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Goat Lake by Elaine Chen

oldfarmhousefallfeatures

Morning 🔆Walk ~a new day

starwars

Han & Chewie go back to smuggling… for a Hutt?! Issue 35 of Marvel’s Star Wars is on sale today. Covers by Mike Mayhew and Amy Reeder.

catastrophic-cuttlefish

Watercolour cats by Endre Penovac

lunacylover

carpathianfolk

Piotr Stachiewicz, “Boży rok”. Slavic Months of the Year.

asapscience

Fruits and vegetables, before and after human intervention.

Source

trashcanbees-deactivated2019120

We did a pretty good fucking job, Jesus Christ

nunyabizni

Remember this the next time you want to complain about GMO’s, we may not have done it in a lab but they still are that.

art-angelsz-deactivated20170721

Bananas looked like lemons wtf

thatsmidnight

Isn’t this more of a combination of selective breeding and GMOs? Not just GMOs?

thespectacularspider-girl

Yes. But people talk about how GMO’s are “unnatural”, yet for centuries humanity has been exploiting mutations in animals and plants to produce food for themselves.

GMO’s are simply the process of inducing these mutations reliably.

People hear “Lettuce being modified with scorpion DNA” and think that we’re now eating scorpions. But, in reality, they’re taking a tiny bit of scorpion DNA and splicing it into the plant. Why? So the plant will produce poison that is not harmful to humans but will deter insects, reducing the use of pesticide, which CAN be harmful to humans and the environment.

GMOs are producing rice that can survive flooding, which makes rice more reliable yields and will prevent food shortages in poor nations that rely on said crops for staple food.

GMOs are also creating spider-goat hybrids. Why? So we can splice web production into the goat’s udders. We’ll be able to spin huge quantities of spider silk, enough to reliably create spider silk cables and ropes, which have more tensile strength than steel.

pozzumcrossed-deactivated201904

i had to pause at that last one there

infochores

the negative side of GMOs does NOT come from the technology. it comes from intellectual property laws. basically farmers growing non GMO crops next to another farmers GMO crops can be exposed to cross pollination. in theory this should even be a good thing: it spread advtnageous strains around and creates hybrids which can be very helpful. However the companies that own the patent or copyright on the altered GMO genetic code have been known to SUE THE FARMER WHO GETS THEIR CROPS CROSS POLLINATED for copyright infringement, basically, as he “stole” their pollen. ( ithere are other issues, but most of them are also related to legal issues/ issues relating tomoney and power.) in short GMOs are good, corporations are bad

nodaybuttodaytodefygravity

Buckle up kids, it’s going to be a bumpy dictatorship

Trump has been president for literally 4 days and he’s already settling us into our new authoritarian regime. A few updates in case anyone hadn’t been keeping up:

At least twice now he or a member of his staff have made completely false claims that have been proven wrong already and offered no evidence to support what they were saying, then refused to take questions about it

Kellyanne Conway called their lies “alternative facts”

Trump has decided that he will choose which members of the press are allowed at his press conferences

He pulled a full Kim Jong-un and made his inauguration day a holiday (of patriotic devotion, as though 4th of July doesn’t exist ????)

He’s passed 6 executive orders so far and has stated his plan to add at least 2 more in the coming days which, among other things, will strip away healthcare from people, restart construction on the Keystone Pipeline and the DAPL, restrict foreign aid to anywhere abortions might be done, put a stop on refugees from Muslim countries entering the United States, and start building the Wall™

And if that weren’t all scary enough, at least six journalists are facing felony charges, 10 years in prison, and $25,000 fines for reporting on the unrest surrounding his inauguration. Felony charges. For covering an event he didn’t like.

I’m sure there’s more but holy fuck this is getting terrifying.

nodaybuttodaytodefygravity

I cannot believe I forgot the biggest one/the reason I made this post.

He has put gag orders on multiple government agencies like the EPA, the Department of Agriculture, the National Parks Service, and the Department of Health and Human Services.

slayediest

The Badlands National Park Twitter has been tweeting in open defiance of the administration’s gag order today, though most of them have been deleted.

This one is extra special. I’m sure it won’t last.

slayediest

Aaaannnd! They’re still going.

marendezvouspoint

As my friend put it, to sum up:

A finance secretary that “forgot” to disclose $100 million. An education secretary that doesn’t understand the basic debates over how to teach our children, thinks the IDEA needs to be looked at and is a matter better left to the states, won’t agree to uphold the 2011 guidance on campus sexual assault, and has zero experience with public education (unless you count trying to take money away from public schools). An energy secretary that thought his job was to represent oil interests. A state secretary who was picked to actually represent American oil interests. An EPA admin who wrote a letter under his AG nameplate that was composed by an energy corp. An HHS secretary that invested in health stocks and then introduced bills that benefited those companies. A senior advisor who is a clear white supremacist. An attorney general who was denied as a federal judge because a republican senate deemed him too racist. A HUD secretary who is Ben Carson. A president who nominated these clowns. And a republican senate that is so wicked, corrupt, and cowardly that every single one of these nominees will be confirmed. An OMB director who “forgot” to pay $15,000 in taxes on his household employees. An agriculture secretary who prayed for rain to end a drought.

Awesome.

Like I said before, we’re all gonna die

sarcasticcynic

Oh, you’re barely getting started:

A Secretary of Education who wants to dismantle public education, and whose husband wants creationism taught in public schools.

A Secretary of Energy who wanted to eliminate the Department of Energy.

A Secretary of State who is so supportive of Russia and Vladimir Putin that he won’t condemn murdering journalists and bombing civilians.

An Environmental Protection Agency Administrator who opposes environmental protection and is a climate-change skeptic.

A Secretary of Health and Human Services who wants to dismantle Medicare.

An Attorney General who opposes the Voting Rights Act; who will not pursue alleged civil rights violations by police and police departments; who called civil rights groups like the NAACP and ACLU “un-American” and “Communist-inspired”; and who thinks that grabbing a woman “by the pussy” isn’t sexual assault.

A Secretary of Housing and Urban Development who opposes the Fair Housing Act.

A Secretary of Labor who opposes the minimum wage.

A Secretary of the Treasury who helped cause the financial crisis.

A National Security Advisor who says “Fear of Muslims is RATIONAL” and won’t rule out torture.

A Committee on Vaccine Safety chairman who is a vaccine conspiracy theorist.

C’mon, join in! This is fun!

marendezvouspoint

Yessssssss to all of the additions. Plus each day more and more ridiculousness abounds.

Oh, also please excuse the typos & formatting issues on the original post, I added to/”edited” it while day drinking.

sashayed

Cool cool cool cool great idea great idea great idea “his own intelligence community” hmmm maybe something like…..something like the police, except nobody knows about them?? Maybe like a state…police, working for the state – the state being synonymous with Donald Trump, obviously – but it’s……….secret??? A secret state police?????? Some kind of State Security……department??????? “StaSe” we could call it maybe?????? What a great?????????? Idea??????????????

black-cat-aoife

puppysoft

Honestly…It makes me really uncomfortable when people draw Leia’s Episode 4 Dress as being really tight with a big slit up the leg, because that’s not how it was at all??

It doesn’t even cling to her breasts or anything?? There’s like…a Small knee length slit, I guess, if you look hard enough. But this, and most other outfits of Leia’s, strike me as incredibly modest and professional. In fact, Lets take a look at that for a second.

Look at what she chooses to wear on Cloud City in Episode 5.

Like…It’s a dress with pants? And I think this was probably an outfit she either A.) Packed for the trip on the falcon or B.) Was provided to her by Lando, And I find it hard to believe that Lando would force an outfit on her, considering he was very nice to her in previous scenes. She would have chosen it out of several different options.

I won’t add pictures, but her White Hoth outfit also consists of a jacket and pants. It’s sensible. They’re in the freezing cold. Why would she wear something sexy. She Wouldn’t.

There are honestly only two instances over the course of three movies where she /kind/ of shows skin. Instance 1 is at the end of Episode 1 where she…Kind of, I guess, Has some cleavage showing?

Like Barely. Keep in mind as well that this dress is floor length and has long sleeves. The second instance is at the end of Episode 6 on Endor

This slit is definitely more revealing, but to be honest, I can’t remember a single time in Episode 6 where it was apparent? They Honestly may have just done this for promotional material? Other pictures of the dress come off as much more modest

I’ve worn dresses shorter than this, so, I wouldn’t exactly consider this revealing by any means.

So when does Leia put on something a little sexier? There’s gotta be one instance right?

Yeah, Against her fucking will.

What I’m getting at here is that I hate the weird sexualization of Leia in Nerd Culture. It’s literally so rampant. It’s not surprising to me whatsoever, but it still makes me mad.

Leia Organa, a 19 year old Freedom Fighter personally fucking chose to dress modestly and people still depict her as this oversexualized Male Gaze Fantasy Being and it’s really disappointing tbfh.