Florida Native

Although I do toss in the occasional random picture I try to keep this pertinent to Florida interests.

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[jeetsweepers]

Background paintings from Scooby-Doo, Where are You? (1969-1970)

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These are amazing!

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[thebestoftumbling]

so calm

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Who's at New York Comic Con this week?

Hit me up!

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Come see us at New York Comic Con booth 1168!

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Come see us at New York Comic Con booth 1168!

[thisbelongsinamuseum]

Ever try to fix a problem and it doesn’t work? Well, in the 1920s Richter Clyde Perky, the largest landowner in the Florida Keys, tried to do just that when it came to marsh mosquitoes. Supposedly there were so many of them back then that an entomologist caught a record-breaking 365,696 mosquitoes in one trap in one night. Um…that’s a lot. So in 1929 Perky dreamed up a way to get rid of the pesky insects by building a 30-foot-high unpainted bat tower down an unmarked dirt road in a quiet area of Sugarloaf Key. Believe it or not, bats cannot easily be relocated from one home to another so it was stocked with special bait, a mixture of bat guano with ground-up female bat sex organs. But unfortunately the bats never took to Perky’s tower. They simply flew off and never returned (or according to some, never migrated to begin with). But the tower survives, and today the bat tower is a beloved local landmark (while the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District does what the tower failed to do). You can say Perky was “batty” for building a useless tower, but at least he tried to do something to control the mosquito population. I probably would have just sat in a lawn chair complaining about the heat and the bugs. “Can’t somebody do something?”

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[realfloridaphoto]

Morning at the Bridge  of Lions

Saint Augustine, FL

[oldflorida]

FSU students tubing at Wakulla Springs, 1968

[oldflorida]

The Everglades is a test. If we pass it, we may get to keep the planet.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas, “Mother of the Everglades” (via oldflorida)

[capnloogie]

Thor makes for a creepy Pez dispenser

[factsinallcaps]

HARRIET TUBMAN ESCAPED FROM SLAVERY AND THEN WENT BACK TO GET OTHERS. LIKE, I KNOW YOU KNOW WHO HARRIET TUBMAN IS AND THAT SHE DID THAT, BUT I JUST WANT YOU TO TAKE THAT IN FOR A SECOND. 

HARRIET TUBMAN WAS HELD CAPTIVE AND BOUND TO UNPAID, BACK-BREAKING LABOR SINCE BIRTH UNDER PENALTY OF TORTURE OR DEATH. SHE MANAGED TO ESCAPE THAT LIFE, AND SHE TURNED THE FUCK AROUND AND WENT THE FUCK BACK TO GET EVERYONE ELSE WHO WAS STILL TRAPPED IN IT. AND THEN SHE DID IT AGAIN EIGHTEEN MORE TIMES.

WHEN ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS UNSURE WHETHER OR NOT HE WAS PREPARED TO MAKE A STAND AGAINST SLAVERY, HARRIET TUBMAN BASICALLY SAID HE SHOULD STOP BEING SUCH A DIAPER BABY AND THAT GUYS WHO ARE TOO SCARED TO END SLAVERY DON’T DESERVE TO WIN WARS.

NOT ONLY DID SHE SECRET OVER 300 SLAVES TO FREEDOM ON THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, BUT SHE ACTED AS A SPY FOR THE UNION ARMY DURING THE CIVIL WAR, AND BECAME THE FIRST WOMAN TO LEAD AN ARMED ASSAULT IN THE CIVIL WAR. THAT RAID BROUGHT FREEDOM TO OVER 700 SLAVES IN ONE GO.

SO I JUST WANT YOU TO STEW ON THAT FOR LIKE A MINUTE. ACTING IN THE SHADOWS, SHE WALKED INTO HELL ON EARTH 19 TIMES TO SAVE HER FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS FROM THE TORMENT SHE ENDURED, AND THE SECOND SHE WAS GIVEN EVEN A MODICUM OF POWER, SHE MANAGED TO FREE SEVEN HUNDRED SLAVES IN ONE DAY. 

I GUARANTEE, HOWEVER IMPRESSED YOU ALREADY ARE WITH HARRIET TUBMAN, YOU ARE FALLING LIKE AT LEAST 40% SHORT OF HOW IMPRESSED YOU SHOULD BE WITH HARRIET TUBMAN. SHE IS ONE OF THE BEST EXAMPLES OF BADASSERY IN THE ENTIRETY OF AMERICAN HISTORY. 

[vicecanada]

It’s Tiny Hamsters at a Mini Fourth of July BBQ! | VICE Canada | The Creators Project

[npr]

Because who doesn’t love tiny hamsters and tiny celebrations? -Ariel

[nubbsgalore]

the earth adorned in a phosphorescent crown of light, as supercharged plasma spewed from the sun smashes into the planet’s magnetosphere, exciting our atmosphere at the poles and generating up to a million megawatts of power in the process. photos by reid weisman and roscosmos from the international space station, which passes over the earth’s poles every ninety minutes. 

[npr]

Woahhh -Emily

[oldflorida]

The morally impoverished, politically challenged and environmentally benumbed state of Florida is once again standing in the news spotlight like a deer in the headlights of an oncoming Mack

[radio-active-records]

We love you Fort Lauderdale. #rsd15 #radioactiverecords (at Radio-Active Records)