Reminder that Stonewall wasn’t about marriage equality. Stonewall was about police brutality. It was about systemic abuse and subordination. Stonewall was spearheaded by black trans women. As we celebrate Pride 2020, within the context of the Black Lives Matter riots, it’s imperative that we remember that.

Riots in protest of police brutality are the reason that we have more rights today. Do not forget your roots.

You can’t celebrate Pride while simultaneously condemning the Black Lives Matter riots and protests that are happening right now. Know your history.

Miss Major is still out here protesting police brutality at nearly 80 years old. If you're LGBTQ+, remember that this woman right here is the reason we have our pride parades. Remember that she got her jaw broken by police at Stonewall. Don't you dare discount Black Lives Matter just because of a few riots when a riot won you your freedom. Pride isn't canceled this year, it's just time we pay our debt and use it to support the Black Lives Matter movement. We need to be out there supporting our black siblings, who have always been on the front lines.

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my tweet lowkey doing numbers so here y’all go

a video of me aggressively photographing mushrooms went viral on tiktok and tbh this is how i wanna be remembered.

Audio transcription:

Person filming: " having gay friends is all fun and games until they need to take a picture of a mushroom"

Person kneeling desperately to take picture of mushroom while friend films: "UUUUGH it's a bunch though! It's a family Megan!"

Adorable cryptid-themed designs by Lauren from Toadstool!

MA: 3745 - 7775 - 6285

Instagram: @toadstool.island

Permission to post this on Tumblr was given to me by the artist, please don't repost !

Go check out her other designs on Instagram which also include super cool mushroom and medieval themed stuff!

worn wood patterns

storm drain, shingles, corrugated iron, and stall awning designs

Building a treehouse is the biggest insult to a tree. “I killed your friend, here hold him.”

“Friend”

Its more of I killed a potential enemy. Hold his dismembered corpse in victory.

Plants don’t wage war

Ever heard of blackberries?

Yes, plants do wage war

Mint and strawberries, too. They need to be quarantined or they will kill basically everything else. 

I planted mint in the ground 2 years ago.

It’s currently fighting a bitter battle to the death against the raspberries attempting to invade from the east while trying to annex the patio.

Could go either way at this point TBH. Unless, of course, I take a shovel and the blowtorch out there and battle both back to within their original boundaries.

And anyone wondering if a blowtorch is overkill for weeding back mint has never actually planted mint.

This post did not go where I expected it to.

Our garden plot at my childhood home slowly got overrun by wild blackberries after we stopped managing it while my sister and I were in nursing school. And by overrun I mean it was like a 4 foot tall thicket of wild blackberries. It hadn’t been touched by humans in at least 4 years. I started the ultimately futile task of trying to clear this plot with a machete and discovered to my amazement a patch of mint several feet across underneath the canopy of blackberry, still fighting the good fight all those years later.

Ultimately it took two jars of homemade napalm and some creative fire placement to clear that patch but I damn sure saved that patch of mint. It earned the right to be there.

Yall mother fuckers don’t even talk unless you’ve had to wage war on kudzu (it’s an ivy strain directly from Hell) that shit doesn’t just wage war with other plants, it wages war with all living things on planet earth. It’s some gnarly ass Blood for the Blood God, Chlorophyll for the Chlorophyll Throne demon weed. 

Can second the comments of Kudzu.

I forget where I read it but there’s this one tree that creates an extremely flammable substance that’s in both the bark and leaves. Dead trees become torches and crushed up leaves become dust-incendiary, all while the plant’s seeds are Giant Redwood levels of resilient to open flame. IE it has a goddamn scorched earth policy. It’s even more badass than plants that use toxins to starve other plants.

I’d like to third the comments on Kudzu. These are the battlefields:

See those weird pillars? Those were trees. See that strange lump in the middle? That was a house. Everything green you see in this photo is kudzu.

Kudzu is an apocalyptic nightmare

They smother every other living plant to death

Those trees under there are dead, they can’t get sunlight. Kudzu takes over and steals everything from these trees, and becomes them. It’s creepy as hell. These plants are basically straight out of a horror novelist’s wet dream tbh.

The bodies of everything the kudzu has slain.

What used to be a house

Someone attempting to drive a four wheeler through it, to give you scale

It’s an ornamental plant kept in check in china, but was introduced to north america where it immediately went rampant and began to spread incredibly fast like a disease, destroying everything in its wake

The ONLY thing that has stopped this curse from engulfing the united states is goats. Apparently goats love this stuff like no tomorrow. Everywhere we find it now, we just bring a horde of goats to cut it down. Everything is fine…. for now.

Kudzu is on time magazine’s top 10 invasive species to look out for.

This little buddy doing his part

Not to keep spamming this post but 

“the growth of kudzu as it became a “structural parasite” of the South,[7] enveloping entire structures when untreated[11] and often referred to as “the vine that ate the South”.[13]”

“It has been spreading rapidly in the southern U.S., “easily outpacing the use of herbicide spraying and mowing, as well increasing the costs of these controls by $6 million annually”.[2]“

yall it’s been estimated this plant consumes 600 kilometers of the united states every year

it’s been suggested that we just start eating it to make it go away

Adding to the spam: yes, kudzu IS edible. In fact, all parts of it but the vine are edible. The leaves are supposedly great in salads or baked into quiche. The flowers supposedly are great in jam. The roots… Well, if you know how to cook other root vegetables, you know what to do with kudzu root. Feed this stuff to your livestock and cook it.

Eat it before it eats your house.

@solarpunkcast @solarpunkactionweek @solarpunkinspo @enviropunk feels relevant

In this world it’s eat or be eaten

Thread starts with the existential angst of building a treehouse. Ends with recipes on how to eat kudzu.

Posts that make you go ‘hm.’

last night my brother asked me if I ever get two completely unrelated songs stuck in my head together and then several hours later sends me this

this song is just what executive dysfunction feels like

did that raven just get kissed and then fall over blushing.

I AM THIS RAVEN

“I AM TOO GAY TO FUNCTION”

“SEND HELP”

Gotta add something: holding beaks for them is showing trust/love. I don’t know if that was a kiss, but it was certainly the crow equivalent of “I love you.”

We don’t deserve corvids but i am so so grateful 

GRRRRRRRR I don't WANT to confirm my email address! I HATE confirming my email address! *rips the door off my fridge*

Cat, fiddle. The Latch key of my bookhouse. 1921. 

idk who needs to hear this but nurses who work 16hr shifts aren’t heroes. they’re horrifically exploited workers& they don’t need thanks or applause, they need more colleagues and better labour protection

they’re both. we should thank them for their work and we should do everything we can to ensure they don’t have to do it anymore.

I want filbert off of my island immediately.

This isn't about pineapple on pizza you fools he wants to put moist clowns on pizza and there's some lines that should not be crossed!

current mood is playing messenger between an ex-theatre kid and an ex-warrior cats kid trying to decide who would win the most important battle of our generation

i’m still right that the warrior cats would demolish the jellicles while they’re busy being sensual and singing

You’re just mad none of the warrior cats are as sexy as Macavity the Mystery Cat

FEMININE 👏🏻 TRANS 👏🏻 MEN 👏🏻 ARE 👏🏻 STILL 👏🏻 MEN 👏🏻

oh jesus my brain did a thing and i regret my entire existence

it combined “not by the hair on my chinny chin chin” from the three little pigs and “forgive me father, for I have sinned”

now it’s “forgive me father, for i have sinny sin sinned” forever there’s no turning back