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The passage of the seasons - Spring defeating Winter

Inspired by a short story in which Spring is embodied by a bring who faces winter and demands every living thing to awaken and fight to conquer a place on earth

monokuromatic

School assignment was about playing with the formatting of text while writing so I did what I always do and made it about living with anxiety and depression baybeeeeeeee

Anyway now I have something to show people who are blessed enough to not deal with this and maybe they’ll get it!!!!

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taigacryptid

decentralize and clean up your life!!!

use overdrive, libby, hoopla, cloudlibrary, and kanopy instead of amazon and audible.

use firefox instead of chrome or opera (both are made with chromium, which blocks functionality for ad-blockers. firefox isn't based on chromium).

use mega or proton drive instead of google drive.

get rid of bloatware

use libreoffice instead of microsoft office suite

use vetted sites on r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH for free movies, books, games, etc.

use trakt or letterboxd instead of imdb.

use storygraph instead of goodreads.

use darkpatterns to find mobile game with no ads or microtransactions

use ground news to read unbiased news and find blind spots in news stories.

use mediahuman or cobalt to download music, or support your favorite artists directly through bandcamp

make youtube bearable by using mtube, newpipe, or the unhook extension on chrome, firefox, or microsoft edge

use search for a cause or ecosia to support the environment instead of google

use thriftbooks to buy new or used books (they also have manga, textbooks, home goods, CDs, DVDs, and blurays)

use flashpoint to play archived online flash games

find books, movies, games, etc. on the internet archive! for starters, here's a bunch of David Attenborough documentaries and all of the Animorphs books

burn your music onto cds

use pdf24 (available online or as a desktop app) instead of adobe

use unroll.me to clean your email inboxes

use thunderbird, mailfence, countermail, edison mail, tuta, or proton mail instead of gmail

remove bloatware on windows PC, macOS, and iOS X

remove bloatware on samsung X

use pixelfed instead of instagram or meta

use NCH suite for free software like a file converter, image editor, video editors, pdf editor, etc.

feel free to add more alternatives, resources or advice in the reblogs or replies, and i'll add them to the main post <3

last updated: march 18th 2025

dkart

Another mechanicus sticker, since the last one was pretty successful. This one sold out on Magnificon, so I think I’m gonna be more of a Warhammer artist now

Also gonna get it up on the store, once I do reprints

#wh40k #warhammer 40000

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sporifluorous

Dave Brandt was so much more than a meme. He partnered with universities to experiment with and expand soil conservation and cover crop techniques, worked to educate other farmers through worldwide conventions and direct mentorship, founded the Soil Health Academy, and was called the "Obi-Wan Kenobi of soil health" by the chief of the USDA's conservation department.

There is no healthy planet without healthy ag practices, and this guy was a legend.

asteroidtroglodyte

The A-horizon on his farm was 4 feet deep

You do not understand

Most modern Ag operations don’t even have a proper A-Horizon. They’re too busy turning the earth every time they replant. The A-horizon is the Black Gold that makes Soil Soil. It’s a structurally complex soil horizon that must be built in place by the interactions of Plants and Fungi and Insects. It is The Thing that soaks up rain and holds onto it for plants. The A-Horizon is The Thing that builds up when you let a field sit fallow. The act of tilling creates fecundity by breaking up the A-horizon. On a really good Organic no-till farm you might find an A-horizon between 3-6 inches.

His A-horizon was 4 feet deep. 50 inches.

I-

I have no context. His farm was covered in a living skin thick enough for a child to stand in.

Gives me hope for what we could accomplish if we got our collective heads on straight, you know? Like. This was one guy. A brilliant man, who knew what he was up to, but. The thing about brilliant ideas is they can be shared.

50 inches. The mind reels.

improvrich

This is so much more impressive than I can understand and comprehend and I would love to know more about A horizon

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Do you love the color of the Soil?

Humus, or Humic Compounds, are a cryptic and poorly understood set of organic substances. As the final metabolic result of once-living things being digested first by macroscopic organisms, and then by microorganisms, they resist most forms of analysis, and have cryptic structures. A few that we have managed to isolate and study are the Humic & Fulvic Acids.

Humus has a number of remarkable tendencies. It is capable of retaining water far better than any raw mineral clay; it also retains electrically charged clay granules, which themselves retain mineral ions, all of which is essential to make a soil a high-quality resource for Plants to grow in.

A composter is a box that contains an environment that is conducive to the production of Humus, but the best way to produce it is in-place, by laying layers of organic material down over an unbroken earth and growing things out of that. The interaction of the plants rooting, the fungus weaving itself through everything, the bacteria and archaea metabolizing as they do, and inorganic weathering forces all combine to gradually build up the microscopic equivalent of a complex megastructure capable of retaining far more water, and containing far more nutrients, than any inorganic substrate.

This stuff is black gold. This is the stuff that determines whether or not a plot of land is going to be “productive.” The knowledge of how to make it, how to care for it, is an essential piece of wisdom that our civilization needs to remember.

Fortunately, folks seem to have the right response:

Farmers are more important to the continuity of civilization than administrators, no matter what the elitists say. This knowledge is important.

Exactly

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Fragile Peace

"the mighty silverwood, it is said, only takes root in places it finds true comfort"

creatureofthemoss

ohhmy goddd so fucking pretty

#witch hat atelier

sepdet

Artemis II Splashdown Day

Going out to see if I could possibly catch the plasma trail of Orion (I didn't) this afternoon was...a bit abrasive on the heart.

First, in checking local papers to plan where to go, I had to read cynical, prejudiced, anti-science comments. Then when I reached the ocean overlook...

(the plasma trail would've been left to right across the sky here, but the cloud hid it)

I had to deal with a guy joking about how the whole thing was fake, mocking NASA's constant (supposedly) failures and claiming the government hides all the materials used to build the rockets and spacecraft when ALL of that is public domain, I'd just watched Scott Manley's great video about how the heat shield is made, my dad worked in commercial aerospace for a living and designed some of the components still in use, and I was in a text chat with my old college classmates including the NASA engineer in Houston working on the Orion program.

But I wouldn't be posting this rant just to be a downer on splashdown day if not to say:

Bless Tumblr for getting the point of the space program, when American news media and politician have generally disparaged it or ignored it or criticized it or (at best) claimed credit for the hard work of people you've mostly never heard of.

It's hard to be a fan of space exploration, when it's largely ignored or treated as cringe.

So I really, truly, wholeheartedly appreciate the Tumblr community for being what is all too rare in the rest of the world,

Y'all get it. You appreciate the science for the work its own sake, and you want to know what they're doing up there and why.

But you also want to experience the journey with them.

You love watching astronauts go about their work while taking time out for joy and play and caring about each other and being caught up in the wonder of it all.

Most of you have picked up what the Integrity crew was trying to embody and celebrate, highlighting humanity's better aspects even when the main nation funding NASA is behaving antithetically to the principles they advocate, and they're not allowed to tell Trump to go fuck himself when he calls up as the one sour note on an exhausting but amazing day. (Although, as I've noted before, I think their statement of why they chose the name Integrity was a masterful way of telling him to go fuck himself).

But that wasn't what this mission was about. It was about uplifting, not tearing down. It was about how much better we can be when nobody worries about who's top dog, just how to work together and rely on each other's skills to get a job done.

You saw that. You loved it. Group hug.

And you don't flaunt the cynicism and tearing-down and belittling that so many have fallen prey to nowadays. You're not ashamed to be inspired, to be moved, to be amused (affectionate) by humans being oh-so-human.

Which is why this old fart hangs around on here. That's the good stuff.

Back down to Earth: Here's what it looked like at Corona del Mar about 40-50 miles from splashdown, approximatey the location of that red arrow.

Gorgeous, bright sunny afternoon. I hope they had a chance to enjoy a pretty California sunset and some fresh Pacific breezes on their way back to San Diego.

They've barely slept in days. Let Earth — which should really be called Water, considering how much is covered by it — rock them to sleep tonight under the stars. Under the Moon. Under a sky that, for them, is not the limit.

#artemis 2

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no temporal storm is stopping chicken viewing time

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we're not going to make it

we will make it

it'll take too long to rebuild ourselves

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but what if we don't wake up in the morning

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i don't see a future with me in it

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we'll give up long before then

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i love you. we will make it

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animnightmare

The votes on this post. Oh. A poem in poll form, interactive art, the fact we can see how the other people reading it felt. im. this is really good.

stepta

"We want to look him in the eye. Touch his eyes with ours"

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Verified: Microsoft 365 gets massive 45% price hike — and it's all to do with AI tools (Tom's Guide - January 17, 2025)

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oopsie i tripped and spilled my link to archive dot org's downloadable copy of Microsoft office suite for 2007, which features no AI tools and is a powerful word processor that still holds up just fine on windows 10!

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.On April 7th, 2026, people stopped being born. On the same day, people stopped dying, and people stopped aging.

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Who are you? I love you too.

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The core appeal of Willy Wonka is that he's a nigh-omnipotent maniac who uses his near limitless powers over reality to trick shitty people into killing themselves. You can't make him the protagonist of a whimsical coming of age tale - you have to treat him like Jason Voorhees, or Dracula, or any other horror icon. Give him some new victims and new interesting kills and set him loose, that's all audiences want.

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I feel like I watched a somewhat different movie...

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Gene lobbied hard for Wonka to be introduced as a feeble limping old man who suddenly falls into a forward somersault and leaps to his feet, because "from that moment on the audience won't know if he can be trusted." On a related note: the director told Gene what would happen during the boat scene, but none of the other actors were prepared; to this day, none of them are sure what he ad libbed and what was scripted.

My favorite detail, though, is his performance of Pure Imagination. On the surface, the song is charming and inviting, but if you look closely at him throughout the scene, you'll notice that Gene never blinks. He looks around, down at his feet, up at the trees; his eyes never fully close. He moves erratically, stuttering up and down the steps of the chocolate room. The lyrics are warm and friendly, but his face is blank. He bows to permit his visitors to run amok, but his posture is stiff. He helps Violet and Mike reach a couple of treats, but there is no joy in the gesture. The final post-chorus feels like a dirge, a threat, and a warning, all at once; Wonka sits in repose under a tree, but his eyes are glassy and dispassionate. "There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination; / living there / you'll be free / if you truly / wish / to be.......... "

Fantasy in excess, like anything else, will destroy you; that's the real message of Gene Wilder's Wonka. He taunts his guests with unrepentant disdain, and doesn't care if they live or die. He toys with their emotions, their safety, and their grip on reality, feeling no regret or remorse, no pity, no compassion. Fantasy is colorful and compelling, but it's false, and ultimately empty. Wonka is a walking maladaptive daydream, and as far as I'm concerned, that's the real reason the 1971 film has endured in the culture for so long.