evidence of you is in the street

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[1anonyymous1]

this app is literally my public private place to talk to myself

[what-even-is-thiss]

It’s crazy that countries on the edge of the Sahara desert are reversing desertification by just digging half circles

[what-even-is-thiss]

The ground in these places is too compact for water to soak in during wet season which leads to flooding but digging these holes gives the water a place to stop and soak in. And they’re pushing back the desert with this. By just digging holes.

[what-even-is-thiss]

The new plants also help even more water soak into the ground which reduces flooding even more.

These places also give people places to grow food and graze animals like people are turning completely dry compact desert into a refuge for wildlife and plants and solving regional food insecurity just by digging holes.

[untitledgoosegay]

Yacouba Sawadogo - Wikipedia

The half-circles are called zaï! They're a traditional farming practice in the Sahel desert, and their introduction + reintroduction can be largely credited to Yacouba Sawadogo, the man linked above! He reintroduced and innovated on the zaï on his own farm in the 1980s, and did extensive outreach (along with scientist Mathieu Ouédraogo) to encourage other farmers to adopt them as well.

He also promoted the use of cordons pierreux, which are basically just lines of rocks to reduce erosion, preserve sediments, and increase water absorption.

Immensely cool dude. He's been a personal hero since I learned about him.

[she-is-amused]

Ooooh, Mr. Sawadoga innovated the traditional zai method by adding manure and other biological matter to the holes! This put nutrients in the soil as well as helping even more with water retention and attracted termites whose tunnels helped loosen the compacted earth, all of which supported plant-growth like no zai before! Which increased water-retention even further! Oh excellent, excellent work!

[shannoneichorn]

It is a crime that the link preview doesn't show Mr. Sawadoga's face, so here's his photo from Wikipedia.

This is the face of a man adding beauty to the world and making the future better.

[crowns-of-violets-and-roses]

Discussions of trans women in sports often focus on elite/professional sports which honestly I find it hard to care about but the more common scenario of “we’re going to legally ban a high school girl from playing sports with her friends because she’s trans” is just profoundly evil

[coyotemocha]

tumblr staff thinking we blog with 2 hands

[wizard0rb]

what did we do to deserve portal 2. that shit was so good and for what

[wizard0rb]

we got to have this! we got to have a valve game set in the half life universe, and its an enemies-to-lovers-to-enemies-again sci fi comedy story about a homicidal ai created to run tests forever and the test subject she catches feelings for!! how is this game real!!!

[wizard0rb]

happy birthday to the only video game ever

[wizard0rb]

people still clown in the notes of this post so reminder that glados was gonna take you on a date and accuse you of cheating. shes not chells mom

[atramentumnoctis]

getting older and weirder and sexier and more perverted and gluttonous and intelligent and blunt and eloquent and spontaneous and skilled is literally what it's all about

[winonaparadise]

northernlion: charlie brown had hoes? no he didn't. no he fucking didn't. what are we doing here.

northernlion two weeks later: charlie brown kinda had the most hoes out of anyone in the sunday paper.

[squeakitties]

i make a lot of posts to the tune of "you're allowed to be horny btw" because it's becoming increasingly clear that adults being sexual in (clearly marked and blockable!) spaces is being stamped out and made out to be evil both legislatively and in the moral zeitgeist, especially among younger folks. not even in the "wait to be a horny adult online when you're An Adult" way, just an ingrained puritanical outrage response to *anything* that isn't chaste wholesome perfect all-ages allowed. it's unnerving and scary.

[gardenofdelete998]

can you tell i missed out on smth fundamental in my formative years 😏

[spirulin4]

avoidance has saved me from everything it's also killed me a hundred million times

[walnutsupreme]

now in this rage comic i have drawn myself as the chud to recognize my position as a fallible author

[oneheadtoanother]

are you lost little boy

[oneheadtoanother]

This is so much funnier than my caption, dammit

[homucifer-ryotan]

People in the UK especially, please don't give your ID to Spotify

[aelleaaellea]

@i-add-sources

[i-add-sources]

Spotify Is Forcing Users to Undergo Face Scanning to Access Explicit Content

Submit to biometric face scanning or risk your account being deleted, Spotify says, following the enactment of the UK's Online Safety Act.

^via wikipedia.

Spotify boycott: Artists leave 'garbage hole' platform after CEO invests in AI weapons

Daniel Ek's investments in AI dronemaker Helsing have unnerved artists. One called Spotify a "violent armageddon portal."

Bottom screenshot in original post is from here

This is true.

[tony-the-tigers-juicy-armpit]

Gays in the 1950s had it rough for a lot of reasons of course, but personally I’d struggle with sucking dick with wizard of oz playing in the background

[totallynotgayforyou]

Sucking some dick in the back of the cinema when suddenly the guy gasps and pats you on the shoulder to look at the screen only to see Dorothy leaving her house and suddenly its technicolor

[tomatoart]

coffee cheetos chicken

[cheaphalloweencostume]

[dogpuppy]