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I've been having this odd sort of recurring dream for the past couple years that I can only describe as "me and the girls"

the setting always changes, and the characters always change, but it's always me and some group or women or girls, where i am the only man/masculine person, and I am so happy.

in these dreams the girls are usually in some sort of tizzy, like they're excited or gossiping about something, rushing around like theyre getting ready for something. I am included as one of them despite not being a girl; I am there for entertainment and to open difficult jars. I'm always so happy just running around doing whatever is needed and being supportive to this gaggle of gals, and they praise and love me in return.

hmmm.

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you cant fucking hurt me bitch im protected by the migratory bird act

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me pointing at my fiance: haha you're gay

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gamer boyfriend acquired

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"In 2021, scientists in Guelph, Ontario set out to accomplish something that had never been done before: open a lab specifically designed for raising bumble bees in captivity. 

Now, three years later, the scientists at the Bumble Bee Conservation Lab are celebrating a huge milestone. Over the course of 2024, they successfully pulled off what was once deemed impossible and raised a generation of yellow-banded bumble bees. 

The Bumble Bee Conservation Lab, which operates under the nonprofit Wildlife Preservation Canada, is the culmination of a decade-long mission to save the bee species, which is listed as endangered under the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation...

Although the efforts have been in motion for over a decade, the lab itself is a recent development that has rapidly accelerated conservation efforts. 

For bee scientists, the urgency was necessary. 

“We could see the major declines happening rapidly in Canada’s native bumble bees and knew we had to act, not just talk about the problem, but do something practical and immediate,” Woolaver said. 

Yellow-banded bumble bees, which live in southern Canada and across a huge swatch of the United States, were once a common species.

However, like many other bee species, their populations declined sharply in the mid-1990s from a litany of threats, including pathogens, pesticides, and dramatic habitat loss. 

Since the turn of the century, scientists have plunged in to give bees a helping hand. But it was only in the last decade that Woolaver and his team “identified a major gap” in bumble bee conservation and set out to solve it. 

“No one knew how to breed threatened species in captivity,” he explained. “This is critically important if assurance populations are needed to keep a species from going extinct and to assist with future reintroductions.”

To start their experiment, scientists hand-selected wild queen bees throughout Ontario and brought them to the temperature-controlled lab, where they were “treated like queens” and fed tiny balls of nectar and pollen. 

Then, with the help of Ontario’s African Lion Safari theme park, the queens were brought out to small, outdoor enclosures and paired with other bees with the hope that mating would occur. 

For some pairs, they had to play around with different environments to “set the mood,” swapping out spacious flight cages for cozier colony boxes. 

And it worked. 

“The two biggest success stories of 2024 were that we successfully bred our focal species, yellow-banded bumble bees, through their entire lifecycle for the first time,” Woolaver said. 

“[And] the first successful overwintering of yellow-banded bumble bees last winter allowed us to establish our first lab generation, doubling our mating successes and significantly increasing the number of young queens for overwintering to wake early spring and start their own colonies for future generations and future reintroductions.”

Although the first-of-its-kind experiment required careful planning, consideration, resources, and a decade of research, Woolaver hopes that their efforts inspire others to help bees in backyards across North America. 

“Be aware that our native bumble bees really are in serious decline,” Woolaver noted, “so when cottagers see bumble bees pollinating plants in their gardens, they really are seeing something special.”"

-via GoodGoodGood, December 9, 2024

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six years in and my partner has expressed an interest in gaming with me DREAMS DO COME TRUE

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sometimes you just gotta listen to music at a volume that you know will be part of the cause of your hearing loss at the age of 28

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YOU WILL FIND A WAY!!!! YOU WILL FIND A WAY . You will find a WAY ….. you WILL find a way . You will find a way you will find a way……!! YOU WILL FIND A WAY YOU WILL FIND A WAY you will find a Way you will (find) a way you will find. a way you will find a way YOU WILL FIND A WAY!!!!!!!

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a cozy yuletide midnight

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accidentally took a bong rip at a bad angle and it didn't even bubble in the water, just ghosted over the top and straight down my throat like a hot ashy dildo. I corrected the angle when I realized what was happening so the downstem was properly under the waterline but the damage was done. my lungs are now on strike. the government is coming to my door to take away my stoner card

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more bits from 'a world of plenty'. gay cyborg sex forever and ever

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this guy is kinda scrawny, has a shitty collar, and still has his balls

if at any point he comes to the door at night when its in the 40s or below out, he's coming in and not leaving

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craftssss