The Shadow Vine

Musician/Poet/Guitarist/Composer/Cat Momma/PTSD Survivor/Witch Girl/Geologist/Animal Lover/Winetaster

[thewanderingfaith]

They’re hiding from me.

[thewanderingfaith]

Not dead yet.

[thewanderingfaith]

The Summer I Turned Dead.

[thewanderingfaith]

I’m watching you.

[myfrogcroaked]

“Elizabeth Ann is the first cloned black-footed ferret and first-ever cloned U.S. endangered species. She was created from the frozen cells of “Willa,” a black-footed ferret that lived more than 30 years ago.“ 

So, why is this a big deal? Because, “All living black-footed ferrets are descended from 7 individuals, resulting in unique genetic challenges to recovering the species.” Willa died 30 yrs ago, but she wasn’t one of the 7. Her genome represents an important revival of genetic diversity.

Source: Revive & Restore

[middleagedandoutoftouch]

And this is why accredited zoos are important. Fuck that roadside shit, tho.

[thewanderingfaith]

If climate change is allowed to progress to a far enough point, all the people who died in the prior natural disasters will have been the lucky ones. Fighting to survive on an uninhabitable planet, is a fate worse than death.

Let that sink in.

[thewanderingfaith]

At 5 c, the living will envy the dead.

At 6 c, we’ll all be dead.

[thewanderingfaith]

Those horrible doomsday devices need to go.

[thewanderingfaith]

Aurelius, in some states we can’t get emergency medical care for a pregnancy, even if we’re on death’s door, because it’s illegal for us to do so. Being “poisoned” by birth control and vegan men are the least of our problems.

[thewanderingfaith]

Ronnie Radke Calls Out Motionless In White's 'Woke' Agenda With Controversial Meme

Falling In Reverse frontman Ronnie Radke has called out Motionless In White with a controversial meme. The rocker took to Instagram stories

Another reason to love Motionless in White. If “woke” means not being a transphobic asshole and standing tall against fascism, then I’m 100% here for it. 🖤🌹

[darkwood-sleddog]

if you're waking up like me thinking "where do we even go from here?"

you:

build community & involve yourself locally

learn self sustainability skills

choose kindness

protect others & yourself

join or build a mutual aid group and/or network

find time for small joys (the arts, cooking a meal you love, spending time with loved ones, etc.)

[thewanderingfaith]

There’s also plenty of time before the inauguration, if you want to consider your options. If you want to bug out, make sure you have your passport and you/your family/your pets’ medical records. As well as a bug-out bag, if you have to leave quickly. Plan your route accordingly.

If you can’t leave due to certain reasons, or choose to remain behind for yourself or your loved ones, sheltering in place might seem like a better option. Fortify the lesser lived-in areas of your home into a hideout, bunker, or safe room. Become more self-sustainable, and grow your own vegetable garden and fruit trees, and learn to can and preserve them in the months ahead. Learn to cook and bake goods from scratch. Stock up on as much medication as you can in the case that the Medicare, Medicaid, and the ACA Act are demolished; and also stock up on freeze-dried emergency food. If you’re a woman, track your menstrual cycles on a calendar instead of an app… big brother might be watching! In the case that Project 2025 keeps its promise to go after political enemies, refrain from saying anything negative about the government (I know this’ll be a hard one) in public or on social media. Use a diary to vent and keep it in a safe place, or if you’re communicating with a loved one via text message or so, devise secret codes.

There’s also the option of forming an underground resistance, but be extremely careful when doing so. Carefully calculate your next moves, instead of relying on rash decisions you may regret later.

Remember you have a little over two months. Choose wisely.

[always-rolling-my-eyes]

You can call me crazy but I firmly believe that podcasts have played a significant role in the downfall of this country

So many dumbass men with microphones spewing their dangerous, misogynistic rhetoric are more easily accessible to younger dumbass men than ever and they eat that shit up and become emboldened by it

[thewanderingfaith]

I absolutely agree.

[jugsjules]

‼️‼️ IF YOU NEED ANY VACCINES YOU NEED TO GET THEM ASAP ‼️‼️

RFK Jr is very likely to be in charge of public health policy come January and he has been very open with his radically antivax agenda. And Trump has said he “is open to” banning vaccines outright in the US. So if you need or want a:

• Covid Booster

• Flu shot

• Tetanus Booster

• HPV

•Meningococcal Meningitis

Or any other vaccine that you have not gotten. MOVE FAST. Some of these take multiple doses that need to be spread out over several months. At this point it is wildly unsafe to assume our country would not do something this unbelievably stupid!!!

[thewanderingfaith]

Important.

[netscapenavigator-official]

Listen. I hope I’m wrong. I hope in 1-3 days you all can point at this post and be like “look at this idiot for being paranoid.” I do. But I feel like the writing’s on the wall. There are no paths forward without Pennsylvania, and that gap is too large.

I hope the non-voters are happy. Legitimately. I hope the Green Party is happy. For real. I hope this outcome brings them the joy they hoped it would. I hope they don’t come to regret the next 2-4 years. I hope they’re at peace.

I hope Europe isn’t forced to change their stance on Ukraine like many Prime Ministers have warned they would. I hope there are Palestinians left in Gaza to liberate after Trump “finishes the job” and gets his real estate property. I hope the number of queer folk killed, whether individually or systematically, in the coming years is minimal. I hope the number of women killed by inaccessibility to medical care is minimal. I hope the number of disabled people who face financial hard times is minimal. I hope we genuinely can cruise through these next 4 years. I hope I’m still around to try and fix this in 2-4 years.

I hope the message the non-voters and Green Party sent is actually received. I hope they didn’t send the message to Democrats that conservatism is the way to win and what we should be embracing.

I hope that nothing in Project 2025 is completed. I hope we win at least one branch to throw a stick in the gears of fascism. I hope Trump bombs his second term so poorly that 2026 wipes the GOP out of the House and Senate.

I hope there’s still a global superpower to fix in 4 years. I hope that the corruption we’ve allowed to thrive tonight doesn’t infect our neighbors across the Atlantic like they fear it will.

I still hope for a better future. But I don’t believe that future is going to happen this time. I’m going to try to go to bed.

[thewanderingfaith]

And this is in a best case scenario.

[incorrectbatfam]

Honey, I want you to know, I mean this with love when I say it. We are all going to be fine no matter what happens. Nothing is going to change. If Harris gets elected then Harris gets elected. If Trump gets elected then Trump gets elected. Nothing will change. Your life won't change. If you want to see what will happen if Trump gets elected then look at his last term. He did nothing of importance and if he did, none of it went away while we had Biden. Harris won't do anything of any importance either. Your life won't change. I promise you, you and everyone else will be just fine.

Every time I hear someone say this, I think of this picture:

This is the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus. The ones in white are the members who survived the AIDS epidemic. The rest did not.

I was a teenager when Trump was elected in 2016. I was 16 years old, just beginning to question my sexuality while also supporting my best friend who had come out as trans. The only adult I could trust to talk to about it was my geography teacher. After Trump was elected, corporations had the greenlight to price gouge every imaginable necessity, including the insulin my teacher relied on. He couldn't afford all the payments even with insurance so he started rationing. The last day of school before winter break, I wished him happy holidays, gave him a Christmas card, and never saw him again.

I know you mean well, but I say this in the nicest way possible: you are speaking from a place of luck. Just because you haven't lost anyone or anything as a result of the past Trump administration does not mean everyone had the same experience. I know my experience is not a unique one. I could cite the widely available statistics about abortion restrictions and maternal mortality, or gender-affirming care bans and trans suicides, or the pandemic, anything else we've been seeing when conservatives take power.

A lot of us are right to be scared, either because we've gone through this before or because we stand a real risk of losing something.

[thewanderingfaith]

God, this is powerful.

[thewanderingfaith]

I will never, ever understand, how this guy mismanaging a worldwide pandemic and sacrificing hundreds of thousands of American lives during his stay at the White House, wasn’t the end of it.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[thewanderingfaith]

For those of you who think you have it bad, just be lucky you don’t live in a universe controlled by a sadistic A03 writer with too much time on their hands, who thinks they’re God. 🤣🤣