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couple thoughts: 1. A No-Fish tank would not have to do water changes to get rid of nitrates, but you might have to add ammonia and play a really complicated game with artificial fertilizers because you don't have fish poop for your plants to eat. like land plants, aquatic plants need manure. 2. A tank with a SHITLOAD of plants and not that many fish may only need to have it's water changed 2 or 3 times per year because it's 1000% percent possible to zero out your nitrates with enough plants. I'm basically there with my 20 gallon long, I think I've only changed its water when I was dosing the tank with antibiotics. There are some people with walstad tanks they haven't changed the water in years, just topped it off.

3. I'm going to recommend reading up on the Walstad Method in general because it's really interesting and the principles there are applicable to all types of tanks, because it gives you a better understanding of how small freshwater ecosystems work. But walstad tanks have lights, maybe a heater, and no other tech, just a shitload of plants. They take a long, long time to cycle but once they do they're for-real no-tech tanks.

4. A tank without fish is not a tank without animals. healthy plants will have microfauna hitchikers like copepods, daphnia, snails, scuds etc. Those are all good and healthy and fascinating in their own right, and will have a (net positive) effect on your tank ecosystem, so you need to take them into account.

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I did NOT say that the Batman was the first superhero in Gotham. I said that, by being the first Gotham superhero to take on a ward/sidekick in the modern day he is the root of the current expanded superhero roster that makes Gotham so famous. He did not invent superheroes in the city but most superheroes currently active within the city trace their origins, resources or iconography back to him. It was a necessary point to make because someone was asking me about WHY Gotham has so many superheroes even for such a large city. And Batman's long list of allies, partners and former proteges is the reason.

Because claiming Batman was the first superhero in Gotham City is the kind of major, yawning factual error that gets you hung, drawn and quartered in my line of work. Especially considering what my specialization is and where I work!

(Green Lantern Alan Scott, photographed soaring through a sleet blown Gotham night)

Gotham City, by nature of being one of America's major population centers was statistically likely to be one of the first places where the idea of masked mystery man took root. It was large, industrialized and financially centered meaning that it was struck hard by the double blow of prohibition and the great depression. As such the gangsters and other societal pressures it was under gave rise to many mystery men in the same way that other cities like New York, Metropolis or Keystone did. Although you're slightly off base on your examples.

Zatara was a native of San Francisco and most often operated around the general SoCal area. Plastic Man spent most of the war years living and working in Mammoth City, and the wartime Black Canary lived and worked in Park City. Though anyone FROM either city will tell you they are used to being confused for Gothamites considering both cities are ALSO in the same general New Jersey area and not far inland from Gotham's famous islands.

The most famous wartime hero from Gotham was and is, of course, "The Big Guy" himself. The Superman of his day and without a doubt the most widely known, inspiring and well trusted member of the Golden Age generation. Alan Scott, the original Green Lantern. During his time and with a large resurgence nowadays he was as much a part of Gotham's pride and DNA as the Bat Family is now. Gotham's criminal underworld fearing the blazing of green fire with the same terror they now reserve for the spreading of leather wings. Of course we also know in the modern day that Alan Scott was an employee of the Gotham based Apex Broadcasting Company where he worked various jobs until eventually becoming the station's director near the end of WWII.

In fact, in relation to the Gotham we know now it is widely believed in historian circles that the forced retirement of Alan Scott along with the rest of the Justice Society generation after their run in with the HUAC was what caused the mob violence and general criminal malaise that Gotham would become infamous for. In the year or so after the Green Lantern's disappearance there was a massive gang war, most likely prompted by the various mobs knowing that the Green Lantern was no longer on patrol over their heads. It was a bloodbath the likes of which called back to the depths of prohibition almost 30 years before and left the Falcones sitting nearly uncontested atop of a pile of corpses. A state of affairs that wouldn't change until near the modern day after the appearance of Batman began to pry Falcone's hands from their death grip around the city's heart.

Gotham City has always been a city of adventure. You just don't get that many...interesting people in one place without things starting to go a bit pear shaped. It just so happens that that nature, so intertwined with risk and violence, is also the perfect cauldron for heroes to be born and forged. Gotham City has been a prominent city in every generation of mystery men so far and I suspect from my own limited temporal perspective that that isn't going to change even as new generations rise.

This is a very confident accusation built on a misunderstanding on how any of this is monetised.

This blog does not generate any ad revenue. Tumblr does not pay me for political writing and views on my videos here do not earn me anything. For the videos that can earn money based on views - Only TikTok, YouTube and Instagram count.

When I mark something as an Ad on Tumblr, that's me being transparent that a studio, publisher, or creator agency has sent me a key to play the game, or the video has the potential to earn money based on its performance elsewhere. I usually link those other platforms and explicitly say watching there is a way to support me financially.

Yes, some people support me voluntarily through Ko-Fi. Some subscribe to me on Twitch and I'm genuinely grateful for that support. But I also work full time - AyeforScotland is not my livelihood, and I'm certainly not making enough from it for political oppression to be some financial necessity.

Turning that into "It is in your financial best interest for that oppression to continue" is an extraordinary leap.

By this logic, journalists covering wars secretly want them to continue, foodbank workers want people to remain hungry, and climate campaigners are financially invested in the planet getting hotter.

I've been arguing for the same political outcomes since long before there was any earnings from being 'AyeforScotland'. My desired endpoint has always been the same: I would quite like the things I complain about to stop happening.

Luxuries such as blankets

Extra bedding that's there for comfort, such as double pillows, soft ones or plushies

Warm baths/showers

Food that tastes good just because

Clothing in bright colors

Music

A door that locks from the inside

Clothing that favours comfort over functionality/protection

Pets

Floor time

Books

Pain medicine

Lazy days where you can just take it slow instead of being always at a strict and unforgiving schedule for maximum efficiency always

also, for the unaware: mclaughlin v. florida was a 1964 supreme court case that struck down a florida anti-miscegenation law that criminalized cohabitation (and thus, as implied, sex) between white people and people of color of opposite genders. anti-miscegenation laws made marriage and sexual relationships between white people and people of color, most often specifically black people, a FELONY in several states in the united states up until the 1950s and 1960s. though it was already struck down by the supreme court, the state of alabama didn't repeal their law until 2000! there were THREE ATTEMPTS at codifying anti-miscegenation into the us constitution!

like yes, the issue here is partially straight white people's ignorance on the united states's history of homophobic policy, but it's also really important to recognize that arguably the majority of the issue here is straight white people's ignorance of the united states's history of codifying eugenics and antiblack racism.

There's hiding and there's finding, we'd say. And he'd say it was hide-and-seek, not hide-and-give-UP, and we'd all yell about who made the rules and who cared about who, anyway, and how we wouldn't play with him anymore if he didn't get it straight and who needed him anyhow, and things like that. Hide-and-seek-and-yell. No matter what, though, the next time he would hide too good again. He's probably still hidden somewhere, for all I know.

As I write this, the neighborhood game goes on, and there is a kid under a pile of leaves in the yard just under my window. He has been there a long time now, and everybody else is found and they are about to give up on him over at the base. I considered going out to the base and telling them where he is hiding. And I thought about setting the leaves on fire to drive him out. Finally, I just yelled, "GET FOUND, KID!" out the window. And scared him so bad he probably wet his pants and started crying and ran home to tell his mother. It's real hard to know how to be helpful sometimes.

A man I know found out last year he had terminal cancer. He was a doctor. And knew about dying, and he didn't want to make his family and friends suffer through that with him. So he kept his secret. And died. Everybody said how brave he was to bear his suffering in silence and not tell everybody, and so on and so forth. But privately his family and friends said how angry they were that he didn't need them, didn't trust their strength. And it hurt that he didn't say good-bye.

He hid too well. Getting found would have kept him in the game. Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found. "I don't want anyone to know." "What will people think?" "I don't want to bother anyone."

Better than hide-and-seek, I like the game called Sardines. In Sardines the person who is It goes and hides, and everybody goes looking for him. When you find him, you get in with him and hide there with him. Pretty soon everybody is hiding together, all stacked in a small space like puppies in a pile. And pretty soon somebody giggles and somebody laughs and everybody gets found.

Medieval theologians even described God in hide-and-seek terms, calling him Deus Absconditus. But me, I think old God is a Sardine player. And will be found the same way everybody gets found in Sardines - by the sound of laughter of those heaped together at the end.

"Olly-olly-oxen-free." The kids out in the street are hollering the cry that says "Come on in, wherever you are. It's a new game." And so say I. To all those who have hid too good. Get found, kid! Olly-olly-oxen-free.