Cacophonous Corner

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An Indo-Pacific violet blanket octopus (Tremoctopus gracilis) in Batangas, the Philippines

🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 (that’s 23 knives. historically accurate.)

I'm glad to see someone speaking out against the myth that clearcuts increase biodiversity. Yes, there are stand-replacing disturbances in nature like large wildfires, landslides, etc. But they don't happen as frequently or on as large a scale as clearcuts. And even a lot of large wildfires still display mosaic burn patterns, in which there are patches of relatively untouched forest amid the burned areas that help repopulate the whole region.

A clearcut, on the other hand, involved bulldozing all the plants beneath the trees to make the trees easier to access, and then cutting down all the trees, or leaving a few sickly specimens behind. Then the land is replanted with a monoculture of whatever cash crop tree the timber companies prefers. That's why the Pacific Northwest is covered in closely-planted stands of <60 year old Douglas fir. Those aren't forests--they're just glorified tree farms.

While there is an increasing number of foresters trying to promote more sustainable and ecologically sound forestry practices, your larger timber interests are generally going to be spouting myths that make themselves look better (if they bother to try for better P.R. at all.) They're also busy lobbying against any conservation measures that could affect their bottom line.

This is the first time I made dolls „from scratch“ and finished them. For that standard I am quite happy with it. Thomas‘ cross is still missing, I lost in somewhere in the rubble, I’ll find it eventually and take proper pictures of them <3

Their clothes are mostly removable, ik the lace isn’t movie accurate but I’m just so in love with lacy liturgical clothes, this lace specifically, look at the suns/stars and raindrops aaaa!!! Id like to give Vincent a leather bag w a little pride pin, thomas maybe a bible and the lhfs glasses and add a clay turtle

Because, haha, it turns out? Most people actually don't need to be constantly right, always in control, and perpetually being reassured. And they'll feel funny (negative) when you treat them like they do. Because people mostly assume that how you treat them is a direct reflection of how you perceive them, and they will never assume you're treating them that way because of someone who literally isn't currently in the room.

Wild, I know.

In actuality, people already know you have a preference because that is a very normal thing to have. And because you're never as slick as you think you are, you definitely won't fool anyone by pretending you don't. So the actual kindest choice to make is to just be honest about what you want, because most people will feel most comfortable when they know for sure that the decision you've both made is truly a mutual agreement.

Himalayan Snowberry (Gaultheria trichophylla), Ericaceae, found in the Sub-Alpine zone of the Himalayas (Asia)

Blixa on arts. source. tho the whole interview is interesting, it is about a photographic exhibition made by Blixa, his visual arts, patterns, randomness, Berlin and New York in 80s