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there's a family of local sandhill cranes that adopted an abandoned goose last summer and they're STILL together today even after migration.... i love them + they're local celebrities + nature is beautiful
yesterday’s update… 📸 everyone is paparazzi when ur this famous…
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Pecan Island, LA 10/23
Ode To Pecan Island, While Thinking of Elon Musk
Today it hit the front page of the New Orleans Times-Picayune that a deal is being finalized for Elon Musk to gain control of 136,000 acres of land in rural Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, between Pecan Island and Freshwater City, to build a spaceport for Space-X rocket testing. The deal was done in near-total secrecy, with no public input, no studies for feasibility or environmental impacts, and no regard for the area's history and culture.
Pecan Island and the area of Vermilion Parish south to the Gulf shore is a place rich in indigenous and pioneering history. Occupied by native tribes since at least 1000 AD, it was settled for cattle ranching beginning in 1840, and is a combination of wetlands, coastal prairie, and part of a rare chenier plain -- a type of coastal ridge formation that only appears in four places in the world: Guyana; Essex, UK; New Zealand; and southwest Louisiana. Pecan Island has traditionally been known as a place where people have come to live private lives away from the hustle and bustle of the regular day-to-day world. For more than 100 years, Pecan Island was home to trappers, fishermen, and settlers who lived off the land. It still supports fishing and hunting industries that are the backbone of rural Vermilion Parish.
Much of the land around Pecan Island has eroded due to canal digging from the oil and gas industry. Large square land parcels were pumped out to build oil wells. The land sank and contracted like a dry sponge, and later filled in with water from tropical storms and flooding, erasing these large blocks of land. Over decades the land has become more prone to flooding, while land continues to erode from saltwater intrusion, which has already killed many 200 year old live oak trees that are abundant in the area. It has also experienced 15-20 foot storm surges from hurricanes Ike and Laura in the past 15 years or so.
And now Musk proposes the area be used as his personal playground to play with his rockets. The effects this kind of operation will have on Pecan Island are staggering to consider -- and it is becoming clear that Musk and Space X have not considered them at all.
Pecan Island sits in the middle of the Mississippi migratory flyway, and is adjacent to three major wildlife refuges: the Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge, gifted to Louisiana by the Rockefeller Foundation; the White Lake Wetlands Conservation Area; and the Paul J Rainey Wildlife Refuge. Rocket launches planned here (at least two per month) will have incalculable environmental impact, killing birds, their nests, and disrupting environmental balances due to noise, which will scare away surviving wildlife, decimating the fishing and hunting industry. True, rural Vermilion Parish is well known to have some of the best duck hunting in the United States, attracting even US Presidents for recreation. That will be severely disrupted and likely taken away entirely by Space X operations.
Just west of the planned launch pad sits Mulberry Island, a chenier ridge that is the site of one of the last surviving coastal cattle ranches in southwest Louisiana. For more than a century, cattle grazed Mulberry Island, just 200 yards from the Gulf shore, to be driven up north to Abbeville in the event of encroaching tropical storms. Mulberry Island will likely be bought out and controlled by Space X, as will the entire area being rendered off-limits to the public. It also seems likely state route 3147, which runs from Pecan Island to the launch site at Freshwater City will become a private company road. The public will no longer be able to fish, launch boats, or enjoy a peaceful day in the wild.
As I photographed the Louisiana coast for more than 20 years, I have visited Pecan Island and Freshwater City more times than I can remember. The thing I remember most about it is the silence of it. Standing on the front ridge road in Pecan Island, I have felt an undeniable sense of calm and serenity, humbled by the natural beauty, feeling both awe and respect for the pioneers who settled the area and lived off the land. Indeed, it is a place with great appeal for those who know how to listen to silence. The old school in Pecan Island, built in the early 1960s, and closed after Hurricane Rita in 2005 for lack of enrollment, was recently sold to the University of Louisiana at Lafayette to become a coastal and environmental research center. But now it will become a noisy fantasy playground for Elon Musk. The deal Musk will enjoy exempts him and Space X from property tax and sales tax on supplies bought in Louisiana, and renders Space X immune to lawsuits for any environmental damages. There is even a provision in the deal that grants total immunity to all Space X employees for trespassing on private land or causing any damage to it, as well as immunity for causing the demise of any small businesses in the area. I am very sad to see this place be torn up to accommodate the science fiction fantasies of the world's richest man -- who has a long history of taking away jobs and destroying the lives of his competitors. As an unelected, appointed government official -- a position he bought by donating over $200 million to Donald Trump's presidential campaign -- he fired over 350,000 career civil servants. As the CEO of Twitter (now X), he fired over half the existing staff on the day he took control of the company. I hope his ventures in Vermilion Parish fail miserably. I hope Louisianans will wake up to the fact that Musk is not interested in creating jobs, and has not a care in the world for the culture, history, and communities of Louisiana, and that he will be sent packing. I am sad for the wildlife that will be killed; the people who will no longer be able to fish or make their living from the sea; and the scientists who have dedicated their careers in efforts to preserve and restore Louisiana's coast to its former unique beauty.
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white people please just purchase native artwork and jewelry from native people i keep seeing idiot white people be like “waaah i wish i could support native creators but its cultural appropriation” girl why would beaders sell you their earrings then. just dont get a medicine wheel or a thunderbird then like damn it is that easy
http://www.beyondbuckskin.com/p/buy-native.html?m=1
If Native folks are making it to sell to white people with the approval of their tribe, it’s not “appropriation”–its support and appreciation! So yes, buy that native-made dream catcher, but not the mass produced fakes made by white people. Like, you can go to a pow wow and buy native crafts there, too.
here are some places to get native/indigenous goods and merch online if you can’t find something local or if physical access is an obstacle:
https://sweetgrasstradingco.com/ https://nativeharvest.com/ https://byellowtail.com/ https://www.salishstyle.com/ https://trickstercompany.com/ https://hutxh.com/ https://www.thentvs.com/ https://urbannativeera.com/ https://www.oxdxclothing.com/ https://kotahbear.com/ https://www.totemdesignhouse.com/ https://ginewusa.com/ https://eighthgeneration.com/
and the only native-owned comic shop in the world: https://redplanetbooksncomics.com/
(Source) August 2nd, 2026.
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having a multi year long character obsession becomes like a abstract thought experiment at some point
no i don't think those characters are siblings i think they're friends. I don't think that's their mom I actually think she's their friend. I don't think they're related actually I think they're friends with each other.
it really pisses me off when adults sit there and drill it into kids’ heads that their youth is fleeting and tell them things like “enjoy your childhood while it lasts because this is the best it’s gonna get”. why are you telling children that adulthood is the worst thing they can experience? seriously what the fuck is wrong with you, why are you trying to make them feel like growing up is a fate worse than death? trying to convince them their life is over before it even begins? i’m tired of that shit. because tell my why my 12 year old cousin told me when she turns 30 she’ll be so depressed she’s just gonna cry all the time. what the fuck. kids don’t need to hear that their already stressful and overwhelming lives are never going to get better, that the abuse and lack of autonomy they face is apparently the highlight of their lives. they need to hear about adults who are happy to be alive and happy to have made it to their age. they need to know that growing up rules, it’s a gift and life does not have to suck for them, that they have a future that’s worth sticking around for. this rhetoric is so damaging mentally and i’m about to start hitting the adults who parrot it. i’m sorry you hate your life but you don’t get to dump your issues on these kids. don’t piss me off and leave these babies alone!
I desperately need this app to understand that being in your 50's is not elderly. People in their 50's are still working full time jobs and have active social lives that are not centered around just quiet activities and hip replacements. People in their 50's are going to bars, concerts, hiking, vacationing, adventuring, partying, and doing all sorts of wild and fun stuff as well as staying in and reading or watching their favorite movies. They have hobbies and lives and navigate around their aging bodies with a lot more ease than you would think.
Elderly is basically like 70-75+. Definitely 80+.
Joking is fun and trust that those of us who are older make them more than you do but we hardly have one foot in the grave. I'm 41 and tear it up probably better than you can. But for the sake of realism in your fics, stop writing 50 year olds like they're the fucking Crypt Keepers. (Google it)
reading about the participation of children in rituals as a form of play in ancient greece and came across an incredibly charming story from julius pollux's onomasticon where a flood prevented the adults from reaching a sanctuary to sacrifice a ram to heracles, and the children solved the problem by....sticking a bunch of sticks in an apple to give it "legs" and "horns" and offering it as a sacrifice instead. it's such a charming thought and i can perfectly picture kids these days also pretending at sacrificing an apple "goat" at recess
catch me on the playground playing sacrifices
look, i work at a morgue, i get to see every day how withered and small bodies can get when someone was sick. it’s awful. do you know how bone-thin a leg can get. or how a stomach really looks beneath the ribs when it’s wasted away. the way people’s eyes and cheeks press in to their skull like they’re clinging on for dear life. they died like that, and you want to try and sell me a lie, a pill, a miracle cure that’ll make me live in that state? that’ll make my friends look like that, my family, the people i love? to see corpses in them?
this job makes me appreciate all the more bodies lived in and well-loved. please eat that second serving. please give yourself treats as much as you want. life is not long enough to suffer through it. you’ll be plenty skinny when you’re dead.
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>overcompensating control freak who would benefit from cnc where they get hunted down and pinned like a butterfly speared on a needle
you should try crossdressing more. both because it's fun and because seeing the different ways clothes are manufactured by gender will give you 50 new reasons to be pissed off. become radicalized against misogyny by flannel quality
yk guys I think a lot of ppl when arguing against the death penalty go for a like "people don't deserve death, etc" view and I get why ppl argue for that I rly do! but it doesn't matter. I don't trust the government to do it, I don't trust them to decide who should die, I don't trust them to determine who is mentally competent, I don't trust them to not be bigoted and discriminatory in their practices, I don't trust them to have the right people, I don't trust them to execute it in a humanitarian way. and I've had discussions with ppl who otherwise have similar viewpoints to me in many ways but can think of people they think deserve to die, and I think if abolishing the death penalty is like, a super important cause to u the same way it is to me, the argument u use shouldn't be "well these people deserve to live" (although in some cases I think yeah the death penalty is done to people who totally don't "deserve it") because that's so subjective, it should be "do you trust the government to do it?" like, do you trust the people who cant even fill potholes on your road to determine who should and should not live
me: can i get a normal picture of a woman to draw
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But seriously though. Learning to draw fat people will make you a much better artist. Understanding how skin and fat behaves and folds in certain poses, and being able to adapt complex poses to fit a fat body (as usually references are with thin models) will help you TREMENDOUSLY. Drawing fat being properly affected by gravity will aid you in ALL figure drawing in the future. Like if you have any sort of interest in drawing humanoid figures (AND furries) you really ought to learn how to draw fat of all kind.
