Moon-Lover, Tree-Hugger

A poetry comic for a rainy Saturday from my book THE SHAPE OF IDEAS 🌨

catastrophe -> contraverse cephalopod -> capitoped chlorophyll -> viridofolia democracy -> populimpery homicide -> anthropoctony homosexual -> equigamic kilometer -> millimensure interregnum -> mesarchy magnanimous -> megapsychic manuscript -> chirography motorcycle -> ergatorote microscope -> parvovisor oxygen -> acidofex polyamory -> multierasty television -> remotoscopy universe -> monostrophe

Oh? It’s different if it’s me? Wow fuck you too

And yes, this includes having compassion for the bully in your head. Unfortunately that part is also you and deserves as much of your understanding as the rest of you.

This is the real reason why you need to be kind to the bully in your brain too, because that motherfucker is really good at doing a switcheroo when you're not paying attention.

The new geothermal process used at the Newberry Volcano in Oregon produces ten times more energy than a traditional geothermal plant while requiring less than half the water and well drilling.

—Colt... Where's the phone? —Tom, you need carbs! Your brain runs on glucose! I mean— y— for simple cognitive functions, you need them!

Sketching some bears from the bear cam! 🐻🐟

The binturong of tiredness

I carve horns for a living and I thought you guys might like to see the Animorphs carvings I’ve done. 😊

Companies are considered part of the green economy if at least 1/5th of their income comes from environmentally focused activities. Over the last ten years, green economy companies have regularly performed about 12% better than the rest of the market.

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For International Chocolate Day (7 July), the beginning of a long tongue-in-cheek poem "In the due praise of Divine Chocolate" written in 1651 by Diego de Vadesforte. At the time, chocolate had only recently been brought to Europe from the Americas, and was taken solely as a drink. The rest of the poem is available here.

So, learn your native flora. Learn what edible plants are/were in your area and try to bring them back. Look up recipes that involve them. I promise you there is a native blogger who is happily sharing their family recipes. Give them some support while you're there. Maybe some day in the future we'll go to the local food forest to harvest produce instead of the grocery store to buy it.

5. Subject AI products to genuine taxes as well as enforceable regulations around safety, transparency, and power and water use effectiveness.