#Learning Ecosystems

[thisisgraeme]

🚨 Something new is coming. No, it’s not a rebuild of the past. It’s not another thinkpiece or review panel. It’s… different. Built in silence. Tested under pressure. Now preparing to stand beside you — not above you. 🧠 Launching June 18 For educators. For institutions. For the future.

[benotafraid111]

Allow yourselves to believe that anything can be possible.

[serpentface]

Sketch of a typical Wardi house (small), located adjacent to farmland on the Briya river floodplain.

Most houses are made with mudbrick and with a smooth outer coating, sometimes plastered or otherwise decorated (this one has fairly minimal decorative painting). The climate is dry overall and mudbrick is the most economical and resistant building material available (though it does require more maintenance than in outright arid climates due to regular and sometimes very heavy winter rains), with the use of wood generally being reserved for maintaining the structural integrity of the roof and portals. These houses are fairly effective at insulation, and a well-constructed home will not have dramatic temperature gradients between hot days and cool nights.

Some homes lack doors altogether and use fabric or straw drapes; actual doors are hung by pintles and made with wood and/or woven reeds. Domestic chimneys have not been invented anywhere in general, and smoke in a small house like this will be removed (not the most efficiently) through small tubes in the walls and via the door/windows. Cooking hearths in these smaller houses are usually placed in the center of the building, which goes a little ways to allowing smoke to disperse.

Flat mudbrick roofs are in use in some places, though pointed thatched roofs like these are more common in all but the driest areas due to better shedding rainfall/occasional snow accumulation. Thatching is made with straw or papyrus, location depending, and can become very thick as a byproduct of routine maintenance on old houses.

Misc bits:

-bell windchimes on each side of the house (wards off ghosts and makes a pretty sound).

-little clay guardian lion over the doorway (most houses will have one on each side, though those not overseeing entrances may be hidden in the thatching or buried to fully embed their protective qualities).

-dung fuel being dried on one of the walls.

-koli plant right outside (easy low maintenance fruit and vegetables)

[j3rkr4bb1t]

mcr is all i think about to a point where its a problem but whatever

[luminescentmoth]

Subnautica is the alien marine biology game Outer Wilds is the alien astrophysics game so what is the alien botany game. Please I need it to exist.

[entomologize]

Fun fact: there is a group of moths that has evolved to live specifically in the algae-covered fur of sloths. Sloth moths, if you will.

A single three-toed sloth can have up to 120 individual adult moths on it at a time, and may even have a mix of moth species.

But what do the caterpillars eat? The algae? No.

About once a week the sloth sloooowly descends to the base of a tree, does a little wiggle, and drops a big one. So big that it may lose a third of its body weight in a single dump.

And when they go, female moths take the opportunity to lay their eggs on the fresh pile. That is what the caterpillars eat. And when the moths emerge as adults, they fly off to find some nice sloth fur to crawl into.

Why do they do this? The sloth fur gives them protection from predators, potential nutrients from algae and ~secretions~, and the perfect ride to the Next Big Thing™.

Photos taken by Suzi Eszterhas, wildlife photographer and trustee of the Sloth Conservation Foundation.

[capricioussun]

Style shift pt 2: everyone else

ft @decafguy00 ‘s Twig, @owl-bones ‘s Boss, @bonetrousledbones ‘s Edge, @alsojnpie ‘s Horrortale Papyrus, @save-star ‘s Duke, and a silly Undersell Papyrus for @phenom-lemon

[mychemicalanimalia]

what do you think my zoology teacher would think if she knew i was using the knowledge i gain in that class to run a tumblr account where i assign animals to my chemical romance songs

[garryoakenthusiast]

So last fall, me and my mother dug up the entirety of our front lawn. We planted a couple shrubs & small trees, but otherwise over the winter it looked pretty bleak 😅

But now finally here's the new plantings for this year! It was really important to me to plant things native to this region of the pnw, though there are a handful of things, like California lilac and western lupines, that are not technically from around here, but close enough.

June plum (with some new licorice fern) and flowering red currant (also a tiny slim leaf onion off to the side) ignore the neighbour's boxwoods LOL

Yarrow & kinnickinnik, and western lupines

now some of the new stuff! The first one is common camas, tufted hair grass, sea blush, and western red columbine. the second is Oregon stonecrop, licorice fern, and some mosses.

The stone and gravel is sort of a budget-friendly experiment in recreating the rocky garry oak environment that much of our area used to be. Last year we noticed that we actually have a tiny garry oak that showed up! I'll take pictures once the leaves start opening up.

[fidgetspringer-art]

I love how you must have 2 generations of followers: those who first knew you as “the Springer guy” and those who first knew you as “the kinky boots guy”

HAH some people are here for the cute dog pictures, the rest are here for the 18th drawing this month of the same guy getting stepped on and I love them all equally <3

[benotafraid111]

[farmerstrend]

Why Smallholder Farmers in Western Kenya Are Championing Native Tree Restoration

Smallholders in Western Kenya strongly support native-tree restoration due to long-term benefits for landscape restoration, productivity and livelihoods, new research shows. Digital tools and community buy-in are successfully backing restoration projects A farmer waters seedlings along the Nzoia River in Siaya, Kenya. African nations have grand ambitions to green up landscapes with trees; the…

[livethrushit]

honestly netero was so right. if i saw what was going on with the dark continent, id simply be like this is absolutely None of my business. you would not catch me on the black whale

[seobinghard]

yall be safe out there. bitches be stealing personalities n moral values n making it their own nowadays. it's not just about gucci bags no more, they after the intangible assets now. talk about loser mentality. these hoes would rather chew on tungsten than develop a sense of individualism.

[queermania]

just wanted to let you know sometimes you reblog posts from samgirls and jared stans

oh no what if i get their cooties

[cementcornfield]

Watched (listened) to this at work over the last two days and found it REALLY interesting. They go into the Bengals current cap situation and try to approach the offseason in conservative/bengals-like ways and STILL they manage to sign tee, ja'marr, and trey AND acquire some solid free agents to help the o-line/defense. Even when it comes to cash spending (and how stingy the bengals typically are with that), Jake keeps track of the average amount of cash spent over previous offseasons and they keep it within that range! Just a very fascinating look into what's possible and actually realistic in terms of how the organization could approach this Very Important Offseason™️