#wetland maxxing

[fshoulders]

I am, as ever, in my

Marsh Witch Era

Seeing as how this week the summer is marginally less blazingly sunny, today I betook myself to the local marsh to birdwatch. Have I processed all my photos? HA HA HA oh of course not. Did I squander my momentum by half-assing it to pull out favorite photos already? YOU BET.

Here are some of my favorite things I saw today:

💙 Immature great blue heron snapping around its head trying to snack a large dragonfly. (Obviously I did not get my camera up in time. I’m a doofus. But this is the young heron’s scrawny beautiful self:

💙 High heron levels leading to Heron Perch Conflicts, which the great blue herons obviously won. (Heron levels: great blue 4, great egret 4, green heron 2.)

1. “Just because I stepped OFF that branch does not mean you get to step ON it.”

2. “Keep on flying, draggle-butt!” (This great egret has a rather lovely but out of place feather trailing it, walking or flying, like a beautiful garland of toilet paper.)

3. Having chased the egret further off, the heron indulged in a little floofing and mantling. This isn’t the threat display I usually see, which is more like sideways fencing footwork with the wing as a shield; this is just straight-up “where do you think Brian Froud took inspiration for the Skeksis in The Dark Crystal from” showing off:

💞A pied-billed grebe bringing a big fish to its (loudly begging) offspring to eat. They’re such hungry creatures and love to steal prey from each other, but this good little parent is giving away a big catch!

💙 Young princefisher (belted kingfisher) backwinging to hover and decide if anything looks worth diving for. His flight control is gorgeous, and so is he!

[mtsodie]

sam and max if they were wetlands : swamp and marsh

[officiallordvetinari]

Below are 10 featured Wikipedia articles. Links and descriptions are below the cut.

The election in 1860 for the position of Boden Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Oxford was a competition between two candidates offering different approaches to Sanskrit scholarship. One was Monier Williams, an Oxford-educated Englishman who had spent 14 years teaching Sanskrit to those preparing to work in British India for the East India Company. The other, Max Müller, was a German-born lecturer at Oxford specialising in comparative philology, the science of language.

Adolfo Farsari (Italian pronunciation: [aˈdolfo farˈsaːri]; 11 February 1841 – 7 February 1898) was an Italian photographer based in Yokohama, Japan. His studio, the last notable foreign-owned studio in Japan, was one of the country's largest and most prolific commercial photographic firms. Largely due to Farsari's exacting technical standards and his entrepreneurial abilities, it had a significant influence on the development of photography in Japan.

Girl Pat was a small fishing trawler, based at the Lincolnshire port of Grimsby, that in 1936 was the subject of a media sensation when its captain took it on an unauthorised transatlantic voyage. The escapade ended in Georgetown, British Guiana, with the arrest of the captain, George "Dod" Orsborne, and his brother. The pair were later imprisoned for the theft of the vessel.

Abu Muhammad Hasan al-Kharrat (Arabic: حسن الخراط Ḥassan al-Kharrāṭ; 1861 – 25 December 1925) was one of the principal Syrian rebel commanders of the Great Syrian Revolt against the French Mandate. His main area of operations was in Damascus and its Ghouta countryside. He was killed in the struggle and is considered a hero by Syrians.

Marjorie Cameron Parsons Kimmel (April 23, 1922 – July 24, 1995), who professionally used the mononym Cameron, was an American artist, poet, actress and occultist. A follower of Thelema, the new religious movement established by the English occultist Aleister Crowley, she was married to rocket pioneer and fellow Thelemite Jack Parsons.

Maya stelae (singular stela) are monuments that were fashioned by the Maya civilization of ancient Mesoamerica. They consist of tall, sculpted stone shafts and are often associated with low circular stones referred to as altars, although their actual function is uncertain. Many stelae were sculpted in low relief, although plain monuments are found throughout the Maya region. The sculpting of these monuments spread throughout the Maya area during the Classic Period (250–900 AD), and these pairings of sculpted stelae and circular altars are considered a hallmark of Classic Maya civilization.

The North Norfolk Coast Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) is an area of European importance for wildlife in Norfolk, England. It comprises 7,700 ha (19,027 acres) of the county's north coast from just west of Holme-next-the-Sea to Kelling, and is additionally protected through Natura 2000, Special Protection Area (SPA) listings; it is also part of the Norfolk Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). The North Norfolk Coast is also designated as a wetland of international importance on the Ramsar list and most of it is a Biosphere Reserve.

Preening is a maintenance behaviour found in birds that involves the use of the beak to position feathers, interlock feather barbules that have become separated, clean plumage, and keep ectoparasites in check. Feathers contribute significantly to a bird's insulation, waterproofing and aerodynamic flight, and so are vital to its survival. Because of this, birds spend considerable time each day maintaining their feathers, primarily through preening.

The Wells and Wellington affair was a dispute about the publication of three papers in the Australian Journal of Herpetology in 1983 and 1985. The periodical was established in 1981 as a peer-reviewed scientific journal focusing on the study of amphibians and reptiles (herpetology). Its first two issues were published under the editorship of Richard W. Wells, a first-year biology student at Australia's University of New England. Wells then ceased communicating with the journal's editorial board for two years before suddenly publishing three papers without peer review in the journal in 1983 and 1985. Coauthored by himself and high school teacher Cliff Ross Wellington, the papers reorganized the taxonomy of all of Australia's and New Zealand's amphibians and reptiles and proposed over 700 changes to the binomial nomenclature of the region's herpetofauna.

Wulfhere or Wulfar (died 675) was King of Mercia from 658 until 675 AD. He was the first Christian king of all of Mercia, though it is not known when or how he converted from Anglo-Saxon paganism. His accession marked the end of Oswiu of Northumbria's overlordship of southern England, and Wulfhere extended his influence over much of that region.

[angelic-ambedo]

anybody looking for weird feminist girlie coming of age s/xual awakening type movies that are not The Virgin Suicides, I’ve got u covered <3

-Raw (2016) - French-Belgian production. a little on the horror side for sure but very deep and interesting. I believe this is still free on Netflix.

- Water Lillies (2007) - French production. Directed by the same woman who did Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Coming of age queer drama about exploring and experimenting with sxuality. full movie is finally free on YouTube!

- Daisies (1966) - Czech new wave film. Feminist farce. Ridiculously good fun. Girlies eating food for an hour. Free on HBO Max.

- Ginger Snaps (2000) - English. another coming of age girlie horror type film. Free on Vudu, Tubi, Prime Video, and Sling TV.

- Alucarda (1977) - another girlie + girlie (romance?) that also involves the devil and is sort of the overlooked version of The Exorcist. You can find this on the internet archive and I believe in YouTube as well.

- Wetlands (2013) - German coming of age movie. Just a girlie who likes to be different and fck around. Should be free on Tubi, definitely on prime video, also on Apple TV (though I must check to specifically see where one can find this for free)

If anybody has other good movie recommendations in this category let me know so I can add to this beautiful list

[snoozaga]

When I played world of warcraft as a kid my first character was a blood elf hunter that I tried to make to look as much as Lady gaga as possible

My second was a night elf druid the first character I had that reached max level (80 at the time...lich king was still new)

Ive had recurring dreams about the wetlands..

[oseike]

Totk comments on grinding mats 2.0:

1) the fire lizalfos are present in the cliffs east of Gerudo desert from 7 am to 7 pm, when they swap to ice lizalfos. This means this place is good for grinding both. I got ~16 tails in one grind session, so with one blood moon in between, you should be able to get the 30 required for the final ascension of either set (or be close enough that some supplements from eldin or hebra are all that's needed)

2) there is almost no reason to fight the regular gleeoks. Just fight the king gleeok; it's on the lone sky island to the far west, north half of the map. Basically right in line with the "w" of "west necluda sky archipelago" and to the far left edge of the map. I put a teleportation circle there to make it easier for my monthly visit. The regular ones rarely drop guts, so grinding the guts will just be more expedient with fighting the king gleeok. However, it is above hebra, so you need at least 2 pieces of the snowquill set - I recommend all three for the unfreezable set bonus ngl. Hence why I'm focusing on maxing it out. If you haven't fought an ice one - in the final stage of the fight when it flies too high to hit, wait for an ice chunk to fall and then reverse time it up for the easiest way to reach it, imo

3) still looking for various levels of boss bokoblins. I would quite like to level the royal guard set cos it's cute ehe... anyway, right now I've only located one red boss bokoblin, just east of lookout landing near the town ruins there. If anyone knows where other (always red) ones are, I'd like to hear!

4) of silver lynels, one appears at the south end of the Faron grasslands in the Nautelle Wetlands, one appears northeast of kakariko/northwest of lanayru promenade, just east of kurakat shrine. I believe there's another east of rito village, up the cliff on the north aide of the road, a little east of Tama pond, but beware the ground is half snow there so movement is difficult.

[themarchrabbit]

So apparently explaining things in detail no one asked to be explained is my thing now.

This is actually my wheelhouse though, I majored in botany. Let's learn about American Chestnut trees!

"I don't know shit about trees, March, what is an American Chestnut? Since when do trees have nationalities?"

The American Chestnut is a type of beech tree. As for why it's called the American Chestnut, it's because this is a chestnut native to the Americas, specifically North America. It's deciduous, a word I love to say [deh-sid-you-uhs], which means it loses its leaves in the fall. These are big fuckers, easily reaching over 40ft/12m, some known to be 100ft/31m, with a max circumference [the around-the-trunk measurement] of 12ft/4m.

"Okay, but there are other trees."

Yes, there are. However, it helps to think of an ecosystem as a Rube Goldberg Machine. If one part breaks, the machine doesn't work. Now, nature has the beautiful ability to adapt much better to a lost part than a machine, but the American Chestnut was a key species of the Northeast/Midwest North American forests. They were an essential part of the canopy.

[IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Chart detailing the levels of a northeastern North American forest. The layers include examples of the plants and bird species found on their respective layers. In order from top to bottom, the layers are: GROUND COVER - There are two variations given of plant species for ground cover, prairie, which is dry grassland, and wetland, which is anything from swampy/brackish areas to floodplains. PLANTS [PRAIRIE]: Gramas, bluesterns, paspalums PLANTS [WETLAND]: Sedges, rushes, cattails BIRDS: Sparrows, shorebirds, waterfowl, wadingbirds UNDERSTORY LOW SHRUBS: Agaritas, yaupons, wax myrtles TALL SHRUBS: Dogwoods, viburnums, hawthorne BIRDS: Mockingbirds, bluebirds, wrens, doves MIDSTORY TREES: Ash, maples, sweetgums, hackleberries BIRDS: Warblers, jays, vireos, chickadees, cardinals, kinglets CANOPY [where the American Chestnut would be] TREES: Junipers, hickories, pines, cedars, maples, oaks, elms, pecans BIRDS: Owls, woodpeckers, vireos, warblers, thrushes, nuthatches, tanagers, creepers ABOVE CANOPY BIRDS: Vultures, hawks, swallows, swifts]

Which means they supported not only everything that lived in the canopy, which included the birds who hunted and foraged above the canopy, but everything above and below as well. You see, everything that grows in the midstory, understory and ground cover levels is filling their niche in the ecosystem, and their niche was below the giants. Shrubs like dappled sunlight, not full light. When the canopy is stripped out, not only is that large source of food and shelter gone, but the plants below are also now weakened until something else fills in that niche in the canopy. So the chestnut blight didn't just take out chestnut trees. It took out whole forests.

"But what was the blight?"

Blight: botany a: a disease or injury of plants marked by the formation of lesions, withering, and death of parts (such as leaves and tubers) b: an organism (such as an insect or a fungus) that causes blight

The Chestnut Blight is caused by a fungus. Cryphonectria parasitica.

"Chestnut Blight: Cryphonectria parasitica Chestnut blight is caused by the fungus Cryphonectria parasitica and infects American chestnut trees (Castanea dentata) throughout the United States and Canada. Once a major tree species, American chestnut trees filled Eastern and Midwestern forests. The fungus arrived from Asia with the import of Japanese chestnut trees in the late 19th century. By 1913, the disease had wiped out enough trees to warrant investigation by the USDA"

[IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A close-up photograph of the bark of a juvenile American Chestnut tree infected with Chestnut Blight. The fungus appears as a rash of small, irregularly formed oblong bumps on the bark. The fungus is a burnt-orange color, in contrast to the medium-brown of the tree bark.]

Now, what the person in that comment is likely talking about is the attempts to stop the blight. The blight struck in the late 1800s. And yes, when forestry experts realized what was happening, they did start cutting down trees. But it wasn't for the reasons this person is stating. When a fungus or disease gets into an ecosystem, the only way to save it, especially in this time period, was to absolutely annihilate the infected parts. These trees were chopped down and burned to stop the infection from spreading. Unfortunately, it did not work.

"Chestnut blight (Cryphonectria parasitica) has probably had the most pervasive influence on forest structure and composition in the southern Appalachians of any disease or insect. Prior to the introduction of this disease, the American chestnut (Castanea dentata) was the tallest and most dominant hardwood species in the eastern United States (Fig. 2). It grew in vast stands from Maine to Florida, with the largest trees occurring in the southern Appalachians (Schlarbaum et al. 1997). After the introduction of the fungus, which probably arrived on nursery stock from Asia around 1900, native chestnut trees, which had no resistance, quickly succumbed. The fungus enters a host through cracks or wounds in the bark and multiplies rapidly. It produces sunken cankers which expand and girdle the stem, killing everything above the canker, usually in one growing season (Fig. 1). Fungus spores can be transported by wind or on the feet of migrating birds and insects. The disease can spread rapidly — about 24 miles per year (Schlarbaum et al. 1997). By 1929, nearly all counties in the southern Appalachians were infested; by about 1940, most of the standing chestnut trees were dead (SAMAB 1996)."

So the American Chestnut is very much not extinct. The blight does not effect the rootstock. [Link to an overview of what rootstock means in this context] It effects the juveniles. We need to find a way to get the trees resistant to the fungus, which is where genetic engineering comes in.

And we have failed many, many times. But...for science, that's not a sign to give up. Usually when your experiment fails, it helps you get closer to an answer that will work. And many people have been working since the blight started over a hundred years ago to keep the American Chestnut from going extinct. And it might take another hundred years to get

The blight was not anyone's fault. At the time, there was so much unknown regarding invasive species and ecosystems. You ever wondered why there are so many regulations about what plants you can and cannot bring in to another country? [gestures up at entire post] This would be an example why, and why you need to follow those rules. It's not just the plant you're carrying. You are essentially bringing foreign diseases into an unvaccinated population.

This has been "American Chestnut Trees" with March.

The most "???????" thing I found in r/collapse though was a thread talking about the "extinction" of the American Chestnut tree...the whole thing, but in particular this fucking comment

the implication that right after the blight started, "settlers" suddenly got the idea of cutting down all the trees. Does this person think a tree has to be already dead to be cut down for wood?

"there was no breeding project or attempt at all at saving them" shut up. just shut up. i beg

"University extensions are encouraging people to cut down healthy ash trees so they can sell the timber" ..."they?" The university extensions?

So for context, the American chestnut is NOT extinct, it has been the subject of intensive breeding programs with a broad and robust genetic base for decades, genetic engineering has been used to create trees with blight resistance that are now being planted and the work is continuing, I have had the privilege of speaking with some of the people that have devoted their entire lives to saving this tree, and let me FUCKING tell you, the eighty-year-old gentleman walking with a cane did not hobble painstakingly up a mountain to the chestnut grove for some dumbass to say "boohoo so sad that there were no breeding programs for american chestnut tree"

I cannot even describe how humbling it was to hear the old folks speak about the decades they worked to save the American Chestnut tree, long before the technology now being used to create blight resistant trees even EXISTED. It is a quest that will take multiple human lifetimes to complete, the people that began it will never see the trees grow old, but they made it their life's mission anyway.

I'm just...unable to understand why someone would say something like that. How could someone be so attached to their sad, dismal fantasy of apocalypse that they either fail to learn about, or outright lie about, a much more beautiful truth????

LOOK AT HER, YOU BITCH.

[idyllism]

here are some current interests.

natural sciences that i'm a pervert about:

ornithology

entomology

herpetology

botany

mycology

wetland ecology

books:

the three-body problem by liu cixin

frankenstein by mary shelley

the left hand of darkness by ursula k. leguin

starling house by alix e. harrow

this is how you lose the time war by amal el-mohtar + max gladstone

the trial by franz kafka

manhunt by gretchen felker-martin

the count of monte cristo by alexandre dumas

parasite rex by carl zimmer

the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde

video games + vns:

disco elysium

umineko no naku koro ni

slay the princess

soul of sovereignty

coquette dragoon

in stars and time

(through gritted teeth) fire emblem series, but realistically just pictures of seteth i think fuck hard

tales of series

tabletops:

nobilis + related titles (glitch, chuubo's, the far roofs, etc.)

the seven-part pact

tv + movies:

horror in general. i like it.

videodrome

train to busan

annihilation

midnight mass

akira

nope

the thing

the matrix

i saw the tv glow

perfect blue

cyberpunk: edgerunners

and like, other stuff too.

[lora-pama]

it’s a work in progress but i wrote it about someone im crushing on a ton… probably took me 15-20 mins max to make this draft that’s how whipped i am..

i sit and watch the azaleas that wrap themselves around the black willow clinging on as tight as possible trying their hardest not to slip into the green murks below us as the glimpses of sunbeams and light shine too into my eyes.

here we are in the heat of this july day my love, you sit and focus on the movements of the worn mahogany paddles of our boat in the wetlands as i lie back with a cigarette out of my mouth that i could’ve lit with just the heat of the sun,

and you’ll still keep me close to you in the heat that somehow flushes and dries me out despite being surrounded by only water and the living and breathing trees.

maybe i am like one of those azaleas, how i wrap around you and cling onto your affection as if you’re one of those tall dark willows that drape and put shade over me and all the over azaleas and trees and protect us as to not let me and all the others dry out,

you beautiful boy, to not have to try with you like how i’ve always tried to impress everyone is my liberation and you’ve radicalised me and now i am an extremist with all of Gods love in my own heart,

but as i think of God and i think of what to pray for there’s really nothing more i could want than to be held and taken care of by you in this little dream boat of ours slowly pacing through the swamp on the most beautiful of summers days.

[xtruss]

Photography: Wildlife Photographer of the Year Winners Show the Beauty — and Precarity — of Nature

— October 11, 2023 | By Rachel Treisman | NPR

10 Years and Younger Winner: The wall of wonder. Nallur Heritage Tamarind Grove, Karnataka, India. An ornamental tree trunk spider prevents its prey from escaping. To the photographer, it seemed the spider had positioned its web after being entranced by the sound of Krishna's flute. Vihaan Talya Vikas/Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Animal Portraits Winner: Face of the forest. Tapiraí, São Paulo, Brazil. A lowland tapir steps cautiously out of the swampy Brazilian rainforest. They rely on the forest for their diet of vegetation and in turn they act as seed dispersers — an important relationship threatened by habitat loss, illegal hunting and traffic collision. Vishnu Gopal/Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Wetlands Winner: The dead river. Ciliwung river, Jakarta, Indonesia. Plastic and human waste and agricultural fertilizers are suffocating the Ciliwung river. As a result, Jakarta's residents must use groundwater for drinking water, which has resulted in widespread subsidence. The city is now sinking. Joan de la Malla/Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Steven Johnson highlights a lump of spotted salamander eggs resting on a bed of sphagnum moss in a vernal pool near Shenandoah National Park, Virginia. Shallow seasonal pools like these are ideal amphibian nurseries because they’re safe from predators like fish. But these habitats are impacted by environmental change: Less predictable spring rains are causing pools to dry up before the young salamanders can fully develop and live on land. Photograph By Steven Johnson, Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Piotr Neskrecki captured a group of African sharptooth catfish scavenging from a waterbuck that died after getting stuck in the mud—illustrating the cyclical nature of life at Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique 🇲🇿. Sharptooth catfish are omnivorous and can survive for several days out of water thanks to an air-breathing organ in their gills. If they do eventually perish while they wait for the rains to return, they provide food for other species. Photograph By Piotr Naskrecki, Wildlife Photographer of the Year

In this image, Mexican photographer Fernando Constantino Martínez Belmar shows how a new cross-country tourist railway line devastates the natural landscape in Paamul, Quintana Roo. The railway will bring economic benefits to southeast Mexico, but it also fragments the ecosystems, threatens protected reserves and archaeological sites, and impacts Indigenous peoples by destroying their land. Photograph By Fernando Constantino Martínez Belmar, Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Isaac Szabo photographed different species gathered near a river chub’s nest in a freshwater stream in Virginia’s Whitetop Laurel Creek. During springtime spawning, male river chubs sometimes carry rocks and pebbles as far as 33 feet to form a mound where eggs can be sheltered from currents and predators. Other minnow species also use their nests to keep their eggs safe. Photograph By Isaac Szabo, Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Max Waugh captured this bison barreling through the snow in Yellowstone National Park. Bison once roamed across North America, with populations of 50 to 60 million at the start of the 1800s—then less than a thousand at the end of the century. Today, their numbers are slowly increasing with careful conservation efforts. Photograph By Max Waugh, Wildlife Photographer of the Year

— Wildlife Photographer of the Year is developed and produced by the Natural History Museum in London.

[chrancecriber]

Antenne Vorarlberg Chillout Lounge (August 16, 2023)

23:53 Avira & Diana Miro - The Worship (Mark Knight Extended) 23:51 Lost Frequencies, Zonderling & Kelvin Jones - Love To Go 23:46 Thievery Corporation - Bario Alto 23:42 Sum Wave - Beach Memories 23:39 Night Cruzer - Timeless 23:36 Alan Walker X Hans Zimmer - Time (Alan Walker Remix) 23:33 Gamper & Dadoni Feat. Joe Jury - Satellites 23:29 Solaris Navis - Blissful Memories 23:24 Fous De La Mer - Luces 23:21 Armin Van Buuren Feat. Jake Reese - Need You Now 23:17 Aromabar - Winter Pageant 23:08 Dino Lenny Feat. Artbat - Sand In Your Shoes 23:05 Shallour & Riah - Lie 22:59 Thomas Lemmer - Fatigué 22:56 Neptunica & Lunax - We Don't Even Talk Anymore 22:51 Rìfìs Du Sol - Alive (Anyma Remix) 22:48 Starley - Lovers Strangers 22:42 Röyksopp Feat. Susanne Sundfør - If You Want Me 22:35 A Sagittariun, Skip Mcdonald - Crystallization Feat. Skip Mcdonald (Original Mix) 22:28 Hraach Feat. Iveta Mukuchyan - Sarer Jan 22:25 Tiësto - The Motto 22:19 Depeche Mode - Home 22:12 Boral Kibil & Gulec - Lost Language 22:10 Lost Frequencies X James Arthur - Questions 22:05 Andy Caldwell - Quiet Nights 22:00 Eelke Kleijn Feat. Diana Miro - You (Frankey & Sandrino Remix) 21:54 Dale Anderson Feat. Anil Chawla - Pimento Grove 21:50 Moby - The Sky Is Broken 21:47 Nora En Pure - Wetlands 21:40 Monolink - Don't Hold Back 21:37 Ennio Morricone - L'estasi Dell' Oro 21:32 Blank & Jones - Twilight Moon 21:27 Sofa Surfers - Sofa Rockers (Richard Dorfmeister Remix) 21:24 Dj Antoine & Deep Vice - When You Want Some Love (Dj Antoine Vs Mad Mark 2k21 Mix) 21:21 The Hitmen - Turn Off The Lights 21:16 Airstream One - Southern Light 21:11 David Guetta, Robin Schulz, Cheat Codes - Shed A Light (Blank & Jones Remix) 21:09 Leony - Faded Love (Noøn Remix) 21:07 Omi - Cheerleader 21:05 Sum Wave - Passing Clouds 21:00 Mandala Dreams - Mirror Lake 20:56 Atb - We Belong 20:54 Felix Jaehn & The Stickmen Project Feat. Calum Scott - Rain In Ibiza 20:49 Eelke Kleijn - Woodstock 20:45 Wim Mertens - Close Cover 20:42 Audien - Blue 20:38 Kygo Feat. Ella Henderson - Here For You 20:34 Milkwish - From The Earth To The Moon 20:30 Schiller & Peter Heppner - Leben... I Feel You 20:25 Marc Puig - To Start Anew 20:23 Martin Trevy Feat. Hedara - Talking To The Silence 20:20 Rosa Linn - Snap 20:16 Spanish Armada Movement - Margarita 20:10 The Last Atlant - Twin Of The Sun 20:07 Morgan Page Feat. Lissie - Firewalk 20:03 Jazzamor - Lovin' You 19:56 Colyn - Lightyears 19:53 Hbz, Anna Grey & Agent Zed - Aloha Hey 19:49 Anna Naklab Feat. Alle Farben - Supergirl 19:46 Eelke Kleijn - Midnight Affair (Samaha Slow Edit) 19:43 Chicane - Fin Des Jours 19:40 Thomas Gold Feat. Bright Sparks - Seventeen 19:36 Nora En Pure - Stop Wasting Time 19:30 Hird - Getting Closer 19:28 Buchs Feat. Nokyo - Cheverolet 19:24 Moli - Cloud No9 (Montmartre Remix) 19:20 First Aid Kit - My Silver Lining 19:18 Felix Jaehn Feat. Zoe Wees - Do It Better 19:15 Pulsedriver & Tiscore Feat. Anna Grey - We Are 19:11 Karen Gibson Roc - Painted Room 19:03 Maxim Lany - Riding The Wave (Extended Mix) 18:56 Valeron - Jamal 18:50 Hraach, Armen Miran - Aldebaran (Original) 18:47 Klingande, Wrabel - Big Love 18:43 Sise - The Rain (Where Do I Begin) 18:41 Trinix - Soweto 18:38 Max Johann & Layrz - Tell It To My Heart 18:33 Massive Attack - Safe From Harm 18:30 Alok Feat. Alida - Love Again 18:27 Above & Beyond - The Inconsistency Principle 18:23 Mario & Vidis Feat. Jazzu - I'll Be Gone 18:20 Chicane - Capricorn (Back Pedal Brakes Remix) 18:16 Jako Diaz & Margret - Mirror 18:12 Niles Cooper - Lamplight Rains 18:08 Eli & Fur - Come Back Around 18:05 Duboss - Losing My Religion 18:02 Alle Farben - Berlin 17:55 Julian Wassermann - People 17:51 Serafim Tsotsonis - Small 2 17:44 Christopher Von Deylen - Opaque 17:41 Glockenbach - Dirty Dancing 17:37 Adele - Skyfall 17:34 Winona Oak & Robin Schulz - Oxygen 17:31 Hypnosis - Pulstar 17:27 Melloton - Zombie 17:24 Hagen Feetly - Cry 17:18 Rìfìs Du Sol - On My Knees (Oliver Schories Remix) 17:13 Lemongrass - Angel Wings 17:11 Amely & Lvndscape - Losing My Mind 17:08 Robin Schulz Feat. Alida - In Your Eyes 17:00 Hansi Lang - Perfect Day (Smacs & Patrick Kong Remix) 16:53 Rodriguez Jr. Feat. Liset Alea - What Is Real 16:48 Jody Wisternoff Feat. Sian Evans - The Bridge (Chicane Rework) 16:44 Nihoni - After Sun 16:40 Jean-michel Jarre - Oxygene, Pt. 4 16:35 Alex Sail Feat. Al I Bo - Symantec Clime 16:32 Gesaffelstein & The Weeknd - Lost In The Fire 16:24 Kygo - Freeze 16:19 De-phazz - Anchorless 16:08 Monkey Safari - Hi Life (Cheeky Bold Cover) 16:04 Viva La Panda & Finding Molly - Bring It On (La La La) 16:01 Iberis Eguana - Sand Of Time 15:58 Vievie - Blue Island 15:53 Dreamerproject - Horizons (Glenn Main Remix) 15:49 Alan Walker & Gavin James - Tired (Kygo Remix) 15:46 Robin Schulz & Felix Jaehn - One More Time 15:41 Yantra Mantra - Ascension Into Heaven (Chandini Mix) 15:35 Nora En Pure - Trailblazer (Club Mix) 15:28 Mashk & Soul Button - Pensées 15:23 Afterlife - Espalmador 15:20 Tom Novy & Dan Le Blonde - Let's Dance (Tom Novy Remix) 15:14 Lamb - Wonder 15:10 Dalibor Dadoff, Nacho Lezcano, Grabo Bakos - Sounds Like A Melody 15:06 Klangperlenspiel & Puzzls - Kyoto (Wish You'd Move On) 15:03 Mila Feat. Uwe Worlitzer - Teil Von Mir 14:59 Jasmon - Sanpo Suru 14:55 Younotus Feat. Chris Gelbuda - When I Think About You 14:52 Alle Farben & Fools Garden - Lemon Tree 14:48 Mo' Horizons - Dance Naked Under Palmtrees 14:45 2raumwohnung - Wir Werden Sehen (Paul Kalkbrenner Remix) 14:41 Avec - Under Water (Club Edit) 14:39 Chaël Feat Kaii - Don't Speak 14:36 Nto (Fr) Feat. Sofiane Pamart - Invisible (Piano Version) 14:31 Dj Skillmaster, Deep Dive Duo - Hey Little Girl (Slow Motion Mix) 14:28 R3hab & Marnik - Candyman 14:25 Magnofield - Lupino 14:18 Mr. Sam Feat. Kristy Hawkshaw - Split 14:14 Sound Nomaden - The Morning After 14:10 Elderbrook & Bob Moses - Inner Light 14:07 Italobrothers - Summer Air 14:03 Jean-michel Jarre - Equinoxe, Pt. 5 14:00 Matoma Feat. Jonah Kagen - Summer Feeling 13:54 Van Bellen - Morning Awakening 13:51 Ten Tonne Skeleton - Feel So Bad 13:47 Sia - Alive 13:42 Schiller - Der Goldene Engel 13:38 Dvine - Ever After 13:35 Kygo Feat. Valerie Broussard - Think About You 13:32 Filatov & Karas - Au Au 13:29 Moby - My Only Love 13:25 Patchy - Friend (Original Mix) 13:22 Gamper & Dadoni - Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! 13:18 Lstn - Undecided 13:15 James Newton Howard Feat. Jennifer Lawrence - The Hanging Tree 13:11 Nora En Pure - Enchantment 13:07 Blank & Jones - Alone In This Rhythm 13:04 Mhe - The Sounds Of Silence 13:01 Twisted Harmonies Feat. Mougleta - You & Me 12:57 Fluff - Late Night Session 12:54 Paratone - Time After Time 12:51 Sans Souci - Nanda 12:46 Ilo - Soleil D'hiver 12:43 Mount & Emdey - Venus 12:40 Consoul Trainin Feat. Steven Aderinto & Duoviolins - Obsession 12:36 Morcheeba - Slow Down 12:31 Joachim Pastor & Signum - Something You Need (Extended Mix) 12:28 Kai Schwarz, Cayus & Yass - My Love Is Your Love 12:24 Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine 12:22 Vinai - Hide Away 12:19 Chris Avedon - The Letter 12:13 Spooky - Shelter 12:11 Atb & Topic - Your Love (9pm) 12:07 Lenny Bizarre - El Viejo Pescador 12:02 Lstn - Times Of Sorrow 11:54 Atb - No Fate 11:52 Lost Frequencies Feat. Axel Ehnström - All Or Nothing 11:48 Blank & Jones Feat. Zoe Durrant - Erase Rewind 11:45 Portishead - Revenge Of The Number 11:39 Parra For Cuva Feat. Anna Naklab - Swept Away (Original Mix) 11:37 The Holy Santa Barbara Feat. Madugo - The Sailor Song 11:35 Sons Of Maria - A Kiss Like This 11:32 Fritz Kalkbrenner - Void 11:28 Mike Candys & Jack Holiday - Saltwater (Rework) 11:25 Nora En Pure - Sign Of The Times 11:19 Tosca - Suzuki 11:16 Kygo With Avicii & Sandro Cavazza - Forever Yours (Tribute) 11:10 Depeche Mode - When The Body Speaks 11:09 Antenne Vorarlberg Chillout 11:03 Firtz Kalkbrenner - Golden (Fideles Remix) 10:58 Gardenstate & Bien - The Best Part 10:55 Galantis Feat. Onerepublic - Bones 10:51 Above & Beyond Feat. Zoe Johnston - Treasure 10:46 Atb & Anova - Route 66 10:41 Naomi - Avenue L'amour (Lemongrass Remix) 10:38 Hugel - Can't Love Myself (Feat. Mishaal& Lpw) 10:35 Kush Kush & Sickmellow Feat. Kazhi - Blacklight 10:32 Clangusar - I Promised Myself 10:30 Christopher Von Deylen - Arco Iris 10:27 Alex Breitling - Lilie 10:20 Cantoma - Gambarra (Lexx Remix) 10:14 Nora En Pure - Cognitive Fadings (Club Mix) 10:09 Blondee & Marc Werner Feat. Fabienne Rothe - Wonderful Days 10:06 Dize Feat. Aurii - Wenn Ich Nicht Mehr Weiss 10:00 Anrey - We Are The Mirrors (Extended Mix) 09:57 Alle Farben - Bad Ideas 09:52 Goldfish - Love Everlasting (Extended Mix) 09:47 Blank & Jones - Sunny (Summer Vibe Mix) 09:43 Schiller - Zukunft 09:40 Vievie - Sea Roses 09:37 Armin Van Buuren & Avira - Illusion (Mixed) 09:33 Feder Feat. Lyse - Goodbye 09:30 Majestic & Boney M. - Rasputin 09:27 Sans Souci - Fenton 09:22 Kabanjak - The Rain 09:16 Beyhude - Rüzgar 09:12 Sonic Adventure Project - Waters In Motion 09:09 Tiesto - Lay Low 09:01 Hraach - After Dark 08:57 Paul Kalkbrenner - Part Eight 08:54 Valerie Dore - The Night (Zyx Edit Remastered 2021) 08:49 Shakedown - At Night (Afterlife Remix) 08:43 Fonzerelli - Moonlight Party (Touch & Go Laidback Mix) 08:40 Sono - Trusting You 08:38 Gil Glaze Feat. Dante Thomas - West La 08:32 Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy 08:29 Melonia - Sweet Child O' Mine 08:27 Jerome & Neptunica - High On Music 08:23 Hein Klein Feat. Lisa Carter - I Was Made For Loving You 08:20 Jan Blomqvist & Bloom Twins - High On Beat (Sofi Tukker Remix) 08:14 Tibet Project - Tibet (A Passage To ...) 08:05 Christopher Von Deylen - Heaven Can Wait 08:00 Monolink - Harlem River 07:56 Troubleman Feat. Nina Miranda - Paz 07:50 Exstra - Comet (Extended Mix) 07:48 Alle Farben & Flynn - I Need To Know 07:43 Ivy - Edge Of The Ocean 07:40 Jeremy Loops - Til I Found You 07:34 Twocolors - Together 07:31 Blank & Jones - Flaming June 07:27 Schiller - Summer In Berlin 07:23 Freischwimmer - California Dreamin 07:17 Hot Natured - Planet Us 07:11 Tebra - Istok 07:06 La Vita - Smooth Like Silk 06:58 Martin Roth - An Analog Guy In A Digital World 06:55 L'imperatrice - Peur Des Filles (Montmartre Remix) 06:51 Nightmares On Wax - You Wish 06:47 Valante - Rissa 06:42 Lyke - Stay With Me 06:37 Surfers - South Beach 06:34 Armin Van Buuren & Garibay - Phone Down 06:31 Together Alone - Let Go 06:26 Rue Du Soleil - La Francaise 06:22 Pretty Pink Feat. Mark V - Don't Dance 06:17 Worakls - Caprice 06:12 Monolink - Swallow 06:09 Hein Klein & Cheyenne - Every Breath You Take 06:05 Be Svendsen - Drop The Gun 06:02 Sans Souci - Condor 05:58 Arty Feat. Cimo Fränkel - Daydreams (Sultan Shepard Echoes) 05:52 Consoul Trainin & Pink Noisy Feat. Anastasia Zannis - Tango To Evora 05:49 Rita Ora - You Only Love Me 05:46 Alex Zind Feat. Lisa Schwab - Cruel Summer 05:42 Chris Coco - Cape Clear 05:40 Luca Schreiner Feat. Johnny Chicago - Its All Gonna Be Good (Junge Junge Edit) 05:37 Lost Frequencies & Elley Duhé - Back To You 05:34 Mr. Probz Feat. Hardwell - Birds Fly 05:30 Undressd - Forever Young 05:27 Bernward Koch - Lonely Dream (Solo Piano) 05:24 Blank & Jones With Jan Loechel - Secret Hideaway 05:21 Blank & Jones Feat. Coralie Clément - Cest Mieux 05:18 Federico Aubele - Besos De Sal 05:15 Alan Walker Ahrix - End Of Time 05:10 Nora En Pure - Dry Sobbing 05:05 Agoria - Up All Night 04:57 True & Berger - Imprint Of Pleasure 04:53 Blank & Jones - Sunshines Better (Feat. Mick Roach) 04:49 Unclubbed, Zoe Durrant - Need To Feel Loved (Original Mix) 04:45 Robin Schulz - Moonlit Sky (With The Void Pacific Choir) 04:39 Airstream - Your Tears (Del Mar Mix) 04:35 Stephane De Lucia - Trippin 04:32 Zaz - Demain C'est Toi 04:29 Loud Luxury And Frank Walker Feat. Stephen Puth - Like Gold 04:25 Guardner - All Right 04:22 Tom Staar & Cedric Gervais - Playing Games (Mixed) 04:19 Fritz Kalkbrenner - Back Home 04:16 Robin Schulz & Alle Farben & Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Somewhere Over The Rainbow / What A Wonderful World 04:12 Nora Van Elken - Mount Fuji 04:09 The Underdog Project - Summer Jam 04:06 Nora En Pure - Branches 04:02 Trinix - Vision Deluxe 03:57 Woolfy Vs. Projections - We Were There 03:55 R3hab X Lukas Graham - Most People 03:51 Pascal Letoublon - Feelings Undercover 03:43 Deep Dive Corp. - Bali Hi 03:36 Blank & Jones - White Light 03:33 Dimitri Vegas - Pull Me Closer 03:30 Rudimental Feat. Ed Sheeran - Lay It All On Me 03:25 Thomas Lemmer & Andreas Bach - Deep Ocean 03:20 Fous De La Mer - Luz 03:14 New Age Kings - Illusion (Instrumental Remix) 03:10 Cats On Bricks Feat. Zach Alwin - Planes Over Ushuaia 03:05 Syntax Error - Träumen Im Gras (Syntax Experience Mix) 03:00 Rodriguez Jr. & Liset Alea - Amplify 02:57 Armin Van Buuren Feat. Rbvln - Weight Of The World (Feat. Rbvln) 02:49 Justin Martin - The Sad Piano 02:46 Nora En Pure - Fibonacci 02:43 Basixx - Stay In Your Sunlight 02:37 Massive Attack - Teardrop 02:34 Zoe - C'est La Vie 02:30 Blank & Jones - High Fly 02:24 Melosense - Road & Lights 02:21 Gestört Aber Geil & Anna Grey - Thank You 02:17 Blank & Jones With Coralie Clement - Days Go By 02:12 Röyksopp Feat. Astrid S - 02 Let's Get It Right 02:09 Kygo, Paul Mccartney & Michael Jackson - Say Say Say 02:06 Braaten - Enjoy The Silence 02:03 Shaun Frank & Takis Feat. Shells - Don't Say I Love You 01:59 John Summit & Hayla - Where You Are 01:55 Gary B - Without You 01:53 Iossa, Ken Holland - The Seed Feat. Iossa (Original Mix) 01:47 Sans Souci - Venice 01:44 Alessandro Taccini Feat. Pierre Soyer - Higher Love 01:41 Brando - Don't Call Me (Galantis Remix) 01:37 Dvine - Unknown Reality 01:33 Lumininius - I Believe In You 01:28 Kidsø - Fir 01:25 Air - Ce Matin Là 01:22 Twopilots - Take My Breath Away 01:17 Claptone Feat. Dizzy - Queen Of Ice Queen Of Ice 01:14 Syn Cole Feat. Caroline Pennell - Californication 01:11 Melokind - Tiefgang 01:06 Schiller - White Nights (Don't Let Me Go) 01:02 Blank & Jones - Summer Sky 01:00 Alok & Timmy Trumpet - Underwater Love (La Vision Remix) 00:56 Lucy Neville - Ransom 00:52 Velvet Lounge Project - In Harmony 00:44 Avira & Diana Miro - The Worship (Mark Knight Extended) 00:41 Lstn, Arya Noble - Desert Walk 00:34 Sweed Feat. Janana - Finally (Holter & Mogyoro Remix) 00:31 Tiësto & Ty Dolla $ign - The Business, Pt. Ii 00:29 Sam Feldt, Lucas & Steve Ft. Wulf - Summer On You 00:24 Sum Wave - Beach Memories 00:17 Garlington - Falling To Pieces (Extended Mix) 00:10 Bedrock - Beautiful Strange 00:05 Jens Buchert - Cocoon

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Florida's War With Invasive Pythons Has a New Twist

Max G. Levy for WIRED:

Florida has a twisted relationship with the Burmese python. Americans imported nearly 100,000 of them from Southeast Asia between 1996 and 2006. (The US banned their import in 2012.) Many pet owners hadn't realized that the snakes grow to 12 feet, on average, and they abandoned them. South Florida's warm wetlands offer the perfect adoptive habitat. Their inconspicuous patterning conceals them in the already remote Everglades, which makes them hard to track. Ecologists peg their detectability at less than 1 percent. That means if there are 100 snakes in your survey area, you'd be lucky to spot just one.

The pythons officially established a self-sustaining population in the ecosystem in 2000, according to the US Geological Survey. Today, there are likely tens of thousands of them across South Florida, and the USGS believes the number will only increase as populations expand to new areas within the peninsula. (They're not likely to spread to similar wetlands in Alabama and Louisiana, though, since they can't survive the colder temperatures they'd have to migrate through to exit northern Florida.) According to the USGS report, eradication is "likely impossible." And now, says Kirkland, "They are eating all of our native wildlife."

Florida belongs to snakes now

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fixing carbrain takes a long time. in Portland it's taken almost 50 years to finally bury parking minimums:

1975, we set a total parking maximum in downtown, "The Lid" is adjusted upwards periodically, while the min-max ranges on new development is periodically adjusted downwards1

1991, "Storefronts" and "Mixed Use" zones have parking minimums eliminated2

2002, parking minimums are eliminated within a 1/4 mile of transit corridors3

2013, in a spectacular NIMBY backslide, we reinstate parking minimums for apartments within transit corridors (but you can reduce this minimum by planting trees or bike staples)2

2015-2019, a bunch of other cities Just Say No to parking minimums

2021, "Single Dwelling" zones (the kind with big setbacks, classic American suburbia) have parking minimums eliminated3

2022, no more minimum parking near bus lines and street car lines3

2023, we finally eliminate minimums on everything that technically still had parking minimums: the wetlands, the West Hills, the airport, and bunch of other forgotten tracts of land3

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Foraging Friday

The latest from author and forager, Max Gordon Here is your weekly dose of Foraging Friday, a list of what I’m pondering and exploring. What i’m Creating: Click the Lion logo if you’re interested in survival classes in southeast Florida or southern New York. What i’m Researching: “Due to their reputation as marginal zones, wetlands have long been overlooked in Western culture. This negative…

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further ideas for mechanics

i feel like i'd want there to be real plant genera but the species would be fictional, so it's not like hyper-specialized to a certain IRL region.

squares would have a certain amount of "slots" for the amount of plants they can contain, slots can also be taken up by things like rocks or logs. let's say 9 slots. A fully grown "old growth" tree would take up 8 slots (the max a single plant could take up) which leaves 1 slot for another plant (so there's always some smaller plants) Most plants take up 1-2 slots. HOWEVER large trees and rocks and logs have their own "slots" that are open to epiphytes and mosses and other small plants that are exclusive to that microhabitat

theres a number reflecting how many animal species are present in your habitat, representing everything from mammals to insects. they probably wouldn't be specifically named because there would be so many but they would have data in the game reflecting that they are associated with certain habitats, rely on certain plants, etc.

there would be a book with info about discovered plants, but you would have to devote a certain amount of exp/gold/whatever to "research" plants.

So if you found a plant you could spend 10 gold or whatever to "Research" and unlock the plant's name and stats (it's random which ones). So it could be like "You found: LEMON SAGE! Lifecycle: Short-Lived Perennial. Compete 3, Reseed 7, Resist ???, .... and so on

certain plants would automatically be "known" to the player from the outset, for example Dandelion and its stats could appear in the book from the very beginning. Some of these plants are randomly chosen, and there's a little blurb for them explaining how your player character "knows" them. E.g. "You remember this plant from your grandma's garden." "You recognize this tree from your childhood backyard." "You read about this plant in a gardening book one time."

10% of plant species would be procedurally generated along with the world, with names generated from a source pool of syllables and words and stats and traits that vary randomly.

there is no way to win, because each world would have a different theoretical "max" biodiversity (because of differing world seeds)

Things you can do: release goats onto a patch, release cattle onto a patch, mow a patch, spray herbicide/pesticide (but watch out!), test the soil seed bank in your greenhouse, "field survey" a patch (reveals what plants are present in the patch, with a prompt to "Research?")

if discovered through "field survey," certain stats are known upon discovery, for example if you find a plant in a very wet square, it might be automatically revealed to you that it's a wetland tolerant plant

not sure how to deal with this, but stats of plants and stats of squares both are a thing and both affect each other. like plants' stats could be buffed or debuffed depending on whether they're in an ideal environment or not, but squares' stats are also affected by what plants are on them. the progression of this is basically what drives succession

Not me spending my whole shower imagining a rewilding sim with a procedurally generated world like dwarf fortress where you plant various plants and try to shape the ecosystem throughout the process of ecological succession

The plants would all have different stats based on their spreading and competitive capabilities and each little square of land would have stats based on the plants that are there and other conditions

Every time you advanced the clock forward by another year your plants would grow and potentially spread to new squares, and there would be a chance for new plants to "volunteer"

Each square would have a "Disturbance" stat that lowers every time you advance the clock and rises according to major removals of plants or cultivation activities, and modifies other stats including how competitive certain species are and which species could volunteer

For example, Dandelion would have a high chance of volunteering on squares with high disturbance stats, but not on squares with low disturbance stats

It would be partly a strategy game to see how you can fight and outcompete invasive species and raise biodiversity, like for example you might want to combine plants with high resistance to being outcompeted with plants that have an allelopathic effect to debuff an invasive plant enough that the volunteer chances of a square go up and you can have natural regeneration of trees

The reason I think this is so cool is that if stats were intentionally made as accurate as possible, you could legitimately use this to model rewilding strategies in the real world