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The phrase “due process” has been coming up a lot in the news lately, and it seems like way too many people somehow don’t know what it means

I’ve heard people say that only US citizens are entitled to due process. I’ve heard people say that you don’t deserve due process if you’ve broken the law. If you’re in the country illegally, if you’re a member of a gang, if you’ve committed a violent crime. The problem with putting any condition on due process is that

“due process” is just the process of finding stuff out.

Due process is finding out what your name is, your citizenship/legal status, your gang membership, your criminal history. Due process is finding out whether you’ve committed a crime, based on what evidence and defense is presented to a court. (I do believe due process also includes fair sentencing, ie after it’s determined that you have committed a crime, then there’s a process to determine what your punishment should be; but this rant is about the “finding out” part)

If we grant that any particular category of people isn’t entitled to due process in the US, how do we find out whether someone belongs to that category without first applying due process? without due process, police can just point at anyone they want and say “they’re a gang member, arrest them,” and then never check whether they are in fact a gang member.

due process is not some privilege reserved for respectable law-abiding US citizens. due process is how we find out who you are and what you’ve done, instead of just going by “trust me bro.” without due process, there’s nothing to stop you - the person reading this - from being deported on a whim without ever getting a chance to say “but I’m not a criminal”

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Solarpunk Activities for the Socially Anxious

 - Read up on the philosophical background(s) of solarpunk. I’ve got a bibliography page if you are looking for more. - Figure out which plants that are indigenous or endangered in your area. Read about their history (and if you can make seed bombs.) - Enjoy Alan Watts lecture on nature - Make a herb drying rack by using string and push pins. You can eat, burn or drink tea from the herbs. - Consider growing food from your scraps - Watch a Ted Talk on Conservation - Draw nature, real or imaginary. Take time to map out fantasy lands. (Think about it as an environmental vision board) - Consider if composting might be right for you - If you have houseplants, learn how to propagate them (or even just take the time to learn more about them…their history, and how best to care for them). If you do want to learn how to propagate, I suggest starting with succulents. They are hardy, fun, and fairly cheap. -Learn how to Talk to Trees with Charis Melina Brown - A National Geographic explainer on how trees talk to each other. - Listen to this amazing, free, nature meditation with Jessica Snow

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Fuck you *migrates to another environment and evolves entirely new characteristics over thousands of years*

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As a devotee of Artemis who deeply loves her and feels my very soul is hers to hold, sometimes I think about how Artemis has watched her worshippers come and go for thousands of years. People have called to her in caves, in forests, in temples long since crumbled, and now in bedrooms lit by phone screens and candlelight. She has witnessed every offering, oath, petition, and silence that followed.

There’s something in that continuity that makes my chest pull tight. To know she’s still here, listening, and beautifully wild. And I get to be part of that… one voice in a long, uneven line of devotion. It humbles me in ways I can’t explain. I have a hard time articulating the feeling.

Like touching a thread that runs all the way back.

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A good rule of thumb for AI is "would you trust a trained pigeon to do this?"

"We trained a pigeon to recognise cancerous cell clusters and somehow they're really good at it" okay great, that's something that could plausibly be a thing.

"We trained a pigeon to recognise good CV:s and left it in charge of sorting through all our job applications" uh perhaps consider not doing that.

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the helpol community genuinely needs to chill the fuck out.

you don’t need money to worship

you don’t always need to be perfect

you can talk to the gods whenever you want

you can believe what you want to believe

you can worship however you want to worship

stop policing the practice of others. it’s not fun, it doesn’t make you smart, it just makes you mean.

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Hey don't cry, okay? We just found Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna, a species thought to be extinct for the past 60 years.

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I mean, the link has your url on it and I remember seeing it on my dash reblogged by you. It's been long enough now I don't remember exactly when it was.

I apologize if you've already gotten asks or messages about this, but this post

https://www.tumblr.com/official-nature-posts/767897535752880128?source=share

is an AI generated video :/

Sorry I never found this ask under all the other stuff. Have I ever reblogged that post though?

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Genuinely baffling how most people are willing to take actions to help nature, just..not the right ones

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via: Bee-Friendly Gardening

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here’s the thing about adulthood-

you will go for like three months with nothing happening and you’re bored as hell and then in the span of two weeks eight different things happen at once - some fantastic and some shitty and some just plain bonkers - and you’re just running around like a chicken with your head cut off and no clue what the fuck is going on

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When the grief and pain inevitably return, as they always do, as they always will, my goddess mother reminds me that I've come a very long way, that she's proud of me, that she'll remain with me on my healing journey, and she's here when I need her, because she's my mother.

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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-22/food-plant-solutions-malnutrition-farming-edible-plants/12580732

https://fms.cmsvr.com/fmi/webd/Food_Plants_World

This guy is my new hero. I LOVE learning about native food plants that just grow everywhere without human help.

The database is a little clunky to use (especially on a phone), but still loads of excellent information.

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Can't be sincerely dark without being called edgy, can't be sincerely emotional without being called melodramatic, can't be sincerely silly without being called stupid. They're gonna hate every emotion you put in your art no matter what so make it anyway and be as sincere as you can be