not going anywhere btw. even if years from now this site has gone under i will still be wandering the wastes like those chernobyl animals. #bitch

image: photo of chernobyl with bare trees and concrete office buildings sitting in a snowy field with a nuclear reactor in the distance. a white, 3 legged animal, known as a wizard, is drawn walking in the snow wearing a witch hat. it has a smiley face and its back leg is hairy. one of its front legs is outstretched as it walks

Either you're frolicking in this field with me or you're frolicking in this field against me.

Be the best version of you.

i guess i'm not as despairing as many people about the future of the planet simply because the fact that we're not in way worse shape today suggests the earth is crazy resilient

Reading anything about environmental history is like "and by 1956 the river was so full of uranium and bubonic plague that the only living organism found in it was an single amoeba which died immediately after being documented" and I'm like okay maybe today's problems aren't necessarily uniquely disastrous and unsolvable

This is only one example but apparently malaria was introduced to the USA by the slave trade but there was a program in the 50's to wipe it out and we did. by dusting thousands of tons of Paris green (an arsenic compound) as well as a shit ton of DDT all over our wetlands

Thinking about the time a broken dam released massive amounts of cyanide in the river Tisza. It was absolutely catastrophic. The majority of wildlife in almost the entire river died. The whole river was contaminated. Optimistic experts said it would take around a decade to get it all back to normal, the pessimists said anywhere from 20 years to Absolutely Never.

...Well, turns out it took like 3-4 years for the fish population to reach 95% of what it had been. The environment way more resilient than people give credit for, you just have to put in the work. LOTS of work. That's the most important part.

This is the most uneducated take I've ever read.

What's about to happen is that the oceans become so acidic - yes CO² is acidic - that all life there will die. Except bacteria. Yes it has happened before.

Another thing that is about to happen is that the glaciers on Greenland will disappear - that will lead to the sea level rising by 7 metres, leading to half the global population becoming homeless.

A bit later the Antarctis will melt - this is already ~ 15 years too late to stop by the way, because the ice shelves that prevented the glaciers from moving are melting from underneath by hot ocean water. The glaciers will lead to sea level rising with 100-150 metres more.

As temperatures gets hotter, the plants that produce most of our carbohydrates will no longer grow. Hotter than 30°C means most of the planets main food staples will no longer produce nutriciois yields. Maize/corn are a rare exception.

As CO² levels in the air increases, plants will produce less starch and sugars, and more fibre. Fibre doesn't provide nutrients for us, only for the bacteria in our intestines. Plants will also contain fewer micronutrients, minerals etc. This has been shown in experiments years ago.

But for a historical analogy, last time our planet had the same amount of CO² in the air as now, all that grew on land were ferns and other plants reproducing by spores. What they all have in common os that they contain very little nutrients and a ton of fibre.

Anf I haven't even mentioned drought, forest fires or the risk of heatwaves so hot that they actually kill all land based life.

So yes, I'm extremely worried, and you should be too.

[citation needed]

pray tell, where are you getting this

"All life in the ocean will die except bacteria" the only other time I've heard that one was in the talk page of Wikipedia where some guy was arguing that we should change "holocene extinction" to "Great Phanerozoic Mass Extinction Event" because he believed that the Earth was going to become uninhabitable to all multicellular life. of course this was shut down after other editors could find zero evidence for what he was saying and zero other uses of the phrase which he had apparently just made up

Today in transphobic idiocy...

Avery Jackson did a non-medical transition at the age of four. At the time, they felt more comfortable as a girl. As they grew up and their understanding of gender evolved, they decided nonbinary transgender suited them better.

And now that they are 15, their family is moving out of Missouri because they fear the recent draconian anti-trans laws.

"No longer identifies as a girl" does not mean they identify as a boy. They are still trans. They knew from the age of 4 that being a boy was not right for them.

I don't think they changed their mind. I think they just found a better understanding of who they were.

These bigots know nothing about trans people yet think they are qualified to criticize them.

Why do they want us dead so badly

stfu this price on food will keep me alive when I’m starving and putting quarters together to maybe stay alive until my next shift.

rich people: why is unhealthy food so cheap? don’t they know we have no self-control and will eat this until it causes health problems?

poor people: oh, thank god, something i can afford.

Five bucks can buy you so much more though if you take more than five minutes to prepare it.

Umm. Idk where you’re buying groceries, but $5 doesn’t get me anything.

Lol they want u to live on salted pasta and nothing else. XDDD God forbid people want something cheap that TASTES good.

Like- if u have more than $5 u can buy lots of things in bulk and per serving it’s cheaper. But for just straight $5??? Fuck outta here. $5 is like the cost of one spice at a grocery store ffs

Yeah for just straight $5 I could maybe buy a bag of rice and a jar of peanut butter, and that’s honestly less complete nutrition than that fast food, which at least has some vegetables in it, some meat, etc.

Rich people don’t get that being poor actually costs money. Terry Pratchett summed it up pretty well in one of the Discworld books: “But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.”

In fact, it’s such a good example that one widely used term to describe this socioeconomic bullshit is literally ‘Vime’s Boots’

The fuller version of the quote:

See here for further developments in the impact of this concept on (for example) UK culture, most specifically as embodied in the Vimes Boots Poverty Index devised by Jack Monroe (and authorized by the Pratchett estate).

Saw this tweet and had to collect Ryan Gosling’s best PR quotes for Barbie

Hey uh brand new addition

I think it’d be a good idea to let people from the Middle Ages use tumblr

anti vaxxers

look into my eyes and tell me a person from the Middle Ages who lost 3 kids by the time they are 25 and coughs up blood every now and then would be against a vial with a heaven-sent potion that can protect you from the demons that plague the Earth with just one small prick. look into my eyes and lie to me

Finally I can use this.

They would love vaccines.

As a trans woman I can confirm that they indeed found an ancient forest inside a 630ft deep sinkhole in China

cis people can reblog this but keep it on subject, please

Happy pride month everyone always remember that the sinkhole has an ecosystem large enough to house not only insects but likely several species of small birds or mammals

I am so ready for the gatwa era

Gatehouse - College of Charleston campus, very southern gothic

Porter's Lodge.

genuinely what is up with adults in public blaring tiktoks and youtube shorts out loud full volume while theyre in line at the store. like just. lifting your phone speaker to your ear but still blasting as loud as you possibly can. are we fucked

HOLLYBOOB!

official boob post

your ass thinks it’s Hollywoob

went to see if my late package maybe showed up without being scanned

but the post man yesterday said it would be here at ooooooooooone

is 9…………. post office closing time…….  no pkg……………………………………………………… >:C

well at least i can skip my post office visit tomorrow

i mean what did i expect really

a package?

too unrealistic

amazon sent me a replacement for my lost package and it “arrived” today

omg she recognized me immediately and got nervous with me while checking the system using my name

she was just as distraught as me when it turned up “arriving tomorrow” again but then she had another idea

mail is dumb

The mail lady saying “NO. I REFUSE to say it again” was more climactic than the Braveheart speech.

oh my gosh, op’s bio says “The package was a laptop” which gives SUCH a new perspective

Who’s going??? We can all meet up there! 💕

This is WoLF.

Christofascist allies that want to mess with Equality laws because they say vs trans issues but the right wingers literally funding them will kill ALL of it like they did with Roe.

I'm going to watch the Barbie movie while being Cognizant of its function as a spectacle of a commodity and enjoy the aesthetic but think the dialogue could use a little more polish from the writers and then I'm going to go home and make sweet tender love with Karl Marx who will have been sleeping in my bathtub all day. And afterwards he will kiss me so tenderly and say "I'm glad you enjoyed the movie. The masses deserve to have as much joy and art in whatever they can access in their every day. It is not through media or representation that we will find liberation but the self activity of the working class in the smashing if the capitalist state. Anyway can you review this fanfiction I wrote of Engels getting down silly style for me before I send it to him?"

hey op

throwing a grenade and then immediately throwing myself on top of it to save everyone

i completely miss the grenade and everyone in the room dies including me

Democrat political strategy

Christianity

i'm not the praying sort, but i'll probably always have a soft spot for the astronaut's prayer

for those who aren't familiar with it, it's a possibly-spurious quote by alan shepard (and is thus sometimes referred to as the shepard's prayer) on the launchpad of Freedom 7, immediately before he became the first american in space. it goes like this:

hey I wanted to wish a very special disability pride month to every disabled person who’s getting worse. to people who are losing the ability to do things they used to do. people whose symptoms are increasing in severity. people who are developing new symptoms. people with degenerative and terminal disorders. people who are dealing with new disorders on top of preexisting ones. happy disability pride month to everyone who knows they’re not getting better. there’s nothing wrong with that, and you deserve to take pride as much as anyone else.