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"What the fuck?"

no, "Watch the Phacus".

Take a 30 second scrolling break to watch these little algae swim.

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Cladonia strepsilis

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sorry if it looked like i posted something... i didnt :,) im just tryna draft something for the near-future

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imagine if your boyfriend was like I can smell an ant. and started tracking

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book from the sky (tianshu) xu bing, 1989-91

I was so excited to see a copy of this in real life bc it's something I studied in art history. this is a book that was typeset and printed by hand using wooden blocks but every one of the characters was invented for the sake of the piece and does not correspond to any word in the Chinese language

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Plant of the Day

Wednesday 4 September 2024

The evergreen fern Blechnum spicant (deer fern, hard fern, herringbone fern, northern fern, rusty back, snake fern) has thick, glossy fronds with a feather-like appearance. Here it was thriving in the cool, moist, shade of a Scottish conifer forest.

Jill Raggett

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the boys and I all line up for the new robin wall kimmerer book like ants and one by one we all say Thank you dr kimmerer for your service

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love being in town where 80% of the bird population is crows and ravens because i open my window a crack for the nice breeze and my room is immediately filled with the sounds of 20 little guys yelling AWWWWWW AWWWWWW outside my home

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When I say "connect with nature" I don't just mean the aesthetic forests with deer and beautiful flowers.

I mean the weeds growing through concrete, the fungus that grows on the rotten shed, the nettles that always seem to return and the scary, spindly cellar spider in the corner of the bathroom.

Nature is not always pretty or magical - the pigeons and seagulls you swat at are nature too, the wasps and flies that hover by your meals are animals too, store-bought strawberries and the leaves that fall from your neighbour's tree are not all that different from the Giant Sequoias and it's seeds.

If you want to connect and understand nature, I mean *really* connect to it, in it's entirety, you have to seek out and learn about the ugly, scary and mundane things as well. You don't have to like it, just don't forget that it's there.

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for a literature essay im writing im inexplicably looking up a lot of articles abt private pools and american culture and now im curious.

i'm dutch, and to me a private pool seems like the height of ostentatious luxury. i don't know anyone in my country who has a private pool, i grew up swimming in public pools or whatever random body of water was nearby, lakes or rivers or canals or whatever. american media has so many private pools though, are they really that common?

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in my opinion it is essential to make a "right to garden" law that means no one can stop you from growing whatever you want in your yard.

I think it should even apply to renters so a landlord is required to allow you to have a garden

And I think this can become a reality

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Local elections and local politics are some of the most important for the environmental cause.

Laws forbidding you from keeping chickens, growing vegetables, or having a pollinator garden? Parks have invasive bushes and giant lawns but no natural space? Town has no sidewalks? Wetland getting sold to a developer?

These are LOCAL laws, LOCAL policies, and LOCAL decision-making!

Which means they can be changed on a local level. It is much easier than changing the whole world, and can start a pattern of other places doing the same thing.

Vote in local elections. Be involved in local politics. Go to town hall meetings. Learn what plans there are for your community.

Do it for the plants, the bugs, the animals, and the humans, which are their caretakers.🕷️🐞🐝🦋🐛☘️🌸🌺🪷🌾🌿🌱🌼🌻🌵🦎🐌🦇🐿️

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it's not really similar to anything else i've made but i think this is art and im kinda in the "uploading my portfolio" phase of getting a new social media account so here you go

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From last October. The pods were still hanging on the honey locust tree because the large Ice Age mammals that used to eat them and spread the seeds just never come around anymore. I read but haven’t tested it that the stuff inside the pods around the seeds is sweeter than honey (not recommended b/c I don’t know if it’s toxic). Somebody back in the Pleistocene had a sweet tooth and it seems to be mastodons. Remnants of these pods have been found in their manure. And the huge thorns and spines at a certain height on the trees? They were to discourage mastodons from pushing the whole tree over to get the pods just out of reach! Now you know.

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That's what I was thinking but... idk that much about bugs haha. Thank you though!

[ID: Left picture is of a fallen cactus paddle. Several white fuzzy insects cover its surface. Some red splotches are visible, presumably from the insects.

Right picture is a close up of a woody cactus stem. It shows the texture and creases visible with some more insects visible. END ID]

I was having a weird day (overstimulated) until I saw this cactus outside of a bbq place. I thought it was cool at least haha

I thought for a moment that the cactus paddle was bloody but I think it's actually from those bugs. I don't know what kind of bugs that is though, so don't ask