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people always talk about how the masses used to watch gladiator fights or public executions for fun, but we rarely discuss how people also went to human medical surgery’s for sport and entertainment, just showed up in a big tent and watched official operations, sometimes a flutist played music in the corner for it

like, “I’m not not dying of some random disease or having to work a 50 hour work day today, better go watch some dude get his leg sawed off in a science tent.”

what I’m saying is that it’s good we invented tv 

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omg okay I’m so tired of this but for the past few days Israel has been indiscriminately bombing Gaza and it’s the start of Ramadan. They’re targeting residential buildings and they also destroyed a number of libraries in Gaza, destroying with them thousands of books.thats obviously not to mention the number of people who died bc of this lol. I’m seeing a lot of people on twitter justifying this by saying “well hamas started the bombing” well first of all, before any rockets were fired, four Palestinians were killed. Funny how the “self defense” excuse only works when we’re not talking about the occupied? This is not my point—I am not defending hamas at all, infact, a lot of the Palestinians I know do not align themselves with hamas at all, me included. Even if hamas fired rockets out of the blue this time, colonized people use violent means of resistance against the state violence they have to endure everyday and It’s just so funny to me how people are fooled into thinking this resistance justifies israel’s collective punishment on gazawis. Like people really say things like this and think they’ve made a point. Like of course there’s no justification for bombing and killing innocent Israeli citizens but COME ON. Justifying this with “hamas fired rockets first” like… colonized people are going to do whatever is necessary to fight against state violence (reminder that I hate hamas) and like… saying shit like that is basically you telling colonized people to just shut up and accept this extermination and that any resistance to this will only justify the extermination

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Ecologists Have this Simple Request to Homeowners—Plant Native

They say the early bird catches the worm. For native songbirds in suburban backyards, however, finding enough food to feed a family is often impossible.A newly released survey of Carolina chickadee populations in the Washington, D.C., metro area shows that even a relatively small proportion of nonnative plants can make a habitat unsustainable for native bird species. The study, published last week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is the first to examine the three-way interaction between plants, arthropods that eat those plants, and insectivorous birds that rely on caterpillars, spiders and other arthropods as food during the breeding season. Based on data collected in the backyards of citizen-scientist homeowners, the researchers arrived at an explicit threshold: In areas made up of less than 70 percent native plant biomass, Carolina chickadees will not produce enough young to sustain their populations. At 70 percent or higher, the birds can thrive.

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Worm transplantation

If you’re serious about balcony gardening, or container gardening in general, I think you should perform worm transplantations. The occasional worm gets in with planting material of course, but the soil in containers and pots is usually pretty dead as far as larger animals are concerned. Certainly worms, which can’t climb up multiple stories of a building to get to your balcony, will not often be present in great numbers.

We all know the benefit of worms: they aerate the soil, eat dead material and deliver it back to the soil in the form of fertile castings. If, like me, you don’t want to change the soil of your containers every year, worms are essential in making fertilising your soil easy to do.

You can buy them at a worm farm of, but a kilo may be a bit to much if you only want them to live in some containers or pots. Also price wise, collecting the worms yourself is a better option. To do this, you need to know someone with a garden. Go there, turn over logs, look under paving slabs or water the soil, then put moist cardboard on top. You’ll find worms by the dozens, all for free and easy to pick up. I also included some woodlice, for the odd bit of wood I may have lying around.

If the person with garden you know doesn’t want you to turn over logs and look under pavers, you may want to reconsider your friendship.

Of course, not all worms are created equal. Some live deep down in the earth while others prefer compost heaps and the top layer of the soil. I’d recommend you to only take those that live in the top layer or the compost heap, as they are the ones that munch on the dead plant materials.

When plants grow, they use nutrients from the soil, so you need to feed the soil to keep up with the growing needs of the plants, no matter if there are worms in it or not. If you take parts of the plant to eat, like fruit, leaves or roots, you use some of the nutrients from the soil to sustain your body. Other nutrients from the plants are sadly lost as ‘human waste’ in the largest waste of resources the earth is currently experiencing: sewage.

As people who don’t even have a garden probably don’t have the means of composting their own humanure (the worms don’t eat fast enough to keep up with your production!), the next best option is to buy pelleted manure to feed your soil with. Also add nails and hairs you loose or cut off, combined with old plant materials your balcony- or container garden produces, as well as kitchen waste.

Especially the manure, but also the scraps and body parts, should contain the trace elements your plants need. If you can get your hands on it, garden compost (made by a gardener, not bought in an anonymous sack you don’t know the origin of) could also give you these needed elements, maybe even in greater abundance than manure.

Balcony gardening is limiting the possibilities will be great still. Certainly if you enlist the help of the rest of the animal kingdom.

14 May 2017 © Dirk Hulst of @mijntuin.

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Today in ridiculously ignored Trump news!

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The thing that makes me giggle about Letterkenny is that it’s marketed as “that show about redneck small town Ontario” and it lures in dudebros with plots about beer/hockey/farts/fighting/sex but then it casually has 2 gay characters, 2 bisexual characters, 1 polyamorous character, a whole bunch of poc, doesn’t slut shame women, pointedly punches guys that honk at women, and is pro-choice.

like, haha beer and farts, by the way don’t talk to women if they don’t want to talk to you.

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“Fuck #Ice shoutout to my Mexicans , pass this shit”

-  Fabio Ochoa @QuePasaWindow

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bonding with your houseplants by watering them from a water bottle you’ve already drank from

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what if i told you that a lot of “Americanized” versions of foods were actually the product of immigrant experiences and are not “bastardized versions”

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Reblog the lgbt spook to piss off a fascist

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"blandness can sizzle"

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Source:  @chanbanhi

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Anyways Jewish people overwhelmingly support Muslims more than any other major faith group in America and the feeling is mutual so maybe stop acting like we’re always at each other’s throats bc it makes you feel like you aren’t part of islamophobia/antisemitism :) 

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Just like I said. Illegal adoption.

https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/immigrant-mom-loses-effort-regain-son-us-parents/story?id=16803067