dialectical material girl 🖤❤️💚🤍

trying to get through life with my female brain

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Running a gas leaf blower for 30 minutes produces roughly the same hydrocarbon pollution as driving a car 1,100 miles and shreds next summer's insects.

That's before you get to what the air does to the yard itself. Leaf blower air exits the nozzle at up to 200 miles per hour. That's enough to shred caterpillars, strip butterfly eggs off leaves, and fling overwintering fireflies, ladybugs, and ground beetles into the street.

The leaf litter being blown to the curb is where next summer's insects were waiting out the winter. A chickadee pair needs 6,000 to 9,000 caterpillars to raise one brood. Most of those overwinter in exactly the debris being removed.

California banned gas-powered leaf blowers. So did Washington DC and a growing number of cities. Germany's environment ministry advised citizens to avoid them unless "indispensable," which is a very German way of saying please stop.

The leaves can be raked into beds as mulch, mowed over and left as nutrients, or just left alone. Any of those options take roughly the same time and produce approximately zero hydrocarbon pollution and zero shredded caterpillars.

The leaf blower is loud, bad for air quality, and running a massacre on the insects that feed your birds. Is it time to ban them entirely?

[Hannah Walters @EcoLifeHannah]

Such a powerful and sad image. We need to protect Asian elephants and the natural habitats they depend on.

[Michelle @D162Michele]

Because the Dutch enslaved his ancestors.

[FourthDrawerDown #MDANT 🏅 @itaintwhywhywhy]

Might be the worse one yet?

[َ @beenievrse]

and they tell us korea‘s obsession with beauty isn’t batshit crazy

[Skribz @SkribzSt]

This is why you can't trust 'history'.

[alxndr @alexaldente]

This man is going on two decades of consistently proving he is an absolute piece of shit and it’s so embarrassing that anyone still listens and supports him

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

There's a growing phenomenon being photographed around the world: hermit crabs using garbage instead of shells as homes. The seashell you're about to pocket is the reason why.

Hermit crabs don't make their own shells. They spend their entire lives finding bigger ones as they grow, which means every shell on a beach is actively in demand. A heavily visited beach is one where the larger shells have been picked clean, leaving crabs competing for whatever's left.

The shortage has gotten bad enough that researchers have documented hermit crabs moving into garbage: bottle caps, broken lightbulbs, and plastic debris. But these aren't suitable homes. They climb in and can't get back out, eventually dying in them.

The shells you leave behind also break down into calcium carbonate, the raw material for new shells, coral skeletons, and seabird eggs. A shell sitting on your shelf is calcium that left the system permanently.

Look at it. Photograph it. Leave it where you found it.

[Janni @HeyImJanni]

Erderwärmung

[The Road Jess Travelled @JessPected]

If anyone but christians stood up on a plane & started talking about dying, they'd be dragged off, banned for life, & facing charges. But christian supremacy allows these assholes to intrude upon the lives of everyone else & spread their deluded terrorism.

[Brian M @MZygodactyl01]

I have noticed similar things long ago.
If a machine breaks or malfunctions and costs the company lots of money, they find the cause and repair it.
If a human makes a mistake costing the company more than a fraction of the average daily output: he at least gets an ass chewing and wrote up! Unlike the machine: he might get completely discarded from the company and suffer from a bad reputation as he has lost 100% of his income and seeks re-employment.
But, but, but unfettered capitalism is the best way, and this is a moral Christian nation. /sarc

[jezz @JezziiB]

My husband’s friend works in a Walmart distribution center. She says it can get very hot in there. But they finally have some decent AC. Why? Because the robots that are there now require cool air to function. Fuck the humans but cater to the machines. What a disgrace.

[𝖏𝖆𝖘𝖒𝖎𝖓𝖊 ☾ ✩ ✧ @softlxnar]

Am I too woke or is this not sweet in the slightest and actually kind of insane to post

[Duopoly Destroyer @realnikohouse]

Venezuela has a massive earthquake hit the country right after their president is kidnapped. The U.S. sends its military, NGO’s, and the CLINTON FOUNDATION in to offer “humanitarian aid”…and suddenly thousands of kids go missing.

Disaster capitalism is setting up Haiti 2.0

[Genie @lettersfromjuno]

When we scream protect the trees, that also includes the plains. The plains is such an under appreciated biome, and their carbon is stored underground compared to large forests and rainforests. They too must be protected as fires continually spread throughout Colorado

[Modern Rome in Freefall 🇵🇸 @ljmontello]

Noticing the sex work is work crowd uncharacteristically silent about a Thai teenager getting murdered by a sex tourist over $13.

[Mikirru @Mikirru03]

So your co workers have died in this disgusting predatory industry and you’re still trying to defend the industry that killed women close to you?

[Modern Rome in Freefall 🇵🇸 @ljmontello]

Ah yes... because gender equality when teenagers, not women end up dying at the hand of Johns over $13 because she "chose" it.

GTFO with that low effort misogynistic troll.

[annie ⭐️ @Anni3ac]

the idea that we should validate a trans woman complaining about period cramps that are IMPOSSIBLE for her to have is part of why trans is losing support. total refusal to recognize material reality or why women would be uncomfortable

[💗 @ma1ybe]

Men love to put their name on the achievements of women