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tiadevorak Ā· 4 months ago
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the stars were beautiful tonight ą­Øą­§
some photos i took of the sky while on a walk !
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wachinyeya Ā· 5 months ago
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) announced today an investment of $70 million in seven creative and visionary agricultural projects to transform the U.S. food and agricultural system and sustainably increase agricultural production in ways that also reduce its environmental footprint.
This Fiscal Year 2023 investment is part of the Sustainable Agricultural Systems program area of NIFAā€™s Agriculture and Food Research Initiative, the nationā€™s leading and largest competitive grants program for agricultural sciences.
The innovative program focuses on a broad range of needed research, education and Extension solutions ā€“ from addressing agricultural workforce challenges and promoting land stewardship to addressing climate change impacts in agriculture and filling critical needs in food and nutrition.
ā€œAgriculture is facing a multitude of complex challenges,ā€ said Dr. Chavonda Jacobs-Young, USDA Chief Scientist and Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics. ā€œWe need all hands on deck developing creative, sustainable and strategic ways to feed, clothe and fuel future generations.ā€
The $10 million awards are for coordinated agricultural projects (CAPs), which are larger-scale and longer-term investments that integrate research, education and Extension efforts. These projects promote collaboration, open communication, information exchange and reduce duplication efforts by coordinating activities among individuals, institutions, states and regions.
ā€œThese research investments support exciting projects that integrate innovative systems-based thinking, methods and technologies to establish robust, resilient, and climate-smart food and agricultural systems,ā€ said NIFA Director Dr. Manjit Misra. ā€œThese visionary projects will improve the local and regional supply of affordable, safe, nutritious and accessible food and agricultural products, while fostering economic development and rural prosperity in America.ā€
Explore the seven projects, which include the following:
At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dr. Erin Silva is leading a collaboration with the Great Lakes Intertribal Food Coalition, the Wisconsin Tribal Conservation Advisory Council, and the Menominee Nation on a transdisciplinary project that aims to scale up traditional Indigenous food production practices ā€” practices that for generations have already been climate-smart and sustainable ā€” by expanding production, processing, storage, and distribution systems, as well as education and Extension programs, that are needed to support integrated crop-livestock systems, cover crops, and rotationally-grazed cattle and pastured chickens.
At the University of Maine, Dr. Hemant Pendse is leading an integrated research, education and Extension effort to advance the bioeconomy by developing biorefinery technologies that will make the millions of tons of available low-grade woody biomass ā€“ which currently has a very limited market ā€“ more commercially viable in both the sustainable aviation fuel and fish feed sectors.
At Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Dr. Muthu Bagavathiannan is leading a project that seeks to transform cotton production in the southern United States into a more sustainable, climate-smart enterprise by applying improved precision management practices to increase carbon sequestration and reduce greenhouse gas emissions; enhance pest control, and nutrient and water management; and address labor challenges while creating new market opportunities.
AFRI, which also makes grants in the Foundational and Applied Sciences and Education and Workforce Development program areas, is designed to improve plant and animal production and sustainability, and human and environmental health. Grants are available to eligible colleges, universities, and other research organizations.
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aiscapades Ā· 2 months ago
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this isn't touchstarved related i just wanna say something into a void that cares
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getting ready for a concert tomorrow && i was having such horrible body image issues with my skirt x corset combo. just wasn't feeling it. so i thought i'd go a more masc western route to fit the vibe of the artist && wow i love šŸ©· masc fits šŸ©· i love working WITH not AGAINST my broad shoulders and Thick arms and hiding my boobs away and wow. i love gender nonconformity i love gender expression i love being free. finally free
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sainz100 Ā· 2 months ago
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idk how to explain it, but I feel this small bubble of hope. as if some good news is right around the corner šŸ«§šŸŒ… not yet, but maybe soon, I'll always feel that hope that the next chapter will be better than the last
#also taking time to mourn what has been is important#thinking about everyone here in the tumblr community so much on such a hard day after such a cruel week#I'm still so new I feel I've only just gotten to know Daniel and yet I feel such a bottomless well of love for him! inexplicable!!!#well kinda explicable because he's just so wonderful#maybe its because I've only been in the world of F1 for a few months#but I just have this feeling whatever is next must be better#and I've gone thru all five stages of grief five times over today#but I'll keep finding the joy and following Daniel's career and successes wherever the road goes next#and I'll keep my maxiel thoughts abrewing until I'm also old and on a farm somewhere just reminiscing#or maybe I'm just way too sentimental alone in my office with my ambient nature sounds hehe#I am so thankful for this corner of the web and I hope everyone does whatever they need to do to feel better#time away venting remembering the past whatever you gotta do#F1 is never the most important thing#to me at least like..#what's important are the connections we make and the joy and bonds we share with each other#and that's something that will always last#anyways sending everyone good energy ā¤ļø if no one told you yet you're awesome!!!!! I just know this to be true ā˜ļøšŸ™‚ā€ā†•ļø#hopefully Daniel and everyone here takes time with loved ones and does what brings you joy and comfort#more beautiful moments to come fr ā¤ļø
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sitting-on-me-bum Ā· 1 year ago
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Quiver trees and Shooting Star
The Milky Way shines over quiver trees at Bet-El Farm in the Northern Cape of South Africa. The photographer used diffused LED lights to illuminate the trees rivalling the glow from the star above.
Photographer: Ivan van Neikirk
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wraithsoutlaws Ā· 9 months ago
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rattus rattus au Dagger is a Dagger whose parents were never brutally murdered and mutilated in front of him but that means he spent much longer living with an abusive father so he's really not anymore well adjusted but I guess he kills people less
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roosterbox Ā· 1 year ago
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Me: yā€™know, I havenā€™t played Stardew Valley in a while. Maybe I should justā€¦ *peeks*
*hours later*
Me: *plotting out my farm and greenhouse layout on actual physical graph paper* I MUST HAVE OPTIMAL CROP ARRANGEMENT.
(side note: I really want to write a Stardew Valley AU one of these days. In any fandom.)
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freakinator Ā· 7 months ago
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its been 7 hours in the poll so far and i saw the who ppl want to win coming but i wasnt expecting the who they think will win ngl, like i was expecting it to be a little more even but nope lol
#mine.txt#lifesteal spoilers#< jic#wanted to keep my opinion to myself until the poll ended to prevent influence or whatever but realized that was stupid so here it is#personally i want zam to win but i think theyll come to a stalemate#i want zam to win causeas cute as it would be to give zam a redemption arc and esp by minute of all ppl i just dont like that idea very muc#i want his redemption arc if he ever decides to have one to be long and gruelling and full of setbacks and last for seasons#i want him to keep failing and building himself back up and all over again through the influence of multiple ppl and experiences#i dont want it to start and end all cause of one guy#and with ppl as stubborn as those two it would not surprise me if they reached a stalemate#esp since they seem to have completely incongruent mindsets regarding the nature of lifesteal#identical yet opposites those two#zam may think hes more determined than minute but i dont think thats true i think theyre a lil more even#like not to bring up kings but they both went looking for nether fortresses for hours in the first session#they both kept farming and grinding even when the odds are stacked against them#even when they lose hope they keep going anyway for that tiny sliver of a chance that Something happens#like theres a reason minute looked up to him in s3 and i think its cause he saw a lil bit of himself in zam#or at least what he could be if he set his mind to it#but honestly i dont really care who wins or loses that much#all i ask is that the season ends in an interesting way regardless of if its in peace or chaos#characterwise; plotwise; possibly even metawise#just give me something to chew on and ill be happy
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new-eyes-extra-colors Ā· 11 months ago
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following up an earlier post with some more thoughts on religion and mythology in my pokemon fanfiction.
in hoenn, legend has it humans and pokemon were made out of an uneven mix of earth and water, the same makeup as the planet. when they die they're buried or buried at sea to return that material to its source. cemetaries are often also gardens, and some folks living out in the country may forego a community cemetery to bury their loved one in their garden. it's taboo to disturb a burial place or dig up a garden.
may thinks this is strange because she's johtoni, originally from blackthorn, and according to their traditions bodies are burned to release the soul to ho-oh for safekeeping so they can be reincarnated. burying a body traps the soul outside of ho-oh's domain.
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fivepebsi Ā· 25 days ago
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TO YOU. im having a ball
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incendiorum Ā· 2 months ago
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dragon io is, as I've mentioned, just... stupidly, ridiculously territorial and their valley certainly falls under that in its entirety. there have been many, many settlements over the centuries, and each have succumbed to various fates (usually dragon-related). currently, there's two villages that io currently allows to inhabit their valley, but they are always, always watching them with a critical eye. the moment they get too into the idea of growth is when io will rid the valley of both and call it a day. they do the work to make sure both villages properly understand the relationship: so long as they are quiet, make no moves against the dragon living above them, and don't start tearing up the valley for crops or homes, then their local watchful super-predator will (mostly) leave them alone. every movement into and out of the valley is tracked, and the presence of groups of armed people is something that they will not stand - said groups get chased out or straight-up attacked depending on the mood for the day. the presence of other dragons always results in the latter of those two options. the villages are... sometimes liable to get caught in the crossfire, though. an attack on io is nothing short of encouragement to make themself known as dangerous and pissed, and they will burn great swathes of their valley and the villages, too, just to make that point. mostly, though, io really isn't inclined to mess with them much and the two (three) live in relatively tense peace. there's also the fact of the matter that io is lonely, and can pass through both villages in their most human of forms as disguise and fulfill social requirements (be an asshole, buy some fruit, etc.)
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gigamuffinsofie Ā· 1 year ago
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this is my oc Daniel, he's like if Sportacus got PTSD
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arolesbianism Ā· 5 months ago
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Ive been waiting for ages in oni for my future industrial block to be vacuumed out so I decided to doodle some furry women while I waited (itā€™s still not done)
#keese draws#oxygen not included#olivia broussard#jackie stern#trying to hold strong and main tag doodles even if I donā€™t like some of them#anyways I definitely made my industrial brick Way too big for the things I currently plan on using it for#the main reason I made it so big is that I have two minor volcanoes in it that I may or may not unplug at some point to experiment#Iā€™ve never used magma before so I think itā€™d be a good thing to try to get comfortable doing#even if I doubt itā€™ll work out in my case since I imagine having the volcano in the sauna itself could cause problems#mainly that I can only fit so many steam turbines so overheating could still be a problem#Iā€™m hoping that itā€™ll be balanced out by me not currently having too much stuff in there but idk#in the future once I start digging through my second planet I might use that sauna for natural gas generators#Iā€™d have to adjust some stuff but I think that could be a decent use of my time#especially given that currently Iā€™m relying on a hydrogen vent and coal generators for power#which tbf I am on like cycle 200 smth so that should suffice for a while but eventually Iā€™m going to run out of coal#Iā€™ve been ranchinh sage hatches and pips but I just donā€™t have the space or resources to farm enough of both to keep up with the coal demand#the main problem with the pips is that almost everywhere is just too cold for arbor trees#and Iā€™m currently using my warmer spaces for bristle berries#now I do have a cool steam vent which I could in theory try to use to warm up a large area for pip farms#but that would be tricky to balance well and I think Iā€™d be better off just trying to work towards space travel and getting access to oil#maybe I can go for slicksters in the meantime? I do have a lot of carbon dioxide sitting around#anyways uhhh doomed toxic yuri on the mind happy pride month or smth idk#the real take I need from everyone is if gravitas goes rainbow for pride month of not
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weaselle Ā· 1 year ago
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i think a very telling point about modern western society is
we have an industry that people pay to spread poison and torture devices around to kill mice and cockroaches and rats and snakes and things and we also have an industry that people pay to breed and sell mice and cockroaches and rats and snakes and things
and you will find both of these businesses in the same town
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the-smell-of-fuuurl Ā· 1 year ago
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I'm just gonna say it, Beast Boy being vegan makes NO sense
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canichangemyblogname Ā· 10 months ago
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going absolutely fucking feral. fuck?
Iā€™ve been getting a lot of TERF posts recā€™ed to me through the #feminism tag lately. And theyā€™re most often only tagged something like #feminism or #woman, so filters arenā€™t catching them. And itā€™s all justā€¦ anti-woman and anti-feminist take after take. Like. How have they hijacked the narrative and monopolized the meaning of feminism to be something so reactionary and reductive? They genuinely believe takes like, ā€œwomen should be forced to abort childrenā€ are feminist. BFFR. They just hate other women having bodily autonomy.
I saw one just now where someone was like, ā€œI was daydreaming about men just disappearingā€ā€” like being rapturedā€” ā€œand then realized that all women donā€™t know how to do male jobs and got angryā€ (and they did say ALL). They then went on to talk about how no women knows how to operate machinery because women have been prevented from EVOLVING to do the same things men do because men forced women to EVOLVE to serve them. Evolved. They were like, ā€œall men could justā€¦ build a wood bridge but we women are kept from that knowledge. We have no teachers.ā€
Further fucking proof that these misogynistic asshats do not build community with black, brown, indigenous, poor, rural, or working class women. They live in a theoretical fantasy world daydreaming about men disappearing and ā€œfemale separatismā€ rather than offering real fucking solutions. They live in a world where every last woman has the same lived experience as them. They assume all women are oppressed in the same way. They ignore intersectionality to purposefully minimize ableist, racist, classist, heterosexist, and cissexist structures so that everything is organizable into a simple and universal M > F dynamic. This way, in their chronically white movement, they, the white woman, is always oppressed and never responsible for the marginalization of others.
Oh. And the OP had the label ā€œfascistā€ in her username. Theyā€™re self aware now, but at what cost?
Trans Exclusionary Radical Fascism, everyone:
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The patriarchy is inevitable. Change is impossible. We are never escaping this hell hole.
Some other ā€œgemsā€ I saw, TW for racism, misogyny, ableism, and abuse:
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The amount of Arabophobia, Islamophobia, racism, misogyny, and ableism I see in the #feminism tag every day is truly sickening. Like 1/4 of the posts anymore seem to be from white radfems sexualizing Arab, Asian, and Black women (while denigrating and singling out typically Arab, Asian, and Black personal-care and beauty practices) while another good 1/4 of the posts seem to be anti-queer. And then some 50% are porn bots with #sissy kinks. The tag has been trashed by bigots and bots, and Iā€™m surprised that Staff hasnā€™t marked it mature content yet for the sheer level of porn bots using the tag. Oh, wait. I do know why. Itā€™s because Staff employs JKR stans who would rather label #transfemme as mature content than combat the porn bots.
#misogyny#In their weird rapture fantasy#I would not get raptured despite being a man/man-adjacent (or maybe I would given they want us ā€˜troonsā€™ to keel over too)#but. as a former farm girl. this rhetoric is personally insulting#do they think farm girls are all like the wealthy trad wives in TikTok?#ā€˜I spent today baking bread and organizing flowers with my baby on my hipā€™#and the oven behind her isā€” likeā€” $80000#I spent my childhood building platforms and decks and bridges#as well as operating combines and tractors and wielding a machete (the machete was fun)#ā€˜No woman knows how to do these thingsā€™ šŸ˜”#Most woman in my family did. But I also recognize that not every woman is a farmer#Like. Yeah. Iā€™m sure that the OP of that post has no clue how to drive a combine#but she doesnā€™t need to know because there are already women out there harvesting this nationā€™s feed and food#and Iā€™m not gonna clown her for not knowing. becauseā€” againā€” sheā€™s never needed to know#but here she is complaining about women being helpless because of men and how weā€™re all just screwed and thereā€™s no digging ourselves out#I saw a post talking about how defeatism is oft a feature of white mentalities and worldviews and Iā€™ve been chewing on that#like. the idea fate is predestined and nothing can change. we are just beholden to our base ā€˜naturesā€™ is VERY Catholic Natural Law of them#which tracks given the foundation of radfem ideology is Catholicism#also makes sense why theyā€™re so keen to embrace the idea of women being ā€˜inherentlyā€™ one way (oft good and beautiful . etcā€¦)#and men inherently the opposite way#see: screenshot about natural predators#or their support for rape as a biological strategy natural to menā€™s psyche rather than a way to reinforce & take power under the patriarchy#theyā€™re constantly arguing that the patriarchy is natural and inescapable#cool. fantastic. soā€¦ you have no real solutions or answers?
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