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Some of you may have heard about Monarch butterflies being added to the Threatened species list in the US and be planning to immediately rush out in spring and buy all the milkweed you can manage to do your part and help the species.

And that's fantastic!! Starting a pollinator garden and/or encouraging people and businesses around you to do the same is an excellent way to help not just Monarchs but many other threatened and at-risk pollinator species!

However.

Please please PLEASE do not obtain Tropical Milkweed for this purpose!

Tropical milkweed (Asclepias curassavica)--also commonly known as bloodflower, Mexican butterflyweed, and scarlet milkweed--will likely be the first species of milkweed you find for sale at most nurseries. It'll be fairly cheap, too, and it grows and propagates so easily you'll just want to grab it! But do not do that!

Tropical milkweed can cause a host of issues that can ultimately harm the butterflies you're trying to help, such as--

Harboring a protozoan parasite called OE (which has been linked to lower migration success, reductions in body mass, lifespan, mating success, and flight ability) for long periods of time

Remaining alive for longer periods, encouraging breeding during migration time/overwintering time as well as keeping monarchs in an area until a hard freeze wherein which they die

Actually becoming toxic to monarch caterpillars when exposed to warmer temperatures associated with climate change

However--do not be discouraged!! There are over 100 species of milkweed native to the United States, and plenty of resources on which are native to your state specifically! From there, you can find the nurseries dedicated to selling native milkweeds, or buy/trade for/collect seeds to grow them yourself!!

The world of native milkweeds is vast and enchanting, and I'm sure you'll soon find a favorite species native to your area that suits your growing space! There's tons of amazing options--whether you choose the beautiful pink vanilla-smelling swamp milkweed, the sophisticated redring milkweed, the elusive purple milkweed, the alluring green antelopehorn milkweed, or the charming heartleaf milkweed, or even something I didn't list!

And there's tons of resources and lots of people willing to help you on your native milkweed journey! Like me! Feel free to shoot me an ask if you have any questions!

Just. PLEASE. Leave the tropical milkweed alone. Stay away.

TLDR: Start a pollinator garden to help the monarchs! Just don't plant tropical milkweed. There's hundreds of other milkweeds to grow instead!

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Prosecutors argued that Mangione was carrying about $10,000 in cash and that his bag was a Faraday bag that blocks cellphone signals—all proof that he was a sophisticated criminal who should be held without bail. “‘I’d like to correct two things,’” Mangione said after the prosecutor finished speaking, according to CNN’s Danny Freeman, “‘I don’t know where any of that money came from—I’m not sure if it was planted. And also, that bag was waterproof, so I don’t know about criminal sophistication.’”

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the Trans Experience in our society is being treated like schrodinger's gender. you're a woman when they wanna deny you agency and a man when they wanna deny you support. this is an experience that unites nearly all of us, whether transmasc, transfem, or something else.

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a herd of dairy cow isopods grazing the great green meadow 🌱

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Lubna @help-lubna and her lovely family need our help! She is a 30 year old mother of 3 children (Eline, 7 years old / Kinda, 3 years old / Nasser, 4 years old) Read her story here!

As you may already know, the price to feed and take care of her family in Gaza is astronomical, and Nasser, her middle child, was born without a thyroid gland and needs help with extra care for his medical condition. As you may know, there are no more facilities that can treat him at this time.

Here is proof of vetting and Nasser's medical records for you to check - this campaign has been vetted by @ gazavetters and several other trusted vetting accounts on here!

£3,509 raised out of £16K goal

Please, even if you can spare a little bit of money, we will be eternally grateful!! Thank you so much for sharing and donating :D your care and kindness are much appreciated

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I NEED HIM. I NEED HIM. Sorry

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yellow pikmin are my favorite

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do not. blaze your hazbin hotel oc art onto my dashboard

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People enjoyed seeing the other batch of underwater piñata renders, well here's the last bunch of them that i've gotten finished~

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Sometimes doodling piñatas as warm-up ends up being very fun and becoming full drawings as a result

All these are designs i've made before so these are redesigns in a way, you can see the old designs compared to these below :3

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Sometimes I just like to watch him doing whatever. There's a lot of waiting in this game and my favorite pastime is looking at him

Genuinely it's so cool that you can actually watch him collecting seeds along the borders of your garden, and that he reacts to how well you take care of your plants. He's checking to see if the seeds he gives you are in good hands! You have to be a very special person to look after seeds!

So weird that the game kind of encourages you to beat him up and chase him off because it does often feel like he had the most love put into his little animations like this. Leafos doesn't interact with your garden at all (that I've noticed), but Seedos frolics in perfectly maintained fields of flowers and shakes his head in dismay if your plants don't meet his standards.

Charming little guy! I also like how he wiggles his fingers like that so much. Stimming.

The little details man...

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weed eater

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Viva Piñata art dump

Viva Piñata was my favorite game when I was younger and it influenced my style heavily throughout the years but I've noticed it's like really niche? I haven't seen a lot of people talking about it which is a shame since the whole series is absolutely adorable. So I'm spreading the word myself with some funky doodles

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Hello I am back with more Viva Piñata doodles! Turns out if you think enough about fluffy piñatas you can force your way through art block (at least for a while)

The typical Viva Piñata experience, I love you Pretztail but why are you like this I drew so many Pretztail as a "do over" of my first Viva Piñata drawing from 2018

that's when it all started

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generally speaking a lot of people wrongly take TERFs and other transphobes at face value when assembling their awesome rhetorical gotchas in a way that makes them seem like gullible suckers