Lil Intro Vert 🙈

We are all 1 race, the human race✊1 love✌️Native. Survivor. Nature & animal lover. Definitely NOT a human. Fuck Trump forever. Pan🏳️‍🌈 she/her ♍️☀️/ ♈️🌙/♏️🌄

[Lil Intro Vert 🙈 @IndigoStarseed]

@LeelouWitchyPoo The shit that woman put me through, it was the least I could do. And she died pissed about it too 😂

[🌜Leelou *pissed off ginger* WitchyPoo🌛🐈‍⬛🐈 @LeelouWitchyPoo]

It's always been about the MALE. EGO.

[Lil Intro Vert 🙈 @IndigoStarseed]

Wasn’t sure about this purple lippie at first, but I quite like it!
LA Girl kills it with some of their lippies and this is one of them for sure!

[Lil Intro Vert 🙈 @IndigoStarseed]

Love them! Amazing little beauties 😍 I started growing milkweeds for them a couple years ago, last year I counted 24 cocoons (that I could find)

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

This is a monarch butterfly migration arriving in the oyamel fir forests of central Mexico. None of these butterflies has ever been here before.

Their great-great-grandmothers left this exact grove in March. By July those grandmothers were dead. The butterflies you're watching are four to five generations downstream, born somewhere between Texas and Ontario, and they just flew up to 3,000 miles to a tree none of their parents ever saw.

The brain doing the navigation is smaller than a grain of rice.

The mechanism is a sun compass time-compensated by a circadian clock running in the antennae. Cut the antennae and the monarch loses orientation within hours. The clock corrects for the sun's position drifting across the sky as the day moves. Add iron-bearing magnetite particles for magnetic field detection on cloudy days, and a 0.5 gram insect is running redundant inertial guidance.

The destination is more specific than the navigation.

They cluster on a few dozen oyamel fir groves in the Sierra Madre at 9,000 to 11,000 feet. The microclimate has to sit between 32 and 41°F. Below freezing kills them. Above 41°F burns the fat reserves they need to survive five months without feeding. The right band exists a few hundred meters thick on a few specific mountains. Outside it, the migration ends.

One generation each year is built differently from the rest. Summer monarchs live two to six weeks. The fall generation lives eight months. It postpones reproduction, fattens up, and carries the entire round trip in a single body.

The map is genetic. Nobody has fully decoded how.

A monarch hatched in a backyard in Toronto in September has never seen a mountain, never smelled a fir, never met an ancestor. It flies south for ten weeks, picks the right peak, and lands on the tree its bloodline has been returning to for tens of thousands of years.

The forest knows the families that come back.

[Lil Intro Vert 🙈 @IndigoStarseed]

@LeelouWitchyPoo I feel like lingerie tape wouldn’t be strong enough, perhaps one of those glue dots 🤔💭

[Lil Intro Vert 🙈 @IndigoStarseed]

Bitches switch up real fuckin quick when someone offers em money to lie about a friend they had considered and called family for years. Knowing said lie will ruin multiple lives, they do it anyway; all for a couple hundred dollars. Humans are bullshit.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page.

It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection.

Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do.

Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades.

The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water.

It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left.

The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero.

When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.

[Lil Intro Vert 🙈 @IndigoStarseed]

😁😁😁

[Lil Intro Vert 🙈 @IndigoStarseed]

Well hop to it boo 😘

[Lil Intro Vert 🙈 @IndigoStarseed]

Welp first tick of the year was just crawling on the couch 5 minutes after my dog got up 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[Lil Intro Vert 🙈 @IndigoStarseed]

@LeelouWitchyPoo I hope who needed to know believes you over the vendor, doing it in the first place is bad enough; but then to lie about it; that is some extreme level of bullfuckingshittery!!

[Lil Intro Vert 🙈 @IndigoStarseed]

When you give a squirrel a spicy nug at Wendy’s 🙂

[Lil Intro Vert 🙈 @IndigoStarseed]

I finally seen a tree creeper!!! I can’t believe how tiny this little cutie is! 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

#birds #birdwatching #nature #outside #wildlife #smallbirds

[Lil Intro Vert 🙈 @IndigoStarseed]

@pwndbycats78_2 We’ve had a few mice over here, and the house was nothing like this! Admittedly they got in through the garage, which is cluttered as all hell 🫠 I trapped and relocated them at the park across from the lake on linden rd.

[Lil Intro Vert 🙈 @IndigoStarseed]

@pwndbycats78_2 😭🤧💔
I’m so sorry 😞 🫂

[Lil Intro Vert 🙈 @IndigoStarseed]

Holy projection 💀

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: Trump is now threatening Netflix of consequences if they don’t fire Susan Rice.

Important context: Netflix is in a bidding war with Paramount for Warner Brothers. There are rumors that Trump may block the bid by Netflix.

This is exactly how dictators act. How are Republicans OK with this?

[Kia 🧸ྀི @xevekiah]

a woman with twins found out one fetus had died.
the other still had a heartbeat.
her doctor told her the truth:
“this is dangerous. you could get infected. you could go septic.”
she asked for termination because she already had two kids at home.
the hospital said:
“we can’t terminate a pregnancy with a heartbeat.”
so they sent her home.
she started leaking fluid.
then she started smelling “off.”
then she started running a fever so high she couldn’t think straight.
she came back.
the nurse said:
“you’re anxious.”
she said:
“i’m not anxious. i’m rotting.”
they gave her Tylenol and a pamphlet.
she texted her friend:
“if i die, tell people it wasn’t god. it was the law.”
she survived, barely.
after surgery. after ICU. after her uterus was destroyed.

and politicians still called it “saving babies.”
but what they saved was control.
and what they sacrificed was her body.