it’s never a bad idea to try growing your own food. i’ve been able to add a lot more fresh veggies to my diet even with “container gardening” in a rented apartment & a balcony.

if you’ve got your own house & a garden, plant as many native trees as you can. some of these can provide free food too ofc, but also, trees are great for shade & staying cool during heatwaves, they’re great for flood prevention, they hold the soil together & prevent soil creep, etc etc.

so yeah, i suppose climate change & access to food are my main concerns. we can live without a lot of today’s tech, but we can’t live without edible food, clean water, and breathable air. 😅

cool, TIL that shoebills are part of the order pelicaniformes! they’re my favourite real-life jim henson workshop creation.

i have a separate phone and email just for applying for jobs, and that’s p much the only way i know how to deal with the spam, since it’s at least diverted away from my real contact details.

but unfortch, i can’t exactly give out my CV with my name and employers redacted, as much as i’d like to, hah!

good! hopefully this will discourage everyone who bought them from using them, so they just sit in a drawer somewhere or get recycled instead of spying on unwitting people, and meta will fail to make back the huge amounts of money they’ve invested in tech that most people don’t want 😌

i recommend trying to read books made for children or adult learners as soon as possible, because it’s a great way to pick up vocabulary. that can absolutely be started at A2 level, although you’ll need to look up words for context fairly regularly.

B1 level is generally when learners can start reading YA-level novels without stopping too often to look things up, because their vocabularies will be good enough that they can start to infer things from context.

B2 would be about the level for a lee child / agatha christie novel, although specific terminology, less common grammatical structures, or dialectical speech will still likely throw you for a loop until you encounter them more often.

i believe C1 is when learners are getting closer to that native-like fluency with reading comprehension etc, but i’ll let you know when i get there! :P

here’s hoping governments will stop fast fashion at the source too!

clothing companies need to be forced to fairly pay their workers, have decent working hours & conditions for them, and planned obsolescence for clothing (via flimsy thin fabrics etc) needs to be regulated out of existence. 🤞

the part of the label specifying “100% edible” really doesn’t help with suspicions either 🤣

i can’t tell the early dicot leaves of p much any plant apart 🫣

it might be about characterising anarchists as “just wanting chaos”, because a lot of people use anarchy and chaos as synonyms…?

i’m not certain, the “you guys” in the picture could be referring to someone else entirely and not anarchists at all!

nakey for eyeball science. they’ll never pick up on the orbital foreign bodies if i wear a t-shirt, that’s just basic maths 🙂‍↕️

that’s a lot of work, fair play! i’m defo bookmarking this for future reference, thank you! 🙌

maybe food colouring or something could be added to the glue to solve the paint problems…? i might try it & if it doesn’t work out, a tablecloth will hide all my mistakes, lol

very cool, i love that you painted it like cardboard too :D

how was the paper used, was it like papier maché? (i’m definitely not asking so i could make something similar 👀)

bumblebees do form colonies with worker bees & drones & brood & a single queen, much like honeybees, but they’re much tinier than the ones you’d see honeybees in! sometimes they take over old bird boxes that’ve been abandoned, and they typically don’t even use up all the space there.

they’re smaller colonies population-wise, too. there’d be like tens to hundreds of bumblebees in their colonies, compared to tens of thousands of honeybees in their colonies.

idk how to add pictures to comments, but i recommend looking up pictures of them, they’re cute! bumblebee cells are just spheres, since they don’t have the numbers to require the intense efficiency of the classic honeybee hexagonal cells :D

i believe the 22 birds in 1989 might mean 22 in the wild in that area, based on the previous paragraph. and it seems to be a big coordination with zoos etc:

The condors are lured in by food twice a year for health checks. The Northern California Condor Restoration Program receives its young condors from breeding facilities such as the Oregon Zoo, Los Angeles Zoo, World Center for Birds of Prey and for the first time this year, the San Diego Zoo, Williams-Claussen said.

Once young condors are about 18 months old, which is how old they are when they leave the nest in the wild, they are transferred from breeding facilities to field pens at release sites in California and Arizona.

Young condors receive aversion training to learn not to land on power poles, engage in flight fitness preparations and learn to socialize with adult “mentor” condors, Williams-Claussen said. After several months of acclimation, they’re released to fly free.

“They have always been in captivity, so we release them singly or in pairs, so we can really make sure that they get their ‘wings up,’ so to speak,” Williams-Claussen said. “We also consistently provide food for them to make sure that they have the resources they need until they can really figure out how to be on their own.”

the person being interviewed there is:

Yurok Wildlife Department Director Tiana Williams-Claussen […] who has worked for 18 years at the Northern California Condor Restoration Program.

everyone on the lower rungs of society being obedient, and a fascist directly benefitting from taking control of a country… are seen as altruism? truly wild!

personally, i’d prefer an alignment chart that sticks to “altruistic” versus “self-interested”, since this shows how skewed it can get when people are convinced that horrible things they’re doing are for the greater good 😬

i can’t imagine fascists believing so strongly that humans are altruistic, surely fascists generally believe people to be as self-interested as they are?

it might be! i’m not sure if a camel’s back legs allow for splooting, but a lot of animals sploot to cool down / regulate temperature, so it’d be p useful!

the r slur really can’t be reclaimed, because the people most impacted by that slur are unable to participate in these conversations.

nah, this one’s just resting. baby camels have their first wobbly steps almost right after being born, like horses!

idk, that ea-nāṣir shade looks like it’s poor quality 🤔