claire

[owl @owl_posting]

a horrifying video

imagine feeling instinctively pulled to do a task. something that goes beyond your personal ambitions, your environment, or your job. something that comes from genetic instructions, placed down there over millions of years of evolution, screaming at you from generations past

now imagine that task being impossible to do in any satisfactory way. the beaver cannot feel the water, cannot find the wood. there are genetic signals to gather items for the dam, but all the beaver can accomplish in the end is a stage three simulacra. what it will create in this artificial environment will forever be lacking in the eyes of their evolutionary instincts

the beaver KNOWS there are unfinished things to do, but it cannot even conceive of what that could be. where is the water? where is the wood? what are these items meant to do? what is the purpose of it all? the beaver does not know. its brothers in the forest do, but that knowledge is forever beyond this domesticated one, who has never even been outside of an air conditioned room

but it continues its toil, because the beaver cannot understand that its evolutionary ordained tasks are useless here. the rules of its environment have changed, but it lacks the faculties to recognize that; i simultaneously pity the creature and see myself in it

[Amber Janae @livingdvnly]

The most underrated glow-up? Falling back in love with your life after a long period of uncertainty—finding joy in the simple things, choosing yourself unapologetically, and living in alignment with your most authentic self.

[Why you should have a cat @ShouldHaveCat]

my new goal in life is to be as happy as this cat

[claire @CIairey]

Art deco is kiki and art nouveau is boba

[Lucía Lobosvilla @LuciaLobosvilla]

Someone else said:

“Art Nouveau is when it looks made by elves.

Art Deco is when it looks made by dwarves.”

And after looking into it, I think they’re a genius and 100% correct.

[claire @CIairey]

@HistoryOfStokey Do you know why the name for Meroe Court was chosen for the flats on Bouverie Road? It seems to reference the Meroe Pyramids in South Sudan (in the historic kingdom of kush) but can’t imagine what the link would be as the architecture doesn’t seem inspired by it

[𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐡𝐚𝐝𝐳𝐢 𝐃𝐢𝐨𝐫. 💜 @KhulisoKMahosi_]

the phrase “to be loved is to be worth the inconvenience” rings true every time i think of my friends.

[Stoke Newington History @HistoryOfStokey]

My Church Street shopfront poster used as backdrop in the BBC London evening news just now :) (photo by Patima Omar)

The 2:30min feature about my research into the history of every shop in Church Street, which the backdrop was used for, is available here till tomorrow afternoon. Starting at 5:40min: https://t.co/n8V1FS4LB8

All 10 annual editions of my Church St shopfront poster from 2015 are available here: https://t.co/ELFlRfaqM2

[⚔️𝖈𝖑𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖈𝖊 𝖙𝖚𝖉𝖔𝖗⚔️ @claricetudor_]

this is a true story about my situationship 🧵

[Dont Show Your Cat @DontShowYourCat]

king treatment

[Unladylike @Death2Misogyny]

This bear thing has shattered the narrative that women expect men to protect them.

Men cling to this as THE reason that women need them: all their negative shit is balanced by that one time they think they'll protect us.

But we just collectively announced this isn't the case.

[claire @CIairey]

@TILLXY Oooo drop the recipe? This sounds banging

[Echo 🔆 @TheEcho13]

Men don’t believe women choose to be single because men don’t choose to be single.

Being single is the default position for women. That’s why men pursue women and not the other way around. Women only shift out of their default position when a man comes along who makes them want too.

Women want men who make them not want to be single anymore. Men want women because they don’t want to be single. There is a very specific difference there.

It’s also why men can’t figure out why their attempts at shaming women into getting married don’t work.

Women want men who make being in a relationship better than being single. Companionship isn’t enough. There has to be an increase in happiness in her life when she is with a man compared to being alone, that requires active participation in building a good relationship.

If that isn’t there, she will choose to be single.

[grovy @grovymango]

One of my more important artworks

[⋆⁺₊⋆ jessica ☾ ⋆⁺₊⋆ 🍉 @ItsMrsRabbitToU]

Women figured out they don’t need men and men are scared because now they have to actually have something to offer to get our attention. Saying women prefer the company of cats over the company of men is not an insult to women, it is an insult to men.

The insecurity is glaring.

[claire @CIairey]

@jasebyjason Crab museum