Ashlyn

Laz ❤️ livin for the sunshine 🌻 she/her

[Fiona @FionaSmall]

Happy Independence Day, America

[madiiiii ⋆.˚⟡ ࣪ ˖ @madsdanae]

I would say happy birthday, America, but unfortunately I love abortions and immigrants and public education and universal healthcare and Black people and the environment and not bombing children with my tax dollars.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

People ask me why I'm so passionate about sheep.

Here's why.

A sheep wakes up on a hillside nothing else will live on. 32-degree slopes. Acidic soil. Wind off the Atlantic. Rain in quantities most European crops would consider insulting. She walks out, eats grass nobody asked her to grow, and turns it into meat, milk, wool, lanolin, and the maintained landscape beneath her feet.

She requires no pesticides. No irrigation. No imported feed. No lab. No patent.

She takes the sun, the rain, the soil, and the specific botanical composition of a particular upland, and produces the leanest, most nutritionally complete meat in the British food supply. Every gram of lamb contains complete protein, zinc, iron, B12, selenium, and the conjugated linoleic acid your metabolism actually asked for.

She also produces, as a side effect, the landscape the tourists photograph. The wildflowers the campaigners claim to care about. The birdlife the charities fundraise on. The stone walls the poets write about. The curlew, the skylark, the golden plover, the red grouse, the hen harrier. None of it exists without her.

And we have spent the last fifty years being told this animal is wrecking the countryside.

The audacity.

I'll take my chances with the creature that has been shaping these hills for ten thousand years over the pea protein isolate that was patented in 2017.

[kas @VHSdogs]

happy earth day

[chels @gremlingardener]

when the trees are gone & the water is no longer clean & our natural resources are depleted & they’re trying to sell us bottled air like the fucking lorax, when nature becomes a luxury & the bees disappear and the food supply dwindles, at least you owned the libs, am I right?!

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Each bee has four wings. So this veil took about 5,000 dead bees to make. A single healthy hive holds up to 60,000.

Luci Jockel is a jeweler out of Rhode Island School of Design who only uses bees that died of natural causes. She found beekeepers who’d lost their hives and made a deal: she’d put in physical labor helping them rebuild, and they’d give her the wings from the bees that didn’t survive. A Rhode Island beekeeper named Paul Whewell had lost everything to a harsh winter. She worked his hives, learned to keep bees from him, then started her own colonies with her dad. Other wings came from rooftop hives at the RISD Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, and the MAD Museum in Manhattan.

Each wing is about half the width of a dime. She glued them one at a time with archival glue, the kind museums use to preserve artwork, to create a material she calls “bee wing lace.” The pattern comes from Dutch lace collars she studied in 1600s portraits at the RISD Museum. Nine years of work. The finished piece is a mourning veil, made to grieve the bees it came from.

Jockel started building this in 2017. Back then, US beekeepers were already losing around 40% of their colonies every year. Last year it hit 55.6%, the worst since tracking began in 2010. Commercial operations lost 62%. In raw numbers: 1.6 million colonies gone in twelve months, with damage above $600 million in replacement costs and lost honey production alone.

Bees keep most of your food supply running. About 75% of US crop production depends on them. California’s almond harvest alone needs 1.4 million hives trucked in every spring, roughly 60% of all managed colonies in the country, for a crop worth $6 billion a year. Total annual value to American farming: $34 billion.

She needed 5,000 bees and nine years to build one veil. One in every three bites of food you eat depends on the ones still alive.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The company offered 10x market rate and gave farmers 5 days to respond. That tells you everything about who actually has leverage in this deal.

When a Fortune 100 company requires NDAs before revealing its own name, pressures a response in under a week, and offers $48,000 per acre for $6,000 land, they’re not being generous. They’re telling you the land is worth more than $48,000 to them and they need you to say yes before you figure out why.

Public records filled in the gap the NDAs were designed to hide. The company filed for a 2.2 gigawatt power load from the local coal plant. That’s nearly double the plant’s entire annual generation capacity. You don’t file for 2.2 gigawatts on a speculative site. That filing means engineering, permitting, and capital allocation are already committed. Which means walking away from this specific location has a cost measured in months of delay and hundreds of millions in sunk planning.

The farmer has one asset the company can’t replace: this exact parcel, in this exact grid position, near this exact power plant. There is no “find another site” when your electrical infrastructure filing is already locked to a geography.

This is why at least seven families on the same road all said no independently. The 82-year-old mother rejected $33 million. The daughter rejected $26 million. Tim Grosser rejected $10 million. A Pennsylvania farmer rejected $15.7 million and sold his development rights for under $2 million to a farmland trust, permanently removing the land from any future offer.

The internet is framing this as sentiment vs. economics. Farmers choosing “heritage” over “generational wealth.” The 5-day pressure timeline, the NDAs, and the 2.2 gigawatt filing exposed the real dynamic: the company needs the land more than the farmers need the money. Every month of delay costs the developer more than the premium they offered.

$26 million was the lowball. The farmers just didn’t flinch.

[Brad @BraddrofliT]

If someone works full-time and receives SNAP, that means your taxpayer dollars are subsidizing the company's profits bc it refuses to pay them a livable wage.
This can only be said so many ways; it isn’t difficult to grasp.

[Rosalind @rosalindmar19]

Kurt Vonnegut on buying an envelope

[Mr. Chau @Srirachachau]

They're gonna keep throwing out the woke label to divert from the fact they're destroying everything that's keeping everyone alive

[Hashashin @HashashinTag]

I am begging you please read every word of this

[Lamis Deek لميس ديك @Lamis_Deek]

A final SOS

Cruelest world,

Gaza is sending a

FINAL SOS

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

Must be coincidence that in the last 2 weeks alone Russia, America, Turkey, India, South Korea, Pakistan, New Mexico, Spain, Vietnam, Philippines, China have seen extreme flooding, cars and people swept away etc
Nothing at all to do with 2024 being the hottest year in 100,00 years etc etc
#ClimateCrisis

[Celesta Jonah @CelestaJonah]

Why do people prefer retweeting my pictures over my Art?🥺
Here is the painting I made
Oil on canvas 2024🥺

[Mahala🇱🇨🇻🇮🏳️‍🌈 @mahalamodels]

SCREAMING!!!!! ME AND WIFEY ARE IN SEPHORA STORES! 🥹🤍

[Ashlyn @ashlyn__angel]

@MichaelBetPhoto a wonderful winning bitch !!!! b i t c h .

[Mahala🇱🇨🇻🇮🏳️‍🌈 @mahalamodels]

Guys….. I really modeled for @Nike 🤍🥹🫶🏽