I’m Just A Man On The Moon 🎶

I only reblog stuff on here so do not expect any art stuff if you’re from my YouTube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCiFMicuhrXOXZvCNQXgQ-5A Page is intended for people 16+. Aged 20 rn. Art blog is @5rcane.

[suzirya]

I got permission from this friend to post this because holy fuck I can't stop laughing

[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]

Yacouba Sawadogo - Wikipedia

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.

[caffstrink]

Word

[muttsandmustelidae]

From the Nashville Zoo’s fb page! Here’s the petition, please please please take a moment to add your name (even if you’re not from Nashville!). If you are from Tennessee, contact your representatives and make it clear that the people do not want this data center. This is an AZA accredited zoo which is home to several species of critically endangered animals, we NEED to protect it. Make your voice heard!

[muttsandmustelidae]

Because people will pay attention to cute animals, here are some of the critically endangered/endangered species housed at the Nashville Zoo!

The Amur Leopard and Clouded Leopard (which recently celebrated its 50th cub born at the zoo!)

The Sumatran Tiger

The Red Ruffed Lemur and Ring-Tailed Lemur

The Cotton-Top Tamarin and White-Cheeked Gibbon

The Colobus Monkey and De Brazza’s Monkey

And the Mexican Spider Monkey!

Look at them!!!! Look at them and fight like hell to save them!!!!

[dhaaruni]

We read Persepolis, and watched the adaptation, in the 10th grade, and it's stayed with me ever since. I'm eternally in awe of Marjane Satrapi's bravery and resilience, and may she rest in peace.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[onebadnoodle]

drawing practice featuring an assortment of batman characters

[grymmoires]

[inexplicably-gaining-followers]

This stupid exchange between friends has become a cultural icon.

[the-haiku-bot]

This stupid exchange

between friends has become a

cultural icon.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[razzmothazz]

still caring about internet friends you lost touch with years ago is so embarrassing. yeah i had a deam we met up irl recently. the last time we spoke was maybe 7-8 years ago. i still wear the laces we randomly decided was a sign of our friendship. i dont know what any of your socials are or if youre even active on any. sometimes i see someones art resemble yours and i wonder for hours. do you still go by that name you chose? whenever i see it i wonder if its you. we couldve passed each other in this vastness a thousand times and not have a clue.

[razzmothazz]

we were lonely kids having fun together. do you remember?

[kuttithevangu]

Any fairytale shtetl worth its salt has a Hasidic court established well before the invention of Hasidism, a golem in the synagogue attic, and another synagogue, which also claims to have a golem, but everyone knows it doesn’t (depending who you ask you will get different answers as to which synagogue is which)

[trollitics]

[classicalmonoblogue]

Apparently the dude who runs the crematorium is just fundamentally confused about how advertising works. He actually thought that the way you made an ad was you found a picture that got people’s attention … and then also included information about your company. He was genuinely surprised and baffled when people thought there was any relationship between the (independently nonsensical) captioned image and his cremation business. There were two more ads in the series that are equally, just… so much…

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[cornerof5thandvermouth]

this is somehow incredibly effective tbh

[ren-acoelomate]

Some of yall reallly need to start being more careful about giving money to people online.

It’s not the same as seeing a homeless person and giving them some cash, or as knowing a friend and helping them get groceries.

You do not know what account your money is going to land it. Even if you have some sort of parasocial relationship with that person, you should still take caution.

And this goes for reblogging charity posts as well. If they are exhibiting any spam behavior you should be blocking and reporting them. If they are in your askbox or DMs or tagging you in a comment, you need to report them for spam and block them.

You are not a bad person for reporting spam as spam.

Support your local communities. Take care of your friends. Do what you can. But please for the love of god be careful about donating money and please do not reblog fundraisers willy nilly

It is irresponsible to share them without at least doing the smallest amount of research to at least verify that they are who they say they are.

[valtsv]

i think that "claims to be pro life dies anyway" is the singular funniest phrase ever invented because there's just no coming back from that unless we suddenly get really good at necromancy

[valtsv]

pro lifer comes back wrong and they're really upset about it because they didn't get a. a. a ch

[wizardarchetypes]

No more sleeping with my phone within reach because I was having an extremely vivid dream that I was the victim of some sort of mass-poisoning. the notorious poisoner? "The Centipede Cult." They used a specific type of poison, referred to only by its chemical nomenclature, which I somehow remembered perfectly upon waking. It went: □□ Na({}^{2})

Because that makes sense. Anyway, this poison would submit me to its well-known and much-feared symptom: "17 Day Paralysis" in which you're paralyzed for exactly 17 days and you only chance of survival is to be on full machine support for 17 days.

Just before the medical team intubated me I remembered I have a Zoom meeting with my academic advisor today (I actually do in real life) and I needed to email him to let him know I was the victim of a mass-poisoning and would need to reschedule.

I kept trying to type the "□" symbol in my dream but could not figure out how and gave up.

I woke up in real life to find I'd begun drafting an email in my sleep to my professor in the Gmail app. I was apparently using talk-to-text (I often do because of my hand neuropathy) but speaking in Irish, which talk-to-text never understands, so other than the words in English "poison" and "centipede" the entire email was complete nonsense.

[wizardarchetypes]

I told my advisor about this and he said, "well, if you had been poisoned, I would have provided you whatever academic supports available to us."

[everett-true-daily]

[aetherograph]

Skin gap - Wikipedia

[dailymanners]

#for real though:#the skin gap probably explains a lot of Thermostat Wars#women's clothing is often a LOT more revealing (and made of much flimsier material) than men's clothing

Huh, you know I never considered that but come to think of it, The Skin Gap could be a major contributing factor to these gendered "thermostat wars" you hear about.

Not only that, but I remember a few years ago everyone was talking about these studies coming out showing that the temperature of most office buildings is actually a more comfortable temperature for men, but slightly too cold for women. Again, can't help but wonder how much The Skin Gap contributes to this discrepancy. If you look at the difference between the average business casual outfit for men vs the average business casual outfit for women, it's not just that the skin gap is at play here and the woman's outfit is more likely to be showing skin, but also the woman's outfit is more likely to be made of thin and flimsy material.

[sevensixone]

Seriously!

Let's use some random Google image search finds to compare the amount of bare arms and legs, low/wide necklines, low-cut shoes, etc in this "business casual" wardrobe:

vs this one:

[dailymanners]

Yes, and it's not just that you can see the skin gap at work here (in all of the men's outfits the legs and chest are fully covered, and the same cannot be said of the women's outfits) but also even from a picture you can see how the material for the women's outfits looks so much thinner and flimsier than the material the men's clothing is made out of.

This isn't shaming or berating the women who wear these outfits by any means, this is directed at the clothing industry for marketing and pumping out clothing made of thin flimsy material that leaves large parts of the body uncovered for women, while marketing and pumping out clothing made of thick sturdy fabric that gives full coverage to men (as well as the social norms behind all of that enforcing all of this).

And also, it really can go both ways. I've worked with so many men over the years who do lament that they can't wear shorts to work, especially in an office setting, without either getting looks or straight up being told their outfit is unprofessional and they need to put pants on, and they'll come right out and say they're jealous of their female colleagues who can come to work in shorts, or skirts above the knee, and have that be accepted as a professional outfit suitable for the workplace.

[sevensixone]

If a woman wore a short sleeve skirt suit like this to work, most people wouldn't think much of it:

...but if a man wore something like this, people would think he had lost his mind!

[dailymanners]

#also may i recommend a YA novel called The Obnoxious Jerks#about a group of guys who protest their school dress code by wearing skirts because shorts are forbidden

I just might add that to my reading list, thank you.

As for the examples here, I could see something similar to the bottom outfit being an acceptable school uniform in some places, especially for primary school aged boys.

As for an adult man working in an office? At the very least he would almost definitely get some weird looks and/or snickering from his colleagues, but the chances that he'd get taken aside and told her needs to dress more seriously and professionally would actually be quite high.

This is despite the fact that the top outfit, when worn by a woman, would be perfectly acceptable in the same setting (despite actually having less coverage than the bottom outfit).

if you want more examples of the skin gap, I think this video also does a good job of demonstrating more examples of the skin gap.

[dailymanners]

#I didn't think that the skin day explains all the temperature gender discrepancies#but it sure does exacerbate the problem

Indeed, that's why I was saying "contributes to". As someone else pointed out in the comments, androgens do tend to make one run hot, so I would totally believe that men generally do have more of a tendency to run hot.

However, if androgens do tend to make one run hot, that means that the skin gap if anything should run the opposite way than it does in reality. If men tend to run hot, men should be the ones in shorts or skirts (including in formal/professional settings) to help the legs keep cool, wearing clothing out of thin gauzy material for more breathability, and wearing low cut tops to help the torso keep cool.

I think if we swapped the skin gap from what it actually is in reality it would probably make it a lot easier to find an office temperature that makes everyone happy.

[oakleavesofsilver]

It's also important to mention that, yes, women *could* dress warmer... but there's limits to that, too, in a professional setting. There's only so many layers you can add while still maintaining a professional look. Everyone always talks about how business casual (and other office dresscodes) "allows" women to wear lighter, thinner, more-skin-showing outfits, but it's also the opposite. If I wore the same outfit as some of the guys at my office, I'd be considered overdressed and dressing too seriously/severe.

Of course, I can just say "fuck that" and do it anyway, but women are judged (pretty harshly at times) for what they wear, so the pressure to wear the lighter, thinner, colder clothes definitely is there.

[chokit-pyrus]

It's also not so simple as 'woman COULD dress warmer/more modest' because those types of clothes are simply not being sold. I went shopping somewhat recently with my sister to find clothes for a job interview, and every store we went to only had button-ups that were also mesh. Short sleeves. Peekaboo necklines. Tank tops.

Warm, covered clothes straight up just aren't widely available.

[dailymanners]

#i gotta add this is something you really notice as a hijabi#or if for whatever reason you prefer modest wear#its noticeably harder just to find decent-looking/decently made long sleeves or long skirts ( or like. looser trousers )#and usually necessitates some level of layering ( e.g. turtlenecks or undershirts or jackets/jumpers - to cover arms)#and yeah like people have said the materials are usually not great for temperature regulation

It's interesting you mention that, because the woman who coined the term "the skin gap" is an Orthodox Jewish woman, and in her original blog post where she coined the term "the skin gap" she talks about how the women most heavily impacted by this are Muslim and Orthodox Jewish women.

As an Orthodox Jewish woman she realized how it was almost impossible to find clothes in mainstream retailers that fit the standard of modesty for Orthodox Jewish women. But looking across the isle at the men's clothes, it's hard not to notice the massive disparity in tightness / coverage.

[everett-true-daily]

#this is all true#but I should also mention that going on T made me SO fucking warm all the time#I used to hate the thinness of women’s clothes#now I envy it#these standards are fair to literally no one

"These standards are fair to literally no one" is the best and most succinct summary I've seen of this thread.

[lovingmadjom]

When I worked in corporate, the idea that men would want to wear shorts and short sleeves in the workplace during a record breaking heatwave was deemed unprofessional and deserving of mockery

I asked several people for any reason that is not just blatant sexism why women’s legs are deemed more acceptable in the workplace than mens, and nobody could give me an answer.

Some people simply had never even considered it and that blew my mind.

[iwantmoreoctopusses]

I got advised by my Dr that I should cover myself from the sun because of Lupus.

Seriously, looking for clothes that cover me that I also find stylish and comfortable will be an adjustment. Luckily the winter is starting, because I don't know what I will do in the spring/summer.

[guiltfactory]

now if you'll excuse me... i have images to look at

[joyflameball]

[wishing so bad to vaguepost but not wanting to send harassment after anyone] i saw a post. and it was bad.