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Biden creates a new national monument near the Grand Canyon - https://www.npr.org/2023/08/08/1192622716/biden-national-monument-grand-canyon-arizona
The move protects lands that are sacred to indigenous peoples and permanently bans new uranium mining claims in the area. It covers nearly 1 million acres.
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"It will help protect lands that many tribes referred to as their eternal home, a place of healing and a source of spiritual sustenance," she said. "It will help ensure that indigenous peoples can continue to use these areas for religious ceremonies, hunting and gathering of plants, medicines and other materials, including some found nowhere else on earth. It will protect objects of historic and scientific importance for the benefit of tribes, the public and for future generations."
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The new national monument will be called Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni Grand Canyon National Monument. According to the Grand Canyon Tribal Coalition that drafted a proposal for the monument, "Baaj Nwaavjo" means "where tribes roam" in Havasupai, and "I'tah Kukveni" translates to "our ancestral footprints" in Hopi.
all land is sacred (and should be returned) but this is good news.
#indigenous#native american#ndn#arizona#grand canyon#climate change#nature#good news#land conservation and preservation#hopi#havasupai
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If anyone out there (especially Floridians) has a few dollars theyâd like to contribute to environmental preservation (and piss off DeSatan while theyâre at it), hereâs a great way to do it:
Hereâs an article about the effort to save 14 acres of land:
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Late October morning at Toms Run Preserve.
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Technically speaking, Old Man Yaoi is a valid killjoy name
#i do think the decontextualization would be funny especially in the context of like. how antithetical preservation of pop culture elements#is between my version of the zones and the lobby#n e ways. off i go back to manga and anime land. trying to fend off the impulse to read the jujutsu kaisen manga now that i've caught up#with the anime. it has barely been a month since i finished binge-reading haikyu so my brain is still mildly frazzled#danger days#killjoys#ttlotfk#boo's shitposts
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My parents were at a conference several years ago where Neil Armstrong was the keynote speaker. During Q&A, one of the questions was how long he spent thinking about the "one small step" line.
He said the estimated odds of them actually making it to the moon were so low, none of them had given any thought to it at all. NASA had put 10 years' worth of effort from the smartest minds they could recruit into figuring out how to get someone to the moon, and still they thought it likely enough that they'd missed something, that they honestly didn't even think about the possibility that someone on this ship was going to be saying humanity's first words from a different planet.
From our perspective, the odds of them reaching the moon are 100% -- it feels inevitable to us. But it really was a hell of an accomplishment, given what they had to work with
#and also all the early astronauts had no sense of self-preservation#moon landing day#tumblr holidays#apollo project
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Rhaenyraâs sonsâ illegitamcy is actually such a fascinating topic to discuss. Because on one side, yes, she should be allowed to have children with the partner of her chosing. But on the other side, the way she handles the situation, she manages to upset almost every cultural norm surrounding this issue, further alienating potential allies.
According to the social and cultural norms of their world, Rhaenyra and her sons are being valued as lesser for the circumstances of their birth. This a result of westerosi male primogeniture, which has to police woman sexuality in order to ensure that wealth and power get passed through the male family line.
Bastards born from the affairs of male lords are tolerated because they do not endanger the system of power, while male bastards especially are still marginalised (as seen with Jon) the father isnât subjected to any form of social scorn.
On the flip side, a noblewoman fathering a bastard is a direct threat to the system of male primogeniture. A woman will always know her biological children by the simple fact that she gave birth to them.
Men, however, donât have this certainty. To ensure that their heirs are their own biological offspring they need complete insurence that their wives are soley sexually active with them, hence the policing of female sexuality and the obsession with female virginity.
This tactic is obviously not foolproof. A clever wife might still manage to have a secret affair and pass off another manâs child as her husband's. This anxiety and continued incertainty is reflected in the social censure woman receive for acting as sexual beings and the severe social and legal punishment a wife who has been judged as unfaithful can face.
What makes Rhaenyraâs position unique, however, is the fact that she is Viserysâ heir.
So if the crown is to pass down from Viserys to Rheanyra and through her to her own heirs, why does Jaceâs legitamacy even factor into all this? Some people in the fandom make that argument: If Rheanyra inherits in her own right, why does it matter who fathers her children?
The problem with this is that even the Lords canât declare their bastard heir without expressed permission from the king. So, firstly Rhaenyra would need to publicly aknowledge her sons as ilegitamte for Viserys to legitamise them.
Secondly, even if inheritance in the male linegage is important, marriages in Westeros are still utilised to forge political and economical ties. Any Lord, who wants to make their bastard heir instead of the children born by his legal wife, will at best destroy any goodwill given by her family or at worst start a generations long feud.
Rhaenyraâs position isn't as simple as a mere reversal of the genders. She can't just take the role of the Lord, she is still a woman and society will continue to treat her as such. Laenor is still bringing his own inheritance of Driftmark to ther union, separate from any claims Rhaenyra holds.
While she is lucky enough not to lose the Velaryons as her allies, it does lead to tensions surrounding the succession of Driftmark.
Another argument then is, if Laenor and Corlys aknowledge Jace, Luce and Joffery as Velaryon their blood shouldnât matter.
However, that is also not how westerosi society works. Because to them, blood does matter. Laenor and Corlys can claim them as Velaryon as much as they want. But as Varys puts it: âPower resides where men believe it to resideâ, and as long as the westerosi people believe that blood lines are vital to the right to rule, the boysâ right to Driftmark will continue to be questioned. Family names and blood lines are super important (and not just socially, considering how many magic blood lines exist in this world).
And to me it seems pretty clear that Corlys is aware of this fact as well, because he never publicly anounces that their blood doesnât matter, in fact he claims them to be Velaryon as Laenorâs sons.
And this is ultimately the issue at heart of all the vitrol thrown at Rhaenyra. The reason she faces so much push back isnât just because she had bastards but specifcally because she tries to pass them off as legitemate. With this she triggers the deeply ingrained social anxiety about women duping their husband and disrupting the blood line with their own kuckucks child.
It doesnât truely matter that her position is slightly different, because for one Westeros is deeply misogynistic. Even as a female heir she is still subject to the misogynistic standards put on women, because no matter her personal circumstances, their society is still built to cater to male power.
But even more damming is the fact that she ends up proving all these fears true, because she does take Driftmark away from a true Velaryon heir and gives it to Luce.
I think it is really fascinating (in a very concerning way), how some fans are so ready to take these societal rules as hard facts. Instead of thinking how they might reflect on inherently flawed systems of power.
As viewers we should be capable to recognize that these cultural norms are wrong. Jace, Luce and Joffery might be bastards but this doesn't devalue them as human beings. Nor does it impact their capabilites as future rulers. Nor does Rhaenyraâs gender impact herâs. There is nothing that make a trueborn man more worthy of ruling than a bastard or a woman.
But important to remember is also that Rhaenyra isnât going to make a better ruler soley on the virtue of being the firstborn or chosen by Viserys. Nor are her sons going to make better heirs because they are her children.
#hotd#house of the dragon#rhaenyra targaryen#Rhaenyra isnât necessarily malicious in her attempt to get driftmark#Luce inheriting helps her bolster his and Jaces claim to legitamcy#In turn further protecting Rhaenyra from any potential repercussion of her affair#her bit for driftmark is mostly self preservation#That doesnât change that she is still stealing it from the true bloodline#Which i actually donât particulary mind by it self#one feudal lord stealing land from another feudal lord isnât really going to change much#However she is stealing it from Baela to give to Luce#Which doesnât really help with her whole women can rule to schtick the show decided to give her#It ultimately proves her a hypocrite who will include women as seen on the black council#But wonât stick her neck out for them when it indangers her own position#That is actually sth i really like about her#The way her shortsightedness gets her repeatedly into trouble#And she has to step over others to get out again#It makes her believable as a character
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I recently heard about a 400-year-old tree in a nearby village, which made me want to estimate the age of the big lime tree behind my house. I measured the circumference at my height then divided by Pi to get the diametre then multiplied by the growth factor for this speciesâand I learnt that my lime tree is about 255-260 years-old! It was born in the 1760s... I also went and measured some of my beech trees and the oldest ones are ~190 years-old, which makes sense as itâs the age of the house. Iâm not sure why this lime tree is so much older than all the other trees on this land, but it makes me want to give it a little plaque, maybe one that says âI was 25 years-old during the French revolution.â
#crawling along#i know my land used to be a forest until the 1820s when most of the trees were cut to create pastures#beech trees were then planted around each pasture to delineate it#then in the 1960s or 70s the farm was downsized and all the pastures except two were abandoned and left to rewild as they pleased#so the trees around my house are 50-60yo at most save for the beech trees enclosing the younger woods like sentinels#i'm guessing the 1820s owners preserved a couple of the pre-existing trees in each pasture to provide shade for the animals?#and the other(s) have been cut since#whatever the reason i'm glad this one lime tree was left alone to live its life!
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You gooootta drop the naruto classpect + land list, I am enthralled
lol.. okay, so, I went to check my note, and it turns out I misremembered, bc it looks like i only ever classpected them, and never finished coming up with their lands! unfortunately. but here's what I've got anyway:
I have, however, come up with classpects AND Lands for a few other series, such as Soul Eater, Steven Universe, Achievement Hunter, and a book series I read on a mutual's recommendation, called the Raven Cycle! I'll post those below the cut too, just for funsies, in case anyone cares to check em out.
Soul Eater
Steven Universe
Achievement Hunter
The Raven Cycle
#if anyone wants to make land suggestions for the konoha squad id love to hear em!#my initial thought for Naruto was like. whirlpools & springs. or something.#fans & flames for Sasuke maybe?#sakura could be blossoms & ... bandages ??#idk#smoke & trees for shikamaru ??#đ€·đŒđ€·đŒđ€·đŒ#naruto#se#su#rt#ah#trc#im pretty sure the AH one was the first of these from like ~a decade ago lol.#the others are more recent.#there are a few that i dont think were big hitsâ but stillâ quite a few here that im actually proud of!#hope yall enjoy â„ïž#sn#@#creative-classpect#soulstuck#rtstuck#sustuck#ravenstuck#???#also i just noticed that bismuth & ruby/sapphire's lands are incomplete.#i think i actually might change bismuth completely to 'land of Carbon & Songs'#& ruby/sapphire to 'Roots & Rain' and 'Preserves & Pools'â respectively.#if those lands even exist. whenever theyre (temporarily) unfused for some reason
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difficult times to be a freak my friends. but in the midst of everything live secure in the knowledge that, despite hoarding insane amounts of power, you live rent free in the minds of the Powers That Be and the power you hold over them because of that is unreal
#if you must be the scapegoat of more fundamental insecurities over land and water and preserving a status quo that is only ~100 yrs old#then let this be a two-way street#like why are you so obsessed with meeeee >w<#heehee
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West African countries such as Liberia, Senegal and Guinea-Bissau, communities have designated biodiversity hotspots, including forests and lagoons, as sacred. This system has served as a conservation tool respected by these communities for generations. The community's existence is intricately linked to the well-being and survival of the biodiversity and natural resources surrounding it.
The Western African method is to reinforce communal stewardship of the land, rather than ownership. The system starkly contrasts with some current, non-Indigenous North American methods of prohibiting humans from living in certain protected areas. Placing a dollar value on conserving these areas risks destroying the very belief system and way of thinking that have ensured their survival in the first place. Their value of biodiversity cannot be translated into monetary terms.
#biodiversity#west africa#environmentalism#habitat preservation#african#africa#biology#culture#liberia#senegal#guinea bissau#traditional culture#african tribe#conservation#sacred land#logging company#protected land
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Being brought up on a farm and only ever going back indoors to head right back out again for my whole life, the decreasing amount of insects has been extremely noticeable and it's been going on for years. Of course it's been worrying with the climate catastrophe, and once I became a beekeeper and learned more about my village's local flora it became even more glaring.
So imagine my surprise this year when there are more insects than I can count. Sitting on my porch (practically my room during summers) I'm noticing species I haven't seen since I was at least a young teenager, and there are more butterflies of different varieties than I even remember from my childhood!
There are so many bees flying around too, probably from the hives down by the old homestead buildings by the church and school, owned by the woman I know from the local beekeeper's association.
What's more is that this year there has been no drought OR flooding, so there are a lot more flowers blooming for longer, and everyone in my village as well as the surrounding villages are reporting a burst of activity in their hives... as well as higher activity from the wild bees and pollinators. For the first time in years it's starting to resemble the way it was when I was younger.
All that is to say, the climate catastrophe is real, and in my area it's causing a lot more violent thunderstorms... but oh my god all this reminds me why I persist despite the despair that tries to dig its claws in.
I may not be able to do major change on a global scale, but you can bet me and everyone here will at least try and support this little place. We can keep going in the fight against the municipality that wants to urbanize at the cost of our precious biodiversity, and we can continue to fight to keep out the cities that tries to enroach on us and get closer.
It is rare for villages in Götaland to remain this free from urbanization despite being nestled right in the middle of multiple major cities, and there's no excuse to destroy what little there is left of it down here in the south.
#whats more is that its getting easier and easier to buy local produce and meat and materials#the very thing both my parents and many others had to give up on when industrialization hit the final nail in the coffin#the thing that killed my farfar who inherited the old farm that stood no chance against industrialization#theres so much left to be done of course#for one it will be hard to reintroduce the flora thats vanished over the years#as a result of climate change and utterly botched use of the land and fields#not to mention the forest industry placing forest keepers in a position where they have to sell lumber in order to keep going#but god fucking damnit im not going to lose hope#i refuse to pass on without having at least tried to keep this place safe#the municipality can talk all they want about making it so more people can live here#out of all the locales within its borders we have several major towns one airport and access to two major cities#and YET we also have this one place of relatively untouched countryside with farmland and high biodiversity#without being rural thanks to the railroad and public transport#why shouldnt we preserve that! when the surrounding municipalities are constantly becoming hard to live in without cars!#theyll have to pry it from my cold dead fingers#silvi talks#im sorry i have a Lot of feelings about this
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Just wanted to thank you for taking the time and effort to put together the long climate/environment post, especially the online resources. I've wanted to replace the neglected/dead non-native plants at my place with native plants for months, but didn't know where to start my search for species except to walk around my local nature preserve trying to find something that isn't invasive lol. I'll be able to start (re)introducing native plants this month because of you :-)
Thank you for the kind words. I'm glad the post has been helpful and inspiring. If you'd like more directed guidance on native plants, I can probably point you in the right direction if you can give me a general area to work with (state would suffice!). In general, go for keystone species- those that are common in your area and support many kinds of insects- or pollinator favorites, or host plants for rare/imperiled butterflies/bees/moths.
#glad I could help :)#unfortunately I think too many people forget that helping the environment is much more than recycling or taking public transit#the most direct tangible difference comes from preserving habitat#because that's where ecosystem services come from - clean air and water and carbon sequestration and fish/game habitat#and much more. we need biodiversity and functioning ecosystems to be able to cope with climate change. if habitat is lost and#fragmented then local populations of plants and animals will struggle to persist#they need to be able to move through the landscape safely. to migrate and shift their ranges and find food#they need to maintain gene flow and a source of new individuals to keep populations alive#habitat fragmentation is as insidious a threat as habitat loss. every time a new housing development is built we chop up the land more#but it's easy to restore those stepping stones#and the effects are measurable. you'd be surprised how many species including rare ones can show up in these little patches#because a corridor can support many more species than each patch alone. connection trumps isolation. connection saves us.#the earth is a living breathing thing. the soil is alive the water is alive. this entire biosphere coevolved together. we can't break it up
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Part 2: After the Rain - Life in an Appalachian Temperate Forest.
From top: Wild ginger (Asarum canadense), also known as Canadian snakeroot; Philadelphia fleabane (Erigeron philadelphicus), a lovely spring aster deserving of a more dignified name; white wood violet (Viola sororia albiflora), a white variation of the common blue violet; woodland phlox (Phlox divaricata), also called wild blue phlox; creeping phlox (Phlox stolonifera), a mountain native and the most delicate and beautiful of Appalachiaâs many wonderful phlox species; and Allegheny blackberry (Rubus allegheniensis).
#appalachia#vandalia#west virginia#toms run preserve#west virginia land trust#temperate forest#rain#intense green#flora#wildflowers#may#wild ginger#canadian snakeroot#phildaelphia fleabane#white wood violet#woodland phlox#wild blue phlox#creeping phlox#allegheny blackberry#common blackberry
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Look, I understand the desire for a revolution. I do. And itâs possible I might be convinced that we need one, at some point. I am open to the idea that I might be wrong!
ButâŠliteral Marxist theory posits that the way you get to a communist society is by working your way through a democracy. Thatâs the first STEP. Then you move to democratic socialism, then socialism, then communism. Anything that moves us away from a democracy (as Iâm concerned another Trump presidency would, that man wants to be a dictator so bad) is a step AWAY from a leftist agenda. Because sure, maybe you get your âglorious revolutionâ if Trump is president because he literally makes living conditions so unbearable that it triggers widespread revolt but from a critical Marxist standpoint youâd be revolting to get back to a democracy so you can start at that step all over again! This is a big reason theorists posit socialism/communism in the Soviet Union fell apart; too big a change too quickly and skipping steps in between.
We also have to consider that getting to the point of full blown revolution would mean catastrophic levels of suffering for people with lower socioeconomic powerâPOC, the queer community, folks in poverty, people with disabilities, etc.
AND any US dictatorship or similar government has an entire industrial military complex to back it up. A successful revolution would necessitate either getting that military complex on board, in which case you often end up with a military dictatorship (you can imagine how well THAT goes) or beating it whichâŠIâm sorry, even the entire civilian population of the US cannot do. The military is light years more advanced than it was in Marxâs time, rebellion is so so so so much more complicated. It also sets a precedent for violent exchanges of power that tend to set countries up for a decades/centuries long tailspin of military coups in which the people with the most gun power (againâŠusually not vulnerable groups) win control.
Iâm not trying to be a fatalist, here. I actually think fatalism is a tool of the oppressor and we have to fight against it tooth and nail. Iâm just trying to logic out what will happen if Kamala/Walz lose and Trump/Vance win. What does that really look like? What is the next step, the next outcome that will lead us to a better place? And I just cannot, for those reasons above, see a Trump presidency leading us anywhere good. That IS what we will get if people hold out on voting for Harris as a form of protest. Iâm all for protest!!!!! But it needs to be in a different avenue, because you have to consider the real life repercussions not voting will have.
I mean, what are the options? What happens if people protest by not voting? (...this assumes you don't start from the position that Harris and Trump will be literally NO different in office, which, well, that's another post)
1. Harris wins regardless, but a signal is sent that people to the left arenât appeased and democrats need to do more. How effective this would be in moving actual policy is debateable, and it also puts the moral onus/responsibility conveniently on others just so you can feel like your hands are clean while simultaneously risking a worse outcome. Not cool.
2. Trump wins. Far more likely because, as we saw in 2020, the country was nearly evenly split on Trump vs. Biden. Current polling shows more or less the same with Trump vs. Harris. If the left stays home, the likelihood Trump wins skyrockets. So, what happens next?
2.A. Trump wins, but the world doesnât end. He doesnât do anything too terribly awful. The left has ideally signaled they will only vote for a Dem if they are liberal enough. I seriously doubt Trump wonât do anything too terribly awful thoughâlook at what his first presidency did!!! Look at Project 2025!!!!! So. Other option.
2.B. Trump wins and the world is on fire. He strips away womensâ rights, queer rights, he tanks the working class and worker protections, starts a war, starts a dictatorship, whatever. He already started a lot of this during his first presidency. In this case, eitherâŠ
2.B.1. This is still not enough to trigger a revolution. Vulnerable people are hurt and die at a far greater pace than under a Democratic presidency. We go on as before, fighting to regain key protections. Perhaps the Dems put forward a more liberal candidate to try and beat him next time, if democracy still exists, but likely? We end up with a conservative centrist anyway.
2.B.2. Trump does trigger a revolution. All I can see is how many vulnerable people would suffer and die. The military HAS to be involved and either takes control of government (terrible start to socialism!!!!!) or kills revolutionaries en masse and the rebellion fails. If civilians somehow defeated the US military, which is an astronomically low possibility, then we set up a more liberal democracy...how, exactly? With all the conservatives and moderates still in our country? Honestly, HOW. Kill them? Try and make them âsee the lightâ? That happens via education, not a civil war. We could try and go straight to communism but theory and history show us that doesnât workâyou have to work your way towards it through democracy.
It is SO much more efficient and would put so many fewer vulnerable people in grave danger to start by keeping the democracy we already have by voting in Harris and THEN working on our protests to shift the needle towards democratic socialism. Weâve seen that these protests CAN WORK!!!!! They got us Biden dropping out!!!!! Harris picked a VP far more appealing to a liberal mindset than many of her other top options! WE ARE ALREADY SHIFTING THE NEEDLE. Keep it shifting, donât give in to fatalism, and remember that you have to go through the steps to have an actual, stable, reliable socialist or communist republic. Vote.
#politics#us politics#be kind to each other when discussing this too#I want safety for all the vulnerable people of the world too#this is my honest best perspective on how we get that#and I totally understand that people not voting as a form of activism want those things too#we have to have conversations about where that will realistically land us though#if someone has an alternate path where not voting gives us the best chance at a more just political system I am all ears#Iâve even outlined a couple possible paths above I just think they have the most marginal possible chance of occurring#and that we have to exercise the precautionary principleâthe risk of it all going sideways if people donât vote is SO GREAT that we cannot#discount it#does it suck to have to vote when you hate the whole system? sure#but in this case it preserves democracy so we can actually create effective revolt or policy change or whatever#and donât backslide into a dictatorship that vulnerable people die en masse to bring back to a democracy
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I'm approaching the most terrifying part of the Exciting New Story Idea process: Writing it down.
#adventures in writing#maybe the best thing my inklings challenge experiences have taught me is that there are always more ideas#i don't have to pick one favorite story and then beat my head against it until i run out of time and pick something else in sheer panic#my favorite idea has reached the beating my head against it stage#once i started considering a fourth draft of the opening i recognized that i had entered the danger zone#which means it's time to step away and try something else#rather than wasting another week and a half at it#i can clear my head with a more straightforward idea#and then hopefully i'll be able to see a clear path with the original idea#instead of drowning in alternate possibilities#i do have a new idea that i love#but as per the above i worry it will lose all the magic the moment i try to jot down notes about it#my idea document was full of ideas that i loved at one point#but true to form when looking for an alternate idea i used none of them#and instead came up with a story sparked by the picture that happened to be the computer background at work#(though i did start by combining that picture with my idea for a story about someone trying to preserve the culture of a fallen/exiled land#(i just shifted it to a landscape i liked better than the antarctic ice land)#(and then as i added on more details the story shifted and has some nice layers to it)#(i've got a character type i've never written before so this could be fun if i can make it work)
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