Hi, these bees are babies! Theyāre not clumsy at all, this is what is called orientation flights. After birth and before beginning their careers as foragers (as all Honey bees cycle through all the jobs in the Hive throughout their lifespan), Honey bees take short flights back and forth, to and from the Hive, to orient themselves with their wings and their home so they can learn its location and how to get back home after foraging! Everyone has to learn, these are just smol little baby turkeys. Bees use the angle of the sun for location so adults have a better and more direct sense of location than any human
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Find a humanitarian organization near you and volunteer with them. Do it. I mean it. Even like one day a week. Even an HOUR a week. This shit will change you in the best ways. Your circle will fill with cool people. THE HELPERS-- FIND THEM and then BE THEM
Being in close contact with people who give a shit and are also witnessing the descent of our country into fascism and ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT is actually mad refreshing in contrast to the pointless noise that is the internet.
You'll make such fast friends if you:
show up
say "where do you need me"
do what they say
have a good attitude
Done. Easy. Volunteering is awesome and will put you right in the lap of the best people in your area. They're the helpers, they're the people Mr. Rogers told you about!
Doing an easy task like potting trees for a community garden or helping at a food bank will also connect you to people who are doing more, like immigrant support or things that tackle more urgent, dangerous issues going on. So you can scale up your involvement easily by just showing up repeatedly.
Or don't scale it up-- maybe you stop at helping at the food bank and you're stacking cans for a few hours. You're feeding your neighbors. That's a load-bearing part of any revolution. (I use that word optimistically.)
The people you meet will be the people you lean on when shit gets worse.
AND VICE VERSA, prove that you are someone to lean ON by showing up and helping. Offer things to people. Your skills may be helpful.
Already, just because we've done local volunteering, we have made at least 5 or 6 new friends, got a potential firewood connection, and WELL-PAID EMPLOYMENT (??? OMG)
(and free lunches and snacks and fruit trees) And it's healing as fuck to have people genuinely tell you, in the flesh, to your face, "I'm so glad you showed up today. I appreciate you so much. This would have been harder without you." That shit makes you feel AWESOME and REAL and PURPOSEFUL
(We woke up early for a shift at the food bank, I'm hyping myself up because I am not a morning person LMAO) But yeah volunteering is such a good way to build security and community. There's something for everyone to help with, just get out there and show up, first.
[[Comic ID: Three colorful panels illustrated with markers, showing off the dandelions as the sun, moon, and stars with the original text overlaid. Bright yellow rays erupt from a scattering of sunny dandelions in the first image, spiraling into the surrounding greenery like a Van Gogh painting. Then one massive dandelion puff, viewed from below, takes up the whole night sky. White ripples surround the dandelion, making it look like a dark pond peeking through the grass. In the last, a child blows on a dandelion from a grassy patch shaped like a lily pad. From high above, we see the distinctly botanical seeds turn into stars and sparkles where the wind catches them. End ID]]
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I remember walking uphill along the park fence in April and smelling the crabapple blossoms before I even reached them. Yesterday walking in the same place I could smell the apple smell of the fruit before I reached those trees. Seasons turning. Iām grateful for bees who did the work.
Today's wasp of the day is the dandelion gall wasp (Phanacis taraxaci)!
Credits: photo 1, photo 2
*There are unfortunately no photos or diagrams of the adult wasp
Lumpies in your weeds? It just might be wasps!
While a number of organisms use the common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) as their host, this is the only known wasp to do so. What's interesting about this galler though is that their larvae are capable of moving around inside the gallā or at least do until a certain stage of their development.
Developers want to build a 69,000 square foot Data Center right next to the Nashville Zoo. This will greatly impact the environment. The noise and air pollution could have severe negative effects on the animals, people and ecosystem in the surrounding area. The Nashville Zoo has 3000 animals in their care and many are endangered species.
You do not have to be from Tennessee to sign this petition! The Zoo is asking for help.
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Step One: catch a bunch of pollen from the tassel.
Mmm, pollen. You'll know it's time when the tassel opens up and has the dangley things (anthers), and you tap it gently, pollen visibly falls out.
I, and a bunch of other people, catch it in a sheet of folded paper, as you can see above.
This makes it easy to do Step Two: sprinkle the pollen on to some receptive silks:
They're ready for pollen as soon as you see the silks. You just kinda tap it on there and the corn does it's thing. I don't know exactly when they stop being receptive to pollen, but I'd bet that if they look browned and dried out it's a no go.
Why would someone want to do this? Well, there's two scenarios that I know of:
1. You don't have enough space to grow enough corn to ensure wind pollination is effective.
2. You are breeding corn and you want to be sure of which plants are pollinating which plants.
This does work, I've done it before, and fingers crossed the cobs will ripen and I'll get to show you all.
I think most importantly, it would give us the leverage to say ānoā. To walk away from bad jobs and abusive managers. To refuse to work in unsafe environments. To demand better pay.
To demand better, because the options are no longer āsuck it upā or ādieā.
The counter-argument: Not having UBI is in the interests of those in power who want to do anything to the people they are in power over in order to remain in power.
If the greed of the few should come before the need of the many.
Hundreds of studies from all over the world, from wealthy European countries to countries in the trenches of extreme poverty, show the same thing: Recipients of UBI spend that money on food, housing, education, paying down debt, investing in the future and generally improving their lives, pretty much universally.
They use the money to pay the first and last monthās rent on a better apartment. They buy school supplies and clothes for their kids. They go to the doctor for preventative care, seek mental health support, and get their kids glasses. They start a retirement fund. They can afford better quality food and repairs on their homes, appliances and cars. Many use the money to start a business or invest.
Know what they tend NOT to do? The vast majority do not buy drugs, they donāt drink it all away, they donāt gamble it away and they donāt blow it all on scratchers, iPhones or garish clothes. They arenāt disincentivized to work. None of those things are morally bad or wrong, but they are the most common arguments against UBI: āMEEEHHHHH WE CANāT GIVE PEOPLE FREE MONEY THEY WONāT WORK AND THEYāLL BUY DRUUUUUGS!ā Take a wild guess who is most often accused of spending money on drugs, scratchers and jewelry. Yep, POC. The mythical āwelfare queenā we were all told to hate is a racist stereotype based on a handful of anecdotes during Reaganās presidency and perpetuated by conservative white people who canāt handle the concept of sharing resources with someone who might be a little poorer, sicker, or darker than they are. Using the term āwelfare queenā is a good indicator to me that they watch Fox āNewsā every day and havenāt had a thought of their own since the Gulf War.
Poverty is a failure of society, not the individual. Trapping people in shit jobs by tying their healthcare to employment is yet another way to abuse people just trying to (barely) survive. Stripping a disabled person of their social security for getting a job (because disability pay is such a pittance itās embarrassing) is bullshit. UBI doesnāt disincentivize people from working, the way that capitalism works does. Creating a safety net wonāt turn us all into lazy layabouts sitting at home on the couch eating chips all day, making it more of a pain in the ass just to live by jumping through endless hoops, meeting ridiculous job-hunting quotas, and peeing in a cup for the privilege of a few dollars a month in food stamps does. Learned helplessness is a result of a broken system that punishes you for following the rules.
Also if people wanna spend their money on drugs, that ought to be their business; I mean, arenāt Americans all about āI donāt want no governance scienticians observing my life and telling me what to do,ā shouldnāt someone else taking drugs be just, them expressing their freedom the way you do?
Baby cantaloupes!!! I've never gotten melons to grow here, although squashes and pumpkins are happy enough, so this is my first successful attempt at getting this far. The vines are so small compared to hubbard vines though???
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Last year, just to be jerks, the Lege passed a bill aimed at forcing the city of Boise to stop flying the Pride flag outside City Hall, where it has flown for a decade, just a few blocks down the street from the state Capitol.
The 2025 law forbade any flags on public property other than the flags for US America, Idaho, cities and tribes, military services, and a few other official flags of āa governmental entity.ā The billās Republican sponsor insisted that this wasnāt culture war, heavens no, it was about promoting unity, and America, and āstuff that we can all agree on.ā
The Boise City Council promptly turned right around and passed a resolution adopting the Pride flag as one of three official City of Boise flags, and ran the rainbow colors up the flagpole again. Hooray!
Unwilling to accept such rampant disrespect to their edict, Republicans in the Lege this year passed a whole new flag law, this one adding a new rule saying that only official city or county flags ādesignated prior to 2023ā will be allowed.
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Just to be a real prick about it, Gov. Brad Little signed the bill on March 31, the Trans Day of Visibility. Little also signed another far worse bill criminalizing trans people who use bathrooms or locker rooms that match their gender identity, not only in schools and public buildings, but also in āpublic accommodations,ā like private businesses. First offense is a misdemeanor, with up to a year in prison, and a second offense would be a felony, with up to five years in prison. The Idaho affiliate of Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates called it āthe most extreme anti-transgender bathroom ban in the nation.ā
In response to the two new laws, Boise Mayor Lauren McLean ordered the Pride flag lowered outside City Hall, but also presided over a special session of the City Council to honor the Trans Day of Visibility. Choking back tears, McLean said to the Council and an audience of about 60 Boiseans, āMany people in this state and around this country are seeking to divide us. Theyāre seeking to divide us by targeting the most vulnerable among us. I want the people in this room to know that I see you. We see you. You are wanted, important, and unique members of our community.ā
That night, City Hall was lit in the colors of the transgender flag.
You come from a long line of people who have survived, in many cases survived real horrors, and found that survival worthwhile. Find something to be moved by. Find something or someone to move.
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