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fish in a wooden box (bilibili)

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Brazil memes are always strange and cryptic but my favourite one of 2021 was when we just started putting bird noises over random shit. Like this news program

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Cutest autumn/winter leaf origami by Inori

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Hey, wanted to share this since doctors are saying it’s time to double mask (with a surgical and filtered cotton mask) or K95 (or the similar high grade medical masks) now. 😷

I’ve never used surgical masks during the past 2 years because they don’t fit tight on my face. But you can fix surgical masks if they don’t fit securely!!

I literally had to try it out at home to see and it makes such a huge difference on the fit.

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fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you

FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU

SIGN THE PETITION HERE ASKING THE MINISTER OF CONSERVATION TO BAN NEW MINES ON CONSERVATION LAND!

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Indigenous-led resistance to 21 fossil fuel projects in the U.S. and Canada over the past decade has stopped or delayed an amount of greenhouse gas pollution equivalent to at least one-quarter of annual U.S. and Canadian emissions.

This is despite an onslaught of attacks against Indigenous activists over the past few years. Over the last few years, victories won against projects through direct actions have led to more than 35 states enacting anti-protest laws, jail time for protestors, thousands of dollars of fines, and even the killing of prominent activists.

Indigenous rights and responsibilities “are far more than rhetorical devices — they are tangible structures impacting the viability of fossil fuel expansion.” Through physically disrupting construction and legally challenging projects, Indigenous resistance has directly stopped projects expected to produce 780 million metric tons of greenhouse gases every year and is actively fighting projects that would dump more than 800 million metric tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere every year.

The analysis, which used publicly released data and calculations from nine different environmental and oil regulation groups, found that roughly 1.587 billion metric tons of annual greenhouse gas emissions have been halted. That’s the equivalent pollution of approximately 400 new coal-fired power plants — more than are still operating in the United States and Canada — or roughly 345 million passenger vehicles — more than all vehicles on the road in these countries.

“From an Indigenous perspective, when we are confronting the climate crisis we are inherently confronting the systems of colonization and white supremacy as well,” Goldtooth said. “In order to do that, you have to reevaluate how you relate to the world around you and define what your obligations are to the world around you. It’s more than just stopping fracking development and pipelines and it’s more than just developing clean energy, it’s about actually fundamentally changing how we see the world itself.”

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THIS IS THE FUTURE LIBERALS WANT

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The second image does not depict mushrooms, but rather a fruiting "cone" of a species of Banksia (an Australian genus in the family Proteaceae). Identification can be further solidified by the presence of a Leptomyrmex sp. ant in the image - this genus is almost entirely restricted to wet forest and sclerophyll habitats in Australia and a handful of near islands.

The dark colours of this "cone" are evidence of fire. Many Banksia are well adapted to bushfires, and survive due to thick, indicative bark or by re-sprouting from lignotubers after fire. Further, all Banksia species are serotinous (to some extent): fire triggers the opening of woody follicles and the release of seeds. The seeds, protected from herbivory before the fire in their strong cases, are then able to grow and flourish in a competitor-free landscape where other small plants have just been burned.

In the above image, the scorched, empty follicles bear evidence to this process.

Update - the original photo was taken by Simone Walsh in the Blue Mountains area, New South Wales, and the artist identifies the Banksia (although incorrectly identifies the ant as a 'red bull ant').

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This year’s winner of the Student Map and Poster Competition for Cartographic Design is Jo Hannah Asetre from Macquarie University, for their map “Australia’s Meteorite Impacts”.

by @NACIS

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happy pride month to lgbt people who are really boring. we deserve love too

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Hey, gay working class and gay rural interests, aesthetics, and culture belong within the wider LGBT+ community. Country music belongs in gay spaces. Camo and trucker caps and work boots belong in gay spaces. Trucks and doorless jeeps and shitty old beaters belong in gay spaces. GEDs and high school educations and blue collar jobs belong in gay spaces. Being broke and looking like shit belongs in gay spaces. The community isn’t owned by the wealthiest San Fransisco and New York gay-geoisie. Their interests, appearances, and beliefs do not define queerness. 

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Leather-bound cooks.

At one end of the keeping room, a library area houses 18th and 19th-century leather-bound cooks. Defining the space are an early 19th-century tavern table and pair of Windsor chairs set on a hooked rug made in the late 1800s.

American Country: The Country Home, 1988

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Henry Stacy Marks (1829 - 1898) - A Select Committee. 1891. Oil on canvas.