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When my children ask what the world was like before coronavirus I'm showing them this
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[ID: Tweet from user ErinInTheMorn which reads:
I often get asked by trans people and parents, "Where should I flee? Am I safe?" I have continually updated an anti-trans legislative risk map to answer that question. This latest update accounts for all recent bills. Subscribe to support my work.
Then a map graphic showing the risk factor for trans people in each state in the US. I won't list all the information because they are described and with more detail on the actual website and I would probably get the state names wrong. End ID.]
[ID: More up-to-date version of the graphic. It's worse. It's mostly worse y'all. (a couple states have moved from "low risk within 2 years" to "safest states with protections" categories though so that at least is good.) End ID.]
“Some guy a few houses down barricaded himself in his house with an assault rifle. Fortunately, they got him (or he gave himself up) without any shots fired or anyone getting hurt.” - SgtScheisskopf
There's this one woman on Instagram who claims she finds all of her bones in the woods, but very obviously buys them and plants them there so she can shoot artsy foraging videos and it's so funny to me. You did not find ten perfectly cleaned mink skulls in suburban Ohio. You bought them on Wish and rubbed some dirt on them.
Right? Like, tread with caution in yonder woods lest ye be caught by THE DEGREASER.
we saw ohio mink explosion open for neutral milk hotel once
Have you ever held a world record? how about seven? Would your mother be proud?
DONT USE THE PIRATE BAY PLEASEEEE I BEG YOU.
Use 1337x.to rarbg or rutracker, highly moderated public torrent trackers, because Pirate Bay has long been shut down, unmoderated, and cloned by some shady actors AND use Mullvad VPN (or any other vpn but mullvad is the best definitely) to protect your ip address while you torrent, bind it to qbittorrent and do not use utorrent anymore either because it is littered with adware.
OR if you don’t want to pay for a VPN, use direct download or streaming sites. Please y’all just take one pass through on the r/piracy or r/freemediaheckyeah mega threads to find whatever you want for free and also not infect your computer with Trojan viruses.
^^^ yes!!! Thank you sm.
If any of those terms made you go ????? and you think pirating must be So Hard, I wrote a verbose but easy to follow guide a while back for total beginners!
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If a Girl is Sleepy (🥱) but not Cosy (🛏), she may reward you with a Bounty if you can provide her with a source of Cosy (🛏).
The Bounty is Girl Cuddles.
The Bouny (🐇)
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How Do I Explain To My Cat That Stepping On My Boobs Hurts
feel ok to me ? feet do not hurt
You say “OUCH” really loudly whenever they hurt you, so that they understand that they are causing you distress.
Your cat doesn’t actually want to hurt you -usually- but they have no concept of “masking” behaviours, like holding in your reaction to be polite.
If you don’t react like it hurts, they won’t understand that they are hurting you.
Flinch like a huge faker if you need to, they’ll start to understand. Make pained cat sounds or something if you must. Act startled. Learn to display pain out loud even if it feels fake and stupid and wrong. Unlearn everything you were ever taught about hiding your pain to appear polite or to not be mocked by your parents.
If it hurts your boobs, say “Ouch! My boobs!” and if you do it enough they’ll stop.
At least pull away, or move their paws every time, if you can’t bring yourself to be noisy about the pain, or can’t make it convincing to a cat. This can be really hard for some people to learn/unlearn especially if their parents went out of their way to condition pain reactions out of them, or if they were exposed to particularly toxic masculinity.
It’s actually the same with small children, and most animals that have any social brain to work with.
This is also how puppies work. If they are playing with you and they nip you, go “eep!” and after a few repetitions, pup will go “aa! nu! i only playing! must be gentle!” and ease up.
I’m every one in this
MAN 1 (in a high pitched, whiny voice) Look what you’ve done to my peonies!
WOMAN (angrily) They’re marigolds!
MAN 2 God! I think she’s right! They are marigolds!
MAN 1 I may not know my flowers, but I know a (yells in her direction) bitch when I see one!
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I looked this up because I had to know what it’s from. It’s a film called The Gay Deceivers (1969), and it’s about two straight men who, seeking to avoid the draft, claim to be gay, but then have to keep up the pretense when the army places them under surveillance.
The man in the red cardigan in the clip was played by Michael Greer, who was openly gay himself - unusual for the time. He actually worked closely with the director and rewrote much of the film’s dialogue to reduce the homophobia and make it more realistic. As a result it’s quite progressive for its time, having a gay character, played by a gay man, living in a happy same-sex relationship, which is more than a lot of media offers us today.
Plus the clip is delightful.
I just looked it up on wikipedia and fucking
The twist is that even after the pair is caught, they are not inducted into the military. The Army investigators assigned to watch them are themselves gay and are trying to keep straight people out of the Army.
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World Heritage Post
Ooh ooh ooh! This looks like an excellent excuse valid reason to talk about one of my favorite topics, matriarch trees!
So, when you see trees in a forest, they stick up outta the ground, some distance from each other, and you're like 'these are unconnected critters,' right? But! The thing is! Just like the trees in the picture are connected above-ground, trees in a forest are normally connected below-ground. There's this whole complicated thing involving a symbiotic relationship with fungi, but we're gonna simplify it to this: trees connect to each other through their root systems.
And they use it to share resources, across the whole forest.
If there's a tree over here growing in soil with a lot of, like, potassium, they'll pull up more potassium than they need, and send it out through the root system to other trees that are living where there isn't much potassium.
And one of the coolest things? Trees communicate their needs. If a tree is sick or damaged or starving, they send chemical messages out through the root system that tell the other trees to send them more food and tree-equivalent-of-immune-system.
Trees will share so much of their resources, they'll even keep trees alive that are almost entirely dependent. Like this tree! The tree above is getting some energy from its leaves, but no other nutrition of its own. And it wasn't able to link up to the shared root system. So the other tree reached out and hooked up to it directly, feeding it all of the nutrients it needed!
You see it more commonly the other way around: in an old-growth forest, where the roots are well-established, you can find stumps where a tree was cut down a century ago... but if you scrape the stump it's still green wood. The tree's still alive, without a single leaf. Because all the other trees in the forest are feeding it.
I promised to talk about matriarch trees, so here's where we get to them.
In a very old forest, you have very old trees. You have some trees that are so very, very old, their own roots cover entire regions of the forest. Their leaves reach up to the sky over everyone else. And after so long, they've developed to where they can take in way more resources than they need.
So what do they do?
They feed baby trees.
Baby saplings in an old forest can't reach up to the sun. There's no light down there. And their roots are too small and shallow to dig down to the nutrients they need. So the matriarch tree will draw energy from its towering canopy, and nutrients from its massive, ancient roots, and feed them to the little trees that are too small to feed themselves. For anything she can't get on her own, she'll act as a central hub, taking in spare resources from the rest of the forest and giving them to the little ones.
And one of the best parts - she won't just do it for her own species. She'll connect to all kinds of trees, because they're all necessary for the ecosystem to work. She'll adopt the whole forest's children.
Sometimes in forests you'll find a spot where there are a lot of small trees in an open space around an old, fallen tree. People generally assume they could find more light there, or maybe the soil's more fertile from the decomposition.
But no.
They're her children, and she's spent centuries keeping the whole forest alive.
My mum is an avid tree lover and when I told her what you wrote she practically melted and told me to thank you for teaching her :)
baby trees: mother please feed us
matriarch trees:
This is a pretty accurate breakdown of how forests work and you can read Suzanne Simard's book Finding the Mother Tree to learn more about it
I remember watching a Planet Earth episode on succession in the rainforest after a great tree falls. It was all about plants competing for space and sunlight. I doubt its contents were wrong, but the level of cooperation that goes on in forests I never learned about continually amazes me.
This is getting rambly, but I'm having a train of thought, so let's follow it.
Evolution is a process involving millions of organisms spread across time and space and any organism's ability to personally outcompete everything around it has far less weight than the ability of everything around it that shares its genes to survive on average.
In moral philosophy, the Original Position is a thought experiment created by John Rawls asking you to design a society without knowing what role in that society you will fill. Since you might end up at the bottom of the class structure, you would be incentivized to structure things such that those at the bottom still have it pretty good.
A tree's DNA does not know what will happen to the tree over its life. It could be the tree on the right or the tree on the left. It's evolutionarily advantageous for trees to naturally help other trees even though that costs them some of their own nutrients because the trees that are helped put down seeds and reproduce and they're the same tree, archetypally, the tree on the left and the tree on the right started from practically identical seeds and either is equally capable of passing on the pattern of "tree which helps other trees."
This is not rigorous. I am not an arbologist or an evolutuonary biologist. But it's interesting, how politically charged the idea of the survival of the fittest is, and how what fitness actually looks like in nature doesn't really fit that narrative.
Survival of the fittest doesn't mean "fit" like this:
It means "fit" like THIS:
Or in other words, an organism's survival is dependent on how "fit" it is for its environment.
In the right environment, anything can be an advantage. Being strong or smart can be a detriment—a big brain and big muscles take up a lot of energy to sustain.
Furthermore, competition between two species doesn't always (or even usually) drive one of the species to extinction. Competition drives adaptation.
If there are two species of seed-eating birds that rely on the same resources to survive, it doesn't mean one of them will go extinct. It often means that they will both evolve more specific preferences in seeds they like to eat, and when, and where, so they don't have to compete anymore.
This is how you get species that occupy hyperspecific niches where they only eat the leaves of one single plant, or something.
Anyway, trees:
We are discovering more and more that the classic view of nature as made of individual organisms competing for their own interests is misleading.
70-90% of all land plants form symbiotic relationships with fungi that live on their roots. In many cases, the fungal hyphae literally penetrate inside the plant cells to exchange nutrients and resources with them.
The mycorrhizal network, as it is called, links every tree in a forest. Basically every tree is linked to multiple species of fungi, and many fungi link to many species of tree. The mycorrhizal network allows nutrients and chemical signals to move between trees. Using their connection to the network, some trees can survive in completely dry soil by linking to fungi that get water by breaking down ROCKS.
And this symbiosis is OLD. It's so old, that the earliest fossils of land plants, from 400 million years ago, are attached to seemingly identical fungi to the ones that form symbiosis with plants now.
Suzanne Simard, one of the main researchers of mycorrhizal networks, coined the term "Mother Tree" to refer to the very old trees that support young trees via the mycorrhizal network. She picked this anthropomorphic language intentionally—to challenge our understanding of trees. They communicate. They sense and respond to their environment. They engage in behaviors. And yes, one of those behaviors appears to be parental care.
You think of yourself as an individual, but you could not survive without the teeming multitudes of microbes that live in and on you. Your cells contain mitochondria that have their own DNA, relics of a time when they were their own individual organisms.
Lichens, as you probably know, are a symbiosis between at least two organisms, a fungus, an alga, and sometimes microbes of other types (I forget which). They are their own distinct organism made of multiple very different organisms working together.
It is becoming more and more helpful to view forests as enormous super-organisms with collective interests and a high level of coordination.
The fact is that trees thrive around other trees. Most tree species seriously suffer alone. It is ideal for most trees to live as part of a forest.
The very nature of a forest is far more cooperative and interconnected than the old models can do justice to. A deciduous forest redistributes a HUGE amount of nutrients every year when leaves fall to the ground. Every tree feeds the other trees. Nothing is wasted. Arguably, trees regularly engage in matriphagy. Soft, crumbly decomposing wood is an ideal substrate for sprouting young trees. When I'm in the forest and need to sample some mycelium-rich dirt, I find a large dead tree and dig right around its base. When a tree dies, the mycelium flourish right around the base of the tree; decomposers break the old tree down into rich, fertile soil.
Landscaping and lawn care forums and websites cause me pain, because the average person is so eager to wildly overwater, overfertilize, and generally over-manage their backyard in the mistaken belief that "too much competition with other plants" is the problem with every plant.
Very barren, empty environments (like overmanaged lawns) are very extreme. The term "Extremophile" is subjective and relative to human preferences, but I can make a pretty good case that dandelions, crabgrass and other plants that flourish as lawn weeds are extremophiles.
The fluctuations in temperature and moisture, extreme soil compaction, and absence of a healthy mycelium network in the soil in a manicured lawn makes conditions incredibly harsh. Most plants cannot handle being blasted from leaf to root with sunlight all day with 0 shade from other plants, and growing in soil with no other plant roots. Most plants cannot thrive without the shelter, nutrients, and cooperation that a community of plants provides.
Forests create fertile, stable environments that allow for a huge diversity of plants to grow. Every participant in the ecosystem is critical to the survival of the others. Ecosystems are so, so, so much more interconnected than popular science usually portrays.
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I love the generational gap between emoji usage. Anyone over 50 sees 🙃 and thinks "silly time! whee 🙃", whereas the rest of us immediately hear, verbatim, "they ask you how you are, and you just have to say that you're fine, when you're not really fine, but you just can't get into it because they would ne--"
Flying the flag upside down is a distress signal