I Learned About Tim Wong Who Successfully And Singlehandedly Repopulated The Rare California Pipevine

i learned about Tim Wong who successfully and singlehandedly repopulated the rare California Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly in San Francisco. In the past few years, he’s cultivated more than 200 pipevine plants (their only food source) and gives thousands of caterpillars to his local Botanical Garden (x)

Probably won't have time thanks to Grad school, but reblogging for the Japanese grammar bc I want to start learning a little now that I've spent 2 years doing a little French every day.

Want to learn something new in 2022??

Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)

40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)

Excellent basic crochet video series

Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)

Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)

How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)

Another drawing character faces video

Literally my favorite art pose hack

Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??

Introduction to flying small aircrafts

French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding

Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)

Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)

Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)

Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:

Calculus 1 (full semester class)

Learn basic statistics (free textbook)

Introduction to college physics (free textbook)

Introduction to accounting (free textbook)

Learn a language:

Ancient Greek

Latin

Spanish

German

Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)

French

Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)

The eleventh commandment should be to fact check what you read, especially if it looks like clickbait or if it looks like something very one-sided or black and white. Nothing, nothing, no issue political or societal can claim to be one hundred percent right, or correct, or ethical according to only one source. Always fact check. Always look at both sides of things if the sources are available.

Yes, because the other guy tried to overturn our democracy. Get a fucking grip.

Has anyone watched Euphoria on HBO? Thoughts? I watched the first episode and while it is a deeply unsettling show, it portrays so much of the unique pressures gen Z is under. I'm aware it has a transgender girl in it, but I wondered what people's thoughts were on how both that and the the main character's drug addiction is portrayed and how it maybe even plays into the underlying factors that can contribute to dysphoria and drug dependence (as two separate issues).

Thoughts?

New York Post

Good on Adele for celebrating female — not gender-neutral — achievement

Her crime? In picking up Artist of the Year at last night’s Brit Awards, she lamented the loss of male and female categories, saying:

Re the Adele situation, I wanted to know what exactly she said that caused the backlash and I found this excellent article (disclaimer: the New York Post is a right-leaning news source. I think this article is pretty spot-on but I’m not necessarily endorsing the site or even the author. Do your own research).

Safe to say “I am woman/hear me roar,” would never be recorded today.

Just ask Adele, best selling artist in the world, savior of a dying industry, now the woke mob’s latest target.

Her crime? In picking up Artist of the Year at last night’s Brit Awards, she lamented the loss of male and female categories, saying: “I understand why the name of this award has changed, but I really love being a woman and being a female artist. I do! I’m really, really proud of us. I really, really am.”

That’s it. That’s all. But for that she’s been slandered a TERF — a trans-exclusionary radical feminist.

Really, the only thing Adele should be catching grief for is postponing a multimillion-dollar Vegas residency at the last minute.

There’s been a push of late to make arts awards gender-neutral. The Brit Awards may have been the only high-profile event to make the leap, but there are calls to erase “Best Actress” at the Oscars and “Best Female Vocal” at the Grammys — part of an overall movement to make gender irrelevant.

For a Gen X-er like me, the pride taken by women in rock — from the 1990s riot grrrl movement to Courtney Love, Fiona Apple, Lauryn Hill, Liz Phair and a generation of women pushing sexual, political and economic boundaries — is not that long ago.

And it’s not like feminism has won. Women still make less money than men. We are still fighting for our reproductive rights. Still we are underrepresented in tech, politics, finance, film, and, according to a 2021 McKinsey report, all sectors of management.

Here’s what women couldn’t do just 50 years ago, in America: Get a credit card. Serve on juries. Take birth control pills if single (a huge slice of the market!). Get pregnant without fear of losing our jobs. Attend an Ivy League school. Refuse sex with our husbands.

Women have fought for a lot. We’re still fighting. We get to be proud of how far we’ve come.

As should Adele, a vanishingly small kind of global music superstar.

Consider what Courtney Love told Dazed & Confused magazine in 2016:

“There’s maybe 30 [female stars] if you count pop stars,” she said. “Think about that — on the planet. Rock stars, I don’t know — I’ve never really sat down and counted female rock stars. There’s a few, there’s 10, 15 . . . but throw a TV out on the balcony, the same stuff that Keith Richards did, the same stuff that Jim Morrison did, the same things that Bono did — that we all forgot about — yeah, I think I get judged by a double standard a lot, but that’s just the way it is.”

Adele is a grown woman singing about her experiences as a woman. Why should she be expected to defuse or deny what, essentially, is her superpower?

For all the crap she caught on Twitter, others came to her defense — a sign that we are possibly, maybe, beginning to emerge from an understandable state of overcorrection.

“Thank you @Adele,” tweeted author and refugee advocate Onjali Rauf. “For speaking the 2 words being vilified. Woman. Female.”

A Spectator op-ed by educator Debbi Hayton was similarly effusive, thanking Adele for risking the fate of J.K. Rowling and other women who “have been pursued and persecuted mercilessly, simply for standing up for their sex. Adele’s message to women and girls was inspirational.”

Thirty years ago, Kurt Cobain opened the 1990s in a dress. Who would have thought Adele’s speech, embracing and affirming her womanhood, would be considered just as transgressive today?

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