Morticio

30, he/him, death care worker, homosexual, insufferable. NM is home, but I’ll go anywhere. I don’t tag myself but my insta is @​aye_dios_gio

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Timeline.

Stage 1: A poisoning.

Stage 2: A poisoning.

Stage 3: A poisoning.

People die at every stage of the process: during the original extraction; during the use of the extracted material; and then during the eventual waste disposal.

1. Navajo, Pueblo, Ute, Hopi, Latine communities, and other local people get poisoned, during the initial extraction and mining of uranium, living in the site worst affected by radiation. (Majority of US uranium mines in Four Corners region; radioactive soil; hundreds of unrepaired mines; poisoned streams; largest single radioactive waste disaster in US in 1979 located on Navajo land.)

2. Navajo, Pueblo, Ute, Hopi, Latine communities, and other local people get poisoned during atomic bomb testing, living in the site worst affected by radiation after radioactive materials have been processed and manipulated. (Majority of nuclear weapons testing fallout and iodine-131 poisoning in Four Corners region.)

3. Navajo, Pueblo, Ute, Hopi, Latine communities, and other local people get poisoned,  during the disposal of radioactive waste, living in the site worst affect by radiation after the uranium has been processed and profited from and then returned to mills in the Four Corners region. (Majority of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive uranium waste stored in Four Corners region.)

Here are some incheresting and random unrelated maps just tossed together for no particular reason:

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Desert ecoregions get designated as empty “wastelands” and therefore available for domination and extraction. Then people die. People die at every stage of the process: during the original resource extraction; during the refining and use of the extracted material; and then during the eventual waste disposal.

Maybe just my impression, idk.

[divaladiva]

Also some important added context. As of July 2026, this region is under continued new threats due to energy consumption under this administration. Just this month the president signed an executive order reducing Grand Staircase National Monument and Bears Ears National Monument by over 90%. Why? For oil drilling, mining and cattle grazing. The map of the reduction is below.

You can see this region of what is now commonly referred to as “Utah” is central to much of this same region OP is speaking about. These regions have over 100,000 sites of historical importance. This is the ancestral home of the Navajo Nation, the Hopi Tribe, the Pueblo of Zuni, the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, and Ute Indian Tribe. It is too the home of the plants and animals native to this biodiverse region. This executive order is beginning to be litigated as of now.

Simultaneously Chaco Canyon in today’s “New Mexico” is under threat from this same administration seeking to revoke public land order 7923 which would put 330,000 acres of land back up for oil, gas and mineral drilling and mining leases. Below is a map of Chaco Canyon, indicated, (source) as well as some of the greater region. Chaco Canyon is the home of various Pueblos and Ute tribes, but you can see the extent of Indigenous history across and across many people.

Currently, the petition to revoke the public land order 7923 for Chaco Canyon is open to public comments until July 29th. I invite you to make a comment here, however, please be sure to know that comments made may be made public so please use your own best judgement for personal information to include or not. Protect this place! and land back!

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Part of a new series where I’ll be exploring Alpine Tundra Flora.

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by Auguste Herbin, 1940

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lets lay down with baby

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Buffalo and bison sculptures made from the vegetable ivory (tauga) nut, by the Zuni artist Gale Lucio

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i am so sickkkkkkkk of people seeing misogyny perpetuated by a man and automatically going "well SOMEONE'S closeted" omfg you know that men hate women even when theyre attracted to them right??? why are you more interested in making fun of gay people than hating misogynists. you fucking freak

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Black Capped Rubellite, Quartz

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Richard Beymer and Russ Tamblyn in West Side Story, 1961 Directors: Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise

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Medieval Monk Bear from Historic Scotland

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you can kinda tell when a writer has spent a lot of time around kids bc they avoid most of the pitfalls that come with writing children. namely, not giving them a too cutesy or twee voice but making them sound more like extremely weird little adults. kids playing pretend will almost never cutely slot into some romantic scenario for the adults' benefit bc the adults are usually too busy cleaning up or wondering what the fuck is wrong with their child. kids also have surprisingly stringent hangups ranging from very petty grievances to downright chauvinist gender roles, more often than not the result of a tragic education but sometimes far surpassing what they were taught in intensity. what im saying is there's nothing inherently wrong with treating fictional kids as stock characters but it's always quite nice to see when they aren't

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

It's extremely common for very young children to suddenly say something extremely cogent and articulate, that's jarringly inconsistent with their normal speech. This is usually something that they heard an adult say recently. A kid will spend ten minutes telling you a story about how they fought a wolf yesterday using simple sentences of fifty cent words, then nibble a snack, wrinkle their nose and say something like "I feel like Mum was overenthusiastic with the salt today, and not for the first time either" before going back to their clumsy story. (They do understand what they're saying when they do this. Kids' communication is usually held back by their vocabulary and pronunciation, not their understanding.)

Young kids are also a lot more socially aware than people give them credit for. Young children are perfectly aware that adults don't take them seriously. They know when their parents don't actually like them. They listen and remember when adults talk about them while they're in the room. Kids will develop basic abilities to charm etc. from babyhood and will begin experimenting with social norms and concepts of deception, appropriate information, and acceptable language and attitudes in toddlerhood. By the time a kid is five or six, they have solid social strategies for relating to adults and separate ones fr relating to their peers, that they'll continue to refine for the rest of their lives. They will also say completely off the wall shit because they don't have the context to know what is and isn't considered super fucked up yet.

By the time a kid is eight or nine, their main difference from adults is in experience, interests, and ability for long-term focus. An eight year old can think as intelligently and coherently as a thirty year old, they just have less experience and information to draw from, and are likely interested in very different things. They're also likely still slightly hamstrung by vocabulary and literacy, though much less so than a younger kid.

Teens will behave like adults who have little power (a teen is often at the mercy of their parents and the state and rarely taken seriously, which is extremely frustrating) and who are high stress and mid-crisis, because they're going through a transitory period where their bodies and moods are changing and are having to constantly learn and adjust; a fourteen year old in a stable situation will act pretty much like a thirty year old with an oppressive boss who's just left a tumultuous relationship.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#oh is *that* why i feel 14 again after my fiance broke things off with me and i had to move halfway across the continent back in with my ma?

Yeah that's just what humans feel and act like when they're unmoored and powerless and unpredictably changing. Teenagers are pretty much constantly unmoored and powerless and unpredictably changing, and react reasonably to those circumstances.

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Stay engaged.

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I can.

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