Set on hope despite all evidence

blog title from A history of Sexual Preference by Robin Becker (great poem, check it out) Saturday/Saturn Permenently obsessed with Riverdale. I have voted before and will again (proof I am at least 18 years old, I participate in american democracy) I am very pro union-- feel free to ask me about why you should be too! Femmepunk, folkpunk, hopepunk Black lives matter. Trans rights are human rights. Everyone has a right to live comfortably. Everyone deserves to have their sexuality/romantic attraction/gender respected.

[incohorace]

what studying literature feels like

[teathattast]

[tinyyellowflowers-blog]

Went to the grocery store with my kindergartener. We weighed some bananas: 2 pounds even. We weighed a watermelon: 4 pounds even. We weighed some mangos: a little over 1 pound. We weighed the watermelon AND the bananas: 6 pounds even.

“That’s funny” said the child “because 2+4=6 and two pounds and four pounds is six pounds. It’s like the same as math!”

“What happens if you add 6+1?”

“SEVEN”

“What if we put one pound of mangos on the scale?” <mangos added>

“IT’S THE SAME!!”

“OK, what’s 7-4?”

“Three?”

“What if we take the four pound watermelon off the scale?” <watermelon removed>

“Mama! Are you telling me math works In Real Life? Think of all the things you could measure!!”

[neatlymanifolded]

[genderfluid-and-confuzled]

had a good evening doing the straps. my wrists are torn up but that’s how it goes. in the next week i do lyra straps and silks so i’m getting. my fix. honestly considering not going to move in early and run pre orientation with ppl who don’t like me and instead just staying here for a week and doing circus bullshit

[ahidell]

well fuck. now what am i going to do

[ayatollahsmegmafactory]

??

[genderfluid-and-confuzled]

we're really in it now

[universeleads]

The way my classes this semester look in my calendar is endlessly funny to me. Fuck man I'm sorry, I can't hang out on September 22nd, I'm so busy.

[genericdragon]

Yknow when you see a post and you're like "oh I have to reblog this for The Mutual" and then you scroll up and you see that the one who reblogged it is The Mutual

[pizzapasta23045]

Grace: Hey we're finally on Erid! Wait Rocky, why are you putting on clothes?? Rocky: I have made severe continuous lapse in judgement.

[tongue-twists]

some of you need to stop psychoanalising your kinks and start doing mad scientist shit to them instead.

no more "do I enjoy being tied up because I secretly crave an excuse not to fight back against intimacy because of my mother", that is dumb and useless.

start doing shit like "what do I like about being tied up? what part of it gets me going?" and then once you have isolated the components of the kink that are the main drivers, look for all the other kinks that contain them. mix and match. get creative. experiment.

[ratbastardhours]

[livelovelaugh-777]

[last-fast-naturalist]

And, irrigation canals.

Saves 82% of water evaporation. 💧

[andyteacupcultist]

Actually, do cover the fields as well (in some areas at least).

American farmers slid solar panels over 62,000 acres of farmland, and the biggest payoff had almost nothing to do with electricity

Long rows of solar panels march across the desert, and underneath them, where the ground should be baked and bare, there are rows of green.

[beatrice-otter]

The problem with putting solar panels over fields is that most farm machinery is big and so you can't get it through the panels unless the rows of panels are too far apart to get most of the benefit from the shade. So most of the cultivation has to be done by hand ... and the panels are usually low enough to make it a lot harder on the workers because you spend more time stooping over and at odd angles. So yeah, you do get greater yields per acre with this method!

... you also are spending a lot more on labor costs and your workers are getting hurt more to do it.

So in most cases, OP is right. Don't cover fields. Cover parking lots and canals.

[jackironsides]

Depends on what kind of fields you're putting them in. Grazing fields don't require farm machinery running through them, and the solar panels allow places for sheep and cattle to rest in the shade. This makes a huge difference to the comfort of the animals here in Australia; there are farms that have already incorporated solar panels for that reason.

Merino sheep grazing under solar panels produce better wool, trial shows

Two farmers running merinos on solar farms in NSW's Central West say their sheep thrive under solar panels, while wool quality has increased

The linked article in the earlier reblog is talking about crops like zucchini and eggplant, which afaik are generally harvested by hand. I don't know if such crops are usually planted by machine the way that wheat is, but considering there's an apparent increase in yield while also reducing the water use, the inconvenience would likely be worth it for at least some farms even if it changes the sowing technique. (Or alternately, you only cover part of the field, allowing for space between the rows of panels for machinery to be driven. Now that some tractors can be driven by GPS with minimal control by the farmer, that also reduces the chance of collisions and damage to the panels.)

Additionally, if there was wide uptake, I would expect that solar panels could be placed on higher supports, reducing the amount of stooping required. That's a potentially solvable problem. And with some parts of the world – including Australia – becoming drier as the climate changes, the fact that crops can be grown under solar panels with less water is no small matter. It could mean that more of the dwindling supply of irrigation water could be saved for crops like wheat, which are currently impractical to grow under solar panels.

But even if it isn't practicable for large-scale farming operations to put solar panels over crops, there's still millions of hectares of grazing land that could have solar panels put over it perfectly happily. We don't have to limit ourselves to car parks and canals.

[rikmach]

I think the lesson is “ put solar panels where they would maximize benefit, and don’t assume you know where that is until you research it.”

[secretgarden]

following someone who follows all your mutuals but doesn’t follow you back is a humbling yet essential experience…it gives you something to aspire to

[secretgarden]

maybe someone can put in a good word for me #letterofrecommendation

[loveridden1999]

i'll be at the club wondering damn what my tumblr mutuals are getting upto i hope they're doing good

[youtendtoforget-deactivated2025]

I’m ready to be transformed by the ibuprofen . I’m ready to be born again in its purifying light.

[anarchistmemedistro]

we have got to get americans healthcare

[100493503004422]

if you’re going to unfollow me at least leave me a goodbye letter detailing why you are leaving and where you are going and who you are going with and be back by midnight and don’t drink and drive and make good choices love you honey

[sofietrophied]

sitting in class listening to some weird shy boy recite poetry and turning your head to see if your friend also finds this hilarious just to see homotron 3000 looking at him like:

[sofietrophied]

[bruzum]