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[Juggalo Jesus @da_porgy]

Turning to my couple's counselor and doing this whenever my husband is talking

[trash jones @jzux]

hey sorry i can’t come today i have to watch six straight hours of law and order SVU

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

12 Reasons Why Cities Need More Trees:

1. Temperature Control

One large tree is equivalent to 10 air conditioning units, and the shade they provide can reduce street temperature by more than 30%.

2. Noise Reduction

Trees can reduce loudness by up to 50%. In urban areas filled with the sound of cars, construction, sirens, aeroplanes, and music, trees are essentially the best way to block noise and keep cities — along with the homes and workplaces in them — quieter.

3. Air Purity

Trees remove an astonishing amount of harmful pollutants and toxins from the air. In urban areas air quality is often disastrously bad — with severe consequences for our health. Trees make the air we breathe much cleaner.

4. Oxygen

And, while absorbing all those pollutants, trees also put more oxygen back into the urban environment. Oxygen levels are significantly lower in cities compared to the countryside; trees help to solve that problem.

5. Water Management

Trees do more than just shelter us and our buildings from rain — which is, in fact, extremely important. They also absorb huge quantities of water, reduce run-off, neutralise the severity of flooding, and make flooding more unlikely altogether. Not to forget that their roots absorb pollutants and prevent them from feeding back into a city's water supply.

6. Psychological Health

Studies have proven what we instinctively know to be true: that human beings are significantly happier when surrounded by nature rather than sterile urban environments. Our emotions, behaviour, and thoughts are shaped by the places we spend time — and trees have a profoundly positive effect on our psychology. The consequential benefits of being happier and more peaceful — as individuals and as a society — are immense.

7. Physical Health

Beyond all the other ways in which trees improve air quality and the urban environment, much to the benefit of our health, they also encourage people to go outside. Cycling, running, and walking are all more common in urban areas with plenty of trees. A knock-on effect of people spending more time outdoors is also social integration and stronger communities.

8. Privacy

A simple point, but not inconsequential, is that trees provide privacy.

9. Economics

The total economic benefit of urban trees is hard to calculate. There are costs, of course, including the repair of infrastructure damaged by roots and maintaining the trees themselves. But the total economic benefit — a consequence of everything else in this list and more — far outweighs the expenditure. Trees make cities wealthier.

10. Wildlife

Trees are miniature cities all of their own, serving as a habitat for hundreds of different species, including birds and mammals and insects.

11. Light Pollution

Trees don't only block the light shining down, therefore keeping us and our cities cooler — they also disrupt light shining up, from street lighting, cars, houses, and billboards. Skies are clearer in cities with more trees.

12. Aesthetics

And, finally, trees are beautiful. They break up the potential monotony of urban environments — the sharp geometry, the greyscale roads and buildings, the endless rows of cars — with their trunks, boughs, canopies, and flowers.

Just think: the gold and red of falling leaves in autumn, the white and pink blossom of spring, the vast green canopies of summer, and the branches lined with hoar-frost in winter. Every single tree is a myriad of intricacy and texture, of colour and scent, of dappled light on the pavement, mottled bark, knotted roots, of clustered leaves and delicate petals and stern boughs.

Few streets would not be improved by the kaleidoscopic aesthetic delights of a tree, not to mention the many different species of tree, all over the world, whether willow, oak, lime, cherry, aspen, maple, birch, horse chestnut, dogwood, hornbeam, ash, sycamore... the list goes on.

There are some drawbacks to urban trees, most of them context-specific, and they are not — of course — universally appropriate. But it seems fair to say that many cities would benefit from at least a few more trees here and there.

[Brett Hanfling @Brett_Hanfling]

The Bear season 2, episode 7 “Forks” is a spectacular piece of television. Haven’t been so moved by such a simple episode of tv in a long time.

[asta @lollasta]

New Yorkers on their lunch breaks in the 70s, photographed by Charles Traub

[asta @lollasta]

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[abi @222abiii]

@PreyKumar in an alternate universe you are also working in that kitchen prey

[abi @222abiii]

the bear is the best media ive ever consumed in my entire life i actually cant and wont shut up about how fucking good this show is

[The Bear @TheBearFX]

Thank you, chefs. Congratulations to the cast and crew of FX’s The Bear on their Emmy nomination for Outstanding Comedy Series. #TheBearFX #Emmys

[abi @222abiii]

@G0N52 LOOOL like i literally needed to show u

[🌟 @imsecsee]

I hate wen I’m frustrated and somebody play lil baby

[serena shahidi @glamdemon2004]

Aritzia makes clothes for girls who are REALLY excited to get engaged

[bao 🗝️ @cozybao]

happy to announce that i've finally completed two pages of my fruit sticker collection!🍎🍊🍌🍐🫐🍇

[rachel @rachelmillman]

laughed so hard at this I was rocking back and forth

[abi @222abiii]

@coolgrrlE so real

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

THE SHINING was released 43 years ago today. Not a huge success on its release, it has gone down as one of Stanley Kubrick’s most popular films and most influential horror movies ever made. The behind the scenes story is as outrageous as you might expect…

A THREAD

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[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

AFRICAN GAZE was an exhibition showcasing the weird and wonderful art form that is the Ghanaian movie poster. These are some of the best...

A THREAD

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