[sovietpostcards]

"Having orbited the Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. Humans, let us preserve and increase the beauty, not destroy it!"

― Yuri Gagarin

[jetix]

2013-04-07

[sev-wildfang]

i love fur, i love leather, i love wool, i love long lasting materials without plastic in them that will decompose and go back into the ecosystem after serving me well for several decades.

[fatherofthebride]

commercial leather is not biodegradable because it is tanned with chromium, a carcinogen, which releases into groundwater supplies when buried or into the air when burned

farmed fur, which accounts for 80-85% of all fur on the market, is “no more sustainable than textiles made from petroleum” and has a higher impact on 17 of 18 studied environmental themes, including climate change and toxic emissions when compared to cotton, acrylic, polyester (imitation fur) and wool

undyed wool is fully biodegradable, but synthetic wool dyes affect biodegradability and create toxic wastewater that is dumped into the environment after production, while natural dyes lack colorfastness so the industry “extensively” uses environmentally harmful heavy metals to bind them to the wool

consumer goods made with animal products are not magically good for the environment just because they come from animals. commercial textiles are not going to go back into the ecosystem at the end of their usefulness, not least because factory farms—the source of almost all leather, fur, and wool you can buy—were never part of an ecosystem to begin with

all of these industries have massive lobbying groups that have spent millions of dollars on campaigns lying to you about how “eco-friendly” their products are because they desperately don’t want you to call your representatives and tell them to increase local environmental regulations on textile manufacturing instead

[mini-moss]

Indigo nights 🌌

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[grubarchived]

i'm listening to gathering moss, by robin wall kimmerer, and she is talking about a very odd job she was consigned to do, where an eccentric millionaire recuited her to consult on a "habitat restoration". when she arrives, the job they actually want her to do is to tell them how to plant mosses on the rocks in his garden. he wants it to look like a specific, beautiful wild cliff in the woods nearby, with centuries-old beds of moss growing thick and strong. she tells him it is impossible. such a thing would take decades to accomplish.

later, she is called back to look at the progress of the moss garden and is amazed by the thick, well-established mosses. how did they do it? she asks.

then they take her out to the woods and show her that they have been blasting huge chunks of rock out of the cliff, packaging them in burlap, and moving them to the owner's garden.

[kcsmall]

This quote really got me: "The owner is a man who loves mosses, and the exercise of power. I have no doubts of his sincerity in wishing to protect them from harm, once they conformed to his landscape design.  But I think you cannot own a thing and love it at the same time. Owning diminishes the sovreignty of a thing, enriching the possessor and diminishing the possessed. If he truly loved mosses more than control, he would have left them alone, and walked each day to see them."

- Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer 

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[kastratorka]

german state propaganda about how its "learned from the holocaust" is arguably one of the most successful misinformation projects in all of recorded history

[nativenews]

[fantahsii]

Alejandra Bogue por Joel-Peter Witkin

[cursmudgeon]

Same model, same photographer, 26 years later.

[power-chords]

A few more photos from Bethlehem Steel because it’s an incredible relic of American industrial and labor history and one of the coolest things I’ve ever laid eyes upon. The size of it is astonishing. And walking through it is such a profound and melancholy experience. It feels like walking through the graveyard of some lost civilization. And in a sense that’s exactly what it is.

[7amaspayrollmanager]

No fucking offense but total offense but I wish I could tell everyone calling for a ceasefire to stop. The way jvp centers itself in leading palestinian discourse in america can be frustrating. We know what happens after ceasefires. The world turns away feeling relieved that the butchery is over "temporarily" but Gazans r still stuck in their cage.

During the ceasefire of 2014, the Obama administration sent israel more weapons.

In 2021, just hours after the ceasefire, israel was provoking hamas by attacking palestinians on al aqsa

Ceasefires last no longer than a day before israel does something to provoke hamas and then hamas responds and then the world blames hamas.

We want the disarming of israel, we want the decolonization of israel, it's complete dissolution will bring peace. I know ceasefire sounds good but it really isn't

[jauntylittlefrillyboy]

so i've been on this site for a hot minute and i've always operated on the idea that if you're here long enough you'll end up with at least one popular text post but uh, maybe that's not true? so, i wanna know

have you (by your own standards and definition) had a popular post?

yep

nope

despite clearly wording your question i still do not fit into a binary answer

Voting ended onOct 26, 2023

[jauntylittlefrillyboy]

Favorite kind of responses to this post

people saying yes they've had a popular post and then giving a number that doesn't even break triple digits. Some real home town news anchor popularity right there. Genuinely I adore this.

No, thank god

Describing a post that I've actually seen/reblogged that makes me do the leo dicaprio pointing meme

[communistkenobi]

i understand you guys now. like i get it

[quasi-normalcy]

I feel like this is even better when you know that the context is that they've just seem three spectral hags emerge from the fog to recite a prophecy of doom that mentions Captain Kirk by name.

[lovepropaganda]

[womenintheirwebs-archived]

[makrustic]

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