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vigilantsycamore

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Reblog to hit the person you reblogged this from with a pillow

headspace-hotel

Oh my god I'm sooooo mad right now

So. I have no business telling people not to collect wild plants/materials.

I do it all the time.

However.

The words "wildcrafted," and "foraged," even "sustainably harvested," are terrifying to see in an ad on Etsy or Instagram

There is a such thing as the honorable harvest where you ASK the plant if it is okay to take, with the intention of listening if the answer is NO. Robin Wall Kimmerer talked about this, She did not make it up, it is an ancient and basic guideline of treating the plants with respect.

Basically it is not wrong to use plants and other living things, even if this means taking their life. But you are not the main character. You have to reflect on your knowledge of the organism's life cycle and its role in the ecosystem, so you can know you are not damaging the ecosystem. You have to only take what you need and avoid depleting the population.

Mary Siisip Geniusz also talked about it in an enlightening way in her book Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have To Do is Ask. She gave an example of a woman who was on an island and needed to use a medicinal herb to heal her injured leg or she would not survive the winter. In that situation she had to use up all of the plant that was on the island. This was permissible, even though it eliminated the local population, because she had to do it to save her life. But in return the woman had the responsibility to later return to the island and plant seeds of that plant.

And what makes me absolutely furious, is that there are a bunch of people online who have vaguely copied this philosophy of sustainability in a false and insulting way, saying "wildcrafted" or "foraged" materials to be all trendy and cool and in touch with nature, when it is actually just poaching.

If you are from a capitalistic culture the honorable harvest is very hard and unintuitive to learn to practice. I am not very good at it still. This is why it is suspicious if someone is confident that they can ethically and respectfully harvest wild materials with money involved.

So there's this lichen that is often called "reindeer moss." It looks like this:

It grows only a few millimeters a year.

This is "preserved" reindeer moss.

It is from Etsy, similar is also sold in many other online shops, many of which have the audacity to describe it as a "plant" for decorations and terrariums that needs no maintenance.

It is not maintenance-free, it is dead. It has been spray-painted a horrible shade of green. The people buying it clearly don't even know what it is. It is a popular crafting material for "fairy houses," whatever the hell those are. So is moss, also dead, spray-painted, and wild-harvested. Supposedly reindeer moss is harvested sustainably in Finland, where it is abundant, for the craft industry. However poaching of lichens and mosses is absolutely rampant.

It's even more upsetting because there's hardly any articles drawing attention to the problem. This one is from 1999. And the poaching is still going on.

There is a "moss" section on Etsy, and it is so upsetting

These mosses and lichens were collected from the wild. Most of the shops are in the Pacific Northwest or Appalachia, which are the major locations of moss and lichen poaching. There are some shops based in Appalachia selling "foraged" reindeer moss.

Reindeer moss may be abundant in Finland, but in Appalachia it should NOT be harvested to be sold on Etsy as craft supplies! Moss doesn't grow quickly. Big, healthy colonies like this took years to grow. Some of these shops have thousands of sales, all of bags and bags of moss and lichen, and thinking of how much moss and lichen that must be, I am filled with horror.

Clubmosses do not transplant well, and these ones have no roots. The buyers do not realize they have bought a dead plant because clubmoss stays green and pliable after it is dead.

This is especially awful because in Mary Siisip Geniusz's book she talked about clubmosses being poached so much for Christmas wreaths that they had almost disappeared from a lot of forests.

I don't even know if this is illegal if it's not a formally endangered species so I don't know if I can report them I'm just. really sad and angry

socialpants

The abundance of lichen in Finland is... debatable. According to economic standards, there's enough for commercial harvesting (which is done by harvesting 20-30% in a given location, then harvesting is banned from that specific location for the next 5 years. At least this is how things go in theory...). However, there's a constant issue of reindeer not having enough lichen to feed on, since reindeer are always herded in the wild. This leads to reindeer herders having to give them species-incompatible supplementary feed.

Personally, if the native species don't have enough food to feed on in the wild, to me that would be a better standard to measure the economic viability of harvesting lichen for other purposes with.

Also there's a constant issue of poaching lichen from the wild for which culprits are almost never found. Part of it can be simple issue of ignorance or thoughtlessness. But undoubtedly there are people doing it for commercial purposes, knowing it's not part of the "jokamiehenoikeus" ("everyman's rights", which gives Finns moving in nature the right to pick berries and mushrooms or whatever pinecones they find on the ground in the woods for their own use).

headspace-hotel

Thats terrible, but I'm not surprised, I suspected it might not truly be sustainable.

Yeah. Harvesting this stuff on industrial scale to be sold for arts and crafts is not acceptable.

Do not buy reindeer moss.

headspace-hotel

Hang on

One of these shops (with thousands of sales!) is selling BIRD FEATHERS

That is a FEDERAL CRIME

...

auroraborus

If you see people selling poached items you should see if you can contact their government. Many places allow you to make a report. This is only time I'd advocate Narcing

headspace-hotel

Yeah like...

I'm not a snitch, but this shop I'm talking about is selling ORCHIDS. Uprooted, clearly pulled up from the wild, for people's terrariums. And slow-growing lichens. And mosses.

And they have thousands of sales.

One of their items includes bird feathers in the photos. In the USA even possessing the feathers of any wild bird, let alone selling them, is illegal.

So.

headspace-hotel

Update.

I'm looking through etsy shops for anything that appears obviously poached/illegal.

There are so, so, so many listings of Usnea (old man's beard lichen) as a medicinal herb. And other lichens. I found someone selling PULMONARIA LOBATA of all things.

I'm thinking about how I can recognize when a plant is probably poached from Appalachia, but I can't recognize a plant that is probably poached from a faraway place.

This is going to sound crazy, but I sort of hate the houseplant business.

I don't hate houseplants as a concept. But a lot of house plants are tropical plants, desert plants, epiphytic plants, and other plants with narrow habitat requirements, and it creates a HUGE market for these plants in areas the plants don't live.

Not all of them are poached, but outside of a few very widely cultivated species, how do I know, especially if I don't know anything about the plant's native ecosystem?

Cacti, succulents, carnivorous plants, and orchids are all threatened by poaching. Even species that are cultivated in nurseries are heavily poached. And someone buying from California doesn't necessarily know that those "wild-collected" Goodyera pubescens from Kentucky are scarce enough that seeing dozens of them being sold on Etsy is a major red flag.

Most people don't even know that Venus flytraps are native to North and South Carolina and nowhere else.

uninterruptednonsense

Poaching doesn't look how you think it does.

People think "oh, if it was illegal it would have been shut down/it wouldn't be for sale still". WRONG. There's tons of illegal plant, animal, and fungi remains for sale, often on cutesy websites like Etsy. It's especially rampant in the "gothic" aesthetic, which places great value on bones and real animal remains:

Bat taxidermy can be found across the internet and scientists fear they're being poached from the wild to satisfy the trend.

It shouldn't be up to you, the consumer, to do all the research and track down every bit of information to make sure what they're buying is actually respectfully and sustainably sourced, but often, it is, because it's really hard to regulate and track Internet-based businesses.

Rare succulents native to California and South Africa are being poached to meet soaring demand from houseplant collectors.

"It's just a few plants, it doesn't matter" - yes, it does. If it were only one person, I might understand, but the whole thing about businesses and capitalism is that they have a never-ending need, an infinite demand.

As a conservation ecology student I am begging people to think twice when you see this kind of thing. Don't take sellers at their word, and if they act cagey or give you non-answers or vague assurances, STOP and LEAVE. Better yet, report them. Take screenshots in case listings and pages get taken down, and report them to the US Fish and Wildlife Service, or the appropriate equivalent in your country - just google "(your area) report poaching". The US Fish and Wildlife Service has an online form, below:

Thank you for reading. Your actions really do make a difference for every single plant or animal that gets exploited like this, and I appreciate you.

depsidase

princexxofkink

I want to point out that this is actually still misses the mark - France is actually nearly the same size as Texas when looking at square miles. France is about 245,000 square miles while Texas is about 269,000 square miles (rounded numbers from Wikipedia - this makes France about 92% of the size of Texas). *And* it has a high speed rail not only within its own borders, but connecting to its neighbouring countries, crossing two different mountain ranges (the Alps and the Pyrenees).

furiousfinnstan

THEY MIGHT HAVE FIGURED OUT WHATS CAUSING LONG COVID?!?!???

furiousfinnstan

In this study, the critical role of the epipharynx in managing long-term coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and in particular, how residua

SUICIDE POSTPONED INDEFINITELY !!!!!

furiousfinnstan

Genuinely the only good news I got in WEEKS

ritavonbees

that's such a weird anatomical area... like we just don't think about all the bullshit going on inside our faces??

my friend just told me that his new doctor has identified his upper airway being fucked up as the cause of his non-apnea sleep problems, and since it didn't respond to steroids he's been prescribed a capsaicin nasal spray. literally medically instructed to pepper spray himself until his face chills out and lets him breathe properly...

grey-screaming

ecto-hazard

youre so fuckign right

zinaanqar16

UN’s humanitarian chief says aid lorries, which contain baby food and nutrition, are technically in Gaza but have not reached civilians

Today, it is said that 14,000 children will die if humanitarian aid is not distributed within 48 hours.😔 😭

zinaanqar16

Our children have become empty, worn-out bodies that are unable to even speak. Hunger has begun to kill their intestines. Their bodies are no longer able to stand up and play. Famine and a real crisis are taking the lives of our children. The UN reports came late, as there are children who have been clinically dying of hunger for weeks. Unfortunately, the world is unable to do anything. Save our children from dying of hunger.

zinaanqar16

In 48 hours, you will see our children on television screens as we bid them farewell, victims of famine and victims of the international silence on the crimes of the Zionist occupation.

akajustmerry

I feel like ppl get bogged down in semantics so let me make it real simple for you. A zionist is someone who supports the state of Israel. Zionism is the belief that a Jewish ethnostate called Israel should be developed in the Levant region (Palestine and Lebanon and Syria) regardless of the existence of Palestine, Syria and Lebanon and their people. When any pro-Palestine person says someone is a Zionist, that's not a synonym for Jewish, nor is another word for "person I don't like". When we call someone a zionist it's because they support the existence of Israel as a colony. And just so we're clear: it does not matter if a zionist says they're sad about Palestinian suffering or they want to "live in peace" with Palestinians because as long as they support the existence of a colonial ethnostate called Israel then they're still doing Zionism. If I came to your house and just started living there and tried to starve you out and torture you so you would leave your house, it wouldn't matter that I felt "sorry" for you because I'm the reason you're suffering at all. That's why when you try and say "well, Neil Druckman says he wants the war to stop" that doesn't matter. He's still a zionist. He still wants Israel to exist as a colonial state which will always be at the expense of Palestinians. Do not fall for liberal Zionists. Get it in your fucking head that there's no "progressive" Zionism because there's no "progressive" way to support a state that necessitates the elimination of whole peoples.

nourasbasha

When Palestinians resist, they're called "terrorists." When Israel kills tens of thousands of civilians, it's dismissed as "just war." But international law, the Geneva Conventions, and the UN are clear: occupied people have the right to resist, even with arms. Occupiers have no right to defend their occupation.

Update 28/5/2025

Do my children not have the right to education?Or is it because we’re in Gaza, in the middle of war, that we’re expected to stay in tents — dirty, sick, voiceless — just so the world can pity us enough to help?I’m not running away from our reality — I’m confronting it.I refuse to let my children grow up in constant misery just to fit someone else's idea of what "deserving" looks like.Yes, I’m trying to secure a safe home and proper schooling for them.

Not because we aren’t suffering, but because we are — and we’re still choosing dignity.

Resilience isn’t about staying broken. It’s about refusing to collapse.

decemberwinter

what do you mean elon musk did a nazi salute on live tv at the united states presidential inauguration twice and is now erasing the evidence off the internet by replacing the footage with the crowd cheering instead?

would be a shame if people reblogged this, wouldn’t it?

coelii

reblog to give your headache to elon musk instead

coelii

I’d just like to point out the growth in this post has mostly coincided with elon’s public spiral downward and I’d like to think we’re all a small part of that

coelii

bro can’t think because he’s just got a rager of a migraine 24/7

fiannaai

yes I would like to give elon musk my menstrual pain. I think he deserves it

jupiter235

Reblog to also give Elon Musk your menstrual pain.

phanphandom-idjit

And my joint pain too!

princexxofkink

I just travelled up the country and back TAKE MY FLARE UP.

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

HUGE fan of trees growing in places they should not reasonably be able to

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

upside down

sideways

out of a rock

upside down in a freakin LAKE

out of an Indiana courthouse

out of ANOTHER

GODDAMN

TREE

none of that is a reasonable expectation!!!

goldy303

Thats beacause everything is ROOTING for them

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

i’m going to braid you like a pile of dough

princexxofkink

That last one if I remember correctly is not trees growing where they shouldn’t, but instead a very old forestry technique in Japan! It’s called Daisugi, and they methodically prune cedar trees to grow out and form thick branches before cutting the tops and encouraging the new growth to grow straight upwards! This means they don’t have to kill the tree when they want to harvest wood, and it makes for very straight wood because of the careful pruning used to make the new growth go straight up!

sapper-in-the-wire-old

people today with access to more raw information than any other period: the earth is flat

german artilleryman in 1916, who barely washes his own ass: I need to account for the curvature and rotation of the earth when plotting my firing plans

thefloatingstone

Eratosthenes, an Egyptian, in 3750 BC when fucking mammoths hadn’t even gone extinct yet: Oh hey I can use these two obelisks to calculate the earth’s entire circumference based on the length of their shadows and the Earth’s curvature. Neat.

alaija

Erastothenes was born in 276 BCE.

The last mammoth died on in island off the northeast coast of Siberia in ~1650BCE.

And as I’ve pointed out previously, the Coriolis effect was known even earlier than that, although it may not have become important to gunnery.

ultramaga

I find it utterly bizarre that humans saw these megafauna.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/02/science/woolly-mammoth-extinct-genetics.html “ In fact, the Wrangel mammoth’s genome carried so many detrimental mutations that the population had suffered a “genomic meltdown,” according to Rebekah Rogers and Montgomery Slatkin of the University of California, Berkeley. Analyzing the Swedish team’s mammoth data at the gene level, they found that many genes had accumulated mutations that would have halted synthesis of proteins before they were complete, making the proteins useless, they report Thursday in PLOS Genetics. “ That “genomic meltdown” is one of the reasons feminism is so potentially lethal, because they keep pushing for asexual reproduction, or trying to combine ovaries, when the most likely outcome is a population running about - unable to reproduce sexually since the whole “male genocide” bit - with incredibly damaged chromosomes. Sex exists for a reason, and no, “because it’s fun” is not the answer, sorry. It works better than reproduction otherwise. Which is why every complex species uses it. Intelligence requires a lot of things to be working correctly, and if you have an all female species that is over the tipping point of idiocy, then there won’t be enough people to maintain the technology to continue to reproduce. And humans will go the way of the Wrangel beasties. Fortunately, feminists are horribly lazy bastards, so i doubt they’ll continue to get their way, but it does made for a decent plot for a dystopian fiction…

iron-sunrise

What …the fuck?

smitethestate

That went off the rails so suddenly like I thought I was just gonna learn something cool about mammoths and then WHOA.

kiwianaroha

I scrolled past this thinking “the earth is round, yes, something, something, mammoths…’

But the second time it came past I saw

That “genomic meltdown” is one of the reasons feminism is so potentially lethal

And I think I got whiplash from that pivot. I also laughed so hard that I couldn’t breathe.

I’m????

prince-atom

Point and laugh at the MRA, kids.

lyricwritesprose

How … does he think … mammoths reproduced …

Never mind, not sure I want to know.

sarkos

reblog to support Mammoth Feminism,

ignore for G E N O M I C M E L T D O W N

lankyguy

I here af for my Feminist Mammoth ladies, bring the species back!

DOWN WITH GENOMIC MELTDOWN

lavvyan

I… what exactly is combining ovaries supposed to achieve? 400 lazy feminist babies at the same time?

telesilla

Shhhh…you weren’t supposed to tell anyone.

curlicuecal

FEMINISM KILLED THE MAMMOTHS

butchflirt

I feel like we’re getting away from the main point here, which is that the world is flat

beepost-generator

the world is only flat because it was trampled by feminist mammoths

bigmammallama5

reblog if you support your army of genetically-melted feminist mammoths that trampled the earth flat

gotinterest

Don’t anybody tell this guy about that species of lizard where there are only females it might break him

systlin

My head hurts after reading that.

solacekames

I’m sending this post to @wehuntedthemammoth

grison-in-labs

Why would you hurt me like this?

That “genomic meltdown” is one of the reasons feminism is so potentially lethal, because they keep pushing for asexual reproduction, or trying to combine ovaries, when the most likely outcome is a population running about - unable to reproduce sexually since the whole “male genocide” bit - with incredibly damaged chromosomes.

I teach genetics, I don’t deserve to have to explain why this is so wrong and yet. Oh my god.

Mueller’s Ratchet–which is what this chucklefuck is talking about, the reason that purely asexual lineages don’t last well in evolutionary time–does not apply to feminism. The hypothetical scenario of merging two eggs to create a baby? Yeah, uh, that’s fucking sex in this context, whether or not it involves a male.

There are zero feminists pushing for parthenogenesis for humans, mostly because the whole thing is basically impossible for mammals as a result of mammalian investment in genomic imprinting. Among other things. It’s the sort of thing that only works okay in species that don’t control their embryonic development anywhere near as closely as your basic placental mammal does, because it relies on a certain amount of flexibility about sex determination and placental mammals are kind of weird about that.

Even if there were, Mueller’s Ratchet only applies if you never ever sexually reproduce and reshuffle alleles, like the parthenogenetic whiptail lizards mentioned upthread. If we have the technology to induce parthenogenesis in a human woman, we have the technology to reshuffle some alleles now and again. Mueller’s Ratchet kind of presupposes that going in and manually editing a genome isn’t a fucking option, shitwad!

Furthermore, Mueller’s Ratchet is specifically a population genetics phenomenon that refers to the accumulation of deleterious mutations within an asexually/clonally reproducing lineage. It has dick fuck all to do with chromosomes.

Mueller’s Ratchet exists in order to explain why asexually reproducing lineages haven’t overrun the world, because frankly in the short term these lineages usually do way better than their conspecific, obligate sexually reproducing partners do. Furthermore, it’s really fucking common to see species that reproduce sexually at some times and asexually at other times, depending on context and who’s available, and that’s in and of itself a complex fucking phenotype you species-centric cortically starved ignorant dillweed

all of this is completely fucking irrelevant to the mammoth example that @brett-caton there chose to bring up, by the way, because mammoths don’t fucking reproduce asexually either

as you would know if you’d bothered to read the paper, you self-satisfied jellyfish fellator

or even the pop science article you cited yourself

which clearly and cogently explains that the fucking mammoths died of being inbred as all shit, much like yourself

the laziness inherent in jumbling all this pig-ignorant, overconfident and understudied bullshit together and claiming it’s a solidly built house rather than a crumbling, confused pile of enraged starfish is the final straw

you can’t even be arsed to read an article that you dug up and cited yourself, you shithugger

how are feminists supposed to be the lazy ones?

you obviate your own thesis with your own intellectual failure, you pathetic snailsucking weed in the garden of knowledge

nineprotons

I reblogged this before but I have to do so again because of the above takedown with its glorious insults. Also, it’s always fun to point and laugh at MRAs.

I am in awe.

“Mueller’s Ratchet kind of presupposes that going in and manually editing a genome isn’t a fucking option, shitwad!” and “you pathetic snailsucking weed in the garden of knowledge” are honestly awe-inspiring and I’m fucking blessed I read them today

thattimberwolfkid-blog

This is beautiful

It’s been long enough since I last saw this post that I’d nearly forgotten and it still fucking hit me like a goddamn freight train.

deliriumcrow

You self-satisfied jellyfish fellator, you pathetic snailsucking weed in the garden of knowledge

Fucking poetry there, Shakespeare would be hard pressed to improve upon these lines.

naamahdarling

@shitpostsampler The snailsucking jellyfish fellator quote is golden.

freezerspace

I heard this music in my head the whole time I was reading the genetics teacher’s bit.

witchofthegermanforest

Me: Hey look its my boy the german artillery man who doesn’t wash his ass!

That Bloke: Feminism is lethal!

Me:

everythingsbetterwhengay

What a wild ride!!!!!

knowledge is power, and everyone has the power to stfu, but in a world with information at our fingertips… at least read your damn sources before you try to talk shit about an entire gender.

These insults gave me life!

princexxofkink

THIS DUDE PROVED THE POINT OF THE OP. HE HAD INFINITE KNOWLEDGE AT HIS FINGERTIPS AND *SOMEHOW* STILL FUCKED IT UP.

irrevocably-delicious

Hey what’s up, that HTTYD 3 poster got me fucked up

So this official poster has been released for How To Train Your Dragon 3 and it has left me with… opinions.

My first initial reaction was excitement! Oh hell yeah HTTYD 3 is coming out! I adored the first two! But then i saw…

SIIIIIGGGGGGGHHHHHHH I knew immediately that this was most likely a female night fury and fuck yeah shit fuck it is which is so disappointing. I could write a huge essay on how female characters are portrayed in media. I could write a massive blog about smurfette syndrome and how female characters are always just a pink, soft version of their male counterparts, or how female animal or anthro characters still have to fall into society’s beauty standards so we do crazy things like give ducks tits or large eyelashes.

I COULD talk about why these things occur, and how this is a worrying reflection of how society views human females, that males are the default and females are the other… but I’m not going to do that TODAY.

Hi my name is India and not only do I have an animation degree, but I also have a degree in animal and veterinary science.

This design doesn’t just insult me as an animator. This design insults me as a scientist.

Let’s begin.

Keep reading

princexxofkink

The only things I have to add to this:

So, for the sake of argument, let's say she is albino. I mean the colour and the eyes both fit on the spectrum. Would it not be a huge problem that albinism massively affects vision?

And then we get to the fact that these seem to share a bunch of things with cats. Well if I remember correctly, cats that are white with blue eyes have massively increased incidence of deafness in one or both ears.

Combine that with being glaringly visible, having no defensive scales, having none of toothless's aerodynamic ridges, and having smaller whisker like organs, as well as the pitiful claws that I hadn't noticed before and... Yeah she would barely have made it off the ground, let alone to breeding age.

Therefor I conclude that toothless has a boner for a ghost.

foxflightstudios

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH MY FRIENDS!!!

Here are the inaugural TEN weapons in my ORIENTATION & GENDER ARMORY series! Each weapon was designed using the flag of the orientation represented for inspiration!

If you want to pick up some sweet D&D/weapons enthusiast/not-just-another-flag-on-a-shirt-related pride gear, check out my redbubble here! I also have an Inprnt if you’re interested in that!

Stay tuned for info on new merch soon! Hope you love them as much as I do!

taraunderstars

WE 👏 WANT 👏 ENAMEL 👏 PINS

The rainbow is so classy like damn. It certainly looks like you planned it I LOVE IT

foxflightstudios

ENAMEL 👏 PINS 👏 ARE 👏 PLANNED

and so are patches. And possibly sticker packs.

Stay tuned for more on that very soon!!!

princexxofkink

This is the best and I need like five of these as larp weapons, even though the ones that apply to me aren't my weapon types I still need them in my life :D (pan, ace, trans, queer)