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Adults: Following rules is good, not following rules is bad

Little me: Okay :] *follows a rule*

Adults: Oh my god look at this loser. He doesn't know that this rule is Secretly Okay To Not Follow. Dumbass. Let's all laugh at him

#I’m still mad #<-prev #yeah me too

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hhrrrrrmmmmmmmm

Big Cartel lets you do a free account with five listings. I could put five things into an online store, and then change them every month or so.

hmmmmmm

*pokes warily at the internet with a long stick*

*wanders off muttering and grumbling*

#this is a thing I could do though #hmmm #it could be the silk scarves #at least to start with

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Once again, I've finished knitting a nice warm pair of wool socks just in time for the weather to get brilliantly sunny and hot.

#knitting #socks #stripes

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hmmmm, guilloche borders Y/N?

#fractals #texture #guilloche #borders

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Designers will be like Form Follows Function! and then show you a spherical teapot with a spout that dribbles, but the real versions of Form Follows Function are things like this.

#natural history #bones #I love the weird specific shapes of bones

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A cape rain frog from Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon's Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière t.30 (1788). Full text here.

#natural history #frogs #architecture #look how beautifully the shape of the arch echoes the shape of the frog #does this count as #wet beast wednesday #?

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#video #plumbing #unintentional fountains #draaaaaains #local #local excitement

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The digging machine is filling in the trench with gravel. It's like watching a dinosaur playing in a sandbox.

#draaaaaains

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The good news is, they found the drain pipe they were looking for, and didn't have to dig down twelve feet to get to it.

#local excitement #excavations #we should have a functional driveway again eventually #and also a functional drain #draaaaaains

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site that you can type in the definition of a word and get the word

site for when you can only remember part of a word/its definition 

site that gives you words that rhyme with a word

site that gives you synonyms and antonyms

#language #reference #useful things

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I have been roller skating! For the first time in, um, a lot of years. My skills are not what they once were, but I can still go backwards a bit.

#roller skating #undignified activities #I did fall down once because something got stuck to my wheel #so I have a lightly bruised wrist

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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

#trees #weather #this is encouraging

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We seem to get a lot of four-leaf clovers in the early spring, when all the leaves are first coming out. I don't know if it's something about new growth that makes them more likely, or if they just get harder to spot as the year goes on, and more kinds of things grow around them.

#clover #four-leaf clover #the thing about being the kind of person who notices four-leaf clovers #is that you also inevitably notice the questionable tubes and rubbery bits in sausage #being observant is something of a mixed blessing

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I am still too stupidly busy and distracted to post anything properly, but spring continues to happen.

#trees #flowers #sky #bugs #wasp #hashtag aesthetic

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If you genuinely, truly, absolutely, cannot bring yourself to vote for the president of the united states, please just show up for elections anyway and vote for your congresspeople and local representatives.

Please.

Just.

If you cannot bring yourself to vote for the president because he's so disgusting of a candidate you morally cannot bring yourself to cross that line, then PLEASE vote for your congresspeople and local representatives who can block, defend, or present new bills, actions, acts, etc.

These are the people who can actually confirm or deny or impede horrendous acts when they happen.

Like. This is the bare minimum. If you cannot vote for the President, please just still vote for someone.

Change doesn't happen if you don't vote for the people willing to enact change.

#politics #trying to keep the political stuff to a minimum but this really is fucking important

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that should be illegal

#knitting #how to do it #I've done the crochet hook thing with 11 stitches but never 15 #it works very well

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painted for the first time on paper in over a decade?

#art #fish