maddog

i like turtles

[milk @milkstrology]

cancer risings are ruled by the moon, so telling them to not dwell on things when their entire nature is to problem-solve or heal everyone around them, taking on people’s feelings with the intent on helping - yet putting their own on the backburner, is astrologically improbable.

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

12 Reasons Why Cities Need More Trees:

1. Temperature Control

One large tree is equivalent to 10 air conditioning units, and the shade they provide can reduce street temperature by more than 30%.

2. Noise Reduction

Trees can reduce loudness by up to 50%. In urban areas filled with the sound of cars, construction, sirens, aeroplanes, and music, trees are essentially the best way to block noise and keep cities — along with the homes and workplaces in them — quieter.

3. Air Purity

Trees remove an astonishing amount of harmful pollutants and toxins from the air. In urban areas air quality is often disastrously bad — with severe consequences for our health. Trees make the air we breathe much cleaner.

4. Oxygen

And, while absorbing all those pollutants, trees also put more oxygen back into the urban environment. Oxygen levels are significantly lower in cities compared to the countryside; trees help to solve that problem.

5. Water Management

Trees do more than just shelter us and our buildings from rain — which is, in fact, extremely important. They also absorb huge quantities of water, reduce run-off, neutralise the severity of flooding, and make flooding more unlikely altogether. Not to forget that their roots absorb pollutants and prevent them from feeding back into a city's water supply.

6. Psychological Health

Studies have proven what we instinctively know to be true: that human beings are significantly happier when surrounded by nature rather than sterile urban environments. Our emotions, behaviour, and thoughts are shaped by the places we spend time — and trees have a profoundly positive effect on our psychology. The consequential benefits of being happier and more peaceful — as individuals and as a society — are immense.

7. Physical Health

Beyond all the other ways in which trees improve air quality and the urban environment, much to the benefit of our health, they also encourage people to go outside. Cycling, running, and walking are all more common in urban areas with plenty of trees. A knock-on effect of people spending more time outdoors is also social integration and stronger communities.

8. Privacy

A simple point, but not inconsequential, is that trees provide privacy.

9. Economics

The total economic benefit of urban trees is hard to calculate. There are costs, of course, including the repair of infrastructure damaged by roots and maintaining the trees themselves. But the total economic benefit — a consequence of everything else in this list and more — far outweighs the expenditure. Trees make cities wealthier.

10. Wildlife

Trees are miniature cities all of their own, serving as a habitat for hundreds of different species, including birds and mammals and insects.

11. Light Pollution

Trees don't only block the light shining down, therefore keeping us and our cities cooler — they also disrupt light shining up, from street lighting, cars, houses, and billboards. Skies are clearer in cities with more trees.

12. Aesthetics

And, finally, trees are beautiful. They break up the potential monotony of urban environments — the sharp geometry, the greyscale roads and buildings, the endless rows of cars — with their trunks, boughs, canopies, and flowers.

Just think: the gold and red of falling leaves in autumn, the white and pink blossom of spring, the vast green canopies of summer, and the branches lined with hoar-frost in winter. Every single tree is a myriad of intricacy and texture, of colour and scent, of dappled light on the pavement, mottled bark, knotted roots, of clustered leaves and delicate petals and stern boughs.

Few streets would not be improved by the kaleidoscopic aesthetic delights of a tree, not to mention the many different species of tree, all over the world, whether willow, oak, lime, cherry, aspen, maple, birch, horse chestnut, dogwood, hornbeam, ash, sycamore... the list goes on.

There are some drawbacks to urban trees, most of them context-specific, and they are not — of course — universally appropriate. But it seems fair to say that many cities would benefit from at least a few more trees here and there.

[maddog @MaddyReisch]

why does my dog act like he’s never fed

[maddog @MaddyReisch]

why does my dog act like he’s never fed

[For the love of Missy. @MissyBBBobtail]

From FB

1/3 It’s official, we’re desperate 😔

Sky hasn’t received ONE inquiry since arriving to us November last year. No one has sent an email. No one has called about her. No one asks to visit with her. We have posted her multiple times…still nothing.

[sensory homunculette @myfriendcallie]

Girl who starts acting weird bc she’s nervous that she is acting weird

[maddog @MaddyReisch]

@BachelorABC @zach_shallcross @Latto @TahzjuanHawkins @bugrobertson i thought this group date was way more lit than the second group date, I mean Latto!? 😍🔥
Also tho at first look I thought Zach was a cardboard cut out😂

[maddog @MaddyReisch]

@planetmari_ virgo sun, scorpio moon🌞🌚✨

[maddog @MaddyReisch]

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[🪐👁️ @energyhealingjw]

This New Moon in powerful Aquarius is here in 5 hours. The Universe is saying that the moon light may be weak, but cosmic energy is very strong. Whatever comes out of your mouth will come to you. This moon marks the beginning of many new cycles. Welcome new blessings & deep love.

[♆ @planetmari_]

moon is in scorpio

[syd divine @SydDivineTarot]

who wants to go on a date here

[NASA @NASA]

Astronomers using @NASAHubble have recorded a star’s final moments as it gets gobbled up by a black hole. Stellar shredding like this happens only a few times in every 100,000 years in any given galaxy with a supermassive black hole center: https://t.co/ZhZK4MRK1n #AAS241

[maddog @MaddyReisch]

@rycunni sending healing vibes🫶🏼✨

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Rare recording of Willie Nelson, 1962

[NASA @NASA]

You don’t look a day over 4.5 billion years. ☀️⁣
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#HappyNewYear from the star of the show that makes all this possible. We begin a new orbit around our Sun, 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) from Earth. https://t.co/HxAO7K9EpH

[one of ur hoes @miliondollameat]

my new year's resolution is to continue being a silly motherfucking goose

[maddog @MaddyReisch]

@kuhhsandra classic

[maddog @MaddyReisch]

The smell and sound of coffee brewing in the morning brings me joy

[maddog @MaddyReisch]

@brett_nuffer oh my gosh😂😂😂

[Oɴε GнαdFαтнεર 𝕏 @DeGhadFada]

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