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[apsciencebylyn]

A stag with the normal number of legs taking a drink from an icy lake

(actually a Eulophidae sp. wasp boy getting a sugar snacc while I snap a 100 pics of that rack 😍😍)

2/13/23. N. Florida

Such a good boy 🤎

[socialmaya]

[orwellsunderpants]

[image description: tweet by Netchimen’s Reverie that reads “Tolkien describing places that are evil: no trees grow there” /end description]

This is doubtless because of his experience of the trenches in the Great War.

Like, this is what things looked like to soldiers who fought in that war (image in black and white of a solitary soldier walking across a muddy wasteland pocked with puddles):

Here’s Delville Wood, the site of a battle in 1916 (sepia image of a wasteland dotted with broken and dead trees):

Here’s an image from the Battle of the Somme, in which Tolkien participated (image of soldiers standing above and inside a trench or earthwork in a grey wasteland; smoke from artillery is on the horizon)

So yeah: no trees = evil was Tolkien’s own direct lived experience. It’s precisely why Mordor and the wastelands around it look like they do in his books.

[brunhiddensmusings]

the plateau of gorgoroth, the heartland of mordor, is described as being scarred by countless pits dug by orcs the true seat of evil is full of foxholes and trenches

[khantoelessar]

There’s a lesson to be learned here.

[purlturtle]

I hope Tolkien would be happy to learn that a hundred years on, trees grow again here:

From The Atlantic.

[nightbringer24]

I think that Tolkien would be very happy to see that.

[hobbithouses]

[effemimaniac]

it's always hard to get to sleep when you stay up past the "old world dying" part of the night and have to sleep through the sounds of the new world struggling to be born. like aagggh fuck it's the time of monsters again, god damn it

[memeuplift]

[justcatposts]

A very rare Andean cat stretching out in front of wildlife cam 

(via)

[gallusrostromegalus]

Extremely Rare Forbidden Tum-Tum

[steliosagapitos]

[brewsternorth]

[ID: a stained glass window with a design of blossoms and mushrooms against a green background with a gold frame. /end ID]

[cilantroodon]

Vishma Maharaj, or whizicalmermaid on Etsy and Instagram !! :0

[lillie-garden]

kissing you on the forehead

[increasingpanic-deactivated2024]

with tongue?

[lillie-garden]

with tongue. 🥰

[just-taking-adam-break]

[mindblowingscience]

Uganda wildlife numbers soar due to enhanced protection

Uganda's wildlife population has boomed over the past four decades, the wildlife minister said Wednesday, but warned more must be done to save declining species including lions and endangered chimpanzees.

One of the most biodiverse countries on the planet according to the UN, Uganda has seen the population of several species more than double between 1983 and 2021 “due to enhanced integrity of the protected areas,” minister Tom Butime told reporters in Kampala.

The number of elephants has grown from 2,000 to 7,975 while the giraffe population increased nearly sixfold to 2,072.

The buffalo population has risen from 25,000 to more than 44,000, according to the ministry’s statistics.

The “government has been able to successfully reintroduce rhinos back to Uganda that had gone extinct in (the) early 1980s,” Butime said.

But the threats of poaching, habitat loss, climate change and retaliatory killings were causing the numbers of other species including lions and chimpanzees to shrink.

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[unholyblissafterdark]

[cantina-band]

Watching twilight on a poorly hung projector. (x)

[thediktatortot]

There's literally nothing better about something that just makes an entire room laugh harder and harder with every moment. No words, no explinations, no one talking, just pure laughter.

[guerrillatech]

[glamourweaver]

I seriously blame the environmental movement of the 70s-90s and it’s framing of the issue around nature as this delicate thing we need to protect because it’s precious and pretty, and not around “hey, you want mass famines and water-wars!? Because this is how you inflict mass famines and water-wars on humanity.”

[cisarovna]

[archaeo-geek]

I’ve read that Agatha said she loved being married to an archaeologist because the older she got, the more interesting he found her. And I think that is one of the best quotes about love that I have ever heard.

[dirtyriver]

[thoughtcascades]

Sleeping is a scam, I'm still tired.

[admiraltx]

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[battymoonflower7]

ID: Twitter thread by Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewwolrd_2 reading

When we say “crime is a social construct”, what we mean is that you as an individual, can go to jail for littering, but a corporation can poison the air, the soil, and the water of an entire town, and no one will go to jail.

Corporations want the advantages that come with “personhood”, like being able to bribe and lobby politicians, but they don’t want the responsibilities of personhood, like being held accountable for crimes. /End ID

[pangur-and-grim]

You're blog is so pure and cute... I love your cats.... tell them I love them for me and kiss them

[pangur-and-grim]

oh my god they changed their blog url so now it seems like im being needlessly antagonistic