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Reminiscing about my Girafarig crossbreeds and Stantler splices inspired me to do another crossbreed set, this time Ponyta and Rapidash! Mostly just an excuse to draw Weird Horses lol. Which is your favorite?

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I feel like many people care about this but there is a lot of mis-information or one sided- information going around.

(Sources; I study environmental sciences. I have followed an course on marine litter and am currently doing my end research paper on microplastic pollution in surface water. I have used some papers for this, if you want them I can put them in the comments I think)

What I really want to put out there is that the problem is divers and that personal action and industry reform both are needed.

1. Plastic pollution is obviously a large problem. Think of the Atlantic garbage patch. But also in our own environment. More recently microplastics have been of growing concern. (there is even nanoplastics, but I am not going there)

2. When talking about plastic pollution there are many terms that are used to indicate different things.

- plastic pollution: all plastics currently in the environment that do not belong there

- marine plastic: plastic in seas and oceans

- microplastics: often classified as plastic particles under 5 mm, they are found in water, air, earth, Antarctic ice, human food and our bodies

- primary microplastics: plastic particles that enter the environment as particles under 5mm

- secondary microplastics: particles that come from larger plastics that are degraded.

With this wide variety of plastics to talk about sometimes the waters get muddies. I hear a lot of 'x is the main source of microplastics'. The simple truth is: we do not know what the main source is of most of these. But we do know what the biggest contributers are.

Plastic pollution: mostly land based sources of single use plastics. Recycling is still almost never viable or implemented. Research indicates that up to 80% of produced plastics each year ends up in the environment. That seems like a lot. ( This number probably counts landfills, which are also in the environment. stuf that goes to landfill does not magically disappear. )

Marine plastic: most marine plastic seems also to be from landbased sources. However, most of the plastic sinks. Yet, The great Pacific garbage patch is made up of almost 50% fishing gear (appearantly more buoyant?) Both of these are major problems.

Microplastics:

Primary: these come from tires, paint, washing clothes, cosmetics and other personal care products, but also the production pallets that are used to make bigger plastic products are a major source.

Secondary; these come from all the bigger plastic pollution (so land based litter for example) braking down in the environment. Currently the majority of marine microplastics seem to be secondary.

3. It is hard to measure the precise main source or sources of plastics because it is hard to monitor them. They move through the environment. The total amount of plastic amount to tons. Some sink to the sea bottoms or are currently somewhere in the atmosphere. Monitoring protocols for microplastics are still being established. So there is no absolute answer about most things right now.

4. What do we know: obviously humans are the source of plastics. Plastic need hundreds of years to break down. Most current research seems to indicate that microplastics will have negative health effects. You probably have plastic close to you right now.

Yes, we need to reform the industry large scale. Plastics should be used for the things where they are invaluable such as for medical applications and such. But we need to cut back on other uses of plastics. And we need good recycling. This one is going to be harder because of the many kinds of plastics and the limits on how many times it can be reused.

However, as an individual, you can help. I am certainly not saying everyone needs to go "zero waste." But even if you are switching out little things, you do have an impact. Further more, reducing plastics and microplastics might be healthier for you.

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Little study :D

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One very important note on the immense value of the Internet Archive that I haven't seen mentioned yet:

It crawls major newspapers like the New York Times multiple times per day.

For anything other than one of those scrolling updates breaking news pages, you can access it from the Archive usually within an hour or two of it being published. No paywall. You want international news? You got it. Opinion? That too. Recipes? It's all here. Page not yet archived? There's a button for that and now you got it.

There are various paywall-evading extensions and tricks out there, but they don't always work. This does.

Go forth and read the newspaper.

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Common or Eurasian Coot (Fulica atra), family Rallidae, order Gruiformes, found across much of Eurasia, northern Africa, and Oceania, Australia and New Zealand

The remarkable feet of coots are fissipalmate (lobed/partially webbed), which help them swim and walk across soft mud (without sinking).

Coots are not ducks, but are more closely related to rails and gallinules/swamphens (and more distantly, cranes).

photograph by Pat L. on flickr

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At the gate for my flight home from visiting friends and there's a woman here with a service Shiba Inu. No pics because he has a Do Not Disturb vest and taking pics of strangers is illegal but I need to stress how ON DUTY this animal is. Ears up. Eyes doing Lazer scans of everything. Examining everyone who passes within 10ft like a security guard. Ass planted on her feet. I have never seen a dog with such intense chivalric guardian energy before. He has tiny eyebrows and they are FURROWED with concentration.

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✨ms paint story telling✨ a day with doggy!

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New art!!!! I’ve been getting back into graphic design recently! 2024 is going to be my draw whatever I want without stressing era (I will probably stress)

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What if plague doctor mask, but instead of a bird it's based on a weevil?

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Assolutamente nulla contro Angelina Mango che in questo non c'entra niente, ma il risultato di questo Sanremo è una vergogna. Non lo dico con leggerezza.

Il fatto che un partecipante sia stato fischiato e così gratuitamente contestato per due volte in due serate, e che radio & sala stampa si siano messe d'accordo per votare in massa la partecipante che con i loro voti avrebbe potuto spodestarlo - è una vergogna che quest'accanimento sia stato consentito e passi senza chissà che commenti.

A me Geolier non piace neanche, come cantante. Non lo ascolto, non ho votato lui. Ma cazzo se punge questa vicenda. Perché un ragazzo se n'è dovuto tornare a casa con la bile in bocca perché ha commesso lo strano crimine di essere un rapper napoletano di successo.

Boh, stamattina mi sento orridamente Napoletana. Sento una puzza di antimeridionalismo che di solito qui non mi arriva, o riesco ad ignorare, perché sono del centro e non ho l'accento forte e "sono una ragazza perbene" come se questo mi lavasse del crimine di essere nata a Napoli.

Fa male vedere uno di qua salire su quel palco col suo accento vero ed il suo dialetto vero e la sua cultura vera e vederlo SPACCARE e piacere un botto, e poi vedergli negata la vittoria perché suppongo troppo polemica, troppo divisiva.

Non sono di secondigliano ma oggi Geolier m'è fratm pure a me. Quest'anno l'ha vinto lui.

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Ultima sera di Sanremo e finalmente hanno liberato le persone tenute in ostaggio nella cantina di Diodato

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Il vero mistero comunque è Irama in top 5

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the new year

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Urrà terzo giorno di emicrania! Cade a fagiolo nell'anno in cui avevo deciso di vedermi sto benedetto festival!

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Masked Trogon (Trogon personatus), male, family Trogonidae, order Trogoniformes, found in the highlands of western and northern South America

photograph by @ernestoobandog

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Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis)

Reptiles and Amphibians of the World. Written by Hans Hvass. Illustrated by Wilhelm Eigener. Originally published in 1958.

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