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Hogan McLaughlin

Fern Diversity: The Fern Tree of Life

Conjure an image of a fern in your mind. What is likely to fill the space is a large, lacy frond, illuminated by dappled light in a damp forest understory. You may also have been transported back in time millions of years ago, to a prehistoric landscape shrouded with ferns and dinosaurs. We often think of ferns as old, shade-loving, understory plants in temperate forests. While the lineage dates back 400 million years, and while many ferns do occupy such a niche, this evolutionary and ecological pigeonhole couldn’t be further from the truth. Ferns are not hanging on by a thread in refugial environments — they are an evolutionary success story, persisting and diversifying into one of the most species-rich and biologically diverse groups of vascular plants, just behind the angiosperms. In this primer, I will expound on their evolutionary history, species richness, and modern ecological diversity, highlighting what they are and how they came to be.

Read here: Ferns: Current Biology

liberalsarecool

Israel holds the cards. They have the Epstein blackmail details on Trump.

Most elected Republicans are on the same boat. You can't get that level of subordination to a much smaller country without some sort of extortion. Robert Maxwell and Ghislaine Maxwell made their fortunes blackmailing.

You do not infiltrate without the goods.

jareckiworld

Tuesday Riddell — Mushrooms, Ferns and Raindrops (23.5 karat gold leaf, silver leaf, gold & silver powder, pigment and paint, on lacquered board, 2025)

liberalsarecool

It's simple, Darlene will serve white supremacy. She gets an automatic double standard.

richardburbagehateblog

"All drugs are drugs" = a surprisingly radical position that will upset people right across the political spectrum

This means:

If you draw a hard line between "drug" and "medicine" based on current legality where you live (or any other criteria) you've gone wrong somewhere,

If you think legality and/or prescription status tells you all you need about a substance's capacity to do massive harm to someone's body, mind or well-being you've gone wrong somewhere,

If you think legality and/or prescription status tells you all you need about a substance's capacity to contribute meaningfully to someone's healing, function or happiness you've gone wrong somewhere,

If you think certain substances should be excluded from informed consent (either withheld or forcibly administered) you've gone wrong somewhere.

hempseeeeds

it's good for everyone's perspective about Drugs, and ability to reason, to research the ways in which various foreign countries that one considers to be culturally Not THAT much different from one's own, age-restrict caffeine and Alcohol differently, and how they treat Melatonin, and how much Ibuprofen is considered One Dose.

the-pen-pot

AO3 SCAM

There's been a number of people reporting over on the AO3 subreddit that they're getting messages like this posted in the comments shortly after posting new fics.

The AO3 team are NEVER going to try and contact you about TOS violations via the comment section (or about anything else for that matter)

Don't click any links. Report the accounts involved (which might claim to be things like "LucySupport"), delete the message and move on.

✨Signal boost if you can!✨

stargatevp

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!!!SIGNAL BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOST!!!

piranesies

they should invent putting on sunscreen that doesn't feel like putting on sunscreen

depsidase

theaceofwords

It's called the Global Justice Report, it is here. This is an actionable plan which can be sent to legislators and demanded of political parties. We could save the world within our lifetimes.

It has always been possible. It is still possible.

depsidase

tyronepowerbottom

couldn't sleep, so I put on an episode of Twin Peaks................... um

it actually is Thursday the 23rd

ralfmaximus

Happy Thursday the 23rd to those who celebrate

aromanticduck

Free service with ads: Well, if I'm not paying for it they have to foot the bill somehow.

Paid service with no ads: Well, if they're not funding it with ad revenue, they need to charge us something.

Paid service with ads: Well that's bullshit.

"We used to be a paid service without ads, but now we're putting ads in it! If you want the ad-free version you have to pay more for preeeeemium": Fuck you fuck you fuck you

juststarsandthemoon

Free service with no ads: Okay so these guys are stealing my data

mistakenot4892

They're all stealing your data.

lyndiscealin

Free service, no ads, no data selling: Someone is sacrificing their mental and physiological health to keep this up, because everyone is treating it as if it was a billion dollar company with infinite resources.

hagiomoto

Israeli banks are planning to end services to Palestinian banks in the West Bank. They are the only means by which Palestinians in the West Bank can receive and transfer money internationally, and they also provide the system through which many Palestinians are paid. This is a disaster in the making.

Israeli banks have informed their Palestinian counterparts that they intend to end critical banking services within weeks, Israeli and Pales

deaddeerbody

Crimson Peak (2015) dir. Guillermo del Toro

behind the scenes

hope-for-the-planet

Move over, solar and wind. Thanks to new technologies, a “geothermal renaissance” is propelling green energy further than ever before.

As with other areas of renewable energy, advances in technology mean that the potential energy output and affordability of geothermal energy are rapidly increasing.

The new geothermal process used at the Newberry Volcano in Oregon produces ten times more energy than a traditional geothermal plant while requiring less than half the water and well drilling.

plantyhamchuk

Hey so this is kind of not related, but I read the other day that a lot of people working in the oil and gas industry in the US are losing their jobs. Companies are buying each other out and letting go of redundant staff. Apparently quite a few of the skills that some oil and gas workers have, such as the drilling stuff, transfer well over to geothermal. The big issue is that the people losing the jobs do not usually live anywhere near where the jobs are needed, but word is geothermal is currently booming and looking for skilled workers.