#pool store and more

[puppyeared]

i wrote this as a joke because I wanted to strangle a guy watching tiktoks without headphones on the bus, but im genuinely disturbed that we've gotten to a point where convenience comes first. and it depresses me even more that its used to justify and monetize greed

[aggressionbread]

everyone go dress weirder this is a command

[gorps]

Apas-95 doing posts about how they are right about what it takes to train with firearms and getting workers military training while having never shot a gun in their life is really funny. What's kind of less funny is that they openly encourage people to commit felonies that would land any leftist training group in jail for 20+ years and bar them from ever handling firearms again. If they aren't an idiot they're a cop.

(tags are important I just wrote too much there and don't want to copy it here)

[phexart]

Felt like doodling my adult children last week

I'd like to clean this up but I've been struggling lately so I figured I could post the sketchy versions for now since I haven't been doing much

[j-esbian]

sometimes i really do want to study the flavor of intense misogyny from older folks, especially when it comes from older women, that assumes all women and girls are sluts and deviants because (checks notes) fashion trends, which the individual consumer has no control over, means that most people’s only options, especially in summer, are to wear somewhat revealing clothing. because it’s hot.

[hafwen]

I hate that I can only store the prawn suit or sea moth in my moon pool so I think I’m building another moon pool right next to it today

[neverendingford]

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[andromedasummer]

becoming a data hoarder of crochet/knitting/sewing/embroidery patterns and books on my pc, laptop and phone. an ungodly amount fr.

[jinkiesmariz]

I’m curious what’re your thoughts of genix or the sk poly (Sasha/Zenix/Gene)?

Okay so it kinda depends for me, in mystreet i can see it definitely working, in MCD it feels a bit more muddied.

(Also I don’t know a lot about Zenix and Sasha yet but I am slowly trying to understand their characters a bit more)

I think for mystreet it’s definitely a fun ship!! Outcasts sticking together and kinda feeling like a more than friends not quite lovers situation, so important to eachother you can’t think of spending a week hanging out with anyone else but also feels a bit odd calling them your partner. !! All the emo kids with their own band being together makes total sense for me- and like I have very vivid images of them lazing around, hotboxing someone’s room while some music is blasting and they’re just enjoying eachother’s company. Being the school bullies/tyrants really does form naturally strong bonds imo. And seeing how Sasha said in pdh they skipped classes because of how shit the school system was, I think they also bond with anger (SK trait). Nobody really seems upset with the way things are like them so, for the most part, I think their general views align as well so it makes them flow better. ^^ maybe not good when they’re out having a rager or something and you’re forced to accompany them but if it’s easy to have a fun time with them I think. So yea as a poly ship I think they work (tho for now my mind identifies them as rabid dog, Hot Dom gf, and manipulative manwhore, until I think more about them as individuals )

MCD gets a bit weird for me with the memory manipulation by Gene onto Sasha (and the lack of explanation for why Zenix forgets he’s a SK and then remembers and goes berserk I think, even tho I’m the og they said they never wiped his memory). Personally I could see more Sasha and gene stuff happening with her altered memories and general skewed hatred for those who “abandoned” her but it leaves kind of a sour taste in my mouth thinking about it. I haven’t gotten too far into s2 or s3 yet in my rewatch so I don’t know how the dynamics are for them but I’ll probably watch some more on my own later to get a grasp on them :3

But also with slowed time in the nether i can just … see shit happening

[system-reset]

oh my gods is this why we do things we know we can't do?

[cantofworms]

bought the rest of the stuff for my car summer bag thing and also found an EPIC picnic balnket it’s dark green 100% cotton w hearts and cool frayed edges I love it

[peapod20001]

The only Mario and/or Sonic game I actually LEGITIMATELY played and enjoyed was Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games

I knew NO lore or story for either of those franchises except the names of the characters you could play as

[eijiroukiriot]

if there's one thing i know it's that this kid would want you to vote for kirishima eijirou in my hero academia's World Best Hero official worldwide popularity poll. and i know that because really not a lot has changed i still want you to do that now. in fact you can do it once a day. let's rep our boy!!

comic retelling of this weird thing that happened to me yesterday. i’ve definitely had better moments

[whereisthedamndaddymanual]

W

Spanish got it more sounding right

Double Vay

[reasonsforhope]

Ancient redwoods recover from fire by sprouting 1000-year-old buds

Article | Paywall free

When lightning ignited fires around California’s Big Basin Redwoods State Park north of Santa Cruz in August 2020, the blaze spread quickly. Redwoods naturally resist burning, but this time flames shot through the canopies of 100-meter-tall trees, incinerating the needles. “It was shocking,” says Drew Peltier, a tree ecophysiologist at Northern Arizona University. “It really seemed like most of the trees were going to die.”

Yet many of them lived. In a paper published yesterday in Nature Plants, Peltier and his colleagues help explain why: The charred survivors, despite being defoliated [aka losing all their needles], mobilized long-held energy reserves—sugars that had been made from sunlight decades earlier—and poured them into buds that had been lying dormant under the bark for centuries.

“This is one of those papers that challenges our previous knowledge on tree growth,” says Adrian Rocha, an ecosystem ecologist at the University of Notre Dame. “It is amazing to learn that carbon taken up decades ago can be used to sustain its growth into the future.” The findings suggest redwoods have the tools to cope with catastrophic fires driven by climate change, Rocha says. Still, it’s unclear whether the trees could withstand the regular infernos that might occur under a warmer climate regime.

Mild fires strike coastal redwood forests about every decade. The giant trees resist burning thanks to the bark, up to about 30 centimeters thick at the base, which contains tannic acids that retard flames. Their branches and needles are normally beyond the reach of flames that consume vegetation on the ground. But the fire in 2020 was so intense that even the uppermost branches of many trees burned and their ability to photosynthesize went up in smoke along with their pine needles.

Trees photosynthesize to create sugars and other carbohydrates, which provide the energy they need to grow and repair tissue. Trees do store some of this energy, which they can call on during a drought or after a fire. Still, scientists weren’t sure these reserves would prove enough for the burned trees of Big Basin.

Visiting the forest a few months after the fire, Peltier and his colleagues found fresh growth emerging from blackened trunks. They knew that shorter lived trees can store sugars for several years. Because redwoods can live for more than 2000 years, the researchers wondered whether the trees were drawing on much older energy reserves to grow the sprouts.

Average age is only part of the story. The mix of carbohydrates also contained some carbon that was much older. The way trees store their sugar is like refueling a car, Peltier says. Most of the gasoline was added recently, but the tank never runs completely dry and so a few molecules from the very first fill-up remain. Based on the age and mass of the trees and their normal rate of photosynthesis, Peltier calculated that the redwoods were calling on carbohydrates photosynthesized nearly 6 decades ago—several hundred kilograms’ worth—to help the sprouts grow. “They allow these trees to be really fire-resilient because they have this big pool of old reserves to draw on,” Peltier says.

It's not just the energy reserves that are old. The sprouts were emerging from buds that began forming centuries ago. Redwoods and other tree species create budlike tissue that remains under the bark. Scientists can trace the paths of these buds, like a worm burrowing outward. In samples taken from a large redwood that had fallen after the fire, Peltier and colleagues found that many of the buds, some of which had sprouted, extended back as much as 1000 years. “That was really surprising for me,” Peltier says. “As far as I know, these are the oldest ones that have been documented.”

... “The fact that the reserves used are so old indicates that they took a long time to build up,” says Susan Trumbore, a radiocarbon expert at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry. “Redwoods are majestic organisms. One cannot help rooting for those resprouts to keep them alive in decades to come.”

-via Science, December 1, 2023

[punk-pins]

i won a slightly rigged award at work that comes w a money prize so now everybody is congratulating me and saying well how can EYE win and I have to say well. You can’t bc it’s rigged