Will Be Full Of Wood, Roots And The Like

Ze/hir + librarian

[innerchildabortionclinic]

therapypilled deadbeat father: I really don't have the headspace for custody right now

[herpsandbirds]

New Caledonian Giant Gecko (Rhacodactylus leachianus), family Diplodactylidae, endemic to New Caledonia

This is the longest and heaviest gecko species in the world, growing up to 17 inches total length, and weighing up to 300 g.

Photograph by Shannon's Reptile Room

[kaylmao]

idk i would personally rather give up access to certain products seasonally or locally than have people enslaved to give me the ability to have any product any place any time. i think i can go without tomatoes in january.

[nyantara]

i wish buy local or seasonal meant something to do with ethics but tbh most agriculture in the us is also farmed by immigrant seasonal labor in conditions that with the growing weaponisation of ICE raids by farmowners is much like the kafala system. the part of the supply chain where tomatoes get shipped from florida or southern california are like the least enslaved human labour parts of it.

[nyantara]

In a study published July 2023 in Nature, researchers at the University of Nottingham Rights Lab and the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University calculated the risk of forced labor across all aspects of the U.S. food supply, excluding seafood. They found that most forced labor risks came from animal-based proteins, processed fruits and vegetables, and discretionary foods – products such as sweeteners, coffee, wine, and beer. They also found that 62 percent of forced labor risk came from production or processing that occurs on US soil. The study notes that characteristics such as poverty, language barriers, and uncertain immigration status could render individuals at higher risk for forced labor in the US.

Forced labour risk is pervasive in the US land-based food supply - Nature Food

The elimination of forced labour (Sustainable Development Goal 8.7) is a priority for the sustainability of food systems. Using data on prod

and basically avoid chocolate. almost all chocolate involves slave labor, including the chocolate that advertised itself as slavery free.

[bloodsky]

Gender Troubles: The Butches (watch it for free until March 29th)

[catholic-women-near-you]

[ID: A Black butch woman, seated, says, “I know I am a woman. I know I am butch. I know that there is nothing wrong with that. And I know that within the confines of the word ‘woman,’ there is plenty of room for me.”]

[trainwreckrenegade]

[ironpour]

I hope everyone loses the world cup and then the universe explodes

[ithankthevirgin]

Margarito Stivenson was contacted by two extraterrestrials who scared me a lot. I pay with this retablo.

Guanajuato, May 11, 1980

[redlipstickresurrected]

Jay Chung (South Korean, b. 1986, Seoul South Korea, based Dallas, TX, USA) - Timeless Stillness, 2024, Paintings: Oil on Canvas

[ymutate]

Bibi Zogbé (Lebanese, 1890-1975)

Chardons du Liban [Lebanese Thistles], 1952

Oil on hardboard

53 x 42 cm

Private collection

[innerchildabortionclinic]

there is something very sad and humiliating about having to desperately beg doctors and family members to understand that involuntary institutionalization does not in fact help your mental health, knowing your perspective will always be dismissed at the end of the day

it's such an awful existence to be a psychiatric patient as a teenager, there has to be another way to help aggressively suicidal teenagers, such as addressing the circumstances that make them want to die so much in the first place! you can stop suicide by locking someone up, sure, but they will not want to live

[doe-eyed-disaster]

it's awful that researchers are only now starting to take this perspective seriously, but there is a small but growing body of study supporting exactly what patients have been saying about psychiatric incarceration. one study in particular, from Allegheny county in Pennsylvania, offers a damning analysis of involuntary psychiatric commitments:

For individuals whose cases are judgment calls, where some physicians would hospitalize but others would not, we find that hospitalization nearly doubles both the probability of dying by suicide or overdose and also nearly doubles the probability of being charged with a violent crime in the three months after evaluation. We provide evidence of earnings and housing disruptions as potential mechanisms. Our results suggest that, on the margin, the system we study is not achieving the intended effects of the policy.

[prokopetz]

You know, when I've remarked that a lot of the responses to my posts feel like people are just plucking out keywords they think they recognise based on the shape of them and replying to what they imagine the post says based on that, the possibility never occurred to me that this is actually how many American schools are currently teaching kids to read.

[gokusclit]

Smiling seeing cute kid/baby videos but then suddenly ain’t shit funny bc why are you posting your kids on the internet you dumb bitch take this shit down now don’t fucking do that

[donnabrutta]

The founders of Jane, an underground network in Chicago, US that assisted people in getting abortions. From the left moving right: Martha Scott, Jeanne Galatzer-Levy, Abby Parisers, Sheila Smith and Madeline Schwenk.

Martha Scott was 19 in 1965, when her friend's sister became pregnant and Scott helped her find a doctor to perform an abortion. The group connected individuals seeking abortions with doctors, and later, performed abortions themselves. Their clients were informed they were not doctors, but doing abortions themselves allowed them to keep costs low. They made people aware of the services through signs with slogans like "'Pregnant? Don't Want to Be? Call Jane." The group operated for seven years and performed an estimated 11,000 abortions; no deaths were ever reported.

Quote from Scott: "You're messing around inside somebody else's body. It's not necessarily given that you won't do harm. It wasn't perfect, by any means. But we were dealing with women who really didn't have other options."

Quote from Galatzer-Levy: "I hadn't had so much as a speeding ticket [when I joined]. But abortion really was the front line, it was where women were dying."

In 1972, two women reported Jane because their sister was seeking an abortion, and the women believed it was murder. All seven founders were arrested. Six months later, Roe v. Wade was decided and the charges were dropped. Read more here (link).

[mothcub]

She can smell it.

[thoughtportal]

Here is Graham gloating about "killing all the right people." Just in case you see anyone try to do the whole "we should have decency for the dead" nonsense. via goldstein.bsky.social

[xenosagaepisodeone]

they're making the omelas child go to therapy so it can learn about interpersonal accountability and realize the impact that its confusing and antisocial behavior has on the people around it

[mamoru]

yes I DO live under a rock and her name is the Moon and she is always smiling but she teaches me nothing