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[hope-for-the-planet]

How Oregon cut pesticide-related bee deaths

Oregon has not recorded a confirmed pesticide-related bee kill since 2020. Oregon State University researchers discuss the education, resear

In 2013, Oregon created the Task Force on Pollinator Health to address pollinator deaths due to pesticides. The task force included public education as well as training 13,000 licensed pesticide applicators on how to avoid practices that are high risk to pollinators.

Since 2020, the state has not had any verified pesticide-related bee deaths and the state has a 10% lower rate of commercial beehive losses than the national average.

[faceless-crowd]

Mafia boss smoking a cigar: Why’d you gotta squeal, Squealin’ Stephen? I trusted you. Now I gotta send my best goons to show you what happens when you cross the Big Boss…

Guy tied up in chair: uh…theres just one guy over there.

Mafia boss: Yeah. That’s Lil’ Tony. He’s got one of dem conditions where he’s got multiple mooks n’ his head. But when Big Tony fronts you’re gonna be in big trouble.

Lil’ Tony: We actually all agree we’re gonna kick your ass.

[flowerbleedme]

it's not frequent enough to be considered a meme or a trend, but I like how every so often this site gets a new "woke mafia boss" variation.

[horsefigureoftheday]

Nova's tips for beating the heatwave:

1. Check that you have good access to shade trees, a shelter custom made to fit you and all your friends, and plenty of good airflow

2. Find the hottest, sunniest, and least windy part of you pasture and lay down

3. Make sure you look as much as possible like you have died of heatstroke

4. Get your friends in on it

[prince-of-goths]

A horse's biggest purpose in life is to make you think they died

[hope-for-the-planet]

Indigenous cultural practices are a climate solution, report finds

Indigenous lands are crucial for climate mitigation and resilience. Research shows their health is a direct result of Indigenous stewardship

While this isn't news to anyone who works in this space, it is useful to have this water-is-wet research to affirm that Indigenous knowledge and land management are extremely effective at storing carbon and protecting biodiversity.

I want to draw special attention to this part of the article:

New research shows that approach overlooks the key role that Indigenous knowledge and culture can play in mitigating climate change. It also reveals a dangerous misconception that has taken hold in global climate discussions: the idea that Indigenous lands are so rich because they are remote or sparsely populated. Nothing could be further from the truth. The health of Indigenous lands and their ability to store vast quantities of carbon stem from the stewardship of the people who inhabit them.

[hope-for-the-planet]

I'm actually bringing this back around to say another important thing.

I get a fair number of asks and comments on my posts expressing sentiments like "human beings are a plague on this Earth", "humans ruin everything, we deserve to be wiped out", "humanity is inherently selfish, evil, and irredeemable".

I don't think the folks saying these things have bad intentions, I know their words come from a place of very understandable pain, fear, and anger. But to act as though humanity's impact on nature is inherently damaging and extractive is to erase thousands of years of Indigenous stewardship of nature. These ecosystems are thriving because there are humans living there.

This is your regular reminder that you don't need to feel guilty for being a human. You are part of nature--viewing humans as inherently separate from the rest of nature is actually part of the problem. You will be so much better served redirecting that guilt into supporting the humans who are helping nature or resisting those who are hurting it.

[drulalovescas]

THE DIFFERENCE

[injuries-in-dust]

Good news from July 2026.

[iphigeniacomplex]

“our age of bronze is collapsing” is this beautiful random burst of monty python dialogue amidst the drudgery of nolan’s vision and i think it should win the first-ever oscar for best solitary line

[iphigeniacomplex]

[wringing my hands as i look out my window directly overlooking wall street, watching the sun rise on october 29, 1929] aw fuck it’s the great depression

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

[cloudabserk]

the author reached out to ryan gosling about producing and starring in a movie adaptation BEFORE THE BOOK WAS PUBLISHED?? sorry sir i don’t believe the name similarity is a coincidence i think you wrote this entire novel as an excuse to hang out with ryan gosling

[cloudabserk]

hmm

[softhe4rted]

self-compassion: an antidote to shame mb

[mishkakagehishka]

That is not what i googled

[prospitianescapee]

I remember a dinner in New York with Peter Farrelly of the Farrelly brothers at which I told Carrie [Fisher] and Peter about a urologist who had recently died in New Jersey, leaving behind a macabre collection of arcane objects including the bloodstained shirt worn by President Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre; and, even more wondrous, the penis of Napoleon Bonaparte, with a full provenance authenticating it.

Immediately Carrie imagined a documentary. We would acquire the detached organ and bring it ceremoniously to Paris and place it with all due solemnity on Napoleon’s tomb in the Hôtel des Invalides, making the Emperor whole once more. It would be our gift to the French people in return for the Statue of Liberty. We tried to acquire the penis. We failed.

-- Salman Rushdie, "The platonic ideal", p. 100-101 British Vogue, May 2018.

[godzillawillsaveus]

Supernatural

1.18 "Something Wicked" / 2.1 "In My Time of Dying"

John calling Dean "dude"

[beybuniki]

they did notttt look like FBI agents

[emperor-gaozu-of-han]

getting followed by porn bots is weird and that’s coming from a guy with multiple 🥵 concubines

[emperor-gaozu-of-han]

this is really resonating with the subjects

[qin-shi-huang-di]

step aside you old cut-sleeve, i shall court these maidens!

[emperor-gaozu-of-han]

I’m an emperor actually @chasingtheskyline

[qin-shi-huang-di]

the marquis of homo WISHES he had a fraction of my imperial glory!

[emperor-gaozu-of-han]

right so i’m one of the most well regarded emperors in the history of china and you’re the guy who had to put “shut up about the mercury” in his bio

[qin-shi-huang-di]

I AM NOT OWNED! I AM NOT OWNED!!!

I AM A GLORIOUS EMPEROR, I CAN EARN THE LOVE OF MY CITIZENS!

I AM A GLORIOUS EMPEROR, I CAN ADEQUATELY PREPARE MY SUCCESSOR!

I AM A GLORIOUS EMPEROR, I CAN ESTABLISH A STABLE DYNASTY!

[diet-poison]

the Terracotta Army guy?

[qin-shi-huang-di]

🙄 you build ONE funerary complex with 8000 life-sized statues of soldiers, horses and generals and suddenly you’re “the terracotta army guy.” 🙄 execution.

[slimlimit]

Stumbling across this makes me feel like a dad whos walked into their kids room beer in hand and seeing them roleplay starwars fights i do not belong here but god its entertaining

[emperor-gaozu-of-han]

to be clear in this scenario im the jedi and im winning

[memeuplift]

[filthyprotozoan]

supernatural had NOOOO business saying shit like “freedom is a length of rope. god wants you to hang yourself with it.” where the FUCK do they get off saying something that good? on cw show supernatural????

[brokenyouth]

(regina george voice) so you admit it, you hated john

[mattzerella-sticks]

Okay so MCU Jean Grey will feel bad about being attracted to Wolverine despite being in a relationship with Scott only to realize after an accidental mind reading on Scott that HE is attracted to Wolverine too