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two million people starving to death because it's geopolitically convenient and we're all expected to go about our day normally like the casual cruelty on display for the past two years has been so insane to me like i'm not even trying to make a point it's just truly something i can't wrap my mind around

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What I was taught growing up: Wild edible plants and animals were just so naturally abundant that the indigenous people of my area, namely western Washington state, didn't have to develop agriculture and could just easily forage/hunt for all their needs.

The first pebble in what would become a landslide: Native peoples practiced intentional fire, which kept the trees from growing over the camas praire.

The next: PNW native peoples intentionally planted and cultivated forest gardens, and we can still see the increase in biodiversity where these gardens were today.

The next: We have an oak prairie savanna ecosystem that was intentionally maintained via intentional fire (which they were banned from doing for like, 100 years and we're just now starting to do again), and this ecosystem is disappearing as Douglas firs spread, invasive species take over, and land is turned into European-style agricultural systems.

The Land Slide: Actually, the native peoples had a complex agricultural and food processing system that allowed them to meet all their needs throughout the year, including storing food for the long, wet, dark winter. They collected a wide variety of plant foods (along with the salmon, deer, and other animals they hunted), from seaweeds to roots to berries, and they also managed these food systems via not only burning, but pruning, weeding, planting, digging/tilling, selectively harvesting root crops so that smaller ones were left behind to grow and the biggest were left to reseed, and careful harvesting at particular times for each species that both ensured their perennial (!) crops would continue thriving and that harvest occurred at the best time for the best quality food. American settlers were willfully ignorant of the complex agricultural system, because being thus allowed them to claim the land wasn't being used. Native peoples were actively managing the ecosystem to produce their food, in a sustainable manner that increased biodiversity, thus benefiting not only themselves but other species as well.

So that's cool. If you want to read more, I suggest "Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America" by Nancy J. Turner

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how it feels to wash your hair and brush your teeth and have clean clothes on

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We need to do what we can to protect the Internet Archive. Here is a petition that you can sign.

This petition alone might not be enough, but everything we can throw at this counts.

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50% of the battle to drink water consistently can be solved by just putting a container of water within sitting distance of you and the other 50% can be solved by getting a nice cuppy with a lid and a straw

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Reblog and use this post as an excuse to ramble about your female ocs in the tags. Go on! Get wild!

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*Mutual reblogs something you posted*

Me: They still like me. Thank God.

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Can’t wait to not sleep at all on September 11th

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this is NOT a safe space for harry potter fans

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Hey you. Yes, come here for a moment.

Let me tell you the most overlooked tip for fingering a girl.

Put the two fingers you would most likely use to finger a girl inside your mouth, now press the tips of your fingers against the inside of your cheek and drag them against it.

Did you go "But my nails look dirty and/or look they would hurt" before you even out them inside your mouth? Did it hurt when you dragged them against the inside of your cheek?

Clip them, file them down to get rid of any raged edges and clean them.

That's it. That's the tip.

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anyway the thing about fanfic is that it's not essentially bad or good; it's essentially amateur. some people are absolutely out there writing award-worthy prose (some fic writers ARE award-winning writers IRL!), but that's not the point. the point is that we're all telling campfire stories. it's a community, and it's a way to spend some more time in the worlds and stories that we love.

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one could argue the subtext of this scene indicates that he desperately needed to bounce on it

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where are we looking for jobs. do not tell me to go to indeed or glassdoor or any other sites that only exist to harvest data.

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But when a woman is stalked by her dangerous ex, there's just nothing the police can do.

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i think the reason "fiction affects reality" trips so many people up is because they think it means "engaging with media that depicts uncomfortable subjects will taint your soul" when really all it means is that "fiction is meant to reflect certain ideas of the world intentionally or not, and it's going affect your perception of it, if you don't go in with a healthy bit of skepticism"

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Where's the African mythology?

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