cole retweeted
i wear clinique black honey for three reasons:
1) it looks nice
2) for a moment when i put it on i can pretend that i’m arwen undómiel, evenstar of her people, lounging around in rivendell on a crisp autumn day. and aragorn is my boyfriend.
3) it goes with everything.
cole retweeted
As a San Diegan I’m used to perfect weather 90% of the year. I genuinely can’t survive another summer like this
cole retweeted
"Dostoevsky seems to suggest that when someone’s options are limited, whether by temperament, failure, or self-inflicted constraints, they are drawn to radical ideologies. They interpret their own flaws as defects in society rather than in themselves." robkhenderson.com/p/the-limi…
cole retweeted
hating children and babies doesn’t make you edgy or cool it just kinda makes you a weird as fuck asshole. dehumanizing the most vulnerable population on earth and thinking they should be excluded from society is not the quirky take you think it is
cole retweeted
As a young girl I remember always being told,
“You can be whatever you want to be!!”
From an astronaut to a doctor, a lawyer, a vet, you could do it all. But there was always this pesky little condition: your dreams had to be big. They had to sound impressive.
Nobody ever said they wanted to be a mom, or a housekeeper, or a trash truck driver, or a waitress, or a dad, or a gardener, or a secretary, or anything common, normal, and ordinary.
You could be anything you wanted, so long as it was something grand.
You couldn’t dream of a simple life, of marriage, a home, and a handful of kids, because that was a “waste” of potential. That was “settling.”
So now we have an entire generation of people who think marriage, children and normal lives are failures, when in reality these are the single most important things most of us will ever have, or ever do.
These are the pillars of society, and yet they are the one dream we are told we shouldn’t have.
cole retweeted
Eat a mouthful of grass and you get nothing. It goes in green and comes out green.
Eat straw and you get nothing. Your gut cannot touch cellulose.
Eat acorns and you get tannins, and a very bad afternoon.
Eat bracken and you get a carcinogen.
Eat nettles, thistles, brambles, rushes and moorland heather and you get a mouth full of blood and no calories.
Eat the beet pulp, the oat husks and the spent brewer's grain and you get the waste the factory couldn't sell.
Now feed the lot of it to a cow.
She turns every one of them into steak, butter, cream, milk and a hide, on land that will never grow a vegetable, using four stomachs and a fermentation vat you do not have.
The grass she eats grew on rain and sunlight, for free, on a hillside nobody can plough.
She is the only creature on earth that can take a field of inedible fibre and hand you back the most nutrient-dense food there is.
The cow is not competing with you for food. She eats the ninety percent you cannot.
Best plant-based diet ever invented. It just has a cow in the middle doing the hard part.
cole retweeted
For context on the air conditioning debate between the US and Europe...one must consult the ancient texts:
1. Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you're 15 and 35 is new and exciting and revolutionary, and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're 35 is against the natural order of things.
-- Douglas Adams