Bucky the Redwood

Your favorite tree you can’t climb 🤞🏽Welcome to my diary 👽 T-Pain said we’re best friends 🩵

[Bucky the Redwood @BigBuck__]

The worst thing for you is that they can say no. The worst thing for them is to see that you did it anyway. Keep fcking pushing.

[Bucky the Redwood @BigBuck__]

Which one of yall hoodlums knocked up???

[Bucky the Redwood @BigBuck__]

If you see me tomorrow, no you didn’t 🤪🤪

[CELIA🐝 @CELIAYONCE]

I remember when I started hearing people criticize me after I had put on some weight. I was 19. None of the sample clothes fit me. I was feeling a bit insecure from hearing some of the comments, and I woke up one day and refused to feel sorry for myself, so I wrote “Bootylicious.”

BEYONCÉ For BAZAAR 2021.

[Bucky the Redwood @BigBuck__]

I be quick asl to turn my doorbell alerts off 😂 ion wanna hear allat!

[BeyoncesCoochie @CozySuperstarr]

still thinking about this

[Bucky the Redwood @BigBuck__]

I’m tired. Tired. Tired. Tired. Tired of feeling. Tired of explaining. Tired of no change. D O N E .

[Bucky the Redwood @BigBuck__]

Happy pride and black history month part 2!!! 🥰🥰🥰

[Bucky the Redwood @BigBuck__]

I did indeed get bit my a mosquito. It was terrible.

[Bucky the Redwood @BigBuck__]

Omm istg if I just got bit by a mfn mosquito ima lose my sht

[Bucky the Redwood @BigBuck__]

Cause they were doing just that..moving funny the whole time 🙄

[Bucky the Redwood @BigBuck__]

Like why I gotta pivot if U the one acting funny??

[Bucky the Redwood @BigBuck__]

I hate when I peep shit cause now I gotta move diff 😭😭

[Bucky the Redwood @BigBuck__]

To think about your significant other and God at the same time when it comes to a single thing??? WHEW YALL AINT LISTENING 😭😭

[Bucky the Redwood @BigBuck__]

Man…today would be a great day for @tacobell vegan nacho cheese fries 😭

[Bucky the Redwood @BigBuck__]

I be tryna allow space and time for people to tell me things on their own, but after so long I’m fed up and now I gotta attitude about it.

[Bucky the Redwood @BigBuck__]

Yall love everything black until it comes to people

[The Best @TheBestqueenx]

It looks better and stronger after being burned!

Painful experiences make us stronger!

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Orcas eat great white sharks. They hunt seals, dolphins, and baby whales. They have never killed a single human in the open ocean. Not once, in all of recorded history.

An orca's brain weighs up to 15 pounds. Yours weighs about 3. They have roughly double the brain cells we do in the regions that handle complex thought. A neuroscientist at Emory named Lori Marino put an orca brain in an MRI and found these animals can tell different species apart underwater. They do it by sending out clicks that bounce off everything around them and come back as a kind of 3D sound map (this is called echolocation). From 500 feet away, an orca knows you're a human and not a seal. It skips you on purpose.

The answer is culture. Orcas around the world are divided into at least 10 separate populations, each with its own food rules, its own language, and its own way of hunting. All of it learned from their mothers. One population eats only fish. Another eats only marine mammals like seals and sea lions. These two populations can live in the exact same water and never swap a single meal. A baby orca learns what food is from its mother, and that list stays the same for life.

In the Pacific Northwest, one population called the Southern Residents eats almost nothing but Chinook salmon. Scientists have documented them killing harbor porpoises 78 times over six decades, carrying the dead porpoises in their mouths, and never once eating them. Even when the group was starving. A 2023 study in Marine Mammal Science looked at all 78 cases and concluded it was play. These orcas would rather go hungry than eat something their culture says isn't food.

Researchers studying whale behavior in 2001 found that orca cultural traditions "appear to have no parallel outside humans." Each family group has its own dialect, its own version of the language. Calves spend about two years just learning how to make all the sounds their family uses. Mothers will slow down a hunt on purpose so their young can watch.

In 2005, a 12-year-old kid was swimming in Helm Bay, Alaska when an orca came at him full speed. At the very last second, the orca seemed to realize it was charging a human. It bent its entire body in half and turned back to open water. In captivity, it goes differently. SeaWorld's Tilikum killed three people during his life in a concrete tank. Research from 2016, published in the journal Animals, traced it to psychological collapse from being locked away from the family bonds orcas need to stay stable.

I think calling this a "mystery" undersells the science. Orcas decide what to eat based on culture, not instinct. No orca mother has ever taught her calf to hunt humans, so no orca hunts humans. Only about 75 of those salmon-eating Southern Residents are still alive. Their pregnancy failure rate is 69% because we've destroyed their salmon runs. They won't break their food culture to survive. Whether we care enough to protect theirs is the part that actually matters.

[Bucky the Redwood @BigBuck__]

Blessed.

[goma @soigomaa]

we live on a planet where trees warn each other of danger through underground networks. where octopuses dream. where elephants return to the bones of their dead and stand over them in silence. where bees communicate through dance, showing each other where to fly. where flowers bloom...where crows remember human faces -especially those who were cruel to them - and pass that memory on to their young. where ants build entire cities. where cats purr at a frequency that can help heal bones. where forests, after fires, grow flowers first.