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Kitty roar

idk about y’all but I think it’s pretty terrifying having to personally hear bisexuals in offline spaces express being practically shamed out of openly identifying as bisexual because they’ve internalized the belief that bisexuality is not inclusive of trans/nb ppl and if that doesn’t hit home for you how dangerous misinformation and ahistorical takes are in the current state of LGBT activism then I honestly don’t have much else to say.

i want to be soft and kind and happy. i want to be a small sun that warms everyone around me. i want to smile and tuck my hair behind my ear and laugh. i want to be so full of love, i can't help but spread it all around.

Art by Rustam Ha

How to help native bees! 🐝

Even a small backyard can provide safe, healthy habitat for bees so they can pollinate the flowers, crops, and trees that support life on earth.

Create a custom bee garden with wildflowers native specifically to your area:

Choose native wildflowers with blossoms of varying sizes and shapes in bee-friendly colors (blue, purple, violet, white, and yellow), and select plants with varied bloom times to support different bee species.

Plant in 3- to 4-foot-wide color blocks of the same species.

Keep your garden pesticide-free.

Mow meadow areas only once each year, when flowers are dead or dormant, and mow in a patch pattern, alternating the areas mowed each year.

Mow lawn areas with a high blade setting so native violets and clover can flourish.

Provide overwintering habitat for bees by allowing dead stems to stand in your gardens until plants begin to grow again in spring.

You can also provide nesting and egg-laying habitat for bees:

Leave an area of bare dirt where ground-nesting bees can tunnel.

Provide stem bundles of bamboo, teasel, or common reed as shelter for wood-nesting bees (mount the bundles firmly, facing the morning sun and sheltered from wind and rain under the eaves of a house or shed, and make fresh stem bundles each year).

Create the nooks and crannies favored by cavity-nesting bees with an easy do-it-yourself project—a bee block.

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Tada! Dye-painted wool felt cape, part of my emperor moth comission.

This fake yarn is supposedly better for sheep.

Aimed at people who don’t know where wool comes from, it’s 100% plastic. Yes, plastic.

So any garment you wash will release microfibres into the sea. It’ll never decompose.

You’re supposed to believe that sheep shearing is violent and cruel. There are imbeciles out there that work in an unprofessional manner while shearing, but that’s not the case overall.

Sheep don’t suffer from having their fleece removed.

Left on, the fleece can become a home for fly eggs and the subsequent maggots which can eat the sheep. Chemical treatments are available to prevent that happening. It’s much better for the sheep, the land and the farmer to avoid chemical use.

Don’t be fooled. Wool is a sustainable material, one we should make more and better use of.

There are Five Valid Occupations in this world:

1. Jaded, washed up private detective

2. Master thief

3. Cowboy

4. Feral Mad Scientist

5. Polar Explorer Overdosing on Hubris