There is always hope.

Molly, 30, she/her. Conservation biologist studying native bees. Currently this blog is mostly Arcane (jayvik), Interview with the Vampire, and nature (birds, bugs). Tolkien, Our Flag Means Death, Star Trek (Garashir), Rammstein, WWDITS, Doctor Who, TAZ, Steven Universe, Good Omens, Gorillaz, and others can be expected periodically. I even write and draw sometimes!

[darknymfa-art]

Julaves day 16, rifleman/titipounamu. Female on the left, male on the right. Little round thingies.

[gaypeople]

i think they have a crush on each other

[zinjanthropusboisei]

Trump's HHS abandons threat to withhold Medicare and Medicaid funding over trans care

NPR has learned that the Department of Health and Human Services will not be finalizing its most aggressive attempt to end gender-affirming

"The Trump administration is abandoning its most aggressive attempt to end gender-affirming care for youth nationally, according to an official document obtained by NPR.

The document shows that the Department of Health and Human Services will not be finalizing a proposed rule that would have blocked all Medicaid and Medicare funding for hospitals that provide pediatric gender-affirming care."

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[aramblingjay]

loustat + benches

[amongthespaghetti]

okay i know we normally do this with more pop-focused festivals but i wanna see how many metalheads are on this site: how many groups do you recognize?

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1-10

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21-30

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100+

Voting ended onJul 3

(i recognized 64)

[throo]

Wh-what do you mean it’s from a birthday cake

[throo]

We could have been eating him

[greater-than-the-sword]

My toxic trait is that if I find a product I like I want to keep using the same product forever. It's not even brand loyalty. It's called stop changing and discontinuing everything.

[beardedmrbean]

Periscope up

[birds-in-posts]

Green heron (Butorides virescens)

[todaysbird]

I wanted to use what ‘reach’ I may have here to share the Carolina Wildlife Center’s urgent plea for donations. If they are unable to raise $75,000 to cover ongoing and future care of their wildlife patients, the center will have to close July 20th, 2026. The services provided by CWC to the community are incredibly valuable, and without them, many wild animals will suffer without the care they need.

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Link to donate

[leathery-wings]

Any donation amount above $5 gets a sketch/drawing- just show me the reciept!!!

[todaysbird]

This is so generous and an amazing deal!

[persisting]

This center is almost as old as I am and does amazing work in my home state. PLEASE consider donating.

[vexheart]

There is no amount of money, oil, or gold that is worth more than having bees, trees, and clean water.

[celebrinienjoyer]

i need to show you all something that made me crylaugh last night. just fucking look at them.

[amyourconscience]

[asgardian--angels]

Hope you enjoy your unemployment and get a new job once you find something great 💖💓💞

Aw, thanks! It would be so nice to have even just a few weeks off between jobs - probably won't happen, I'll either be heading to a new one right away or be unemployed for months, no in between haha. But I am looking forward to working with a new group of people, whoever they may be, and getting the heck out of this drab, morose city I've somehow spent seven years of my life in. I've missed my home state.

[asgardian--angels]

Hi. Back in November of 2024, I sent you a grief-fueled message where I pleaded with you for answers, for reassurance for the future.

I just wanted to say that, even with the disemboweling of the ESA, I am still here. I am working to become a field biologist. I have helped stop my friends and family members from using pesticides in sensitive areas. Those same family members now have fireflies and snails and baby birds. One of my friends’ yards had become a toad paradise! I am doing outreach and working in lab settings. I am still here, and I am gonna be here no matter what. I think about your words often, even as many of our worst-case scenarios come to pass.

I’m sad, so so sad. But I keep going anyway. There will be an earth at the end of this, and every small step means another species makes it through this evil hateful bottleneck.

(Seriously, thank you for your inspiring words and all the work you do. All in this together high school musical style)

Hey there! Wow, thank you for the kind words, I'm touched that something I said meant enough to spur you on. That's so great to hear that you're pushing ahead in this field. It can certainly be difficult to find not just the optimism, but the courage, in a way, to keep doing what we do every day knowing the forces at play against us and how it feels sometimes like we're running to stay in place. But every single person in the conservation field matters - there's only one of us each for probably millions of people who don't care and don't do anything to help. That means every single person who pursues this as a career, volunteers, or even just plants a garden makes a noticeable difference - the one meadow among the HOA cookie cutter lawns!

As gut-wrenching as each day's news can be to some extent I have to put the blinders on and just keep doing my job. They could take away the ESA but they can't take away my gardens, nor the inspiration I have given to others through my outreach. We don't know what the big picture will be in the end, if we did enough - but I count my successes not just in whole species saved but in every single bee, or caterpillar, or songbird, that I have been able to give a home to. When we flip horseshoe crabs on the beach we don't know if it makes a difference for the population - though I like to think it does. But it does make a difference for that horseshoe crab. And that inherent kindness and respect for other living things is what drives me to do this work. As long as there's people out there that share that, then it's worth it to get up every day and keep fighting. Because just as there's only a small percentage of us that are conservationists, there's also a very small percentage of people that are truly wretched and want to watch the world burn for money in the bank. The good will of many will prevail, especially if we can keep inspiring others to our cause. All we can do is do all we can.

[mymycorrhizae]

NEVER SAY NEVER DANIEL

[submersero]

[leweinstein]

The vibe he gives when he delivers this line.

[inthetags]

Reblog and put in the tags which bands/artists you've listened to the most, lately