people will agree w posts about how we need to protect vulnerable people all day until they find out that it sometimes means they'll be mildly inconvenienced
this is about wearing masks to protect immunocompromised people by the way. if you don't wear one you are abandoning the vulnerable and risking other people's lives.
also, if you've stopped masking it's never too late to start again! it will make a difference, it will help others.
you cannot consider yourself a leftist or punk or whatever if you can't do the bare minimum for your disabled siblings and comrades
Headline by: Ryan Burns. “Ground Has Been Broken on Klamath River Restoration, the World’s Largest-Ever Dam-Removal Project.” Lost Coast Outpost. 23 March 2023.
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The world’s largest dam removal in history is slated for 2023. Led by Indigenous tribes in partnership with organizations, lawyers, scientists and activists, the project will remove four dams, clearing the way for the lower Klamath River to flow freely for the first time in more than a century.
Headline and italicized text excerpt by: Malia Russ. “The Science of Saving Salmon as Klamath Dams Come Down.” UC Davis - Blogs - Climate. 24 February 2023.
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Headline by: Jackson Guilfoil. “Klamath dam removals, habitat restoration, begins.” The Mercury News. 25 March 2023.
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Headline by: Kale Williams. “‘The salmon are coming home’: Work begins on Klamath River dam removal.” KGW8. 27 March 2023.
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Iron Gate is a sinuous, skinny reservoir tucked into the folds of the Siskiyou Mountains. Draining it will expose about 900 acres of wet mud. “It’s our job to make sure it’s revegetated. We want that to be revegetated with a healthy native plant ecosystem,” says Joshua Chenoweth, Senior Riparian Ecologist for the Yurok Tribe who is leading the replanting effort. […] Last fall, they seeded the strip with a mix of native grasses and flowering plants; now, they’re installing young shrubs and trees: buckbrush, serviceberry, and Oregon ash, along with the Klamath plum. Collectively, these plants will create a “wall of green,” taking up space that would have otherwise been overrun by non-native plants […]. The revegetation of the Klamath River has been called the largest river restoration project in American history. Collecting, propagating, and growing enough seeds and plants to populate the reservoir footprints – approximately 2,200 acres in all – is a staggering task. […] Their planting design includes 96 different species: culturally significant plants like yampah and lomatium, important pollinator species like milkweed, and tens of thousands of oak trees. […] What will a restored, wild Klamath River look like? Imagine it. Stand at the Wanaka Springs boat launch and picture Iron Gate reservoir drained. The river has found its channel at the base of its original canyon. Willows flank the banks. Much of the reservoir footprint is flush with upland vegetation – oak copses; thickets of buckbrush and Klamath plum; blooming rose and lupine.
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Headline, images, captions, screenshot, and italicized text excerpt from: Juliet Grable. “After the dams: Restoring the Klamath River will take billions of native seeds.” Jefferson Public Radio. 13 March 2023.
any of you ever wonder what gollum would look like in a yaoi
yes you have. here:
Stop that
do you hate men’s love
I’m sorry friends, but “just google it” is no longer viable advice. What are we even telling people to do anymore, go try to google useful info and the first three pages are just ads for products that might be the exact opposite of what the person is trying to find but The Algorithm thinks the words are related enough? And if it’s not ads it’s just sponsored websites filled with listicles, just pages and pages of “TOP FIFTEEN [thing you googled] IMAGINED AS DISNEY PRINCESSES” like… what are we even doing anymore, google? I can no longer use you as shorthand for people doing real and actual helpful research on their own.
One of the niche hobbies I have is insulator collecting. Insulators are the glass/ceramic parts that keep electrical lines from shorting out:
They come in all sorts of colors and shapes, some rare, some common:
They can be the size of a fist, or long chains:
The hobby is dominated by retired lineworkers. But it deserves so much more attention! They are often referred to as "crown jewels of the wire". Anyway, this is my niche infodump. Thanks for reading!
“Since the earth is finite, it is obvious that there are absolute biophysical limits to capital accumulation. Despite knowing this, capital is incapable of limiting itself. On the contrary, capital constantly attempts to overcome these limits only to increase its own destructiveness against society and nature. Hence arises the ‘necessity of social control’ to put an end to the wasteful and destructive tendency of capitalist development for the sake of human survival and preservation of the natural environment. Such social planning of production is, however, incompatible with the basic logic of capitalist production.”
— Kohei Saito, Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism
Romania has recalled its ambassador to Kenya and apologised after he compared Africans to monkeys. Dragos Tigau made the comments during a meeting at a UN building in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, on April 26. According to the AFP news agency, Mr Tigau said "the African group has joined us" when he saw a monkey outside a window. Mr Tigau's behaviour was first made public on Thursday by Kenyan foreign affairs official Kamau Macharia. On Twitter Mr Macharia said he was left "appalled and disgusted" by the incident, and claimed that attempts were made to cover up Mr Tigau's behaviour.
Source: bbc.com
So funny how vtmb is like "you're a Nosferatu....horrible disgusting and REVILED by kin and kine alike.... anyways your only outfit options are increasingly sexy leather and latex fetish ensembles. Have fun"
*emerges from the other room covered in blood* you should see the word document
does it look like this
i was picturing this as after a successful writing jaunt but this is so much darker