If it could do that to a pumpkin just imagine what it could do to a watermelon
Why the fuck did Clay leave him in the attic man, what the fuck
I should start posting franz kafka style diary quotes but it’s from my journal from when I was 11/12 and obsessed with naruto
—Saturday 02nd October, 2011. 8:45pm.
Hypothesis: invasiveness of plants in the USA has less to do with specific traits of the plant and more to do with catastrophic changes in land use and management following European colonization
This hypothesis came to me after researching what plants were invasive in China and Japan, and learning that most of East Asia and Japan (Is Japan considered East Asia or is it special by virtue of being island?) invasive species are from...The Southeastern United States (just like ours are mostly from east asia and Japan).
BUT one major difference: Most of the worst Eastern USA invasives are woody shrubs or perennial vines; most of the worst Eastern Asian invasives are herbaceous perennial or annual plants
I thought, I wonder how they respond to controlled burning?
Some of the most common invasive species around here are those that have a very dense foliage and that grow in thick masses that seem like it would make the whole forest a tinderbox.
I thought, I wonder if certain growth habits are selected against by controlled burning, and when the burning stopped that created a sort of vacant niche?
I am frustrated by the ways ecosystems are thought about and considered...seems like people imagine an ecosystem as something that just Exists with minimal input from humans and as such don't see negligence as a Damage to the ecosystem...
two (2) people asked how i did the matchbook thing so take this
this is just a simple idea but if you spend some more time you can get real krazy with it:
making fake prints is so fun please do it immediately free resources under cut xoxo
Come on Tumblr, don’t be fucking cowards
Alternatively - come on nameless intern #102, you have a chance to be the fucking funniest person on staff.
cowards
Time for manual blazing, tumblr can be a coward but they can't stop us.
Steve Dain (1940 – 2007) was an FTM who transitioned in the late 70's and lost his teaching job, he was a gym teacher in Union City. Although the court would eventually decide in his favor, and allow him to go back to teaching, he was not able to find a school that would hire him.
"Later, I would meet Steve Dain. Steve had been Lou Sullivan's hero. In those days, most trans men in the Bay Area went off on a pilgrimage to meet him as we entered medical transition. Lou had met with Steve years before when he began his transition, and Jamison Green would meet him a short time before I did. It was nearly a ritual, a rite of passage to meet with Steve. There were no trans men that we knew of who had come before him. Steve was nearby and our most visible example, and someone who each one of us hoped would confer wisdom, and a kind of blessing or validation. I think we all were a bit awestruck. And, Steve didn't let us down. I know he didn't let me down. I still remember meeting him in Union City, he picked me up and I was taken with his easy and total masculinity. He was hirsute, and handsome, confident and kind. He was sensitive to each question I asked and his answers would influence me for the entirety of my transition." -Max Wolf Valerio (quote from his blog) (photos by Mariette Pathy Allen 1980s)
Want to Save the Bees? Focus on Habitat, Not Honey Bees
There has been an amazing groundswell of support for bees, motivating people everywhere to act—creating pollinator gardens, planting habitat in parks and on farms, reducing pesticide use or campaigning for citywide bans. It is clear that people care, and many have rallied around this issue.
For some, a tangible goal has been to get a honey bee hive. As a result, hives have appeared in gardens and backyards, on rooftops, and in parks and nature reserves. On the surface, this makes sense: if bees are declining, it would seem that more bees in more places will help. Yet, when we look deeper, efforts to increase the number of honey bees on the landscape may be doing more harm than good.
Read the full article here.
Basically…honey bees are nice, but getting a hive won’t “save the bees,” because who’s really in trouble are these guys:
[American Bumble Bee]
And many other bees all over the world that are not kept by humans for honey, but nonetheless are vital to the planet! (And adorable!)
This is why it’s important to plant flowers that are native to your region and stop all non-essential use of pesticides!
you WISH you were eating sweet mulberries from a stranger’s overgrown tree at twilight in a silent neighborhood
why is this getting notes. i was just bragging about my evening it was meant to be like a 2-3 note post with nothing but likes from mutuals
Politely, you did post something quiet and sweet on the yearning website
ok that one’s on me
die girlies reading this 🥰
oh my god I meant in a german accent I did not mean to wish death upon girlies
The girlies reading this post
Same vibes as this
The thing society as a whole doesn’t understand about nature is that absolutely nothing is just a worm or just a bug or just a plain little fish that does nothing but swim around and eat until it dies. Every single animal has a complicated life and habits. Minnows make nests out of pebbles. Slugs have courtship rituals. Fruit flies have territorial battles and when they can’t get laid they become alcoholics all in those few days that they even exist on earth. Just the functions of the different body parts of a dust mite can fill a lecture and we still don’t completely understand everything about its life habits or its biochemistry.
Little guys contain multitudes
good news guys. i found a falcon nest cam where two wood pigeons come by several times a day trying to build a new nest on top of the falcon nest. the falcon nest with falcon eggs currently inside of it and two parent falcons guarding it
…The shocked expression. :))))))
idk if anyone’s added this example of a pair of pigeons nesting IN an occupied owl nest, but it must be seen
(no animal death, but an egg does get broken)
pigeons are 0% brain cells and 100% persistence
Booby traps? Sure, I would easily fall into a trap if I saw boobs
despite being interviewed individually, all four gave the exact same response
"Trump wasnt so bad. At least gas was cheap and people could afford to eat. This new guy made everything expensive."
I've heard a couple explanations.
The one that sticks with me is just.... straight up corporate greed. Big companies are making record profits, wages arent rising to meet the cost of living. Rental companies buying up shit properties to barely flip them to make rentals, which artificially bloat the housing market and make the cost of rent unreasonable. It's hard for unions to navigate the gig economy, and it's the same shit weve all been yelling about for 20 years and longer. It was heading this direction before the pandemic, but the pandemic put a lot of pressure on a system that was already taking structural damage.
Also theres a war happening in Europe, involving a major supplier of oil. When oil prices are higher, the cost of everything from production, packaging, to transport costs more. Though it's also important to note that the oil companies are known to artificially inflate gas prices because... money.
Cant say much for Canada, but I hear that the talk about the debt ceiling has a lot to do with all the Trump tax cuts, but I dont know enough about economics to articulate why.
Theres probably a bunch more reasons, but those are the ones I hear the most. The major point I'm shooting for is that if Biden is to blame at all hes not the only one at fault. Like... I'm not exactly one of his fanboys, but putting blame solely on the sitting president is one of those lies that the next candidate is gonna rely on when it comes to the campaign trail. (Which I realize isnt really directed towards you, as a canadian).
Neil Gaiman: Hi, I'm Neil Gaiman. I'm wearing the first red T-shirt I've worn since 1987. Because I'm a member of the WGA. I'm on strike. I care so much for the things that I've written but I'm out here right now not working and here until we get a good contract because I care about the future of the WGA, the future of young writers. I want a world in which no AI writes scripts or attempts to. I want a world in which young writers get to learn how to make television. And I want a world in which we are fairly compensated for the things that we put up on streaming.
These posts right in a row are really doing something for me
I think my favorite bit i do with customers is when white women are like ‘i dont know what to getttttt’ and i hit them with the ‘you should be bad~ 😈’
Saying ‘you should be bad!!’ In like Gay Voice to a white woman at starbucks has like the same psychological impact as going like ‘who’s a good boy?’ To a dog. It makes them so excited in a really endearing way.
