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  1. Sep 2022
    1. Leather Shoe And a Blacklist Blue A Paintbrush The Smell of Herbal Glue Sunglasses Eyelashes Chelsea's Shoe With a Hole And A Hole in my Heart

      This picture really struck me. It feels like it was freshly pulled out of the uncanny valley. I can't tell if the bird is well and sitting on leaves and stuff or is hurt and.spread across the pavement. The seemingly unrelated caption only serves to deepen my uneasiness.

    1. moment of self-realization as a child, when you suddenly realize that you are not the external world or your perceptions, but you are an individual entity perceiving this world, separate from others.

      The author definitely captures this hard-to-describe feeling really well. I remember the specific moment this happened for me, but I might be confusing that with the first memories I had. This excerpt reminds me of that one meme about being happy and dumb as a kid until gaining consciousness out of nowhere and life going downhill from there.

    1. But a growing backlash against the country’s green transition and its effect on the Sami people is shining a spotlight on its failure to uphold Sami rights.

      This goes back to the saying that went something like "justice not for all is no justice at all". This just goes to show you can have good intentions and actions and still be doing something wrong and harmful. This is especially true for Sweden is trying to protect its ecosystems and natural resources but hurting their indigenous populations in the process.