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Engineering teams around the world have been attempting to develop new methods of seawater desalination.
Scientists in China have developed a more efficient form of solar desalination that uses 47.4% less energy than alternatives. After the first year of testing, the scientists believe that at scale it would be able to desalinate water more cheaply than producing bottled water.
The goal is now to scale the technology for use in coastal areas and islands experiencing water insecurity.
kink: deleting someone’s pointless comment by reblogging the post from the same person they did
I mean, that’s censorship but okay.
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I miss my leeches for all the normal pet reasons but I also miss being able to use them as a one-hit death blow to end stupid conversations. Whenever I defend the ecological importance of parasites someone will inevitably crawl up and go “well I bet you wouldn’t feel that way if you had them” and oooooo boy let me tell you. It was so fun to hit back with “I DO” and then whip out my phone and show them 30 pictures of my fucking Worms
“And what about parasite-borne illnesses? You wouldn’t be defending ticks if you got a disease from them”
GUESS AGAIN MOTHERFUCKER
I myself have been homeless. Car camped. I can share a few things that can make that time easier.
This is a good good list that unfortunately a lot of people need right now.
Good tips. I can vouch for many of these. Here are a couple more that have worked for me (U.S.-based): - Get on food stamps before you are actually homeless, if you can. It’s just less complicated that way, but I have also had good luck just being very straightforward with DHS about my situation. - The article talks about not paying for storage – I really think your mileage may vary on that one. I paid for a cheap storage unit that I split with my sister for a couple years. If you really do have things of value that you want to keep, I say do it if you can find a cheap unit. ALSO, I have low-key stayed in my storage unit. You can’t do it for long, and depending on the place, it can be sketchy, but it can be done. - National parks and Forest Service campsites. Yeah there is definitely the whole day-use only thing but there are some that aren’t monitored. They often have bathrooms, and for me, it sometimes felt way safer being away from people. - Hook up with your local Food Not Bombs. It’s usually really good food and run by folks who are used to working outside the system. You might be able to make friends and score a place to live or stay. - When I knew that I wasn’t going to be able to afford rent for the foreseeable future, I bought myself a cheap travel trailer. 600 bucks and I’ve lived in it for almost five years now. Friends are way more likely to let you live indefinitely in their driveway or on their land than endlessly crashing on their couch. I do work-trade or pay what I can for utilities. If your car can’t haul it (mine can’t), rent a U-Haul truck for a day to get it where you need it to be. Obviously this requires some cash, but if you can swing it, it can really save your ass in the long run. - Make a plan for bad weather – heat waves and cold snaps can kill. Heat is worse for me where I live, so I make sure to have a list of spots I can escape to. This is where those national parks can sometimes come in handy, but also think about overpasses, city parks with lots of shade, abandoned buildings. Know where your local cooling/warming shelters are. Keep some money stashed away if you can to pay for cheap motel rooms during the worst weather. If you can split the cost of a room with friends, even better. - Have a few strategically stashed canisters of mace or pepper spray. - But at the same time, look out for each other. You don’t have to become bosom buddies with everyone else on the street, but treating each other like humans is both good for your mental and emotional health and also you’ll find that people are often really amazingly generous with their resources and knowledge.
Good advice. Storage is also one of those thing that a friend might be able to help you with. Cheap storage options are often damp or not as secure as you’d like. That might be a bad place to put your childhood photo albums, electronics, important paperwork, favorite dress, those expensive shoes you bought once… If a friend is willing to store a few boxes of stuff, at least you know those things are safe and dry.
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The addition is ALSO really good
Moomin enjoyers could get so much more out of the stories if everyone stopped cutesy-fying them so much. This is something I have a strong opinion on. Everyone seems to focus on "aw fluffy little nice creatures" and "Moomin and Snufkin are in love" which YES they are. Obviously. All of that is true.
But the original Moomin stories are undeniably dark. They're often about being sad and depressed and so, so lonely, about looking for a home, about never feeling fully understood, about growing up and having flawed parents. About never being fully able to understand some people. Moominpappa at Sea, the whole Groke situation, Moominland Midwinter, the last few Moomin books in general. The Hattifattener's whole deal. Their world is full of sad and strange things. It's just also about seeing the fun and feeling love in a world like that.
I think the average Tumblr user would love the Moomins even more if everyone stopped pretending that they're Disney-type creatures, and instead embrace the incredible Finland-Swedish weirdness. Tumblr I know you love weird stuff! Get into the strange side of the Moomins!
Also Tove Jansson would be on my side here. She was so annoyed by the Moomins getting commercialised and twisted by everyone. I enjoy a pretty Arabia Moomin mug as much as the next person. I love the wholesomeness of these stories, too, and I don't want to tell you how to enjoy these books. Keep a place in your heart for the darkness in these stories, is what I'm saying. You might love them even more if you do that.
I remember one of the books, Comet in Moominland, was about a giant meteor coming to kill everyone and trying to prepare for certain doom. I was like "Damn, this is heavy, I wonder what inspired this??" It was published in 1946, shortly after the invention of the nuclear bomb, so I do wonder if that's the connection. I actually thought it was published later during the Cold War because the book would be very relatable to anyone who did bomb drills hiding under their school desks.
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To the witches who work with wild plants & herbs, where did you learn what is and isn't acceptable forage?
I saw a post about dandelions that listed a bunch of uses in spells & recipes whilst also talking about how good they were for pollinators 🐝
When is a pollinator-friendly flower acceptable to pick?
Is it just the weeds?
This is a good question to ask. The last thing anyone should be doing is over harvesting.
What is acceptable to forage can depend where you are (laws and by-laws), how common the plant is and if it is a protected species or not.
Law aside, is there a lot of the plant? Are there dozens of dandelions or are you taking some of the blossoms from a big tree and leaving plenty for others? That should be fine. Does it repeat flower if you pick some? How does the environment look? Are there lots of the flowers, and (hopefully) different flowers that provide pollen over time?
It's not just the pollinators that need the flowers, the seeds need to spread and things that have gone to seed or fruit can feed a lot of wildlife (or people).
Never strip an area completely and only taking a quarter to a third of whatever it is is a good rule to stick to. The same with fruit or seeds in the wild. (I even leave some currants on the bushes in my garden as a "share" for the birds.)
Happy foraging.
Thank you, this is some really good advice ❤️
There are some really good books about foraging in the US in specific areas, they will tell you not only how to harvest thoughtfully, but also what the plants will do, how to prepare them for making herbal remedies, and (when necessary) which ones LOOK like the one you want but are poisonous. I have a couple of the "Medicinal Plants" series from Timber Press, they're really good.
I'm not in the US but I'll have to see if there is anything like that for the UK 👀
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Every time I argue with someone about the "virtues" of mob justice and how often it's weaponized against marginalized men especially as an excuse to commit acts of extreme violence against them for literally no reason, the person arguing for mob justice simply refuses to acknowledge it. I can give so many names and examples of people who were falsely accused of crimes and then nrutally murdered by the community, by people who genuinely thought that they were in the right, and it just does not get through to the other person at all. They always think that somehow, magically, their version of mob justice will be free of biases and bigotry and no one innocent will ever be harmed.
What's especially chilling is when the people arguing in favor of that kind of violence don't even realize when they're someone who would very easily become a victim of it.
Me: Here is a list of marginalized men who were kidnapped, tortured, mutilated, and murdered because of false accusations thrown at them based in hate and bigotry.
Person: And that sucks and it's a real shame but that just means that we need to be stricter about community justice and make sure that the accusations are actually true.
Me: You mean like in a fucking trial? In a courtroom? Handled by trained professionals and using actual evidence with a thorough investigation? The literal complete opposite of what you're advocating for???
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I was lying in the leaf litter today when some moss spoke to me. "Excuse me, do you know the species of this fallen log beneath me?" asked the moss. "Hmm. No. Sorry, I'm a little fuzzy on logs," I said. "What a coincidence," said the moss. "I'm a little fuzzy on logs too."
girl who sat next to me at the coffee shop had that Tortured By Computer Work look in her eye so i turned to her and was like Are u doing research? and it turns out she (white) just started working as an indigenous liaison for an ecological wellness surveying company (hired bc she worked with the local nation for a year) so i was like OMG can i share resources with you. and whipped out my 1 million notes and academic papers on ethical Indigenous-settler relations/research and Indigenous perspectives on ecological restoration. she was like omg are u sure this is basically a whole course for free and i wanted to tear my shirt off liek YES!!!! I WANT TO PROMOTE LOW BARRIER EDUCATION TO ADVANCE DECOLONIZATION AND RECONCILIATION!!!!!!!!!!! STEP IN2 MY GOOGLE DOC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
here's a googoodrive folder containing learnings on Experiential Learning in Ecological Restoration annnddd Research Practice in Indigenous Contexts. each course folder contains a "![Course number] Notes" document as well as PDFs of all the text-based readings that the notes draw from :-)
i plan 2 make accessible the learnings from my other classes too but i think ill only have time to do all that anonymizing & reformatting once i graduate in a few months lol
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I guess I've made my point well enough but at times like these what I remember is the Iraq war, specifically that while what is emphasized so often is the brutality of it and how it was waged just for oil, but I think portraying the US as this all-powerful, implacable bandit on the world stage is a form of usamerican propaganda in itself. Instead, what I think of are the results.
Did the US actually end up getting Iraq's oil? Well, not really. They planned to privatize the state oil company but the intensity of the insurgencies in the wake of the fall of the Baathist state immediately forced usamerican planners to contend with the political impossibility of such a thing. Did they change Iraq into a staunch usamerican ally? No. The US still maintains a presence in the country by force but they're hated throughout the political spectrum and at most tolerated on a temporary basis. By contrast the country who gained the most geopolitically from the usamerican war on Iraq was, in fact, Iran.
These people in their offices in Langely, they're capable of marshalling lots of resources, yes, they're good at dropping lots of bombs and killing lots of people, yes, but remember that they are not actually very good at actually winning and bending the world to their will, and they've arguably been getting worse at it every year since the 80s, or even from their retreat in disgrace from Vietnam. Mao wasn't kidding or showing a strong face when he said the imperialist powers were paper tigers. The US can be fought and beaten, and in fact it loses more often than it wins. You've Gotta get out of this defeatist frame of mind.
Whoever made you think you'd get teased for not drinking alcohol at parties was lying. You're their new supreme. You can go pick up more snacks. You can take care of the fallen. You can talk to the cops. If you have a car, you can drive people home.
In movies they always portray the sober person as a nerd but it's more like being a priest. Your lack of engagement in the carnal realities of the party makes you holy and powerful. You are a vital pillar of the community. A rock in a raging storm. Now go answer the door for the pizza man.
One time I was the only sober person at a party and I was wearing a priest outfit (I got an incredible deal on it secondhand) and even without the vestments it's amazing what people will tell you. If you ARE wearing clerical costume? They will actually try to get you to take their confessions. It's amazing.
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