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Guy Mouse in this car dealership I’m in: Hee Hee Hee I Am A Silly Mouse :)

Girl Mouse in this car dealership I’m in: Hey Peebrain, Would you fuck me? Would you fuck a rodent? Would you perform an affront to God for curvaceous rat pussy?

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do you think mormonism approves of harem anime

all that i have learned from three angry anons is that i (formerly) had mormon followers

Senator Porp Gringle is a hardline conservative who delights in making the world a difficult place for those who disagree with his hateful politics. He’s a powerful figure, and today he plans to wield this power by stopping the Unicare Reform Bill—a legislation designed help unicorns with broken horns—from passing. Senator Gringle’s speech is interrupted, however, and with a newly free afternoon he decides to wander the National Mall.

It’s here that Porp stumbles upon a protest in the form of a musical performance from one of his favorite bands, Anger Against The System. Senator Gringle rocks out a bit, until discovering that he is the target of these protests and the musician’s he grew up on have nothing but distain for his hateful ways.

Now Porp and the physically manifested realization that the protest music he grew up on does not actually support his current hateful ideology are diving deep into what it means to be a rebel, culminating in a hardcore gay encounter that will change Porp Gringle forever.

This erotic tale is 4,300 words of sizzling human on gay living concept action, including anal, blowjobs, cream pies, rough sex, and the handsome sentient realization of artistic misinterpretation.

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Bird outside singing a straight up banger right now. I hope you get mad cloaca dude

i've long maintained that any notion of individualism or aversion to tyranny claimed by the american conservative fell flat the second they chose not to launch an unending and exceptionally cruel campaign of insurgency against any and all HOAs

how are you going to jerk off to a gadsden flag and then be like "oh, i couldn't plant a tree in my yard because the neighborhood supervisor says so"? stand up and do a waco for your right to paint your house weird colors

SO YOU WANNA LEARN ABOUT YOUR LOCAL ECOLOGY!

Maybe you love the bird that always comes to your windowsill and wonder what he’s up to. Maybe you heard about that invasive species that everyone’s stomping out and you want to know why its so bad. Or maybe you just wanna know more about where you live! You should learn about ecology!

You probably know some about it already whether you know it or not. Now, I’m no Subject Matter Expert (SME), but I have an undergrad degree in environmental studies, I work in the field, and I’ve spent a lot of time continuing my education the best I can, so hopefully I can pass some basic stuff along, and include some general resources to help you on your way. But where do you start?

(There will be a TL;DR and a resource list in the end, but bear with me here) (1/8)

STEP 1.) THINK ECOLOGICALLY. Look around. What do you see and feel? No observation is too basic. What rocks are on the ground. How’s the temperature. Is it rainy, dry, humid, windy. Lots of trees, not many, how tall is the grass, is there any life visible at all?* No matter what you see you are making observations about the things that drive the living engine. Make a habit of this. We will return to this stuff later, but once you are Noticing the Patterns you are well on the way to the slippery slope of ecological knowledge-seeking.

*its often said that lawns and cornfields are one or two species away from a parking lot, but while urban and industrial agricultural landscapes are massively degraded ecosystems they still host some biodiversity if you know where to look (2/8)

STEP 2.) WHERE ARE YOU. Start close, think about how things look where you are, work your way out until you’re thinking at like, county level. Bigger. Think how long it would take to drive (sorry american post lmao) to someplace that looks noticeably different, where the landscape changes. That is, at its most basic level, an ecoregion, or a rough area where the ecosystems stay pretty consistent. They blend into each other, people disagree on where they start and stop and how many there are, but you sure as shit are in one right now. Now there’s different levels of ecoregion, and there’s a few places that have their own maps, but to start with look up an EPA map of Level 3 ecoregions for your state*. Where are you?

*the WWF also has ecoregion maps, and your state’s parks and wildlife or environmental department will likely have one that’s most closely mapped to how the locals see the area. For instance, the EPA insists the eastern Texas region is called the South Central Plains but down here we all know its called the Piney Woods (3/8)

STEP 3.) WHO LIVES HERE, WHO LIVED HERE. Before you go any further, go to Native Land and figure out who stewarded the land before Europeans settled it. One of the most crucial concepts in ecology is that we are not separate from the ecosystem, we are a part of it, and we affect it, for better and for worse, and you need to know who shaped this land before you got here. Make notes, look up the websites for those tribes. Second, google that ecoregion you’re in!! Wikipedia might be a good start, but a great resource is probably gonna be your state university agriculture extension, who will almost certainly have a section on ecoregions and the species that live there. Take a read. Find some cool species, maybe pick a neat bird, a mammal, a grass, a tree, maybe try to find a species you recognize from step 1! (4/8)

STEP 4.) HOW DO I CONNECT IT. Buckle up: How high up is your ecosystem? How much rain does it get? What kind of soil does your ecoregion have? What’s the climate? What kind of plants can grow here? What kind of rock and terrain and geology underlay all this? What watershed are you in? What’s a watershed? What’s any of this? What do any of these maps and numbers even fucking mean? Well, for now, maybe not a whole lot, but get started one thing at a time, and think of it this way: abiotic factors (ie not alive) drive the biotic factors (living things), which then in turn affect the abiotic factors again, and that’s an ecosystem, baby! That’s all it is! A farming quote that I may well end up tattooing over my heart for how much it means to me is “Despite all our accomplishments, we owe our existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact it rains” The abiotic factors shape what organisms can live and thrive where you are, including us, and how we live on and off the land and among our living neighbors. How do those organisms you picked out earlier rely on the landscape and the abiotic factors to live? How did native americans and first nations peoples rely on them? How did they shape the landscape, how did we shape it in turn? (5/8)

STEP 5.) FOLLOW THE THREADS. Maybe you found yourself interested in the soil stuff (check out your local ag extension again). Maybe you feel like learning to identify all the trees in your area (google ’[state] trees’, or get a Peterson Field Guide). Maybe you want to learn about invasive species, how to manage them, start noticing them all over the place, lose your mind because now you see them everywhere, then settle into a kind of meditative stupor about what you could do with a chainsaw, some drip herbicide, native seeds, and a day off. In any case, pursue the avenue that interested you most. Download iNaturalist and start identifying everything you see. Apply to join a Master Naturalist program in your state, or a native plant certification. Take a few evening classes at a community college, volunteer, watch some webinars. Send your ag extension an email, ask a silly question, they love that shit. If you see a weird plant learn what it is and how it fits into the grand web of natural life in your area. Learn about soil biota, aquatic ecosystems, native land management, keystone species, migration routes, adaptive species, agroecology, species reintroduction, foraging, fire ecology, prescriptive grazing, habitat restoration, food sovereignty. Go nuts.

(If you reblog this post without this next part I’ll beat what I just taught you right back out of your head, dont be a grimy little poser) (6/8)

STEP 6.) DO YOUR FUCKIN BIT. I’m not gonna lie to you, shit is rough out there. My home ecoregion is one of the most degraded in the hemisphere and occupies less than a few percent of its original range, with none of it at climax. Urban sprawl, corporate industrial agriculture, pesticide drift, invasive species, overdrawn aquifers, fertilizer runoff, pollution, and yes, goddamn lawns and golf courses, all of it is making a hash of out of thas magnificent earth.

BUT there’s a whole lot you can do. There’s conservation orgs you can volunteer with, habitat restoration projects, advocacy groups, local and municipal policies and zoning you might actually be able to change. Plant a pollinator garden with plants native to your area, leave some brushpiles and old logs out. Volunteer with a local tribe or a native org if youre near one, there’s tons of cool conservation programs and organizations there. Teach others what you’ve learned. Get sweaty clearing invasives with a work crew. If they don’t let you change shit, fuck it, do it anyway, get into guerilla gardening, throw some seedballs into the highway roadside, uproot your neighbors invasive plants, stand in front of a bulldozer (satire, dont do this :)

There is a bill in congress, right now (November 2022), Recovering America’s Wildlife Act, which somehow stands a decent chance of passing and would actually help a lot, so maybe call your evil shithead congressman. That said, an economic and political system predicated on permanent growth and the pursuit of profit over all else, built on colonialism and imperialism and bloodshed around the planet, is never gonna do any more than somewhat mitigate its own damage, at best. But while you organize and build community and maybe [redacted] to hack away at capitalism, I guess you can vote on local and state shit if it helps. Just don’t think we can vote ourselves, or the ecosphere, out of this.

Anyway get out there and know the land.

TL;DR Look around you, look up your ecoregion, learn the biotic and abiotic factors, learn the people and plants and animals who have lived there, learn how they all connect, do your part to preserve it, protect it, and unfuck it. (7/8)

RESOURCES:

Google your state ag extension, seriously, if you take one thing away from this, do that Also check out the parks department, either state or federal, they kinda suck, but they have info Level 3 ecoregions: https://www.epa.gov/eco-research/level-iii-and-iv-ecoregions-continental-united-states WWF ecoregions: https://www.worldwildlife.org/publications/terrestrial-ecoregions-of-the-world Native Land: https://native-land.ca/ Soil map: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/USDA_soil_taxonomy_global_map.png Climate map: https://www.plantmaps.com/koppen-climate-classification-map-united-states.php Plant hardiness: https://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/ Geology: https://www.americangeosciences.org/critical-issues/maps/interactive-map-united-states-geology-and-natural-resources Watersheds: https://water.usgs.gov/wsc/map_index.html Master Naturalists: https://www.ecosystemgardening.com/master-naturalist-programs-by-state.html

The rest will depend where you are, but just keep folowing links on ag extension sites, and the links on those sites, and go down the rabbit hole! (8/8)

Who would win, three Marines or nine teenagers

Trick question. The Marines are teenagers.

Is this about the Marines who got jumped in San Clemente

lmao I had no idea

Happy pride gamers

Getting into MGS is looking up a characters wiki page in hopes of learning that they maybe had a year or two of respite at one point and the page loads with "Unfortunately this guy lived until he was in his 70s and he didnt catch a break the entire time thanks to being enlisted in the Forever War at the ripe age of twelve"

Ocelot walking around Mother Base totally completely convinced he's the most normal guy around while every major country is calling him a different variant of "evil white devil" and he hasn't been allowed to express a genuine emotion or thought in three decades

harry. sitting comfortably. enjoying life

I saw a post saying that Boromir looked too scruffy in FotR for a Captain of Gondor, and I tried to move on, but I’m hyperfixating. Has anyone ever solo backpacked? I have. By the end, not only did I look like shit, but by day two I was talking to myself. On another occasion I did fourteen days’ backcountry as the lone woman in a group of twelve men, no showers, no deodorant, and brother, by the end of that we were all EXTREMELY feral. You think we looked like heirs to the throne of anywhere? We were thirteen wolverines in ripstop.

My boy Boromir? Spent FOUR MONTHS in the wilderness! Alone! No roads! High floods! His horse died! I’m amazed he showed up to Imladris wearing clothes, let alone with a decent haircut. I’m fully convinced that he left Gondor looking like Richard Sharpe being presented to the Prince Regent in 1813

And then rocked up to Imladris a hundred ten days later like

Who would win, three Marines or nine teenagers

Trick question. The Marines are teenagers.

capitalism breeds innovation

Yeah that will do it.

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