An Anxious Night

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[changelingfangs]

I finally made the meme I've had in my head for over a year

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[schoolhater]

Crips for eSims for Gaza

Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong. 

[schoolhater]

Crips for eSims for Gaza

Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong. 

[schoolhater]

Crips for eSims for Gaza

Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong. 

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[guerrillatech]

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[ghoulfuckersincorporated]

I've been in Megaton about five total minutes and the vibe is very

[ananxiousnight]

Me when I started playing fallout 3 :

[rebeccathenaturalist]

Rare lichen brought back to East Anglia with help of bookbinding glue

Small patches of scrambled egg lichen moved from Cornwall to Breckland region, where it was last seen in 1994

This is such a cool story! Conservation of endangered species cants heavily toward animals and then plants, but you rarely see efforts to try to help endangered fungi, lichenized or otherwise. Part of this is because many fungi are very difficult to propagate, particularly those that have mycorrhizal relationships with plants, and so the best way to save them is to protect critical habitat for those species. Moreover, fungi that produce fruiting bodies like mushrooms are only really easy to observe during their relatively short fruiting season, so unless you're searching the soil or other substrate for DNA traces, your window to actually survey rare fungi is quite short.

But lichens are different. They persist year after year, and so are easier to observe. Growing them is another story, though; most people who give it a try put fragments of a given lichen on a favorable substrate in a controlled environment and hope for the best. However, success is relatively rare in the long term as lichens are quite persnickety about their growing conditions.

So what about just moving the whole substrate? If you have lichens that conveniently grow on tree branches you could cut off piece of branch and then attach them to branches of the same species of tree elsewhere at the same height/sun exposure/humidity level, and hope that the lichens continue to produce spores that then find favorable substrates locally. But it's tougher to chip off chunks of rock and move them to new places, especially if you don't want them getting kicked around.

So it's really fascinating that these conservationists tried out all sorts of different glues to find the most lichen-friendly ones, and then glued them to new substrates in old parts of their range in the hope that they'll use their rhizines to attach themselves to their new homes. It shows how much detail we have to go into in habitat restoration and species conservation to try to replicate the best conditions for a given species to thrive, and how we can't just offer degraded habitats to our wildlife of various sorts and hope that they find it acceptable. Lichens like various Parmelia species or Evernia prunastri may not be as picky in their substrates, but for a rarer species like Gyalolechia fulgens, our task is to give them their Goldilocks substrate--just right. And sometimes helping them along involves a little bookbinding glue.

[lichenaday]

WE HAVE NEVER BEEN MORE BACK

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[ananxiousnight]

Please I need to know

[sweeetestcurse]

Joel Miller 40/??

[snifsnouf-art]

This man is literally so gorgeous

[like-a-goodneighbor]

need that cowpoke crazy style

[vtory-art]

sparring 2/2

[nerwdle-deactivated20250704]

shhhh, let arthur rest *shushes

[everythingfox]

Took a risk and it paid off

[patheticperipatetic]

This is the face of someone who knows this doesn't always work.

[ananxiousnight]

[dragonheartstring360]

Just a psa for fic writers who use the “trauma bond” tag, please make sure you’re using it correctly. A trauma bond is not two people who experience similar trauma and bond over it. It’s a carefully curated, manipulative bond between abuser and victim to keep the victim coming back because of the addictive highs and lows that come with abuse.

If you want to tag two characters bonding over shared trauma, a good substitute tag would be “bonding over shared trauma.” Trauma bonding is, by definition, an abusive relationship and may steer people who have experienced it away from your fic. Please spread the word and happy writing!

[dragonheartstring360]

Feel like this is relevant again, so just gonna leave this here for anyone who needs it (been seeing this term used incorrectly a lot lately).

[fangirltothefullest]

Yes! "Trauma bonding" and "bonding through trauma" are two different things!

[the-haiku-bot]

Yes! “Trauma bonding”

and “bonding through trauma” are

two different things!

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[ananxiousnight]

You learn something new everyday