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Perthshire forest, Dunkeld, Scotland

daniel_casson

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This distinctively warty lichen is Melanohalea exasperata (with several friends) on a lushly populated oak twig.

It can be tricky to find as it mostly grows high up in the tree canopy - so far I've only enountered it on branches that have recently fallen to the ground.

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Riitu Uosukainen

1975

Tuohustaja, 2023

20,5 × 15,5 × 15 cm, ceramic

Finnish National Gallery

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I honestly feel like the proliferation of LED headlights was the canary in the coalmine for the general attitude we see in the political climate these days and i'm not even remotely kidding

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I genuinely think Mouthwashing fandom is a good example on how real life misogyny is very wired on people brains and influenced how they engage with fictional misogyny.

You have a story about a woman being assaulted and telling a man he trusted but being dismissed because he is friends with the attacker, and people fixate on shipping her with either of those men.

You have a story about how men that downplay their male friends violence, assume neutrality is the safer option, unintentionally help create an environment that's unsafe to vulnerable people, at a risk becoming a victim themselves. And people make it about toxic yaoi.

You have a character kill herself because she didn't want birth the child of her abuser. And people make AUs where she happily keep the baby.

Misogyny isn't just "I hate this women", it's also downplaying their trauma, defending those who caused it, and reducing them to mothers or wives against their wished under this idea of what womanhood is about.

I don't think we can separate fandom misogyny from it's real world influence, not yet.

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my family is lucky enough to own a 26 acre mountain property, log cabin and all. Most people would go up there and think that it is fairly pristine nature. There’s the cabin, and a few dirt roads for 4-wheelers, but the surrounding woods look untouched.

But we actually carefully maintain that nature. We cut down the deadfall. We pull invasive plants. We trim the elderberry bushes. We get more animals than almost anywhere else on the mountain because we put up salt licks and water troughs.

some of these same things are true of national parks. A lot of places that you think of as “untouched wilderness” are influenced heavily by human care and maintenance. And this isn’t a bad thing. We are animals too. In many ways, our ecosystems depend on us to keep them healthy. Many “wild” plants that are useful for food or building materials are actually semi-domesticated because indigenous groups cared for them and encouraged their growth so they do better with human care.

we have a place in nature. We just need to be conscious of our actions.

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New zine that's free for anyone to print and distribute! Read the whole thing at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the rest of this post.

UPDATE 4/11/2023:

I swapped out the colloidal silver nasal spray info for xylitol nasal spray info. I originally included colloidal silver spray because of the linked study and recommendation from RTHM, but I don't want to be pointing people toward something with notable health risks. Xylitol spray (Xlear) is also cheaper and more widely available!

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This is just open contempt. They know exactly how much this looks like it's out of a bleak, unsubtle satire, and I have no doubt that they think it's hilarious. All while further kneecapping the poor by raising the bus fare cap for no good reason, and attacking people on disability benefits.

Genuinely: either this is sincerely meant to boost popular support (in which case it's ridiculously patronising and out-of-touch), or it's meant as an insult. Maybe it's both. Another soundbite for the media to bandy about for the people of this country who have been kept blinkered and ill-educated about the state of our politics, while thumbing their nose at the people who want legitimate change.

But I really don't think that the vast majority of UK citizens are thick enough to swallow this. I won't sing our praises too highly - god knows there are plenty of gullible, hate-driven people in this country - but this is taking it too far.

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i hate you private jets i hate you bitcoin i hate you cars that go 200 mph i hate you golf parks i hate you yachts i hate you huge mansions with a pool i hate you luxery resorts i hate you exessive wealth causally killing the planet and using up ressources we all need

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Something that's made the horror of the Gaza genocide even worse is how it's underlined a horrible truth about the state of modern politics.

It's there on our screens, livestreamed by the people who are experiencing it. But it's not even as if the state of Israel is even attempting to hide what they're doing. It's so blatant that it's taunting - 'yeah we're committing genocide, what are you gonna do about it?'. And the answer is... nothing?

If the scenes of abject cruelty and incomprehensible loss that we've been seeing haven't been enough to even get the people in charge to utter condemnations out of fear of losing their power and donations, what chance does anything else have? It's never been more clear that our politicians don't care about anything but their own gain, and they'll happily sacrifice countless lives if it means they get a fraction more. How can we trust anything they say, anything they do, when they're happy to see hospitals burned, children shot, millions starved and bombed?

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I've got such a backlog on this site that I have a tab open with posts from June. I just don't have the time to browse Tumblr like I used to I guess!

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Over three months into Starmer's tenure as PM, and...

Somehow Starmer's Labour is even worse than I expected. I was worried about them maintaining the dire status quo, but it's been a run of horrendously cruel policies ever since they got into power.

In the last two days alone they've announced that they'll effectively be using overweight unemployed people to test weight loss drugs (to see if that magically gets them jobs?!), and said that they'll be sending job coaches into mental hospitals. They've been attacking disabled people while at the same time rushing assisted-suicide legislation in a pretty blatant tilt at eugenics.

And they've had no qualms with continuing to support Israel even as their war crimes and genocidal intent become ever more obvious.

I genuinely do not know if the Tories would have been worse. I suspect that they may have been identical.

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Mindless Doodle - A Toast.

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Mindless Doodle - A Lamplighter.

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my life with ADHD

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For the goths and ghouls 🥀 An old one from Blacktober 2020 I know people really enjoyed. :-)

Prints available below for those interested:

Addams Family | Lurch | Cousin Itt

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What's the first question that really pops into peoples' minds about Ea-Nasir? I'm trying to write this history down, but I'm struggling.