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photographer Zsolt Ku

egret

#photography #animals

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the dead don’t always die

#watership down #art: illustration

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A historically and culturally significant lake in California's San Joaquin Valley that first disappeared in 1898 has returned after last year's atmospheric rivers flooded the region.

Tulare Lake, known as Pa'ashi — or "big water" — to the local Tachi Yokut Tribe, was "once the largest body of freshwater west of the Mississippi River," per Earth.com.

Vivian Underhill, who published a paper on Tulare Lake as a postdoctoral research fellow at Northeastern University, noted it was mostly sustained by snowmelt from the Sierra Nevada mountains and was 100 miles long and 30 miles wide at its peak.

The lake served as a key resource for Indigenous Peoples and wildlife and was once robust enough to allow steamships to transport agricultural goods throughout the state.

However, government officials persecuted and displaced the indigenous communities in the late 1800s to convert the area for farming through draining and irrigation.

"They really wanted to get [land] into private hands so that indigenous land claims — that were ongoing at that time — would be rendered moot by the time they went through the courts," Underhill told the Northeastern Global News. "It was a deeply settler colonial project."

While Pa'ashi periodically reappeared during the 1930s, '60s, and '80s, the barrage of atmospheric rivers California experienced in 2023 revived the lake despite the region receiving just 4 inches of rain annually. According to Underhill, Tulare Lake is now the same size as Lake Tahoe, which is 22 miles long and 12 miles wide.

Its resurgence has led to the return of humid breezes at least 10 degrees cooler than average and native species, including fish, amphibians, and birds. Lake Tulare was once a stopping point for migratory birds traveling a route known as the Pacific Flyway.

"Something that continues to amaze me is — [the birds] know how to find the lake again," Underhill told the Northeastern Global News. "It's like they're always looking for it."

The Tachi Yokuts have also returned to Pa'ashi's shores, once again practicing their ceremonies and planting tule reeds and native sage.

#pse blogging #feel good

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A small victory to celebrate for today

#pse blogging #oh hallelujah

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“Water Sunsets“ by | Mitchell Pettigrew

#photography #nature #waterscape

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Fangs of Fortune 大梦归离 – First trailer Dir. Edward Guo, Luo Luo, Wei Nan

#fangs of fortune #gif #oh shit this looks beyond gorgeous

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Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

#nasa #fuckin bril

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A very cat shaped cat

#cats #feel good #video #animals

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#ive always been but trauma - mental - physical conditions have made me #hm more vicerally disgusted by the thought of me + sex #when originally it was just a 'nothingness' same as my gender #I'm actually annoyed by my own disgust bc i preferred not feeling anything regarding sexual attraction #polls

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Scotland by images@twiston

#nature #photography

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Intrusive Thoughts are unwanted thoughts or images that you find distressing and/or disturbing. 

more information on what intrusive thoughts are!

what intrusive thoughts are: https://moodsmith.com/intrusive-thoughts/

how to cope with them: https://www.betterhelp.com/advice/how-to/how-to-stop-intrusive-thoughts-and-live-your-life/

#intrusive thoughts #they suuuuuuck so much #art: comic

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#i had a middle school friend with horses #and then the school fair horses in elementary #so both led and by myself #i rode this one GIANT - literally named goliath bc hes so damn huge #i had to climb the fence to get on him XD #he was sooo lovely tho~ #polls

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TIAN XIWEI

for GQ Men of The Year Awards 2023

#tian xiwei #fashion #gif

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Feel free to explain how you sort in the tags

#only if im not using the tub #my little laundry washer is teeny so i split it based on #thin under garments and thick clothes/towels #polls

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Light In The Darkness by Chloe Amy Avery by mtlgrems

#art: stitch

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#sleep token #!!! :o #ive listened to all their music but never /saw/ them #oh so need to so them live now #gif

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#phantom phantom phantom!!! #with an occasional bioluminescence #;D #polls