I Do Nothing But Consume

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i was tidepooling today and overheard someone say 'chatgpt it so we can figure out what it is' about some sort of creature. loser behavior. you're not in it for the love of the game. i have to do everything around here. let me see the creature. i'll tell you the real answer about what it is and i won't kill the environment. AND i'm literally nice.

it's funny because 5 minutes before that i was IDing something by using the search string "SEA SLUG GREEN STRIPED SMALL SEATTLE" which took me to a very badly designed, hauntingly non mobile optimized website that immediately gave me way more information about my creature than i needed or thought was possible. get good. bitch

hold my hand. come with me to emeralddiving.com's salish sea species index.

I wish there was a book on coast Salish foodways. I’ve been trying to look for info on it and all that comes up is “iconic foods from Washington State” and native foodways from every where but the northwest coast. Like surely someone has got to have written extensively on this subject.

Nancy J Turner has written a bunch of ethnobotanical treatises, tribal nation by tribal nation; can't really have the cuisine without the people, so engaging more with the folks may help! I know the tribe next to mine, Samish, have a number of cooking videos in xwsameshquen language, a really good one for tsex'tsex-lhop. If you're not Native and learning to love the Plants of Land, try and see ways that the cultural and natural resource programs of your nearby tribal nation has asked for help, whether donating resource, time, help, or cash!

Thank you for the author recommendation! Her books are exactly what I was looking for! I’ll also have to check out those cooking videos. I really appreciate your advice.

I wish there was a book on coast Salish foodways. I’ve been trying to look for info on it and all that comes up is “iconic foods from Washington State” and native foodways from every where but the northwest coast. Like surely someone has got to have written extensively on this subject.

Nancy J Turner has written a bunch of ethnobotanical treatises, tribal nation by tribal nation; can't really have the cuisine without the people, so engaging more with the folks may help! I know the tribe next to mine, Samish, have a number of cooking videos in xwsameshquen language, a really good one for tsex'tsex-lhop. If you're not Native and learning to love the Plants of Land, try and see ways that the cultural and natural resource programs of your nearby tribal nation has asked for help, whether donating resource, time, help, or cash!

Sometimes you get a brief glimpse into the American worldview and decide that you don't want to know.

I cannot stress enough that this meme is entirely literal. there's no reference or subtext you don't know. these are simply the objectively most popular works of art from each denomination.

​you guys remember how the point of upton sinclair’s the jungle was that labor conditions in the meat packing industry, and the lives of the working poor at large were horrific and the only solution was socialism. and then the only takeaway people had was that the consequences of these inhuman conditions were that meat products were tainted. so instead of addressing the underlying labor rights issue the fda was founded and now we’re here.