Call over the Potboy

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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coelii

Holy fuck I want banjo frog so badly omg

detective-slenderman

I have a banjo frog watch

coelii

okay you can’t just post that without a picture c’mon :0

detective-slenderman

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Ask and ye shall receive I guess

coelii

OH FUCK YEA DUDE

that’s rad as heck :D

zerosuitsammi3

I'm just over here subtly hinting to my girlfriend like "hey isn't this video funny 😏😏😉😏... 😉😉😉 😉😉 😉 😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉 😏😉"

lilyvonpseudonym

BANJO FROG! BANJO FROOOOOOOG!

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i would kill for banjo frog

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sioltach

The very word, Windigo, according to Ojibwe scholar Basil Johnston, can be derived from roots meaning “fat excess” or “thinking only of oneself.” Writer Steve Pitt states that “a Windigo was a human whose selfishness has overpowered their self-control to the point that satisfaction is no longer possible."

I remember walking a street in Manhattan, where the warm light of a lavish home spilled out over the sidewalk on a man picking through the garbage for his dinner. Maybe we’ve all been banished to lonely corners by our obsession with private property. We’ve accepted banishment even from ourselves when we spend our beautiful, utterly singular lives on making more money, to buy more things that feed but never satisfy. It is the Windigo way that tricks us into believing that belongings will fill our hunger, when it is belonging that we crave.

On a grander scale, too, we seem to be living in an era of Windigo economics of fabricated demand and compulsive overconsumption. What Native peoples once sought to rein in, we are now asked to unleash in a systematic policy of sanctioned greed.

The fear for me is far greater than just acknowledging the Windigo within. The fear for me is that the world has been turned inside out, the dark side made to seem light. Indulgent self-interest that our people once held to be monstrous is now celebrated as success. We are asked to admire what our people viewed as unforgivable. The consumption-driven mind-set masquerades as “quality of life” but eats us from within. It is as if we’ve been invited to a feast, but the table is laid with food that nourishes only emptiness, the black hole of the stomach that never fills. We have unleashed a monster.

Ecological economists argue for reforms that would ground economics in ecological principles and the constraints of thermodynamics. They urge the embrace of the radical notion that we must sustain natural capital and ecosystem services if we are to maintain quality of life. But governments still cling to the neoclassical fallacy that human consumption has no consequences.

We continue to embrace economic systems that prescribe infinite growth on a finite planet, as if somehow the universe had repealed
the laws of thermodynamics on our behalf. Perpetual growth is simply not compatible with natural law, and yet a leading economist like Lawrence Summers, of Harvard, the World Bank, and the U.S. National Economic Council, issues such statements as, “There are no limits to the carrying capacity of the earth that are likely to bind at any time in the foreseeable future. The idea that we should put limits on growth because of some natural limit is a profound error.”

Our leaders willfully ignore the wisdom and the models of every other species on the planet—except of course those that have gone extinct. Windigo thinking.

Braiding Sweetgrass: Windigo Footprints, by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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This is a map of the range of all giraffe species. By my count that puts them in just 16 countries out of the 54 in Africa (of which 5 are island countries with no territory on the continental mainland). That's 30%, quite a long way shy of all, and as you can see many of those countries that do have giraffes only have a tiny portion of their territory within giraffes' habitats

datasoong47

Wow, I knew they weren't in "every African country", but I didn't realize just how restricted their range was

blacktabris

Good teachers don't mind saying "I don't know" or that they need to look it up and will get back to you.

thegreenpea

Not only that but giraffes in different areas have different patterns and it's so cool

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wakandamama

Masai giraffes look cool af

uzumaki-rebellion

The Masai giraffes are stuntin’ on the heauxs!

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Masai Giraffe:

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Reticulated Giraffe:

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slymewitch

This switched gears from a post about white ignorance to a giraffe appreciation post. Such is the nature of tumblr.

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halcyonhue

I just want you all to know, that if and when this site does experience a real exodus and/or get sunsetted for good, even if we don't keep in touch I'll remember you so fondly. You're the online equivalent of the other kid on the beach where we built sandcastles together; the girl at the campsite where we explored the trees. You're the drunk person who shared kind words in the bathroom at the club, you're the talented artists at the life drawing class or the poetry night in a city where I don't live anymore. It makes me sad that maybe in the future our paths won't cross so easily, but even when we leave this little shared piece of cyberspace, carried away on our briefly intersecting trajectories, just know I still love you