Punning Through The Dark

The Emerald Forest Ecosystem - DID-OSDD (we're a co-fronting fool), polyam, Fem Zero™ (all of the taste, none of the gender), autistic, adhd, acequeer, aroqueer, animist, feral buddhist, secular jewish, punnish, they/them and also I/we - genderfree trans crone - we're orm-irian on bsky - oh also we're Older Than The Gävle Goat

[vintage-every-day]

The first female gardeners employed at London's Kew Gardens. Eleanor Morland, Gertrude Cope and Alice Hutchings. Photographed in 1896.

[fibromyalgicaf]

Edited to add: Since a lot of people are reblogging this original post, I'm adding the updated version I did that incorporates the intersex circle...

I know intersex people are still getting excluded in a lot of LGBTQIA+ spaces (let alone wider society) and I think it's crucial to show this group is included in the statement that we all deserve equal rights.

[nightmaresyrup]

Horned Screamers, yes these are real birds. They sound odd too! Like a space clown going "Caw! YOIB WUB YOIB WUBB WUBB WUBB CAWW"

Edit added video for evidence:

[earhartsease]

classic Doctor Who-ass sounds

[becquerel]

i love when people on the internet get denied stuff and you find the most innovative minds of the generation dedicated to making goddamn sure other people get what they want come hell or high water

[becquerel]

[sorrow-hollow]

Okay but I get this. All of you worms who have things blocked on your wifi or whatever and have IbisPaint this is how you do it

Open IbisPaint go to a canvas (any canvas, or make. a new one)

Select the font tool (if you don’t know what or where that is, press the tool icon (normally a paint brush or eraser) and press the T button

From there you should be able to create a text box (writing is not important…). Find the font button and add a new font. I can’t remember what it’s called but you’ll know when you see it

It’ll automatically search for you “free fonts.” Do not follow this. Your app is misdirecting you. Instead search up whatever it is you’re looking for in the search bar, and that should work

Knowledge should not be trapped behind bars, bend and break them until you can grasp it

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I know it's because they censor anything with "sex" in it but some of the facebook repost censorings really crack me up

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#Faggot#Surely

The censored word is "asexual".

[proteusolm]

a lick of yoghurt for the smallest and youngest animal on earth

[depsidase]

[earhartsease]

shh she's singing

[cyrjovie]

Saw a solarpunk creator spreading the news of scientists in China (if I remember correctly) experimenting with making plants bioluminescent to light cities instead of using as much artificial street lighting.

The conclusion was "this must be solarpunk" and I cannot emphasize how incorrect that is.

Whether or not this particular experimentation leads to less harmful man-made lighting, it isn't solarpunk.

Solarpunk is technology and infrastructure engineered to work in harmony with nature and community.

Changing nature to better fit human wants is NOT solarpunk.

[moniquill]

Bullshit.

Changing nature to better fit human wants and needs is fundamentally human.

Every vegetable you've ever eaten is the product of humans changing nature to better fit human wants.

I don't know that bioluminescent plants are a function solution to anything and I'm sure there are a number if very valid reasons that utmost caution should be taken with their potential implementation, but there is nothing 'not in harmony with nature' about messing with plant genetics.

Thank paleoindigeous genetic engineers from mezo/South America for the existence or corn, for example:

Zea Mays is a wholly human invention.

[alpaca-clouds]

This.

I also want to note: I think the research OP is talking about is actually from Europe, because I am aware of both a French and a Swedish research project on this topic. And admittedly, when that Swedish one released (that was in 2018, I think) I was also not fully sold, because it felt fairly gimmicky. But in the test areas where they implemented it a bunch of things happened over the test period. Distress in wild animals went down, air quality got better, and a bunch of other stuff. And now there is a project in France testing something similar since... 2023, I think?

And, yes. The general goal of those projects is basically to say: "Here is a thing where humans are negatively influencing nature. We cannot change that we are in those areas, but we can lessen the negative influence we have. Let's try this way."

Solarpunk is not about like... going back to the neolithic. It is about developing technology in a way that we can better live with nature. And this is doing that.

I do not even get OP's issue here. Like, having poles filled with water and bioluminiscent algae or fungi is not negatively impact the algae, bacteria, or fungi. Because algae, bacteria, and fungi, for the lack of a nervous system, quite literally do not care whether they grew in the ocean or in a bioluminiscent pole. But we know that this light is less disturbing to wild animals. We have shown that. Because light pollution is right now as much of an issue in some areas as other forms of pollution. So finding ways to reduce light pollution is very important.

And it should be noted: this idea about bioluminiscence as a form to light cities has been around in Solarpunk as a genre since 2014 and then of course has been a core idea that went into Lunarpunk. So while I do not know if those scientists were inspired by it or just came to the idea independently, it definitely connects to solarpunk.

[marlinspirkhall]

Given that plants' main method of reproduction is tricking more mobile beings into tracking their seeds around the globe; getting installed in a lamppost was probably the algae's idea

[earhartsease]

humans are plants' way of making more plants

half joking here, but think of coffee and cocoa and opium poppies and cannabis and tobacco, as well as all the food crops - any plant that makes itself useful to humans (or persuades human to make it more useful to them over time) then gets grown everywhere forever

[lake-erie]

this year’s prom theme is… *opens envelope* Great Lakes Invasive Species And What Boaters Can Do To Stop Them

[football-in-tuxedos]

And the subject of tonight’s ecology panel is *turns on powerpoint* Enchantment Under the Sea

[the-big-mood]

This woman's dragon puppet

[earhartsease]

buddy fic about a seer and their pal who hunts corrupt detectives - friends to lovers slow burn

Soothsayer and Sleuthslayer

[earhartsease]

since we're playing around with sleuth puns rn we're bringing this one back too, definitely an example of sleuthanasia

[earhartsease]

"sleuth" is a ridiculous word, why is it pronounced slooth, it's literally the only word that ends with -euth

well it comes from the same word as "slot" (Old Norse slóð) and refers to the trail or track of a person or other animal, so sleuthing meant tracking someone, but has come to mean solving crimes

[earhartsease]

this is why killing detectives is known as sleuthanasia

[headspace-hotel]

Light switches should be switches, not push buttons. THIS ENRAGES ME. It is important to be able to see which state the switch is in by looking at it!!!!

[earhartsease]

electric light switches started life being rotary (possibly because they superseded gas lighting that had knobs to turn, and oil lamps before that), you'd have loved them (incidentally this is also why the verb is "to turn the lights on")

[femmepathy]

The mile-long rainbow flag being carried down First Avenue in New York City.

[arcaneasexual]

“For New York City Pride in 1994 (Stonewall 25), Baker created a mile-long rainbow flag that was carried down First Avenue in Manhattan. During the parade, Baker used scissors to cut segments from the flag to be rushed to Fifth Avenue for an impromptu protest march in front of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the headquarters of New York City’s anti-gay Catholic archdiocese.

^“At the bottom of the image is the segment of the flag cut for the St. Patrick’s Cathedral protest. Photograph by Mick Hicks”

“Gilbert Baker wearing a white sequined dress (right) and other protestors triumphantly march the cut pieces of the mile-long flag past St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Photograph by Charles Beal”

[earhartsease]

chat shows are such a fucking weirdo phenom

like you have someone who's famous for chatting with famous people, and then there's like dozens of these, and the same famous people chat with all of them over and over, and a bunch of people watch this go on from nearby chairs, and a whole bunch more watch them from afar and that's honestly weirdo

but it does give us Hot Ones, so

[herpsandbirds]

Lucifer Hummingbird (Calothorax lucifer), male, family Trochilidae, order Apodiformes, Arizona, USA

photograph by Polinova

[yr-tiktok-mom]

[syrnyj]

[summer-fruits-and-cream]