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pangur-and-grim

had to explain to new housemate that:

Banana Jim lives on the microwave

microwave vibrations cause BJ to rotate

if BJ is allowed to fully face the wall, this household will become Irrevocably Cursed

morbidlyqueerious

containment procedures

teojida-archive-deactivated2020

*gets caught pickpocketing cos i keep saying ‘yoink’ outloud when i do it*

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Plastic Straws Aren’t the Problem

The anti-straw movement took off in 2015, after a video of a sea turtle with a straw stuck in its nose went viral. Campaigns soon followed, with activists often citing studies of the growing ocean plastics problem. Intense media interest in the so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch – a floating, France-sized gyre of oceanic plastic – only heightened the concern.

However, plastic straws only account for about .03 percent of the 8 million metric tons of plastics estimated to enter the oceans in a given year.

A recent survey by scientists affiliated with Ocean Cleanup, a group developing technologies to reduce ocean plastic, offers one answer about where the bulk of ocean plastic is coming from. Using surface samples and aerial surveys, the group determined that at least 46 percent of the plastic in the garbage patch by weight comes from a single product: fishing nets. Other fishing gear makes up a good chunk of the rest.

The impact of this junk goes well beyond pollution. Ghost gear, as it’s sometimes called, goes on fishing long after it’s been abandoned, to the great detriment of marine habitats. In 2013, the Virginia Institute of Marine Science estimated that lost and abandoned crab pots take in 1.25 million blue crabs each year.

This is a complicated problem. But since the early 1990s, there’s been widespread agreement on at least one solution: a system to mark commercial fishing gear, so that the person or company that bought it can be held accountable when it’s abandoned. Combined with better onshore facilities to dispose of such gear – ideally by recycling – and penalties for dumping at sea, such a system could go a long way toward reducing marine waste. Countries belonging to the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization have even agreed on guidelines for the process.

That’s where all that anti-straw energy could really help. In 1990, after years of consumer pressure, the world’s three largest tuna companies agreed to stop intentionally netting dolphins. Soon after, they introduced a “dolphin safe” certification label and tuna-related dolphin deaths declined precipitously. A similar campaign to pressure global seafood companies to adopt gear-marking practices – and to help developing regions pay for them – could have an even more profound impact. Energized consumers and activists in rich countries could play a crucial role in such a movement.

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nezumiko

Straws help many disabled people drink. Including me.

mockiato-deactivated20200315

I feel like if anything straw bans do more harm than good, because it’s a ‘change’ that doesn’t require any real change at all. Most people who don’t need them barely ever use straws, so avoiding them costs them no effort. But it feels real good, like something big has been done.

outofcontextdiscord

motherfucker-somewhat-limited

gimme the peat boys and free my soul I wanna lay down in a mossy hole and drift away

motherfucker-somewhat-limited

new rule: everyone who makes a hozier comment on this owes me a dollar

hornyonmainstreet

ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ rats the rats we’re the rats ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ

mystical-lyrical-spiritual

🐀 We 🐀 prey 🐀at 🐀 night 🐀 we 🐀stalk 🐀 at 🐀 night, 🐀 we’re 🐀 the 🐀rats! 🐀

boneliness

ᘛ( ᕐᐷ I’m da giant rat that makes alla the rules

mr-sir132

ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ lets see what kinda trouble we can get ourselves in to !ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ

starscream-moved-blog

tomorrow’s the big day

weaselsblaugh

reload_animations.mp4…except I added proper sound effects. I think this is what any modern game audio technician would do.

sologatos

hayley566

Sour cream baby

Princess castle!!!

spamdini

#scary #rosalie

princessnaima-deactivated201802

please help me escape arranged marriage

my name is naima and i’m an eighteen y/o somali lesbian in desperate need of help. over the past few months i have been under the impression that my family is warming up to the idea of me not being what they want me to be. unfortunately this is not the case and i believe the only way out is to escape as they have now resorted to basically treating me like a prisoner and promising me to a man instead of letting me go to university as they promised. i have no funds of my own and to even think of escaping and surviving the first few weeks i desperately need money. i have to use ko-fi since it’s the most anonymous of ways and my father has found out what i do online before (i had to remake my tumblr). despite everything i do not wish any harm on them. i simply want to part ways. i don’t have a lot of followers but if any of you is willing to help i will forever carry you in my heart.

ko-fi.com/princessnaima