LoneJuggernaut

Me coming to God with my problems

This is Takuya Nakamura, a NYC-based artist blending jazz, jungle, and electronic music while playing trumpet live during his DJ sets

drawing at school (1/2)

The pimples on your face waiting for you to have any social event 😭

Uber driver: *drops me off at the wrong location* Me (shy): "This is perfect"

Empanadas

How it feels to type in ur email and password with a remote

when the Roman guards discovered Jesus' tomb was empty

Jane Goodall had no college degree and no science background. She was a secretary. A scientist hired her to study wild chimps specifically because she knew nothing about science, and she ended up proving that the one thing we thought made us different from animals was wrong. Louis Leakey was studying human origins in Kenya and needed somebody to go live near wild chimpanzees in Tanzania and just watch them for months. He picked Goodall because he figured a trained scientist would show up with a head full of textbook ideas about how animals are supposed to behave. Goodall had none of that. She’d just observe what was actually happening. She showed up at Gombe in July 1960 with a notebook, binoculars, and her mom (local officials wouldn’t let her go into the jungle alone). For four straight months, every chimp she approached bolted, and her funding only covered six. Then she spotted a chimp she’d named David Greybeard. Naming them was considered completely unscientific, and her future professors at Cambridge would lose it over this, but she did it anyway. David poked a grass stalk into a termite mound, pulled it out covered in termites, and ate them right off the stalk. He was using a tool to get food. Then she watched him strip leaves off a twig to make it work better, turning a found object into a custom tool. Scientists had one rule for what made humans different: only we make tools. When she sent the news back to Leakey, he wrote: “Now we must redefine man, redefine tool, or accept chimpanzees as human.” Cambridge let her get a PhD without ever finishing a bachelor’s degree. Only the eighth person in the school’s history to pull that off. She discovered chimps eat meat (everyone assumed they were vegetarian), form alliances, and grieve when their family members die. A chimp named Flint stopped eating after his mother Flo died in 1972. Three weeks later, he was dead too. Between 1974 and 1978, a group of chimps she’d been watching for years split in two. The bigger group hunted down and killed every male from the smaller group, one by one, over four years. Ambushes on chimps caught alone. Goodall said she’d lie awake at night with the images stuck in her head. She’d always believed chimps were “rather nicer” than us. That belief didn’t survive. She got the Presidential Medal of Freedom in January 2025. Nine months later she died in her sleep at 91, on a speaking tour in California, still giving talks 300 days a year.

guy who does a little peedle paddle

Hell yeah, MeeMaw. You get to a certain age and you say “Fvck it, I don’t care what anyone thinks.” Wear your Pomeranian tee shirt, have a cocktail, and let loose.

One of my dearest dedications in a book is from Toni Cade thanking her mother: "who in 1948, having come upon me daydreaming in the middle of the kitchen floor, mopped around me."

cuz they didn’t do the reading

The elephant has developed a sense of belonging in the room

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No matter how heavy the day feels, coming home to you makes it all disappear.♥️

I just Googled “Flores el patron” and found out that when one or more parents have passed, someone arranges for you to receive this service on your birthday. Now I’m sobbing uncontrollably because this is so sweet and so kind. *sniffs* She held on longer than I did omg! 🥹🥹🥹

taught poetry in a fifth grade class today and one of the kids wrote this on their eval and my heart is full

Before pop the balloon we had this