Cosmic-Elementalist

Old Gods still live in our spirits and our powers are begging to be woken!

[archatlas]

Fairlytale Scandinavian Green Roofs

Scandinavians are serious about their green roofs. They’ve had them for a while now and it doesn’t look like they’re going anywhere. They even have a competition every year to determine the best green roof project in Scandinavia by the Scandinavian Green Roof Association! But there is a reason why Scandinavians like these green roofs so much… They are not only a beautiful feature for a house, but they also offer numerous social, environmental and financial benefits. They absorb rainwater, reduce winter heating costs, reduce summer air-conditioning costs, provide insulation, and are long lasting - just to name a few.

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[nature-punks]

Instead of endless wastelands of mowed grass lawns, consider:

[sophist-sophia]

😍

[dvar-trek]

this only works in places with lots of rain, a temperate summer, and a nice cold winter. like England. or Michigan.

[star-anise]

True! Unless you can find an economical way to irrigate, more appropriate lawn alternatives in hotter, more arid places might lean more to prairie meadows using local grasses and wildflowers:

Or, they might mean doing classic landscaping, but with rocks and xeriscape plants:

Or having a cactus garden:

There are lots of exciting possibilities once you throw the classic turf lawn out the window!

[lenorestreetgarden]

My sister’s terrarium garden is one of the loveliest things I’ve ever seen.

Photos by Heidi.

[pastelparrotlet]

Try stuff. Put plants in your room even if you aren’t the best at caring for them. Attempt that dessert recipe even if it turns out ugly. Listen to that music you’ve been meaning to try for a while. The world is full of infinite sources of goodness and the best thing to do it to try and find as many as possible.

[left-reminders]

Down the drain: Wisconsin dairy farmers told to dump milk because of an oversupply in the market

A West Bend farm says it was told to start dumping tens of thousands of gallons of milk per day because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

'It's discouraging for dairy farmers:' Coronavirus' economic impact on Wisconsin

With the first case of coronavirus confirmed in Wisconsin, the impacts could extend further than just health.

This is capitalism's vast irrationality and inhumanity in action. Markets and The Economy™ matter more to capitalism than the concrete distribution of resources according to tangible human need.

Resources exist in abundance -- give them to people. Housing sits empty -- give it to people. The rules of the feast table should apply to our economic system -- no one gets seconds until everyone has gotten a plate.

We stand at a crossroads in these chaotic times: socialism or barbarism! The ruling class repeatedly chooses the latter. We need to organize and choose the former!

[goawfma]

public should absolutely be free

[jackironsides]

Funny, I’ve seen cities say they want to reduce congestion introduce (or attempt to introduce) taxes for driving your car in the centre of town, but I’ve NEVER seen the suggestion that we just make public transport free. Just imagine. Imagine how much more effective that would be than a congestion tax.

[happifying-things]

[blizzardofjj]

someone doesnt want to face the day

[the-mighty-birdy-deactivated202]

This is a mood

[cosmic-elementalist]

Mood

[not-annefrankjuulpod]

[kompanie-mutter-deactivated2021]

https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/17/21184308/coronavirus-italy-medical-3d-print-valves-treatments

I looked up the article since this screenshot didn't name the company and an update as of 5:30 on 3/18/20 clarifies that they didn't actually receive legal threats - they called the company, which is called Intersurgical, and an operator said he couldn't give them the files to print the valves because they were company property. So they had to reverse-engineer it themselves, but it doesn't sound like they actually received legal threats.

The company's managing director also clarified that they couldn't supply the manufacturing details due to medical manufacturing regulations, that the part itself is sold for a few euros and it's the whole system that costs $11,000, and that their company in Italy has supplied many of these for free already.

Volunteers produce 3D-printed valves for life-saving coronavirus treatments

The 3D printed valves have saved 10 patients so far.

[ksylofonimandariini]

[handsometruth]

[reasonandempathy]

Coronavirus Insights

[quivoloesse]

hello beautiful people!

i will be taking free 1-2 card readings for the next day or so, using my The Wild Unknown tarot deck! send your questions to my inbox with your initials and/or sun & moon signs.

please bear in mind i do not answer:

questions pertaining to medical or legal matters

timing questions

questions involving deities

questions involving third parties

please feel free to tip/donate through my Kofi! you’re most certainly not obliged to though 💞

thank you for your time & blessed be!

- quiv 🌻

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[quivoloesse]

if you’re a follower of mine or a mutual, do you think you could please reblog this?

COVID-19 has caused me to lose work like a lot of other people for the time being & the potential for something to do to keep me distracted as well as to make up some money I’ve lost via donations would be greatly appreciated. thank you. - quiv

[bookmania]

While millions of people are staying home to reduce the spread of COVID-19, Scribd is making our digital library of ebooks and audiobooks free for everyone: scribd.com/readfree 

🤩T A G G I N G E V E R Y O N E🤩  

[cuddleshock]

FREE EBOOKS???

[greystravels]

Americans, please sign this petition and contact your representatives against the EARNIT Act, which bans encryption and tries to interfere with freedom of expression. They US already uses the NSA to watch everything on the internet, now they’re trying make us all into criminals for our apps using encryption to safekeep our passwords.

The NSA wants to be able to read inside all the encrypted stuff they previously have not been able to read. The government is trying to pass it through now while the world is distracted with the corona virus pandemic.

The EFF has made a tool that will do the work of talking to your representatives for you. Click the links below, and please do copy and paste this everywhere, the EARNIT Act has not been showing up in the news due to corona virus.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/reject-earn-it-act-s-3398-which-threatens-free-speech-encryption-privacy-and-nations-cybersecurity

https://act.eff.org/action/protect-our-speech-and-security-online-reject-the-graham-blumenthal-bill

[pinetreeanarchism]

This is just unbridled, mask-off evil. And sneaking it through during a pandemic no less.

PLEASE fill out these two tools.

[naturalcottage]

Enjoying the sunshine and warmth, wearing long cotton dresses, growing flowers, walking a lot, taking care of plants, listening to the birds singing and preparing dishes for closest friends.

[glumshoe]

Frankly I don’t see the point in fussing over the precise gender identities of historical figures and what they would hypothetically describe themselves as were they alive today. They’re not fictional characters—they’re dead people whose opinions on a continuously evolving topic are largely unknowable, but are part of a shared history nonetheless.

For example, whether a historical figure lived secretly as a man because she was a woman in a society where that was her only option to actually do the things she wanted to do, or because he was just more comfortable that way and wanted to be recognized as a man... how can we know? How can we determine that it was not both? How can we look back through history to a world so different from ours and come to conclusions about things that are often complicated and indistinct in our own time?

I just don’t see what is accomplished by trying to sort and separate trans history from GNC history based on factors we can’t truly be certain of. In an earlier generation, I think I may have lived and presented quite differently based on the choices available to me and the ease with which I may have pursued them. The world changes so much in so many ways and I can barely make sense of myself in my own time—it seems more practical to simply say, “Ah. Relatable. I can see much of myself in the record of your life.” and leave it at that. Our history is cultural, not ancestral, and in a hundred years we may be the source of just as much confusion and consternation even if we believe ourselves clear today.

[turingtestworkaround]

This reads like a cis person finding out that trans people have always existed throughout history, and would like us to stop reminding them of it.

[glumshoe]

That’s nice, but no. I’m a non-binary person tired of all the infighting over who is “allowed” to see their experiences reflected in the lives of historical figures. Trans people have always existed, but it is nearly impossible to conclusively determine exactly how long-dead individuals would have chosen to define themselves by today’s standards, because most of them lived in a world quite different from our own, driven by motives that aren’t as obvious to us now, and may have had quiet personal feelings they kept to themselves that might surprise us today. I suspect that some of them felt much like I do—unable to identify their location precisely on a contemporary gender map, and not really interested in trying.

I think the vicious intracommunity tug-of-war over whether individuals were binary trans men, trans masculine non-binary people, or who women who were butch or GNC or simply preferred to live as men for practical or professional reasons is stupid. I would bet my life that in a game of “guess my gender”, we would guess incorrectly as often as we were right, or be confounded by the answers we got. I think it is probably better to think of historical LGBTQ people as further back on a phylogenic tree—common cultural ancestors, more or less, though not necessary an exact match to how we have branched off and how we think of ourselves today.

We should use the pronouns and language that the people used for themselves in their time, but this attitude of “you can’t look at this person as part of your own cultural forebearers because they were definitely A instead of B”—this sense of exclusive ownership over people who can’t speak for themselves in the context of modernity—helps no one. We cannot carve historical LGBTQ identities at the joints and perfectly ascribe modern taxonomy, which is itself imperfect.

[the-moon-loves-the-sea]

!!!

Also in the New York Times and the Guardian. Article with no paywall here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/14/anti-inflammatory-drugs-may-aggravate-coronavirus-infection.

Anti-inflammatories may aggravate Covid-19, France advises

French minister says patients should take paracetamol rather than ibuprofen or cortisone

[cosmic-elementalist]

Ibuprofen and other widely used non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs inhibit antibody production in human cells

The widely used non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) function mainly through inhibition of cyclooxygenases 1 and 2 (Cox-1 and Cox-

It is true that there is no evidence specifically related to COVID-19, but there are plenty of reasons that NSAIDs should not be a first resort to pain associated with any flu symptoms.

There are plenty of ways to boost the immune system if you are taking NSAIDs regularly - immunoregulators and immunomodulators exist in abundance. Always check for side effects for your personal condition, and stay strong! 💪🏻💪🏽💪🏿

[natureisthegreatestartist]