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sher-ee · 6 months

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#Republicans #gop #donald trump #donald john trump #joe biden #vote biden #throw them out #conservative nightmares #worst of the worst #morality #bad people

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botanyshitposts · 2 years

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ok this sounds insane but in 2018 i went to a few carnivorous plant talks at the botany conference in minnesota. i got caught up in conversation with one of the guys there who was a huge nepenthes guy who told me a story about another collector in the pacific northwest who'd been buying poached plants, like a huge amount, and eventually got staked out by the fish and wildlife service and arrested and had all his plants seized and went to prison for it. idk if i ever talked about this on this blog before-- i know i liveblogged a lot from that conference but cant remember what all i posted-- but ive avoided talking about it since then because i was never able to find like, news articles or anything covering it, but behold.... we now have proof it was real, and im like 80% sure this was this guy he was talking about. the raid happened in 2016 and they'd been staking them out since 2013. he had nearly 400 plants and had been sourcing many of them from poachers in indonesia and borneo.

remember folks: poaching happens with plants too! it's a huge problem not only in carnvirous plants (nepenthes especially, which this piece is dedicated to talking about) but also in native plant populations in the US, including native carnivorous plant populations (north and south carolina's venus fly traps, california's darlingtonia, and sarracenia from the east coast), native orchids (historically one of the most poached categories), desert plants/cacti/succulents, and slow-growing woody ornamentals (cycads, for example). never buy bare-root plants off ebay or facebook! your best bet is local nurseries (which usually purchase farm-raised plants that do well in a wide range of conditions, and as a result have a healthy population in the wild) or specialty greenhouses (more expensive, but at least in the case of carnivorous plants offer young plants bred from established adult plants in-house, raised in captivity).

#super sad piece fellas like this shit guts me i cant even stress it enough #stories about nepenthes poaching hit different #there are hundreds of species #some are really common and widespread all over indonesia/china/japan/oceania #and some are like. super hyperadapted to one specific ridge on one specific mountain #theyre still being recorded and stuff because theyve speciated so much #so youll have a plant that has like. a max of 15 adults in the population at any given time. literally a nightmare scenario #AND theyre diaceous (there are male plants and female plants). doesnt seem like a problem until you think about the population dynamics #there not only has to be two plants but the plants have to be a male and a female #and people living there have reason to take them. like the poacher interviewed in this article does it to supplement his income #from working at a horrifying rubber production ordeal to feed his wife and kids #and he says everyone in his village does the same for the same reasons #nightmare!! nightmare!! nightmare horrible nightmare world!!! horrible fucking nightmare!!!!#nepenethes #carnivorous plants #poaching #conservation

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modmad · 10 months

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rgb GOOD BRITISH click EVIL BRITISH

nice try anon but WRONGO BONGO Hero is Good brit, RGB is Neutral

#Click is evil brit for sure tho yeah #the Worst #votes conservative is a member of UKIP and a Brexiteer #1000% cursed content only the man is a nightmare

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destielmemenews · 7 months

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"Senate Bill 596, which would allow officiants to decline to perform weddings, passed the Tennessee Senate without debate along party lines on Monday evening. The bill passed the House last year, and will head to Gov. Bill Lee for his signature."

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chaosartisan · 1 month

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Imagine voting for a guy who wants you to work your current job for $2 an hour without OSHA regulations and force your kids to work in mines in order to buy meals that aren't FDA regulated. If you think I'm exaggerating, read the document yourself. Btw, if you think trump has nothing to do with project 2025, his former staff has literally contributed to the document.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/11/politics/trump-allies-project-2025/index.html

Feel free to fact check me wherever you can.

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hiwelcometothemonstersancturary · 2 months

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My greatest fears regarding Nightmare Factory are writing innacurate and/or harmful representation, first and foremost, but also having cishet men poking fun at it or being condescending because its a girly game.

#i know a conservative person would get psychic damage from the things im planning for it but like.........#cishet men looooove poking fun at girly media dont they #[BY THIS I MEAN A VERY SPECIFIC TYPE OF CISHET MEN. IF YOU ARE A CISHET GUY DO NOT ASSUME THIS IS ABOUT YOU IN SPECIFIC! please?]#[you arent evil or bad for being a cishet guy. if however you insist in being condescending to girly media i think you are just being mean]#☀️#nightmare factory

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meatcute · 6 months

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why did someone who bragged about sexually harassing another person in their top posts follow me.

#they justified it by being like 'it was a conservative' like idc youre weird as fuck?#screaming nightmare era

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agnesmontague · 7 months

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every day i can't walk 3 meters online without tripping over a queer white kid who grew up in a repressive religious household and yet somehow "parents should monitor their kids' activity online for safety!" is way too fucking prevalent as an argument. something's not adding up. fucking THINK

#rambles #im not white or religious but i AM queer and grew up in a conservative household #and 14 y/o me getting her internet monitored while shakily looking at girls kissing is the kind of image that populates my nightmares

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apocalypticdemon · 2 months

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I am so beyond ready to quit this job. Wednesday cannot come fast enough.

#to be fair it's bc school starts again in a few weeks #but idk. every day at this office feels like sandpaper on my skin. people always ask me shit i dont understand #and every case is so individual there's no set checklist to follow to troubleshoot #so most of the time I just grind my gears and get stuck #it'd busy more days than not.#and it was advertised to me as data entry only. client interactions was not what i signed up for.#it's all client interaction.#we're short staffed so nobody gets to take the back office and have a break.#when we weren't short staffed i was the new guy and only got 1 day in the back a week while everyone else got 2.#all my coworkers are conservative but talk like they're apolitical.#i thought it'd be fulfilling bc im helping people get benefits #but many are rude or impatient as any other service job. I'm constantly trying to direct people that don't want to listen #or explain the intricacies of something i barely understand.#and i don't want to lead people astray bc you have to start over if you blow a deadline.#but there's just nothing redeeming that i enjoy.#i hate customer service. i hate constantly asking questions. i like seldom few of my coworkers.#i can't be me at work.#and i don't care about the work itself anymore.#this job made me cry every day for weeks last month from sheer stress and overstimulation.#i almost cried myself sick several times.#the only reason I'm not there anymore is bc i dont fucking care anymore.#it took me 2 months to burn out. 2 months!#i was training for half of that!!#idk. everyone decided i was smart and could pick it up quickly so. even though everyone else got 4-6 weeks of shadowing #you can make do with 3 before you start doing stuff solo.#which feels unfair. i wasn't ready for it. and i resent the decision quite a bit.#plus it's been a nightmare for me in terms of external stressors and my generally deteriorating mental health. so.#all in all. i hate it here.#and i can't wait to turn in my notice so i can gtfo in 2 weeks #i am so tired. free me. let me go back to my music please

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froody · 9 months

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my mom is really insecure about me not being as close to her family as I am to my dad’s side of the family so I’m like walking on egg shells in the middle of drama. listening to her vent. wanting to say stuff like “I never liked my (maternal) uncle so fuck ‘em” but not wanting to upset her.

#my paternal uncle: minds his own business. cool conversationalist. chill. loves good movies. progressive.#my maternal uncle: reactionary conservative. crybaby. former jailbird who made my mom’s 20s a living nightmare.

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weareuniqueandimportant · 3 months

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EMPATHY GLAMORIZATION IS NOT ABOUT EMPATHY BUT SUPERIORITY TORWARDS APATHETIC PEOPLE BIGOTRY TORWARDS THEM TYPICAL BIGOT EVIL. SIMPLE AS THAT. IF YOU SEE THEM AS LEFTIST YOU'RE NO LEFTIST YOURSELF. HORRIBLE. THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO HAVE ONLY EMPATHY AND BAD TO THINK EVERYTHING YOU DO IS SUCH ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY'RE CLEARLY BEING APATHETIC IF ANYTHING WHEN THEY DO THIS...

COMES TO SHOW BIGOTRY TORWARDS CRAZY AND DISABLED PEOPLE ASWELL AS PARAPHILIA PEOPLE ISN'T TAKEN AT ALL THE SAME AS SEXISM RACISM AND QUEERPHOBIA... OR PERHAPS... LIKELY... THEY ARE ALL THE BIGOTED THINGS EVIL AND TAKE NONE THAT SERIOUSLY... BELITTLING DOWN THEIR PAIN AND DAMAGE...