๐ŸŒŠWe return to each other in waves๐ŸŒŠ

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See, thatโ€™s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I donโ€™t wanna
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vuelode-irbis

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shoutout to all the aces that used to think they were bisexuals/pansexuals. i was there too


ID: a digital comic that consists of three panels, featuring an anthropomorphic cat. In the first panel, the cat is doing some math in their mind, their thought bubble reads "Attraction to boys = 0; attraction to girls = 0; 0 = 0". In the second panel, the cat smiles at the camera while raising their index finger, saying "I'm bisexual!" with a bisexual pride flag below. The third panel has the cat turning around and moving their fists thriumphantly, shouting "Yes! I figured it out!"; on their back, an asexual pride flag is stuck with tape, but they don't realize. Yet. End ID.

millenniumfae
elodieunderglass

I grow our own vegetables. Many hybrid and heirloom varieties are bred for flavor rather than for commercial appeal and travel. There are entire species on the allotment that you can’t easily buy in stores because of this - like salsify, a root vegetable that tastes of fish and shellfish. Our neighbours happily take it to make vegan latkes of alarming similarity to fishcakes. You cannot sell it in stores because - despite looking like a white parsnip - it turns brown when you pick it if you scrape/bruise/cut the white root in any way, or damage the delicate little hairs, for some reason, it BLEEDS RED and is very upsetting to look at.

There are whole classes of foods like this. Foods that just don’t ship well or look good on supermarket shelves. Forbidden fruits. Vegetables that bleed and taste like meat. Sorry about this

curioscurio

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disasterscenario

This website is one of my fav places to find interesting heirloom stuff! I ordered a bunch of seeds to try growing next year I’m really excited about! 

https://www.rareseeds.com/

ct-7567

@angelsaxis

itsdetachable

I’ve gotten and plants seeds from that site, Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, and they grow fantastically well for me.

I’m really looking forward to next season

incremental-revolution

Baker Creek Heirloom has good seeds but bad politics. They were going to host Cliven Bundy of the Occupation of Malheur National Wildlife Reserve whoโ€™s also pro the Capitol Riots and has made a lot of racist nastiness, although backlash made them cancel their guest list (which included other racist folks)

Good sources of heirloom seeds:

Meet the Farmers
Each of the varieties offered through Truelove Seeds was grown by small-scale urban or rural farmers committed to sustainable agriculture, f
Truelove Seeds
Rare Non-GMO Heirloom Seeds | Alliance of Native Seedkeepers
Alliance of Native Seedkeepers is North Americas Top Native American Source for rare heirloom Non-GMO vegetable, flower and herb garden seed
AllianceofNativeSeed
Our Story
Native Seeds/SEARCH (NS/S) is a nonprofit seed conservation organization based in Tucson, Arizona. Our mission is to conserve and promote th
Native-Seeds-Search
elodieunderglass

^^^

plum-soup

Highly recommend Native Seed/Search and Truelove. Baker Creek has an amazingly large catalog and has some very cool and rare stuff, but they are also Mennonites and as you might expect, they do have terrible politics as listed above, although they do some decent work preserving heirloom seeds from threatened communities.

An organization that does really interesting work preserving seed from threatened communities (and larger companies like baker creek often piggyback off of some of the work done by orgs like this and NS/S) is the Experimental Farm Network. They are very explicit about their (left-leaning) political views and you donโ€™t have to worry about them being Problematic. They have lots of interesting and rare varieties and species you really cannot find anywhere else.

Threatened Communities
An important part of our mission involves preserving and sharing seeds from communities under threat, and attempting, wherever possible, to
Experimental Farm Network Seed Store
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If you are looking for a wider selection of heirloom seed varieties, these two companies are very good resources as well, and carry many of the same things as Baker Creek. Afaik they are not expressly political beyond their general mission to preserve heirloom seeds (although southern exposure does a good job of preserving some very traditional african-American heirlooms from the Southeast US in particular).

Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, Saving the Past for the Future
Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, Saving the Past for the Future
Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
Seed Savers Exchange Heirloom Seeds
Heirloom seeds from Seed Savers Exchange. Buy rare, organic seeds and support our nonprofit mission to preserve garden diversity. Free catal
seedsavers.org
neolithicsheep

Omg I hadn’t heard of the Experimental Farm Network and I am delighted! I am also completely thrilled to see people other than me remember that Baker Creek is a bunch of lying fash. They claimed they did not know about Cliven Bundy AFTER VISITING HIM IN JAIL. He was literally in jail for his anti-social bullshit when they first talked to him about the watermelons he and his mentor stole from Indigenous people and made their name on. They also take seeds from Indigenous communities globally and profit from them without sharing those profits with the communities they took the seeds from.

…I am blocked by them on Twitter after publicizing the Cliven Bundy crap, full disclosure, I have an actual feud with these people and their unethical practices.

tkingfisher

I was trying to get signal in the goddamn Himalayas to argue with them about Bundy. *grumble*

I also second Native Seed/SEARCH as a great org doing great work. Some of their stuff is so desert-adapted it won’t grow for me, but I’ve had great luck with some of their bean varieties.

charlottedabookworm
i-was-today-years-old-when

i learned that the world record for the loudest thing ever shouted belongs to an Irish female teacher who shouted the word โ€œquietโ€ at 121 decibels, the equivalent of a jet engine (x)

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itsdanimotherfreakingglitter

DISGUSTANG

chlmera

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oh my god?

adistraughtthought

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questbedhead

Okay please read this whole article because there is important information in ther, including;

1. She never yells at her students- her record breaking 121 decibel shout happened during an event she’d been invited to. She was defending her title after setting the previous shouting record during a competition at a church camp, where she got to 119.4 decibels 

2. The only reason she entered the first competition was because her twin sister had entered and was about to win with a shout of 119.1 decibels. 

3. They took her to an expert to try to understand how she shouted so very loud and his conclusion was that her supernatural volume was fueled entirely by her need to beat her sister. 

supreme-leader-stoat

That’s just how siblings are.

axolotlife

It really is

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foone

I just saw a story on AO3 tagged "pet p!ay"


TIK TOK MUST BE STOPPED BEFORE IT DESTROYS LANGUAGE

digital-magus

Ok, unless something's going on I'm not aware of (extremely likely), I gotta point out the term "Pet Play" is significantly older than Tik Tok, or most of its userbase for that matter.

foone

Yeah, I'm not mad about using the term "pet play". That's a perfectly fine term. I'm mad because they didn't use that term: they used "pet p!ay", a censored version

digital-magus

Oh. Oh gawd I missed that. Objection withdrawn, that is objectively terrible.

biowho

To anybody who is new to posting on ao3, if you’re using a tag you have to use the correct spelling of that tag. People aren’t going to type in every version of a censored word to hide or look for your content 

emperorsfoot

For everyone new to tumblr, the same rule applies to tumblr too.

You cannot censor your tags! Censored tags cannot be block or filtered. Censoring tags HARMS your audience, it does not protect them