augustine

born and raised transsexual texan 22 he/they

[houndmother]

i think we should start distributing locally grown fair trade organic homemade t4t pornography on video cassette

[everyponie]

if yall hate me so much for being a FTM lesbian just wait until you find out I'm also a gay man ❤️

[gotta-sweettooth]

[tdogkisses]

i’m gonna forcibly masculinize everyone who reblogs this.

[capacity]

ill never win an idgaf war love disarms me completely and im bleeding out

[dan-tad]

did you know public libraries are free and beautiful

[pret-boy]

Matching your freak is beautiful and all but what you really need is a boy who's infatuated with your freak. Down bad for your freak. Deeply intrigued by your freak. Eager to see more of your freak. Supportive of your freak. Gets bricked up witnessing your freak, even.

[pocketmilo]

🦋🌷☘️ springtime euphoria ☘️🌷🦋

[celine-deyonce]

[xostargirlox]

The Swan, 1915, by Hilma Af Klint

[elodieunderglass]

Hat tip @aqueenvictorious !!

[headspace-hotel]

People see that agricultural technology in the 20th century basically eliminated non-human-caused famines (correct) and conclude that current agricultural practices are ideal and that improving them is impossible (devastatingly stupid)

[headspace-hotel]

The US agricultural system is in crisis right now because common agricultural weeds are developing resistance to basically all safe herbicides. "Roundup Ready" corn is already obsolete in some states.

I'm reading a book called Where There are Mountains by Donald Edward Davis and some of this guy's takes on Native American practices feel really simplistic, and he says a lot of things that have me like, "Hey. I bet you could just ask a Cherokee person."

But he mentions that early settlers thought Native Americans were lazy because they didn't weed their fields, and outlines how that is wrong because the common "weed" species were themselves semi-domesticated and used as supplemental food sources.

Amaranth (a genus with several species) is one of the worst agricultural weeds in the Midwest, and huge amounts of money and pesticides are spent trying to contain it.

It also happens to be edible, and grain from it may have been the main source of calories for some pre-columbian civilizations.

THEY WON THE WAR ON WEEDS. BY RECRUITING THE WEEDS.

[headspace-hotel]

This past year, when we first tilled our vegetable garden, literally thousands of Amaranth plants popped up. An absolute WALL of them. We couldn't weed the garden fast enough to keep them down.

But this was the year I started hardcore delving into learning about nature, and, okay, several things:

Amaranth is the first plant in the ecological succession process. It thrives in the most devastated, empty environments but the mycorrhizal fungi hate it, so it disappears in places that don't get tilled or disturbed.

The Japanese beetles usually skeletonize our bean plants. This year, when the Amaranth got out of control, they were all over the amaranth and mostly left the rest of the garden alone.

This shit pops up by the thousands in any tilled patch of soil, and is almost unkillable. The more the soil sucks, the more the Amaranth thrives.

And you're telling me it's edible?

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Amaranth is edible to humans but toxic to chickens. If you’re growing amaranth and you have chickens, don’t let them be in the same place because some chickens are stupid enough to eat it.

[lonestaraugust]

most weeds, unless they are foreign and invasive, are an indicator of ecological succession and are actually native annual plants :) they offer incredible resources to native pollinators and can have benefits for soil health, integrated pest management, and water retention!

that’s without talking about how so many of the native annual plants are medicine plants too. colonization has fucked up agriculture so badly (saying this as an agroecologist) that we can no longer see the land as the dynamic being that she is. there are so many lessons to be learned from/in partnership with indigenous communities. it’s quite literally the only way forward.

[radicalgraff]

"Forced starvation is a war crime. Stop Genocide"

Mural seen in River Avon, UK

[senatortedcruz]

[ashes2caches]

big shoutout to trans people that decide to change their last name too. sometimes you’ve just gotta throw the whole name out and start from the beginning.

[nevver]

Bust a move, Ronit Porat (because)

[segamascott]

[spitblaze]

did you know that you can just not say something if you're white. you can just not talk. its okay. you dont have to write a paragraph worth of tags justifying why the reason you don't like rap 'isn't racist'. you dont have to apologize for being white. you can just not say anything and save yourself the humiliation. its alright. please take your hands off the keyboard