Growing Wild

After six mass bleaching events between 2016–2025, the world’s largest coral system got a much-needed break this year, thanks to a monsoon that brought cloud cover and cooler waters

According to AIMS’ latest report:

Coral cover increased 16.7% in the Northern region

Up 10.2% in the Central region

Southern region saw a slight 2% dip, but all areas are near or above long-term averages

Scientists surveyed 121 reefs and most had moderate to high coral cover, and only 3 were below 10%.

Искусство выжигания по дереву с любовью к морскими обитателями. The art of wood burning with love for marine life.

Develop the muscle of generosity like you are training for a giving ultra-marathon. Share everything you can with anyone who asks, and ask for what you need.

Get in touch with your body. You will need it, and it knows things. Pay attention to what is happening below your neck.

Tell the truth. Tell it to yourself first.

Sit at the feet of your most vulnerable neighbors and your own most vulnerable places. They have the most to teach you about survival.

Listen. Remember your ancestors, and the things they survived. Find the resilience that is your birthright and the courage that made way for your life.

Practice taking risks. Show up in every struggle where someone is fighting for their dignity, because that is how we will all survive.

Learn about reparations, and native sovereignty. Double down on exorcising supremacy systems from your soul.

Learn to be tender. Refuse to be hardened. Let your heart be moved. Every damn time.

Root in the place you are. Learn its history. Learn its geography. Learn its seasons.

Sing. A lot. And dance. Make art. Make love. Rest luxuriously. Eat pie. …

The world is ending and beginning now. We are surviving now.

Let us love, let us connect, let us fight like hell for the dignity of each and all

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From the Rev. Molly Housh Gordon,

My friend, are you in for a treat! The lake sturgeon, which is the sturgeon found in the Great Lakes, can grow to be two meters long and weigh 90 kilograms! It is the biggest fish found in the Great Lakes!!

But, see, the lake sturgeon isn’t the biggest sturgeon species. That would be the beluga sturgeon, which regularly grew to be four to six meters long before overfishing took a toll on their populations. Belugas are a lot younger on average nowadays — these fish can live to be over 100 years old — and seldom exceed three meters, but I mean, even that isn’t anything to scoff at. The very biggest beluga sturgeon ever caught was a jawdropping 7.2 meters long, and weighed 1 571 kilograms!! Other beluga sturgeons of such sizes have been caught too, and some unverified sources say that there has even been belugas that exceed 10 meters! They are the biggest freshwater fish in the world, and are up there among the biggest bony fishes in the world. That’s so big, it’s hard to even grasp or imagine. Seeing pictures of sturgeons puts it in a better perspective, I think. Here is a 800 kilogram sturgeon, a bit more than half of what the biggest sturgeon weighed:

Like, look at that. You see this?? That’s so fucking insane!!! Sturgeons never cease to amaze me with how… impossible they seem. These fish are like aquatic dragons or prehistoric beasts from days long gone, and in a way they are the latter! Sturgeons have been around as a group for over 160 million years, so they did indeed live in the age of the dinosaurs. Whenever I see pictures like this I can only wonder what the humans who first saw big sturgeons must’ve thought. I know what sturgeons are but I still have trouble grasping their gargantuan sizes, imagine seeing the dark form of a giant in the water and not having the faintest idea of what it is, or even that it's entirely harmless to humans.

Other sturgeon species are also very really big! The lesser-known kaluga isn’t that far behind at a maximum length of 5.6 meters and maximum weight of about a ton. Several white sturgeon that have exceeded three meters and even just shy of four meters and weighed over 400 kilograms have been caught, and the biggest, but unverified white sturgeon even caught was around six meters long and weighed 900 kilograms. The critically endangered Chinese sturgeon maxes out around five meters and 600 kilograms. All this to say, these old fishes are massive!!!

A lupine, which one I’m not exactly sure. The hot pink color says harlequin lupine (Lupinus stiversii), but the rest of the buds and stem look very much like annual collared lupine (Lupinus truncatus).

not a good photo but look at this fat ass bumblebee

The American bumblebees really go for the partridge pea (chamaecrista fasciculata) which is great because partridge pea can be successfully grown by just throwing the seeds on the ground. And it grows in very harsh areas like roadsides. They have the pretty yellow flowers but also extrafloral nectaries that I see ants and little wasps visiting.

The Prairieland case is Federal case prosecuting 19 people with terrorism after a noise demo at an ICE detention facility in Praireland, Texas in July 2025. Most have been convicted and are currently awaiting sentencing after being found guilty on multiple federal charges. Towards the end of the noise demo an Alvarado police officer was grazed in the neck with a bullet. The Prosecutors claim this was a coordinated ambush by an “antifa cell”. In reality its a drag-net prosecution against loosely acquainted people. If the corrupt verdict of this case is not over turned it will set a precedent that participating in black a bloc is terrorism and can land you decades in jail. We support the non-cooperating defendants not because they are victims of a miscarriage of justice, but because we support all who fight back against domination. Punks have historically played an important roll in spreading and sharpening anarchy across the world. This tape aims to continue that legacy. We affirm that I.C.E. Prisons & Police must be destroyed. People, plants and animals must be freed from the claws of colonial civilization. Against the state, Against capitalism, Solidarity with anarchist prisoners now & forever.

Money raised from this compilation will go towards the legal fees of the Prairieland Defendants

For more info check out:

Crimthinc's article “The road to Prairie Land”

prairielanddefendants.com

Anarchist Black Cross: www.abcf.net

-Robin Wall Kimmerer, from The “Honorable Harvest”: Lessons From an Indigenous Tradition of Giving Thanks