Mumblings of My Life @mumblingsofmylife - Tumblr Blog

alex-iwobi

my world cup dream is that someone kills gianni infantino once and for all

stingchronicity

i always see “tag fav fruit” posts but i’ve never seen a fav veg post so rb & tag your favourite vegetable

#carrots #potatoes #cucumber #asparagus

caledonianroad

pitch.side Arsenal.

anxietyproblem

geddyqueer

there is this thing called a "kitty cat". and you can get one for inside your home, and it will sit on all of your surfaces, and you can pet it.

cottaegecore

imagine you as a child, rummaging around in the current version of your room. what would they be drawn to?

#my piano #the horse pictures #the laptop

alwaystiredshark

More of my art @alwaystiredshark

Support me on: Kofi | Instagram | Youtube

5llh

dontrecognisememirk

The only people who don't value the arts are people who also don't understand anything about the sciences.

In botamy and biology people used to draw everything by hand before photography came along.

The arts have always been here

But politicians hate it when people learn about the arts and become anti-military

overclassy

enochianribs

important personality test: mario kart main, gas station order (candy, drink, chip), animal you were obsessed with when you were 8, lightsaber color, and lastly: vampires, werewolves or dragons?

#princess peach #drink #chip #candy #but honestly whatever is closest to the door #horses obviously #purple #dragons definitely

strawberry-crocodile

my thing with veganism/vegetarianism is that i DO agree that large-scale meat industry produces a lot of cruelty and that boycotting it is a justifiable thing to do, but i fundamentally do not see a problem with the concept of eating meat.

strawberry-crocodile

the cow's not using the meat. if i don't eat it then a bunch of microbes will. or like... a dog.

strawberry-crocodile

not to be a redditor here but like... the nutrient cycle requires that someone break down that meat or the nutrients and energy are just going to be locked in this corpse indefinitely. someone's has to eat the meat, someone is going to eat the meat its just that bacteria and fungal hyphae and little maggots are all so small we perceive them eating as "decay". we are all a bunch of mammals running around breathing and shitting and shedding dander and the cow is already dead.

strawberry-crocodile

but also holy shit factory farms are evil

the-breath-in-air

Yeah and I say this frequenstly and will repeat it here...industrial plant-based agriculture is also evil. To humans, specifically. There is a high chance that anything that you buy at a grocery store involved human trafficing and/or child labor.

Like, especially in this climate of demonizing immigrants (and so many ag workers are immigrants or children of immigrants), I feel it's really necessary to remember that removing meat or animal products doesn't actually remove the cruelty from your diet.

what-even-is-thiss

It’s crazy that countries on the edge of the Sahara desert are reversing desertification by just digging half circles

what-even-is-thiss

The ground in these places is too compact for water to soak in during wet season which leads to flooding but digging these holes gives the water a place to stop and soak in. And they’re pushing back the desert with this. By just digging holes.

what-even-is-thiss

The new plants also help even more water soak into the ground which reduces flooding even more.

These places also give people places to grow food and graze animals like people are turning completely dry compact desert into a refuge for wildlife and plants and solving regional food insecurity just by digging holes.

untitledgoosegay

The half-circles are called zaï! They're a traditional farming practice in the Sahel desert, and their introduction + reintroduction can be largely credited to Yacouba Sawadogo, the man linked above! He reintroduced and innovated on the zaï on his own farm in the 1980s, and did extensive outreach (along with scientist Mathieu Ouédraogo) to encourage other farmers to adopt them as well.

He also promoted the use of cordons pierreux, which are basically just lines of rocks to reduce erosion, preserve sediments, and increase water absorption.

Immensely cool dude. He's been a personal hero since I learned about him.

she-is-amused

Ooooh, Mr. Sawadoga innovated the traditional zai method by adding manure and other biological matter to the holes! This put nutrients in the soil as well as helping even more with water retention and attracted termites whose tunnels helped loosen the compacted earth, all of which supported plant-growth like no zai before! Which increased water-retention even further! Oh excellent, excellent work!