Omnishambles

🎶 RIP Kavinsky...

French DJ, aged 50, found dead at his home in Paris 😞

The right choice;

He's been very excited about the WhatsApp stickers:

He's been using this one a lot:

And then immediately said this in response to me sending another Reece sticker:

Anyway, we went to watch Obsession together in cinema just now. There were about 5 people. The chairs were very comfy. I might make a post about the actual film in the morning.

This country was built by slaves , on stolen land. This country was stolen from the Indigenous people of this land; it was stolen through mass killings, forced displacement, biological warfare, rape, and so much more. The treatment of indigenous people has been and still is tragic and disgusting, whether it be in 1830 with the Indian Removal act, or American Indian Residential Schools that were in use until the late 20th century.

Indigenous people are still facing oppression today, and despite making up one of the smallest percentages of the population in the USA at around 2%, Native American people (especially Native American women) are some of the most susceptible to crime.

There is a current crisis in America of murdered and missing indigenous women, yet there is little to no coverage about it in the news. OVER HALF OF THE PERCENTAGE OF INDIGENOUS WOMEN HAVE EXPERIENCED SEXUAL VIOLENCE. HOMICIDE IS THE THIRD LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH FOR INDIGENOUS WOMEN BETWEEN THE AGES OF 10-24.

the statistics go on and on, yet no one seems to talk about it.

on this day, I urge you to research the land you reside on, and educate yourselves on both the brutal history of the colonization of America , as well as the current issues in the Native American community.

the statistics I have used in this post are taken from National Indigenous Women's Resource Center, and I strongly encourage you to take a look at the cite and possibly donate to some of the resources given on the website.

Take a moment and ask yourself, a project like this requires a lot of time, money and dedication of resources, why would scientists dedicate that time to something that could just be done by a tree?

The answer is they wouldn't. So that means this claim requires further investigation!

This project is called LIQUID 3, and it's not meant for cities with wide open spaces, it's meant for cities like Belgrade in Serbia. These cities are densely populated and heavily polluted, to the point where pollution actually chokes out current trees and makes creating green spaces difficult.

Liquid 3 was a PhD scientists answer to these problems. The microalgae tank is intended for spaces where you either:

Don't have enough space to plant full trees, or

Don't have enough time to plant trees and wait for them to grow up.

The tank is extremely efficient when you consider the amount of space needed compared to the amount of CO2 turned into oxygen. The tank can operate throughout the winter. And most importantly, it can be quickly set up in areas that desperately need relief from air pollution NOW not in 10 years when trees are done growing. Children currently suffocating on polluted air can't wait for trees to grow, they need to be taken care of now, and Liquid 3 is one of the ways to take care of them. Depending on the species of microalgea used, a number have shown a pretty amazing capacity to pull heavy metals out of the air which is something trees can get choked up by.

The tanks aren't just tanks either! Liquid 3 have solar panels placed on top, they have lighting and mobile phone charging, and they work as public benches. The designers of it want to encourage green spaces where there's room, but where there isn't room or time, Liquid 3 can step in. Realistically, this isn't a replacement for trees. It's replacing boring metal city benches with new, cooler benches that also clean the air (and have at least some heating during the winter).

Not only that, but the microalgea that grows is native to Serbia and all that microalgea has a ton of great uses! It makes for great fertilizer, compost, wastewater treatment, cleaner biofuels and even for helping create new tanks for further air purification. They only require a quick algae divide once a month, and the produced algae can be carted off to where ever it's needed. This makes them effective solutions for areas that can't sustain complex installations.