ever learning

26, Djabugay Country, scientist.

[m-ushroomtale]

fish in a wooden box (bilibili)

[ryan-sometimes]

Brazil memes are always strange and cryptic but my favourite one of 2021 was when we just started putting bird noises over random shit. Like this news program

[keeskiwi]

OP I am literally begging you for more examples because I cannot Deal with this.

[nae-design]

Cutest autumn/winter leaf origami by Inori

[dduane]

Leaf birbs

[uninterruptednonsense]

@apteryxrowi

[fuckyeahasexual]

Hey, wanted to share this since doctors are saying it’s time to double mask (with a surgical and filtered cotton mask) or K95 (or the similar high grade medical masks) now. 😷

I’ve never used surgical masks during the past 2 years because they don’t fit tight on my face. But you can fix surgical masks if they don’t fit securely!!

I literally had to try it out at home to see and it makes such a huge difference on the fit.

[violetsandshrikes]

fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you

FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU

SIGN THE PETITION HERE ASKING THE MINISTER OF CONSERVATION TO BAN NEW MINES ON CONSERVATION LAND!

[violetsandshrikes]

@kiwibes it’s got options for submissions from different countries, and from what I can tell, signatures from overseas are fine! Archey’s are very endangered and very unique so international input can easily be argued from that angle as well!

[bogleech]

[madmaudlingoes]

It’s not just that the leaves will break down on their own (and enrich the soil while they’re at it!). During the winter, all sorts of insects use leaf litter for shelter, and they’re the first food available to larvae in early spring. Leaves also insulate the plants under them during the winter, which is important if you’re in an area prone to frost heaving.

One of the best thing you can do for native pollinators in your area is Leave the Leaves!

[probablyasocialecologist]

Indigenous resistance has cut U.S. and Canada's annual emissions

A new study shows indigenous resistance cut emissions by at least 25%.

Indigenous-led resistance to 21 fossil fuel projects in the U.S. and Canada over the past decade has stopped or delayed an amount of greenhouse gas pollution equivalent to at least one-quarter of annual U.S. and Canadian emissions.

This is despite an onslaught of attacks against Indigenous activists over the past few years. Over the last few years, victories won against projects through direct actions have led to more than 35 states enacting anti-protest laws, jail time for protestors, thousands of dollars of fines, and even the killing of prominent activists.

Indigenous rights and responsibilities “are far more than rhetorical devices — they are tangible structures impacting the viability of fossil fuel expansion.” Through physically disrupting construction and legally challenging projects, Indigenous resistance has directly stopped projects expected to produce 780 million metric tons of greenhouse gases every year and is actively fighting projects that would dump more than 800 million metric tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere every year.

The analysis, which used publicly released data and calculations from nine different environmental and oil regulation groups, found that roughly 1.587 billion metric tons of annual greenhouse gas emissions have been halted. That’s the equivalent pollution of approximately 400 new coal-fired power plants — more than are still operating in the United States and Canada — or roughly 345 million passenger vehicles — more than all vehicles on the road in these countries.

“From an Indigenous perspective, when we are confronting the climate crisis we are inherently confronting the systems of colonization and white supremacy as well,” Goldtooth said. “In order to do that, you have to reevaluate how you relate to the world around you and define what your obligations are to the world around you. It’s more than just stopping fracking development and pipelines and it’s more than just developing clean energy, it’s about actually fundamentally changing how we see the world itself.”

[anarchopuppy]

If you want to lessen climate change, this is the way to do it

And the Wet’suwet’en people need your help right now

[todaysbird]

THIS IS THE FUTURE LIBERALS WANT

[as-warm-as-choco]

[gncrevan]

[Caption: four pictures of mushrooms that are growing in a way that makes them look like 1. fingers reaching up from under a fallen tree, 2. screaming mouths or beaks on a branch, 3. outer ears breaking through bark, 4. a hand coming out of the ground.]

[apteryxrowi]

The second image does not depict mushrooms, but rather a fruiting "cone" of a species of Banksia (an Australian genus in the family Proteaceae). Identification can be further solidified by the presence of a Leptomyrmex sp. ant in the image - this genus is almost entirely restricted to wet forest and sclerophyll habitats in Australia and a handful of near islands.

The dark colours of this "cone" are evidence of fire. Many Banksia are well adapted to bushfires, and survive due to thick, indicative bark or by re-sprouting from lignotubers after fire. Further, all Banksia species are serotinous (to some extent): fire triggers the opening of woody follicles and the release of seeds. The seeds, protected from herbivory before the fire in their strong cases, are then able to grow and flourish in a competitor-free landscape where other small plants have just been burned.

In the above image, the scorched, empty follicles bear evidence to this process.

Update - the original photo was taken by Simone Walsh in the Blue Mountains area, New South Wales, and the artist identifies the Banksia (although incorrectly identifies the ant as a 'red bull ant').

[mapsontheweb]

This year’s winner of the Student Map and Poster Competition for Cartographic Design is Jo Hannah Asetre from Macquarie University, for their map “Australia’s Meteorite Impacts”.

by @NACIS

[flowerinaflame]

[bogleech]

This is the funniest and most thoughtful I’ve ever seen an organization use a meme and it’s good people with good goals who don’t just want your money on top of it

[imnotoverlyobsessive]

For those of you who aren’t aware the Monterey Bay Aquarium is actually a really cool place!

• they are non-profit

• they have a living kelp forest!

• it focuses on local ocean wildlife

• they were the first aquarium to get a great white shark to eat and they are the only public aquarium to display a great white shark for more than sixteen days

• they have a seafood watch program where they promote sustainable seafood

• they are actively fighting against ocean pollution

So yeah support them, they’re awesome and I love them

[satan-666s-stuff]

They also have a tumblr @montereybayaquarium

[unlettered-heathen]

It looks like there’s-

there’s m-

there’s many bene-

[fanficswriter123]

There are many benefits to being a marine biologist

[guerrillatech]

[fanotastic]

[cardinalvalentino]

happy pride month to lgbt people who are really boring. we deserve love too

[cowpokeprose]

Hey, gay working class and gay rural interests, aesthetics, and culture belong within the wider LGBT+ community. Country music belongs in gay spaces. Camo and trucker caps and work boots belong in gay spaces. Trucks and doorless jeeps and shitty old beaters belong in gay spaces. GEDs and high school educations and blue collar jobs belong in gay spaces. Being broke and looking like shit belongs in gay spaces. The community isn’t owned by the wealthiest San Fransisco and New York gay-geoisie. Their interests, appearances, and beliefs do not define queerness. 

[cowpokeprose]

Me: It’s important to remember to be inclusive of gay people from rural backgrounds.

Parts of Tumblr.com: I have literally never heard of classism and thus have no frame of reference for the idea that I should be nice to people with stereotypically low class interests and so I will make fun of those interests now. 

Me: Ah so I see I have overshot where y’all are at

[fluffy-flock]

Everyone in the notes: Yas! I love farms! Love them chickens, farm core is my life!

Bitch we all know you like farm asthetique. What we want is support for the Actual rural southern queer community. The trailer park/pre-used prefab queers. The ones who are never going to get more than a 10th grade education and work dirty blue collar jobs with hard labor. And remember that this whole ass time we often have to lie about who we are so we can keep the shitty hard labor jobs that fuck up our bodies. And remember that these communities are also black and Hispanic communities?? I see y'all in the notes “this is so white, this is so white” like the entire South isn’t full of poc and queer poc who struggle even harder because of all this??

Broke: everyone in the rural south is white homophobic racists

Woke: the rural south has large populations of queer poc who get no support and no acknowledgement within broader queer culture past the “gay cowboy” asthetic

[vintagehomecollection]

At one end of the keeping room, a library area houses 18th and 19th-century leather-bound cooks. Defining the space are an early 19th-century tavern table and pair of Windsor chairs set on a hooked rug made in the late 1800s.

American Country: The Country Home, 1988

[apteryxrowi]

Leather-bound cooks.

[myfairynuffstuff]

Henry Stacy Marks (1829 - 1898) - A Select Committee. 1891. Oil on canvas.