Stop killing the earth, we only have one

Like, did you read it orrrrr?

Bees do not suffer when beekeepers take their honey, because experienced beekeepers do not take all of their honey, in fact, they leave plenty of honey left for the bees to consume over the winter. If we do not collect their honey, 1 of two things will happen.

1. they will leave for a bigger home. Which at first seems fine until you remember that bees are dying very quickly out in the wild.

or

2. They will start using the areas that they reserve for their young as a place to make more honey. This is bad because if no more young are being produced, then the hive will start to die out because no new workers are coming into the world, and the average live only 150 days, so it would also mean the loss of more bees.

- Wool. Sheep need to be sheared or their wool will get excessively large, matted and gross. Its legit just a haircut. Calm down and use wool instead of whatever fake acrylic microplastic shit they have in stores now. Wool is super warm, insulating, and guess what! It grows back! Its a renewable resource and all the sheep want in return is some good pasture and protection from predators.

- Eggs. I’m not talking about storebought eggs. Go to your local farmer’s market. Find someone around with chickens/ducks. These birds produce eggs literally every day and will not stop unless they are molting, brooding, or kept in the dark for most of the day. Like I am not joking when I say you can very easily find someone with poultry and they will beg you to take some eggs. Theres so many. Please. Take some duck eggs. I dont want them. I had 8 laying ducks last year. Thats 8 eggs every day. Thats 2 dozen eggs every THREE DAYS. Thats SO MANY EGGS PLEASE TAKE SOME EGGS

The best things you can do for bee conservation

plant flowers native to your region to provide them with food. If you’re located in the USA you can start here (don’t know as much about other places sorry)

avoid using lawn and garden insecticides if at all possible. That stuff you can buy at Lowe’s that says it kills 200+ types of insects? Yeah, anything that affects such a broad range of bugs is lethally toxic to bees. These chemicals are also highly dangerous to you, so think long and hard about it.

let other people know! tell your friends about the cool bees!

@brycevstheworld At the place I work as a farm hand once a week the goats got out while we were fixing their pen. They wandered around for like an hour before they wanted back into the pen. because it’s their house. with soft warm bedding, food and things to climb on.

On the other hand, one of my neighbor’s chickens insisted on laying eggs in our front flower bed last summer, and I think they had to make the chickens a pen so they didn’t get run over by cars.

Fun fact: putting livestock in a fence has surprisingly little to do with restricting their freedom and surprisingly much to do with stopping them from getting hit by trains and so on (happened to my great-great-grandpa’s cow and i only know about it cuz of mom’s ancestry research).

Farmers used to free-roam pigs in the southeastern USA. It’s why we have feral hogs everywhere now.

and again, I will emphasize, this process is vital for the production of almonds. you know your favorite milk substitute? the one made of fucking almonds? that one. in addition to exacerbating droughts, it also kills bees. MUCH more than a dedicated honey farm would. almonds pollinated with rented bees - that is, most of them - are not marked or sold differently from others. they are still organic, they are still “vegan.”

I...tried to make a meme and got carried away and made A Thing that is like partially unfinished because i spent like 3 hours on it and then got tired.

I think this is mostly scientifically accurate but truth be told, there seems to be relatively little research on succession in regards to lawns specifically (as opposed to like, pastures). I am not exaggerating how bad they are for biodiversity though—recent research has referred to them as "ecological deserts."

Despite the fancy survey, changes to the UI and TOS reveal we’re getting the service in the future whether we want it or not. Obviously, Post+ is a terrible idea that is trying to bank revenue on user content. Unlike patreon or onlyfans, tumblr’s primary focus is on FAN content. The legality of this is NOT in the users favor and as the new tumblr TOS states, said users will be entirely liable for whatever legal matters arise.

SO WHAT ARE WE DOING?

Besides filling out the survey, it’s time to show tumblr we mean business and show our displeasure by hitting them where it hurts.

Ad revenue.

We’re proposing a 24 hour log off as phase one of this protest.

WHEN IS THE PROTEST?

AUGUST 6th, 2021        12 am Eastern Time (US)          5 am Greenwich Mean Time          6 am Central European Time          8 am Moscow Standard Time          1 pm Australian Western Time          2 pm Japan Standard Time          3:30 pm Australian Central Time          4 pm Australian Eastern Time

AUGUST 5th, 2021

11 pm Central Time (US)          10 pm Mountain Time (US)            9 pm Pacific Time (US)

THE END TIME IS 24 HOURS FROM START TIME!!!

So no posting, no queues, no likes, and no reblogs!

WHAT IF I CAN’T/WHAT ELSE CAN I DO?

Like this post and share it AS MANY TIMES AS POSSIBLE. Use the hashtags #tumblrlogoff2021 or #postplusprotest on ANY and ALL social media.

WILL THIS WORK?

Maybe, maybe not. It’s an attempt at doing SOMETHING.

BECAUSE I’M A TIRED IDIOT, USE THIS TO DOUBLE CHECK YOUR TIME ZONE!!!!

settlers don’t realize that even their national parks are unhelpful in promoting biodiversity & mental health... Indigenous ppl—those who have cultivated this land for thousands of years—know many plants need human cultivation; humans need plant interaction. 

in the Great Smoky Mountains National park (stolen Cherokee land), it is illegal for Cherokee people to harvest plant foods and medicines. you can be taken to jail. because of this, plants we have always harvested are growing less abundantly because they aren’t being stimulated. 

wild onions (ᏩᏍᏗ) grow better in following years if you cut the onion and leave the root. wild greens (ᏐᏣᏂ) grow faster and wider if you pick them in early spring. river cane (ᎢᏯ) grows better in following years if you literally burn it all down. 

growing natural gardens generally is beneficial for local environments. budding & flowering plants help sustain/ attract pollinators, in turn promoting growth in all surrounding plants/ forests. 

So, when you see trees in a forest, they stick up outta the ground, some distance from each other, and you're like 'these are unconnected critters,' right? But! The thing is! Just like the trees in the picture are connected above-ground, trees in a forest are normally connected below-ground. There's this whole complicated thing involving a symbiotic relationship with fungi, but we're gonna simplify it to this: trees connect to each other through their root systems.

And they use it to share resources, across the whole forest.

If there's a tree over here growing in soil with a lot of, like, potassium, they'll pull up more potassium than they need, and send it out through the root system to other trees that are living where there isn't much potassium.

And one of the coolest things? Trees communicate their needs. If a tree is sick or damaged or starving, they send chemical messages out through the root system that tell the other trees to send them more food and tree-equivalent-of-immune-system.

Trees will share so much of their resources, they'll even keep trees alive that are almost entirely dependent. Like this tree! The tree above is getting some energy from its leaves, but no other nutrition of its own. And it wasn't able to link up to the shared root system. So the other tree reached out and hooked up to it directly, feeding it all of the nutrients it needed!

You see it more commonly the other way around: in an old-growth forest, where the roots are well-established, you can find stumps where a tree was cut down a century ago... but if you scrape the stump it's still green wood. The tree's still alive, without a single leaf. Because all the other trees in the forest are feeding it.

I promised to talk about matriarch trees, so here's where we get to them.

In a very old forest, you have very old trees. You have some trees that are so very, very old, their own roots cover entire regions of the forest. Their leaves reach up to the sky over everyone else. And after so long, they've developed to where they can take in way more resources than they need.

So what do they do?

They feed baby trees.

Baby saplings in an old forest can't reach up to the sun. There's no light down there. And their roots are too small and shallow to dig down to the nutrients they need. So the matriarch tree will draw energy from its towering canopy, and nutrients from its massive, ancient roots, and feed them to the little trees that are too small to feed themselves. For anything she can't get on her own, she'll act as a central hub, taking in spare resources from the rest of the forest and giving them to the little ones.

And one of the best parts - she won't just do it for her own species. She'll connect to all kinds of trees, because they're all necessary for the ecosystem to work. She'll adopt the whole forest's children.

Sometimes in forests you'll find a spot where there are a lot of small trees in an open space around an old, fallen tree. People generally assume they could find more light there, or maybe the soil's more fertile from the decomposition.

But no.

Don't Do This Period.

Turmeric powder isn't healthy for cats. When dosed incorrectly it can cause clotting dysfunction, especially in cats.

They will lick it off their fur and ingest it.

Please don't do shit to your animals because you think it'd be aesthetically cool. They're animals, they're not dolls, they're not your accessories. They're living beings and you're supposed to be taking care of them.

This post on Twitter got over 121k likes and only a fraction of people are bothering to mention the safety and health of the animal. It's not funny, it's not a "bumblebee". It's cruel and it's giving out false, harmful information.

If you can't afford treatment for fleas and are looking for a cheaper option, get a flea comb.

Put your animal on a counter near the sink, or on a container next to it. Fill up your sink, slowly, you can add a bit of soap, and brush the fleas out and flick them off into the water to drown.

Watch out for em trying to get up the sides, but you can use the water that's still flowing to knock them back down and drown them. The soap makes it harder for them to get into the water itself and get near the edge of the sink.

It's time consuming and you've gotten do it multiple times every couple of days, but it's worth it.

My kitty, Tuffy, is allergic to flea spit and I use a comb on him a lot when we're broke and unable to afford the treatment at that time. That's the process I use.

And if your cat likes being brushed, they'll likely enjoy it and realize it's a reoccurring thing you're doing after a while and it'll be a bonding experience for y'all.

Inanimate but very much alive

Can live in the dark for many days at a time

Except it DOES NOW. Due to a legal loophole known as the Because I Said So And If You Disagree Fight Me clause, I have the authority to declare federal holidays.

In my capacity as Captain America I am declaring, henceforth and in perpetuity, that the second Friday in August shall be known as National Parks Rebellion Day. 

Even though it happened in January, the second Friday in August is a much more temperate time to commemorate the glorious rebellion of the National Parks social media accounts against the tyranny of 45. National Parks Rebellion Day encourages all those who are able to visit a National Park, and for those who can’t to celebrate our great outdoors with cookouts, backyard camping, acts of civil disobedience (but not in the parks, pick up your trash you degenerates), and Absolutely No Fireworks, It’s A Fire Hazard And It Upsets People. 

You have over a month to prepare! This August, plan to celebrate a National Park with a park party! We will be having one at Stark Tower and anyone who loves National Parks and Civil Disobedience are welcome. Our theme will be John Muir Would Punch This President Right In His Face.