#dirt class

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today on shocking soil science information, apparently people put battery acid in soil sometimes. on purpose. to help. and it works

[great-and-small]

Turdus aficionados of Costa Rica please know I love your national bird but this is objectively hilarious

[theohnocorral]

December 5th is WORLD SOIL DAY!!!!!

Happy birthday dirt!

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I might be able to help with the one about dirt and dust!

First of all, I would say that dust has to be dusty to be dust, so there's that.

Second of all, dirt isn't necessarily dirty. One of the things my soil science professor said about why we were going to call it soil for the purposes of that class was that "dirt" is out of place, and "soil" is not. So if it's under your fingernails or on the bottom of your shoes or in your bed, then it's dirt. If it's in your garden or the woods or wherever else of the many, many places it should be, then it's soil. I'm not sure what this means for your question, but it could be useful to think of.

Dirt is also not the only thing that can make something dirty. So if you got something you didn't want in your dirt, say, laundry detergent or gasoline, then you could say the dirt is dirty. I mean, you probably wouldn't, but you could.

You could also determine if something is dirty by if it would make you dirty, which we definitely do, at least subconsciously, and in that case, dirt is pretty certainly dirty.

I don't know if this is helpful, but also, dust is dirt. Technically. You ever wipe up some dust and notice it looks like a little dirt? That's because it's very fine soil particles. Dry clay-size ones. So uh. Take that if you wish.

Also, glitter: glitter is not a color but a quality. This is because glitter is basically the same as a bunch of little mirrors. I mean, not very high quality mirrors, but mirrors. The requirement for something to be a mirror is for it to be reflective, right? Pretty much. There are different colored mirrors out there, just like there are different colors of glitter. Essentially glitter is just anything with [a] small reflective surface[s]. That's why glitter doesn't look as cool in photographs and is hard to capture in illustration- because light moves differently irl.

What I’m thinking about:

If “nox” is night, and “lumos” is light, then is night-light “noxlumos”?

What color is crow blood? I always thought it was purple, but a group of crows is called a murder, so…

If flamingos are pink because they eat shrimp, what do cardinals eat to make them so red… *GASP*

If we humans treat women with lower respect than men, is it the same with apes? After all, we are descended from them. And do apes also have races like humans? Can apes be racist?

I want food.

The opposite of “firefly” is “waterfall”.

If watermelons are called watermelons because they have a lot of water, and humans are mostly made of water, aren’t we supposed to be called “waterorganisms”?

If people really do grow white hair because their children make them mad, then what did mom do to grandma?!

Is dirt dirty? Is dust dusty? I NEED ANSWERSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!

If you name your dog Yanny, then is he going to come to you when you say, Laurel?

Is one nostril stronger than the other?

People say if you’re an optimist, the glass is half-full. But if you’re truly an optimist, why don’t you just refill the glass?\

If your American, you speak English, but you’re not English. If you’re English, you speak English, but you are also British, but you don’t speak British... WHAT.

Do you know you’re dead when you’re dead?

How much wood could the woodchuck really chuck? He’s gonna have teeth problems after that.

What the hell is wrong with people in math problems…

Is glitter a color?

You can’t walk into an empty room, it wouldn’t be empty anymore.

[kissingagrumpygiant]

potential bg3 girlie

[lilsillustration]

No better way than to kill time on your commute to work by drawing characters from your fave childhood book, right?

[dasteebeutelchen]

Day 7: Modern AU: Rural type jobs for @codywanweek

Breaking news: non-local biologist/botanist (he’s new in town) gets lost in some fields during the early morning while sourcing and collecting plants, luckily gets spotted by helpful local farmer (cute!) on his morning ride. What happens next will surprise you (they fall in love)

[buglaur]

they're preparing for their debut album's launch

[housecow]

i have a secret and y’all are so gonna think i’m a lil weird for this. but i love soil science so much idc if it has to do with agriculture or conservation or even palesols i love it all!! as a kid i got to regularly look at the soil horizons of the tx coastal plain and when i tell y’all it was FASCINATING. it’s the the truth!

[kagooleo]

class project I was stressing rly hard over got a week extension so I doodled over a meme in my euphoria, enjoy

[boxwinebaddie]

my time in kindergarten has cursed me with the knowledge that kyle is def the tiny 'erm, actually!' kid in big ass fishbowl glasses who tries to answer questions that i haven't even finished asking yet, is reading books at third grade reading level like 6 y/o megamind, all of which is Great except that little fkn einstein is constantly TRYING ME by attempting to undermine my authority by staging a literal Coup in my class over who should clean up the magnetiles and ‘start shit’ aka intense philosophical debates abt BLUEY during Quiet Time.

and conversely, stan is the kid who almost gets hit by a car during pick up trying to pick a fkn ROLLYPOLY out of the gd street, needs to be told 25/8 to stop playing in the planters/stop building complex worm terrariums out of sticks and mud everyday at recess, cries anytime i have to raise my voice above a whisper, is super adhd, gets extremely overstimulated by EVERYTHING, blurts Constantly abt things he did over the weekend and drew a...Very Frightening ‘my family portrait’ of his dad yelling, mom crying, sister in devil horns and him frowning...

...In Big, Blue, Lopsided Crayon.

[match-your-steps]

guess what. the semester is over and I need to repot some plants so today I went to the store and bought DIRT. yeah that's right the scientists can't stop me anymore. DIRT DIRT DIRT DIRT DIRT

[cringefail-clown]

ive classpected my old edgy ocs for funsies because i wanted to see what their sburb session would be like and ive got this:

rouge of time

thief of space

prince of breath

bard of blood

knight of void

seer of life

i think theyd krill each other five hours into the session

[batwynn]

It’s wild to me that I went from loving bugs and frogs and what people generally consider ‘ugly’ animals like vultures etc. as a young kid to disliking them because my peers loudly hated them, and my autistic ass was already terrified of being Wrong and Weird by the end of my first day in preschool. The same with the music I liked, and the movies, and the books, and hobbies, and any interests I actually had. What I didn’t stuff down early on, got bullied out of me over time until I only ‘liked’ what others liked. Did what others did.

And how it took years being away from that kind of environment to re-learn what I really liked and cared about. And even now I’m not 100% there yet. I still hide things that I like. I try not to talk about them, or draw too much of (thing), or be too excited about something. Because that’s what ✨trauma✨ does babee. 👍

Anyway. This is your gentle reminder that you can relearn to love the things you genuinely love. It’s hard, but it’s integral to getting back to feeling like yourself again after years of being someone else. It’s so worth it, I promise.

[loosesodamarble]

Grey Deer Bonding

Julius: Squad bonding activity time! Today we're going with Josele's suggestion! Several Grey Deer: (groaning) GD 1: No one wants to gut a fish with you, carcass girl! Morgen: (moves to fight) Yami: (holds Morgen back with one hand) Josele: Actually, I was thinking of something simpler: a wheelbarrow race. GD 2: What's a wheelbarrow? Josele, Yami, and William: (thinking) Gods they're sheltered. Morgen: A wheelbarrow is a tool a gardener uses to carry heavy loads of rock or soil or smaller tools. Several GD: Ooohh… GD 2: So you want us to push wheelbarrows around? Josele: No no. For a wheelbarrow race, it's teams of two where one person acts as the wheelbarrow, walking on their hands while their partner holds them by their ankles. GD 3: You want us to walk on our hands? GD 4: You want us to hold someone else's ankles? Several GD: (look grossed out) Other GD: (look confused but interested) Yami: Seriously guys? You get beat up and bloody on the battlefield but you can't stand a little dirt on your hands? GD 1: Getting dirty on a battlefield in honorable. Getting dirty to play a game? That's what peasants do. William: (eye twitches) Yami: (cracks knuckles) Julius: Everyone please. We all agreed that these bonding exercises would be open to the suggestions put forth. It's a simple game and sometimes, simple is the way to go. For those who don't like the idea of getting dirt on your hands, you can easily wash them afterwards or even wear gloves to prevent any dirtying in the first place. What do you say to that? Grey Deer: (give various signs of agreement)

[waspgrave]

Have my second to last medical exam today and I am so afraid! I’ve been staring at the esophagus and rectum for days.