We live forever and we love to live

A gardening myth that irks me (also sorry for ruining folks' fun!) is the idea that you can use plants to purify the air in your home. Plant metabolism is slow compared to animal metabolism and uses fewer resources so any effect they have on the air is negligible, except for maybe humidity if there are enough of them since that's more structural than metabolic?

PLUCKY YOUNGSTER: oh no, it’s due tomorrow! what’ll i do…

fuck it, i never ever do those “reblog for X, this one really works!” posts, but this one doesn’t have any of that BS, this is just straight up wishing us good things; and then the comment doesn’t even say any of that either. Zero claims on this post, all positive vibes

Bird identification is so fucked up in a really fun way you can’t understand until you get into it. For example, there is a type of goose called the cackling goose that looks exactly like a Canada goose except smaller and “cuter”. The cackling goose is way, way, more rare in most places than its relatively common cousin, so it’s on tons of birders life lists. Everyone wants to see a cackling (look in any bird ID group to see lots of hopeful people posting petite Canada geese). The two species regularly commingle, so sometimes a flock of those common parking lot birds will have the equivalent of a Pokémon shiny just hanging out in the middle of them.

Holy shit I never fucking knew this-