Matkalla manalaan

I don't even know how to describe this blog anymore

[michaelnordeman]

Eurasian Red Squirrel/ekorre. Värmland, Sweden (5 June 2019).

[michaelnordeman]

Common Carder Bee/Bombus pascuorum/åkerhumla. Water Avens/Geum rivale L./humleblomster. Värmland, Sweden (3 June 2023).

[chaotic-neutral-knitter]

do you ever feel yourself fail a charisma check in real time

[great-and-small]

Yeah sorry wasp haters but y’all don’t know shit. Have you ever even seen the cuteness of Bembicini?

[silvermothsio-reblog]

What's little buddy doing?

[great-and-small]

It’s probably a female digging a burrow for her eggs :)

[big8cola]

Its actually so crazy to me that it is still so stigmatized to have body hair as a woman like what the fuckkkkkk what the fuckkkkkk thats not even like a social convention associated with men thats just like a bodily function what the fuckkkkkk

[darklyhandsome]

And it's crazy that women's body hair is so stigmatized that the media can't even show body hair in razor adverts. Those models be shaving smooth hairless legs.

[orcboxer]

Hi I imagined someone misreading your post and falling to their death in an empty grain silo as a result, can you change the post to be about grain silo safety?

[probablyasocialecologist]

“Musk talks about Mars as a lifeboat for humanity, which is among the very stupidest things that someone could say,” says Adam Becker, an astrophysicist and author of the book More Everything Forever, which outlines the messianic, sci-fi fantasies of the tech oligarchs. “There are so many reasons why it’s such a bad idea, and this is not about, ‘Oh, we’ll never have the technology to live on Mars.’ That’s not what I’m saying. What I’m saying is that Earth is always going to be a better option no matter what happens to Earth. Like, we could get hit with an asteroid the size of the one that killed off the dinosaurs, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could explode every single nuclear weapon, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could have the worst-case scenario for climate change, and Earth would still be more habitable. Any cursory examination of any of the facts about Mars makes it very clear.”

What You’ve Suspected Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like Us

[wire-smith]

I really like sci-fi stories where people have to go off and terraform a planet, or figure out how to rebuild civilization after some disaster, or ideally both. "The last ark-ship leaving Earth right before it becomes uninhabitable" sort of deal. But lately I've been coming around to this same idea, that it will always be more practical to try to save Earth than to try to start over elsewhere.

I was reading one story where the apocalypse was impossibly-rising oceans. Like, water is appearing from *waves hand* the Earth's crust or something, and literally all dry surface land on Earth is going to become underwater in X years. Part of the story was about a giant research project to invent FTL to send a few hundred humans to a nearby star which might have a habitable planet. You know what they were hoping to find? A planet with liquid water. Their plan was to descend from their starship and restart civilization using just the tools they brought with them, on a world with no life and no breathable air and the wrong gravity and the wrong temperate and the wrong sunlight and the wrong day-night cycle, just because it had liquid water. You know where else has liquid water? The flooded Earth you just abandoned. Instead of researching starship technology, you could have spent that time loading up all the same civilization-restarter tools into boats.

And this is really true of any futuristic apocalypse scenario. If you can terraform Mars to have a thick oxygen atmosphere, why not just do that to Earth? Even if you smash an ice comet into Earth and destroy basically everything, Earth will still be more habitable than Mars! It'll still have roughly the right atmospheric pressure, and magnetic field, and heat balance, and it'll still have whatever life the comet didn't kill... Same with a starshade to cool Venus. Same with excavating asteroids into city-stations. Same with abandoning Sol System entirely and heading to another star. If an ark-ship arrived in a new star system and found Earth-but-choked-by-climate-change, the crew would be ecstatic. They would never have thought to get that lucky. So why bother with the trip? Just stay and fix the damn Earth.

[manie-sans-delire-xx]

sex trafficking has to be the most evil thing in the world

[kittyit]

It’s actually incomprehensible. The amount of human (mostly girls and women but not exclusively) suffering, lives lost, courses redirected into the spiral that someone cannot escape from, and for what? The male orgasm?

[michaelnordeman]

Early Bumblebee/Bombus pratorum/ängshumla. Värmland, Sweden (3 June 2022).

[orofeaiel]

Pacific Sideband (Monadenia fidelis)

[michaelnordeman]

Red Fox/rödräv. Värmland, Sweden (2 June 2024).

[cosmicanger]

Rosy-faced Lovebirds on a cactus in Paradise Valley, Arizona

[banchie]

i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges

[jeniferprince]

Entwined 🧡

patreon // buy prints here

[carminecranes]

hello i have added another fiber arts to my skill set. be prepared for lots of embroidered insects and botanicals bc my days of embroidered pet portraits are far, far in the future

both (rosy maple moth and white tailed bumblebee) are from stumpwork embroidery + thread painting by megan zaniewski

[redlipstickresurrected]

Charlotte Miller aka Charlotte Emily Miller (British, based Suffolk, England) - Claiming, Paintings: Oil on Canvas

[only-cat-memes]