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Songs I Liked Recently (and why)

I know a lot of good music and I am always discovering more good music. This is something I am egotistical about. I am always cultivating and upgrading my ability to appreciate all the beauty of the world. I am so happy to be living in a time when music can be recorded digitally.

Anyways these are the songs I liked the most recently.

Paris Texas - Everybody's Safe Until - It is a despair bop about suicidal, violent, and destructive urges, mixed with isolation and paranoia, that is so catchy! I love how there are multiple stanzas that sound so different, but they are layered over each other, and each one makes you want to dance! It expresses the feeling of not caring about anything, acting carefree as horrible thoughts scroll endlessly through your head.

Shockwire - I Drive The Speed Limit Cause There's Drugs In The Car - A nutritionally complete and mathematically perfect song, fulfilling all your needs for good music.

Telephunken - West Coast, East Coast - It is full of the feeling of going really fast and feeling badass. Easily one of the most addicting songs I've ever heard. I know it's about an expensive car, but it makes me want to rollerblade at a rave or something.

Flobots - Fight with Tools - someone on Tumblr recommended a song by this band to me, and I started listening to more of their music. The powerful, driving chorus to this song is so moving and inspiring with a beautiful message. I love the instrumental bridge that sustains these high emotions and the outro that feels in my mind that it echoes the Beatitudes from the Bible and socialist/labor rights slogans at the same time

Delilah Bon- I Wish A Bitch Would - anthem about murdering rapists, the vocalist pulls the screams out of the depths of her stomach seeming to empty out her lungs, with crunchy and textured instrumentals reminiscent of corrugated metal. Even if you are completely pacifistic, these powerful emotions are so yummy to evoke; yes, violence WOULD feel good, wouldn't it?

Norman Sann - Who Lied - The rhymes sway and slither with the instrumentation, giving a feeling of stalling and backtracking being lost in one's thoughts of despair and questioning then powerfully accosted with the necessity of realizing the truth. It delivers the message in an impressive way. But on top of the delivery, some of the phrasings and poetic techniques are more delightful to me than they should be (the 'CBD oil and lotion' stanza always makes me smile)

Kneecap - Liars Tale - blistering insults toward politicians and fierce anger but so catchy you have no choice but to nod your head. They rap in irish gaelic which is really cool. and now that I'm looking at the music video it has zombie margaret thatcher (???) cool

Xican- Flor Antigua - the slow, strutting beat of the drums is so intoxicating and flows with the rapping so beautifully and the female vocalist has a rich and lovely voice. I didn't understand the lyrics very much but when seeing the translation they are also really cool and poetic

Ryan Oakes and Missio - Supernatural - the low, wallowing growl of the "something stronger than lethal" refrain is so delicious. i think the artists' energies complement each other beautifully and the verses have very different tones that relay between each other fast but it all flows together, really nice

#music #for later

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we all hear about kudzu being introduced as "erosion control" in the South but I don't think contemporary people understand on a gut level what that means

these are images from a 1930s pamphlet that endorsed kudzu, entitled "stop gullies: save your farm"

It was Bad.

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Invasive plants need to be understood as part of a much larger cycle of incredible violence against the land.

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For context: erosion on that scale occurred as a result of our clear-cutting entire states. The land east of the Mississippi used to be covered in old-growth forest to an extent that we literally can’t imagine anymore, because most of us have never seen a forest over 100 years old. It turns out if you remove all vegetation from a landscape, you end up with a bunch of loose soil ready to move downstream. A fast-growing plant that covers everything in dense vegetation sounds like salvation when you’re surrounded by 40-foot deep gullies that get wider with every rainstorm.

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A lot of the south too was covered in Canebreaks, basically bamboo forests like a lot of South Asia, I don't know the specifics of the ecology, but bamboo being a grass I assume is rhizomatic like other grasses and forms a big net of roots that prevent erosion. *I assume* (pleez ecologists weigh in)

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Yes, the destruction of Canebrakes was a direct cause of this erosion we see here. Canebrakes were destroyed, using slave labor, to make room for cotton plantations. You can read about it here.

Canebrakes built up incredibly rich, fertile soil and are amazing at preventing erosion. They form incredibly strong mats of rhizomes. And their roots are known to go 10 feet deep into the soil.

The erosion we see in these pictures was a result, very much directly, of the Canebrakes being destroyed.

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This is a case study in how violence against ecosystems goes so closely hand in hand with violence against people. The violence against the indigenous caretakers of the land, and the violence against the enslaved captives that were forced to clear the Rivercane and work the cotton fields that would degrade the soil into nothing.

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moss mfriday #3: Glacier Mice

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That's right - it's glacier mice. One of my favorite things maybe on the entire planet. Let's talk about these freaky fuzzy little rats!!

Glacier mice are balls of moss that live in large herds like this in a few select glaciers. They are moss all the way through, with a center consisting of dead moss matter, implying that they begin as small growths of moss and simply accumulate over time, like snowballs. However, their outside surface is alive and well on all sides. Glacier mice have been observed, through tagging and tracking, to roll across the glacier like a majestic herd of wildebeest, exposing all of their sides to the sunlight. They trundle along at a pace of about 2.5 cm per day. That's 30 feet in a year! They're really schmovin'! Certainly further than most mosses can claim to travel.

What's really exciting, though, is that they all move in the same direction, and we're not sure why or how. Scientists experimented to try and attribute their coordinated behavior to wind, sunlight, and the direction that their grazing ground slopes, but to no avail. They speed up, slow down, and change direction in unison, based on some mysterious moss code that we haven't cracked yet.

Cross-section of a glacier mouse. Note the dead moss matter inside, and the short gametophytes on the outside, adapted to harsh winds and sunlight. [image credit]

We have figured out how they roll, though - while the moss ball sits on the ice, it insulates the ice directly underneath it, protecting it from melting. This forms a little pillar of ice that the moss eventually rolls off of. The insulating power of glacier mice also gives it the wonderful ability to host all kinds of microorganisms that otherwise wouldn't survive the glacier's harsh conditions, and their ability to move makes it possible for microorganisms to spread from one habitable spot to another. They're like a bunch of little tardigrade passenger ships, braving the dangerous glacier to go where no water bear has gone before!!

Glacier mice have been found to consist of several moss species, most of which must reproduce asexually in order to survive in the dry climate. They've been observed to live for at least six years, but are projected to live much, much longer. I love them. So much. I hope they know that I love them!! I LOVE THEM!!!!

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Oh.... the glacier mice...

#yes the glacier moss!!!#moss

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A figure, sits in a chair made of wood, and it's sobbing. You think it's you. You're pretty sure it's you. But it's weak. It's broken, and it's covered in gasoline. Now. Picture yourself.

Lighting a match.

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