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catnippackets:

I remember the first time I learned what seasonal affective disorder was it was framed as “when you experience depression only in the cold fall-winter months” and I was like “that is ridiculous to me, those are the only months I feel happy in and every day that is warm and sunny makes me completely listless and miserable to the point where I just want to fast forward my life so I don’t have to experience a single drop of this weather because too many days of sun and heat in a row will literally put me on the verge of tears from how much I hate it with every fiber of my being” and then years later found out that S.A.D. can happen with any season and not just winter and I was like well that explains a lot lol

sephiramy:

docvalentine:

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found this sketch a day book with exactly one day filled in

environmental storytelling at its finest

transmaskmetaknight:

transmaskmetaknight:

bro i didnt share my new son $1.07 with you guys hold on

yall arent ready for her . u cannot emotionally prepare for him .

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her name is $1.07 and he is the worlds least animal

he is so scared all the time

plantyhamchuk:

chase-prairie:

North American friends, please don’t mistake UK “let our native weeds grow freely” as blanket permission to claim US non-native weeds as equally beneficial. They don’t have the same value to our native pollinators

No Mow May is a huge case study on cross-Atlantic mistranslation

Listen to Dr. Sheila Colla, NA native bee expert, instead of UK honeybee people:

“Coming back from the biodiversity crisis will require active stewardship, not neglect, of altered landscapes.”

I permanently keep this article open as a tab on my phone because I reference it so much

yes, something flowering is better than nothing, but all this money, research, PR, and literal seeding of weeds going on could instead be used to support our actual native bees, instead of offering them non-native, poorly nutritious diets that can literally lead them to canibalize their own eggs

GREAT article - highly recommend

“Instead of encouraging #LazyLawns what we need to do, urgently, is to steward, tend and nurture landscapes for native biodiversity and ecological integrity. A month of long lawns filled with dandelions and other non-native weedy species just doesn’t cut it. It’s the ecological equivalent of opening a fast-food restaurant on every corner – for a short amount of time. At best, burgers and fries for a while, but not a sustained full-service menu of healthy nutrition and habitat for pollinators.

While we need to loosen the grip of the lawn on our collective landscape imaginings, here’s what the little research done to date on dandelions tells us. Dandelion has allelopathic pollen, a scientific term that basically means the pollen of dandelions can reduce reproductive success in native wildflowers, disrupting the native plant communities it invades. Another study showed that queen bumblebees (some of the early emerging wild bees that pro-dandelion campaigns say dandelions help) resorted to eating their own eggs when fed a diet of protein-deficient dandelion pollen.

This is not an argument for vilifying the dandelion or dismissing the value of rethinking manicured lawns. Indeed, one of the benefits of #NoMowMay is that it undermines the conventional lawn aesthetic and, in doing so, helps to normalize acceptance of “messy-looking” habitats that support pollinators (dead leaves and dead plant stalks, for example). Another benefit of the campaign is that not running the lawn mower will reduce noise and air pollution.

But #NoMowMay is not a one-stop solution to the loss and degradation of pollinator habitat.“

ublock-origin:

my controversial metric system opinion is that the meter should be 0.0692285593% shorter. This would have no practical benefits, but it would make the speed of light be 300,000,000m/s instead of 299,792,458m/s

botanyshitposts:

i arrive at the gay bar in full butch getup and i look like super hot like trust me and i start buying chocolate milk for the femmes at the bar…..between my striking good looks and my generosity concerning tasteful dairy products i have impressed them greatly and after an hour of chatting I make my move. i reach into my pocket and remove a large, gorgeous lichen affixed to a piece of bark from its protective herbarium packet that I have concealed in my pants pocket. “it’s a symbiotic relationship between a fungus and an algae,” i begin,

rosslynpaladin:

bubobubosibericus:

froody:

just wanted a visual demonstration since I was talking about how much I love them

Mules are like horses with the self destruct button removed

I want a mule. I would name them Rabbit.

saltedweather:

wiisagi-maiingan:

The ICWA is not a hypothetical. So many Native people have lost aunts, uncles, cousins, and siblings to the foster system. So many people Native people are disconnected from their cultures and tribes because their parents or grandparents were stolen from their families. So many Native people, even under the ICWA, were removed from their families and placed into foster care.

So many children today, right now, are being removed from their families, tribes, and cultures.

All it takes is one generation to kill a community, to kill a culture. We’ve lived through this before. We’re still living through this now. We know firsthand what it means to lose our children and we know what will happen to us, to our families and our tribes and our cultures and our bonds with each other, if the removal of indigenous children from their families becomes the law of the land again.

The entire case being brought against ICWA rests on the argument that tribes are not nations, but racial categories.

Even if this wasn’t “just” important to prevent genocide, i.e., destroying over 500 tribal nations by stealing their children right out of their homes on the flimsiest pretext, or “just” important because of the absurdly high rate of abuse for Native kids placed in white homes, the argument they’re making is being backed by major interests in oil and mineral extraction,

because what they want is to take away Native nations’ sovereign status by declaring them to be a racial/ethnic category instead of nations with whom the U.S. has a treaty/diplomatic relationship.

But also, even if somehow THAT wasn’t the case, if ICWA is overturned but by some miracle our bought-and-paid-for Supreme Court judges issue a ruling that dismantles ICWA while not explicitly declaring Native people to be a racial/ethnic category (instead of, again, sovereign nations, which is what they ARE), I return your attention to the above. This will hurt so, so, so many kids and families. Native kids are incredibly likely to be neglected and abused in non-Native families. Even kids who aren’t abused still suffer severe emotional and psychological tolls because they’re separated from their relatives and their culture.

amaralesbian:

Good news, Missouri has terminated its ban on gender affirming care for adults due to the fact that they did not feel confident they could defend it in court. I think that’s a pretty good sign.

The youth ban is still in effect, but as Erin Reed says in this tweet now attorneys don’t have to split their resources and just tackle the youth ban.

weaselle:

naamahdarling:

headspace-hotel:

sky-cow0:

headspace-hotel:

tenderanarchist:

loverbear-butch:

loverbear-butch:

y’all realize you can riot and organize AND vote right? like it’s not either or

i’m so sick of this “give up on voting and just riot” mindset like y’know you can vote to try and stop more of these chucklefucks from gaining power AND ALSO riot and protest and organize in fact it’s ENCOURAGED that you do BOTH

Agree.. ppl are all upset that voting makes them ~complicit in the system~ but like it or not we are all In the Fucking System right now with people actively using it to make our lives materially worse. So we can try to vote for harm reduction within the system, instead of letting the system steamroll our human rights without any resistance. And once you’ve voted to keep Transphobe McAntisemite out of your local office, you can still protest and do mutual aid and build a strong community that is capable of existing outside the system.

Voting is not enough but it undeniably gets shit done

The reason it is framed as a dichotomy is because rioting and protest-related crimes are felonies, meaning if you are convicted you lose your voting rights even if you don’t serve any jail time. This is obviously especially true for minorities and marginalized groups who those in power don’t want voting.

So yeah, for a lot of people it is deciding between voting and protesting.

And also, I can see getting disenfranchised as a voter. On my own ballot there were many offices where no one runs against the republican and even one where the Republican was the less fascist candidate. Why vote when you don’t really have a choice?

But this is why ranked voting and proportional representation is very important to fix the US voting model. Also ending gerrymandering, but that’s already considered unconstitutional by most.

Felony disenfranchisement is a huge problem, but it’s not a thing in most US states—just southern red states for the most part.

Gov. Beshear in KY restored voting rights to over 100,000 felons, but before that nearly 10% of the kentucky population was disenfranchised (and 24% of the Black population)

And like no offense is meant but this is exactly *why* I and others emphasize the importance of voting—for the sake of others who can’t.

Note that the original post said nothing about the USA, but nonetheless this is basically a USA-specific discussion, since the USA makes it actively difficult to vote in ways most other countries do not.

Discouraging people from voting is an active part of the oppressive system here. There’s a reason why republicans want to introduce more hoops voters need to jump through to participate. There’s a reason why republicans want to require more paperwork and close down polling locations, because deterring people from voting is part of the strategy.

Remember the uproar over mail-in voting? It’s because mail-in voting makes it possible for people to vote when they otherwise could not make it to the polls. Election Day is one day here, it’s not a national holiday, and when it requires you to physically travel to a polling location (that is open during the work day), that simply deters disabled people (who might not be able to go to a polling location) and working class people (who might be at work all day) from voting

Voting got a pro-trans person on the school board here. In Oklahoma. GODDAMN FUCKING VOTE, it makes a difference. So what if you hate everyone? So what if nobody’s perfect and the “left” is just centrist, really? You can make changes, still, and sometimes the ones you make locally are easiest to make, and make a shitton of difference. Electing that one person might save lives. Hope y'all understand that sitting stuff out can make progress harder by not controlling who gets into politics before they’ve become cancerous.

They wouldn’t be trying to stop you if they weren’t scared of what you might do.

Voting is like sitting at a slot machine and pulling the lever.

Now, are you going to win the jackpot that gets everything fixed perfectly? the odds are millions to one against. Will you win something small to medium? Maybe, actually! it provably happens sometimes, there’s at least a chance.

But here’s the kicker. You live here. Your life is effected by their actions. Your taxes pay their salaries. Your money is already in the machine.

and if your money is already in the machine … it would be stupid to not pull the lever, wouldn’t it?

vonkarn:

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i achieved my wildest little creature dreams this weekend and turned my regular bed into a mossbed and it’s everything i’ve ever wanted in a snooze spot