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Credit : NASA - Space Station 🌍💫

"Day 139, orbit 2155 — After the pictures (available in HD on my Flickr account), I'm so happy to finally share the timelapse of the most spectacular aurora of the εpsilon mission so far!

Florida voters who were in support of President Donald Trump during the last presidential election are now bashing him after learning how much he made during the first year of his second term.

“It’s not about the Cheerios.”

This was in reference to a story about a kid flipping the HELL out into a full-blown panic about running out of their favorite cereal. Not a tantrum, not a whine-fest, but an all-hands-on-deck, code-red, world-is-ending blowup.

The kid had originally come from a very unstable situation and experienced food deprivation. The new adoptive parents were stumped, because look at all the other food! You’re safe! We can get the Cheerios tomorrow!

But it wasn’t really about the Cheerios, it was about that first flicker of unease triggering all the old trauma. From the outside, it looked ridiculous. To the trauma-trained reaction of the kid’s brain, it made perfect sense.

Human brains are weird, and we’re all out here trying to survive. Sometimes our brains do this in socially acceptable, convenient ways. But not often.

on the other hand...

@plantanarchy My environmental science prof had a whole lecture about populations where she HAMMERED this one in

Prey populations bounce back faster than their predators. The higher on the food chain something is, the slower it reproduces

So if you kill all the bugs in your yard, you're not only killing "pests" but all the predators that keep the population of those pests in balance with everything else

The pests will recover faster than their predators, and since the predators are gone...you get more pests than you ever had to begin with

To make matters worse, populations of many common "pest" insects evolve resistance to pesticides hella fast. Mosquitoes got DDT resistant in some areas like...a year after they started spraying DDT

And EVEN WORSE

A lot of harmless creepy crawlies that people want to kill (Spiders, ants, beetles) are actually the main predators of ticks, which can actually make you sick.

It's basically like an addiction. You spray your yard for pests, for a while it looks like they're all gone, but then all of a sudden, the pests come back with a vengeance. Better spray again to make sure they're gone! The cycle repeats. The infestations get worse and worse and you buy more and more poisons to get rid of them and it just keeps going.

Wheels upon wheels, eyes of flame, the roar of a thousand wingbeats: BE NOT-

Me: nope [closes door]

Bearer of the throne of heavenly God, through door: YOU HAVE BEEN CHOSEN TO-

Me: I don’t live here

Celestially Ordained Mover of the Unmoved: I CAN SEE YOU-

Sakura week day 2: Teammates - Sasuke's been away for a while and needs to catch up. As always, team 7 loves each other, but also really get on one another's every nerve <3 -> Day 1