That makes me think of shit like Karahan Tepe or Poverty Point. How would they organize to build cool shit without a centralized authority? Or maybe it was a centralized authority but it wasn't hierarchical?
My poor dude Corbulo kicked the bucket a few weeks ago when I fucked up planting his tank. I've been waiting to see if I killed the plants, but at least one (1) is growing.
I already had 'Diogenes' picked out as a name for my next betta, and it seems like a name for a something in the yellow-red spectrum. Except I also liked the look of the 'alien' boys, which mostly come in blue.
So I picked a rather bland speckled boy who may or may not be a wild type. I hope he brightens up as he grows.
My crypt undulata has had 3 weeks to melt and be dramatic, but I can't really tell if it's doing anything under the fuzz. How long before I can say that I gave it a good run before I yoink it for something else?
My anubias, planted at the same time, gave me a new leaf so I'm not totally hopeless.
Man, assuming they have the money, indigenous tribes also in the US could do some amazing solarpunk shit. Renewable energy like this, rewilding and traditional sustainable land management, maybe even guaranteed housing in a communal setting. But they have a hard time getting the feds to give them the funding for the treaty-mandated healthcare shit as it is.
I have beef with him, tho TBF it's mostly CS Lewis's fault. Platonic ideals are social constructs, suck on that, fundagelicals who pretend to be intellectuals.
Who wants to go on a roadtrip to piss on said grave? Up yours, Plato.
Still waiting for my newest African violet to shape up, but it was cruelly yanked from an auntie's loving humidity cabinet and then thrown to sink or swim on my countertop.
I got into solarpunk mostly because I'm too butch for cottagecore, but I might be too granny to satisfy the punk requirements. I wanna stay on my couch and knit, you guys, I'm so tired.
Even if it's not unusual, it's still cool. I need a video essay, stat.
Strawberries is top of my list of things to start when I'm in a better situation to garden. Gotdamn squirrels got em when I tried before, and the maintenance guys just kicked over the barren-looking pots (tried to garden on the communal stoop since I don't have a balcony or private patio, did not work).
Look at that, they don't spend the majority of their lives grinding to keep capitalism afloat. Sounds nice.
This is the kind of thing I think about to get the useful bits out of the "touch grass" meme.
Unfortunately I'm not very good at it and time isn't real until the stores put out the commercialized holiday crap: It's only really summer when the 4th of July kitsch is put out on the shelves. It sucks and I want to be better about it.
I am a fan of replicas that I can put my grimy tourist hands all over.
Another reason to eat the rich: so they don't hoard culturally important shit.
I started with bamboo needles because I had a hard learning curve for knitting, but now that I've leveled up I'm thinking about getting a metal set, especially in the smaller sizes. I have hopes that it'll help my gauge issues, but chances are it won't help that much :(
I'm ready to defend my girl KonMari.
The TL;DR of this article is that KonMari method doesn't work for the author. Author feels defensive about her collection of sentimental items and wants more advice about organizing than KonMari offers.
Maybe this book isn't helpful for some people. That's okay. Doesn't mean you need to do clickbait libel to my girl with "debunk."
Babies? In THIS economy?
But jokes aside, I wonder how this would stack up against pre-Industrialized society, what with the high infant/child mortality. And at least Catholics let women fuck off to the nunnery if the whole maternity thing didn't appeal to them. One way that medieval Catholics were weirdly more progressive than most flavors of Protestants.
IDK if this is quite solarpunk, but it's some kind of eco-punk.
This guy films himself cleaning up culverts and street drains, mostly in the New England region of the US, with a rake and hip waders. He bitches about beavers and idiots with excavators and has a lot of technical opinions on road engineering that I find interesting for no good gawddamn reason.
Props to him if he makes a decent amount on these videos. Better than customer service work.
If I remember my Navajo mystery novels correctly, this is specifically because the Navajo/Dinee consider corpses to be ritually unclean. I guess the equivalent would be taking powdered human waste up to the moon and flinging it around just to say there's human DNA on the moon (I'm sure all the moon missions left their waste behind anyway, there's already human DNA up there).
sustained fangirl squeeing I'm only about eight episodes in, but gAwD, it's amazing what studios can do when they actually do long-term planning. Consistent characterization that isn't just smashing foils together like Tuvok and Neelix or Tom and Harry? More than 4 recycled plots? YAY BOSS BAE JANEWAY. Unfortunately, Chakotay doesn't have enough screen time (yet) to see if they figured out what to do with him. Voyager definitely didn't seem to know what to do with him except as the vehicle for Creeping Heteronormativity. JUSTICE FOR CHAKOTAY
I wonder if it was more like sheep wool or alpaca wool.
In the interest of horse-girl infodumping, I recall seeing some at the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, OK, and luckily they have some pics for their online collection, thank you Gilcrease.
This one is the one I remembered offhand, with a high pommel and cantle (turns out it's not Cherokee): https://collections.gilcrease.org/object/84987
Here's one that used antler for the pommel and cantle, which I thought was neat: https://collections.gilcrease.org/object/84984
This one actually has stirrups, looks like the girth attachments are more sophicated than my Dunning-Kruger ass imagined, but the stirrup leathers are, in fact, looped over each of the wooden bars: https://collections.gilcrease.org/object/84985
I wondered what the heck a "true" saddle was supposed to be, but it looks like they roughly defined it as a treed (wooden frame) saddle with stirrups attached.
I can't seem to parse whether the tree came before the stirrup -- it's implied but not stated -- but it looks like a single mounting stirrup was invented before paired riding stirrups. I've seen a Native American (Cherokee? IIRC dated about Removal Time) saddle that was basically just a tree, presumably used with blankets above and beneath for comfort, without any indication of rings for girth or stirrup attachment, but that doesn't rule out looping them through the gap between the tree bars (where the spine floats underneath).
It was/is a trend within the last decade or so to use a treeless saddle for more "natural" horsemanship (whatever that means), and I'm sitting here wondering what that means for stirrup attachment. Layered on top of the girth, I hope, for stability. Gonna go fall down the google-hole.
My gesneriad gang made the commute to the kitchen bar top. I remembered where I stored the grow light but I can only find one of the heated cat beds. Send halp, there will be hissing and flexing
Inherited a set of these amber glass cups from my dude's great-grandma. I like them, they make me feel a little fancy, but I absolutely cannot gauge a steep color in these. I've got water as hardass as a Humphrey Bogart character, and it helps to glance at the color to see if I've got a decent steep, especially for herbal tisanes.
Welp.
Because redecorating a 10g fish tank with fake plants is cheaper than redecorating my apartment. It ended up more open on top than I wanted but my betta boi still has his floating log to hide in. Gonna go blow all my money on more aquarium decor to alter it during next week's water change.
Jumping from a previous post on education. Feel free to skip the first 7:30 minutes (which mostly defines solarpunk as a concept, I think we're good on that in this space), but this seems like this Human Restoration Project is a good thing with the wonk behind it to make it functional. (extra linky just in case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nh0EkuiBzs)
Maybe I'm just a dirty tree-hugging hippie, but captive bred is better.
This is the 3rd betta I've had and he's just not food motivated like every other betta I've seen. We've tried pellets, flakes, and assorted freeze dried shit and he'll still mostly ignore it until it sinks to the bottom, and then maybe he'll nibble it. Bruh you are not a catfish or pleco, wtf. He's a "samurai" plakat male, while before I had the bog standard veiltails. Is this why he's weird? It doesn't seem likely tho?
midday sunlight, so only the shade pics have "proper" lighting, but I saw some lil froggo frens. (hopefully all the pics upload okay)
Let's discuss the truth behind using tea in your aquarium to replenish tannins. The forums are full of people using rooibos tea, decaf black tea, and what is it all about?
why tf a handful of almond leafs be fukcen 15 dollars??? Bitch you're getting the Lipton.
Lil 10 gallon tank, fake plants because I don't have the mental bandwidth for live plants at this point in time. I need to learn more tricks for tank photography.
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