The first thing every giraffe does is fall 6 feet.

queer-wizard-dad

rwprincess

There is no shame in loving with abandon. ✌️❤️

obaewankenope

systlin

But seriously, when we got our property, it was all just…grass. A sterile grass moonscape, like a billion other yards. With two big old maple trees. Just grass and maples, that was it.

But then I got my grubby little paws on it, and I immediately stopped fertilizing, spraying, and bagging up grass clippings and leaves. I ripped up sod and put in flowers and vegetables. I put down nice thick blankets of mulch around the flowers and vegetables.

When I first was sweating my way through stripping sod, I saw a grand total of 1 worm and 0 ladybugs. The ground was compacted into something that would bend shovel blades.

Now, six years later, I can’t dig a planting hole without turning up fourteen earthworms, and there are so many ladybugs here. Not the invasive asian lady beetles; native ladybugs. They winter over in the mulch and in the brush pile. I see thousands of them.

The soil is soft and rich. There are birds that come to eat, and bees of many sorts.

Like this is something that you, yourself, can absolutely change. This is something that you, personally, can make a difference in.

systlin

Like, last year I watched no fewer than twenty-nine monarch caterpillars grow up on my milkweed and fly away as butterflies. I watched swallowtails and moths grow. There are hummingbirds fighting over flowers now.

I did that. Me. You can do the same.

flamingbluepanda

Is this post about making a garden or beating depression

systlin

As someone with clinically diagnosed anxiety and depression;

Yes.

geekwithsandwich

disasterarea-podcast

Sirens were silent during the Lahaina fire. Maui's emergency chief says he doesn't regret it — Los Angeles Times

Herman Andaya, who leads Maui’s Emergency Management Agency, defended the decision not to sound warning sirens amid the catastrophic Lahaina

apple.news

I hate this headline. And people are just going to read this headline and not the article and get angry, and that makes me even more annoyed.

The sirens in question are tsunami sirens. They’re down by the coast (not near where the fire was) and unsurprisingly direct people to higher ground. If locals heard them, that’s where they would go. Imagine if you were in the Midwest, and a wildfire was approaching so they fired up the tornado sirens. You wouldn’t evacuate. You’d go in the basement or the bathroom, because that’s what those sirens mean. Turning them on would send people into a death trap.

It’s the same problem here. The thing with emergency management is that different emergencies require different solutions. You don’t pull a fire alarm for a tornado, you don’t fire up the tornado sirens for a tsunami, and you don’t set off the tsunami sirens for a goddamn wildfire.

deathspeaker

This is the opposite of bad journalism, it's actively hostile to the truth. It is INTENTIONALLY creating an idea contrary to what actually happened and no, revealing the truth in the article doesn't fix the absolutely horrid headline.

feuervogel

The emergency manager quit his job because of the harassment he received over this.

redwolf17

a-frog-in-a-bog

Tumblr: fae king hozier haha bog man who writes songs about nature

Hozier:

bluesturngold

there needs to be a law that says job rejections have to be sent by a person.

they can still copy and paste a template, but the email has to be from someone in the company's HR department so i know a human being was involved in the process at some point.

i'm so tired of submitting job apps, hearing absolutely nothing from anyone about anything, and then getting an email two months later from noreply @ lolyourefucked.com saying lol and letting me know i am, in fact, fucked.com.