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Do not think for a moment that this admin is only going after trans folks. They are ultimately going after the whole LGBTQ community. They start small, like getting rid of a hotline option, then go BIG.
sources:
Trvor Project
Rolling Stone
There's an ActionNetwork petition you can sign. Don't let the Trump administration win without a fight.
Non-Americans can also sign. We need all the help we can get the next 1,307 days
Genuinely why, what is even their claimed justification
[vd: a guy records the Over the Garden Wall theme on an original Edison wax blank, then plays it back.
id of a screenshoted reply: biblically accurate over the garden wall.
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help im trying to relax by looking at gardening posts on pinterest but half of the things they say are wrong
The concept of "bug hotels" "frog houses" "toad houses" are cute but the best habitat for small creatures isn't PVC pipes or clay flowerpots or whatever, it's literally just rotting logs, brush piles, rock piles, leaf litter, and lots of plants instead of flat, open mowed grass. You do not have to buy anything
The idea of moss lawns is great but in most places moss doesn't naturally grow in homogeneous, lawn-like sheets. Different species of moss like different surfaces: some grow on rock or concrete, some on wood, some on soil, and it depends on the light levels and moisture levels and chemistry of the substrate which ones will live there. The soil ones are usually found on stream banks, steep slopes, and on humps in the ground created by the root ball of a large tree wrenching out of the ground when the tree falls (fun fact these humps are an important characteristic of old growth forest). Thick, lush colonies of moss can take YEARS to grow.
Also the trick of blending moss with buttermilk does not work- it's a plant, it doesn't like to be shredded up! In my experience moss is incredibly hard to transplant because the habitat preferences for each species are so specific.
That being said, reuse what you already have--- if you have bricks, cinderblocks or broken ceramic items, you can definitely use them in your back yard habitat
Bird houses are worthwhile as they simulate things like cavities in trees that have rotted out internally, which might be hard to find in urbanized environments.
If your yard is soggy, please consider constructing a water-retaining wetland garden. It's as simple as digging a wide, shallow hole where the water likes to gather and stacking logs in and around the water.
At one side, you can spread pebbles, at another side, add some sand so butterflies can drink up minerals, and keep another side of it mud to attract helpful insects like dirt-dauber wasps. (They are chill and will not harm you.)
Rushes and cattails are super easy to dig up from ditches on the side of the road. But watch out! There are some species that can be SUPER invasive in some places.
And propagating a willow is the easiest thing in the world--- snip off a twig and put it in some water and it will start growing roots.
Watch out, weeping willows aren't the native willow in most places! But the wild native ones aren't too hard to find. Here in North America, they're scrungly things, often more shrubby than tree, and they don't weep. It's easiest to tell them in the spring, when the catkins (flowers) are out.
The willow is the second best kind of tree for caterpillars of butterflies and moths, next to oak. In North America if you grow a good willow thicket, you may be blessed with a red-winged blackbird nest.
The significance of the caterpillars is not only in the caterpillars themselves, but in the fact that lots of birds require caterpillars to feed baby birds.
If wet, grow willow, if dry, grow oak. And if you see a plant that is scrungly and unattractive, try to learn about it to see the virtues it may have, which likely are neglected in gardens due to outer appearances
it's actually so funny to go through the work of converting to a religion, only for the head of that religion to refuse to see you and then immediately die literal hours later after meeting you. like i know we all hate him and this entire administration but this is objectively funny. it wasn't even a priest or anything. it was The Guy. how is no one calling the couch fucker the antichrist yet.
starting to think the vp position in this administration might be cursed. the last guy was nearly killed by the fucking president in an intentional incited coup and the current guy killed the pope. i think we should get a third even dumber vp and see what kind of karmatic horrors fall upon him. schadenfreude and all that.
Completely ignores how 4chan’s Nazism preceded and directly influenced the Nazism of every site she mentioned and then suggests 4chan stopped being relevant to white nationalist politics after 2009 when you know, the alternative right’s push for Trump began on 4chan in 2015. Then spawned an even more openly neo-Nazi harassment board 8chan that was targeting organizers with intimidation, stalking and threats for years.
Girl 4chan was the place for several years where you could openly make Holocaust and lynching jokes without any repercussions. Other sites at least pretended not to allow that type of content, because they were moderated and you couldn’t hide behind anonymity. You would be banned and maybe even doxxed for attempting the same type of discourse elsewhere on the internet at that time. 4chan was the cultural vanguard of online American neo-Nazism - it was not only ahead of the trends, it innovated and disseminated those trends.
Just wrong on every single detail, impressive.
ITHACA, N.Y. — The Museum of the Earth, one of the last natural history museums in Upstate New York, faces an imminent threat of foreclosure
If you have ever been tempted by a Paleozoic Pal, like a a stuffed trilobite or a full size eurypterid body pillow, now's the time to buy one, before they and a really lovely little museum are gone for good 😭😭😭
Paleozoic Pals™ Paleozoic Pals™ are the Paleontological Research Institution’s line of plush fossils. The Paleozoic is the era before dinosa
This was the museum I went to often in my childhood. I'm no longer able to visit unless I visit family, but this place holds a special place in my heart.
As stated in the article, they hold around 7 million artifacts- many of which are orphaned fossils, with the museum taking in collections that otherwise would have been trashed.
Please consider buying a Paleozoic Pal, but I'll also leave a direct donation link as well.
THE GIANT EURYPTERID BODY PILLOW IS BACK IN STOCK
I JUST WENT INTO A FUGUE STATE AND BOUGHT ME A 16 INCH CUDDLE BUDDY WITH PLATED TEETH!! DUNKIE, MY BELOVED!!
Screeching aside, anyone who can afford to, go look through their shop! They got clothes, and cute gifts, and books and all kinds of other awesome stuff! Ye, the shipping sucks, but we need to keep our museums alive! (the good ones, not the British Museum of Thievery XP)
HE’S HERE! MY BIG BOY IS HERE!! (And yes he is my BIG boy despite only being 16 inches, you shush!)
He took nearly a month to get here, but that’s because of ALL THE ORDERS THEY’VE BEEN GETTING! OVER 1800 ORDERS! This is why I love the online community!!
Now if you don’t mind I’m going to tuck Duncan into my sweater and go work on the piles of stuff I still have to do 😅
For anyone curious what's happening with the PRI they're digging themselves out! An anonymous donor gave them $1 mn which they used to secure a stay on the forclosure for the rest of the year and they're approximately a third of the way to buying their way out of the mortgage.
ITHACA, N.Y. — Following a surge of donations sparked by The Ithaca Voice’s reporting, the Museum of the Earth — one of the last natural his
nothing funnier to me than when AI does math wrong. like I get why it happens, it's a language model that's treating the numbers you feed it as words rather than integers and then giving you an answer based on how those words typically appear in a block of text instead of actually performing a calculation. but the one thing computers are genuinely incredible at. you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did, look at it it's got hallucinations
"Technically"
The precedence for some white ass to convert to a religion for the sole purpose of colonizing indigenous land by divine decree is on par with New Age/Mormon shit
there really needs to be a conversation about white 'progressives' converting to Judaism and adopting zionism as a political ideology to both 1) make themselves feel oppressed because they are narcissistic toddlers who want to feel like the perpetual victim and 2) a way to weaponise identity politics in such a way that they get to shut down and divert criticism away from themselves and their racism by claiming anyone doing so is being antisemitic. it's also such a fucking gross way to treat Judaism, too.
Campaign Match for Reema
Reema (@pal-rema) is still collecting funds for her family. Currently, she's trying to meet a deadline (which is tomorrow, 2/15/25) to pay for her brother's education. Because time is of the essence, I'm doing a match for Reema.
I donated $40 CAD (equivalent is like 28 USD I think?) to Reema's GFM (proof under the cut). You don't have to donate as much—any amount small or large helps. This is really time-sensitive, so please please please give whatever you're able to. Here's the link to her GFM:
This is message from my dear friend Reema: Hello everyone, my name is Reema, and… Marwa Aoui needs your support for Help Reema from Gaza
As is my forever motto: please donate, reblog, and share! If you're not able to give, then send Reema's link to someone you know who is. Timing is really critical right now, so let's do our best to get Reema to her goal as quickly as possible please!
The last donation to Reema's GFM was 3 days ago. She's so so close to her goal, yet her campaign is moving incredibly slowly. If you have the means, donate to her fundraiser. If you don't, then copy her link and pass it along to someone in your life you know who does--your parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, siblings, friends, literally anyone who has $5 to spare. Reblogs are wonderful, but don't do much good if the post isn't reaching people who are able to donate, so let's make sure we're doing everything we can to spread Reema's campaign as widely as possible.
Israel is back to war again, The sounds of explosions are everywhere, and the world watches and stands silent.
The genocide has begun. Save what's left of us.
- On the first day, more than 450 martyrs, most of them women and children we are dying here, save us
We are dying in front of your eyes, please don't leave us alone, please save us
At any moment we may die, do not leave us alone, save us, demonstrate and make your voice heard, no to the war of genocide
Please share and donate
It is very scary! It might even go beyond that, especially since Patel is FBI now.
Right now, anyone who lives within 100 miles of the border is subject to warrent-less surveillance, search, seizure, and arrest by DHS and ICE (and really any agency who actively cooperates with them) if they suspect you may be undocumented or a "terrorist" (which fill in the blank on who people in the admin are trying to call terrorists now, like trans people or Pro-Palestine activists)
By expanding what counts as border (in this case I'd assume any entry point into the country, so any major airport), this can now apply to the entire country regardless of proximity to the actual border.
Since Patel is head of the FBI, this will probably mean this won't just be for ICE.
Is this legal? Who knows! The powers granted to DHS is very broad, I would not be surprised if SCOTUS upholds something like this "in the interest of national security"
Global warming fucking sucks. It's not even April yet and it's over 100F outside (38C).
Here in oregon it went from freezing cold to warm and humid in two days. On the third day (tomorrow) we have a tornado warning, which is unprecedented for this area, but very precedented for areas where the weather fluctuates to this extent, which is not normally here.
You ever think about the MOVE bombing and then think about the fact that so few US Americans even know that the MOVE bombing like. Happened.
"The United States is dedicated to moving bombs away from people who would use them for nefarious purposes! Google MOVE bombing to learn more!"
jesus christ 😐
this also doesn't come close to telling the whole story.
the Philadelphia police harassed the MOVE organization for over a decade. MOVE began with peaceful protests against conditions at long-term-care facilities and against the city Zoo's mistreatment of animals. in 1972, police classified the group’s use of profanity as riotous and designated them violent threats to public order. the actual reason was their radical abolitionist message.
the Philadelphia police department had a brutal, corrupt, and racist reputation long before MOVE entered the picture. despite that fact, MOVE’s claims of police brutality typically fell on deaf ears, even when they had undeniable proof of mistreatment. the bombing is only one part of the story both because it is the culmination of violence between MOVE and the police and also because it is part of the broader narrative of police brutality in Philadelphia that is still largely played out today.
in 1957, two Black men were beaten by three off duty and allegedly drunk police officers, putting one in the hospital for 19 days. the commissioner at the time testified that all officers were trained in "race relations," which involved things such as having officers brandish shotguns out the window of their patrol vehicles as a show of force in so called "shotgun squads." the three officers were not convicted of any crimes.
in 1960, shots indiscriminately fired by officer Robert Marinelli killed two innocent Black bystanders. Marinelli was charged, tried, and then found not guilty on all charges by an all-white jury.
in 1967, a guy named Frank Rizzo became the police chief. his nickname while working in West Philadelphia as a captain was "The Cisco Kid," which referenced the fictional cowboy who "killed for the love of it or any other reason that came to mind." he referred to "vermin" in Philadelphia as the source of the crime and decline.
shortly after he was appointed, he sicced 300 officers in riot gear on Black students and advisors protesting the Board of Education who were protesting the lack of Black studies and Black teachers. Rizzo ordered the officers to "get their Black asses." 57 protesters were arrested, dozens were beaten, and 15 were hospitalized. Frank Rizzo was elected Mayor of Philadelphia 3 years later and during his bid for re-election in 1975, he said that he would "make Attila the Hun look like a faggot" once he was reelected.
so yeah, not only is the MOVE bombing virtually unheard of by the average person in America (and it's not much better in academia, for that matter), but the story that is often told when people do hear about is that this all happened in a vacuum "due to the actions of a violent Black resistance group." in reality, it was the culmination of over 50 years of brutality against Black people and minorities in Philly.
fun fact one of the world champions in pepper-eating contests is a trans woman and she actually faced significant backlash because people somehow thought she had a biological advantage. to eating spicy pepper
update bc i went back and checked: her name is brianna “the chilli queen” skinner and she set a record in 2017 by slamming back 23 carolina reapers consecutively. she only stopped when told to by the referees, and the next year she stepped down out of boredom. queen
Here's a picture of her, by the way
And her super supportive wife
The championship, it should be noted, is unisex. Apparently being a trans woman gives you an innate biological advantage over both cis men and cis women.
The innate biological advantage of being cool as fuck
really fucking insane that ICE is arresting natives and shaving their heads while theyre detained but every conversation i see/hear about it both irl and online is just this terminally non-native cryptolib attitude of "haha where are they gonna deport native americans to? trump is so dumb 😏" i am begging you for the love of fucking god to cut the useless checkmate gotcha jokes for once in your god damn life, you cannot possibly be this stupid and believe this is really about deportation, this is about the ethnic cleansing of indigenous people that has been going on for the past 500 years and never ended, you cannot really be this stupid but i know the answer is that you are. please get a grip.