Not an actual mango.

luisonte:

Pero buatefack

catchymemes:

hazeldomain:

10thingsihateabout-all-yall:

elidyce:

byjoveimbeinghumble:

fairypage01:

goobra:

my unpopular opinion is that i hate tiktok because now people just publicly watch loud ass videos in public spaces with no regard for anyone else. 100% it was not this bad with youtube, it’s such a different thing with tiktok. put on headphones. you are grown.

Girl……

This is it! This is what social media/smart tech have done! They’ve rotted away any distinction between private and public.

Yes, we do have the right to make demands on public behavior. Of course we do. Have you never heard of laws and etiquette? I’m not allowed to grocery shop naked. You can’t rummage through my purse. I can’t have a work meeting in the middle of a movie theatre.

I remember when it was taboo simply to answer your cell phone in public. The person answering would apologize and try to go to a more private area. Then public calls were normalized. Then putting people on speaker. Then listening to music without headphones. Do you know how many times I have hiked up a mountain or driven to the beach, only to be met with someone blaring shitty top 40 music from their portable speaker, because Heaven forbid you go one hour without noise?

Old woman yells at cloud and all that, but I can’t believe someone is not only admitting this behavior, but saying it’s a good thing! No one likes you! You’re a menace!

BEING INCONSIDERATE OF OTHERS IS STILL BAD.

It was obnoxious when it was youtube.

It was obnoxious when it was music.

It was obnoxious when it was the radio. 

It was obnoxious when it was dudes wanting to talk to you instead of letting you just read your freaking book.

Do you want to be this guy? Because being obnoxious in shared spaces is how you become this guy. 

Wear your damn headphones like an adult participant in the social contract.

Best art history lesson ever, thank you

canwriteitbetterthanueverfeltit:

edgelessuniverse:

canwriteitbetterthanueverfeltit:

I lent my mom a book before I read it and apparently right at the beginning they tell a true story about all our chestnut trees dying and it made my mother SO DEPRESSED that she couldn’t sleep and now she’s been researching chestnut trees for the past half hour looking sick

She’s right!!

Chestnut trees used to define forests in the South – some estimates say about ¼ trees was a chestnut tree. And they were huge! Growing more than 100 feet tall (with trunks more than 10 feet in diameter), they were called the “redwoods of the East.” They were a characteristic food source of the South, too. A mature chestnut tree can produce upwards of 50 lbs of nuts a year – many of these were gathered and eaten by poor families, or turned into chestnut flour and used to make “poor man’s bread.”

But, at the beginning of the 20th century, a fungus called the blight was brought over from Asia. Over the next 50 years, every single American Chestnut was infected and died. While some root systems are still alive, they’re considered functionally extinct.

People cut down huge areas of forest trying to prevent the spread of the blight and save the trees – but they failed. And now several generations have never even known the chestnut tree. We don’t even know enough to miss them.

But now, with advances in genetic technology, the chestnut trees may be coming back! Through a group scientific effort led by the American Chestnut Foundation, researchers have created a “transgenic American chestnut tree with enhanced blight tolerance” called Darling 58. Darling 58 is genetically modified to be able to coexist with the blight.

Darling 58 American chestnuts are currently being reviewed by the USDA-APHIS, EPA, and FDA. But researchers hope to be able to reintroduce them soon – one huge step towards restoring our forests.

You can follow the chestnut trees’ progress (and request a Darling 58 tree when they’re available) at https://acf.org/ .

Thank you I’m gonna share this chestnut revitalization news with her!

nickyflowers:

nickyflowers:

ugh! i just wish high-quality content could be seamlessly delivered to me in an algorithmic feed! i hate the friction of curating my own personal experience—i need a machine to tell me what i like

it’s just soooo outdated for a social media site to show me chronological posts i chose to see. what am i, a BOOMER?? no! it’s 2023. i want the apps i use to treat me like a fucking idiot, incapable of developing my own thoughts or good taste. because that’s the industry standard. why would it be standard if it’s bad!!

sorry-im-a-terminalidiot:

ripempezardexerox:

modmad:

beatrice-otter:

thegaymertrainer:

They did it again

Oh, cool! I love the behind-the-scenes stuff. If you’ve never seen the original (this version is narrower so you miss a lot that was going on) it’s here:

THANK YOU