#(the kalahari one for a change)

[iftrashcouldsparkle]

Been having a totally normal one about them lately (lie) 👍

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I drew this with Dear And The Headlights’ Hallelujah and Orville Peck’s Kalahari Down on loop and came out of the process changed for the worse :)

#vashwood #trigun #trigun maximum #vash #vash the stampede #wolfwood #nicholas d. wolfwood #vash x wolfwood #my art #i think about them and i BREAK DOWN #im handling trimax SO WELL (also lie)

[practically-an-x-man]

OC ask time once again :3. I honestly have no idea if you've answered something like this before already.

Your characters are given the ability to time travel once as a one way trip to whenever/wherever they'd like. Who uses it immediately without hesitation? Who never uses it? What do they do once they're in their new time?

Oooh man, a one-way trip? That's got the potential to get a little dark... interesting

Thank you for the ask!! This one's really interesting!

Rae: Decides she's going to save it for when things go really wrong, and never actually ends up using it. She doesn't want to change what already happened, even the traumatic stuff, since she doesn't want to change where they ended up

Robin: Goes back and avoids her TBI - keeps herself and Six out of the room with the feral Beast clone, blocks up the door, and continues on. She recovered from it, but it took time and she'd really rather not have to go through it at all.

Madison: I feel like she'd actually weigh the merits of a bunch of different times, just for the hell of it, but would end up balking at the fact that it's a one-way trip and wouldn't end up using it at all. It does become a running boredom buster, where she'll daydream about going to another time and how good or bad it would be to live there. (like my irl boredom buster of debating the merits of whatever building i'm in as a bunker in the zombie apocalypse. i maintain that movie theaters would be the best)

Ophelia: Stops her father from running his experiment with the tritium reactor, which effectively spares both her parents. It means she has to go through all of college and her doctorate program again, but it's worth it to have her parents alive with her again.

Katherine: Hm... realistically, she wouldn't use it at all since she's happy with the life she has, but just for fun I'm imagining her going back to Ahk's reign in Ancient Egypt and meeting him there, stopping his murder, and eventually resulting in the two of them being remembered in history as benevolent rulers. Their tomb is eventually discovered and, in a cyclical and slightly paradoxical way, both become exhibits in the museum.

Kestrel: Saves it for some split-second moment - if they, Warren, or someone else they care about ever ends up being badly injured or killed in a way that can't otherwise be fixed, that's their get-out-of-jail free card.

Quinn: Goes back to stop what happened in Kyiv - stops herself and Billy from falling, herself from being injured, and warns him of everything Lex was planning with the Kalahari. It's not quite as emotionally rich of a story for her, but it saves them a lot of pain and trauma

Jasper: Goes back to just before that fateful frat party and begs Kyle not to go - he's incredibly confused by all the intensity, but trusts them enough to listen. They have a quiet night in instead, studying and playing Minecraft on their survival server, and the bus crash is on the news the next day. Crisis very much averted.

Eris: Saves it, but with the full intent to use it in the future. His plan is to save it until Rick passes away (hopefully of old age), then to go back to just before they met him and do it all again. It still doesn't compare to their immortal lifespan, but it at least would stretch the time she gets with him. (but eh I'm a metahuman Rick Flag truther anyway so Eris probably never has to actually use it)

Nikoletta: Just about the only one who would just jump to some other historical period and start a new life - she'd go somewhere (and somewhen) where she could use her modern knowledge and shadow abilities to be seen as some kind of witch queen or oracle, lives in wealth and power for as long as she can... and probably dies of some illness that's eradicated in the present.

#i know most of these are just them going back to fix their worst traumas but like. #one-way trip means they're probably not committing to some historical life if they don't have an escape #my friends!!! #answered asks #my ocs #rae mckinney #robin cassidy #madison douglas #ophelia octavius #jasper wilson #oc katherine johnson #oc kestrel #oc quinn/aces #oc eris #nikoletta bordeaux

[fatehbaz]

It is always tempting to begin with problems of definition. It is particularly so for this project as there is little consensus regarding what, exactly, constitutes a desert. Throughout the twentieth century, scientists have struggled to arrive at a comprehensive definition, but today deserts are generally defined in terms of rainfall (along with temperature and humidity), even though parts of the Kalahari and Australian arid regions have a rainfall that exceeds the standard definition of 10 inches a year. Aridity – the rate at which water evaporates – is often more important than rainfall. Ultimately, scientific definitions of the desert are relative to the regions being classified.

The geologist Michael Welland remarks that ‘how you choose to define a desert depends very much on why you wish to do so in the first place’. [...]

In the environmental sciences, meanwhile, there is much debate about ‘desertification’, meaning the degradation or loss of arable land due to deforestation, intensive farming, drought, climate change and other factors. Dryland researchers David Thomas and Nicholas Middleton [...] [argue] that the use of the term ‘desertification’ since the 1970s to talk about soil degradation, drought and the misuse of land draws on [...] European cultural fears about the colonial periphery and non-European forms of agriculture.

The term itself originated in the late nineteenth century in French colonial North Africa [...]. The absence of a universal definition of what a desert is in the strict physical sense is thus particularly notable in the history and politics of the idea of desertification. The forced settlement of nomads has a long history in colonial policy, and a certain image of the desert as a place of nefarious rootlessness has accompanied this. The French sought to settle nomads not only for perceived ecological benefits but because it was part of their mission civilisatrice. Today, it is recognised that one of the major causes of land degradation in Africa has in fact been ‘the conversion of nomadic pastoral societies to sedentary lifestyles with a focus on raising cash crops instead of subsistence ones’. In an excellent recent book, Hannah Holleman suggests, following climate researcher Joseph Romm, that ‘dust-bowlification’ is a more apposite term for the intertwined processes of drought and soil erosion that have marked the intensification of capitalist colonial agriculture since the late nineteenth century, the American Dust Bowl of the 1930s being a regional manifestation of much larger global processes affecting the viability and productivity of soil. Whatever its shortcomings, however, the term ‘desertification’ continues to be used widely to denote problems of drought, overgrazing and deforestation, which have been acknowledged as major problems occurring on every inhabited continent, with some accounts suggesting that arable land is being lost at a rate of 12 million hectares a year.

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Text by: Aidan Tynan. “Desert Desire.” The Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy: Wasteland Aesthetics. 2020.

#my best mentor at school started their work as environmental historian and dryland agriculture specialist in 1960s West and North Africa

[andmaybegayer]

Did you say you lived in Botswana? Botswana always ranks pretty high on HDI, corruption, quality of life measurements, especially for the region. Is that accurate to your experience, compared to SA?

My dad was moved there by his employer so I went to a private school and thus knew a lot of expat kids from like, India and the UK and the USA, not locals, so I can't give you a great read on that, also I moved back to ZA when I was twelve. The Batswana kids I knew growing up were still mostly the children of ministers or executives or successful entrepreneurs.

From talking to my parents, inequality seemed better in Gaborone than in many cities in South Africa, and there's much less obvious segregation because they didn't get apartheid. Gini index is still pretty bad and you can see it, there's a very wealthy trader, professional, and merchant class in Gaborone, like, The Dentist is also The Family That Owns The Movie Theater And Half The Pharmacies.

Gaborone is only 10% of the population, very sparsely populated country, lots of small to medium towns, I have no idea what life is like in the more far flung towns.

It's a weird one, the entire country only has two million and change people, the interior is largely the Kalahari desert.

Botswana has a lot of mineral wealth and a lot of it is captured effectively by the state, so that funds a pretty robust and reliable government that is harder for outside forces to influence, and the state seems very willing to exert its influence when it thinks it needs to.

#ask #anonymous #my inscrutable changeable accent can probably be attributed to my largely british schoolteachers #botswana

[welcome-to-roomba-fazbender]

Charlie read us the bee movie script

"FUCK YOU"

"I'M READING THE ENTIRE"

"MY OCTOPUS TEACHER TRANSCRIPT"

WARNING: VERY LONG POST

"A lot of people say that an octopus is like an alien.

But the strange thing is, as you get closer to them,

you realize that we're very similar in a lot of ways.

You're stepping into this completely different world.

Such an incredible feeling.

And you feel you're on the brink of something extraordinary.

But you realize that there's a line that can't be crossed.

It's quite a long time ago now, that day when it all started.

This place on the tip of Africa is known as the Cape of Storms.

My childhood memories are completely dominated

by the rocky shore, the intertidal and the kelp forest.

We had this little wooden bungalow,

literally below the high-water mark.

So when those huge storms used to come in,

the ocean used to smash the doors down and fill up the bottom of the house.

So it was incredibly exciting as a child

to literally live in the force of that giant Atlantic Ocean.

Most of my childhood was spent in the rock pools,

diving in the shallow kelp forest.

That's what I most loved to do.

As an adult, I'd been separated from that.

And that was fine at first.

Until I went to the central Kalahari about 20 years ago.

I was making a film called The Great Dance with my brother.

And then I met these men

who were probably some of the best trackers in the world.

To watch these men...

go into the incredible, subtle signs in nature,

things that my eye couldn't even see,

and then follow them, sometimes for hours,

and find hidden animals in the landscape

was just extraordinary to witness.

I mean, they just were inside of the natural world.

And I could feel I was outside.

And I had this deep longing to be inside that world.

I went through two years of absolute hell.

I had been working hard for a long time,

I'd just worn myself out.

I hadn't slept properly for months.

My family was suffering.

And I was getting sick from all the pressure.

My mind couldn't deal with all that stuff.

And I didn't wanna see a camera or an edit suite ever again.

I couldn't even face that.

Your great purpose in life is now...

just in pieces.

And you've got this young child that's growing up.

Tom.

I just couldn't, in that state, be a good father to my son.

I had to have a radical change.

And I took inspiration from my childhood,

and I took inspiration from these master trackers

I worked with in the Kalahari.

And the only way I knew how to do it was to...

be in this ocean.

In the beginning, it's a hard thing to get in the water.

It's one of the wildest, most scary places to swim on the planet.

The water drops to as low as eight, nine degrees Celsius.

The cold takes your breath away.

And you just have to relax.

And then you'll get this beautiful window of time

for 10, 15 minutes.

Suddenly...

everything feels okay.

The cold upgrades the brain because you're getting this flood of chemicals

every time you immerse in that cold water.

Your whole body comes alive.

And then, as your body adapts, it just becomes easier and easier.

And eventually...

after about a year...

you start to crave the cold.

What's so amazing about this environment

is you're in a three-dimensional forest,

and you can jump off the top and go wherever you want.

You're flying, basically.

You might as well be on another planet.

You naturally just get more relaxed in the water.

You get to be able to hold your breath for longer.

Having a scuba t*nk in a thick kelp forest

is not optimal for me.

I want to be more like an amphibious animal.

Instinctively, I knew not to wear a wet suit.

If you really wanna get close to...

an environment like this,

it helps tremendously to have no barrier to that environment.

And I suddenly realized I've got energy to take images and film again...

and then picked up my camera again

and started doing the thing I love and what I know.

The animals are extremely exotic and strange.

It's, like, much more extreme than our maddest science fiction.

I remember that day when it all started.

I found this very, very special area

that is protected with a big piece of kelp forest,

'cause the forest itself actually dampens the swell.

And the whole forest around there

is absolutely murky, and you can't see a thing.

And in this little 200-meter patch, you can dive

and observe.

And it's an incredible place.

And I remember there was this strange shape to my left

and just going down...

and seeing this really strange thing.

The fish even seemed to be confused.

And then, suddenly...

At the time, I didn't know

I'd witnessed something extraordinary.

I'd come in at the end of a whole drama.

You think, "What on earth is this animal doing?"

And I think she was a little bit afraid of me,

so she lifted this incredibly slippery...

piece of algae that you can hardly hold with your hands

and just wrapped it in this extraordinary cloak around her

and then stared at me out of the little gap.

And then, boom, you know, she was gone.

It's a hard thing to explain,

but sometimes you just get a feeling,

and you know

there's-- there's something to this creature that's very unusual.

There's something to learn here.

There's something special about her.

And then I had this crazy idea.

What happens if I just went every day?

What happens if I... I never missed a day?

And, initially, she was clearly being affected by my presence,

so I thought, "I'll leave the camera there,

and then that will record her going about her business."

She sees this shiny new thing in the forest.

Coming at it with a shield,

just in case it att*cked, and put up the shield.

This is something different. This is interesting.

Touching it, feeling it, tasting it.

If she was in a playful mood, you couldn't leave it there for too long.

She'd just pull the thing over.

It took going in every day to really get to know her environment better.

Initially, it all just seems like much of the same thing.

But then, after a while, you see all the different types of the forest.

You get the old-growth forest.

You get the forest with a lot of different algae growing in the bottom.

You get the misty forest.

As I started to map the environment around her den,

it was shocking to see small caves really close to her,

packed with pyjama sharks.

And they really are her most serious predator.

Their skin is striped. That's why they're called a pyjama shark.

They're not visual predators.

But they have an incredible sense of smell.

And they are particularly aggressive.

They can shove their noses into a small cr*ck.

So they are deadly little octopus predators.

And I was thinking, "Well, how long before something happens with these animals?"

After visiting her more and more and more,

there was a definite moment where...

that fear had subsided tremendously.

She'd see big movement,

and she'd be slightly afraid and then look, "Oh, it's him."

And she'd come out and be very curious.

Very interested, very curious, but not taking stupid chances.

Keeping all the other arms attached to the den

and the suckers in place.

And then it just happens.

I put my hand out a tiny bit.

Something happens when that animal makes contact.

But, at some point, you're gonna have to breathe.

So you've got to very gently

prize off those suckers

without disturbing her,

so that you can actually go up and take a breath.

By far the most powerful

is when it comes out the den

because that's when you know there's full trust.

There's no holding the arms back just in case I have to pull back.

It's like, "I totally trust this human,

and I'm coming out of the den,

and I'm gonna go about my business."

I started to see pretty extraordinary things.

They can look spiky. They can look smooth.

Grow horns on their heads.

They can match color, texture, pattern, skin.

It's beautiful.

Most of the time, she's jetting or crawling or swimming.

But occasionally,

two legs come out.

She walks.

And off she goes, striding away,

walking bipedally.

She puts her body into this strange posture that kind of looks like a rock.

And then two of those arms underneath slowly moving,

so the rock is just slowly moving away.

And then she changes

into this extraordinary, wobbly, flowy old lady in a dress.

Perhaps she's trying to mimic

kelp or algae moving in the swell...

and, at the same time, is slowly moving away.

And this is how she works.

This incredible creativity to deceive.

An octopus is essentially a snail that's lost its shell in evolution.

A very fragile, liquid, soft animal

that relies on tremendous intelligence.

She's got no mother or father to teach her anything. She's alone.

'Cause you've got all these different types of predators, all hunting her.

So, over millions of years, she's had to...

come up with the most incredible methods to deceive them.

And she's got to learn fast because

she's only got just over a year to live.

When you're diving alone, everything about my kit has to be perfect.

And I've gotta be prepared for all eventualities.

I can't be fiddling around. It's gotta be instinctive.

But, at that point, I was making a lot of mistakes.

One day, she was following me.

And that's the most incredible thing, is to be followed by an octopus.

You know, you're just backing away, moving backwards,

and this incredible animal is coming towards you.

And there's not a lot of fear in it at all.

It's curious, and there's trust,

and it's like this fantastic feeling.

And then, bam!

I dropped one of my lenses,

and that thing falling quickly just startles that animal.

And then it turns and rushes, and it's got a huge fright.

And you just... you wanna kick yourself, because it's, you know...

That could have ended in the most incredible interaction and deep trust,

and you've ruined it.

Now, you know, have you ruined it forever?

Uh, is that animal ever gonna trust you?

Has that... has that experience freaked it out too much?

And then I approached her too fast.

And that's when she left the den and got a real fright...

and didn't come back to that den.

And I thought this was over.

She was gone.

I'd had this experience with these incredible San master trackers.

I just thought, "I wonder if anybody could ever track anything underwater?"

This animal has spent millions of years learning to be impossible to find.

I had to learn what octopus tracks looked like.

And that was very frustrating at first, so difficult to discern.

What's the difference between octopus tracks

and heart urchin tracks

and fish tracks...

and worm tracks?

And the predation marks.

The egg casings.

I needed to learn everything.

And then you have to start thinking...

like an octopus.

It's like being a detective.

And you just slowly get all your clues together.

And then I started to...

make breakthroughs.

"Okay, those are the animals she's k*lling."

So I'm looking at kills. I'm looking at little marks, diggings in the sand,

little changes in the algal patterns where she's been moving.

And then knowing, "Okay, this animal is very close now.

It's close. It's within one or two meters."

And then focusing on that small space.

And then, bang!

She's there.

Finally, after looking for her for a week, day after day,

there she was.

It's like a...

a human friend, like, waving and saying, "Hi, I'm excited to see you."

And I could feel it, like from one minute to the next,

"Okay, I trust you. I trust you, human.

And now you can come into my octopus world."

And she's moving towards me.

And my natural instinct is...

to gently back away.

And then I just wanted to keep still, so I held onto a rock.

She just kept coming...

and then covered my whole hand.

I'd been underwater for quite a long time,

so I just gently pushed for the surface, thinking she would move off my hand.

But she didn't. She just rode on my hand right to the surface.

There I was, just staring into the eyes of this incredible creature.

It was difficult to imagine at first

that she was getting anything out of the relationship.

Why would a wild animal, doing its thing,

get anything out of this

strange human creature visiting?

And this is where it gets interesting.

I think quite stimulating for that huge intelligence.

Somehow, she realizes this thing is not dangerous,

so you go and you interact with this human.

And perhaps it does give you some strange octopus level of joy.

When you have that connection with an animal

and have those experiences, it's absolutely mind-blowing.

There's no greater feeling on earth.

The boundaries between her and I seemed to dissolve.

Just the pure magnificence of her.

All I could do at the time was just think of her.

In the water and on land.

I mean, it just became a bit of an obsession.

You just want to visit her every day and see what's going on.

You can't wait to get back in the water.

What goes through her mind? What's she thinking?

Does she dream? If she dreams, what does she dream about?

She just ignited my curiosity in a way that I had not experienced before.

It's very useful to come back home

and try and read as many scientific papers as possible.

She's a common octopus.

Octopus vulgaris is the scientific name.

Two-thirds of her cognition

is actually outside of her brain, in her arms.

Her entire being is thinking, feeling, exploring.

She's got 2,000 suckers, and she's using all of them independently.

How do you do that?

Imagine having 2,000 fingers.

You can compare her intelligence to a cat or a dog

or even to one of the lower primates.

A mollusk shouldn't be this intelligent.

So many times I'd go and search through the scientific papers,

looking for the strange thing I'd seen.

And then you'd just come up absolutely blank. There's nothing.

You're going into a place that's under-studied,

and, almost on a weekly basis, you can find out something new to science.

According to the literature, octopus are supposed to be a nocturnal species.

Now, was she more active at night?

It was a little bit scary in the dark.

These incredible sounds of the humpback whales

coming through the water.

You're on hyperalert.

I couldn't find her. She wasn't in her den.

I'd kind of given up and was going back to the shore.

Something just made me veer slightly to the left.

And there she is...

right in extremely shallow water.

Can't see what she's doing.

These lightning-fast strikes.

Using her arm like this strange w*apon.

Just rolling it up in this fraction of a second.

And I saw her catch three fish like this.

I'd never seen her catching a fish during the day.

Super dangerous out in the deeper forest at night,

so this incredibly clever animal retreats to the shallows,

where it's difficult for these sharks to get to,

and takes advantage of all the wonderful food available there.

The first instinct is to try and scare the sharks away.

But then you realize

that you'd be interfering with the whole process of the forest.

She was out of the den, moving around near the edge of the forest.

I noticed...

the shark.

Body was slightly hunched forward and was following the scent trail.

This is not good.

I think, "Thank God she's safe. She's right under the rock."

These things are coming right into that cr*ck.

And the next minute, the shark is actually clamped down on one of her arms,

doing this terrifying death roll.

And I can clearly see...

her severed arm in its mouth.

You had that terrible feeling in your stomach.

And thank God she managed to get really deep in that cr*ck.

She was moving very badly, slowly, very weak.

She's bleeding. That smell's in the water.

There's quite a distance to the den.

Are these sharks gonna pitch up again?

I thought about helping her back physically to the den.

But, luckily, I didn't need to.

I didn't know...

what was gonna happen to her or if this would make her weak and vulnerable,

and they'd finish her off that night.

And I couldn't help feeling...

had I been responsible for this?

Was she out because I was there?

I felt very vulnerable.

As if somehow what happened to her had happened to me in some strange way.

And then this almost felt, psychologically, like I was...

going through a type of dismembering.

You start thinking about your own death and your own vulnerability,

worried about your family, your child.

I hadn't been a person that was overly sentimental towards animals before.

I realized I was changing.

She was teaching me to become sensitized to the other.

Especially wild creatures.

A scary feeling, going into the water early the next day.

I was very relieved that she was alive, breathing.

She's so weak that she can't make those vibrant colors of a healthy octopus,

and she's just dull and white.

And now I'm worried, "How is she getting food?"

You are crossing a line

when you interfere in the lives of animals.

But I was just too overcome

with my feelings for her.

I don't think it really helped.

And she's right at the back of the den, you know, just not moving much.

I was just checking every day to see if she was okay,

wondering, "Is this the last day? Am I not gonna see her?"

The big relief came a week or so later,

and I could see it had sort of healed over pretty fast.

And then the most amazing thing, to see this...

tiny little miniature, perfect miniature arm...

starting to grow back.

And it gave me a strange sort of confidence

that she can get past this incredible difficulty.

And I felt, in my life, I was getting past the difficulties I had.

In this strange way, our lives were mirroring each other.

My relationship with people, with humans was changing.

My son, at this stage, was very interested in everything underwater.

And every day, I'd tell him the stories.

He'd seen her. He'd met her.

I'd taken him so many times.

The arm becomes pretty functional,

even when it's half grown.

And then, slowly, as the arm grew, she grew her confidence back.

Eventually, about 100 days later, that arm had fully regrown.

An amazing feeling to think that this animal is capable of that

and can withstand such an att*ck and fully recover.

After a while, she was just carrying on with her normal activities,

so I then started a whole new development

of seeing even deeper into her world.

It was a nice, calm, clear day.

She comes around a corner and spots a crab.

The problem when you're a crab,

you're being now hunted by a liquid animal.

She can pour herself through a tiny little cr*ck.

And the crab seems to sense her

and goes and hides underneath a big, poisonous anemone.

And then she waits and hides.

And then the crab thinks, "Okay, everything's all right,"

and makes the mistake of leaving that anemone.

She's quite a messy eater.

Bits going everywhere. The smell's going out.

And then you just look around, and you see these brittle stars,

surprisingly fast, just being drawn to her.

Just a mass of them sort of overwhelm her,

and she doesn't seem sure of what to do or how to deal with them.

So I thought, "Yeah, this is like a real problem now.

She's always gonna have this problem of brittle stars taking all her food."

Not that long in the future,

she's thought, "Okay, brittle stars are stealing my food,"

and has this amazing method of just picking them up with her suckers

and gently just throwing them out the den.

Now she's completely the boss.

She initially adopted the same method to crab hunting with lobster.

You just suddenly see...

lobsters just sh**ting out of the reef.

I'm thinking now, "She's definitely gonna catch this one."

Time and time again, they just evade her.

And then, a couple of weeks later,

watching her coming round the side,

corralling me so that

she can then get between the lobster and myself.

Using me as part of her hunting strategy.

And instead of that messy lunge...

throwing her web over the top.

And then there's nowhere for it to go.

This is an animal that is strategizing

and working out very quickly how best to hunt a very tricky prey.

A lot of her intelligence is built

from the sheer number of prey that she has to catch.

All sorts of animals.

All the mollusks she is capturing, they're quite easy to catch,

but they've got these incredibly hard shells.

Now, how the hell does she k*ll and eat them?

At the base of all those arms,

there's a drill that can drill through hard shell

and then drop venom in there, like a snake,

and see how that mollusk reacts.

But some of these mollusks will only relax

if that drill is precisely in the apex of the shell,

on the abductor muscle.

She basically has to do geometry

to work out exactly the precise spot where she needs to drill that shell

in order to get her food.

This is high-level invertebrate intelligence.

Her ability to learn and remember details.

And it h*t me how she was teaching me so much.

You just can't wait to get up in the morning, 'cause there's so much to do

to understand every little tiny mark,

every little behavior,

every species and what they're doing, how they're interacting.

People ask, "Why are you going to the same place every day?"

But that's when you see the subtle differences.

And that's when you get to know the wild.

So when these thousands of threads going off from the octopus

to all the other animals, predator and prey,

and then this incredible forest,

um, just nurturing all of this.

And now I know how the helmet shell is connected to the urchin

and how the octopus is connected to the helmet shell.

And as I draw all these lines,

all these stories are just being thrown up.

It's almost like the forest mind.

I really could feel it. That big creature.

It was thousands of times more awake and intelligent than I am.

This is like a giant underwater brain operating over millions of years.

And it just keeps everything in balance.

Everything seemed, at this point...

sort of perfect in the forest.

And, of course, you know...

...you've forgotten...

those predators are ever present.

Just have this...

burnt in my memory, this, like, huge shark just suddenly approaching her.

She kept still and tried to hide.

Then you just saw the shark swimming on the periphery, picking up her scent.

And I thought, "Oh, no, this is this whole...

nightmare happening again."

She jets up in the canopy,

and she's wrapping many leaves of kelp tightly around her body

and then just peering out.

All the smell's on the kelp,

so the shark's now biting and snapping at the kelp.

She's sh*t out the back.

She just climbs out over a rock, leaves the water, and I was like...

I just, you know... almost can't believe my eyes.

But the problem is, of course, she's gotta come back.

On the other side, the shark picks up her scent again.

And this crazy chase is on.

And then, I see her,

in a very quick movement,

picking up maybe close to 100 shells and stones...

and then folding her arms

over her vulnerable head.

And in that moment,

I realized, "This is this crazy thing I saw...

so long ago."

Next minute, the shark grabs her.

But I had to breathe.

Rush to the surface as fast as you can.

Straight back down again.

And it's like, "Okay, now, this is too crazy."

Somehow she's managed to maneuver herself into the least dangerous place,

and that's on the shark's back.

The shark tries to shake her off and is swimming away.

Takes a few seconds to figure out,

"What the hell's going on here?"

But you can immediately tell

she's now got the upper hand.

As the shark goes near some of the thick kelp...

she just pushes off the back...

drops the remaining shells

and jets away.

And the shark, it's just been completely outwitted.

The shark comes, does one pass,

but she's completely safe. There's nothing it can do.

And it leaves.

How she can think that quickly and make those life-and-death decisions,

uh, it's just, yeah, pretty, pretty incredible.

I was around for a good 80 percent of her life.

Each moment is so precious because it's so short.

There was this one incredible day.

A big shoal of dream fish.

Fairly shallow water.

Suddenly, she's...

reaching up for the surface like that.

Initially, I thought...

"She's hunting the fish."

Then I was like, "Hold on.

When she hunts, she's strategic, and she's like...

focused.

This behavior doesn't feel predatory to me."

It took a long time to actually, like, process it.

But I couldn't help thinking,

"She's playing with the fish."

You see play often in social animals.

Here's a highly antisocial animal playing with fish.

It takes that animal to a different level.

Oh, then she completely lost interest in the fish,

rushed over...

grabbed hold of me.

And that was the last time we had physical contact.

If I think back,

and I remember it was a very rough day, very turbulent.

Sediment everywhere.

Go down and whoa,

there's another big octopus right next to her.

It's very, very rare to see two octopus close together.

"Oh, my God, what's going on?"

And then seeing that both animals are pretty relaxed

and realizing, "Okay, and then the mating is beginning."

By this stage, I knew quite well the stages of an octopus's life.

So while I was very excited that this mating was beginning,

there was a sort of...

this dread in the bottom of my stomach.

She wasn't coming out of that den.

There was no more feeding, no more hunting.

A huge part of her body is actually given to those eggs.

So she drops in weight, and she loses an enormous amount of strength.

The eggs are laid right in the back, in the dark.

It's impossible to see them.

I just keep going every day and just check.

She's oxygenating the eggs with her siphon, looking after them.

She's just slowly dying

and timing her death exactly for the hatching of those eggs.

I mean, it struck home so hard for me.

Here's an invertebrate, essentially a mollusk,

sacrificing her own life

for her young.

All those eggs hatched.

They're tiny, and they go into the water column.

Hundreds of thousands of them.

And the next thing I saw, she's washed out the den, barely alive.

And the fish, you know, feeding on her.

A lot of the scavengers coming to feed on her.

It was just heartbreaking.

A part of me just wanted to hold her and chase them away.

But I didn't do that.

The next day...

a big shark came...

and just took her away, you know, into the misty forest.

Often, I go to the place of her main den.

And I just float above it and feel her there.

Of course I miss her.

Um...

But, um...

I mean, in some crazy way, it was a relief.

It was a relief, because the intensity of going every day and tracking her, um...

and trying to capture, it was...

It was tough in a way.

I mean, I sort of slept, dreamt...

this animal.

I was... You know, I was...

in my mind, thinking like an octopus.

And... and it was all so taxing, in a way.

Um...

But underneath that,

this incredible pride for this animal

that's been through impossible odds to get to this place.

I mean, an unimaginable life.

One of the most exciting things ever in my life, taking my son,

walking along the shore

and just showing him the... the wonders of nature

and the details

and the intricacies.

I was getting so much from the wild, and I could actually now give.

I had so much energy to give back.

He's like a little marine biologist now. He knows so much.

And very powerful swimmer.

And as he gets older, he seems to want to do it more and more.

To see that develop,

a strong sense of himself...

an incredible confidence,

but the most important thing,

a gentleness.

And I think that's the thing

that thousands of hours in nature can teach a child.

A few months later, after she'd d*ed,

he actually found this tiny little octopus.

It's very rare to see an animal that small.

They have up to half a million young. A handful survive.

So it's a pretty tough road they have to walk.

But that's their strategy, live fast and die young.

We kind of imagined that it might be one of her young.

It was kind of the right size, the right time.

And it was joyous. It was like, "Well, there she is."

She'd made me realize

just how precious wild places are.

You go into that water...

and it's extremely liberating.

All your...

worries and problems and life drama just dissolve.

You slowly start to care about all the animals,

even the tiniest little animals.

You realize that every one is very important.

To sense how vulnerable these wild animals' lives are,

and actually, then how vulnerable all our lives on this planet are.

My relationship with the sea forest and its creatures deepens...

week after month after year after year.

You're in touch with this wild place, and it's speaking to you.

Its language is visible.

I fell in love with her

but also with that amazing wildness that she represented

and... and how that changed me.

What she taught me was to feel...

that you're part of this place, not a visitor.

That's a huge difference."

#charlie the phone guy #charlie the cursed phone guy #dsaf #dayshift at freddy's #classic verse #very long post #long post #this is your fault anon #you wanted him to read a script #YOU GOT THAT WISH #IT JUST AIN'T BEE MOVIE

[oatmilktruther]

omg I LOVE ASK GAMES LIKE THIS

👻☕️📌✏️🤔🖊 (I had to restrain myself from picking like..... half the list, I love hearing people talk about their own writing)

Mwah kissing you for sending so many thank you

👻 Have you written holiday-themed fics? If yes, which is your fave? If not, what’s one holiday you’d want to write for, and which character(s) would the fic be for?

I have not written a holiday themed fic, and I think if I ever wrote a holiday fic id write a winter solstice fic because I think Ed and stede deserve to hold each other close on the darkest day of the year

☕️ Do you drink anything when you write? Coffee, tea, alcohol, etc?

Big bottle of ice water on standby, if it’s late in the evening a cup of green tea with raspberry syrup to give me an extra boost

📌 If all your fics/WIPs fell off a ship and were drowning (go with it), and you could only save one, which would it be?

Kalahari Down, aka the sad gay cowboy wip. That thing is my biggest labor of love and the story I have been practicing to tell since I first started writing and if I had to never see my own writing again to keep KD I would.

✏️ What is your fave fic from another writer?

Okay sorry to cop out but I can’t narrow to just one especially considering how much I’ve read. Some of my desert island fics though would probably be When He’s Given Something to Keep, Rum and Linen, and This Tired World Could Change because those are the ones I consistently reread

🤔What’s one genre you’ve never written that you’d like to try?

Horror. Would love to try my hand at making people afraid to close their eyes (and afraid they’ll try to fuck whatever they see when they do)

🖊 What is the most recent line you’ve written?

“The moment Alice comes to a stop, Stede doesn’t so much dismount as he does collapse to the ground, boneless as a dog in the doghouse, and looking just as kicked. “

From the sad gay cowboy fic, you can see I was not lying about the sadness

#m #ask game

[rimouskis]

okay inspired by @yabagofmalk I'm going to attempt to take the pens' numbers on my Spotify Wrapped and find a way to connect the song to the player.

we open with:

#87: Admit Defeat by Bastille

the universe has decided to make a mockery of sid with this song choice. ostensibly this song is about the futility of resisting your feelings for someone and needing to accept them, strong and inevitable as they are.

I admit defeat Won't be thinking 'bout anything at all tonight but...

that lyric ends with "you." but sidney crosby, oh no, he knows the real way the lyrics end. the way they SHOULD end: Won't be thinking 'bout anything at all tonight but... the crushing bitter taste of defeat. you think a song will get him to admit defeat? no. he bends the world to his will. he will swallow nothing. he will bend the very fabric of time to change the lyrics of this song. as we speak he's accosting dan smith in his recording studio and demanding he learns a more effective way to engineer sucess.

#71: СВБТ (Сатана всегда будет с тобой) by ЛЮТИК

once again the universe intervenes and gifts geno with a russian song. good. you think he's going to pay attention to english lyrics? as if.

this song is, however, about how satan is always watching you and you're doomed no matter what you do, so... much like geno, we get a nice peppy beat but he's only going to speak to the media when they team is playing like shit and someone needs to take the fall. go on, call him lucifer, he likes the drama of it all.

#58: GOD COMPLEX by Pkch

well. here. no lyrics, but a booming bass sensation that tickles the ears with plucky fun sounds. much like kris, this song spends most of its career shirking anything too serious and prefers a "no thanks" communication style, but it's charming and pretty-sounding so you'll let it slide. also it's called god complex; for a guy who's got a sense of pride, I think that's rather fitting.

#59: Kalahari Down by Orville Peck

You’ve been gone away, I’ve been riding around Running out the days, writing out a song On my daddy’s guitar Did you find your way? Skip another town? Said I couldn’t stay but it’s different now

correct, jake. your father, sidney crosby, let you borrow his "guitar" (puck, once, at practice) and then you unknowingly signed a contract to stay in pittsburgh for eternity to be sid's bestest, favoritest winger. congrats. you aren't skipping town. you signed your soul away and now you're sid's favorite child. welcome.

#8: Good As It Gets by Little Hurt

the first two lines of this song are as follows:

I'm not who I used to be I wouldn't know that guy if he was standing in front of me

need I say more? I needn't. sorry, dumo. tough luck but the crystal ball (spotify) doesn't lie.

#17: Dangerous by Set It Off

This is really my night, gonna take it right now Yeah, I'm feelin' like a Mack truck goin' downhill The people on the sidelines screaming "Slow down" But you can't kill my vibe

yeah, rusty, we're asking you to slow down because despite your enthusiasm, you are horrifyingly streaky and are also kind of compromising geno's line right now. if embodying a truck will get you your mojo back, then, please, by all means, go forth and drive, buster.

#16: Line Of Sight by ODESZA

jason's curse of being perpetually flung about the ice like a rag doll (due to his style of play, his incessant need to be a pest, and his OVERWHELMINGLY "ferda" personality) is Known to the almight Spotify:

I turn full circle round and round So will you help me down (help me down) Come grab my hand for solid ground

he does need a hand to help him off the ice every time he's been flung to it by his own enthusiasm and another player. someone help him out, please, he can't keep getting injured.

#35: About Love by MARINA

"I don't really know a lot about love", this song proclaims.

for dear tristan, we can shorten it:

"I don't really know a lot," period. or, if you desire: "I don't really know a lot about icing." maybe one day he'll figure it out. he's loved regardless.

#long post

[xtruss]

‘These creatures are precious indeed’ … a scene from Netflix’s Our Planet II. Photograph: John Haskew/Netflix Photograph: Ed Charles/Netflix

Our Planet II Review – So Much of David Attenborough’s New Show Is Just Astonishing

From cameras that mimic homeless bees to extremely cute chicks, it’s an honour to see these sights – but be prepared to witness humanity’s awful consequences for wildlife

— Jack Seale | Wednesday 14 June 2023 | Tv Review | Documentary

Sitting at home, breath held, earnestly hoping that some tiny animal thousands of miles from your sofa can survive a life-or-death situation: it’s always been one of the eerie pleasures of a wildlife documentary, despite such a reaction being essentially irrational. What does it matter whether that lizard can outrun those snakes? It’s all part of nature. It’s nothing to do with us.

Well, not any more. The scene that sticks in the mind from Our Planet II, Netflix’s new Attenborough-voiced opus, is of an albatross chick on the tiny Pacific island of Laysan, fighting for life without any predators nearby. The little thing’s opening its beak wide and dry-heaving towards the sand. “There is now so much plastic in our oceans that it reaches the most remote islands on Earth,” says Sir David, as we see the beach strewn with incongruously colourful detritus. The peril the chick is trying to survive is whether or not it can sick up a gobbet of indestructible crud its mother mistook for food.

The four new hour-long episodes have plenty more sequences to make you think: heck, what have we done? In the Arctic, a walrus perches on the only floating glacier shard within view, unsure where to go next. A polar bear, knackered by the need to swim much more and walk much less, fails to hunt a bearded seal that’s better at sliding on and off the melting, fractured ice. The theme is migration, as prompted by the changing seasons – but humans have changed how extreme those seasonal shifts are.

It is not all doom – in fact, the environmental warnings are slightly less strident than they were in the first run of Our Planet. We have plenty of wonders still to enjoy. The show’s recurring motif is an unbelievable shot of animals on the move together in staggering numbers. A megaherd of cape buffalo in the Kalahari, filmed from the air and looking like swarming ants; actual swarming army ants, carrying “supersized larvae” to their new forest home; locusts turning the ground yellow as they walk, then undergoing a bristling metamorphosis that makes them even more disquietingly alien, whereupon they turn the sky pink. The locusts’ trip from Sudan to Tibet is illustrated by figures moving on a 3D relief map, a clever visual aid to underline the vastness of the distances that migrating creatures cover.

We have extreme cuteness, too, in the form of a murrelet chick on Vancouver Island who has to trek alone towards the shore, so small it keeps smacking face-first into twigs lying on the ground. That Laysan albatross chick is adorable once it’s recovered from its human-induced choking fit, standing on the beach all ragged and fluffy, gazing out to sea and wondering when to attempt its first flight. It’s seen a young black-footed albatross set off, lose momentum and land on the water, bobbing for a second before being eaten by a tiger shark that has travelled 1,000km for this specific feast. Another black-footed bird is more or less in flight a few inches above the surf, but isn’t going to get far: a tiger shark is chewing on its foot.

For those in peril on the sea … Our Planet II. Photograph: Netflix

Whether our friend will suffer the same fate is the subject of the episode one cliffhanger, a device used throughout the season to persuade us to let the Netflix machine roll on to the next instalment. This seems unnecessarily needy for a prestige wildlife documentary, and it’s awkwardly executed: presumably for the benefit of viewers who might watch episodes in isolation, the next one starts with a recap that repeats the information binge-watchers have just been given. Elsewhere, there is the odd moment where the footage doesn’t feel new enough: everyone’s familiar by now with lions working to isolate a weak buffalo/wildebeest, but we see that old drama play out twice, alongside similar sequences of orca v whale, arctic fox v snow goose and crocodile v zebra.

But these are quibbles, brought on by how spoiled we’ve been by previous landmark natural history shows. Take a step back and so much of Our Planet II is astonishing: a drone camera mimicking a homeless bee swarm’s hunt for a new nesting place, checking out the holes in various trees, is one of many times we’re reminded what a precious honour it is to see such sights.

These creatures are precious indeed, and Our Planet II tries to see hope in places where humans have shown some awareness of their responsibilities as tenants-in-common of Earth. The antelope whose ancestral migration routes have been blocked by barbed-wire fences protecting US oil and gas fields, for example, have at least had bridges built for them so they can cross our lethal four-lane highways. It’s the least we can do.

#Tv Review #Documentary #David Attenborough #Netflix #Our Astonishing Planet

[harloqui]

Oh, and a new discovery I made the other day-

Last I posted about shifter breeds/heritages I was trying to figure out what specific type of shifter I was, since that's a mystery to me and I'd like to know. I went with the tiny bit of Scottish heritage in my family since I knew that, and I figured I was like a Faoladh-type shifter. It didn't exactly fit, but it was close, and it was what I knew of at the time.

So I was browsing the internet the other day, looking for information on physical therianthropes (werewolves, shapeshifters and the like) and I found a page on shapeshifters from Africa. I looked into it, and found that my shifter experiences were extremely similar to theirs. So I dug further, looked at one of the books listed to see what else we shared.

The tribe in question is called the Ju/'hoansi, and they live in the Kalahari. Almost everything they're saying is either something I've experienced, or an analogue of. The Ju/'hoansi are very open about their experiences and don't mind others practicing it or learning from them, but the catch is that few people can practice it. Usually becoming a n|om-kxaosi (healer) happens to you, you can't just decide to become one, and those who have tried (such as researchers and anthropologists) got so overwhelmed they never attempted again.

They do shift in ways similar to me, and it does appear to be a physical change - one n|om-kxaosi had to leave his dancing as the pain got too much for him and he grew claws and fur on his arms. However, this is just a small part of the larger belief system. Most nlom-kxaosi just aim to connect with their God and be happy, there's not much more to it from what it appears?

I decided to check out the larger part of my heritage - I'm majority black and my family is not American, but information on the supernatural from where they came from is hard to get, since it's such a small place. (Which is why I'm being so vague with it, haha.) However, from what I've been able to gather it's generally the same belief system, with elements added and removed as needed due to slavery and other cultures affecting it.

This makes a lot more sense. I am eventually going to get more books on these cultures to learn about them. It's not even neccesarily about shifting for me, I just want to practice a spirituality that a.) has been in my culture (that isn't Christianity, since that's not an inherent part of it) and b.) makes sense to me/is something I can actually do on an integral level.

#harloqui.txt #personal #shifter #shifter heritage #physical shifting #spirituality #religion

[chasepipes]

An Overview of Meteor Impact Craters and Events

A meteor impact site is a location where, at some point in the past, a meteorite passed through Earth’s atmosphere and collided with the planet’s surface. Meteor impact events contrast with events involving smaller meteors, asteroids, and similar objects that enter the atmosphere but are vaporized before reaching the surface. Impact events can have minimal impact on the surrounding geography, while larger meteors leave massive craters and create long-term changes to the atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere. Scientists can study impact craters to learn about the meteor’s composition, the nature of the impact event, and how the event influenced the planet.

The Chicxulub impact crater is located beneath Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula. Chicxulub is the planet’s only well-preserved peak ring crater. These types of craters are notable because of their size and the information they provide researchers regarding the composition and history of planetary crusts. The Chicxulub impactor is believed to have measured at least 6.2 miles in diameter, resulting in a crater with a depth of 12 miles and a diameter of 110 miles.

While the size of the impactor and crater are impressive on their own, Chicxulub is better known for the influence it had on the planet’s biodiversity. When the meteorite struck the planet roughly 66 million years ago, it wiped out the majority of animal and plant life on Earth, including the dinosaurs. Other effects included widespread earthquakes and tsunamis, a temporary heating of the planet’s temperature, and long-term disruptions of photosynthesis. Together, these and other effects drastically altered the planet’s atmosphere, ultimately setting the stage for the rise of primates as the dominant species.

Chicxulub may be known as the meteor that killed the dinosaurs, but it is not the only impact event that led to a period of mass extinction. The Manicouagan Reservoir in Quebec, Canada, was created by a 3-mile-diameter meteor that struck the planet about 212 million years ago, resulting in a loss of an estimated 60 percent of Earth’s biodiversity.

Sudbury Basin, also in Canada, has deformed and eroded over time, but it once measured 120 miles across. Meteor Crater in Arizona measures roughly three-quarters of a mile in diameter and nearly 560 feet. The crater is the result of an iron-nickel asteroid that hit Earth’s surface about 50,000 years ago, one measuring more than 160 feet. Other notable craters include the Lake Acraman impact structure in South Australia, the Morokweng impact structure in South Africa’s Kalahari Desert, and Wolfe Creek Crater, also in Australia.

A series of impact events from the earliest periods of the planet’s development have played even greater roles in the development of life on Earth. The first water that came to Earth as it formed arrived by meteors. Impact events influenced the spin, tilt, and orbit of the planet, and also led to the formation of Earth’s moon.

Individuals can find meteorite fragments on display in museums and exhibits around the world, and in some cases may have the opportunity to acquire a fragment for their own collection. The Allende meteorite was roughly the size of a car when it entered the atmosphere in 1969 but broke into thousands of pieces over Arizona, resulting in what is often described as the best-researched meteorite in history.

#Chase Pipes

[baconautoranch]

Reliably powerful and luxurious inside, the 2024 GMC Sierra 1500 is a rugged pickup here at your nearby GMC dealership that offers all of the following impressive features that have drivers talking.

Your Guide to the 2024 GMC Sierra 1500 at Your GMC Dealership

Muscle Meets Versatility

Four different engines are available for this pickup and all offer powerful performance, with a 4-cylinder, an I6, and two V8s to choose from. The four-cylinder is a turbocharged 2.7-liter that produces 310-horsepower while allowing you to tow up to 9,500 pounds. For heavier workloads, you have 355 horsepower and an 11,200-pound tow rating provided by the first V8, a 5.3-liter, and 420 horses and 13,200 pounds of towing strength available with the other V8, 6.2-liter.

The turbocharged I6 is a diesel engine that also tows as much as 13,200 pounds while generating 305 horsepower. Regardless of which one you choose, four-wheel drive can be paired with all, and the driver-selectable full-locking differentials and off-road suspension system with its 2-inch factory-installed lift take versatility to the next level.

Comfortable and Stylish

Inside the cabin, an available 10-way power driver seat with power lumbar support and 12-way power passenger seat grace the front row, a split-folding 60/40 rear bench seat is available for the back, and while both rows of seating offer a heating setting, those up front can enjoy a cooling setting as well. Jet Black perforated leather with Kalahari accents and Dark Walnut with Slate cloth trim are just some of the many seating materials available.

The truck’s appearance is a stylish one with multiple paint color choices and standouts like Thunderstorm Gray, Cardinal Red, and Downpour Metallic. The MultiPro Tailgate gives you six separate functions that make cargo loading a breeze, and the Rainsense automatic wipers, LED fog lamps, and heated power side mirrors all provide convenience in poor weather conditions.

Advanced Technology

Also impressive is all the cutting-edge technology that this truck offers, ranging from an in-cabin Wi-Fi hotspot to the GMC Premium Infotainment System and its 13.4-inch touchscreen display. Glancing at important info on your windshield with the Head-Up Display saves you from having to look down at the multicolor instrument cluster behind the wheel, the wireless charging pad quickly replenishes smartphone batteries, and the 12-speaker Bose sound system turns road trips into immersive audio experiences. There are also plenty of advanced driver-assist features to help you avoid collisions, like Lane Change Alert, Lane Keep Assist, Forward Collision Alert, Automatic Emergency Braking, Rear Cross Traffic Braking, and Rear Pedestrian Alert. This versatile pickup is now in our inventory and ready for test drives, so contact us today at Bacon Auto Ranch in Athens, TX to come get a closer look.

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[landscapesscenerypeopleplaces]

Namibia

Its territories, together with the richness of its fauna and the variety of its landscapes, make Namibia one of the most interesting and sought-after tourist destinations on the African continent. It owes its name to the Namib Desert, an immense sea of ​​very high sand dunes that take on shades ranging from cream to orange and red.

In the eastern part of the state the landscapes change, in fact the rivers favor the growth of very thick vegetation, here there are natural parks full of animals such as hippos and crocodiles.

For a trip in contact with nature, you certainly cannot miss a safari in the Etosha National Park to admire giraffes, elephants, lions and rhinos up close. Inside this park there is the "Pan", a large depression that in the past was a salt lake.

Excursions among the red sand dunes in the Kalahari desert, on the border with Botswana; they will allow you to enjoy breathtaking landscapes and possible encounters with groups of Bushmen who still live off the resources that the desert offers.

#landscape #nature #landscapes & sceneries #desert #namibia #southern africa

[charvireportprime]

Pecans Market Size, Type, segmentation, growth and forecast 2023-2030

Pecans Market

The Pecans Market is expected to grow from USD 2.40 Billion in 2022 to USD 3.20 Billion by 2030, at a CAGR of 4.10% during the forecast period.

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Pecans Market Size

Pecans are a type of nut that are used in various applications such as households, commercial, industrial, food industry, cosmetics and personal care, and dietary supplements & functional food. The global Pecans market is segmented based on type, application, region, and market players. North America, Asia Pacific, Middle East, Africa, Australia, and Europe are the major regions where the market players such as Navarro Pecan, Cane River Pecan, Hudson Pecan, Kalahari Desert Products, The Archer Daniels Midland, Missouri Northern Pecan Growers, Farmers Investment, Stahmann Farms Enterprises, John B. Sanfilippo & Son, The Kraft Heinz, Diamond Foods, Sahale Snacks, Guidry Organic Farms, Lamar Pecan, New Aces, Atwell Pecan, Pecan Argentina, Ellis Bros Pecans, Royalty Pecan Farms, and Merritt Pecan operate. There are various regulatory and legal factors that affect the market conditions of Pecans and its products. These factors include labeling requirements, food safety regulations, trade agreements, intellectual property rights, and environmental regulations. These factors impact the supply chain and logistics of Pecan and its products making it important for the market players to comply with these regulations.

Pecans Market Key Player

Navarro Pecan

Cane River Pecan

Hudson Pecan

Kalahari Desert Products

The Archer Daniels Midland

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One of the major factors driving revenue growth in the Pecans market is the changing lifestyle patterns of consumers, who are now more inclined towards healthy and nutritious foods. Pecans are popular for their health benefits, such as reducing the risk of heart diseases, improving digestion, and providing a rich source of healthy fats and proteins. This has led to an increase in the demand for Pecans from health-conscious consumers, leading to higher revenue growth in the market.

Another factor contributing to the growth of the Pecans market is the rise in the popularity of vegan and plant-based diets. Pecans are an excellent source of protein and healthy fats for individuals following a vegan or plant-based diet, leading to a surge in demand for Pecans as a nutritious snack or food ingredient.

The latest trend in the Pecans market is the shift towards organic and non-GMO Pecans, driven by the increasing demand for natural and healthy foods among consumers. Organic and non-GMO Pecans are also popular among consumers who are concerned about the environmental impact of traditional farming practices.

Despite the growth opportunities in the Pecans market, the industry is facing several challenges. One of the major challenges is the increasing competition from alternative nuts and seeds. This can have a negative impact on the revenue growth of the Pecans market if consumers switch to other options.

Another challenge faced by the Pecans market is the impact of climate change, which has led to unpredictable weather patterns and affected the production of Pecans in several regions. This has led to a shortage of Pecans in certain areas, resulting in higher prices and lower revenue growth for the industry.

The report's main findings suggest that the Pecans market will continue to grow at a steady pace in the coming years, driven by the increasing demand from the food industry and health-conscious consumers. The report also recommends that industry players focus on producing organic and non-GMO Pecans to cater to the changing consumer preferences. Additionally, the industry should invest in sustainable farming practices to mitigate the impact of climate change on the production of Pecans.

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Market Segmentation (by Application):

Households

Commercial

Industrial

Food Industry

Cosmetics and Personal Care

Dietary Supplements & Functional Food

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Pecans Market Size, Type, segmentation, growth and forecast 2023-2030

Pecans Market

The Pecans Market is expected to grow from USD 2.40 Billion in 2022 to USD 3.20 Billion by 2030, at a CAGR of 4.10% during the forecast period.

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Pecans Market Size

Pecans are a type of nut that are used in various applications such as households, commercial, industrial, food industry, cosmetics and personal care, and dietary supplements & functional food. The global Pecans market is segmented based on type, application, region, and market players. North America, Asia Pacific, Middle East, Africa, Australia, and Europe are the major regions where the market players such as Navarro Pecan, Cane River Pecan, Hudson Pecan, Kalahari Desert Products, The Archer Daniels Midland, Missouri Northern Pecan Growers, Farmers Investment, Stahmann Farms Enterprises, John B. Sanfilippo & Son, The Kraft Heinz, Diamond Foods, Sahale Snacks, Guidry Organic Farms, Lamar Pecan, New Aces, Atwell Pecan, Pecan Argentina, Ellis Bros Pecans, Royalty Pecan Farms, and Merritt Pecan operate. There are various regulatory and legal factors that affect the market conditions of Pecans and its products. These factors include labeling requirements, food safety regulations, trade agreements, intellectual property rights, and environmental regulations. These factors impact the supply chain and logistics of Pecan and its products making it important for the market players to comply with these regulations.

Pecans Market Key Player

Navarro Pecan

Cane River Pecan

Hudson Pecan

Kalahari Desert Products

The Archer Daniels Midland

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Pecans Market Segment Analysis

The Pecans market is primarily driven by the increasing demand from the food industry, especially in the US and Europe. The target market for Pecans includes both individual consumers and food manufacturers that use Pecans as an ingredient in their food products. The increasing health consciousness among consumers, along with the rise in disposable income, has significantly influenced the demand for Pecans in the food industry.

One of the major factors driving revenue growth in the Pecans market is the changing lifestyle patterns of consumers, who are now more inclined towards healthy and nutritious foods. Pecans are popular for their health benefits, such as reducing the risk of heart diseases, improving digestion, and providing a rich source of healthy fats and proteins. This has led to an increase in the demand for Pecans from health-conscious consumers, leading to higher revenue growth in the market.

Another factor contributing to the growth of the Pecans market is the rise in the popularity of vegan and plant-based diets. Pecans are an excellent source of protein and healthy fats for individuals following a vegan or plant-based diet, leading to a surge in demand for Pecans as a nutritious snack or food ingredient.

The latest trend in the Pecans market is the shift towards organic and non-GMO Pecans, driven by the increasing demand for natural and healthy foods among consumers. Organic and non-GMO Pecans are also popular among consumers who are concerned about the environmental impact of traditional farming practices.

Despite the growth opportunities in the Pecans market, the industry is facing several challenges. One of the major challenges is the increasing competition from alternative nuts and seeds. This can have a negative impact on the revenue growth of the Pecans market if consumers switch to other options.

Another challenge faced by the Pecans market is the impact of climate change, which has led to unpredictable weather patterns and affected the production of Pecans in several regions. This has led to a shortage of Pecans in certain areas, resulting in higher prices and lower revenue growth for the industry.

The report's main findings suggest that the Pecans market will continue to grow at a steady pace in the coming years, driven by the increasing demand from the food industry and health-conscious consumers. The report also recommends that industry players focus on producing organic and non-GMO Pecans to cater to the changing consumer preferences. Additionally, the industry should invest in sustainable farming practices to mitigate the impact of climate change on the production of Pecans.

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Market Segmentation (by Application):

Households

Commercial

Industrial

Food Industry

Cosmetics and Personal Care

Dietary Supplements & Functional Food

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Nature's Most Amazing Events - with David Attenborough

Nature is the greatest of cinematographers. Even the most routine of moments possesses tremendous beauty and commands our attention as a crucial component to an elegant system. With the changing of the seasons, key elements converge to create massive spectacles that stagger the imagination. For six of our planet’s most impressive events, David Attenborough is there to highlight not only the exquisite artistry, but also the fragile constitution of the system that makes these events possible. As always, the spectre of human intervention hangs heavily over the proceedings, as climate change, consumption of habitat for farm and industrial land, and outright extermination of species threatens these and other events across the globe. If you appreciate visual pageantry, or if you want to give your home system a serious workout, this is the documentary series that will do the trick.

Two episodes in particular are standouts, and both take place on the African continent. ‘The Great Tide’ refers to The Sardine Run, taking place every few years off the coast of South Africa, where a shoal of sardines numbering in the hundreds of millions is lured from the cool ocean depths to the African coast where the world’s largest army of predators has gathered to ambush them. The sardine groups are drawn into cold water, as warm water tends to exist along shallows and coastal areas where their numbers cannot protect them from predators. As the cold Agulhas current pushes up along the coast during the winter months, it pushes back against currents coming from the north; this creates an abnormally frigid coastal artery that attracts and then traps the sardines.

The documentary spends ample time developing the characters of this mighty clash. Cape Gannets, remarkable in their stark beauty and their aerial dexterity, breed off the coast in enormous numbers, but the chance of survival for an individual chick is slim. Once they are strong enough to fly, their parents abandon them, and they have ten days to learn to fly or starve; if they successfully achieve flight, there is a chance they will falter in the breakers or be killed by a seal. One gannet, thoroughly beaten by the relentless waves and rocks, hauls itself upon land and dies, the moment containing all the gravity of Shakespearean tragedy. If they survive, the gannets will form an integral part of the Sardine Run spectacle. They are joined by common Dolphin, who expertly hunt down and round up the sardines into small ‘bait balls’ that allows for easier hunting of individual fish. Various sharks, from Ragged-Tooth to Great Whites, take advantage of the dolphins’ work. Lastly the Bryde’s Whale dives in to take ten thousand sardines in a single gulp. Once the predators find the shoal, the attack begins and is sustained with impossible intensity. The roiling sardines, expertly moving dolphins, and the divebombing gannets form a stunning visual poetry that transcends wildlife filmmaking and drifts into the realm of ageless elegance.

The other episode is less visually intense, but documents the violent and rather abrupt change that occurs in the Okavango Delta after intense rains fall upon the Angolan highlands and spill into a river that terminates not into a lake or ocean, but into the driest desert on earth. The Kalahari is almost devoid of plant life during its dry season, but the camera crew finds a herd of elephants struggling their way through this lethal setting. The matriarch is there for a reason, however, as she knows that the rains will fall, and the parched sands will come alive. Still, the tension created by this narrative is quite real, and most involving as you follow them into an uncertain future. When the precious water finds its way through dry river beds into the sands, the entire vista is transformed into a lake. As elephants, lions, cape buffalo, and various other savanna animals enter the fresh waters, we notice that the land itself seems to have come alive; fish explode from a distant marsh, and many species of frog actually live permanently in this desert, using the brief presence of water to exit hibernation, eat, breed, and reenter hibernation in an endless cycle.

Despite the triumphant moments the animals share, there is no guarantee that the life-providing cycle will continue. As the climate changes, water supplies dwindle, and the natural habitat that the flora and fauna require to replenish their numbers continues to be destroyed, these remarkable events may cease abruptly. Very little is understood about how these and most wildlife ecosystems really work. And therein lies the black-box warning: unless research into the intricacies of the planet’s ecosystems accelerates and serious effort is made to properly fuse the habitat of the human with the rest of its fellow species, disaster is guaranteed.

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hiiii! 2 & 7 for the fanfic asks :}

thank you thank you 💖

im super smart and reblogged two in very quick succession so im gonna answer for both 😅😅😅

for the year in review!

2. least favorite fic you wrote this year

okay this is gonna be a controversial take but i <3 stress is my least favorite IM NOT SAYING ITS BAD but i have more love for basically every other fic ive posted

7. longest completed fic you wrote this year

if you include Kalahari Down (its complete just not fully posted to let my beta breathe), its that one cause its like 47k, if we’re talking posted works it’s That Unwanted Animal

for the upcoming year!

2. Will you participate in any fandom exchanges or fic challenges, etc? 

probably not i function best when i let shit fall out of my brain naturally and thats also when i do my best work. i love when people do but im just not suited to it.

7. Will you change anything about the way you interact with other writers?

im not sure if this answers the spirit of the question but one thing id really like to try is collaborating with other writers. im so possessive and precious about my work and id really like to let go of that a little bit so i can grow as an artist.

#m #ask game