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they should be free

unpopular opinion but mobility aids shouldn't cost so much !!

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I love gentle people

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"A century of gradual reforestation across the American East and Southeast has kept the region cooler than it otherwise would have become, a new study shows.

The pioneering study of progress shows how the last 25 years of accelerated reforestation around the world might significantly pay off in the second half of the 21st century.

Using a variety of calculative methods and estimations based on satellite and temperature data from weather stations, the authors determined that forests in the eastern United States cool the land surface by 1.8 – 3.6°F annually compared to nearby grasslands and croplands, with the strongest effect seen in summer, when cooling amounts to 3.6 – 9°F.

The younger the forest, the more this cooling effect was detected, with forest trees between 20 and 40 years old offering the coolest temperatures underneath.

“The reforestation has been remarkable and we have shown this has translated into the surrounding air temperature,” Mallory Barnes, an environmental scientist at Indiana University who led the research, told The Guardian.

“Moving forward, we need to think about tree planting not just as a way to absorb carbon dioxide but also the cooling effects in adapting for climate change, to help cities be resilient against these very hot temperatures.”

The cooling of the land surface affected the air near ground level as well, with a stepwise reduction in heat linked to reductions in near-surface air temps.

“Analyses of historical land cover and air temperature trends showed that the cooling benefits of reforestation extend across the landscape,” the authors write. “Locations surrounded by reforestation were up to 1.8°F cooler than neighboring locations that did not undergo land cover change, and areas dominated by regrowing forests were associated with cooling temperature trends in much of the Eastern United States.”

By the 1930s, forest cover loss in the eastern states like the Carolinas and Mississippi had stopped, as the descendants of European settlers moved in greater and greater numbers into cities and marginal agricultural land was abandoned.

The Civilian Conservation Corps undertook large replanting efforts of forests that had been cleared, and this is believed to be what is causing the lower average temperatures observed in the study data.

However, the authors note that other causes, like more sophisticated crop irrigation and increases in airborne pollutants that block incoming sunlight, may have also contributed to the lowering of temperatures over time. They also note that tree planting might not always produce this effect, such as in the boreal zone where increases in trees are linked with increases in humidity that way raise average temperatures."

-via Good News Network, February 20, 2024

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Reblog with controversial mental/emotional health tips/advice/etc.

I’ll go first: not everyone has the emotional capacity to continuously learn about the horrors going on in the world. Sometimes it’s actually beneficial to take breaks from constantly watching the death and destruction going on in the world so that you have energy to go on.

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psa to able bodied people: if you see someone with a limp in public, you don’t have to ask them why they’re limping, or “what happened”. you can actually simply just mind your business.

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[Image description: two photos (taken from slightly different angles) of hydrangea bushes, with the Milky Way overhead. The hydrangea flowers are pinkish-purple with lots of green leaves behind. The bushes are surrounded by tall trees in the near distance and the shots is angled so the Milky Way can be seen rising from the trees. There is a dense scattering of stars across the sky, and one bright star or planet. The Milky Way itself streams like a pale, white-pink mist and it echoes the colour of the hydrangeas.]

Hydrangeas and milky way.

Shiga, Japan.

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Together is how we fight.

This is why you need to wear a mask.

Protecting the most vulnerable people is how we protect all of us.

I saw recently someone accuse nonbinary people of "riding the coattails" of binary trans people, and I cannot emphasize this enough: take my coattails, hold them in your hands, pull yourself up by my bootstraps. Together is how we thrive, together is how we fight, together is how we win.

There are queer people out there who when they see another branch of the queer community either succeeding or receiving support, their reaction is to try and pull them back down. The logic is often: if I had to suffer, so do you.

If I could give a piece of advice to anyone just entering the queer community, it would be: be wary of people who want suffering more than solidarity.

Remember, in this community, we are not here to fight for scraps, we are here to rise together.

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the kind where no doctor will gaslight you about them

What are some chronic illnesses that can only occur in a fantasy setting?

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Reblog to give prev a magical amulet that protects them from headache

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able bodied people, ask yourselves this:

is your disability allyship conditional, or convenient?

will you be willing to not use fancy fonts or symbols if someone with a screenreader asks you not to online?

will you judge someone with an autoimmune disorder for having skin infections you deem gross or unsanitary?

when a deaf person speaks differently than a hearing person, will you still take them seriously?

when a nonverbal person needs an AAC or text to speech device, will you still include them in your conversations?

when your mobility aid using friend needs help in an inaccessible area, will you wait up for them, or help them if they ask?

when someone with tourette's is having trouble getting their point across because of tics, will you be patient and listen?

when someone with a stutter is having a conversation with you, will you take them seriously?

will you listen when someone with an invisible disability needs the big stall, or the accessible seat on a bus?

When your college with POTS needs to snack on salty foods, will you find them annoying?

when a person with hyper-mobility stretches and their arms bend out, will you stare?

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Your body may change but your worth does not.

Digital illustration of a fat woman sitting. She’s wearing leggings and a tank top. There’s flowers and text that reads, ‘ your body may change, but your worth does not’

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when rest and "lazy days" stop being optional, you eventually stop enjoying it. i don't even know how to relax anymore. there's barely any relaxation in rest for me, it's all forced by a sick body.

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insane that saying something along the lines of “not having a mental/physical illness/disability doesn’t make you superior to a person that does” is something people still reject on principal. we are all people man. you matter as a person the same that anyone else would. no you are not morally better because you’re not sick/disabled. no they are not worth less than you because they might need more help. can we be better and more kind to each other this year

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fairytales which tell you to be both kind and clever fairytales that say to be kind is to be clever and to be clever is to be kind fairytales that say the cleverest thing you can ever do is choose kindness and that cruelty or thoughtlessness are always foolish but not kindness never kindness

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[Image description: two photos of a red hibiscus flower, with green leaves in the background, a white wall and the hint of a window. The petals are slightly veined and begin with large petals at the bottom. Towards the top of the flower, the petals become ever smaller and at the very centre is a oaleish red style, deeper red sigma and the little yellow dots of anthers.]

hibiscus bloomed for the first time!!!

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it is what it is…… (i fucking hate the way it is)

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Not to be all po-faced about this...*

but could we please retire the metaphor 'to sh*t the bed'.

While you may not have realised, it's punching down on people who experience faecal incontinence. Leave the talk about this to us. We're better at it (and funnier) than you.

*why yes, this *is* intended to be a pun ;)