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A holy blade seals an ancient power to the murk of the swamp.

Me, a curious little rat: I sure hope nothing silly happens :)

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Mother nature, the basket weaver.Wind blown blades of dry grass are trapped in a wire fence, creating what looks like a massive art piece or weaving.

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I havent seen the oops wrong home comic this year...

Happy Holidays everyone! :-D

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My Fireforse 2011, 2012, 2016

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interesting that no other manifesto has ever been banned to my knowledge except one that criticises corporate america. very telling what reddit is choosing to ban here. was the unity a little too scary?

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Redrawing this 14th century illustration from a medical text and making it gayer than it already is. You're welcome

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Deny, Defend, Depose

I have a sweatshirt preorder here! I will also have prints and stickers after I get back from the holidays <3

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folks if you can't conceive of a world in which both trans boys and trans girls are able to exist in the same space that's like. your problem. i actually think it's incredibly easy for the girl scouts to both be fully inclusive of trans girls AND any trans boys who want to participate in it, especially if they were a scout pre transition and that is where all of their friends and support comes from. or if there are no boy scouts nearby. or if they are nonbinary and assigned whatever at birth and want to be in a scouting troup and girl scouts seems more affirming than boy scouts. why do Y'ALL feel like trans girls can only be affirmed through binarism. why are y'all so uncharitable to trans boys.

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A short comic I made about my experiences as a seasonal worker, and the way places change you.

Prints & PDF

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A new study demonstrates that invasive plants don't just directly compete with native species at a direct, macro level, but the ability they have to connect with mycorrhizal partners have a negative impact on the soil microbiome into which they are introduced. It also makes the point that the relationship between a plant and its mycorrhizal partners does not occur in a vacuum, but within the wider community of plants and the various beings in the soil microbiome.

All of this may seem common sense; after all, all of nature is interconnected in some way or another. However, mycorrhizal relationships are often presented in a 1:1 ratio, with a plant and its fungal partner working together in spite of whatever else is going on around them. It should come as no surprise that environmental factors can alter that relationship, and how effectively the partners exchange nutrients. In this case in particular, the invasive plant was able to tap into the mycorrhizal network, but less efficiently than its native neighbors.

Whether it can evolve more effective connections with soil fungi in the future remains to be seen. Moreover, this was a study done in a laboratory setting with two native plants and one invasive, and may not necessarily reflect the complexity of mycorrhizal networks in nature. Still, the fact that the introduction of a non-native plant species can affect how native plants and fungi interact is one more reason to remove invasive species whenever possible.

*"Myco" means fungus and "rhizo" means root. Some soil fungi wrap their mycelium around the roots of plants, or even grow into those roots. the plants then send carbon made from sunlight through photosynthesis down to the fungi, and the fungi give the plants phosphorus and other nutrients from the soil in a mutually beneficial relationship.

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Knelt, but not defeated

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no real context, just a little bit of Zagreus fanart