For All The Tumbleweeds

Chelsi, 28. Question Everything and Be Kind.

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Ghost Nets by A.E. Stallings

Pale syllables drift

through the ear, reticulate

and mercurial

as moonlight's ladder

glitching across the water:

skeletal rigging

of a doomed schooner

crewed by the damned, the phantom

lace of mermaids who

have evanesced to

bone-white spindrift, foam

scudding leeward; un-

canny descant of

whales braiding down the spiral

Fibonacci stair-

case of the hollowed

nautilus; sea dingle of

the eldritch sea witch.

her garden of stings

and fleshy polyps crisscrossed

with neon wiggles,

the trireme's open

rib cage spilling amphorae

checkered with coin light;

or do they involve,

instead, the waterlogged souls

of drowned migrants locked

in the rust bucket's

vomitous hold-mothers and

minors, cohort of

seventeen-year-olds

held for ransom by smugglers

till families paid

four thousand a head

for their sons' passage to no-

where, the deepest trench

off sandy Pylos,

to be chum, sea-worm mumbled

queasy shades thridding

wakes of superyachts

and ferryboats sardined with

red blistered tourists?

Yet they're real: frayed webs

of nylon filaments cut

loose to sleepwalk like

zombies through the seas

snaring loggerhead turtles,

dolphins, birds, squid, £ish,

claws, scales, cartilage

ghastly trash. What's ghosted is

the future: oceans

of unlife, grimed and

slimy, starved, hypoxic, bath-

water warm. Drastic

measures are needed,

they've been saying, as long as

I can remember,

making their plastic

promises. It went sour in

my lifetime, children:

something untangles

and comes undone, but not the

concatenated

undecomposing

mesh of permanent slaughter.

We watched it happen.

Stallings, A.E. “Ghost Nets.”

The New York Book

Review, Aug. 2023, p. 12.

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The Ocean Cleanup

The Ocean Cleanup's mission is to develop and scale technologies to rid the oceans of plastic. Every year, millions of tons of plastic ente

This team has accomplished real and positive change to the world's oceans, and their YouTube channel has less than 400k subscribers?

Not only do they share their successes but also share their failures, and they are learning from them and improving all the time.

Their videos and their story are amazing. They show the horrific amount of garbage they are cleaning up. They show us that when humans put their minds together, what was thought to be hopeless and impossible becomes just the opposite.

Please subscribe to this channel. They deserve more subscribers and views than any other YouTuber that is putting their lives on display or doing stupid shit for views.

[great-and-small]

This is going to be an unpleasant post but I need to talk to y’all about heat stroke in dogs. I am an ER vet and I am seeing firsthand the death toll that this heat wave is taking on our pets. In the past two weeks, for every single weekend shift I have worked, we have had at least one DOA with a body temperature over 107 degrees. One of them had simply been on a 20 minute walk at 5pm. All of them were brachycephalic (short faced breeds like pugs and french bulldogs). Their owners were in shock that this could happen so quickly, and their grief lingers with me.

If you have a dog, and especially if you have a brachycephalic dog, you need to familiarize yourself with the signs of heat stroke. Do not take your dogs out in the heat of the day, be aware of the pavement temperature, and always have fresh water available for them. When I am outdoors with my dog I am checking on him constantly. This heat wave is extremely serious; I need you to keep yourself and your pets safe.

[critlore]

This is a super useful graphic I've been sharing everywhere possible. When in doubt, keep them indoors.

[solarpunkbusiness]

Dutch Startup Respyre Empowers Cities to Breathe with Moss Friendly Concrete

Respyre has developed  an innovative –patent pending– bioreceptive concrete solution. These characteristics create the perfect setting for moss to thrive on.

Moss is incredibly well suited for green facades as moss has rhizoids instead of roots. Rhizoids are nondestructive, they mainly function as an adhesive, leaving the facade in perfect condition where roots are very invasive and demand a lot from the substance they grow from.  Our bio-receptive concrete creates a substrate that suit the rhizoids wishes perfectly. 

So, what do we mean with bioreceptivity? Something is bioreceptive when it has it’s arms open for nature to settle with it. In our case, the concrete invites mosses and algae to  live and grow on it. It is receptive to biodiversity… ;). 

Source

Respyre | Advanced Bioreceptive Technology

Advanced Bioreceptive Technology

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The second implication is that this neutral voice, without a discipline of verification, is a veneer atop something hollow. Journalists who select sources to express what is really their own point of view, and then use the neutral voice to make it seem objective, are engaged in deception. This damages the credibility of the whole profession by making it seem unprincipled, dishonest, and biased.

Kovach, B., & Rosenstiel, T. (2007). The Elements of Journalism. P. 83

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[uroko]

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Reminds me of childhood. Life was so simple.

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JWST Anniversary Spectacular

To celebrate JWST's birthday (yes, it's been a year already), they have released one of the most spectacular images so far, a very local star birthing region, just 390 light years from us, in the constellation of Ophiuchus.

The region known as Rho Ophiuchi, contains 50 baby stars, and interestingly most the size of our own Sun and smaller, star that normally are too small to view as the nebula is too far away.

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The lack of proper education plays a significant role in a majority of the problems we face today. In the U.S., public schools are designed to force conformity rather than creativity. Creativity is the most important aspect of proper education. Now that we have been trained out of the creative mindset, we fail to question things, and we fail to progress. The U.S. public school system, and any other systems similar to it have been called slave schools. In contrast, there is a classical education called the trivium that would be better suited to teach us how to think properly but we are held down by those in power who don't want us to think and so we are forced to be tax cows while a small few hoard most of societies wealth and destroy Earth's ecosystems all the while contributing little if anything valuable themselves.

If we were given the time and resources in our childhood and adolescence to explore and come to conclusions ourselves-with the guidance of mentors-we would be in a better position to solve most of the crises we face in this modern world and we would be better equipped to choose better representatives in government and the world just might be a more equitable place. Instead, we go to slave school, we receive the "soma" that are things like Tik Tok, sensational news, and self-aggrandizing social media and our minds wither away as things fall apart all around us.

As individuals, we can try our best to educate ourselves, but poverty puts us in a place of disadvantage. Wealth is not infinite. The richer the wealthy get, the poorer we become. Luckily, the internet exists and has real information that could better educate us, but we are not incentivised to educate ourselves, and public policies make finding good things on the internet ever more difficult as time goes on. The best we can do is read books, seek out knowledge, explore nature, and have real constructive conversations with one another.

What are your thoughts on this?

[dasmystikal]

Great graphic on the multifaceted nature of climate change. Serves as a great reminder to stop letting corporations control the narrative (which, to them is “we all need to do our part reducing our carbon footprint but not really us because we’re rich”) and to stop thinking in a one-dimensional manner about tackling this issue.

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The world's most unwanted plants help trees make more fruit

The world's most unwanted plants help trees make more fruit

Keeping the spark alive is hard in any relationship. It's especially hard for fruit trees trying to attract pollinators.

What this post has shown me is that we, the people are hungry for the coming transformation. Victory garden permaculture planet.

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​Two people were killed and 22 were injured as a result of two Russian missile strikes on Kramatorsk in Donetsk region, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Klymenko said. The debris is being dismantled on the spot, there may still be people under it.

UPD: 3 people died in Kramatorsk due to a Russian missile attack — Ministry of Internal Affairs

Among the dead is a child from 9 to 11 years old. Another 22 people were injured.

Debris clearance is underway on site. According to available information, people may be there.

UPD2: As of 10:00 p.m., three people, including a child, were killed in Kramatorsk as a result of a Russian missile attack

Another 42 were injured, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported.

Debris clearance continues.

Video: Telegram/Ihor Klymenko

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In the end, Lippmann thought citizens are like theatergoers who "arrive in the middle of the third act and leave before the last curtain, staying just long enough to decide who is the hero and who is the villain."

Kovach, B., & Rosenstiel, T. (2007). The Elements of Journalism. P. 22

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Mia Farrow in 1968 film ‘A Dandy in Aspic’.