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[willow-free]

Hey yall.

It’s probably obvious, but I don’t show up around here much anymore.

Life got...really busy. Like really. Well, actually. I initially took a weeks’ break because of a challenge from a podcast -- deleted the app from my phone and all that -- and then it just....extended. I got busy. Junior year of college, and then COVID hit, and it just...wasn’t on my mind to be here.

I guess I just...feel bad? A little? I have a lot of friends from here. I met some of my best friends from this website. So I guess I feel a little beholden to it and the people I’ve connected with on here. I’ve been here for a long time. I first started browsing when I was 13. I’m going to graduate college now. I have even less time than I did before, because, well, I guess I have to actually act like I know what I’m doing now. Being responsible sucks.

So. I guess this is kind of a closure thing. I’ve felt bad I kinda just up and disappeared. I’ll still check in every once in a while, but...I think I’ve moved on from Tumblr. I’ve tried getting back into it, but it just doesn’t seem to stick like it did before. I was on here way too much before my social media break, anyway.

If you want to stay in touch, I can give you my Discord handle? Only those that I’m familiar with, though. Sorry to all the pornbots I see clogging my email feed.

Thanks for sticking around. It was fun. I had a good time.

- Momo

[awed-frog]

Prairies are some of the most endangered ecosystems in the world, with the tallgrass prairie being the most endangered. Only 1-4% of tallgrass prairie still exists. Prairies are critically important, not only for the unique biodiversity they possess, but for their effect on climate. The ability to store carbon is a valuable ecological service in today’s changing climate. Carbon, which is emitted both naturally and by human activities such as burning coal to create electricity, is a greenhouse gas that is increasing in the Earth’s atmosphere. Reports from the International Panel on Climate Change, a group of more than 2,000 climate scientists from around the world, agree that increased greenhouse gases are causing climate change, which is leading to sea level rise, higher temperatures, and altered rain patterns. Most of the prairie’s carbon sequestration happens below ground, where prairie roots can dig into the soil to depths up to 15 feet and more. Prairies can store much more carbon below ground than a forest can store above ground. In fact, the prairie was once the largest carbon sink in the world-much bigger than the Amazon rainforest-and its destruction has had devastating effects.

[source]

[revretch]

I just have to add–that extensive root system? It’s not just how the plant eats, and how it keeps itself from getting pulled out of the ground during storms, or dying when its aboveground portion is eaten… it’s how it talks to its friends and family, how it shares food with its friends and family, and more than likely, how it thinks. That’s a whole plant brain we’ve domesticated away, leaving a helpless organism that has trouble figuring out when it’s under attack by pests, what to do about it, has very little in the way of chemical defense so it can do something about it, and can’t even warn its neighbors. Even apart from the ecological concerns, what we’ve done is honestly pretty cruel.

[bogleech]

Here’s some more articles on this too! https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/may/02/plants-talk-to-each-other-through-their-roots http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141111-plants-have-a-hidden-internet

https://www.the-scientist.com/features/plant-talk-38209

Whether or not you think this should qualify as a form of “intelligence” as we know it (which in itself as a pretty nebulous and poorly defined thing), plants exhibit complicated interactive behaviors that help them grow and thrive, and the way we harvest a lot of them for our produce just doesn’t even give them a chance to reach their maturity and begin trading nutrients the way they’re supposed to.

[elodieunderglass]

this is why I get so defensive about grass on Tumblr, and yes, I recognize how ridiculous that sentence is. The anti-lawn-culture movement - which is great in many ways! - is very anti-grass, because they think of grass as this plastic green stuff that American dads spray on everything, at the cost of Perfect Beautiful Nature. But grass is incredible. The reason that people commonly like to surround themselves with grass is because it is a fantastic plant. And yet it’s associated with the boring and mundane! People think of it as, like, background noise. They think of it as the floor. It’s like some kind of carpet to them, to be complained about occasionally because it isn’t a forest or vegetable garden. They don’t even care about it, and then they complain about it. But let me tell you: the Grass Fandom is extremely rewarding.

Obviously, it isn’t a good idea to terraform landscapes into lawns. Golf courses can fuck right off. Nobody needs to water lawns (if lawn grass turns yellow in the heat, it is almost always because it has simply gone dormant; it’ll turn green as soon as it gets some water. You don’t need to water it, it will resurrect itself.) But neither is it a universally good idea to rip up established lawns and yards and greens in order to replace them with vegetable gardens or whatever (unless you need to, or if the grass can only live there with extensive life support in place.) Grass is an excellent plant to have around the home or town; it allows pets, poultry and children to play and piss and shit and walk, and it kindly breaks all of it down; you can walk on it, and it forgives you; it prevents erosion, saving our vanishing topsoil with a ferocious stubbornness; it locks the moisture into the ground, produces a renewable harvest of grass clippings that can be composted for rich green manure, and respires nearly year-round in some areas.

I mean, grass resists being stomped on all day! It keeps high-traffic outdoor areas from becoming mudpits or dusty swathes! That’s seriously impressive in a plant. To replace that durability in public and private spaces, you’d often have to lay down gravel or chippings for people to walk on, which isn’t green and doesn’t grow and has to be acquired from somewhere. Isn’t grass impressive? Name another type of plant that will carry you like that.

Like, the OP mentions grasslands and climate change. You almost never hear about this, because the eco-public prefers the concept of trees as the Most Eco Plants Ever. Everyone loves trees sooooo much, that there is this constant background insistence that planting loads of trees will fix environmental damage forever, and that the world would be better if it all looked like some Eurocentric fantasy of a mossy fairy forest.

Now, trees are great! I am also in the tree fandom. But trees aren’t hugely efficient at fixing carbon - and across most geographical swathes of the planet, they only work part-time. They only grab carbon dioxide and produce oxygen during the stages of their life cycles when they are “awake” and actively growing - so not during winter, not in their old age, etc. And contrast with wild native grass, which apparently considers carbon capture and sequestration to be its favorite hobby. But you almost never hear people going on about “preserving grassland” or being “grass-huggers” - and that is incredibly important! Let’s talk more about grass!

 And vast tracts of the world - magnificent biomes on every part of the planet - are not native forests, but native grassland. Steppes, tundras, prairies, savannahs and scrublands are places that trees don’t dominate, but they are bursting with important and diverse life - often centered around the rhythms of native grasses. Trees don’t live in Antarctica, but grasses do! Grasses are GREAT. They harbor life! They support life!

Grass forms the basis of the human food supply - we eat grains more than anything else. Grains are grasses, and we also use and eat the animals that eat grass. The great domesticated cereal grains of the world - maize, rice, millet, wheat - allowed for food storage, which allowed towns and civilizations to form. And the domesticated animals which have carried our societies on their backs for so long - cows, sheep, horses - all eat grass. Grass is so incredibly important to our daily lives. And it’s beautiful! And complicated! And clever! It’s so much more than a floor covering.

Resist the insistence that grass = lawn. (and in some climates and geographies, embrace that ‘lawns’ are a natural environment.) Encourage and celebrate the native grasses of your area! Whether they’re tallgrass or bamboo, they are very exciting and important. Perhaps you’d like to meet the nearest patch of grass - a lawn, a park, or a strip of green in a city. Is it delicate bentgrass? Tough and resilient ryegrass? Is it invasive? indigenous? Formerly invasive but now naturalized? What is it used for? Who loves it?

Just. Grass is so great! Join the Grass Fandom today!

It’s a grassroots movement

[the-witches-glossary]

This is so beautifully written.

[prismatic-bell]

Broke: fuck grass and lawn culture

Woke: replace your generic Home Depot lawn with native grasses

[guerrillatech]

[fluffmugger]

amazon’s entire schtick is to run other businesses into the ground by undercutting prices then ruling over their peasant customers. 

[solitarelee]

FedEx just refuses to deliver to my house. It’s too rural. They just won’t do it. The USPS is gutted. If I need supplies or food or any emergency anything, am I going to risk the package being destroyed or never getting to my house, or grit my teeth and go with the chaotic evil monsters who will nonetheless give me the food or medicine I need? 

And guess what? Amazon is directly and indirectly responsible for both the state of FedEx and the state of the USPS. They were allowed to create a monopoly and they were PREPARED for the further gutting of the USPS we’ve seen in late 2020. In my rural area, with a pandemic on? I think people don’t understand what I mean when I say I have no choice sometimes, the same as I have no choice but to buy Comcast internet even tho it’s overpriced and unreliable. 

It. Is. A. Monopoly. By. Design. We’re being given no choice. The solution isn’t to attack the consumers; it’s to force the government to undermine the company and to actually support its citizens with things like the USPS. 

[damienhaaas]

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[science-junkie]

… and here is a gift for all of us.

[teenagerposts]

Am I the only one whose internet addiction started with my parents not letting me freaking go anywhere

[carry-on-my-wayward-butt]

i am obsessed with the comments on recipe sites

[brucebocchi]

sorry to post facebook videos on main but the sound of jello going through an industrial shredder is both mesmerizing and horrible

[studentlifeproblems]

Follow @studentlifeproblems for more student memes! 

[shadesofarrogance]

The engineer one is on point 😭😭

[niggxrette]

So many attacks all at once

[bluedragon120]

This semester was literal hell… cannot wait for these finals to be over 😬

[casgirl]

Me: misses the charging port while trying to plug my phone in

The bbc sherlock who lives in my head:

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[imageinsanity]

My current employer once said to me, “I get the impression you work to live, not live to work.” Uh, yeah motherfucker.

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

me after reading this:

[failure-to-adult]

A boss once sat me down and said, I swear to fuck, that it was a bad thing that I was interested in leaving work on time. Like he said something like “I’m told that you like going home at the end of the day.”

I asked him what I meant. Like I point blank said “Are you saying I don’t work enough overtime?”

“…no,” he said, since we got in trouble if we worked OT. It was treated as a moral failing on our parts.

“So are you saying I should be working for free?” I asked. This is a trap question. It was a corporate job. Which meant he actually was limited in the shit he could pull.

“….no,” he grudgingly replied.

“So what is the problem?” I asked. And he had to admit that, technically, I had done nothing wrong.

But he tried to guilt me over LIKING TO GO HOME AT THE END OF THE DAY. After each 8-10 hour shift where I was allowed ZERO breaks, despite the law requiring I get a minimum of 15 minutes every 4 hours.

He also got pissed off that I was very open with telling people I had given my notice. I didn’t bad mouth the place. I wasn’t negative. I was just open that, yes, I was moving and had therefor quit.

GEE I FUCKING WONDER WHY I WAS SO EXCITED TO BE LEAVING.

[onewholesleepyboi]

Anyone who’s foolish enough to tell me that working is a privilege I should “live” for ought to be drawn and quartered.

I’m dead serious; people are dropping dead like flies because of overwork. 

This is why we NEED labor laws, people. 

[one-hell-of-a-sheep]

This is why we NEED labour unions and organized labour.

[thingsofimportanceanddelight]

The audacity of feeling like your employees owe you time you refuse to pay them for…

[thingarchiv]

i think we can all agree the funniest part of someone getting a callout is the hour afterwards when they kick into high gear and turn full blown anime antagonist

[thingarchiv]

You fools. You think a measly Google Document could stop me? Tch. How embarrassing. Little do you peasants know, your “callout” means nothing to me. Keep your “beloved mutuals,” soon you will know true power. #shut up adrian #evil tw

[parkchanwoohoo]

i find it v cute when rpgs offer me, someone whose sole strategy is “attacking enemies,” status changing effects. “this lowers your enemy’s speed” you know what else would lower their speed? being dead, from my fists

[doggirlpaws]

[coyotesmokebreak]

[galaxianbitch]

How do i articulate how fucking Premium this content is

[eggpuffs]

finding out that the beginning scenes in Elf were all shot in forced perspective to make Buddy seem giant makes this movie even better kLJASLKDFJ

[severalowls]

I’m absolutely not against robits in the home, I think the possibilities are really cool but like… Alright actually, here’s a side by side comparison: 

[evilkillerpoptarts]

[maestropear]

Alexa can play Skyrim tho

[severalowls]

Damn you’re right.

I’m on mobile can somebody add that as a point for Roomba.

[mysteryseeker]

here you go

[bigwordsandsharpedges]

Roomba creates maps of the inside of your house

[severalowls]

You’re like the 400th person to add this so:

This is the outline of my bedroom, with approximate furniture. Information I might not want handed out to the government or corporations or whatever. Not even including dubious terrain like rugs and clutter:

Here’s what a roomba, at floor level, with clutter and obstructions and stuff-under-stuff might be able to ‘map’ as navigable area:

This is completely useless to anybody except people developing robot vaccuums who might want diagnostic data. This isn’t even close to the level of Alexa’s microphone bollocks. Hit Alexa with a hammer, Roomba is… Safe, for now.

[hecatespoison]

I saw the red and blue and my first response was “Roomba is using this sensitive information for GERRYMANDERING purposes”

[ralfmaximus]

SWAT team, bursting into your room, having been briefed with detailed Roomba-collected maps: *avoids difficult rug*

[gfwayu]

i hate how reward systems never work for me like i can’t just say “if i finish this assignment i can have a cookie” bc my brain is like “…..or u could just have one right now” and i can’t argue with that logic

[truestoriesaboutme]

Self-imposed deadlines don’t work either because I know the guy who set them and he’s full of shit

[truestoriesaboutme]

This is going around again, so I should say, I was wrong when I wrote this.

Actually, I know the girl who set them and she’s full of shit

[kaity--did]

Okay in my house we have a strange tradition. My mother builds this beautiful Christmas village.

It wraps all around our house through the rooms and under the trees and it’s wonderful.

Every year she hides the Christmas Vampire

This started when I was a very small got child and spread to all of my friends, including my best friend from elementary school who I just so happened to grow up and marry. Now that we have grown up and moved nearly 600 miles away we still always go home for a week at Christmas for multiple reasons, including the Christmas Vampire.

Needless to say we still partake and things have gotten heated.

Stay tuned for the epic conclusion and to see my husband and father in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s sooty costume when I find the Christmas Vampire First!

Happy Haunting!

[kaity--did]

Dad has no fricken clue how to trash talk and I don’t trust him in the slightest.

[kaity--did]

The saga continues. Mom hasnt finished the village yet and it’s starting to get to her….

Hahahaha, I mean I love this on multiple levels.  But what really threw it over the top was the mom’s anxiety over the world-building and city design being right.  I feel you vampire-hiding mom, I feel you.

can I just say that the Christmas Vampire is infinitely preferable to the Elf on the Shelf

[prince-of-legba]

Christmas town looks amazing, how much is the rent?

[kaity--did]

My mom has started constructing the village, and she would like you to know that the rent in the Christmas village is pay what you can and it can be in Christmas cookies. This village is very anti capitalist and when the Walmart moved in (my dad bought her a ceramic walmart) the villagers protested (read this as my mom made teeny tiny picket signs and stuck them to villagers hands)

[villainous-queer-deactivated202]

OP was the picket successful did they run the walmart out of town? I need to know. I am so concerned. Does the vampire live in town? Is he a beloved yet eccentric member of the populace, or do the townsfolk live in fear of him? Does his bat have a warm place to sleep during winter?

[kaity--did]

The picket is on going. This year they are all socially distanced. The vampire lives on the mountain in an old house. No one fears him but there is a story every year. 2 years ago he frightened the carnival worker who operated the merry go round, gave him a heart attack and he was in the hospital! The vampire was so scared he fled and there was a man hunt (because everyone was afraid for their friend and also insurance) …. My mom might be insane his bat is always with him and has a wing of the house to himself

[patriciadaaa]

I love this

[kaity--did]

For every one asking the protestors have changed their target in the village this year