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Kati Horna, Remedios Varo in a Mask by Leonora Carrington 1957 Gelatin silver print 10 1/2 x 9 7/8 in. (26.7 x 25.1 cm) (image) The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
happy Thursday the 20th
I’d have to wait months or even years for another chance to reblog this, so why the fuck not?
next days you can reblog this on a Thursday the 20th
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ITS GREAT LAKES AWARENESS DAY!!!!!
On this excellent day, be aware that this is the largest group of freshwater lakes in the world, covering over 95,000 square miles and reaching depths of over a thousand feet. They are beautiful freshwater seas.
Also when you die in these lakes, the very cold, oxygen-poor conditions at the bottom preserves you perfectly for all eternity. You will not rot and nothing will eat you. You will exist for as long as the Great Lakes do. Many shipwrecks still have the crew on board. Be Aware.

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have you ever met someone with the same first name as you
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yes, online
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Is there anything more useless than an open letter?
I think redneck allyship is my favorite kind because it tends to come with just the right mix of bluntness, style, and violence. Just the amazing feeling of a huge guy with a giant beard standing up and saying something like, "Why doncha fucking respect Tina's pronouns, or before you're a problem for tomorrow morning's janitor," is like art to me.
I'd also suggest that nice, middle-class people, the kind that are a generation or two off the farm or out of the mines, might consider what the "...and if you have a problem with that your pronouns are about to be was/were" equivalent is for people who know exactly what is meant by "per my last email."
*Reminder that “Imp”=“Bud” and “Celyn”=“Holly”, so Terry Pratchett really did write a character named Buddy Holly who was a rockstar.

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In my Nobby Nobbs phase. On my Cecil Wormsborough St. John "Nobby" Nobbs arc.
Nobbs pilled. Having the Nobby nature. Nobbycore.
In my Nobby Nobbs phase. On my Cecil Wormsborough St. John "Nobby" Nobbs arc.
ftr I am forever going to be bitter that the post I wanted to be "let's talk about extinct ecosystems and how cool they are!" got derailed into yet another post just talking about a single taxon like the millions of other posts on palaeoblr
Please tell me more about these extinct ecosystems. Why did they go extinct? Could an ecosystem like that return?
When I say "extinct ecosystem", I mean those ecosystems that have existed in the past, with extinct animals and plants etc. inhabiting them
by their very definition, they are gone forever
there are ones that were truly unique, like Polar Tropical Forests and Fern Prairies, that we just could not have today
but there were ones that have equivalents to today, as well, like the first savannahs and steppes of the Miocene - they just have earlier versions of the plants and animals
there were so many because there are so many today, and each one had its own flora and fauna and was glorious
There's the wetlands and forests of Hell Creek in the Latest Cretaceous
the bizarre Volcanic Lake Forests of the Jehol Biota
whatever the hell the Ediacaran Reefs were
the Scale Tree Swamp Forests of the Carboniferous
"Mesozoic 2" aka pre-human Aotearoa
the Western Interior Seaway dominated by Mosasaurs
and so many other things, I couldn't possibly list them all. Every time period had its own biosphere and biomes, and they were all unique.
#i wanna see the Aurora Borealis over a tropical forest#BC Canada has a Boreal Rainforest so you can definitely get that
that isn't what I mean by "Polar Tropical Forest"
I mean a tropical forest
at the poles
ie, the ecosystems present during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
we have fossils of plants that showcase how different tropical plant lifestyles had to be up at the poles because of the light weirdness
the important part is "tropical", not "wet/rainforest". those are two different things
Temperate and Boreal Rainforests are wonderful and some of my favorite living biomes, but they aren't what I was talking about
May I ask about the fern prairies? That sounds really cool!
Grass is a relatively recent thing
it first evolved in the latest Cretaceous, but it didn't actually take over everywhere until the Miocene, when grasses that process light differently (look up C3 vs C4 photosynthesis) evolved and just took the fuck over the planet
before then, other plants formed the low ground cover over the earth, and in many places those plants were ferns - spread all over the ground and covering it, much like grass, but significantly less dense. Dirt would have been much more common everywhere.
This is why I am begging every single game developer to remember that grass is not a neutral ground cover
My favorite extinct ecosystem, if it counts while being as physically tiny as it was, is the floating logs that existed in the ocean between the first appearance of woody trees and the first appearance of organisms that could break down wood - floating reefs of a sort, trailing enormous filter-feeding crinoids below them. The baleen whales of their time
yeah that counts! And how bizarre those must have been!!!
Speaking of reefs, we're so used to rocky or coral reefs in the moderns world but there have been so many different reefs throughout prehistory that were made of things that straight up don't exist any more!
Like the reefs of the late Devonian, which were made of stromatoporoids, which may have resembled corals but were actually a highly diverse extinct group of sponges!
This is one of my own reconstructions of a stromatoporoid reef off the coast of Devonian Australia (plus anachronistic underwater baited camera):
The Cretaceous also had some wild extinct reefs which are known as carbonate reefs and were dominated by a group of bivalve molluscs called rudists!
Scale tree swamps are the only one of these I know anything about and they were SO WEIRD. There's definitely some controversy about how they functioned cause these things are hard to work out from fossils, but the current thinking is that these trees shot up to around 100 feet tall in 10-15 years, grew more tightly packed together than basically any modern forest, produced spores one time and then promptly keeled over and died. Forests just do not work like this anymore! It's not just different types of trees, it's a whole *different type of forest* that has gone extinct! Different nutrient cycling, different natural rhythms, different everything!
Even today there are all kinds of niche hyperlocal ecosystems that function in their own distinct ways - shale barrens, waxcap grasslands, cataract bogs. What else have we just never seen??
Anxiety over all the prehistoric organisms we’ll never know, meet your big sibling: anxiety over all the prehistoric ECOSYSTEMS we’ll never know
@headspace-hotel So it sounds like the scale tree swamps that @ferncube mentioned would've worked on the same principle as American bamboo stands?
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About the American bamboo, yes it's similar!—Arundinaria species grow as large clonal colonies. These colonies take time to establish, but once they reach a particular size, they start growing and expanding much faster, with the height of the canes beginning to exceed 15 ft. or more.
Arundinaria bamboos typically only produce seed once and die soon afterward. So yeah! They shoot up in a relatively short period of time, growing very very dense and nearly impenetrable thickets, and then they die—so the little seedlings produced by the flowering event will have enough light to live (we think).
The American bamboo is relevant in more than one way, actually, because broadly speaking, canebrakes are an extinct ecosystem. (But we can still bring them back, in some sense, so it's a little different.) Before colonization, there were canebrakes that stretched for miles, essentially forests of 30-40ft tall bamboo (I don't actually know how tall it got at maximum, it seems related to the overall size of the 'brake) and this was a huge component of the Southeastern USA ecosystem. When the land was colonized, almost all the canebrakes were destroyed, and it is thought that this is in fact part of the cause of the extinction of Carolina parakeets, Bachman's warblers, and passenger pigeons.
The plant was essentially a keystone species, and nowadays it is so little known, the only people really advocating for it right now are the Cherokee and Choctaw nations, for whom it's a fundamental part of their culture because in the past it was used for EVERYTHING. Arrows, blowguns, mats, baskets, backpacks, fish traps, frames and containers of all sorts, musical instruments, torches, you can even eat the seeds and the young shoots, this plant is everything. But it's so rare now that native artisans are having trouble finding canes big enough to work with.
You can still see rivercane nowadays, but it mostly grows in very small, scruffy, sad-looking patches in ditches and the like, and struggles to clear 10ft in height. It sometimes also establishes little thickets in the undergrowth of forests, but without controlled burning, it can't do well.
Canebrakes are a fire-dependent ecosystem, they thrive with human caretakers. I THINK there are a couple contiguous acres of canebrake extant in Alabama and South Georgia, but I met with a guy who has devoted his life's career to studying the stuff, and he told me the largest canebrake he'd ever seen was around 200x500 feet. FEET.
this ecosystem is so rare people who study it can't even FIND an extant example bigger than a large backyard, and it's not protected and barely anybody knows what it is.
I was 22 when I learned that Kentucky not only had a native bamboo species, but also is possibly NAMED AFTER BAMBOO (Kain-tuck, "kain" as in cane), and long story short I was so fucked up over this information that I couldn't do anything except decide to devote my entire career to studying it.
hi, im getting a degree in plants now
by the way, Kentucky gets even weirder, because the Bluegrass Region used to be what is known as an oak savanna. Basically, an open savanna environment full of wildflowers with giant fuckoff huge oak trees forming 10-50% canopy coverage. And between the oak trees, a lot of the open areas were full of bamboo. There was straight up nothing else like this on Earth.
You can still see a few of the oak trees. If you are driving in the Lexington area and you see an oak tree that is so goddamn BIG you want to pull over on the side of the road and take pictures of it? That's a pre-colonization oak tree. You're welcome.
Kentucky bluegrass, by the way, is not native to Kentucky. None of the low-growing turfgrasses people use in lawns are. The ground would have been covered in tons of clover, which supposedly reached as high as horses' knees. (There are like, 3 Trifolium species we know about that would have been among the native clover, and they're all endangered to critically endangered, because killing the Bison and their caretakers, the native peoples, fucked them over so bad.)
October without much fall color is weird
Hands in the Dirt
Block print, 2017
by Kelly Louise Judd

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Bulls Feeding
reminder to:
straighten your back
go pee goddAMN IT STOP HOLDING IT
go take your meds if you need to
drink some water
go get a snack if you havent eaten in a while
maybe wander around the house/stretch a little if you’ve been sat at the computer a while (artists especially: sTRETCH THOSE WRISTS)
reply to that text/message from earlier you’d forgotten about
maybe send a nice lil message to someone having a bad day?
I just would like to thank everyone who ever reblogs this so that it somehow ends up back on my dash because I usually need the reminder (especially the drinking water one)