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spiceberrie:

buffalo sabres’ captain Kyle Okposo speaks about pride night. | 03.27.23

[video transcription starting @ 00:10:

I think it’s important to, you know, everyone is welcome and it’s a hot case for everyone. So that’s where we stand right now. You know, in a more global sense, in a broader sense, about the LGBTQ community, you know, I spoke with somebody who works with some diversity law (DEI) and she made a really good point to me.

We’re speaking about all the different conversations that teams are having, that we’re having around this league about this topic. And she said to me, you know, I know you have empathy and I’m capable of that. And I have empathy for my teammate, for Bush, and the situation that he’s in. But, you know, think about it if there’s a closeted gay member of a team. And you have to have empathy for that person too in that situation. Ithink that that really struck a chord with me because, you know, we have to realize that. And that’s part of being accepting.

That’s why we want to be accepting. That’s why we want to be open. That’s why we want to be able to have these conversations. And I think that, you know, in this forum, which is in the public, so many people are afraid to say the wrong things or, you know, scared that they’re going to be judged for what they say. And I think that real change and real positive conversations and the way that we’re going to be able to move the needle forward happens behind closed doors and happens when everybody’s able to share opinions and feel valued and not be scared to share what they have to say.

Everybody’s going to listen, so I think that, you know, those are some of my views on it as a global topic.

/end video transcription.]

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jellydishes:

hello yes can we all just appreciate the battle gear babymetal wore at their one concert

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this has been a psa

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hyperlesbiandrifter:

ladies? i have GOT to ask. what is going on

Well, I wake in the morning and I step outside, and I take a deep breath and I get real high, and I scream from the top of my lungs.

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apelcini:

life-check:

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thespiritofeon:

yo…. when jet breaks in the tea shop and accuses zuko and iroh of beinh firebenders….

do you think any of the patrons looked at zukos scarred face - obviously done by a firebender - and immediately think jet was an asshole? like

jet: hes a firebender!!!!

patrons, thinking about the backstory they concocted for zuko and iroh where their home was invaded by firebenders and they barely survived with their lifes so they could come and have a peaceful life selling tea in a city the war doesnt touch:

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Everybody watched the Dai Li drag Jet off and was like, you two okay? You need a hug? Here let me help clean up all this furniture and tip heavily.

Then a few months later the old man is breathing fire in the streets and a week after that they see a picture of the new Firelord.

Their brains be all like

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I keep seeing great posts about zuko and iroh in ba sing se, please never stop

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dhovorei:

batman villains are funny bc they all end up in arkham over and over so its just like

killer croc, painting a beautiful and sensitive portrait representing his inner turmoil: i had no idea (insert plant) was an invasive species in gotham

poison ivy, painting a photorealistic fern: they are! they’re so widespread that its almost impossible to contain, and it really hurts my heart

joker trying so fucking hard not to call them homophobic slurs because the therapist told him he’d get extra joker mush if he behaved for once in his fucking life:

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zanabism:

I hope you guys like…eventually live the life you want to live and I hope nothing haunts you for too long and I hope you’re all kind to yourselves

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mojave-wasteland-official:

just-shower-thoughts:

Building a treehouse is the biggest insult to a tree. “I killed your friend, here hold him.”

“Friend”

Its more of I killed a potential enemy. Hold his dismembered corpse in victory.

Plants don’t wage war

Ever heard of blackberries?

Yes, plants do wage war

Mint and strawberries, too. They need to be quarantined or they will kill basically everything else. 

I planted mint in the ground 2 years ago.

It’s currently fighting a bitter battle to the death against the raspberries attempting to invade from the east while trying to annex the patio.

Could go either way at this point TBH. Unless, of course, I take a shovel and the blowtorch out there and battle both back to within their original boundaries.

And anyone wondering if a blowtorch is overkill for weeding back mint has never actually planted mint.

This post did not go where I expected it to.

Our garden plot at my childhood home slowly got overrun by wild blackberries after we stopped managing it while my sister and I were in nursing school. And by overrun I mean it was like a 4 foot tall thicket of wild blackberries. It hadn’t been touched by humans in at least 4 years. I started the ultimately futile task of trying to clear this plot with a machete and discovered to my amazement a patch of mint several feet across underneath the canopy of blackberry, still fighting the good fight all those years later.

Ultimately it took two jars of homemade napalm and some creative fire placement to clear that patch but I damn sure saved that patch of mint. It earned the right to be there.

Yall mother fuckers don’t even talk unless you’ve had to wage war on kudzu (it’s an ivy strain directly from Hell) that shit doesn’t just wage war with other plants, it wages war with all living things on planet earth. It’s some gnarly ass Blood for the Blood God, Chlorophyll for the Chlorophyll Throne demon weed. 

Can second the comments of Kudzu.

I forget where I read it but there’s this one tree that creates an extremely flammable substance that’s in both the bark and leaves. Dead trees become torches and crushed up leaves become dust-incendiary, all while the plant’s seeds are Giant Redwood levels of resilient to open flame. IE it has a goddamn scorched earth policy. It’s even more badass than plants that use toxins to starve other plants.

I’d like to third the comments on Kudzu. These are the battlefields:

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See those weird pillars? Those were trees. See that strange lump in the middle? That was a house. Everything green you see in this photo is kudzu.

Kudzu is an apocalyptic nightmare

They smother every other living plant to death

Those trees under there are dead, they can’t get sunlight. Kudzu takes over and steals everything from these trees, and becomes them. It’s creepy as hell. These plants are basically straight out of a horror novelist’s wet dream tbh.

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The bodies of everything the kudzu has slain.

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What used to be a house

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Someone attempting to drive a four wheeler through it, to give you scale

It’s an ornamental plant kept in check in china, but was introduced to north america where it immediately went rampant and began to spread incredibly fast like a disease, destroying everything in its wake

The ONLY thing that has stopped this curse from engulfing the united states is goats. Apparently goats love this stuff like no tomorrow. Everywhere we find it now, we just bring a horde of goats to cut it down. Everything is fine…. for now.

Kudzu is on time magazine’s top 10 invasive species to look out for.

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This little buddy doing his part

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Not to keep spamming this post but 

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“the growth of kudzu as it became a “structural parasite” of the South,[7] enveloping entire structures when untreated[11] and often referred to as “the vine that ate the South”.[13]”

“It has been spreading rapidly in the southern U.S., “easily outpacing the use of herbicide spraying and mowing, as well increasing the costs of these controls by $6 million annually”.[2]

yall it’s been estimated this plant consumes 600 kilometers of the united states every year

it’s been suggested that we just start eating it to make it go away

Adding to the spam: yes, kudzu IS edible. In fact, all parts of it but the vine are edible. The leaves are supposedly great in salads or baked into quiche. The flowers supposedly are great in jam. The roots… Well, if you know how to cook other root vegetables, you know what to do with kudzu root. Feed this stuff to your livestock and cook it.

Eat it before it eats your house.

@solarpunkcast @solarpunkactionweek @solarpunkinspo @enviropunk feels relevant

In this world it’s eat or be eaten

Thread starts with the existential angst of building a treehouse. Ends with recipes on how to eat kudzu.

Posts that make you go ‘hm.’

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