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27 🏳️⚧️🕎 I make furry abstract art, I love bugs 🪲 and 🧡💖 @flamingomymango.bsky.social 🧡💖
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Close! There are 5 in the forefround... :3 My alt text was accidentally deceiving .. there's also a wolf ! The wolf and flea are the toughest
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Ah damn, yeah I know what you mean and I've definitely felt that sentiment before too. It's definitely better with a group- my friend did a group trash walk for her birthday once and it was really fun! Making it a party where everyone is invited is a great idea
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Definitely. Thank you for picking up trash when you visit. My former roommate introduced a rule that every walk we go on, no matter the length or location, we have a goal to pick up 3 pieces of trash during the visit (it'd usually end up being way more), was great motivation to look for it even more
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I'm so sorry you got harassed while picking up trash, that's awful :( thank you for caring for those places.
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Beautifully worded, thank you for speaking about the incredible, unique place that is Appalachia
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Thanks Wolf 💙 and yeah that's definitely a quote I try to live by. We're all here now with the parts of nature that still breathe, it's only right to give back what we can for all the earth still does for us when it's already been so torn
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I love you so much forever and ever ❤️🥰❤️🥰❤️🥰❤️
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If you read this far through my ramblings, go read Wolf's original thread again. (And if you didn't read his before reading mine ... Why didn't you?)
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& If you don't know what to do, even just picking up trash helps. Go for a hike, scan plants with Seek and learn their names. Look for local groups doing invasive species removals near you, there are always volunteers needed. Small impacts count too, and small actions can have big impacts.
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When you find yourself grieving dead swaths of land, research how it was before and how it got that way. Plant a seed whose bloom you won't see; plant a tree knowing you will never sit under its shade. Everything you do carries hidden impacts, but you can choose what they are if you understand them
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We're all part of nature; of the ecology and life around us. The task of restoring and healing land is gargantuan, but that's why we all have to help. And that starts with understanding where we are, who lives here, who is suffering and why, and finally, how you can help. What once was & what can be
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Western science believes that ecology can be gatekept as a scholarly pursuit and dissected from other "disciplines" like history. But we're all living in a land that's the product of our collective histories: the damages our ancestors caused and/or suffered. Humanity & land can't be divorced.
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The damages to the land that have occurred over the past few hundred years will take thousands of years to heal. Prairie root systems that built up over 10,000 years to filter water into the earth without flooding it, gone with one push of the plow. Old growth forests starting from scratch.
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All of this is because of colonialism. Climate change, soil degradation and poisoning, the destruction, tilling and paving of land, invasive species, and the disruption of indigenous land management practices that stabilized these ecosystems for centuries. We live in the post-apocalypse already.
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I'm very fortunate to have seen one of those places, and now, looking over the flat land, I imagine what it would look like if it was still that flush with life. Now it's filled with monoculture crops and turfgrasses, domesticated plants removed from their natural context to serve some human desire.
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I live in flatlands that used to be endless tallgrass prairies, some of the most biodiverse ecosystems on earth. There are very few places left in this region where you can stand in a prairie and see nothing but prairie in all directions. Less than 1% remains. Restoring it would take centuries.
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For good and for bad. We're all here living on earth right now, many of us in ecosystems that are being heavily harmed by colonialism every day, and we can choose how active and observant our relationship with our surroundings and world is. We can choose to care for it or cast a blind eye
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YES !!! Pointing at every point in this thread and saying YES YES YES... since we are an inextricable part of nature our every action affects it. Regardless of intent we affect the world around us. Moving wood, turning over rocks, planting seeds stuck to us, the shoes we wear...Everything has impact
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Thank you!! :D
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Was very tempted by these at FWA, your 2 styles really suit each other!
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Love this
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SUPER LATE BUT HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🎂🎈👑😸
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Stellar. The colors and shapes are unbeatable
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That swirl on the bottom is magic