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*Traces my hand along the surface of a grassy park lawn that was clearly wetland many years ago due to how it floods with water every year* Who did this to you….

takingoffmyshoes

they told me not to get lost in the weeds, but these are lush, beautiful, and ecologically necessary native plants so it's probably fine

longsightmyth

Me, turning an interrogation lamp onto an author's face: what did you say this place was

Author, squinting: a marsh

Me, somehow turning up the intensity of the lamp: Then answer me this: WHY DOES IT HAVE TREES

becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys

Author, tearfully: b-because of a century or more of mis-management and agricultural drainage resulting in successional creep to willow carr

unpickled-olive-deactivated2025

all the food classification discourse is phenotype-based and no more sophisticated than ancient greek zoology.

"pizza is a flat bread with toppings baked on"?

let me guess: you define a man as a featherless biped, don't you plato?

no, we need the taxonomical model. food evolves and adapts and descends. it fills niches that cause it to diverge from its ancestors and converge with other, unrelated species. unlike most animals, food is capable of horizontal gene transfer, making taxonomical divisions less linear.

american pizza (Focaccius rotunda) is descended from an italian baked flatbread dish. deep dish pizza (F. r. patina) is a subspecies of american pizza which evolved in the american midwest. it is taxonomically unrelated to common species of casserole in the area (and casserole is not a taxonomic category but a polyphleytic grouping, much like fish and crabs)

unpickled-olive-deactivated2025

"sushi is a burrito" yeah and a bat is a bird.

unpickled-olive-deactivated2025

hotdog is actually genetically in the ramen clade for reasons scientists don't understand yet

tinyyellowflowers-blog

YES EXACTLY that’s why cheesecake and baklava are sister pastries, due to their descent from placenta.

donesparce

you dont need the butter pillow you dont need the butter pillow you dont need the butter pillow

donesparce

all i'm getting from the tags and replies on this post is the butter pillow has cast a devious spell on most of you. you have fallen for the trap of the butter pillow.

donesparce

how easily the human will crumples in the face of the butter pillow

bats-online

reasons to switch from the automobile to the helicopter as society's main mode of transportation

it is dramatically more complicated and will make transit harder

many more fatalities will occur

offering the required training will cost us unfathomably

everywhere would be insanely loud 24/7

500% increase in fossil fuel emissions

you can rappel out of them

gaymolegaming

dragon-in-a-fez

thinking about the time some terf dipshit on twitter said "you weirdos will be saying TREES are a social construct next" and I got nerdsniped and waded in like "trees ARE a social construct. there is no fundamental binary characteristic that separates trees from other plants" and well, I'll spare you the details but the conversation ended with the dipshit yelling "PALM TREES HAVE WOOD" which is hilarious because "wood" actually does have a pretty unambiguous, binary definition and palms in fact do not qualify

parakavka

Transdimensional Beast

56kilobits

i've been obsessed with this video so i downloaded the video file off of youtube so even if the internet goes down i can always watch frogtimelapse.mp4

organicclownfarm

I love dandelions as a symbol of resilience. You're going to get through this 🌻💝

available on redbubble

drumlincountry

If your life is horrible and you need a new source of meaning and direction.... Do NOT find religion. Learn to identify plants.

skyrim-forever

Me to me when I repeat past mistakes when I know better

corrodedparadox

Something’s wrong with my dog I think it’s gay

the-polyhedron

You just hate me because I have more iNat observations than you. You’re seething with jealousy over my research grade mountain chickadee. Positively malding over my white-fringed weevil. Tearing your hair out over my mule deer. God it’s really over for you. Idiot.