a collection of haunted electrons

viv/rain. a💚& az♥️.plant parent, writer, chemistry major. english/español. they/them + elle. nonbinary (tme), bisexual white boricua.iconart by @0073.uv on instagram, header from over-view.com. i follow from @avatarofthebeholding . 26.

[thememedaddy]

[loveridden1999]

can we get 36 hours a day? not for any productive purposes i just want to finish my to watch & to read list in this lifetime . also probably get enough sleep

[forever70s]

images from Hors D'oeuvre; illustrations by John Astrop and Eric Hill (1967)

[holespoles]

Marisol Muro

Pussy willows doing their thing ☁️poof maxxingcats

[mindblowingscience]

Scientists just mapped the family tree of all 11,000 bird species—and you can explore it

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology today announced the release of a new online tool for studying biodiversity and the evolutionary relationships

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology today announced the release of a new online tool for studying biodiversity and the evolutionary relationships among birds: the illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny Explorer. Available on Birds of the World, the Phylogeny Explorer offers a captivating experience for exploring avian evolution, discovering closely related species, and grasping the timescales at which they evolved.

Continue Reading.

[horsefigureoftheday]

Did you know that horses are still used for logging? Not just as a way to keep traditional handicrafts alive, but because horses are genuinely better at some jobs than machines?

Horses are much gentler on sensitive ecosystems, they're more flexible in rocky terrain, and they don't topple over on a hillside.

They can enter dense forests and drag out one specific tree without damaging the other trees and without compacting or eroding the soil.

They also run on hay instead of gas or electricity. Horses don't pollute the ecosystem with either oil leaks, gas stench, or noise.

In conclusion, draft horses are awesome c:

[wandering-lane]

OBLIGATORY DRAFT HORSE APPRECIATION POST!!

[freiherr-von-naarenburg]

[flannelunderpants]

[fiollaigean]

[mortimermcmirestinks]

THE POINT OF GOING TO THE GYM IS NOT TO MAKE THE FUCKING BARBELL GO UP AND DOWN

[geopsych]

Stuff growing in the sidewalk along Main Street. Victory garden

[antiqueanimals]

Norman Knott (Anishinaabe) (1945 - 2003)

[msboutofcontext]

[spacefinch]

This is honestly better advice than “if at first you don’t succeed, try try again.”

By all means try again. But do that after you figure out WHY you failed!

[nature-travel-photography]

Tbilisi [3024x4032][OC] - Author: ReinaSwoon

[sioltach]

Your quality of life will increase ten-fold when you learn to appreciate the sight of a little bird

[leresq]

Me 5 seconds ago

[feelingbluepolitics]

[truth-has-a-liberal-bias]

100% TRUE

Pro tip: If you copy and paste a link that said “no free articles” into a private/incognito browser, it will let you read the whole thing.

also if u press the “esc” (escape) key on ur laptop before the page fully loads, it won’t load any pop-ups blocking u from reading. if the article has images, then this method sometimes does not u see them. but! the words will be fine :)

[bestgirlsystem]

If the site is particularly badly designed, you might just be able to delete the overlay itself. Right click > Inspect element and delete the line of HTML (it’ll be highlighted automatically)

[woodentempest]

hey kids there is a website called outline.com that will let you read from pretty much any news site with a paywall for free

[runcibility]

outline.com is amazing - it hasn’t failed yet on any site that I’ve tried it on.

There’s a chrome extension and firefox extension.

[jackironsides]

Look, these are all Cool Facts, but it doesn’t change the fact that most people won’t go to this level of trouble, and that those people are more and more likely to get radicalised by all of the right-wing media who aren’t behind pay walls.

[probablyasocialecologist]

The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free

The political economy of bullshit.

[darkesttimelinesblog]

Spread the word.

[rainofdauwuand0w0]

Its time to be a neighbor

http://foundation.pbs.org/ways-to-give/

http://protectmypublicmedia.org

http://pbssocal.org/support/donate

[daysleftofsecondterm]

Be a neighbour for the next 1,352 days

[todaysbird]

Good thing we’ve definitely got people in office who will get on this! (By rapidly making the problems worse)

[todaysbird]

[soracities]

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

[paper-mario-wiki]

HEY wanna read but annoyed on where to find copies of books?

Here's an archive with millions of PDFs of books and papers and magazines and essays and stuff.

[meltedgarment]

I've been looking for such archives, thanks

[fealty-to-thee]

you’ve been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress).

i was not going to publish this essay because i don’t like to yell but here the fuck i am.

the first link broke, here you go

[catchymemes]