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Wheat, rice, and corn are all grasses!
We're a very grass centric species.
Not just* them! Sugarcane, bamboo, oats, barley, rye, sorghum, millet, teff, wild rice (which is a different genus than domesticated rice, and lemongrass too.
And those are just the edible species! We use other species for different purposes.
*those three being responsible for at least half of the calories consumed by humans, so "just" isn't very accurate.
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bell hooks wrote Feminism is For Everybody 26 years ago. I shouldn't have to keep seeing posts arguing about whether feminism should include men or whether transfeminism should include trans men.
We will never achieve liberation for all genders if we continue to buy into gender essentialism and gender segregation. We will never defeat patriarchy if we pretend that patriarchy is simply "what men do to women." Patriarchy is systemic, perpetuating itself through patriarchal-minded people of all genders, and we must all work together to defeat it.
Feminism is for everybody.
Transfeminism is for everybody.
if you, like me, are hesitant to enjoy what kinda sounds like "relaxes food standards" on the surface, I'm happy to report that this isn't "everyone can do what they want with your food supply without oversight" but rather a case where in NYC you had to have a permit to sell food and a second, superfluous permit to sell frozen desserts. This action simply removes the need for the second permit, rolling it into the first permit in order to help small businesses. Yay!
I started hanging my clothes outside instead of putting it through a tumble dryer.
I've been kinda worried about gas prices- namely since I live up north and that's our main method of heating the house- so I've been trying to stop worrying and focus on what I CAN do... so I've started by hanging my clothes out on a line...
Apparently, you can hang your clothes outside year round and still get them pretty dry. This was something that people just... did... It makes sense in a way. Like, you're 'freeze-drying' your clothes... You'd still want to use a tumble dryer if you needed them dry like NOW., but... you'd totally be able to dry your clothing without a dryer or even a source of heat...
Going to try making my own laundry soap too. Might as well, ya know? If I can make a five gallon bucket's worth for basically a dollar or two then that's something at least...
Still kind of wondering if I should launder my clothing fully by hand- I've still been using the washing machine and just running the spin cycle twice- and I kinda want to see if I can even do it... Would it really be that hard? Or would it be like making bread where it's not hard exactly, it's just time consuming?
Well, either way, might as well at least try...
We switched to hang drying clothes and it made a noticeable difference to our energy bill. We're in a wet winter climate, so we have a lean-to greenhouse thing I originally built for plants that were just barely not hardy here (it's not heated), and we drying clothes in there when it's raining. My partner doesn't like the feel of air dried clothes (stiff at first), so we pop them in the dryer briefly to beat the stiffness out. In the winter, I'd say the hanging gets them like 90% of the way to dry, so a bit of heated dryer time finishes them.
I think there's less savings switching over to washing by hand. It's not really hard, having done it for 6 months at one point, but it does take time. It's pretty chill though, at least if you do the 'put it in the bath tub and walk on it' style.
For the guy in my messages denying that heathland is incredibly rare and diverse;
“More than 80% of our lowland heaths have been destroyed since the 19th century. Even rarer than rainforest, heathland is one of our most threatened habitats.” — The Wildlife Trusts
You can also research more specifically about lowland heath here and the species that it helps thrive in this world.
Climate change is real. Disposable BBQs cause wildfires, as do wrongful disposed cigarettes and vapes, bonfires, firepits, fireworks, AI usage and the irresponsible twats that deny such risks to our planet. Educate yourself next time.
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Bitches!!! Several co-workers and I all just left a very unhealthy job (at least 5 of us all left lol). I sent your article ‘The Resignation Checklist’ around to everyone before we did. This is a message my co-worker sent me- she went over the checklist and realized she had PTO that wouldn’t have paid out and used it before she left!!! I used the checklist myself and before I left: quit at the beginning of the month to get an extra month of insurance, am going for a physical and dental cleaning, went and got an eye exam and new glasses through my vision insurance, made sure my 401k was vested, and redeemed some company rewards points for a gift card! I especially would never have thought about new glasses without your list and am so excited for them. Just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate you and that your article was a hit with my work friends- thank you!!! <3
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This year's new seasonals are making it much easier to say "hey, you're doing that in the hardest way possible". By sheer exposure and practice.
See, I grew up on a small farm. I grew up doing physical labor, and apparently while these individuals think manual labor is unskilled and something that you can turn your brain off for, that's untrue. Turning your brain off and not thinking about how you're doing it is how you end up making the work slow, frustrating, and tedious, with a side helping of repetitive strain injury. (And doing a bad job.)
I expect people new to a thing to watch how it's done and copy that, or take a minute to think it through and figure out a solid strategy, or try a few ways out before settling on one, or to ask how to do it. They do none of these things. And so multiple times, they've started doing it the most ineffective, inefficient, most likely to give themselves an over use injury possible. And they keep doing it that way, for hours or over the span of days.
(And these are not very complex skills, we're talking Unloading Compost From A Truck, Spreading Materials, and Moving Piles Of Plant Debris. It's just, they find ways to do them wrong. And by wrong, I mean ways that are harder and more likely to end in injury.)
It used to be I fretted about it, thinking surely they will stop and figure it out soon, and didn't say anything because I didn't want to be an over-bearing micromanager. And I'd keep thinking that, and they kept on using a shovel in the most unintuitive way possible.
So now when I see the person unloading the truck in the most ineffective way possible, I say hey, that's the hardest way, let me show you another way. And talk them through it.
It’s going to be an interesting few weeks following this result and it will empower reform voters
and now he has to actually face the enquiry he was trying to avoid
That is a much higher voteshare to Binface than we expected, and much lower to both Reclaim and British Democratic Party, lol.
All round, though, it doesn't look good for Farage. It was a sham one-party election, so he can't play the "See? No one cares about my multimillion pound bribes, they still voted me in" card he was banking on. His only competition was a bin, and the bin actually did well. Meanwhile, as Goats says, he's now subject to the enquiry he tried to avoid.
He played a strategy that was supposed to be win-win, but the other major parties totally hamstrung it. And, credit where credit's due, the idea for the others to not stand this time was an absolutely genius move that, in fact, came from the static TV screen of a brain that belongs to, of all people, Kemi fucking Badenoch. Stopped clocks and that.
Meanwhile, polling shows Farage has actually lost a LOT of his voter base and support from the bribe thing. Again - even Kemi Badenoch is able to go "Hardly the man of the working class like he claims". So... Yeah. As OP says - interesting next few weeks coming
I hate ruminating on what could have been. Out here thinking "if only I locked in when I was 13" are we serious
WHAT ABOUT THE FIRE!!
I do think it's one of the most interesting dynamics of our time that while the world's ultra-wealthy are moving to systematically replace labor with capital (robots, machine learning, etc), the people of the world--most notably Ukraine and Iran, but also the everyday people starting warehouse fires and defacing Flock cameras--are demonstrating that all that capital is far, far easier to destroy than it is to build, and extremely difficult and costly to protect. I am confident that this is going to keep right on being interesting.
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An MSG database tracked and categorized hundreds of celebs, famous Knicks superfans, and even some of Taylor Swift’s wedding guests. Labels
Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly
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Long gone from their home in San Francisco, the California pipevine swallowtail is back thanks to one man transforming his yard into a habitat for them The iridescent blue wings of the California pipevine swallowtail are considered by collectors to be among the most magnificent in North America. For centuries …
As the California pipevine plant was displaced from San Francisco by urban sprawl, the California pipevine swallowtail, which relies on the pipevine plant to feed its caterpillars, also disappeared. That is, until a biologist named Tim Wong made it his mission to repopuplate the species in his own backyard.
Armed only with a cutting of California pipevine from the San Francisco Botanical Garden, Tim created a screened in butterfly enclosure in his backyard and began to reproduce California pipevines.
As new butterflies were born, Tim would donate them to the San Francisco Botanical Gardens where their pipevine host plant could still be found.
“At first he brought them in by the hundreds. Now he brings them in by the thousands every few months.”
While most of us don’t have the power to create habitat for endangered rhinos or tigers, anyone with a little bit of outdoor space can help create habitat for endangered insects!
You can:
-plant a pollinator garden with native nectar-producing plants
-plant host plants of local butterfly species
-leave piles of fallen leaves or sticks in your yard as habitat for native bees
-avoid using pesticides (or use them as sparingly as possible) around your home and yard
“Improving habitat for native fauna is something anyone can do. Conservation and stewardship can start in your very own backyard.” -Tim Wong
an interesting amnt of people seem to think of intersexism as a "less bad" form of oppression for.... one of the only kinds of oppression that routinely involves mutilating infants and young children. and then a lifetime of very specific and unique medical abuse. it actually makes me feel kind of insane
like. Trans bottom surgeries have to meet a pretty high standard- and that's a very good thing! People would not be getting these bottom surgeries if they were bad. Trans bottom surgeries are almost always very good, advanced, visually "realistic" (look close to or indistinguishable from natal genitals, depending on the surgery), and prioritize very good outcomes for function and sensation- genitals that work the way genitals should, feel pleasure (if desired), and heal well.
This is not true for IGM (intersex genital mutilation) victims. When i say intersex infants and children are being mutilated, i am not disparaging bottom surgery- i mean that the intersex ""corrective"" surgeries performed against our will do not meet the same standards. They aren't something we choose, they're forced on us. Victims of IGM are often left with chronic pain, issues with genital function and sensation, poor aesthetic outcomes, and scarring (which affects both the visual appearance AND can cause functional issues). These surgeries are completely unnecessary and done largely at the doctor's discretion, often without the knowledge of parents (either because they were not told or they were fooled), and the victim is almost always deeply unhappy (and often dysphoric) as a result. Doctors get to decide to mutilate us, lie to our families, and then also mistreat and abuse us for the rest of our lives. Further, outside of the surgical procedures, growing up intersex means routinely going through violating and invasive "inspections" of your genitals by doctors. I can recall having doctors, nurses, and volunteers demand to see my genitals as a young child, touching and examining them without my consent- same for my breasts once i hit puberty. Just about every intersex person i know can say the same. It's routine and constant medical and sexual abuse from medical professionals.
And that's not even getting into the social impact! Finding work is difficult when you're intersex. Dating is so much more dangerous when you're intersex. Intimacy is so much more dangerous when you're intersex. We have extremely high rates of childhood bullying, as well as extremely high rates of physical and sexual abuse. We're highly fetishized, both in broader society ("herm" porn) and even pretty significantly within the queer community. I hesitate to talk about my intersexness & my body in many spaces because of how many times talking about my body has resulted in people saying creepy shit about wanting my body and thinking people like me are ~sexy~, or asking invasive & often very dehumanizing questions. It's incredibly objectifying. It feels like i am not an equal to almost anyone, like i'm just some idea of a perfect sex toy with both parts and it feels awful. And everyone ignores it!!!! No one talks about it!!!! Everyone just brushes us off as this "lesser" issue, not as serious as things like homophobia or transphobia. We're always "collateral damage", "outliers", "edge cases", "accidental targets". And i'm sitting here trying to tell you we ARE targets! Society at large does not love us. It wishes to mutilate, rape, and abuse us. PLEASE love your intersex siblings. We're drowning and we need your help.
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#3925 - Lepidium tenuicaule - Shore Cress
There was a sign at the car park, described the coastal turf plant communities that are supposed to grow on the clifftops along the south coast of NZ, and explaining how they're largely unbothered by sheep-grazing because they grow so close to the ground. If that's the case, they need to get more sheep in, because almost the entire reserve was engulfed by knee-high introduced pasture grasses.
One of the threatened coastal turf species the sign said to look out for is this one, but the only place I found any growing was underneath the wind-pruned Monterey Cypress around the former lighthouse keeper's house site.
Probably extinct on the North Island. In the South Island known from Oamaru south to the Foveaux Strait. Surprisingly, it seems to do BETTER where humans go stomping around, to the point it was once a weed in Oamaru, but has vanished in areas where carparks and paths that were once used to access the coast have since been removed.
The flowers are tiny and lack petals.
Waipapa Point, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Looking at NOAA's long range forecasts. I think I'm just gonna start planting avocado pits in the backyard; at this point out won't be too many more years until they can survive the winter (they're already marginal, a teensy bit warmer and I think they'd be fine. Maybe I'll through a sheet over them during cold snaps).
Later I can top graft them with known cultivars.
