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)

Is there a connection between witchcraft and the LGBTQ community.

Not inherently, but the communities overlap often! (I personally think it has to do with the personal autonomy/empowerment/exploration and connection with our surroundings a lot of witchcraft gives, which is often robbed from us as queer folks. Same with neurodivergent folks, actually. There are a lot of us here.)

That said of course there are PLENTY of cis/straight folks who practice magic and PLENTY of LGBT folks who don't

dont you just love capitalism..  

Never have I witnessed a more fragile specimen than a conservative with power. Embarrassing.

“It is important to recognize that the word ‘growth’ has become a kind of propaganda term. In reality, what is going on is a process of elite accumulation, the commodification of commons, and the appropriation of human labour and natural resources – a process that is quite often colonial in character. This process, which is generally destructive to human communities and to ecology, is glossed as growth. Growth sounds natural and positive (who could possibly be against growth?) so people are easily persuaded to buy into it, and to back policies that will generate more of it, when otherwise they might not. Growth is the ideology of capitalism, in the Gramscian sense. It is the core tenet of capitalism’s cultural hegemony. The word degrowth is powerful and effective because it identifies this trick, and rejects it. Degrowth calls for the reversal of the processes that lie behind growth: it calls for disaccumulation, decommodification, and decolonization.”

— Jason Hickel, What does degrowth mean? A few points of clarification

“Though the principle of paying rich landowners just for owning land is long established, the USDA claimed that the recent rise in ad hoc payments began in order to fight “unfair and illegal trade retaliation” from China. “Trade retaliation” here means challenging, even slightly, the U.S.’s monopolistic global market share, and with it the ability to dump agricultural commodities below market price on the Global South. Such dumping and monopolism are integral to both the interests of U.S. listed agricultural companies and, arguably, U.S. geopolitical strength; they expand the reach of U.S. finance and biotech and enforce relationships of dependency upon commodity-supplying states. This imperialist structure depends on more than direct payments: even without the ad-hoc payments, U.S. commodity farmers receive extensive tax exemptions, conservation easements for land they leave fallow, and federal crop insurance with an average return of 120%. Especially at the state and local level, these various forms of payments and tax breaks are easy to get if you own land and are relatively high-income. Roughly two thirds of registered farms are hobby farms, retirement projects, and tax shelters (often enough, all three.) Far from being productive pillars of the community, they are essentially “the yards of the upper middle class” as Maggie Koerth put it. A large pool of suburban and rural property holders benefit from programs originally intended for agriculture, and a larger-still group benefit from the consistently rising price of land and housing through house flipping and investment properties. It is here, to this excessively enfranchised stratum of society, that state financing of imperialism trickles down.”

— c. e., Farming In the Shadow of the Shadow State