[snoopyoftheday]

snoopy of the day

[apologize-to-no-one]

[vazhaithandu]

[thememedaddy]

[021904]

Wilhelmina Cooper, Sharon Tate, Josephine Attominoff, and Jean Shrimpton, 1967. This photo was taken in New York City as part of a shoot for a hosiery advertisement.

"I did a pantyhose once, with the girls in leotards. The client said, "I'd love to see it in different sizes." They had Wilhelmina as the main girl. And Sharon was there and my assistant (Josephine). And Jean Shrimpton was in town, and she was there. So I put them together. Sharon was happy to do it. She didn't want to get paid, she just wanted to feel useful." ─ Photographer William Helburn.

[elbiotipo]

why bother caring about the environment when 1. It’s so obviously a lost cause and 2. There’s definitely going to be a nuclear war?

And what are you doing about it Anon? Learn about ecological restoration or get out of my way.

[elbiotipo]

If you read ecology books printed in the 70s and 80s, they were absolutely convinced that whales and tigers would not survive the century. There's a whole plot in Star Trek about how whales are extinct actually. Here in Argentina, we were sure that yaguaretés would have gone extinct. It was thought that rainforests would be forever lost, because there was no way that such complex ecosystems would be restored.

Now, you can go to Península Valdés and find that the whale population there is growing year after year, people can see them from their windows. In Iberá, where yaguaretés were extinct for over 70 years, there's now a population of 35 and growing, after being reintroduced just five years ago. As for rainforests?

We've becoming very, very good on restoring them. Natural environments, when given space and time to heal, can return to that they were. And after all, all natural enviroments are managed by human societies. It is up to us to implement a good management, un buen gobierno.

I firmly believe our children and grandchildren will see a restoration of Earth like never before.

Millions of people are working on this. You can learn about it, perhaps even become one of them. Or be a pointless doomer in my ask box. Your choice.

[crabussy]

if there are people who care, it's never a lost cause. at one point, kākāpō, a nocturnal flightless parrot species from aotearoa, were thought to be entirely extinct for decades. until 1977, where booming calls from males were heard on the small island of whenua hou. now, thanks to people who care so much they dedicated their lives to caring, kākāpō numbers are close to 300. despite the setbacks. despite the small gene pool causing infertility and health problems. people cared so fucking much that they survived. this is one of COUNTLESS, countless similar stories. I'm studying ecology so that I can go into conservation and all around me, every day, I see people who care enough to put years of their lives into learning about and solving environmental problems. I don't know man. hope isn't just some nebulous thing. it's tangible if you do something with it.

[kedreeva]

Tim Wong saw the decline of the pipeline swallowtail butterfly, and dedicated himself to providing habitat and raising babies, and it worked.

Spix's Macaws were extinct in the wild for 70 years, and now captive breeding and conservation groups have reintroduced a small population (with more on the way) and there are babies being successfully raised in the wild again.

And what else is there, but hope? We exist for the grace of hope. Those who have lost all hope don't stay here. If you are here to send an ask like this, it is not because you have given up, it's that you are hoping someone will show you that that hope is worth having.

It is!! It always is!!

There will be good things and if you cannot find them, make them! The time will pass anyway, you can choose what to do with it, and so many, many people are choosing to try to help.

[coinin]

The Lord Howe Island rodent eradication project never fails to make me cry, it’s so beautiful.

The population of an entire island working together to eradicate every last rat and mouse to save the native bird populations. They had to trap a bunch of the birds and keep them in captivity so they wouldn’t be hurt by the rodenticides, and released them after the rodents were gone. Normal residents helped by phoning in tips whenever they saw rodents. And they did it. Lord Howe Island, last I read, remains rodent free, and the native bird populations are rebounding!

Acid rain and the hole in the ozone layer, both of which were terrifying specters of my childhood, have been largely dealt with. Ecosystems devastated by acid rain are also recovering.

We are making a difference!

[aetherograph]

In 1979, an audacious, expensive conservation project was begun to try and breed california condors in captivity toward being released into the wild again. This was considered useless and hopeless by many people, but many more people said we had to at least TRY.

In 1991, the first captive-raised condors were re-introduced to Big Sur, Pinnacles, and Bitter Creek.

In 2006, three months before I turned eighteen, the first wild pair of condors was seen nesting in Big Sur in over a hundred years. A hundred years.

We did that. We fixed it.

How about another example.

When my mom was small, in the 1960s, there were many, many days of the year she was not allowed outside. Days and days they had recess indoors, because the air was so poisonous to breathe. Here's an article about it, with some good pictures.

My mom was 13 in the picture on the left. She was 50 in the picture on the right.

In 1987, there were 27 California Condors in the world, all captive.

In 2024, there were 566.

369 of them fly free.

That happened within my lifetime, and I'm not even 40 yet.

When you lose hope, think of our stories we're telling you. Recount them to yourself like a prayer. That's what I do.

There are 369 California Condors flying free in the sky right now.

There is no more acid rain.

There is an ozone.

There are wild tigers.

There are still birds on Lord Howe Island.

There are 369 California Condors flying free.

[wisdomisadumpstat]

Speaking of Lord Howe Island, there's the Lord Howe Island stick insect, which was thought to have become extinct in 1920, after a ship ran aground on the island in 1918, which allowed rats onto the island and cause environmental damage to the local animal populations.

While carcasses of the insect had been found from 1964 onwards, it wasn't until 2001 when live stick insects were finally rediscovered, and in 2003 to breeding pairs were recovered, with one pair going to Melbourne Zoo.

In 2006, there were fifty breeding pairs at the zoo and thousands of unhatched eggs. In 2008, there were now 700 insects and 11,376 eggs, with 20 insects going to a special habitat on Lord Howe Island. In 2012 it was reported that there were 9000 insects that had been bred, and 20,000 eggs. By the beginning of 2016, 13,000 eggs had been hatched, and as of 2023 there are plans to reintroduce the insects to more parts of Lord Howe Island and as of 2025, six zoos across the worlds have their own populations and breeding programs for the Lord Howe Island stick insect.

From just a handful to thousands, being reintroduced back to the wild and having zoos around the world and being given a fighting chance again.

[vazhaithandu]

I (a brown person) believe most brown people aren’t looking to congratulate white people for criticizing or apologizing for their own race.

Many of us are understandably concerned about racial discrimination, but trust isn’t built through violence or hate speech. It is earned through consistency and actions over time.

Personally, I don’t judge people by what their ancestors did. I judge them by what they choose to do themselves.

[vazhaithandu]

The millennial obsession with looking young is supremely embarrassing. Our generation couldn’t accept they were adults in their 20s and they can’t accept that they are middle aged now that they are in their 30s.

[vazhaithandu]

According to the Femicide Census website, only 10% of female murder victims in the United Kingdom between 2009 and 2023 were killed by strangers, while six times that many were murdered by a current or former intimate partner, and the rest by other family members or friends. And the most dangerous men of all are the controlling boyfriends or husbands who won’t permit their girlfriends or wives to go out with other people, and refuse to allow them to carry any money of their own.

Controlling or Coercive Behavior has been a criminal offense in the United Kingdom since 2015 and the definition of such behavior includes acts designed to make a person feel inferior and/or dependent by keeping them apart from help and support. This might include acts of physical violence or threats of violence to punish or frighten the victim, sexual assault or abuse, directing the victim’s daily activities such as what they wear and when they can eat or sleep, and restricting the victim’s access to finances, social media, friends and family.

Perpetrators often tell lies to the victim’s family to make it seem that their behavior is to protect the victim from some undisclosed threat, or that the victim is mentally ill and does not have the capacity to make their own decisions.

Often the behavior creeps up on a victim over time, such that they aren’t even aware they are being abused. If and when they do realize, getting away from the abuser is fraught with difficulty and danger. They will likely have already been isolated from those who might have helped, and all too often, the situation can spiral downwards into more abuse, more violence, even murder.

One might believe that such incidents would be random and unpredictable—crimes of passion where a ‘red mist’ of anger suddenly descends—but research by Dr Jane Monckton Smith, a criminology expert at the University of Gloucestershire in England shows that there is a distinct and predictable pattern of behavior that leads someone to murder their partner.

[vazhaithandu]

[vazhaithandu]

[junestrings]

a lot of people dont care about insect biomass collapse bc when they hear we are losing 2.5% of the insect biomass per year they just imagine the cockroach and housefly population decreasing by that much. they dont realize those are among the only ones that will remain unbothered

[junestrings]

you can make a little oasis right where you are, and it matters

[headspace-hotel]

every year of restoring native plants I see a great increase in the insect populations, and loads of new insects i never saw before (all of them harmless--the insects that are harmful or parasitic on humans are the main ones being unaffected by the decrease in insect populations)

(a large part of) the problem is Plant Sameness. we must restore plant diversity

[rosieandthemoon]

[vazhaithandu]

[nightvaleofficial]

[cherishedwifey]

an under-appreciated view.

[thoughtkick]

“We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.”

— Anthony Hopkins