Taxonomic metonymy

USA; MI➡️NC; EN, FR, ES, RU; ML; TME; over 30 🇱🇧 🇵🇸 Translator, nature photographer, gardener, and native plant enthusiast

[studentofetherium]

anti-AI attitudes are an excuse for people to hate children

[gotouhitori]

Also, kids get criticised for not being perfectly formally correct in their writing, then accused of cheating for being formally correct in their writing.

[studentofetherium]

such and such that they say about tall poppies

[exitwound]

interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume?

me: mhm so that’s called a lacuna. it refers to when manuscripts have missing parts, lost to time. for example, the epic of gilgamesh has

[occidentalist]

I keep seeing posts along the lines of “you can’t say nuke the US you have to say landback, when discussing the imperial core you have to make exemptions for indigenous Americans, etc.” And first off. Stop tone policing the primary targets of US imperialism, we will express our frustrations with your continued slaughter of our people and destruction of lands however we see fit. But also like. Ok. We must exempt indigenous Americans when talking about imperialism. Sure. Answer me this real quick though, have indigenous Americans, historically, exempt themselves from the crimes of empire? Actually you don’t have to answer, I already know. The answer is no. Native Americans have the highest per-capita military enlistment rate of any ethnic group in the United States. Close to one out of every five native Americans have served in the US army.

It is not unreasonable to extrapolate then that for many in my region, who have never been to the US, their only real-life encounters with indigenous Americans would have been whenever they’d come over wearing uniforms to slaughter/displace us and steal our resources. Just like European colonisers did to their ancestors. Identical in role and function to their non-indigenous counterparts. And such is pretty much true of all marginalised citizens of the imperial core! and it is a glaring contradiction to their histories of marginalisation/colonisation, but it is not on us to will that inconvenient reality away just because the idea of internationalist decolonial solidarity, one that has never really materially existed in any meaningfully capacity, is a prettier story to tell than what is actually going on. It is on you all to make that no longer the reality.

I think if you’re a USAmerican anti-imperialist, you should reconcile with those facts first—the complicity, however minor, of literally all communities and demographic groups living within the imperial core, including your own—and work on that before you start demanding exemptions from anything the people of the imperial periphery have found pertinent to include you in. God bless

[anarchopuppy]

Tesla has the highest rate of fatal accidents among all car brands, report shows

A new analysis of National Highway Transportation and Safety Administration auto crash data shows that Tesla has the highest rate of fatal a

holy shit

i knew teslas were bad but "literally twice as deadly as the average vehicle" is something else

[iridescent-wildlife]

White Ibis (Eudocimus albus) on the right. Family Threskiornithidae, order Pelecaniformes.

Brazoria, Texas, USA. April 2026.

[herpsandbirds]

Turquoise-browed Motmot (Eumomota superciliosa), family Momotidae, order Coraciiformes, Costa Rica

photograph by Leonardo Valverde

[faguscarolinensis]

Rehmannia elata / Chinese Foxglove at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

[herpsandbirds]

Hieroglyphic Flat (Odina hieroglyphica ortina), family Hesperiidae, Singapore

photograph by Ben Yeo

[herpsandbirds]

Southern Emerald Toucanet (Aulacorhynchus albivitta), family Ramphastidae, Colombia

photograph by Ignacio Yúfera

[faguscarolinensis]

Hydrangea serrata / Mountain Hydrangea at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

[herpsandbirds]

Moluccan Eclectus Parrot (Eclectus roratus), male, family Psittaculidae, order Psittaciformes, native to the Maluku islands of Indonesia

photograph by Mehmet Turgut Kirkgoz

[faguscarolinensis]

Stewartia pseudocamellia / Common Stewartia at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

[hideki-koga]

オオモモブトスカシバ（clearwing moth）

[herpsandbirds]

Golden-tailed Sapphire (Chrysuronia oenon), male, family Trochilidae, order Apodiformes, Ecuador

photograph by Nancy Elwood

[faguscarolinensis]

Dianthus barbatus 'Sooty' / 'Sooty' Sweet William at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

[herpsandbirds]

Pel's Fishing Owl (Scotopelia peli), family Strigidae, order Strigiformes, Gabon

photograph by Benoit Chague

[herpsandbirds]

Audubon’s Oriole (Icterus graduacauda), male, family Icteridae, order Passeriformes, South TX, USA

photograph by Alan Murphy