Hello!
Truth be told I have no idea how you ended up here, but welcome. I only have the one blog, which means it gets filled up with a lot of unrelated things. There will be numerous fandoms, posts about privilege and oppression, and lots and lots of pretty pictures. Frequently school gets in the way and this Tumblr goes dormant, and then break comes along and I queue up a flood of posts, so don't follow if you like your dash to be somewhat regular.
I'm working on plans for a hobbit hole mansion that me and my friends will live in. If you have ever thought about your own dream-home, then pretty please will you tell me about it?
I don't put up pictures or much biographical information about myself, but you can call me Sakura Nicole.
Oh, and even though this blog may not always be active, I will always answer my asks, so that's open if you ever need to talk to someone or rant.
P.S. I do occasionally put up personal posts, usually under a read more. I would never ask anybody to not read something I put out there publicly, but if I know you in person could you at least pretend you didn't read it? Please and Thank You.
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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Kelp Forest by Lee Root
i love this place, although the water is HELLA cold
GOOD GOD DAMN
(Source: headlikeanorange)
instead of food porn we need some water, like i seriously don’t drink enough water and maybe some pictures like these would help:
see? doesn’t that make you want some water :)
water porn
Somebody’s getting wet.
Damn it now I’m thirsty.
The Great Bottled Water Scam
Its quite probably the greatest advertising and marketing trick of all time. This is the one that future generations will look back on and ask incredulously .. “Did they really do that ? Spend millions of dollars buying plain water in plastic bottles when they could just turn on a tap ? What … were they crazy or something ” ?
The bottled water scam has been the greatest advertising triumph of recent decades by a long way, creating out of the public’s gullibility and need to conform a multi-million dollar market for an un-needed and unnecessary product. A few interesting points the ad men don’t tell you :-
- Americans buy 29 billion single serving bottles of bottled water a year
- it takes 50 million barrels of oil each year to make the plastic water bottles Americans use and provide the energy needed to extract the water, refrigerate the bottles, and transport them around the country (and the world).
- bottled water can contain disinfection byproducts, fertilizer residue, and residue of pain medication. The latter gets there because toilet water is recycled back into the water supply and most public water sanitation systems do not filter out medication or drug metabolites.
- there’s already an area equivalent to the size of Texas of used plastic bottles dumped in the ocean causing serious harm to marine life
- a lot of bottled water is tap water. 40% of Americas bottled water is from municipal supplies and is no better or different to tap water. In fact its often worse because the plastic containers are harmful.
- water packaged in plastic containers has chemicals leeching out of the plastic into it. Samples of leading brands tested have included traces of radioactive material, arsenic, and toxic chemicals.
- the staff at the FDA responsible for overseeing all of the regulation of bottled water in America is tiny. Tiny as in 1 until recently. Its a joke.
Really, to be honest, I doubt there are any significant health risks in drinking bottled water and in certain rare circumstances it might have some slight convenience value. Set against that, though, is the overwhelming argument that in most circumstances and for most people, it’s a total waste of hard-earned money.
Successful brainwashing by the ad men means that I doubt any of this will make much difference but do watch this video if you’re interested. Its informative and might just make you think twice before buying that next bottle of water. Or not.
Ellie
(Source: e-writing)
Intricate ice crystals at the Tower Street Conservation Area.
Sea Turtle. Photo by -tomaso-
Floating in Heaven
Abraham Lake, Elliott Peak, Alberta, Canada
Bubbles of gas released from the lake bed were frozen in their place as winter hit this year. The absence of snow in the area left the surface stunningly clear, allowing National Geographic to snap this fantastic image.
Starved Rock State Park, Illinois (by Mathieu GUY)
