Hey it’s me Andrea

I’m a small biz owner, big fan of comics and indie artists, and parent of many houseplants. (She/Her)🇨🇦🇧🇲 pfp from nyurei’s picrew

[marinella-ela]

[catboybiologist]

Cromch

[catboybiologist]

strongly agree with this sentiment, the sound is lovely here

[sleepdeprivedsurgeon]

the purpose of friends is to have people who unconditionally hate your shitty exes & relatives. like maybe YOU have a complex relationship with your father but i sure don't. i'm outside his house with a gun. he's not the unforgivable asshole who raised me he's just an unforgivable asshole

[xanaxfarts]

A caiman in the Amazon wearing a crown of butterflies that feed off the young crocs salty tears. (2016) Photog. Mark Cowan [source]

[sabertoothwalrus]

I believe pretty firmly that it's really only the stylization that makes Chilchuck's age as ambiguous as it is, and that it'd be a lot easier to tell in real life.

and after a serious-ish comic here's a little bit of bullshit

[blackvelvetofnight]

just learned about the ginkgo trees that survived the nuclear blast in Hiroshima

you cannot kill me in a way that matters

[bladesrunner]

Pacific Rim (2013) dir. Guillermo del Toro

[todaysbird]

Climate change is real, even if your government denies it. You know that the summers and winters of your childhood are gone, even if your leaders say otherwise. Keep fighting even when things seem hopeless.

[todaysbird]

At the end, if the rich choose to let the Earth grow too hot to sustain us and the oceans swallow the coastlines, we can take peace in knowing they have only delayed the inevitable for themselves. The Earth does not care if you came from money.

[memento-mariii]

[starbuck-7]

There are solutions to climate change.

I know we probably all know that, but the tone here is very doomsayer and I want people to know we're not out the game just yet.

I genuinely think that climate deniers' main strategy has been "they gave us a deadline, so if we run out the clock people will think it's hopeless and just give up".

Fuck the deadline. Do it anyway.

You can get the biggest bang for your buck by donating to lobby groups who push policy. If you find one you like, maybe they even need volunteers.

A New Estimate of the ‘Most Effective’ Way to Fight Climate Change

Climate-concerned donors should focus on helping to pass climate policy, not offset their emissions, an advisory group says.  

You can also give to charities hoping to address the effects of climate change.

These are 11 of the most high-impact, cost-effective, evidence-based organizations. You may not have heard of them.

In America, I highly recommend giving to Trees, Water & People. TWP is an indigenous charity that funds indigenous-led projects for protection, conservation, and cleanup of natural resources.

Trees, Water & People

At Trees, Water & People, our mission is to improve lives by helping communities to protect, conserve, and manage their natural resources.

You can still contact your representatives. But if you're frustrated by the federal or state level, start local. My city has projects to increase use of solar and public transportation. There are citizen led projects, ballot measures, city council meetings. Work small if you have to, but there are things you can do.

And of course, continue to push hard for an end to wars and US weapons sales, as these are some of the biggest contributors to climate change.

[ratpyramid]

(inspired very much by this lovely post)

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

There's a village in Fife that holds a primary school competition to design Christmas lights..

and the kid that wins gets to switch on the village lights!

That would be my entire dream as a child!

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

Please enjoy the 2020, 2021, and 2022 winners

20 Christmas covid rainbow

21 Christmas dinosaur

22 Christmas salmon

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

I couldn't find 2023, but 2024 is a Christmas goose!

[wholesomepostarchive]

12/11/2024

[amelielb]

Ok, I've seen this sentiment before, but the amount of Kindle Unlimited ads I've been seeing is forcing me to repeat it-

Kindle Unlimited is offering two free months of unlimited ebooks. As a trial. Which will then become a paid subscription.

Your local library is offering unlimited ebooks all the time. Forever. No contracts, no predatory practices, no tracking of how long you spend on each particular page in the hopes that information about your habits can be sold for a profit.

Use your library. They want so badly to give you all of the things for free.

[bitchesgetriches]

The Library Is a Magical Place and You Should Fucking Go There

[capt-loverboy]

The two genders

[isabellaofparma]

‘don’t you want your favourite character to be happy???’ no? i want my favourite character to be interesting. i want me to be happy. which sometimes involves my favourite character being in exquisite agony

[guerrillatech]

[pieceofmanju]

Gordon Tootoosis, Aboriginal Canadian actor, activist, and band chief of Cree and Iyarhe Nakoda descent, as Cecil Delaronde in Canadian TV series Blackstone.

[nerteragranadensis]

[image description: two stills of Gordon Tootoosis, captioned, “Leadership is about submission to duty, not elevation to power.” end description.]

[copperbadge]

This is one of the most profound statements on leadership I’ve encountered in a long time, and it really landed a hit on me. It’s difficult to discuss without getting a little weird about it, but for a long time I’ve been of the mind that the privilege of having a large readership implies the duty of giving back in specific ways – I just never thought of it in terms of leadership as submission to duty. 

[kosmogrl]

[netherworldpost]

If your experience is like mine, you begin to think of it as a heartbeat, the waves. The tides are like long, slow, held breaths.

You see creatures in an atmosphere you can visit but cannot survive in. They can visit, but cannot survive in, your atmosphere.

If you are lucky, everything makes sense.

If you're very lucky, you realize that things don't make sense, but they don't need to.

If your experience is like mine, it will haunt you.

Forever.

No matter how far you go, you'll come back. No matter how often you come back, you'll leave again.

You become part of a new tide.

It is wonderful. And terrible. But mostly wonderful.

[un-monstre]

I understand that museums have to be dark because light can destroy fragile artifacts. That said, I’m always afraid to walk around the blind corners because what if there is a skeleton

[un-monstre]

Okay yes sometimes there’s a skeleton, I understand how museums work. But I mean what if it gets me

[moniquill]

Fact: you can absolutely kick a skeleton's ass. You are a skeleton wearing biological power armor. Skeletons of adult humans typically weigh less than 30 pounds. You are in a superior weight class by orders of magnitude.

[roach-works]

i wish someone had told me that when i was a kid and terrified of having to fight a skeleton

[isa-ah]

it should be illegal to take a nap and still have a headache when you wake up. like no i shut it off and back on again why are you still here

[rebeccathenaturalist]

Gophers' One-Day Mission Triggered 40 Years of Recovery at Mount St. Helens

Summary: A remarkable ecological experiment from 1982 has revealed its lasting impact four decades later. Scientists found that introducing

Ecology is one of those disciplines where there is just so, so much we don't understand yet. Yes, we know that the many species within a given ecosystem have a widespread, complex network of interrelationships, but we only have the barest understanding of a fraction of them. It's like having a symphony where you've heard everyone playing, but you only have some notes from some of the musicians' sheet music, and so you can't yet put together how it all works.

In this case, we're seeing just how important northern pocket gophers (Thomomys talpoides) are to their ecosystems. After the devastating eruption of Lawetlat'la/Loowit/Mt. St. Helens in May 1980, the land was left burned and covered in tons of ash and tephra. While some zones further out from the mountain were replanted by timber companies, the area directly around the eruption site has been allowed to recover naturally because this offers North American scientists an unprecedented chance to see how an ecosystem recovers after such a large eruption, at a place that is easily accessible.

When a small number of gophers were returned to an ash-covered area of the mountain for just twenty-four hours in 1982, they kicked off what would be a forty-year study in ecological resilience. In areas with no gophers, there were only a few struggling plants born from seeds transported by birds, while in places where the little mammals were able to burrow and turn over dirt, scientists found 40,000 individual plants. This was due to the fact that the gophers were able to free soil fungi and other microbes beneath the ash and give them a chance to repopulate closer to the surface where they normally would be found. In turn, seeds of plants that had mycorrhizal relationships with the fungi, or which otherwise benefited from the increased microbial biodiversity, flourished.

And forty years later, the pattern still stands, with the gophers' work reverberating to this day. If one small mammal can have such a profound effect in a miniscule amount of time, imagine what happens when we reintroduce extirpated species to other eplaces. The volcanic area may be left to repopulate naturally as scientists continue to study it, but there are countless badly damaged ecosystems in need of restoration. The results of this experiment clearly support the importance of returning as many native species to an ecosystem as possible, because even those that may seem insignificant have invaluable contributions to make to the whole.