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[dandelionsresilience]

Good News - June 15-21

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1. Victory for Same-Sex Marriage in Thailand

“Thailand’s Senate voted 130-4 today to pass a same-sex marriage bill that the lower house had approved by an overwhelming majority in March. This makes Thailand the first country in Southeast Asia, and the second in Asia, to recognize same-sex relationships. […] The Thai Marriage Equality Act […] will come into force 120 days after publication in the Royal Gazette. It will stand as an example of LGBT rights progress across the Asia-Pacific region and the world.”

2. One of world’s rarest cats no longer endangered

“[The Iberian lynx’s] population grew from 62 mature individuals in 2001 to 648 in 2022. While young and mature lynx combined now have an estimated population of more than 2,000, the IUCN reports. The increase is largely thanks to conservation efforts that have focused on increasing the abundance of its main food source - the also endangered wild rabbit, known as European rabbit. Programmes to free hundreds of captive lynxes and restoring scrublands and forests have also played an important role in ensuring the lynx is no longer endangered.”

3. Planning parenthood for incarcerated men

“[M]any incarcerated young men missed [sex-ed] classroom lessons due to truancy or incarceration. Their lack of knowledge about sexual health puts them at a lifelong disadvantage. De La Cruz [a health educator] will guide [incarcerated youths] in lessons about anatomy and pregnancy, birth control and sexually transmitted infections. He also explores healthy relationships and the pitfalls of toxic masculinity. […] Workshops cover healthy relationships, gender and sexuality, and sex trafficking.”

4. Peru puts endemic fog oasis under protection

“Lomas are unique ecosystems relying on marine fog that host rare and endemic plants and animal species. […] The Peruvian government has formally granted conservation status to the 6,449-hectare (16,000-acre) desert oasis site[….] The site, the first of its kind to become protected after more than 15 years of scientific and advocacy efforts, will help scientists understand climatic and marine cycles in the area[, … and] will be protected for future research and exploration for at least three decades.”

5. Religious groups are protecting Pride events — upending the LGBTQ+ vs. faith narrative

“In some cases, de-escalation teams stand as a physical barrier between protesters and event attendees. In other instances, they try to talk with protesters. The goal is generally to keep everyone safe. Leigh was learning that sometimes this didn’t mean acting as security, but doing actual outreach. That might mean making time and space to listen to hate speech. It might mean offering food or water. […] After undergoing Zoom trainings this spring, the members of some 120 faith organizations will fan out across more than 50 Pride events in 16 states to de-escalate the actions of extremist anti-LGBTQ+ hate groups.”

6. 25 years of research shows how to restore damaged rainforest

“For the first time, results from 25 years of work to rehabilitate fire-damaged and heavily logged rainforest are now being presented. The study fills a knowledge gap about the long-term effects of restoration and may become an important guide for future efforts to restore damaged ecosystems.”

7. Audubon and Grassroots Carbon Announce First-of-its-Kind Partnership to Reward Landowners for Improving Habitats for Birds while Building Healthy Soils

“Participating landowners can profit from additional soil carbon storage created through their regenerative land management practices. These practices restore grasslands, improve bird habits, build soil health and drive nature-based soil organic carbon drawdown through the healthy soils of farms and ranches. […] Additionally, regenerative land management practices improve habitats for birds. […] This partnership exemplifies how sustainable practices can drive positive environmental change while providing tangible economic benefits for landowners.”

8. Circular food systems found to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions, require much less agricultural land

“Redesigning the European food system will reduce agricultural land by 44% while dramatically reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture by 70%. This reduction is possible with the current consumption of animal protein. “Moreover, animals are recyclers in the system. They can recycle nutrients from human-inedible parts of the organic waste and by-products in the food system and convert them to valuable animal products," Simon says.”

9. Could Treating Injured Raptors Help Lift a Population? Researchers found the work of rehabbers can have long-lasting benefits

“[“Wildlife professionals”] tend to have a dismissive attitude toward addressing individual animal welfare,” [… but f]or most raptor species, they found, birds released after rehabilitation were about as likely to survive as wild birds. Those released birds can have even broader impacts on the population. Back in the wild, the birds mate and breed, raising hatchlings that grow up to mate and breed, too. When the researchers modeled the effects, they found most species would see at least some population-level benefits from returning raptors to the wild.”

10. Indigenous people in the Amazon are helping to build bridges & save primates

“Working together, the Reconecta Project and the Waimiri-Atroari Indigenous people build bridges that connect the forest canopy over the BR-174 road[….] In the first 10 months of monitoring, eight different species were documented — not only monkeys such as the golden-handed tamarin and the common squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus), but also kinkajous (Potos flavus), mouse opossums (Marmosops sp.), and opossums (Didelphis sp.).”

Bonus: A rare maneless zebra was born in the UK

June 8-14 news here | (all credit for images and written material can be found at the source linked; I don’t claim credit for anything but curating.)

[holistichealingg]

[thepeacefulgarden]

[lambmotifz]

thinking about how dean’s monstrosity is about enjoying violence and torturing people (mostly men) & sam’s monstrosity is about being inherently unclean and his body being used as a tool for use and abuse by others

[neostellarjpg]

i find big buff traditional hollywood celebrity alpha dave in a suit to be handsome like everyone else but i can't help but think of him as this scrawny eccentric socially awkward dude extremely dedicated to nothing except his abstract radical performance art. fans develop images of him but there's nothing of himself he deliberately puts out into the world besides his projects. no real friends, no lovers. fronts and fake personas galore. isn't trying to waste his time and emotion on people he'll lose anyway. that kinda thing

[aropride]

peace and love but why are abled people such babies when it comes to literally everything. why do they need their hands held through “just because you can do something, doesn’t mean a disabled person can do it” and “just because one disabled person can do something doesn’t mean we all can.” or “a lot of wheelchair users are ambulatory” and “people can use different mobility aids (or no mobility aids) on different days or in different situations” and “someone can feel good one day and bad another day”. or “people’s medical history is not your business”. or “you should be nice to disabled people” and “disabled people are also real people” and “calling people’s disability gross is mean” and “being rude to disabled people is not nice”. it’s like talking to toddlers

[thepersonalwords]

May you comfort and healing.

Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

[tajcox]

[skywalkr-nberrie]

Claiming that the Jedi Council didn’t forbid “love” but “attachment” to me is like beating the dead horse if you’re going to use that as an argument in their favour. The Jedi knew loving and indulging in love had a risk for leading to attachment, thus they evaded the whole concept of falling in love and kickstarting romances all together in the belief that they should remain detached. AOTC literally verbalized A LOT that “Jedi aren’t allowed to love” (and it’s even on the promotional posters as well) how more obvious can it get?? Anakin’s way of love and finding motivation and redemption through love and compassion within himself for his son and because of his son and by extension his wife as well, is one of the core values and deep messages of all of Star Wars.

The most powerful, the most repressed thought of all could have emerged from the darkness: Padmé … and her undying love for someone he once knew well. And despite all the terrible, unspeakable things he’d done in his life, he suddenly realized he could not stand by and allow the Emperor to kill their son. And in that moment, he was no longer Darth Vader. [Ryder Windham’s Episode VI: Return of the Jedi novelization]

[abeauutifulpatience]

[bringthekingdom]

[alilarew23]

you can’t fail at manifesting

don’t worry, this isn’t gonna be one of those aggressive i’m-shaming-you-because-you’ve-been-trying-to-manifest-something-for-months-but-it-hasn’t-materialized-yet posts.

i’m here to soothe.

listen.

it’s a tremendous blessing and privilege to know about the law. it’s also jarring at first. and there’s a fuck ton of misinformation out there that’s convoluting a law that is almost hilariously simple.

which is all to say: sometimes it takes time. to learn and unlearn and unlearn some more, to apply and fail and to apply and succeed and to unconsciously manifest and go woah and then to apply some more.

and while all desires are equal in consciousness, some might be a bit weightier to your beautiful human self who is, i’m 150 trillion percent certain, doing his/her/their best.

so, i beg you, cut yourself—and your loa besties—some slack.

now, do i agree that if you’ve been manifesting something for months or years but haven’t experienced success you might be “doing something wrong”?

yeah.

but your desires are promises from god.

and as long as you don’t give up on them (you know the law, beloved, so i trust you won’t do that) you will manifest every single piece of information, every book, every video, every thread, every conversation, every person, every EVERYTHING you need to get you what and who and where you want.

this, too, is law.

so have patience, and faith, and compassion for yourself, and know that, as long as you are staying loyal to the life in your mind’s eye and in your heart—as long as you are being true to your god-self—you are ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS on the right track.

i love ya.

[thepeacefulgarden]

[elisabethbabarci]

"Only through experience, do you recognize what is in alignment within your life."

Elisabeth Babarci

[wiirocku]

Psalm 86:15 (NLT) - But You, O Lord, are a God of compassion and mercy, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love and faithfulness.