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The day is cooling but the random paving slab is warm.

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Excerpt from this New York Times review of the book, “The Insect Crisis:”

Anyone with a car has gathered data on insect declines. Entomologists call it “the windshield effect,” a relatable metric neatly summed up by a question: When was the last time you had to clean bug splatter from your windshield? This ritual was once an inevitable coda to any long drive. Now, we’re far more likely to watch those same landscapes pass by through unblemished glass, mile after empty mile.

The trend is more than anecdotal. When the ecologist Anders Pape Møller began systematically driving two Danish roads in 1996 and counting the windshield splats, many people dismissed his project as a lark. Twenty years later, the results showed something deadly serious: Collisions with insects had declined 80 percent along the first roadway, and a staggering 97 percent along the second. Other scientists, using more conventional methods, have reported similar collapses everywhere from Puerto Rican jungles to nature reserves in Germany. News stories have referred to the situation as an “insect apocalypse,” or even “insectageddon.” Beyond the headlines, entomologists are frantically trying to figure out what is happening, and how in the world to stop it.

Blame for the crisis falls on broad biodiversity threats like habitat loss and climate change, as well as insect-specific challenges from light pollution and the rampant use of pesticides. But Milman draws particular attention to the way industrial agriculture has transformed once-varied rural landscapes into vast monocultures. Devoid of hedgerows or even many weeds, modern single-crop farms simply lack the diverse plant life necessary to support an insect community. As the agricultural ecologist Barbara Smith puts it: “It’s like if the only food available was chips. Chips for everybody even if you don’t eat chips.”

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God I am so excited for Tarkir Dragonstorm... wotc don't fuck this up for me, but if you do, fuck it up in an interesting way so Spice8Rack is compelled to make another 4½ hour video essay about it

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poster for your poster needs (grossly oversimplified but i'm going for broad strokes not intensive academic rigor)

free to use, repost & reproduce, no credit necessary

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Guys remember: it's always punk to listen to short, fast-paced songs with hard-edged melodies and singing styles with stripped-down instrumentation that evolved from garage rock of the 60s. Unless it's up-tempo alt-rock, then like, fuck me I guess.

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Saying that a certain group of people is too privileged to complain about the way that things are is its own sort of defense of the status quo

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I think that if Carrot and Laios ever met, the fact that they are very similar would be very apparent to literally everyone except them. Like Carrot would file Laios away in the same category as one of various museum curators ("a real expert on the study of eating monsters!"), while Laios would think of Carrot as someone similar to Kabru. Meanwhile Angua just saw two people have an in-depth twenty-minute conversation about dwarven battle bread and is just like "oh god, there's two of them."

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no way in hell

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reminder that things like carbs and fats and oils–those are GOOD things. those are valuable things that have served humans well for thousands of years. those are fundamental things that keep us alive and healthy. the issue is that our current food system gives us unprecedented access to those foods, and not enough access to the other types of foods we need to balance them out. a balanced diet is a diverse diet.

most of us don’t need to eat less, we need to eat differently. and the diets of millions of individuals–that’s not a reflection of personal choice, that’s a reflection of our food systems, and the governments and corporations that control them. if you want people to make better choices, first give people access to better choices. 

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Speak of the Devil

part two previous / next

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she's a hero. she should dump her west brit "friends" and become friends with me instead

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humble contribution

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pokèmonize yourself!!!!

spin this wheel to see your pokemon type

spin this one to see how you'll look like

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unreasonably funny. the sudden yell. the actual creature itself looking like a fucking muppet. jadzia's "whatsthatisthataspideroradog..!?"