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being traumatized is so embarrassing sometimes like oooogh my mom was mean to me when i was little so now i want to eviscerate myself anytime i think i’ve done something wrong. fuck you
I know that many of us—including myself—are going back to school tomorrow and I just want to say this:
I hope that your first day back to school (either grade school or uni) is a good day. I wish nothing more than for you to be happy and be able to have the best experiences possible. Continue to grow and learn new things at your own pace. No matter how big or small your step is, a step is a step forward. Your growth is important and I greatly admire everything that you’ve accomplished so far. Remember that you can do it. You’ve got this! You are capable.
Make it a great year with great strides and memories. ❤️✨
Living machines are essentially intensive, indoor artificial wetlands. Technical names for living machines include "advanced ecologically engineered systems" and "fixed-film ecology wastewater treatment systems." What they entail is mimicking natural processes of biological decomposition in a constructed aquatic environment. Simply put: dirty water goes in, passes through a series of self-contained aquatic ecosystems, and clean water comes out. The water is, in fact, so clean that it can be safely discharged into sensitive aquatic environments, like natural wetlands. And it does all of this without any of the usual chemical treatments or high-energy inputs of conventional wastewater treatment. Living machines produce such safe effluent because they achieve what is known as "tertiary treatment," meaning they successfully abate pollutants. How does a biological system do this? Simple: it uses them as inputs. Let me explain. The most common such pollutants are nitrogen and phosphorous. These happen to be the two nutrients whose out-of-whack flows have pushed us past a key planetary boundary. The biggest reason for this is industrial agriculture: it relies on synthetic nitrogen and mined phosphorous to exceed the carrying capacity of the ecosystems in which it operates. One of the big problems with industrial agriculture is that a great deal of the nitrogen and phosphorous applied isn't actually utilized by the food being produced: most of it runs off into waterways. This leads to far-reaching, ecologically catastrophic events ("eutrophication"). By constructing a complete food chain within the living machine, each step creates the food for the next step. Excess nutrients, like nitrogen and phosphorous, feed microorganisms which are then consumed by larger creatures and so on up the food chain, until we are left with harmless components and a great deal of life. The living machine converts pollution into biodiversity and clean water, instead of run-off and eutrophication. It's a prime example of true "regeneration."
walkable cities also means sittable cities send tweet
Waiting for when Sonic Movie 3's trailer finally drops 🔵⚡️🔴
I felt like animating something using the logo trailer's audio. Enjoy!
Go check it out with audio on YouTube, it's like... 18 seconds, you can do it!
Flashing CW as usual, I might like impact frames a bit too much.
i've been reading a lot of books about urban naturalism recently, and the one big thing they all talk about is how you HAVE to stop seeing nature as something that happens somewhere else. nature is not just charismatic megafauna and state parks and mountain ranges. nature is that abandoned lot that's growing native milkweed in it. nature is the murder of crows that lives in your block. nature is the moss growing on your roof and the dandelions growing in the sidewalk cracks and the song birds at your neighbor's birdfeeder. and you should care about it! you should notice it! that's YOUR nature!
⚡ cooking in progress⚡
A little Sonic Adventure 2 / Movie 3 animation thing I've been making
the "in another universe" "in another life" posts are funny cause you only get one, this one, and you've already resigned to losing it too. try fighting in this one
bert and ernie go to ikea
The BBC is releasing over 16,000 sound effects for free download
[guy who has handled two conversations well in a row] I think I might be the most emotionally stable person on the planet of earth
Despair is easy, hope is hard. And brother, I like to stay hard
i’m always like “i can’t wait to feel good and confident and grow into the best, healthiest version of me!!!!!” while doing horrible acts of self sabotage like girl it doesn’t work like that u are pressing the gas and break at the same time stop it
Frog Alert ‼️ 🚨
The first step to resistance in any way, shape or form is to have hope. When you learn about this, it's easy to realize that half the efforts being put into crushing any attempts at fighting back against systemic opression are all about making you feel hopeless.
Change is possible. It's already happening. Humans care about each other and they are good at working together because we (quite literally!) evolved to be together. There is no inherent evil or good about us, but we have to power to do both. Choosing to do better is an everyday decision, and you and I can do it.
We can change. We can fight back. But first, we must have hope.
where is "at this rate sonic will become president" when you need it
i was inspired
Here’s the new 24 hour comic I drew this year! This one is called THE KING’S FOREST. cw: blood, violence
PS: if you liked this, there’s a whole book of these comics available now!
Always wild to see how much of plants is roots
Especially grassland plants
Like, look at this guy
One true leaf and less than a centimeter tall, and already a 21cm taproot
That's hella carbon sequestration! Once mature these guys make enormous perennial taproots, and that carbon isn't going anywhere soon
It's a real banger...
If you're using the Old Tumblr Dashboard style and that new premium shit is covering your menu on top, add this rule to uBlock Origin filters:
www.tumblr.com##.HxaHT.VVqTC.EvhBA
you're welcome!
Solemates
English added by me :)
There's an obscure and criminally underrated anime based on the children's book "You're Umasou" which follows a young tyrannosaurus unwittingly adopting a newborn ankylosaurus and having to raise him. This film deserves more attention.
commentary about aging. NO ONE has everything figured out in their teens or 20s. you still have your whole life ahead of you; just keep going and everything will be okay. happy belated birthday to these guys.
A day late but happy Moon Day!!
Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?
so i actually found that meme with shadow telling me to fold my laundry helpful… so here are some others i made to get me to do stuff when i forget.
