Tag: important

marinelitter:

Derelict fishing gear and other marine debris smother existing animals and create an unstable habitat for those organisms that survive the initial impact. Here some examples of litter items on Condor seamount,

west-southwest of Faial Island in the Azores, and interactions with local fauna. 

A) close up of a Dentomuricea cf. meteor entangled within a longline

B) glass bottle next to Dentomuricea cf. meteor 

C) lost wooden box used by fisherman to hook their longlines

D) several Dentomuricea cf. meteor partially damaged

Source: marinelitter

thanks for educating me on family-farm practices. now please go research how the honey is stolen from the bees on an industrial scale. many times the “sugar water” can be high fructose corn syrup, and their wings may be clipped. anyway, helping the bees is fine, and i support it, but we shouldn’t have to steal THEIR HONEY to help them. it is not. our. honey. to. steal.

breelandwalker:

kitchenwitchupinthisbitch:

breelandwalker:

-pinches bridge of nose-

Cleaning. A Hive. Is Not. Stealing.

Hives. Need. To Be Cleaned. Or The Bees. Will Swarm. And. Probably. Die.

Some companies add high fructose corn syrup to their end product to bulk up honey batches for retail sale, that is true. But even if it does get fed to the bees, do you know what high-fructose syrup of any sort is?

FUCKING SUGAR WATER THAT’S BEEN BOILED DOWN FOR A HIGHER SUGAR CONTENT.

And what are we supposed to do with the wax and honey that gets scraped off the cleaned frames? Dump it in the trash? When it’s full of valuable nutrients? I don’t think so.

And you know what, I’m gonna stop right here, because you need to start citing some sources on this whole “toxic sugar substances” and “wing clipping” business. Show me something that comes from a reputable scientific journal and not a vegan editorial.

Go ahead. I’ll wait.

Ok I did an EXTENSIVE research project on bees in HS (like half the semester long) and heard none of this nonsense. Moreover, I had a friend who owned an apiary and he knew people who also owned apiaries and from what I gather, the bees thrived.
Also, how in the hell would the bees be able to gather pollen and nectar if their wings are clipped?!

I think the implication is supposed to be that flightless bees are kept in a box eating nothing but sugar water so that they can make honey.

Which is logistically impossible, because bees reproduce so quickly that the keeper wouldn’t be able to keep up with the wingclipping fast enough to make it practical on the scale that is needed for industrial beekeeping.

And also straight sugar water does not make good honey, you NEED nectar to make that happen, and any beekeeper would tell you so.

And besides all that, honeybees are far too valuable a commodity as pollinators for anyone to clip their wings and keep them from flying. No beekeeper in their right mind would remove the ability of a bee colony to perform their natural functions as pollinators, let alone on an industrial scale.

Complete hogwash.

Like I was unsure about the ethics of using honey and beeswax for human consumption/use, but THIS ^^^ and honeybees especially will keep making honey indefinitely, even when they need the room for babies. When they need more room for babies and are overcrowded, the hive will try to split and they’ll swarm and try to find a new place to live. Most hives that split don’t survive. Cleaning the hive and removing excess honey to make more room for more honey and babies, ensures the health and viability of the hive.

wrath-the-furious:

tachoetuesdays:

marzipanandminutiae:

“why can’t I be proud of my heritage?”

going to cultural fairs is being proud of your heritage. making  traditional food is being proud of your heritage. learning a new language is being proud of your heritage. wearing traditional dress is being proud of your heritage. 

white supremacy is not “being proud of your heritage”

No one gets mad at a white person that says
“Im really proud of my dutch ancestry!” or “I love being swedish we have the best food lol!” or “ Its so cool that im irish i didn’t even know!”
The phrases “white pride” and “white power” have nothing to do with the history or culture of groups that just happen to also be white. They are trademarked terms from white supremacist groups. The pride is in being white: the percieved superior race. There is no excuse to use that choice of words when what you really mean is you love spending summers in england because your great great uncle was a duke or whatever. If you use phrases like that in 2016, you know exactly what you are implying.

^thank you

riversixx:

Mother of fuck this didn’t post. Ahh. The first is the texting hotline. I see a post going around about a crisis line but it’s
1) very conservative based
2) doesn’t work on mobile and goes offline constantly.

This one, works extremely well. You can choose to be completely anonymous or tell them everything about you. You get a reply in less than ten minutes each time you send a response and as you can see they will text you a second time if you don’t reply to make sure you’re, yknow, not dead or something. They are trained and I SWEAR ON IT. It’s the best I’ve found because it’s directly a literal texting based crisis line.

Here’s the link: http://www.crisistextline.org/textline/

Please get this one circulating as much as the other it’s more important and much better. Please. I’ve used it multiple times, as well. It DOES NOT MATTER what the reason you are texting in is. They will help as long and as best they can. I did it this morning and it was for a solid hour at a minimum.

Source: riversixx

So there’s a movie coming out about the holodomor

robin-mask:

xir-an:

trcunning:

stevecarrot:

sonnivate:

I just want to get a few things out of the way because I know tumblr and how they react to this.

-yes the cast is white Irish/Englishman portraying Eastern Europeans
-Yes they speak in very English accents
-yes there is a somewhat forced heterosexual subplot

But please. For the love of God. Don’t. Boycott it over this. This film is about genocide. About the systematic killing of Ukrainians. There has never been a film about this, it’s never taught in any history book, and to this day Russia denies it ever happened.

This movie is so critical, and as a Ukrainian I am begging you not to shit on it and go full sjw for not accurately depicting the people of the region. Believe me we, Ukrainians, do not fucking care that the representation is not 100% accurate. Seriously, every Ukrainian in the comments of the trailer is begging people to forget about the English accents and are just relieved people are finally learning about this. we want our story heard and we want the world to be aware of Ukrainian suffering and take interest in the nations current state of affairs. Please support Bitter Harvest when it comes out in February.

This is the trailer in quiestion:

PLEASE don’t shit on this movie because apparently the cast isn’t Slavic People. 

I can’t even tell you how much it means to us, Ukrainians, that Hollywood makes a movie about GEMOCIDE IN UKRAINE that so many people don’t even know about! I don’t care there will be a romantic plotline, I don’t care that it wob’t be 100% historic accurate. I just want people to know that Holodomor happened, that it was the man-made genocide, that it was the crime communists don’t want to take responsibilty for still.

The cast isn’t Slavic but the makers are. The film production was financed by Ian Ihnatowycz, a Canadian whose parents fled post-war Ukraine. Writer, Richard Bachynsky Hoover, and director, George Mendeluk are both are Canadians of Ukrainian descent. 

Ihnatowycz: “I wanted to make this story understood more widely so making it English language with a known cast will hopefully help make it more appealing to a western audience.” (source)

please spread this.

This is always what I point to when more American-centric people argue ‘white people can’t be victims of racism’ or ‘white people are the problem’ … this is a country that suffered genocide at the hands of an oppressor, with reports of some people even forced to turn to cannibalism to survive, and where a huge percentage of the population died in horrific manner … 

It’s one of the worst war crimes in history, yet one many countries still do not recognise and one most people have never even heard about … it’s massively important to raise awareness, especially in the political climate as it stands (with Russia annexing parts of the Ukraine). 

Definitely a film worth support.

^^^ in some countries, white people are in fact oppressed and victims of racism (it honestly really depends on the country, in Japan there are still restaurants that prohibit gaijin – foreigners, including white and black people)

But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us. In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness.

Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark (via socialentropy)

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weavemama:

emihg:

weavemama:

Heartwarming photo of a Muslim girl and Jewish boy fighting for the same rights along with their fathers.

This picture is obviously fake, Muslims and Jews hates each other. That’s a fact.

This photo was shared and published through Time, CNN, The Huffington Post and Metro. There is this whole “fake news” epidemic going on, but I don’t think these huge media companies would go as far as spreading a fake photo. Especially a fake photo with a very strong message. The photographer’s name who took this photo Nuccio DiNuzzo. The Muslim girl’s name is Meryem Yildirim, she is 7 years old. Her father’s name is Faith. The Jewish boy’s name is Adin Bendat-Appell, he is 9 years old. His father’s name is Jordan Bendat-Apell. You can also visit this article and you will be given the option to watch a VIDEO of one of the fathers being interviewed about the photo.

You can’t just say these two individual people hate each other when all they’re trying to do is fight for the same rights. You should allow two people of a different religion to protest for the same things without questioning the reality of it. 

Good day.

I am a Jew. My best friend of 17 years is a first generation American. Her parents are from Iran. They are my second family. They have fed me, clothed me, and even provided me with medical assistance. Her mother (again, FROM IRAN, KNOWS THAT I AM JEWISH) has held me while I cried, picked me up when I’m down, and showed me what it’s like to be a powerful, strong woman time and time again. I would take a fucking bullet for these people. So this whole “Jews and Muslims hate each other” bullshit dies right here. Does that look like hate to you?

Source: weavemama

dustlines:

mrs-transmuter:

mrs-transmuter:

“Imagine if people had been going ‘don’t fight hate with hate’ back when Hitler was around.”

Fam…let me tell you bout Poland.

Let me tell you about how the entire rest of Europe sat ack and watched the invasion of Poland because they thought it would be “improper” to send military aid. How they were unwilling to enforce the treaties that Germany was breaking, because that would make them “just as bad.” They sat back and wrote strongly worded letters while fascists grew in power because they didn’t want to dirty their hands. They thought reasonable discussion and politics would be enough to stop a fascist dictator from rising to power.

Spoiler alert: it wasn’t enough.