I Hate That Thing Some People Do Where It's Like. "I Left My Wallet On The Table To See If You'd Say

Ahhhh mutuals I have been suckered into helping with a baked sale, any recommendations for things that are popular and cool and hip with the youths???? The only two things I can think of are those cookies that pillsbury sells with the spooky shapes on them. And maybe sunny buddies, the delicious sunflower butter knock off of muddie buddies but I don’t know if people would want to buy that???? Please give me your most Pinterest mom, secret family recipe, popular baked goods requests please I am begging you, thank you so much!

this. Just this. All my friends are in the get married have kids stage of life and I am just like: have a lumpy quilt, it is a little lopsided but full of love.

After much deliberation I've decided I'm gonna start making quilts and I'm going to make sloppy messy quilts for everyone I love then slowly but surely I'll be making beautiful quilts for everyone I love and I will have a fucking ball along the way and your homes will all be full of quilts.

Just finished hamlet & had to share THIS

kind of obsessed with this comment from the aoteaora nz subreddit….

just ate a shrimp for the first time, didn’t die, but also unsure of all the hype around them

Why choose between Star Trek and Star Wars when I can have both? And also Stargate, Farscape and Galaxy Quest?

No.

They're all mine. I will defend them all to the death. 'Real sci-fi fans know the only good quality science fiction world is-' NO. I will have the commentary of a utopian/semi-utopian/post-utopian society dealing with current world problems through the science fiction lense by going where no one has ever gone before AND the galactic space opera with space wizards fighting space imperialism AND the show with a team of people fighting against body snatching space snakes/life force sucking space bugs AND the ragtag group of alien criminals, puppets and an astronaut cruising through space inside a sentient ship AND the love letter to the fans of the first mentioned series.

And you can't stop me.

mutuals do this!!!!

The Cool Down

Study uncovers surprising fact about wildflowers in urban areas: 'No difference … between the meadow types'

Researchers found that small patches of wildflowers can foster the same biodiversity as entire meadows.

A caveat to this study: the researchers were primarily looking at insect pollinator biodiversity. Planting a few native wildflowers in your garden will not suddenly cause unusual megafauna from the surrounding hinterlands to crowd onto your porch.

That being said, this study backs up Douglas Tallamy's optimistic vision of Homegrown National Park, which calls for people in communities of all sizes to dedicate some of their yard (or porch or balcony) to native plants. This creates a patchwork of microhabitats that can support more mobile insect life and other small beings, which is particularly crucial in areas where habitat fragmentation is severe. This patchwork can create migration corridors, at least for smaller, very mobile species, between larger areas of habitat that were previously cut off from each other.

It may not seem like much to have a few pots of native flowers on your tiny little balcony compared to someone who can rewild acres of land, but it makes more of a difference than you may realize. You may just be creating a place where a pollinating insect flying by can get some nectar, or lay her eggs. Moreover, by planting native species you're showing your neighbors these plants can be just as beautiful as non-native ornamentals, and they may follow suit.

In a time when habitat loss is the single biggest cause of species endangerment and extinction, every bit of native habitat restored makes a difference.