I Ate'nt Dead

A fish swimming in the Great Lakes today may have been alive before many colonial settlements existed in the region.

A new scientific study suggests lake sturgeon may live far longer than previously believed. Using 44 years of tagging and recapture data from five Great Lakes populations, researchers estimated that male lake sturgeon may live 90 to 279 years, while females could potentially reach 99 to 427 years.

For many years, scientists estimated sturgeon age by counting growth rings in fin spines, similar to tree rings. Researchers now say that method becomes less reliable as lake sturgeon age because their growth slows and the rings become increasingly difficult to distinguish. By tracking individual fish over decades, the study offers a new way to understand how long these ancient fish may live.

The findings also align with knowledge long shared by some Indigenous communities, whose oral traditions have described lake sturgeon as exceptionally long-lived beings. In many Great Lakes cultures, sturgeon hold deep importance as part of foodways, seasonal knowledge, and relationships with waterways.

Lake sturgeon were once heavily harvested and treated as nuisance fish in the late 1800s, contributing to major population declines. According to Michigan DNR reporting, less than 1% of historic Great Lakes lake sturgeon numbers remain. Because they mature slowly and reproduce over many decades, recovery takes time across generations.

The study highlights the value of long-term monitoring and collaboration among Tribal Nations, fisheries researchers, universities, and conservation agencies. Protecting healthy rivers, spawning habitat, and connected waterways remains important for the future of this species.

nothing weird about that whatsoever. i like this manga artist i'm going to read his earlier works!

*reads an older, fetish-y manga that obsesses over body hair and how the protag is often mistaken for a little girl and outright says he wishes he was like the girl protag because she has so much body hair, and is essentially pushed into helping her*

hm, well, there's not really a theme here or anything they're different

*reads an even older fetish-y manga obsessing over genitals and has a guy get pushed into helping the girl protag*

ok there's a theme developing here

*reads another early work of his where a boy's existence mixes with a girl's existence and they become "one" after said girl is bossy and pushing him into it*

no man you can't be serious this is all coincidence

*writes a vampire story where a girl forcibly turns a boy into a vampire and offers him to run away with her and begin a new life*

ok but this one can be seen as such a stretch it's not the same thing by a long shot i'm just finding false connections

*his most notable work is about how perversion is something all of us have, what defines the end of adolescence, and the story involves a pushy girl bullying the protag and makes him crossdress at points*

come on man, you can't be serious, you can't put it in every manga

*his newest manga is about an aggressive nonbinary trans girl and the main boy protag at one point says "even i don't want to be a boy sometimes!" when screaming at a transphobe harassing her*

you can not be serious man, you can not be serious

*in the afterward in a volume of the previously mentioned trans manga, the author says he would dream of being a cute girl when he was a kid*

And also a Coritiba player jumping over the barricade to celebrate his goal without realizing there’s a hole right behind it

A Coritiba player was celebrating a goal yesterday, 12 years after the original meme, and once again fell in a hole behind the barricade

asking for help is not something i'm good at, but i just paid rent for august only to find out that my boss/landlord (same guy) is cutting my hours by more than half, so he'll be paying me less than he's charging me in rent. which is also going to fuck up my food stamps because the government hates poors. i have a small network in the city that i am reaching out to for a new job, but that's a process and my expenses are time sensitive.

I have a 7yo daughter, of whom i am the sole custodial parent. her other parent doesn't pay child support and i don't have the money to sue them for what they owe already. things are tense, to say the least.

i need between five hundred to a thousand USD to survive the month. i know we're all drowning out here but please reblog this post if you see it. it would really make a difference. we love you all <3

i've been told today to not expect any more consistent hours from my current job. i have two interviews next week for jobs i can almost certainly get, but ofc i wouldn't get a paycheck until after rent is due.

my landlord also has decided that the security deposit he originally waived still needs to be paid, which is almost another full month's rent. i'm going to update my goal here, please keep sharing and donate if you can, every little bit helps more than you could know<3

you've probably already noticed that turn signals ("blinkahs") don't serve their usual function here - a common saying on the server is that using them as intended is just giving information to your enemies. you may be tempted to conclude that these "blinkahs" are useless. not so! they are exclusively used for parrying cars audacious enough to think they can just drive past you. the timing is a five-frame window beginning when you can first see the approaching car in your sideview mirrors. simply engage your blinkah and then immediately jump out in front of your opponent. if you get the timing right, you will build super meter. if you're too early, you've accidentally performed a safe traffic maneuver, resetting your meter to 0. if you're too late, you crash and may have to transition to direct PvP, which is outside the purview of this guide.

yellow lights can also be parried by running them, with the amount of super gained determined by how far you make it through the intersection before the light turns red. the ideal window you're aiming for here is between your front and back wheels crossing the white line

you can use your super meter to cast a variety of spells to hinder your opponents. popular meter-efficient spells include mainstays such as "Summon Double-Parked Uber Eats Driver", "Line-Skipping Merge", and "Greater Unmarked Cop". if you max out your meter, you can cast the legendary "Power Word: Storrow".

the super meter system works differently for bikes. obviously, since they lack blinkahs and run red lights anyways, they can't build super in any of the normal ways. instead, they build it up passively, since their very existence enrages every driver around them. to offset this, the spell list for bikes is a lot lower-power than the spell list for cars, mostly being focused on mobility or utility instead of offense (although there are some notable exceptions like "U-Lock Missile"). the capstone spell for bikes is, of course, "Post Misleadingly Edited GoPro Footage On Reddit".

Me: or i could get a stamp made with the logo and stamp it on tag sale stickers myself.

Me: oh the logo is pretty simple, I can probably carve it into the rubber blocks that I've got.

Me: that rubber is pretty soft, though, the stamps won't hold up over time. I've been getting into woodcarving and have been thinking of getting into block printing fabric. What kind of wood is good for that?

Me: cherry is apparently good for that, and block printing fucking rules but I know my carving skills aren't up to that yet. I've got some pretty cool old metal stamping plates from my grandpa's shows, let me look up intaglio printing while I brainstorm designs.

Me (texting large bastard): where do you keep your sheet steel scrap and is it okay if I use your potassium perchlorate wash bin for an acid bath?

Working on the zine that will go with the jewelry.

"Homeland or death, we will win!"

[2 April 2026] Riding bicycles, scooters and electric bikes, thousands of Cubans took part in an anti-imperialist rally in Havana, in a show of unity against Trump’s attacks on the island.

The rally was organized by the Union of Young Communists to commemorate the 64th anniversary of its founding.

The largest dam removal in U.S. history. So successful that the salmon that haven’t run freely in the river for literally over a century came back the next year. Not steady progress over a decade as expected, the very next salmon run they came home. No one alive saw salmon in that river outside the hatcheries kept by native’s tribes and the Department of Fish And Wildlife scientists desperately trying to save them. One of the activists who helped bring the suit spoke of their dying grandmother making them promise to bring the fish home, and they didn’t know how that was possible, but they spent decades doing it.

The legal basis for successfully suing the power company who owned the dams was Indigenous treaty rights to eat the fish. Eating the fish was the one thing in a century that succeeded in being a clear and legally binding right that superseded the desires of white capital and industry. I have been going to the public interest environmental law conference off and on for 20 years where a lot of organizing for Undam The Klamath happened. I’ve heard updates about every legal tact they tried as they happened, and they tried everything.

There are healthy, thriving salmon, trout, and lamprey in a rewilding and recovering Klamath River right now as a direct result of Indigenous people eating them. Of their legally binding right to eat them. They sure as fuck care more about those fish than any white vegan ever could. They are salmon people that the Creator sent Salmon to feed, while charging the People with protecting and stewarding them. It’s not possible to learn about salmon and trout in the Pacific Northwest without learning this, and it’s unambiguously racist to dismiss this symbiotic relationship.

The white vegans are trying to get all hunting and fishing banned in Oregon, and that’s quite possibly the single most catastrophic thing that could be done to the animals here because we killed off all the major predators of creatures like deer and without anything hunting them their numbers will explode, eat all the vegetation, destroy the ecosystem, and then die along with everything else in that failing ecosystem. Controlled hunting of deer is vitally necessary for the deer to survive. This is something Native people know, but patronizing racist savior-complex white people refuse to listen to.

I have a whole collection of Oregon’s Public Broadcasting’s documentaries about Klamath River or the larger story of fish and people in the region. If you watch nothing else, watch Klamath Dams Are Coming Out, First Salmon Ceremony, After The Dams, and First Decent (Native made). It could not be clearer that the salmon are being protected and nourished by the people who eat them, and that stewardship is a massive part of their creation myths. But it contradicts political vegan dogma so they don’t listen.

haha no I get it, I didn't register this as being mean. Thank you, comrade! Here:

what the fuck is wrong with this website that if you add the tag #personal, it next recommends you a full list of fucking terf tags?