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It seems to be a kind of blue-tailed skink. And that's all I know.

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The QR code goes to the state university's horticulturist guide to making a region-specific pollinator garden. I'm going to put these around town with little sachets of wildflower seeds to unleash unlimited genocide on non-native grass.

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Why Do Wolves Howl? And Other Top Wolf Questions Answered | Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute

Howling may be heard at night, but it is not a behavior directed at the moon. Instead, it is used as a social rally call, a hail to hunt or as a territorial expression. Did you know that individuals have different howls that can be heard by other wolves 6-7 mile away?

A howl can even help a lost wolf find its way home. A wolf separated from its pack uses a “lonesome howl” — a shortened call that rises in pitch. If answered, the wolf then responds with deep, even howls to inform the pack of its location.

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vertebra of a juvenile sauropod, jurassic, morrison formation

our mother the earth is round like an egg and contains all good things within her

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She's an amateur rock hound. I assume she put it on a napkin so it didn't scratch her kitchen counter. But she probably also noticed it looked like a sweet that way.

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Apparently people sell ones this big for good money. I'm gonna end up paying my child's college tuition with quartz slabs and Garbage Pail Kids.

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Pictured is a graph of historical global sea-surface temperatures across the year from 1982-2024. Yesterday was about 0.3°C warmer than last year. Well, maybe it will go back down since this is an El Niño year? :>

Average global surface air temperature in February 2024 was 1.77°C warmer than the average February from 1850-1900. So maybe we can retire those 1.5°C warming goals now?

However, the IPCC reports that global temperatures have only risen by 1.1°C. This is because they use decade-long averages. Indeed, it is completely possible that 2025 will be cooler than 2024, but crop failures don't care much for averages. shrug-outta-hecks And if global warming has accelerated, the IPCC's method will be a decade late to realizing it. Not that they can actually do anything about it...

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doo-doo, doo-doo, doo-doo

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pics that go insanely hard edition

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Currently I have some qualms with degrowth (and solarpunk) as well as its ideological opposite, ecomodernism. However, as a wise man once said: "No investigation, no right to speak." Thus I wish to better inform myself before I start ranting online.

My understanding is that none of these topics really have a widely agreed upon framework besides the absolute basics, so I'll likely find myself reading ten different opinions on what degrowth means according to ten different degrowthers. Is this correct?

I just read "Socio-economic conditions for satisfying human needs at low energy use" from 2020 and will be reading "In defence of degrowth" from 2010 next. After that, I'll go through Monthly Review's "planned degrowth" July-August 2023 issue. Then I'll look at whatever you comrades recommend. When I'm done with degrowth, I will move on to ecomodernism and maybe solarpunk. Yes I am aware that solarpunk is more of an artistic movement than an actual theoretical tendency.

I would prefer recommendations that I can get finish in under two hours. Videos, podcasts, movies, documentaries, etc. are also fine if you think they're worthwhile. If you truly think a long book is worth the read, I will defer to your judgment.

Thanks. Care-Comrade

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