Petter's Blog

Invasive plants need to be understood as part of a much larger cycle of incredible violence against the land.

For context: erosion on that scale occurred as a result of our clear-cutting entire states. The land east of the Mississippi used to be covered in old-growth forest to an extent that we literally can’t imagine anymore, because most of us have never seen a forest over 100 years old. It turns out if you remove all vegetation from a landscape, you end up with a bunch of loose soil ready to move downstream. A fast-growing plant that covers everything in dense vegetation sounds like salvation when you’re surrounded by 40-foot deep gullies that get wider with every rainstorm.

A lot of the south too was covered in Canebreaks, basically bamboo forests like a lot of South Asia, I don't know the specifics of the ecology, but bamboo being a grass I assume is rhizomatic like other grasses and forms a big net of roots that prevent erosion. *I assume* (pleez ecologists weigh in)

This is a case study in how violence against ecosystems goes so closely hand in hand with violence against people. The violence against the indigenous caretakers of the land, and the violence against the enslaved captives that were forced to clear the Rivercane and work the cotton fields that would degrade the soil into nothing.

This painting was added in another reblog chain, it's good to have it on this thread

OK I'm in the pussy 👍. Now what

Extract the artifact and get out of there STAT!

i've been reading both of these mangas since they started you're in my world now

if "commoner girl goes to a fancy ladies school and gets into a yuri rivalry with a rich girl over a shared hobby that high society looks down on" becomes a whole genre of anime you won't hear me fucking complaining i eat that shit up yum yum yum

It's not safe. That's the thing.

dear god please let gta 6 suck so much shit it would be so fucking funny

well if we're being honest the fact we don't have gameplay footage is pretty much proof that'll be the case

Unfortunately that won't matter because it will still make a billion dollars

of course, the best part of any character's corruption arc is their cool new outfit

And cool new powers to go with it

She will reference Bopp Bipp in canon

Huh. How many Christian prayer rooms are there in mosques? Or Christian spaces? Or Christian books to be studied in mosques?

Thank you, I always appreciative the chance to learn something new

There's a very funny thing that happens in transhuman science fiction where sometimes an author will turn out to be a reactionary conservative who thought he was writing dystopian fiction and intended all the sickass radical body modification stuff to be scary, but he assumed that was obvious and forgot to put it in the actual text.

It's like the literary version of those breathless propaganda thinkpieces where they accidentally make their political opponents sound cool as hell because they have no idea how it reads to anyone whose brain hasn't spent the last thirty years being pickled in fear juice.

There's probably fruitful analysis to be done drawing a line between porn RPGs where you have to play badly on purpose to unlock the sex scenes and those shitty FMV games from the 1990s where the game is kind of nothing if you do everything right, but every single thing you can do wrong has its own unique death animation.

Like, I'm not suggesting that Brain Dead 13's target audience is actually people who are into instant-loss snuff porn, but it wouldn't take much to put it over that line, is what I mean to say.