one of my cherished childhood memories is eating ungodly amounts of pine needles before gym class to make myself sick so i didnt have to particpate, like it didnt even occur to me to just pretend to be sick, i just went ‘yes. eating pine needles is the only option’
my second favorite thing about this is that literally no one stopped me. everyone could see me picking off pine needles and eating them like delicate snacks and then getting sick but everyone was like ‘alright thats cool’
gay culture is helping clean up the dinner table after fam dinner with your mom & aunts while all your uncles sit around on their asses doing absolutely nothing
This is artist Goro Furuta’s model of a Diplocaulus, a meter-long salamander-like amphibian that went extinct about 250 million years ago. “Hammerhead salamander” is a made-up thing.
Not to be a contrarian prairiean but even indigenous people who didn’t have technologies/structures which surpassed european standards at contact and impress by modern day standards still deserve respect. My ancestors were impressive in that they lived with a positive impact on the land, even though they didn’t build permanent houses or anything like that. I refuse to be judged by eurocentric ideals of inventiveness and accomplishment.
natgeotravel: Ha'a Keaulana,
daughter of Brian Keaulana and the grand daughter of legendary Buffalo
Keaulana carries a 50 pound boulder while running across the sea floor
to train for surfing. Her father teaches surfers that they should train
for a four wave hold down in case of a wipeout in big surf. At 13 second
intervals between waves, that means about a minute of being held down.
It is one thing to hold your breath in a swimming pool for a minute and
it something completely different to swim down 30 feet, pick up a huge
rock and then run as hard as you can for a minute. Thanks to her
lineage, community and training, Ha’a is a true water woman from Makaha.
Hawaiians have saltwater running through their veins and epitomize what
it means to be connected to the sea.
Photograph by @paulnicklen.
Bruh
She isn’t just running with a 50 pound rock, but she has three dudes acting as a drag! That is just…wow. holy hot damn!
