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Mass Effect's bitch, lover of science fiction and fantasy. I am an adult.

[NicDaisy @plummie9]

French

Dinner Dress, 1890-95

Silk taffeta, applique lace and embroidery, rhinestones

@metmuseum
#FashionHistory

[Karolina Laskowska @KarolinaZL]

A close up look at the embellishment of the Persephone stays. Hand stitched guipure lace appliqué, in shades of silver and gold with pomegranate motifs. Czech glass beads, with droplets, metallic coated faceted beads, and delicate spikes.

[sil ♡ penelope whisperer @thhouseofblack]

The concept of taking away the scene that results in the Odyssey, from the Odyssey

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Overfed lion cub rolls onto its back after a large meal

Photographer Johan J. Botha captured the moment after a pride of nine lions, including several cubs, had finished feeding on a large kill. With its belly full, one cub simply flopped onto its back and stayed there

[Zen✨WECK @ZenWeck]

We tried to raise concerns about this years ago.

Ontario’s forestry policy has allowed the continued aerial spraying of glyphosate across parts of the boreal forest to suppress deciduous species like aspen and birch in favor of conifer regeneration.

Now Northern Ontario is facing another devastating wildfire season: more than 100 active fires, evacuations, homes lost, and smoke spreading far beyond Canada’s borders. Air quality alerts and hazy skies are affecting not only Ontario cottage country and Toronto, but communities across much of eastern Canada and the northeastern United States.

Wildfire risk is complex. But forest management decisions deserve serious scrutiny.

Many fire ecologists have noted that mixed forests containing more deciduous species can be more resilient to wildfire because trees like aspen and birch are generally less flammable and can help slow fire spread. Conifer-dominated forests, on the other hand, can support hotter, faster-moving crown fires under the right conditions.

So the question needs to be asked:

Are we managing our forests primarily for timber production, or are we prioritizing long-term ecological resilience and community protection?

Quebec banned forestry use of glyphosate in 2001. First Nations, environmental organizations, hunters, and many northern residents have repeatedly called for a re-examination of Ontario’s approach.

The smoke from these fires is a reminder that what happens in Northern Ontario doesn’t stay in Northern Ontario. It affects wildlife, tourism, public health, local economies, and millions of people living hundreds or even thousands of miles away.

How many more summers of smoke-filled skies will it take before we seriously reconsider how we manage one of the world’s most important forests?

[WikiVictorian @wikivictorian]

Miss Gabrielle Ray and Miss Graske in Lady Madcap, 1905.

[“Sudden And Unexpected” @toobaffled]

Young women are told to get a Pap smear every 3 years to ‘prevent’ cervical cancer.

But the brush used to scrape the cervix is sterilized with ethylene oxide .. a known cancer-causing chemical.

The irony is wild.

[Daniel Turner @DanielTurnerPTF]

The 2023 Canadian wildfires emitted roughly 647 million metric tons of carbon.

That was more than the annual emissions of every country except three.

When are environmentalists going to call out Canada for repeatedly failing to properly manage its forests?

[WikiVictorian @wikivictorian]

Walking suit by Paquin, 1912. National Gallery of Victoria.

[The Edge of the Earth🇻🇦🇺🇸 @EDG_Eat]

Canadians are directly responsible for this by refusing as a point of policy to do controlled burnings btw.

[🇨🇦 HUSKY LIFE 🇨🇦 @2010CLDL]

Poor forest management isn't climate change

[RodeoProfessor @RodeoProfessor]

This is absolutely incredible. You’re watching in real time as a homegrown, family run, American Buffalo textile company needs to, under California environmental law, pay fees to a foreign NGO with ties to a European (German) for-profit company (Landbell) for the pleasure of selling his all natural, buffalo wool products in California in the name of “sustainability.”

The thinking is this NGO collects old clothing and recycles it by repairing it and reusing it (or something). This is a preposterous program! Most modern textiles cannot be broken down mechanically without damaging the fiber quality, making them unusable in new apparel. So you spend all this money and manpower driving all over the state to collect these things and the best you can do it make a lower quality product like insulation, rags, stuffing. It’s not a closed loop system recycling socks back into socks! You’re just paying a bunch of administrators in California, a foreigner NGO, taking money out of the pockets of small American businesses or forcing them to leave the state. Most of the clothing the NGO collects will be incinerated or land filled anyways!

This program should be called “pay California and this foreigner NGO a bribe to sell your socks in our state.” It’s outrageous and the winners here are Walmart and target who now get to take over markets where an American buffalo producer used to be, selling us plastic socks from Chinese slaves. This horrendous law, or multi layered NGO facilitated bribery scheme, just hurt a small American business whose model promotes the most iconic species of wildlife in our country alongside education and natural fibers.

Please tell me @kennethschrupp and @christopherrufo are working on a story on this.

Part of what caused this is thousands of “environmental” graduates who’ve never had to take a life cycle analysis/sustainability engineering course in their lives because they were busy studying environmental racism. That’s who makes these decisions. Absolutely nuts.

[James🔻 @GoodVibePolitik]

Since Josh Shapiro decided to film in a school it’s probably a good time to note that he covered up the murder of a teacher as Pennsylvania Attorney General by declaring her being stabbed 20 times as being a death by suicide.

[Helena | Commission OPEN @Koala_Laurelin]

Hey #PortfolioDay ! I am Helena. I draw dark and fantasy characters/illustrations.🖤

[Wylfċen @wylfcen]

Fun fact: Audrey is one of the only Anglo-Saxon names that still exists. It’s from Old English Æðelþryð, or “noble strength.”

[Daniel Tyrie @DanielTyrie]

This has nothing to do with climate change btw.

It's caused entirely by poor forestry management, a failure to maintain fire fighting infrastructure while sending billions in foreign aid to the third world, and inevitably deranged activist arsonists.

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

DON’T LET THIS STORY GET BURIED...

In 2021, CNN anchor Drew Griffin looks Dr. Rashid Buttar in the eye and says:

“I’m vaccinated. You think there is a ticking time bomb in me and I’m going to die?”

Dr. Buttar’s chilling reply:
“I hope not, but I’ll be happy to meet you in three years and see how you’re doing.”

Drew Griffin was diagnosed with cancer shortly after the shot… and died of TURBO CANCER in 2022.

He never made it to that three-year check-in.

This is what happens when warnings are mocked. Millions more are walking time bombs.

[winterofherdiscontent @winter_of_her]

only you and no other...
part of a personal illustration been working on started in 2022 but was never totally happy with, reworking the original idea into a new illustration of Sophie + Howl in my art style. still got a bit to go before finished #howlsmovingcastle

[Acyn @Acyn]

Massie: My amendment is simple. It strikes $3.3 billion of foreign aid to the country of Israel from the state department funding bill. We've got $39.4 trillion of debt. We've got needs at home, which include our infrastructure, our roads and bridges. We've got a shortfall in that fund. And we've got homeless veterans, and we're sending more money to Israel in this bill than we spend on homeless veterans in this country. Just to put it in perspective, there are 3000 counties in this country, and if you divide that into 3 billion, that's $1 million from every county. This is not a significant amount of money that is going overseas. So I think we should stop it. We should put them on a diet.

[Cabot Phillips @cabot_phillips]

Homeschooled students have:

-Higher SAT scores
-Lower depression and suicide rates
-Higher post grad employment
-Higher average income
-Lower arrest rates

Those darn fundamentalist Christians are ruining these children!!!