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“Abolish Golf”

Sticker spotted in Chicago, Illinois.

A typical golf course uses 200 million gallons of water a year. There are over 16,300 golf courses in the United States.

That's nuts.

Ngl I hate golf and I'm all for this. They put a golf course in our public park at the expense of hundreds of centuries-old live oak trees. Half of the walk around the park you're just looking at an empty golf course. Like 2 people want to play golf. So annoying.

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Golf was a game developed in Scotland, where it rains up to 250 days of the year, and where the courses use very hard-wearing grass. The sand in the bunkers is because it used to be played on the coast - these traditional courses are called "Links" courses. The top Links course in Scotland, Royal Dornoch, uses no mains water at all. They have their own rainwater collection system.

It wasn't originally intended to be played in the middle of a desert on lush green turf that takes thousands of gallons of water a day to maintain. Unless you can keep the course alive using only rainwater collection, it shouldn't exist.

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Important addition:

[id: two tweets

first by @ aevris_ that says, "very funny to me that there is an entire play behavior in birds that this paper calls co-lying. they just lie on the ground together. (i can only find pics of Australian magpies doing it but it's noted in ravens)" with a photo of two aussie magpies lying on their backs on the grass, their feet clasped together.

second by tef_ebooks that says, “as promised, here's the two crows i saw lying in the grass, just messing around” with a photo of two crows in the same position but their heads are turned towards each other and their beaks are open. end id]

it's rotten work, but without the rot nothing can grow

it's rotten work but decay is part of the cycle of death and rebirth

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All the dead things: Its rotten work

The mushroom internet: Not to mycelium. Not if its you