paisley rae
@paisleyrae.bsky.social
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i have opinions on things i mostly keep to myself, unless asked. i have done some things i mostly keep to myself, unless asked. i have gone places and seen things i mostly share with you. #366,390 if you’re curious. likely to follow back if you converse
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wouldn't there be swelling?
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almost! it's athabasca falls in jasper.
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here, have a bite of waterfall
#naturespam
the cold is coming. it was a swift overnight change to orange crunchy leaves on the ground. i think i had my last swim of the year and didn't realize it.

in the distant background of this image is a glacier-striped mountain lightly wrapped in fog. talk, thin conifers cling to a narrow ridge of stone at the crest of a waterfall. in the foreground, the edge of a steep canyon, with dry grasses turned gold and a handful of orange leaves strewn about by the breeze.

the time for staying indoors is nearly here.
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this current prediction was from a pastor in south africa
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i want him to cry harder
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the rapture. it's popular with the prosperity gospel grifters who promise naive people that if they give the church 10% of their income, god will give them a mansion of gold in heaven.
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it's purely the domain of hucksters
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hey, so, uh... for anyone who didn't grow up in a fundamentalist evangelical environment and you're wondering about all this rapture talk...

it's heresy and not even biblical. it has been used for almost 200 years as a cudgel to terrify church goers.
The Rapture Is Not in the Bible
The doctrine of the is not found in the Bible. And no Christian believed in the doctrine of the rapture in any Christian literature prior to 1830.
www.knowingthebible.net
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rocks, paper...
#naturespam
some tibetan prayer flags are strung on a branch jammed into a rock pile at the top of a mountain.

the sun has set and leaves only a crimson blur at the horizon of more mountains.

the sky is hazy from light snow and wildfire smoke...a strange combination.
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it's deeply tied to the fundamentalist evangelicals.
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italy opens the door to chemical castration for rapists and pedophiles

www.politico.eu/article/ital...
a fine modern invention - The Weiner Slicer!

tired of slicing up weiners one a time? struggle no more!

the weiner slicer quickly slices hot dogs and bananas. *wink wink* it's easy to clean and maintain and the weiner slicer is versatile; it works on soft fruits and on sausages. and its compact design saves on kitchen space!
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here, have some flowers
#naturespam
some rough brush grows next to the waterline. the tide is out. there are small white flowers clinging to life on the branches amongst the fallen trees and sand.
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they're the result of sedimentary concretions! it's pretty cool.
Red Rock Coulee - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
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thank you! i try to post my adventures somewhat regularly under the naturespam hashtag.
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it's actually fascinating - they're sediment concretions!
Red Rock Coulee - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
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yes! it was bracing to hop in.
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i think those were in style when we were younger
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here, enjoy some lake #naturespam
once again, i am posting a picture of mountains and trees and clouds and some kind of water. 

today's flavour is glacier-capped mountains stretching off into the distance like some kind of sugar-topped pastry. there are two layers of clouds. one, fluffy like cotton balls hugging the mountain peaks, ready to drop snow on them. the higher level of clouds are wispy like an overactive spiderweb. 

in the center of the image is one of those unreal blue lakes made interesting by the mixture of sun and shade from the cloud cover. it's a calm day, so the lake is perfect and still like a glass coffee table top.

sure, i got mildly snowed on, but as the kids are currently fond of saying at the moment, i am rich because i've seen this with my own eyes.

the alpine air smelled sweet like the tiny wildflowers that valiantly cling to the rock and earthy and slightly metallic from the clay that permeates the lake and gives it its unbelievable colour. something something reynaud's scattering - the same effect that makes some eyes or blue jay feathers appear blue.

as i was drinking my mug of hibiscus tea and looking out at all this, i was thinking about how that unholy blue is really the nothingness of space being reflected back. 

my eyes aren't really blue and neither is that lake or the sky, for that matter. but blue is what i experience of it.

one perception is that something is nothing and another is that it is a wonder to behold and stand in awe of it.

i think both are useful, in varying degrees.