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(Not that lesbian is a word that should ever be kept away from children. Or that they won't learn curses)

But captions should ALWAYS be reflecting what was said.

On a side note: speech to text should NOT censor EITHER.

So here's the latest weird nature thing I've run across. I'm currently in Vancouver (WA, not BC) and parked next to this in a cute little neighborhood. I noticed this well-established Chinese arborvitae (Platycladus orientalis) in someone's yard had these weird sprigs of pale yellow, almost cream foliage. My first thought was that somehow these were developing without chlorophyll, maybe through a genetic quirk, but the pattern was too uneven.

Upon further research (as in, I put it on iNaturalist) it looks like the culprit is a fungus, Pestalotiopsis funerea, one of several plant pathogens that can cause tip blight. I'm used to seeing brown foliage as a sign, such as on western red cedar (Thuja plicata), but the lighter hue threw me off since I usually see it in plants that developed without chlorophyll.

Yes, fuck those ugly ass cyber trucks but FUCK that Space Center.

Starship genuine danger to the people who live here. It's to the point many of the people here when they heard the explosion joked that it was probably another one of Elon's rockets.

This is a horrifying pattern we are becoming numb to, we hear about a planned test launch and brace ourselves for more debris.

Several of Musk's attempts at rockets, especially after the deregulation, have resulted in catastrophic explosions. Want the list? Here are a few!!

December 9th, 2020- Starship serial No. 8, or SN8. Exploded upon landing.

February 2, 2021- Starship SN9. Exploded upon landing.

March 3rd. 2021- Starship SN10. Landed in one piece. Fire at the skirt caused an explosion.

April 20, 2023- Starship. Exploded once more. Debris scattered in Port Isabell.

March 6, 2025- Flight 8. Spun out of control and exploded in a mass of fireballs. Planes had to be grounded due to the mass explosion and the debris are stills scattered in the ocean.

And now we have the most recent and the worse one yet.

June 18-19, 2025- Starship 36 during a GROUND test caused a mass explosion, the looming mushroom cloud causing locals in Cameron to believed they had been bombed.

The loser describes this it as a "rapid unscheduled disassembly" instead of what they are: fiery failures locals have to deal with as a result.

Pretty much everyone locally knows Elon Musk and his negative impact on our home, people who have had the unfortunate curse to have worked with him and the center call it Cultish, 8 members of his staff who spoke out against his behavior and sexual harassment were all fired.

Its a well known fact he hates the people here, and he goes out of his way to find employees who are not from this area and move them down here.

Musk has tried to encourage even more white people to come down to South Texas and live in his "Starship City". An attempt to gentrify and push out local citizens.

Rebekah Hinojosa, a local Activist with Another Gulf Is Possible, even had her home unlawfully entered by police after an alleged graffiti on a mural he commisioned (which didn't even obscure the mural).

This article is a good read on everything Musk has done to South Texas

I am TIRED of this going unnoticed and unheard of the People of The Valley. I need you to stop laughing and start taking this seriously.

If you want to read more on all the insane shit this man has done to South Texas here are a few more Articles I would Recommend

* I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

*The King in Yellow

* The Lottery

* The Masque of the Red Death

* The Monkey’s Paw

* The Most Dangerous Game

* The Nameless City

* The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

* There Will Come Soft Rains

*The Yellow Wallpaper

* The Veldt

* “you think those were fucked up? What about [X]!”

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison

The King in Yellow by Robert W Chambers*

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson**

The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe

The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs

The Most Dangerous Game by Richard O'Connell

The Nameless City by HP Lovecraft

The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula K LeGuin

There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Veldt by Ray Bradbury

Honorable Mention from the comments/reblogs:

All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury

*note: this is actually a collection of short stories and clocks in at about 72k words

Don't let men rewrite history.

Your brain is a 25-watt computer.

Do I have my gripes with certain aspects of the film ? Yes. Do I have a deeply ingrained desire to nitpick over the stuff I didn't like ? Also yes. Do I think the comic is better than the film ? Well, yes, but to be fair I think that this comic is better than 99.9% of stuff that have ever been made. The film is different, the film is it's own thing, and that's good.

And at the end of the day we got a well rounded version of Supergirl, where her grief and her kindness were both given the necessary space to express themselves, we got a Kara who got to be messy and imperfect, a Kara who got to be selfish, and a Kara who was allowed to grow ; and I can only hope that this heralds more of her in the DCU.

So you should go see that film before they pull it out of theatres. It's not perfect, but it's good, and you should give it a chance.

Also, I made a meme.