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Also, there's a difference between compromising your well-being to try to fix someone who doesn't WANT to be fixed, and aiding/inspiring/providing a conducive environment for the transformation of a person who DOES want to change.

"redemption arcs are toxic, you shouldn't try to fix someone!"

actually it is so important to me that being in community and experiencing human connection can save people. thanks

#redemption arc #fandom

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You can get 373 games for $8, and all proceeds go to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, which has a 4-star rating on Charity Navigator.

#Palestine #Gaza #how to help Palestine #how to help Gaza #Gaza charity #Palestine charity #free Palestine

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Here's the finished artwork since the video doesn't do the up-close textures justice, pretty happy with this for my first proper go at oil pastels 🌈

#art #beetle #beetle art #tw bugs #bugs tw #tw insects #insects tw #beautiful

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Photographers all know about polarizing filters. They remove reflections off the surfaces of objects. We use them to see into water or windows that are obscured by those reflections. But anything with an even slightly glossy surface has a layer of reflection on top. So if you have a shiny green plant, it can remove the shiny and reveal a very saturated green underneath. Polarizers also remove a lot of scattered and reflected light from the sky. Which reveals a deep blue color you didn't even know was there.

Here is a photo I took of my circular polarizer.

And the first thing I noticed when walking outside during the eclipse was the color of everything was more saturated, just like in that circle. Apparently, an eclipse significantly reduces polarized light and I got this creepy feeling because I was only ever used to seeing the world like that through the viewfinder of my camera.

The other thing I noticed was my outdoor lights. I leave them on all the time because I never remember to turn them on at night. And usually the sun will render them barely visible during the day. On a very sunny day they almost look like they are off.

But you can clearly see they are shining and even flaring the camera during the eclipse.

Our eyes adjust to lighting changes very well so it was hard to tell how much dimmer things were, but that is a good indication. I took this photo a few minutes ago and you can see how dim the lights appear after the moon has fucked off.

I did a calculation using the exposure settings between these two photos. The non-eclipse photo has 7 f-stops more light. That is 128 times or 12,700% more light.

A partial Pringle eclipse cut the sun's light by 99.2% and somehow our eyes adjusted to make it seem like a normal sunny day (with weird ass saturated colors).

#long post #photography #eclipse #solar eclipse

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Ok but, either she put that on and inflated it as soon as she got off the airplane/train/bus, or she was wearing it the whole ride and both make me crack up

#cute #funny #cute video #funny video #people in dinosaur suits

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#Disability #Disabled

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why must it always be 'peppering'. why can't i salt my lover with kisses. paprika my lover with kisses. 3 tablespoons chili powder 2 teaspoons ground cumin 1/2 teaspoons oregano my lover with kisses

#funny #joke

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Fullbody for Ysdaar The art was made in July, 2023

#art #dragon art #feathered dragon #character design #beautiful

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Needle Felted Dragons and Tutorials // Olena Pogrebniak

#art #crafts #plushies #needle felt #dragons #dragon art #needle felted dragons

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Context: the party was hired by a journalist too look into a series of disappearances that lead back to a baron

Journalist: And if we get enough evidence we can bring it to the council and take him down for good!

Bard, professional conman: So about that last part

Ranger, clone of a council member: I was thinking we could just kill him

Fighter, escapee of council funded human experimentation: Killing him sounds good, no reason to bother the council with this

Warlock, spy for a rival nation: I am also down for killing and not letting the council know anything about whats happening here

#DnD quotes #DnD shenanigans

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I hate how Jews here feel the need to give the "I'm pro-Palestine, pro-peace and donate to Palestinian aid" disclaimer before daring to call out 1930s grade antisemitism.

I have my disagreements with anti-Zionist Jews(NOT synonymous with the Jews Idiscussed above), but if they'll have me(BIG big if), I will not hesitate to jump to their side when it comes to calling out Protocols of the Elders of Zion tropes with swapped words.

I know why they do it - because that's the only way they have a faint chance of being taken seriously when they talk about receiving death threats, being doxxed and dismissed on the spot as "being hysterical".

Why is Jewish humanity conditional on centering everyone but ourselves?

Why can't Jews as a whole be seen and believed when we say "we experience antisemitism"?

Why do some Jewish opinions(ones that don't involve centering goyim, Palestinian or otherwise) make your stance on antisemitism invalid?

#leftist antisemitism #transphobia #ableism #leftist hypocrisy #I am leftist myself #but if we can't call out the shit on our own side of the aisle #what are we even doing

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I still find it amusing how pkmn breeding in SV happens in picnics... like, the implication of pkmn doing the do there? right in front of my salad?? and the way u can accidentally do the breeding when u just want to chill in the picnic?

#art #comic #Pokemon fan art #Pokemon fan comic #Pokemon comic #Pokemon #Pokemon breeding #baby Pokemon #cute

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Roasted chicken, ginger, daikon, shiitake mushroom soup with lime, cilantro, broccoli sprouts, and rice noodles

#soup #Ophelia #Ophelia in soup #image editing #Souphelia

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Whenever the zookeepers aren't around, the doll turns into a real boy.

A Tiger and His Boy

#art #tiger art #Calvin and Hobbes in reverse #reverse Calvin and Hobbes

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Budapest ‘87, Attila Manek

#holding a kid in a shopping bag #baby pictures #recreating childhood photos #cute #cute pictures #baby in a shopping bag

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#cats #cat pictures #wet cat #funny #funny cat pictures