ambiguity surrounding Gwyndolin's gender, and 'guy raised as a girl' is the stereotypical backstory for Totally Not A Trans Woman Haha Seriously You Guyssss video game characters like Bridget, but dark souls 3 doubles down on masculine pronouns and even has Yorshka referring to Gwyndolin as a 'brother'. maybe there really was just some weird feminine-coded stuff going on with moon magic and Gwyndolin literally is a detransitioned cis man as the canon text suggests."

barista who knew about Bloodborne Kart back before it became a meme (criticizes Vaati for "oversimplifying" his lore videos): "okay so Miyazaki is a cis man who accidentally wrote a trans woman and is too stupid to realize it and tried backtracking later, many such cases. Yorshka is a terf and her 'brother' has C cups in a corset. furthermore,"

"fandom blogger" with commissioned art of their OC as a profile picture (can and will explain Homestuck lore at the drop of a hat): "ummmm i think you're BOTH reaching here, obviously the 'guy raised as a girl' backstory was true but in the Woke way and he's a trans man"

cis gamer bro:

barista: