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People who ‘love nature’ but violently hate their native coyotes, spiders, snakes, and scavengers are fake.

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"Culinary mastery" and "compassion energy manipulation"

This is very funny to me because I am a notorious Food Criminal among my friends and my partner once drew me as a member of the Indigo Tribe

Click on it twice. These are your two super powers.

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“omg peoples mental health is so bad they don’t shower??” girl some people have such bad mental health they kill themselves

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I also urge everyone to do your due diligence and try to figure out what types of milkweed are native to your specific area and try to obtain and plant that. Milkweed that isn't native to your particular area can potentially throw off a monarch's sense of where they are in their migration

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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that's... not how it works. you can't guarantee that your work definitely won't squick anyone. what do you think you're saying?

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cursed to be a tumblr user forever

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i am on my knees tears running down my face knuckles raw and bleeding and BEGGING people to learn the difference between sentient and sapient

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First off, amazing that a Mewtwo can have gaps in memory. Perhaps dreams aren't retained well in memory? Second...

(Hands Huey a printed copy of the Mew and Mewtwo series, opening up to the page where Huey dreamed about the deal with Dialga)

They were probably just curious if this deal would've caused paradoxes or if Dialga had failsafes for these situations.

Huey remembers things that actually happened but people can't honestly expect them to remember every single dream they've ever had, they forget he was barely aware of what newtwo was talking about even at the time

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girls I know this isn’t at the top of the concerns list but you’re gonna want to stop eating commercially produced meat real soon

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Can confirm. I think in full complete sentences word for word. It baffled me to learn that a lot of people only think in vague concepts and I still don't grasp how that works

Now combine that with the constant racing thoughts of ADHD and the hyperfixations of autism. My head sounds like several songs playing at once over a crowd of people over a TV over a jet taking off while you're trying to read and your mom is talking to you. Sometimes I can only blankly stare off into space because it's too overwhelming to process

There's a cool idea for some OCs in here somewhere...

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To all the trans people who see this tonight, no matter what happens, we will survive. Trans people will still be here 4 years from now and 10 years from now and 100 years from now and tomorrow. We have always existed and we always will. The world cannot unlearn about us; we are too public, too loud, too beloved, too present. Ill be here tomorrow. Please stay here with me.

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tumblr mutual in my notes just apologized to me for interacting too much. babygirl we are bound by the blood oath

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Sonictober 2024 Day 9! Theme: Loss. By definition, loss is "the fact or process of losing something or someone". And this indeed... is that.

Art by @jammerlee

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My ADHD is resistant to medication and it's complicated by also having tourettes syndrome and my tics getting aggravated as a result BUT

I can vouch that they do not make me high or give me energy. Not even caffeine is able to give me energy, I drink iced coffees strictly for the flavor (if anything, caffeine also makes me sleepy.)

I'm only on a high level dosage because of my ADHD's resistance to them. I am not addicted. At all. Because of how the meds aggravate my ticcing and the nature of my tics, I sometimes have to take breaks to let my body recover from the stress and pain excessive ticcing can cause me. I do not experience withdrawals, and if anything getting back into the habit of taking them regularly can be a feat in itself because of impaired executive function. And when I do start taking them again it does tend to make me sleepy Everyone's chemistry is different and people with ADHD brains aren't built like people with non-ADHD brains. Our chemistry isn't the same as yours

The pharmacy got some of my ADHD meds in!

After weeks!

I took ONE full dose and 20 minutes later was uncontrollably yawning and had to take a nap.

Stimulant meds are the first line, most effective treatment for ADHD, being remarkably effective in 70-75% of people with ADHD.

People with ADHD do not get high from their stimulant meds.

Becoming relaxed after taking them for the first time or after a long time off them is a sign that they are working and is an indicator that we DO have ADHD, though most doctors don't seem to know that this happens. We relax because we are closer to a normal state than we were, initially our bodies literally respond with relief.

Again. That is not what you would call even remotely a "high". Unless you are one of those awful people who believe naps are a crime.

They make our brain chemistry more normal, not less.

For those they help, we genuinely need them. Yes, both children and adults. It's fine to take them. It should not be a controversy (nor should ADHD itself be as controversial as it sadly is).

Medicating us does not lead to abuse. We are not addicts in waiting. Treating us as such is repugnant. (And treating addicts like shit is repugnant as well.)

Forcing us off medication with no support does, however, cause serious problems and can lead some people to seek them through illegal avenues, which is dangerous. Also understandable. The medical profession blames us and does not take responsibility for their part in this situation, even though they should.

We have every right to use whatever means works best for us free of censure, disapproval, and overzealous gatekeeping. If that's stimulant meds, so be it.

More respect for us please.

Especially now as we are facing rolling shortages of meds for the next few weeks or months. Your ADHD friends are struggling. Be patient.

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I have severe ADHD. I'm permanently stuck in safe mode

If brains are biological computers, why don’t we lag?

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