That statistic that lesbians are at the highest risk for IPV being completely misconstrued to mean that lesbians are like the biggest abusers of the LGBT+ community....i always knew that statistic was fucking off. It's just counting victims of hate crimes and violence, of which lesbians are 19%, it's not talking about IPV specifically and it sure as hell was not looking at the sexualities of both the perpetrators and the victims.

I've realized people have been citing this article which as far as I can tell doesn't actually interpret the findings correctly at all. The study is about survivor demographics and violence in general, not IPV specifically, but the article erroneously attributes the rounded up victim statistic to lesbians being victims of violence from other lesbians, and not the percentage of HATE CRIMES and other violence that are lesbians, as the heading for the section literally states

Actually I'm making this rebloggable because this was an article posted years ago that I know people have been citing as truth but as already stated this seriously misrepresent the information in the study and lesbians have been demonized for ages because of it

Right I hate this stupid bullshit article

So I found this mushroom in the forest:

and I also discovered, that there are 3 different types of mushrooms that are edible, and they all look like what I found.

These are respectively: Peppery Milkcap (Lactarius piperatus), Russula virescens, and Greasy green brittlegill (Russula heterophylla).

Now, all of these are edible, but I wanna know what mushroom I have! The first mushroom in particular is supposed to have a 'peppery taste' and I got so curious about it, like if my mushroom tastes like pepper then it's 100% that one.

So, I was staring at pictures and trying to figure out which one is it, and I eliminated the second one, just because the gills on my mushrooms are very fine, and the mushroom on the pictures had wide and big ones.

So it was between the first and the third, and at this point I also knew that the Milkcap would bleed milk if cut it, and the last mushroom was supposed to be dry inside. So, I cut my mushroom, and - it was immediately milky! Thrilled, I went on to see how edible it is and how should I prepare it.

The articles were not encouraging. Apparently some people said it was poisonous, but just because it 'tasted so bad'. The reviews said the mushroom is not a very quality one, and that some people had their mouth irritated very badly for an hour, from tasting it. It should be safe when cooked though. So, I did what was logical, I took the little piece I cut off, put it on a fry-pan, and made sure it was well done, before putting it in my mouth.

Immediately, I'm disappointed. It does not have a peppery taste. It didn't taste much like anything really. It had a bad acidic aftertaste, which I did not enjoy. So now I'm bummed! No way to pinpoint which one my mushroom really is, if it's not peppery!

Unless.. the cooking process eliminated the peppery taste, and it's only peppery when raw. This thought haunted me. Maybe the only way I'll be able to tell for sure is to lick the actual raw mushroom... but it doesn't say anywhere that it's edible raw, in fact, it says people got their mouths irritated very badly for a full hour from the peppery taste.

But like, they didn't die, and it was just an hour.

So I licked it. And it was peppery! Super peppery! I had my mouth full of pepper taste just from one tiniest lick, and now I'm sure of my mushroom id!!! And I didn't get irritated, my mouth was fine after 30 seconds. Win for living from the forest!

Apparently you're supposed to cook this mushroom several times and then pickle it in order for it to taste okay and not acidic. But, you can also dry it, and then use it as a spice replacement, and it has a lot of Vitamin C retained that way. I am going to try to cook it first, and then put it on a pizza, and then we'll see. So pleased to finally be able to forage these white mushrooms because I find several of these every single time I go to the forest!!!

Update: I've cooked and eaten the entire mushroom and it tasted okay. I ended up boiling it once to reduce acidity and then putting it into flour patties and frying them. It was very filling so I'm happy and satisfied with my lunch.

There's an app called ShroomID that can help a lot with mushroom identification. I highly recommend it. It seems to be pretty accurate and has you submit pictures from multiple angles, which is absolutely necessary for mushroom id. It also has community forums where you can ask others what they think, but I haven't used them yet so I'm not sure how active they are

it’s funny when my friends who aren’t on tumblr send me tumblr posts from other sites cause their either an extremely popular post that i’ve seen 20 times on my dash in the last day or like. the children’s hospital post. don’t get me wrong i still appreciate their gifts but it’s like. thank you for foraging these berries for me unfortunately i live in the bush

a nice big male reddish-brown stag beetle (Lucanus capreolus) from the other day

(Massachusetts, 7/7/23)

Big monch

The internet rotted my brain

one of my favorite sights every summer is the dogbane beetle, Chrysochus auratus. though the word “gold” is found in both parts of their name, they shine brilliant red and green with blue highlights on their limbs. able to sequester and use their host plant’s toxins defensively, they’re quite slow-moving and tolerant of fascinated onlookers

Of all the stupid things people say about Irish history online "the colonisation of Ireland was NOT done by the English but was rather done singlehandedly by St Patrick, who killed every single person in Ireland for the mediaeval catholic church" is the funniest to me because I can see how the social media telephone game led people there but also like. babygirl what are you talking about

It's one of those things that is juuuuust plausible enough that people actually believe it but simultaneously so ridiculous if you know more than 2 things about Irish history (or even if you don't a lot of it is simply completely implausible. ex. one time I saw a tweet dead seriously explaining that st patrick committed genocide against leprechauns) that the idea that people actually believe it sends me into hysterics like... first of all why are you letting the english off that easy. & secondly what the fuck

^ I've seen people claim that Patrick genocided African pygmies living in Ireland who were actually the basis for the leprechaun myth and also the first human inhabitants of the island which is so staggeringly incorrect

FL Board of Education approves African American history standards; critics call them ‘incomplete’

Students at Florida public schools will now learn that Black people benefitted from slavery because it taught them skills. This change is part of the African American history standards the State Board of Education approved at a Wednesday meeting.

The description of slavery as beneficial is not the only grievance parents, teachers, education advocates and politicians had with the new standards. People speaking at the Wednesday meeting generally called out the diluting and omissions of history. For example, instruction at the elementary school level is largely limited to identifying famous Black people, and high school teachers will talk about the “acts of violence perpetrated by African Americans” at the 1920 Ocoee Massacre, in which a white mob killed at least 30 Black people.

“Please table this rule and revise it to make sure that my history our history is being told factually and completely, and please do not, for the love of God, tell kids that slavery was beneficial because I guarantee you it most certainly was not,” said Kevin Parker, a community member.

they wanna whitewash the OCOEE MASSACRE??? that is obscene.

for those of you who don’t know, in 1920 a white mob murdered dozens of black people and destroyed the entire black community in the central florida town of ocoee. and why? bc some black citizens had attempted to vote.

What the fuck

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This is not anthropomorphization but genuinely something theyre known to do. I've heard divers say octopuses and cuttlefish get fascinated by hand gestures and will sometimes respond to them like. We probably do look like we have little cephalopods on the ends of our arms, to them. Like we're always putting on a puppet show.

ive heard enough stories of octopuses attempting to socially interact w humans to be convinced that some octopuses want to socially interact w humans

frustrated how quickly people will trip over themselves to dismiss any notion of animal thought as "anthropomorphization" as if animals are truly thoughtless lumps of meat who simply move their limbs around meaninglessly and die

precocious adult behavior

Burton’s Legless Lizard (Lialis burtonis), family Pygopodidae, Hattah, Victoria, Australia

photograph by Mick Fullerton Wildlife 

fun fact: this is a type of gecko!

amazing how many different lizards decided legs were unnecessary at some point in their evolution

All crustaceans want to be crabs, all squamates want to be snakes. Call it ophidisation

Sternhaariger Schildborstling, Scuttelinia crucipila 21.005.23

I recently discovered laundry stripping and y’all, no matter how much of a crock of shit you think fast fashion is, you’re underestimating.

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OKAY SO. You know how we talk about how one way fast fashion has made itself “necessary” is that the clothing looks like shit and feels horrible after just a few washes?

Let. Me. Tell. You. Something.

Laundry stripping is a process where you load your laundry into a tub or bin (I’ve been using my bathtub) with warm water, half a cup of borax, half a cup of washing soda, and half a cup of laundry soap (not detergent, SOAP, there’s a chemical difference). Leave it there for at least eight hours. I’ve been going for 12-24.

What you will come back to is a tub full of nearly-opaque black-gray-brown water that absolutely REEKS. This is normal. You are looking at (and smelling) hard water buildup, body sweat and oils that were embedded in the fabric, dead skin, and just regular grime.

Wring out your clothes. Throw them in the washer. (I like to do a spin-only cycle before going any further, because I have one of those washers that determines by weight how much water any given load needs.) Wash as usual.

You will notice I didn’t suggest any further pretreatment, and that’s because 1) you don’t want to layer too many chemicals on top of each other but also 2) you may not even need it.

When your clothes come out, check each one as it goes into the dryer, and if anything else s still stained, set it aside to run again with a regular pretreatment. One of the sweaters I did this with apparently did need a second treatment…to deal with what appears to have possibly been a hot chocolate stain that was previously invisible due to “well, it’s old” dinginess. I was planning to throw this sweater out. It looks almost new now. I need to wash it one more time for the probably-a-hot-chocolate stain, and then it needs to have the hem weighted to block it and bring it back to evenness, but dude. I wear my clothes to rags and I thought this thing was unfixable. “I need to reshape it” is nothing.

Remove clothes from dryer when done. Fucking MARVEL at the colors and how good the fabric feels. Give them a smell. Get righteously and royally angry that you can rejuvenate this stuff so easily, with a process that does take awhile but is 90% hands-off, but we’ve been trained to believe it’s all got to be binned once a year because discoloration and gross fabric is “normal wear and tear” and can’t be fixed.

It’s utterly unreal! I just pulled a seven-year-old work undershirt out of the dryer and this thing looks NEW!! It FEELS almost new!!! One of the shirts I hung up from the last load is older than some of the people on this site and it went from “I keep this to wear on laundry day, for sentimental reasons” to “I could actually wear this out of the house, it looks old but respectable”! The pajama bottoms I’m wearing were from Goodwill and they have BRIGHT YELLOW in them! I thought it was goldenrod!!

I do not know how often you’re supposed to do this (doing it every time can strip the dye out of your clothes, not to mention it’s way too much work to do every time), but once or twice per season seems respectable. I don’t wear white, so I can’t test the “it will make whites look almost-new as well” claim, but I’ve seen a lot of people on the cleaning subreddit attest that it works.

Just remember: WASHING soda. Not baking soda. I tried baking soda and a little bit happened, but not a lot.

Go forth. Rejuvenate your clothing. Strip your laundry.

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Tiny forest details

In an Ecuadorian Cloud Forest, Two Mycologists Catalogue Hundreds of Fantastical Fungi

Dear tumblr staff,

stop. its ok. you don’t need to do these things. just focus on functionality(like the video player). we don’t need these little updates when somethings(like the video player) need your focus. thank you for your time but really, tumblr looks great. try to fix more important things(like the video player) so that we can all properly enjoy the features of tumblr(like the video player)

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