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When I first started taking diabetes meds I constantly felt like my blood sugar was low and I insisted on getting a blood sugar monitor to test this and it turned out the meds were just bringing my sugar levels down to what they ought to be and I was just so used to having high blood sugar I thought it was low and eventually I got used to it and I guess what I’m saying is that getting healthier sometimes feels scary and unnatural in the beginning stages but you get past that part eventually

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happy june 24th

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get those abs off of him

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i cant be particularly mad at highschoolers for using chatgpt to cheat their homework because finding ways to cheat homework is a tale as old as time. i just wish this particular way to cheat homework was not so easily available yknow.

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Farmers Fencing Off Streams Has Restored Over 1000 Miles of Waterway in Oklahoma

Image and text from this article in the New York Times:

Oklahoma has been exemplary in cleaning up its streams, by some measures more than any other state. A big part of the solution was simple: Give cows clean drinking water and keep them out of streams. When one farmer tried it, he quickly saw results. His veterinarian bills went down and wildlife returned to the area. [...] For Mr. Victor, the decision to fence his cattle off from the waterway wasn’t easy. The creek was why his great-grandmother, who was Cherokee, especially prized the land. The parcel was allotted to her in 1891 through the Dawes Act, which allowed the federal government to break up tribal land. The waterway gave the family’s cattle a place where they could drink and cool off. “I’m sure at the coffee shop, they were all laughing at me,” Mr. Victor, 68, said. But even though it’s my land, it’s not really my land. I’m just a person here with it at this time, and I carry that big responsibility. The benefits of a healthier waterway exceeded his hopes. Mr. Victor thought that the land around the creek might regenerate in five years, perhaps 10. But within just a couple of years, the banks were transformed into verdant corridors of grasses and shrubs. Wildlife appeared, including white-tailed deer, bobcats, coyotes and bald eagles that return each year to a sprawling nest to rear their young.

I think we lose a lot when we envision conservation or environmental protection as something that only folks in left-leaning states or communities care about. Climate change and environmentalism didn't use to be partisan issues. This work is for everyone and there are allies in more places than a lot of people would expect.

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They were very happy to be reunited <3

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gee todaysbird how does tumblr let you have TWO profile pictures

i honestly can’t explain it. I changed to the pride icon in June, and my old icon occasionally haunts my followers with its presence.

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Typical pigeon & dove (Columbini) tribe [CORRECTED]

There was an error in an earlier version of this poll - please vote again!

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I love finding posts from several years ago where people are like “hahaha isn’t it so funny that we never turned spamton into a tumblr sexyman? He’s just our funny little guy we like to shake around in a jar and put in a hydraulic press—“ flash forward to now. looks into camera

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my concept art for a new type of top surgery

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Question for Christians (genuinely asking and not trying to start anything I'm not a Christian so I really don't know)

What is the default for humans? Does everyone start out automatically going to heaven until they do enough bad things to earn going to hell? Or does everyone start off going to hell until they do enough good things to deserve going to heaven?

Everyone starts off going to heaven

Everyone starts off going to hell

It works in some other way

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*sits and listens to the rain*

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some of my favourite comments as seen on chris fleming's youtube recently

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wait isnt gender over today

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Excerpt from this story from Northern Public Radio:

Next year, “rewilding” will officially be a part of the conservation approach in Illinois.

A new state law explicitly includes the concept as part of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources’ strategy. It’s the first time a U.S. state has included rewilding in its legislation, people working in conservation said.

The goal of rewilding is to reintroduce native species and restore whole ecosystems. Advocates often describe it as helping nature help itself, or putting nature back in the driver’s seat.

Cynthia Kenner is the executive director of Prairie State Conservation Coalition in Illinois. She said the new law formalizes the work happening in the state already.

“It's allowing the continuation of practices that are already in place, but it brings more meaning to really letting nature come back,” she said.

An example of rewilding is occurring in the northern part of the state in Rockford, where the Severson Dells Nature Center is working to transform a former golf course into 170 acres of prairie, forest and wetland habitats. The area will serve as a wildlife corridor as well, allowing species to pass through to other nature preserves in the area.

Rewilding often focuses on repairing habitat suited for apex predators like mountain lions and keystone species like beavers and bison. The idea is when these species can succeed, other species will start to recover around them, said Jason Kahn, board president of the Rewilding Institute, which supports large-scale conservation projects across North America.

Perhaps the most well-known example is the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park in the 1990s. In South Dakota, black-footed ferrets have been reintroduced to Badlands National Park, and bison are roaming prairies in Illinois and Iowa. These keystone species have helped to recover native habitats in the area.

“It doesn't cost a lot of money,” Kahn said. “Nature knows how to take care of itself. If we stop insulting and abusing it, all you would need to do for something is to let it grow, let it mature and let it be. And the wildlife will find a way in.”

Rewilding isn’t just about restoring large swaths of the landscape away from humans, said Cathy McMullen, a faculty member in the Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management at Iowa State University. She said one of the most meaningful approaches to rewilding can take place on your block.

“There's a buy-in for everybody, say, in a neighborhood,” she said. “You plant a pollinator patch, and you maintain that pollinator patch, and if you scale that up to a whole neighborhood, no one person gets overwhelmed by all the work. Everybody's doing their piece. In the process, they’re going to learn some bugs and birds and make a connection to nature.”

“This bill adds rewilding as a strategy that the agency can implement,” she said. “They are also already doing many of these practices, and they already have the ability to consult with their ecologists, the biologists and the folks that make these decisions for the state to add species to the landscape.... This doesn't give them any new authority.”

The law goes into effect at the start of next year.

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I wish age gap discourse hadn't spiraled the way it has because I want there to be a safe space to say "Men in their 40s who date 25 year olds aren't predators, they're just fucking losers"