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A Witches Blog; Trixter(it/she), 27; The World is Weird and full of Madness, and I plan to use that to my full advantage. Technically A Woman, Mostly A Demon-doll, Pansexual, Norse pagan Feminist. I am queer, and you cannot take that from me.

[random-transfem-witch-punk]

Hey. This one just got fired. if anyone can throw some spare cash its way, that would be greatly appreciated. Its venmo is @Trixter_bitch

[voidfort-has-moved]

anyway here’s your reminder that lgbt muslims exist and islamophobia shouldnt be tolerated within lgbt communities!

shout out to lgbt muslims living in places where our identities are still criminalised. 

[voidfort-has-moved]

btw i encourage everyone especially non muslim lgbt ppl to reblog this. if you see islamophobia within the community, you should help us instead of telling us our religion is ‘horrible’

[nudityandnerdery]

Beautiful, no notes. (Found it on Facebook, tracked it back to Reddit)

[fandom-man]

[plaguedocboi]

So every year, my aquarium does a captive lobster hatchery project (hence all the loblings). The reason we’re doing it is because in the wild, loblings only have a 1 in 25,000 chance of surviving their larval phase. They’re plankton as babies and everything eats them. Additionally, as the Gulf of Maine warms, they are having even lower survival rates because the blooms of copepods they feed on as babies are happening earlier in the year, and they’re missing it.

Obviously, the goal of this experiment is to grow the lobsters until they’re big enough to settle to the seabed and then release them, because they have a much higher likelihood of surviving to adulthood when they’re able to hide. Ideally, captive lobster hatcheries can boost the wild population and keep things stable, so we don’t have a major crash in a decade or two.

The first year we tried this was pretty bad. We had a lot of eggs, but very few babies. It turned out that the CO2 levels in the building spiked as more guests visited throughout the summer, and that settled into the water and threw off the pH and caused a chemical reaction that prevented a lot of the eggs from hatching. I think we ended up releasing three baby lobsters (which is still better than their wild survival rate but not great).

The second year was a little better. We added a de-gasser to the aquarium and got a ton of larval lobsters, but right as they were settling to the bottom we had a disease outbreak that killed most of them. We ended up releasing four babies at the end of the season.

But this year? Oh boy. We have so many lobsters that we had to release the first round early (usually we wait till September or October so guests can see them). We just released a total of FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE baby lobsters, and we still have over a hundred who haven’t settled to the bottom yet. I genuinely don’t even have words to explain how cool this is. OVER FIVE HUNDRED. We just added hundreds of lobsters to the wild population that wouldn’t have been there otherwise.

Conservation is so fucken sick

[aetherograph]

[headspace-hotel]

Seems legit

[headspace-hotel]

we all hear about kudzu being introduced as "erosion control" in the South but I don't think contemporary people understand on a gut level what that means

these are images from a 1930s pamphlet that endorsed kudzu, entitled "stop gullies: save your farm"

It was Bad.

[headspace-hotel]

Invasive plants need to be understood as part of a much larger cycle of incredible violence against the land.

[peat-moss-and-starlight]

For context: erosion on that scale occurred as a result of our clear-cutting entire states. The land east of the Mississippi used to be covered in old-growth forest to an extent that we literally can’t imagine anymore, because most of us have never seen a forest over 100 years old. It turns out if you remove all vegetation from a landscape, you end up with a bunch of loose soil ready to move downstream. A fast-growing plant that covers everything in dense vegetation sounds like salvation when you’re surrounded by 40-foot deep gullies that get wider with every rainstorm.

[epicyurian]

A lot of the south too was covered in Canebreaks, basically bamboo forests like a lot of South Asia, I don't know the specifics of the ecology, but bamboo being a grass I assume is rhizomatic like other grasses and forms a big net of roots that prevent erosion. *I assume* (pleez ecologists weigh in)

[headspace-hotel]

Yes, the destruction of Canebrakes was a direct cause of this erosion we see here. Canebrakes were destroyed, using slave labor, to make room for cotton plantations. You can read about it here.

Canebrakes built up incredibly rich, fertile soil and are amazing at preventing erosion. They form incredibly strong mats of rhizomes. And their roots are known to go 10 feet deep into the soil.

The erosion we see in these pictures was a result, very much directly, of the Canebrakes being destroyed.

[headspace-hotel]

This is a case study in how violence against ecosystems goes so closely hand in hand with violence against people. The violence against the indigenous caretakers of the land, and the violence against the enslaved captives that were forced to clear the Rivercane and work the cotton fields that would degrade the soil into nothing.

[angel-oneiros]

Alexandre Hogue, Crucified Land, 1939

[headspace-hotel]

This painting was added in another reblog chain, it's good to have it on this thread

[useless-irelandfacts]

[headspace-hotel]

I learned in my political science class that all major famines in the 20th century and onward have been caused by oppressive groups or political situations restricting access to food, NOT natural causes like crop failure

[dragons-and-pandas]

This is literally the point that Indian economist Amartya Sen made that won him the Nobel prize in economics. As a child, he survived one of the several Bengal famines that were organised by the British colonisers in India. He developed his theory on famines, which is that they were more about distribution of food rather than production or availability of it

[the-actual-ocean]

The Entirety of Tumblr from Tumblr has been Chucked in to the ocean! You're all wet now.

[goldenretriever-boyfriend]

[hannahbluish]

[tsunflowers]

I’m reading this book about the changing arctic and the author stayed with the Nunamiut people of inland alaska for a while and talked to this high school kid who was like “ugh I hate going to school in the spring I wish I was hunting caribou” and I thought that was charming. you often hear about people who are devoted to preserving their traditional culture and knowledge but it’s rare to hear about someone who’s invested in the old ways out of pure teenage selfishness. school is lame and hunting caribou is awesome

[theweirdwideweb]

[brisling]

Gene Logsdon's Practical skills : a revival of forgotten crafts, techniques, and traditions, p98

[sashayed]

[horreurscopes]

never forget the universal rule of the order of things: People Will Not Read It

[horreurscopes]

signs at stores? émail? menu ?? instruction ? post online ? caption with andswer to question ? group hand outs ??? street sign ??? no. The Written Word Is The Enemy

[lasrina]

#The number of compliments i have gotten for reading a thing

The ability to occasionally Read A Thing will make you a hero in your workplace, especially if it is for example an error message that tells you what you need to do differently, or instructions on unjamming a printer.

[stephaniematurin]

how dare you say we put jam in the printer

[berkelbites]

Ok reblogging this again because story time.

I work in tech, and much of what I do is support sales reps within the company by resolving errors with the software they use.

There is one sales rep who, every single time I send her a message or email with extremely specific instructions that will resolve her issue, does something completely different from what I tell her. Every time. Without fail. It is so glaringly obvious that she has never read even a single word that I have written to her.

So one day, she sends me a message that says little more than "(software) is broken, help"

So I do my standard song and dance of asking her what she's trying to accomplish, and what specifically is stopping her from doing that. And eventually, after much unnecessary back and forth, she tells me there's an error message. I ask her to send me a screenshot of the error message. She does.

The error message basically says, "these two required fields are blank. To resolve this, please fill in these two specific fields, and then click save."

So I take a few deep breaths.

Then I lie to her.

I message her back, saying "hey yeah, for some reason it's not loading that screenshot on my end. Could you type out the full text of the error message for me?"

She does.

I ask her if she still needs help.

She does not respond.

[samueldays]

I have similar story from tech support.

Client is reporting that Some Thing Program doesn't work. I ask if there's an error message with further information about what's not working. Client says "no". I go over and ask Client to open Some Thing. Client double-clicks on the icon for Some Thing, it starts to boot, an error message dialog flashes up on screen, Client closes error message before I can read it, Thing closes after the error.

"What did that error message say?" I ask.

"What error message?" asks Client.

I tell Client to open the Some Thing again and then not click anything else. Client opens Some Thing, error message appears, Client clicks it away again.

I tell Client to stand up, step away, and give me physical control of the computer. I open Some Thing, start looking at the error message without closing it, and Client says "You should close that." I tell Client that I am reading the error message. Client is apparently accustomed to treating error messages as a kind of spam email that should be deleted as fast as possible, and gets agitated that I'm reading it.

I read the error message. It tells me what the problem is. I fix the problem. Some Thing works now.

---

Later, I start thinking about how such an error message might perhaps be engineered to be more attention-grabbing and close-resistant as a way of making people read it. It's not important for some random program here, but there are more important systems (medical, etc) where it would be reasonable to demand the user's attention because people's lives depend on paying attention to the error message.

But then people with a perverted intellect would still be thinking about ways to avoid reading the message, like dragging it off edge of screen or hiding it behind another window. So maybe the dialog box could have an always-in-front feature to override other windows, and the alert could use the computer's hardware "beep" functionality that can't be switched off by muting the regular sound system, and keep beeping... shit, I realize I'm reinventing pain, and get philosophical about it.

[doccyuk]

Story from The Past about My Mum:

She was a computer programmer / analyst, a... Long Time Ago. Called in for a system she'd installed before, the office folk said they kept having problems where it Didn't Work Right (no error, a malfunction)

She investigated, and told them that could only happen if they did 3 specific things in a specific order, which they should not ever do.

So, she asked, did they ever do that?

No! Of course not, was the answer.

So she made a couple of small changes, packed up and said that should be fine, but they should call her if there were problems.

The next week

She had a call saying "We're getting a strange error message on the system, can you help?"

She said, of course, can they tell her the error?

And the message was:

"You Said You Didn't Do This"

[this-is-antiarab]

List of Bigoted Dogwhistles

A single asterisk (*) means that it in itself alone should not be grounds for suspicion, although it is great as a piece to line things up.

Two asterisks (**) means that it has been reclaimed by the offended groups.

White Supremacist/Nazi-adjacent

Calling themselves a “National Socialist” or saying their views align with “National Socialism”

Germany, Germany above all/Deutchsland, Duetschland über alle

Unusual focus on blue eyes, blonde hair and/or pale white skin, which are the so-called features of a “Aryan” person

Wokeness*

“Noticing”/“Nooticing”

14 (“We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.”)

14/88 (numbers)

Celtic cross

Iron cross

“Western values”

“Western culture”

45° swatsika

White Pride/WP (acronym is not to be confused with “Widespread Panic” as in the band, and Wikipedia alongside many others)

White Power/WP

White Nationalism/WN

RAHOWA (“Racial Holy War”)

ROA (“Race Over All”)

Unusual focus on genetics and pseudoscience

Antiwhiteness, “whitemisia”, and focus on whiteness as an oppressed group

((Double parenthesis echo, usually to signify somebody or something as Jewish))

Two lightbolts together

TND (“Total (N-slur with the hard R) Death”)

White genocide

Focus on Greek, Roman and other European mythology*

Globalists/Deep state/shadow government/cabal/elite

New World Order

Oven dodger (in reference to Jews who survived the Holocaust)

109/110 countries (in references to Jews)

Frens*

Pepe the frog, soyjaks, wojaks and similar memes*

Triskele symbol

Truther

Blood and soil/blut und boden

Cultural Marxism

Posting images of egg dumplings on Hitler’s birthday

Christian nationalism

Themes of crusades

The Wolf Sign (Wolf’s Hook)

OK sign*

Three Percent sign (This one is done by doing a peace sign with a stretched out thumb)

Transphobic-Adjacent

wymbyn and similar words that remove or add unusual letters

Transwomen (no spaces)

Transmen (no spaces)

Trans-identified male (code for transgender woman)

Trans-identified female (code for transgender man)

Biological male (people with Wolffian/“male” reproductive systems)

Biological female (people with Müllerian/“female” reproductive systems)

Biological sex/sex essentialism

Unusual focus on “basic biology” and chromosomes

Unusual focus on bathrooms

TME (transmisogyny-exempt), often used by trans-inclusionary radical feminists in reference to transgender men

TMA (transmisogyny-affected), often used by trans-inclusionary radical feminists in reference to transgender women

TTD (“total tranny death”)

Talks about rapid-onset gender dysphoria

Talks about detransition in a positive light

Talks as if being transgender is just a phase

Female, male

41% (in reference to attempted suicide among transgender people)

I sexually identify as […] (partially reclaimed)

Unusual focus on pronouns

Gender-critical

Transgender agenda

”Let kids be kids”

Protection of women

Unusual focus on genitalia

”Real” women

Big pharma

”Adult human female”

Homophobia-adjacent

”Natural” and “unnatural”

Gay agenda

”Let kids be kids”

Focus on religion, almost exclusively Christianity and the Bible

”Respect, but don’t support”

DEI (diversity, equality, inclusion)

Woke (a term originating in AAVE, often used incorrectly)

Blaming everything on communism (also used in general white supremacy)

“Forced diversity”

Modern audience

Western audience*

[penumbralwoods]

every time someone realizes they dont have to pick between being a boy or a girl an angel gets its wings btw. and also extremely loud cheering can be heard in the distance from me specifically

[penumbralwoods]

btw if you've ever wondered why i make posts like this and get really obnoxious about nonbinary positivity. this is why

and for all of yall that are still figuring it out or aren't getting the support you deserve:

[xfhsfh]

@this-is-nonbinary-joy

[littlesystems]

That one tumblr post about supine vs prone constantly haunts me. I’ll be reading a fic that’s like:

[character a] pushes [character b] onto his back, then straddles his prone body

meanwhile I’m reading like: he’s not lying on his pronis, he’s lying on his s(u)pine…

[pmamtraveller]

sleeve tattoo

[hemipenal-system]

potentially controversial but i don't think "male sexuality is inherently predatory (and so if you don't want to be predatory, you're probably a girl) is a winning feminist take. i actually think it's exactly the opposite and we should really be avoiding the implication that predatory misogynistic behavior is biological and not social in nature