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Details at Simone Rocha

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Mushroom grow kit update…they’ve grown considerably in size and I think they’re ready to harvest

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“The stability of Egypt’s agricultural system originated in the fact that the Nile Valley received natural fertilization and irrigation through annual floods, a process that the Egyptians exploited with only minimal human interference. Within decades of the introduction of dam-fed irrigation by the British in the nineteenth century, in order to grow crops like cotton for European markets, widespread salinization and waterlogging of land in the Nile Valley developed. The Aswan dam, begun by the British in the late nineteenth century, regulated the Nile’s flood levels and thus protected cotton crops but undermined the real secret of Egypt’s remarkable continuous civilization by retaining nutrient-rich silt behind the dam walls. As a result, the natural fertility of the Nile Valley was destroyed, replaced by extensive use of artificial, petroleum-derived fertilizers that placed Egypt even more deeply in thrall to the global capitalist economy.”

— Ashley Dawson, Extinction: A Radical History

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Invierno en Córdoba

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Tiny starfishes I captured in the aquariums of Artis Royal Zoo, Amsterdam

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Portrait: Anita Lane And Nick Cave, The Venue, St Kilda, mid 1980s.

Oh how we grow up

#me #nonbinary #selfie

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3-inch piece of amber containing the fossilized remains of a baby bird that lived about 99 million years ago. CT scans reveal that it’s the most complete fossil ever found in Burmese amber. Photograph by Ming Bai, Chinese Academy of Science.