#the state of this website!!

[k-k-armadillo]

i thought i had another fundraiser appear in my inbox this morning but its vanished? if you sent me a message and i havent answered, please send again if you can!

[phantominzie]

EVERYONE.

DONT FORGET TO LOOK UP #cutewinterboots ON TIKTOK! THERE'LL BE SOME BIG BITS OF ICE ON THE ROADS FOR QUITE SOME TIME, SO BE SURE TO INVEST IN SOME CUTE WINTER BOOTS.

That is all, y'all have a good one and stay safe during all this ICE!

edit: fascists, racists, nazi's, homophobe/transphobes, and trump dick riders can politely fuck off on this post. I'm tired of dealing with y'all, stop trying to be edgy in the comments of this post, I will just block you so piss off.

[reasonsforhope]

"In an unprecedented step to preserve and maintain the most carbon-rich elements of U.S. forests in an era of climate change, President Joe Biden’s administration last week proposed to end commercially driven logging of old-growth trees in National Forests.

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, issued a Notice of Intent to amend the land management plans of all 128 National Forests to prioritize old-growth conservation and recognize the oldest trees’ unique role in carbon storage. 

It would be the first nationwide amendment to forest plans in the 118-year history of the Forest Service, where local rangers typically have the final word on how to balance forests’ role in watershed, wildlife and recreation with the agency’s mandate to maintain a “sustained yield” of timber.

“Old-growth forests are a vital part of our ecosystems and a special cultural resource,” Vilsack said in a statement accompanying the notice. “This clear direction will help our old-growth forests thrive across our shared landscape.”

But initial responses from both environmentalists and the logging industry suggest that the plan does not resolve the conflict between the Forest Service’s traditional role of administering the “products and services” of public lands—especially timber—and the challenges the agency now faces due to climate change. National Forests hold most of the nation’s mature and old-growth trees, and therefore, its greatest stores of forest carbon, but that resource is under growing pressure from wildfire, insects, disease and other impacts of warming.

Views could not be more polarized on how the National Forests should be managed in light of the growing risks.

National and local environmental advocates have been urging the Biden administration to adopt a new policy emphasizing preservation in National Forests, treating them as a strategic reserve of carbon. Although they praised the old-growth proposal as an “historic” step, they want to see protection extended to “mature” forests, those dominated by trees roughly 80 to 150 years old, which are a far larger portion of the National Forests. As old-growth trees are lost, which can happen rapidly due to megafires and other assaults, they argue that the Forest Service should be ensuring there are fully developed trees on the landscape to take their place...

The Biden administration’s new proposal seeks to take a middle ground, establishing protection for the oldest trees under its stewardship while allowing exceptions to reduce fuel hazards, protect public health and safety and other purposes. And the Forest Service is seeking public comment through Feb. 2 (Note: That's the official page for the proposed rule, but for some reason you can only submit comments through the forest service website - so do that here!) on the proposal as well as other steps needed to manage its lands to retain mature and old-growth forests over time, particularly in light of climate change.

If the Forest Service were to put in place nationwide protections for both mature and old-growth forests, it would close off most of the National Forests to logging. In an inventory concluded earlier this year in response to a Biden executive order, the Forest Service found that 24.7 million acres, or 17 percent, of its 144.3 million acres of forest are old-growth, while 68.1 million acres, or 47 percent, are mature."

-via Inside Climate News, December 20, 2023

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Note: This proposed rule is current up for public comment! If you're in the US, you can go here to file an official comment telling the Biden administration how much you support this proposal - and that you think it should be extended to mature forests!

Official public comments really DO matter. You can leave a comment on this proposal here until February 2nd.

[glowing-blue-feathermage]

[tom-is-online]

people who are rude about the attacks they get from beginner artists on Artfight shouldn't get any attacks at all from anyone and should burn in the deepest pit of hell, actually

[writingadjacent]

“I’m tired of this,” Steve said, his eyes a little bit glazed over. He had taken a single drag of the join in Eddie’s hand so he couldn’t be that high. But the feeling of warmth was probably jetting through his body. “Of feeling like this.” 

Eddie, sitting next to him on the grass by the quarry, turned to look at Steve. The joint in his hand puffed in the air. “Feeling like what, Steve?” 

“Tired. Feeling tired and achy,” Steve said, reaching for the joint and inhaling deeply. The smoke exhaled his mouth in swirling tendrils, Eddie found it to be the hottest thing he’d ever seen. Every time he saw it was hotter than the last. “And just… done. I want to wake up rested.”

“It’s been so long since I woke up rested,” Eddie mumbled, his eyes moving from Steve’s silhouette to the horizon line. The trees were dark and the stars in the sky were sparkling in a way that Eddie was sure wasn’t real and was more a reflection of what Eddie wanted to see than reality. 

Steve nodded. “I want to sleep well and I want to wake up feeling invigorated. Is that something I’ll never get again?” 

Shrugging, Eddie took the joint offered by Steve. His hand shook for a second, simply from the tension Eddie was carrying in his hands. They just did that sometimes. 

“Dunno.” 

Eddie really didn’t. Who in the world would know the answer to that? It was something so unknowable about yourself that it was impossible to try and figure out someone else's. He wondered, for a second, his eyes on Steve’s profile, if maybe he could fix it for Steve. If he could figure out what was wrong about sleeping and fix it. 

“What sucks about sleeping?” 

“What?” Steve asked, turning to look Eddie in the eyes for a quick second before looking away just as Eddie’s skin started to crawl from the attention. 

“Like, what makes sleeping not right for you?” 

“Sleeping is right, it’s nice. It’s the only time everything is quiet and I get to be nowhere. I don't really know what’s wrong that makes me tired all the time,” Steve said, responding with a bit of a sigh. He looked back out over the quarry and Eddie followed his line of sight. 

It was just dark trees and the soft orange of the sky in the direction of the town. It wasn’t real light pollution, not like Indianapolis’ yellow in the sky. But it was the small-town equivalent. “So you don't know.” 

“Nope.” Steve exhaled roughly. Eddie watched as Steve just, gave up on holding his body up and flopped down on the blanket they sat on. His hair framed his face like a halo, beautiful and heavenly. Eddie’s brain always thought Steve was angelic when it was high, probably because Steve was, angelic. “How could I, I’m asleep when it’s happening.” 

“What if you slept next to someone who could tell you?” Eddie said, his voice probably a little rough as he took a drag. 

“Sure.” 

Well, Eddie wasn’t sure what he’d just done. Did he agree to something? Did he proposition something? What just happened? The sky was dark and Eddie lay down next to Steve. “Sleep at my place tonight, or we could go to yours, whatever you want. I’ll tell you if you’re, like, sleeping weird or something.” 

“Yeah, okay. Tonight?” Steve asked, his voice sounding kind of far away.

Eddie shrugged, “Why not.”

[sensiblereblogifposts]

Hi.

I'm going to break my very strict format for once because I need your help. For the past 9 years, the irl human behind this blog has been involved in the effort to save a museum from incompetent and money hungry executives.

The museum is filled with precious objects, telling the story of the history of technology, and how it relates to art and society.

Many of these are objects are large, but delicate and have been in place for over 30 years.

No one within the museum's community trusts the CEO, who was appointed by a hostile former government, and prefers renting out museum spaces for business functions over educating the public.

In a few days, the museum is set to close down for renovations. Yet none of the staff or volunteers have been given any clear details about these plans. All we know is displays which have inspired generations will be torn down, likely never to be restored.

We have a petition asking the new government to step in and stop the closure:

If you could sign this, you'd be doing the human behind this blog a massive favour.

[scaryorganmusic]

some people are using environmentalism and anti-consumerism as a pretense to be really fucking weird about China and it shows

[yellow-yarrow]

Nihilism & Elysium web weaving

Disco Elysium / Russian nihilist movement wikipedia page / What Is To Be Done by Nikolay Chernyshevsky / Full Core State Nihilist / Émile Zola:Germinal

additional info: Robert Kurvitz has named Germinal as one of the inspirations for the game, in which coal miners strike, and then attack the mines. The violence of the angry proletariat that will destroy the old world one day and create a new is one of its themes.

What is To Be Done? is an utopian novel and it was an inspiration to nihilists (and to different kind of people on the left)

Full core State Nihilist is a story that takes place in Elysium, it can be read here

[juniepops]

i do think it's silly to care enough that someone else bought a switch 2 that you're posting angrily about it or god forbid sending them anon hate. like are you also going to send angry letters to every middle class parent that buys one

[ven0n4t]

saw this on twitter and could only find like one post about on here so i’m making my own, the official FBI twitter account is asking people to report any hospitals, clinics, and practitioners preforming gender affirming surgeries on minors.

now i’m not ADVISING you to spam the FBI tips website (tips.fbi.gov) ((THIS link right here) because that would be so bad and awful and is illegal but i AM saying it would be an awful shame if this website (again THIS website) was spammed with fake tips

[alashqarmohammed]

Hello! I'm reaching out to share about a fundraiser that's very important to me. Muhammad, a hardworking UX UI designer from Gaza, is seeking help to escape the harsh conditions he and his family are currently living in. The funds raised will help Muhammad and his family move to Egypt, where they can live a safe and dignified life. The travel costs are high, and every bit of help counts. Muhammad's story is one of resilience and ambition. By supporting this fundraiser, we can help him continue his journey to safety. Please consider donating and sharing this message. Thank you!

Help me and my children we are dying now

This family has a lot of money, while my family and I have no food or drink. My father is dead and my mother is disabled. Help me.https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-alashqar-familys-path-to-safety

Blaze

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[maodun]

if I ever deactivate may we meet again in a more equitable world where the united states is no longer a threat to the rest of humanity

[yekokataa]

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[parasitoidism]

Full-page color illustrations

Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Comic Anthology (2010)

Artists: Sumino Hirune, Ryuuji Tsukiyama, Munetaka, Jin Tatsumi, Mikanagi Fubito, Mitsuhashi Takashi

[adobe-outdesign]

my personal semi-serious interpretation of the Ponyta line is that the Galarian versions are actually the originals and the Kantonian regionals are an evolutionary adaption to keep people they deem not pure of heart from trying to ride on their backs

this horse does NOT want you to put a saddle on it