That red crust on the tree is a Christmas lichen. It has no roots and no skin. It just breathes the air, straight up, and it dies the second that air gets dirty.
Cities don’t have these anymore. They call it a “lichen desert.”
Here in the jungle they’re at almost every tree, which means I don’t just drink the cleanest water, I breathe some of the cleanest air on Earth.
@jk_rowling It is a privilege to grow old. As I approach my 50 realising all my heroes are already gone. It makes one think to live and make them proud, we must celebrate!
After travelling to dozens of countries, meeting hundreds of thousands of people, and interacting with millions more online, I've realised that one of the best gifts my parents gave me was NOT instilling any victim complex in me.
They raised me to believe that my successes and failures are MY responsibility, that life isn't always 'fair', and that no broad demographic of people is my oppressor nor enemy by dint of birth.
This stuff seems basic but I've realised that it's not. There are so many popular variations of victim mentality and oppressor/oppressed narratives.
It's not just what you teach your children, but what you don't.
Shout out to mom and dad. Real ones.
Please listen to these powerful words from Welsh farmer @1GarethWynJones.
Small businesses (including farmers) are a beating heart of the British economy. Governments should be supporting them rather than inflicting taxes that contribute towards to destroying them.
#Budget2024
@DaAcervo@brettboettcher1 Obrigada por esse post, bem informado e que resume esse cartel de décadas de estudo sobre a verdadeiras consequências do “doce” açúcar
I have XX chromosomes. Biological female. You cannot just go on how someone looks. The reason I am a transsexual in my chromosomes. They matter. I have high testosterone because I inject it. I would be disqualified to compete in womens sports because it would be considered doping. BUT I am still a female. XY is male. Period. Sports has always used chromosomes. Why not now? They are gaslighting this! If you have XY chromosomes you cannot compete in women’s sports. Just deal with it!
Taking it away from the individual, the argument for exclusion of most XY DSDs from the female category is because the sports biology and physiology is male (muscle development, size, CV capacity etc).
This simple observation doesn’t need to address anything about legal/social identity and so on. We don’t need to dehumanise, we don’t need to talk about morality or make value judgements. We do need to be able to use clear, sex-based language.
Does this individual benefit from male development *in a way that matters for sport*? If the answer is yes, which is the case for most XY DSDs, I’m not sure why you argue for a “free pass”?
The integrity of the female category means excluding male advantage acquired from male biology (testes, testosterone, functional signalling etc).
Three young girls were stabbed to death by a 17 year-old Rwandan male born in Cardiff.
Three more names added to an already endless list of victims.
How many more white children have to die before we take action? #Southport