Sensei Scribbles

watermelon-converse:

alagaisia:

alagaisia:

alagaisia:

Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!

It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.

Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this

(via lokidokeyartichoki)

katelyn-danger:

I think the bicycle helmet discourse really just reinforces the idea that people believe that accidents only happen to the stupid and careless, and that people who get hurt somehow deserve it. And since nobody wants to believe themselves to be stupid, or thinks they could be careless or distracted, it’s not necessary to take precautions.

And then they take safety advice as an insult because telling someone to be safe is seen as an accusation of being stupid and irresponsible, and not just a value neutral acknowledgement of statistical inevitably. We see it with masks, and seatbelts, and now bicycle helmets because everyone wants to believe they’re too clever to get hurt, and too lucky to get hurt badly, until suddenly you’re not and you have to resign, in shame, to being one of the people you previously saw as annoying nags, assuming you’re even still alive.

(via specialagentartemis)

bookfirstlinetourney:

Round 1

People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles.

-Less Than Zero, Bret Easton Ellis

In the prison under the castle Allaze, in the dark, moldy cells where the greatest criminals in Mellinor spent the remainder of their lives counting rocks to stave off madness, Eli Monpress was trying to wake up a door.

-The Spirit Thief, Rachel Aaron

The journalists arrived before the coffin did.

-Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow, Jessica Townsend

Which is the best opening?

Less Than Zero

The Spirit Thief

Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow

headspace-hotel:

headspace-hotel:

as promised, the transplanting tutorial

most sources make transplanting sound incredibly difficult, but transplanting young seedlings from areas with sparse dirt, like a driveway or roadside, is actually incredibly easy and can get you some great stuff. Once I worked out the method, i’ve had a very high survival rate

it took me like a month of trial and error to figure this out so you don’t have to.

Feel free to repost, no need for credit

Hey y'all, do you see the plant in the last panel with the 2 spoon-shaped leaves?

This is her now

@kitdubhran

(via owlstory)

rebeccathenaturalist:

Thousands of butterflies released into the wild by the Oregon Zoo

Change can be hard, but these little insects are used to it.

KOIN.com

So this is a piece of good news that I have a small stake in. The Oregon silverspot butterfly (Speryeria zerene hippolyta) once flew along the coast from San Mateo County in California to my stomping grounds up here on the Long Beach Peninsula in extreme southwest Washington. As with many herbivorous insects, the caterpillar of this species has a very limited diet–in fact, the only thing it can eat is the leaves of the early blue violet (Viola adunca). The violets grow in coastal meadows where they get plenty of sun; unfortunately, due to fire suppression and development, most of these meadows are either heavily damaged or no longer exist. And no violets means no butterflies.

Today, the last wild populations include four sites in Oregon and one in Northern California. Over the past few decades conservationists have been working to protect and restore coastal meadows, and both the Oregon Zoo in Portland and the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle have active breeding programs for Oregon silverspots. The caterpillars are raised in captivity, and then when they pupate they are placed in suitable release sites. Some of these are in established populations, but they have also more recently been reintroduced to parts of their historic range where they had been extirpated, such as Nestucca Bay National Wildlife Refuge and Saddle Mountain in Oregon.

This latest release is the largest at Saddle Mountain, with over 2000 silverspot pupae being released there. It’s also the site closest to where I am–maybe fifty miles away as the butterfly soars–and people here have been preparing for years for either a planned release or the natural dispersal of butterflies. Willapa National Wildlife Refuge has been engaged in multiple habitat restoration projects over the years, and this includes a restored meadow with a large patch of early blue violets. The farm owned by my friends that I live on also has extensive early blue violet plantings, and there’s also a commercial native plant nursery on site that includes the violets as part of their seasonal offerings.

It is my hope that within my lifetime I will get to see the Oregon silverspot flying here on the peninsula. The latest Saddle Mountain release makes it that much more likely that my hope will become reality.

(via thegreenwolf)

slipintotragedy:

it’s disability pride month so i want to talk about one of my least favorite stigmas around celiac disease

in lots of media, being gluten free is played as a joke or something someone is to be annoying/pretentious. the amount of times i’ve heard jokes like that is honestly disheartening.

it also doesn’t help with the general population’s belief that celiac disease/gluten sensitivities are not serious. i’ve been diagnosed with celiac disease for 3 years now, i’ve been gluten free for about 4, and it has substantially improved my quality of life. i can’t afford risking cross-contamination because it leaves me sick for days. nearly every time i have a reaction to gluten, it’s hard for me to even drink water the next day because my body is an absolute mess. i’m miserable and fatigued for days until my body heals. not to mention the long term effects that have left me unable to stand/walk around for extended periods of time because my joints are pretty weak.

being gluten free NEEDS to be taken seriously. it’s not a choice i’ve made because i’m hoping on the latest fad, its not a preference, it’s an autoimmune disorder.

I’m sure someone else has already said something similar by now, but it definitely doesn’t help perceptions that the reasons people avoid gluten exist on a spectrum, and for some reason this isn’t widely known. At one end are celiac and wheat allergy people, who obviously have to avoid all trace of gluten for safety. Toward the other end is my housemate who has to avoid combining wheat and dairy or else she experiences symptoms like lactose intolerance. I think painful sensitivity people like me exist somewhere in the middle, probably. This seems to cause some confusion in my workplace at least (I work in a kitchen in a healthcare facility), since I use fresh gloves and a clean utensil if I’m serving a celiac patient, but I’ll handle wheat toast immediately before making a gluten free sandwich for myself.

tl;dr, I think this aspect of gluten free diets needs to be discussed more

hkblack:

Hi folks. There seems to be a lot of confusion about what we as fans can and can’t do with the striking happening. So I made a flowchart.

Let me make this SUPER DUPER EXTRA CLEAR. Unless an AMPTP studio reaches out and says “We would like to give you X (money/swag/whatever) to create content for us” (that would include writing or acting in anyway on your part) you will NOT be crossing a picket line.

Cosplay, fanart, fanfic, going feral, sharing marketing posts, watching your favorite show, getting your friends to watch your favorite show, etc does not count.

It is ONLY scabbing if you are getting REIMBURSED by the STUDIO.

Please take this flowchart, repost it, spread it everywhere!

The studios benefit from us being confused. The studios benefit from us not promoting and not watching and cancelling our subscriptions. The unions, the actors, the writers, they all benefit from us promoting in their absence, they get paid when we watch the shows, we bolster their argument when we boost the shows numbers. If we make the media popular and successful the studios have to meet the writers and actors at the table, and the writers and actors will be in the position of power.

(via kellerybird)

owlstory:

ed-recovery-affirmations:

I’ve been talking a lot about chronic health conditions and how they affect peoples’ experiences of food, and I think that there’s an important discussion that needs to be had about how two things can be possible at once. Somebody’s specific health needs re: food can cause them to have serious, unpleasant symptoms if they do not carefully monitor their diet. This sucks, it affects their lives significantly, and their experiences are very real. It also doesn’t make that food universally evil. When these experiences make their way into mainstream conversations around the “right” way to eat, it comes to blow up into this major diet-culture house of mirrors where every food is potentially the next inflammatory carcinogen out to kill you. So here’s the thing: multiple truths can exist at the same time.

Diabetics need to carefully monitor their sugar consumption and blood sugar levels AND that does not make sugars evil or bad.

Celiacs need to avoid even trace amounts of gluten touching their food or else they will experience dire, lasting health consequences AND the use of gluten as a buzzword has contributed to a great deal of disordered eating AND gluten is not an inherently evil component of food.

Lactose intolerant people may have some pretty unpleasant experiences with dairy AND dairy-containing products are a perfectly adequate way to get calories and nutrients into your body.

Some people experience allergic reactions to food dyes AND food dye is not inherently the root of all health disorders.

It’s really important to practice eating intuitively with the foods that work for YOU - and, if need be, with the help of qualified medical professionals who are familiar with your health history and your needs.

To sum up, as someone with longstanding food intolerances and food peculiarities:

Food (the object) is morally neutral.

How you treat other people and yourself when it comes to food is not.

kintatsujo:

You are worth what you need, not what you can offer.