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the stars were beautiful tonight ąØą§
some photos i took of the sky while on a walk !
#stars#galaxy#milky way#cottagecore#nature#farmcore#farm life#light pollution#star#space#sky#photo#photography
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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 NIFAās Agriculture and Food Research Initiative, the nationās 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.
āAgriculture is facing a multitude of complex challenges,ā said Dr. Chavonda Jacobs-Young, USDA Chief Scientist and Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics. āWe 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.
āThese 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. āThese 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.
#good news#environmentalism#agriculture#usa#sustainable farming#sustainability#indigenous food ways#indigenous#science#environment#nature#climate change#climate crisis
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this isn't touchstarved related i just wanna say something into a void that cares
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 š©· masc fits š©· 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
#sincerely a big tiddy long haired girlie who loves pink but also. wants to be manly sometimes (because i am manly)#i embraced my masculinity when i changed to she/they pronouns and the way my confidence has skyrocketed..#i feel so much more comfortable with my body. my natural body. i've never felt like i fit what a girl is supposed to look like :(#and i would harm myself in various ways trying to achieve what i thought being a girl was.#idk idk idk#it was just one of those moments where i was like oh. i actually like being queer !#bc sometimes . unfortunately i wish differently so my life would be more straightforward#so hooray authenticity and feeling good in your body hooray loving yourself !!!!!#you can't be a Dainty Tiny Sweet girl when you grew up doing physical labor on a farm & having to defend yourself & having hormonal problem#surprise!!!!#get it through your thick skull bitch!!!!! (@ me)
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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 š«§š
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 āļøšāāļø#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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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
#ivan van neikirk#photographer#landscape#night sky#astrophotography#milky way#quiver trees#bet-el farm#northern cape#south africa#nature
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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
#he still dealt with nomads and raffen a lot given the nature of their farm#and eventually he leaves with one of the cland on their way through#but doesnt fit in well/causes a lot of problems for them#so he abandons them when they get near NC#which is about when he starts the band#i jsut love playing with the idea of an adult dagger going back home for whatever reason and having to deal with his parents#maybe this will be the au where he actually gets to kill his father :-)#rattus rattus au
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Me: yāknow, I havenāt 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.)
#stardew valley#similar in a way to the the sims#in that you can go without playing it for years#and then suddenly#IāM BACK IN IT BITCHES#lol#itās not for everyone#but I love this shit#including the layout planning#the repetitive nature of farming and planting and watering#and fishing and mining#soooooooo good
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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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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.
#listen i just think the local legendaries should be regarded as gods because it's fun#may maple#there's no place like hoenn#autumn.fic#fic: eye of the storm#make those corpses do work for you farming ain't easy#tw death#tw implied death#i love thinking about this stuff for fanfic i get way too into it#naturally mt pyre freaks may right the fuck out#''there are HOW MANY bodies here???''
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TO YOU. im having a ball
#not these guys specifically cus i havent watched the vids#but its so funny when ppl who optimise the fuck out of the game to get to the end in like an hour and then complain theres nothing to do...#my suggestion would just be like. if u alwasy do stuff one way try doing it another. challenge urself#try to speedrun if u normally go slow. teach urself redstone. go for all the advancements#i think most of the ppl complaining like this r those who just like. automate everything they can. which is fine#but it IS boring. go mining instead of making an iron farm! explore!!! find fun generation!!!!!#i found a pink sheep that naturally spawned yesterday. and i took it home with me and put it in with my other sheep so it had friends#life is beautiful.#ALSO UM. MAKE MORE ADVENTURE MAPS. THEY R SO COOL NOBODY MAKES THEM ANY MORE#less 'survivng 100 days with no coal' more 'epic jump map' style content. please
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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.)
#āā šøšø. iām the world ender & iām back from the grave. ā©ā©#šš“ššæš“š½š š°š±š¾šš. this little beast was natureās own error. grew like a tree; born to spread terror. ā ā#why do people keep coming back u ask#bc io is very old and people are very good at forgetting#or writing it all off as local myth. especially if it's quiet for (x) amount of years#and a valley is always a very good spot to build. farm. etc.#mmm yeah giant white wyrm in the hills. venomous too. uh huh uh huh whatever look how fertile this floodplain is#and why do the villages stay u ask#well. no one is going to come attack u cause the dragon took care of that#and the giant dragon really does mostly leave you alone#and when they aren't happy about something they at least give a warning#hey farmer jim tried to till up new land for a field and it got absolutely destroyed overnight so#i guess we won't do that#i feel that#at this point#both villages have other less destructive/intrusive ways to grow and harvest food#and they're not that big. anyway#trembling and shaking with the effort to not put my 110% into this and think about every little detail
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this is my oc Daniel, he's like if Sportacus got PTSD
#he's tom ask's brother. do they look similar?#daniel looks more like their dad <- he hates it. it's partially why he's growing out his beard. it makes him look like not his dad as much#but he wont tell you that#i think about daniel way more than you think. i just dont draw him as much#way more rotating in my mind kinda character#he's a park ranger and volunteers at his neighbours farm#he's secretive and private. but he's also very generous and altruistic#he's very physically active. he likes nature and long walks with his dogs ruth and ace. i sound like im setting up his dating profile#and he's not interested HASHTAG AROMANTIC!!#tom ask and co
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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 (itās still not done)
#keese draws#oxygen not included#olivia broussard#jackie stern#trying to hold strong and main tag doodles even if I donāt 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#Iāve never used magma before so I think itād be a good thing to try to get comfortable doing#even if I doubt itāll 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#Iām hoping that itāll 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#Iād have to adjust some stuff but I think that could be a decent use of my time#especially given that currently Iām 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 Iām going to run out of coal#Iāve been ranchinh sage hatches and pips but I just donāt 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 Iām 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 Iād 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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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
#i find something about this truth so disturbing#because its lives#and we are squeezing large amounts of lives out of the ether via some pretty creepy practices on one end and shoving lives of the same kind#into the meat grinder on the other end and it just somehow seems like an enormous and too-casual affront to nature#and fuck actually we are low key doing the same thing to cats#just breeding and killing and breeding and killing#its crazy#we don't even eat them or anything#i don't know if feels unholy#yes even the cockroaches#like they are just little forrest janitors#and like sure i hate them in my house too#but its not their fault#and to get into a poisoning war with them while at the same time farming them to be fed alive to other bred and captive animals#the whole thing seems weird to me#but like weird in the way that makes the universe mad at you
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I'm just gonna say it, Beast Boy being vegan makes NO sense
#animals eat other animals#like wouldn't for him to have the full strength of a tiger he would need to at least partially have the diet#i can get like him not wanting to contribute to mass farming and stuff#but there are ethical ways to eat meat like thats how nature works and thats okay#vegans do not come for me i do not care#beast boy#dc#gabriel picolo
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going absolutely fucking feral. fuck?
Iāve been getting a lot of TERF posts recāed to me through the #feminism tag lately. And theyāre most often only tagged something like #feminism or #woman, so filters arenāt catching them. And itās 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, āwomen 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, āI was daydreaming about men just disappearingāā like being rapturedā āand then realized that all women donāt 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, āall 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 āfemale 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 āfascistā in her username. Theyāre self aware now, but at what cost?
Trans Exclusionary Radical Fascism, everyone:
The patriarchy is inevitable. Change is impossible. We are never escaping this hell hole.
Some other āgemsā I saw, TW for racism, misogyny, ableism, and abuse:
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 Iām surprised that Staff hasnāt marked it mature content yet for the sheer level of porn bots using the tag. Oh, wait. I do know why. Itās 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 ātroonsā 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?#āI 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)#āNo woman knows how to do these thingsā š#Most woman in my family did. But I also recognize that not every woman is a farmer#Like. Yeah. Iām sure that the OP of that post has no clue how to drive a combine#but she doesnāt need to know because there are already women out there harvesting this nationās feed and food#and Iām not gonna clown her for not knowing. becauseā againā sheās never needed to know#but here she is complaining about women being helpless because of men and how weāre all just screwed and thereās no digging ourselves out#I saw a post talking about how defeatism is oft a feature of white mentalities and worldviews and Iāve been chewing on that#like. the idea fate is predestined and nothing can change. we are just beholden to our base ānaturesā is VERY Catholic Natural Law of them#which tracks given the foundation of radfem ideology is Catholicism#also makes sense why theyāre so keen to embrace the idea of women being āinherentlyā 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 menās psyche rather than a way to reinforce & take power under the patriarchy#theyāre constantly arguing that the patriarchy is natural and inescapable#cool. fantastic. soā¦ you have no real solutions or answers?
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