If The Landscape Actually Was What People Valued It To Be, The Global Ecosystem Would Surely Collapse.

If the landscape actually was what people valued it to be, the global ecosystem would surely collapse. If suburbs were truly only houses, yards and trees selected by the homeowner, if pastures grew only the forages intended by the farmer, if agricultural land grew only crops, if a ditch next to an overpass was simply a ditch

If all the places we think of as "no longer wild" actually were, if the biodiversity we thought was gone actually was gone, life on Earth would not be able to sustain itself. The unintended and random plants, the wild weeds of lost and empty places, they hold us tightly, sustaining the few and meager scraps of symbiotic relationships that keep the Earth alive

The ditch beside the road is no longer a serene wetland. The wetland was bulldozed and destroyed and now it is a ditch, dirty and strewn with garbage. But because nobody looks closely, almost nobody sees...A few rushes and sedges have decided to grow here, there's a clump of stubborn and stunted cattails, and there in the weeds, a thickety willow cradling a blackbird's nest.

Easy to love the pristine wilderness in distant preserves, but will someone love this abused and ugly place? Will someone be moved to protect the wild of the roadside ditch and vacant lot as passionately as they protect the primeval forest?

Easy to see the importance of the Amazon rainforest for the very air in our lungs, but who will see the moss that grows between the bricks in the wall of their run-down apartment and realize, It is your oxygen that I breathe?

I read a paper one time suggesting that, even though the idea of monoculture is harmful through its influence on agricultural practice, monoculture does not actually exist, because in practice the weeds prevent it from becoming a reality.

I was thinking of that again, and wondering what it would be like if the weeds actually obeyed us...

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1 week ago

Fundraiser-related information

What follows is a collection of links to various posts concerning fundraisers I've vetted. These are primarily ones for Ghazzawi families although some fundraisers for Sudani families are also listed (I'm more familiar with my own country's politics and dialect and am more capable of vetting fundraisers for Palestinians as a result).

- Not sure where to donate? Here's a guide.

- Mutual Aid Initiatives to donate to.

- Gaza Evacuation Funds verified fundraisers spreadsheet (compiled by nabulsi and yours truly, the fundraisers are verified by us and Mohammed Ayesh).

- Gaza Vetters verified fundraisers spreadsheet (we are not associated with gaza-vetters directly, but from what I know they are reliable and completely legitimate).

- Unvetted but highly likely legitimate fundraisers

- Fundraisers for general purposes and a variety of recipients (TO BE UPDATED).

Defunct / Paused indefinitely:

- Instructions on how to submit a fundraiser for Westerners. (One of the main reasons I'm no longer taking vetting requests from Westerners is because I'm currently receiving a very high volume of requests for boosts from already vetted Ghazzawiyeh people directly and I want to prioritize helping them. I cannot do that with requests from others. Please refrain from sending me requests for vetting.

Blog-related issues:

- gaza-vetters temporary hiatus latest update on the matter (original post on the matter).

- About the targeted harassment campaign against Palestinians on tumblr, from August 2nd to August 7th 2024. Addressing writing-prompt-s / badjokesbyjeff and others' accusations and slander.

- Important fuck you to a lot of bloggers I will not name: On the topic of 'allies' Part 1. On the topic of 'allies' Part 2.

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wretchrotsdad

5 months ago

I’m going to [remembers I should stop saying ‘kill myself’] rewatch Supernatural

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1 week ago

im going to succeed because im crazy

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1 month ago

anyone wanna be my narrative foil. it has to be sexual

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wretchrotsdad

3 months ago

do not joke about the advertisements, do not engage with the advertisements in witty fashions, do not, fucking, mention the contents of the advertisements. as soon as an advertisement enters your mind, you kill it, dont care how cute it is, take it out back and shoot it. install adblock, ublock, mute the volume, look away, turn off the monitor, cover your ears, paint over it. evolve your mind, your modality, your instincts, to disregard the stimuli of advertisements before you can even process it. whatever it takes, you do not let them win. and thats an order.

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3 weeks ago

WHY THE FUCK DID NOBODY TELL ME ABOUT THIS

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3 weeks ago

Having to clean the shower is so fucking annoying. It’s clean in there. That’s where I go to get clean. It’s clean dude trust me. Stop fucking growing bacteria and stuff man this is the clean locale. You’re embarrassing me in front of the sink

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1 month ago

A Small Comic About Palestine I Created To Appeal To More Passive Family And Friends

A small comic about Palestine I created to appeal to more passive family and friends

Anyways if you have the money I urge you to donate to Ibraheem Hadi, a Palestinian who contacted me and whom I promised to highlight in relation to this comic: