martha

live in the vineyard

[Normal Gay Psychiatrist @NormalGayPsych]

I’m a gay man and I’m done staying silent.

I survived bullying, the coming-out wars, and actual hate for who I am.

What I won’t accept is importing millions from cultures where they throw us off rooftops, hang us, or jail us for life.

Pride flags in Tehran? Laughable. Open borders + unchecked migration from places that treat gays like vermin isn’t “compassion” — it’s suicide for everything we fought for.

Protect Western values or watch them disappear. Gay rights aren’t compatible with mass immigration from the most anti-gay societies on Earth.

Change my mind.

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

We should not allow the Scots to leave

[martha @savingtheseals]

@Maxwellpainn “So called religion of peace” is an archaic backwards cult.

[martha @savingtheseals]

@mrddmia Yes 🙌 I’m seeing it already 💯

[Restoring Your Faith in Humanity @HumanityChad]

Animals are a great example of how the world should be.

[martha @savingtheseals]

@RepBrandonGill These are words of a future president.

[martha @savingtheseals]

@rickygervais Hero status 💯 one question: will you be appearing in a bathtub on tour? If so I’m going.

[martha @savingtheseals]

@elonmusk The love of power was created by his early sense of powerlessness.

[Carnivore Aurelius ©🥩 ☀️🦙 @AlpacaAurelius]

this is the way

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

While nobody was looking, an octopus escaped its enclosure for the first time in three years and crawled all the way back to the ocean.

On June 2, 2025, an aquarium known for its fish, seahorses, and colorful tanks had one main attraction people always came to see. The octopus.

Visitors loved him because he would reach out, grab onto people, and sometimes refuse to let go until a worker offered him a snack to return to the tank.
For years, everyone thought it was amazing.

But after CCTV footage showed the same octopus slipping out of his enclosure and crawling across the floor toward the dock, people started looking at those old moments differently.

Maybe he wasn’t being playful. Maybe every time he held onto someone, he was trying to leave.

Staff used to lure him back with food, and people online began saying the snacks may have been the only thing keeping him from chasing the one thing he really wanted.

Freedom.

One day, while the aquarium was quiet, the octopus found a way out, slipped past the tanks, and made it all the way back toward the water.

The clip went viral because it didn’t look like a random escape. It looked like something he had been waiting three years to do.

Months later, the aquarium faced heavy backlash after visitors started raising concerns about the way the animals were being kept.

But by then, the octopus was already gone.

For three years, people thought he was reaching for attention, but maybe he was reaching for the ocean.

[martha @savingtheseals]

@ImMeme0 Deport

[martha @savingtheseals]

@spencerpratt Solar is great for our environment right?! Woooowwww

[martha @savingtheseals]

@17TBIYTC23 It’s useless. You can get a full set of labs check CMP and CBC for under 100 at walk in Quest labs. Skip the expensive visit otherwise. I went for the first time in a decade for them to tell me absolutely NOTHING. I’m almost 50 with near perfect health. No jabs no pharmaceutical!

[martha @savingtheseals]

@Rightanglenews How can someone receive death threats from a “peaceful” religion?

[martha @savingtheseals]

This is THE WAY

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

In 1987, Costa Rica was 21% forest. Today it's 57%.

In the 1990s, Costa Rica passed a law that pays landowners directly for the ecosystem services their forest provides: carbon storage, watershed protection, biodiversity, soil stability. The payments are funded by a tax on fossil fuels.

Keep your trees standing and the government cuts you a check. Clear them and you lose the income.

Nearly a million hectares have been protected or restored under the program. Species that had retreated or disappeared from large parts of the country are recovering. The forest came back because the incentive structure changed, not because people were told to care more.

But it crashed the economy, right? Not at all.

Costa Rica became the top per capita agricultural exporter in Latin America. Tourism built around its forests and biodiversity became one of its largest industries. The economy didn't absorb the cost of keeping the forest. The forest became part of what grows their economy.

This is the version of the story most people never hear, the one where protecting nature and economic growth pointed in the same direction because we humans designed it that way.

It's not forests or the economy and it never had to be.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

In 1987, Costa Rica was 21% forest. Today it's 57%.

In the 1990s, Costa Rica passed a law that pays landowners directly for the ecosystem services their forest provides: carbon storage, watershed protection, biodiversity, soil stability. The payments are funded by a tax on fossil fuels.

Keep your trees standing and the government cuts you a check. Clear them and you lose the income.

Nearly a million hectares have been protected or restored under the program. Species that had retreated or disappeared from large parts of the country are recovering. The forest came back because the incentive structure changed, not because people were told to care more.

But it crashed the economy, right? Not at all.

Costa Rica became the top per capita agricultural exporter in Latin America. Tourism built around its forests and biodiversity became one of its largest industries. The economy didn't absorb the cost of keeping the forest. The forest became part of what grows their economy.

This is the version of the story most people never hear, the one where protecting nature and economic growth pointed in the same direction because we humans designed it that way.

It's not forests or the economy and it never had to be.

[martha @savingtheseals]

@Rainmaker1973 Nope, no way, no how.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The most thrilling hiking route in China

[martha @savingtheseals]

@DavidWolfe I will never vaccinate again.