#Mast Year

[decodingbiosphere]

Do You Know What is Mast Year And Why Does it Occur?

Image Source: North Norfolk News If you’ve ever wandered through a forest, you might have noticed that some years the ground is carpeted with acorns, while other years there are hardly any. This fascinating phenomenon is called “masting.” In this article, we let us learn all about mast years, exploring why trees synchronize their seed production and how it affects the ecosystem. What Is a Mast…

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#Ecological #Forest #Mast Year #Nature

[the-most-sublime-fool]

Then, too, at sea—to use a homely but expressive phrase—you miss a man so much. A dozen men are shut up together in a little bark, upon the wide, wide sea, and for months and months see no forms and hear no voices but their own, and one is taken suddenly from among them, and they miss him at every turn. It is like losing a limb. There are no new faces or new scenes to fill up the gap. There is always an empty berth in the forecastle, and one man wanting when the small night watch is mustered. There is one less to take up the wheel, and one less to lay out with you upon the yard. You miss his form, and the sound of his voice, for habit had made them almost necessary to you, and each of your senses feels the loss.

—a sailor's diary entry, on losing a shipmate, ca. 1834 (from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana Jr.)

#he also started the entry for that day by saying 'this was a black day in our calendar' #sorry but i'm even more emotional about this after watching ofmd someone please appreciate #this is an actual entry in a real sailor's diary about really losing one of his shipmates #two years before the mast #richard henry dana jr. #quotes #nautical #the sea #nautical history #ofmd #our flag means death

[metalchris]

New local releases

New local heavy metal releases bandcamp friday

Today is another Bandcamp Friday, which means today until 3am Eastern time Bandcamp waves their cut from all music and merch sales on the site. I just thought I’d mention a few new releases from local bands of the metal variety that you can support this Bandcamp Friday (or afterwards as well). Let me know if there’s more releases from the past month that I should add. Goetia is a new death metal…

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#Borracho #dirt eater #Goetia #Life is an Option #Mast Year #Ninth Realm #Wings Denied

[z34l0t]

Mast Year - Instrumental demo

#Mast Year #instrumental #name your price #Bandcamp

[thebibliosphere]

Ongoing MCAS recovery update:

Took a bite out of a gluten free chocolate cupcake and didn’t die 👍

#chronic health tag #mcas #life with spontaneous anaphylaxis #haven’t had real chocolate in 6 years #it won’t be a regular thing because it’s basically a histamine bomb #but eeeey mast cell stability is improving #6 years ago it would have closed my throat

[kirby-the-gorb]

#kirby #daily kirby #my art #digital #hal laboratory #nintendo #I don't think I mentioned at the time because it was in the middle of kirb2k #but I had an appointment with a hematologist last week #they confirmed the culprit behind my chronic illness is definitely my mast cells #but I need to get a bone marrow biopsy next month to find out #if it's actually not-technically-autoimmune (mcas) #or if it's actually not-technically-cancer (mastocytosis) #which is actually good news cuz 1 someone finally confirmed my nearly 6 year old hypothesis instead of just agreeing (or disagreeing) #and 2 if it *is* mastocytosis they're gonna start medicating me A Lot more aggressively :) #which I need! I've been sick for right about 8 years now but it's gotten rapidly worse in the past 1-1.5 years #so clearly I'm badly under-medicated #(since I've been on all the same meds for 2 years except for my own emergency intervention.) #(I mean technically I've been chronically ill my whole life it just wasn't disabling until early 2016) #anyway I'm so tired I feel like a ragdoll half the time! sure hope I get adequate medication in a couple months!

[the-golden-vanity]

Two Years Before The Mast reading update: Herman Melville really read the chapter where Hope decides Dana is his aikane and thought, "hmmmm... I can make this gayer," huh?

#two years before the mast #richard henry dana #moby dick #herman melville #sea stories #queer history #The Golden Vanity does comparative literature

[s-aint-elmo]

the dragon prince is dangerously close to proving that the only thing you need to do to secure my viewership is cover a woman in blood, take the life out of her eyes, and drench her in a mixture of desperation and grief so potent it dissolves all her scruples

#dungeon meshi did this also #marcille unravelling her braid arms dripping dragon blood to the elbows about to commit a crime punishable by 1000 years in elf prison <333 #mine #i probably won't watch tdp bc i'm not interested enough but for like ten minutes i was odysseus lashed to the mast of his ship besieged by #the siren song of a woman hurtling from grace at mach speed #the dragon prince

[mandana-the-service-pup]

In the United States, September is National Service Dog Month!

Here are some tips for anyone thinking about getting a service dog:

❤️ Most medical alerts are trained with scent detection. Blood glucose, heart rate, blood pressure, seizure, migraine, panic attack, food/environmental allergens, etc. We don’t know all of the chemicals dogs can detect, so if you are disabled and think a medical alert service dog could help you then it might be worth pursuing. (Debby Kay’s books/programs are a great place to start with scent training!)

❤️ Owner-training with positive reinforcement is totally doable! (I highly recommend the online service dog academy My Service Dog & Me LLC with Kate Olson!)

❤️ Raising and training a service dog in an apartment is doable! (I just posted about how to communicate with landlords about service dogs so definitely check that out if it applies to you!)

❤️ Golden Retrievers, Labrador Retrievers, Poodles (of any size) and Smoothie Collies are called the “Fab Four” because their breed standards really jive well with service dog life. Any breed can be a service dog but not every dog can be. There’s nothing “basic” about choosing a Fab Four breed and off-breed dogs are just as valid. There are no guarantees in service dog training, so stack the odds in your favor by choosing a responsible breeder (I haven’t posted about this topic yet but there’s plenty of information about what makes a responsible breeder in the show, sport or service dog communities online)

❤️ By the legal definition, you have to be disabled to have a service dog. That doesn’t mean it has to be the last thing you try. If you think a service dog could help you then please reach out to me and others in the service dog community. We can help answer questions and get you pointed in the right direction. Good Luck!

Every team is different. Disabilities change. Training isn’t linear.

Here is what a typical morning looks like with my service dog at this point in our life.

#belgian malinois #2 years #service dog in training #positive reinforcement #cooperative care #considerate care #consent #service dog #service dog community #medical alert service dog #sdit #dysautonomia #postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome #ehlers danlos syndrome #mast cell activation syndrome #hashimotosthyroiditis #gastroparesis #disabled community #disability community #chronic illness community #disability awareness #accessibility matters #disabled isn't a bad word #service dog awareness #service dog appreciation #service dogblr #dogblr

[deadpresidents]

The Californians are an idle, thriftless people, and can make nothing for themselves. The country abounds in grapes, yet they buy, at a great price, bad wine made in Boston.

Richard Henry Dana Jr., Two Years Before the Mast, 1840

#Richard Henry Dana Jr. #Two Years Before the Mast #California #Quotes #Hey fuck off Richard Henry Dana Jr.

[ebonyheartnet]

I can have mustard seed.

I can have pre-ground mustard seed.

I HAVE AT LEAST ONE SHELF STABLE SPICE THIS HELLHOLE OF AN IMMUNE SYSTEM WON’T BLOW UP OVER!!!

#chronic health tag #hoooooly shit #mcas #mast cell activation syndrome #I HAVEN’T HAD ANY SPICES IN 4 FUCKING YEARS. DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH I AM LOSING MY MIND?!

[theviolenttomboy]

Let's see, Blueberry Academy is in Unova...

How does this affect the Spe timeline...

#pokemon special #pokespe #teal mast spoilers #hm #make black a teacher there? #i don't think he has to be super older either #maybe just a few years

[ollywears]

Olly Alexander wearing a Vivienne Westwood S/S 2024 Worth More cotton denim jacket in an Instagram photo (March 2, 2024).

This jacket was first seen in the Spring-Summer 1998 "Tied To The Mast" collection.

#olly alexander #years and years #years & years #style #it's a sin #100% pure love #dizzy #a very bad fun idea #boycott eurovision #boycott israel #jacket #denim jacket #vivienne westwood #Vivienne Westwood S/S 2024 #Worth More jacket #instagram #Tied To The Mast collection #Vivienne Westwood S/S 1998

[bokatan]

well good news for the morning, Zelda’s biopsy came back and the bump on her shoulder was just a weird looking skin tag

#it just kept growing and we were like. tf is this thing? so it got to come off #and given that she’s a black 5 year old great dane and it’s a skin mass obviously we’re gonna send it out #she still has stitches in so we can’t go nuts quite yet. but next week we can have a party about it or something lmao #like we did a FNA a few months back and knew it wasn’t mast cell + didn’t have anything super scary going on #but still. can’t ignore a weird bump on an older dog thats very predisposed to cancer due to color + breed

[the-golden-vanity]

Two Years Before The Mast reading update: an unintentionally hilarious passage for a 21st century reader, as Richard Henry Dana explains that there are no streets in (pre-Gold Rush) California.

#reject freeways embrace tradition #two years before the mast #richard henry dana #age of sail #mexican california #alta california #california history #maritime history #nautical history #boat media #boat story #maritime #nautical #age of sail memoir

[boatmediatourney]

⚓Boat Media Tournament⚓

Round 1, match 2

#bmt2 polls #bmt2 round 1 #boat media tourney #boat media #captain blood #two years before the mast