Rooney’s old account @girls_can@qoto.org

The toddler has a 103 degree fever.

Again.

We have been sick with one virus or another since mid-October.

Hard to overstate how devastating this pandemic and now tripledemic has been for those of us with small children.

We are not okay, and this is not sustainable.

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."

Douglas Adams
#EmotionalIntelligence #Quotes

Eating too much cake is the sin of gluttony. However, eating too much pie is okay because the sin of pi is always zero.

“There is nothing inherently unsafe about transit, which is a public space that reflects the broader issues of the city that it moves. The TTC is a microcosm of Toronto, which is struggling with a mental health crisis, a housing crisis and a drug poisoning crisis, all which have persisted for decades but reached a tipping point during the pandemic.” #transit

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2022/12/27/as-ridership-plummets-the-ttc-faces-another-problem-violent-crime.html

’But what on earth does this have to do with #gardening?’ I hear you cry, in an exasperated fashion.

EVERYTHING!

Gardening is just one way in to reconnecting with our world, our actual, natural world. We are able to create *more* diversity of habitat & native species to support more life.

#NativePlants are better for #wildlife because a wider range of insects prefer to eat them, providing food for the rest of the #ecosystem.

6/?

i considered leaving so many times. but i'll never doubt in the future that i can't stick out hard things, because somehow i fucking *made it*. and even if the circumstances suck, i'm proud of myself for that.

so here it is. my attempt to take a step back and analyze why the chips fell as they did: where i went wrong, where the holes in the support net were, and maybe (?) a way forward for others.

https://www.jfmclaughlin.org/blog/what-we-dont-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-defenses

From the hiking trail: an ice-covered woodland pond with evergreen trees and glacial deposits in the background.

#Explore #NewEngland #Nature #hiking #hikingadventures #glacial #Geology #Woodlands

@mmasnick - imagine if Elon did that instead of buying Twitter?

@mmasnick
That is, without a doubt, the loveliest thing I've heard today. Feel like starting a tradition myself, now.

“When you realize that under capitalism, a forest isn’t worth anything until it is cut down, you begin to see where the ecological crisis comes from.” - Adam Idek Hastie
#AntiCapitalism #BiodiversityLoss

Climate strike week 227. The climate crisis doesn’t go on holiday. #FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrike #PeopleNotProfit

Christmas for the Broken Hearted (It Must Have Been Love)

By Banksy: https://streetartutopia.com/14-great-banksy-street-art-photos-and-quotes

Humans' plastic trash in the ocean impacting the the petrels (a type of sea birds) of the Arctic, reports SR.

"Of the animals we have autopsied, it is now >90% that have plastics in their stomachs to such a degree that we believe it affects their nutritional intake", says Kim Holmén at the Norwegian Polar Institute on Svalbard, also saying that "they don't have to starve to death, but they have weaker bodies".

As to the source of the trash, Kim Holmén says "There is a current going up the coast of Norway [the Norwegian Current], which brings along pollution, what floats out of the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, so Europe has a large responsibility for pollution in the sea in the Arctic".

When the Oxford children's dictionary discarded dozens of nature-words—"dandelion," "fern," "starling"—as irrelevant to children's imagination and replaced them with words like "broadband" and "cut-and-paste," this inspired act of resistance was born: https://www.themarginalian.org/2019/06/17/the-lost-words-macfarlane-morris