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My 17yo arthritic cat has creaky joints and gets sad that she can’t sleep on my head upstairs anymore, so I spend some nights with her downstairs and she headbutts me when she’s feeling love, or hunger, who knows, too early in the morning
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Mila doesn’t understand why nobody wants to get sat on by her for the third consecutive hour Someone was so excited to pet Cookie that he fell backwards after getting up from petting Cookie, spilled his iced coffee all over himself, AND he was on a date    Mila’s daily schedule. 7am: yell Something that’s been on my mind for a while: Sometimes I read Americans here having very absolutist ideas on ‘freedom’ or ‘democracy’. For example, ‘why do people live in Dubai when it’s an autocracy?’ I can tell you why. My Syrian friends, who no longer have a home, live there because they won’t ever get a visa for the U.S., nor anywhere else in the western world. My skilled Iranian best friend who just got his life upended by a Canadian visa that took 3 whole years then rejected. For immigrants who are immigrants not by choice, their life choices are often shaped by western powers’ military and foreign policy decisions, sometimes having a home that isn’t perfect is the best that they can do. That’s assuming people want to come to the ‘bastion of freedom’ that the U.S. believes it is, when no one really believes that anymore. (I would say the ‘migrants at the southern border’ are also doing it out of desperation for relative stability, not ‘freedom’) @skinnylatte People have some wild, wild ideas about how easy it is to leave places and/or go elsewhere. Even the "I'm gonna move to Canada!" statements made famous 20+ years ago in the US... it's so fucking hard to move to Canada. It's SO HARD TO LEAVE THE US. It's SO HARD TO ENTER THE US. None of this shit is easy. You have shockingly little agency in any of it. It's also bizarre reckoning on American's parts given they only really inflect upon the supposed self governance seldom, are functionally detached from decision making between those inflections, only have supposed recourse in ejecting bad actors but not undoing their mandates and policies, and so on and so on and so on, where...yeah, the day to day life isn't exactly that different and the special days where it is just contribute to self deluding farce of differences.
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Another scan from the film I just developed in my bathroom: the view from Tunnel View in Yosemite Valley (Glacier Point is nicer, but also a longer drive) (Shot on Yashica 124G, Portra 400, self-developed in Bellini C41 kit, scanned on Fuji Frontier) #FilmIsNotDead #BelieveInFilm #MediumFormat #Portra #Yashica #FilmPhotography #Photography #Outdoors #Nature #Yosemite #California
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Taiwanese metal band Chtonic uses the traditional Chinese musical instrument, the erhu, incorporates elements of Taiwanese folk music, and also uses some Indigenous instruments (Taiwan has many Indigenous people who are closely related to the other Austronesian peoples of Southeast Asia). They sing in Mandarin, Hokkien, and some Indigenous languages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_UkowmQs30 #Music #Taiwan #TaiwanIndigenous #Indigenous #TootSea #HeavyMetal I love all the malicious compliance in subreddit reopening. /r/WellThatSucks is now about vacuums. |
