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From the people who brought you Squid Facts, Horseshoe Crab is Calling
I don't know about you, but I need a little joy right now. Earlier this month, I was walking down the street in my neighborhood and I came upon this:
I was like "Wow. Ok. Yes I AM picking that up." I couldn't resist! What an enticing strategy!
I had to try it myself.
After kicking the idea around with a few friends, I landed on "Horseshoe Crab is calling", and we updated to the modern iOS. Maybe i should have kept the green and red, I'm not sure.
Who the hell wouldn't be intrigued by this?!
(P.S. shout out to Basic Barbie, another street artist in the city who is unapologetically femme in a predominantly male scene. We love Basic Barbie.)
The link on the bottom goes to a list of actionable things people can do to slow climate change. Very curious to see how many people visit the page.
If you would like the print file so you can get business cards printed yourself to pepper around your natural habitat, DM me. Happy to share.
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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!
go white boy goooo
God my favorite thing about the ancient world though is that they were so dedicated to making things pretty just like us. I love seeing the marginalia in bibles and the pictures they commissioned and the letters they spent extra on. I love that we wrote poetry two thousand years ago and put on theater and made art. I love that pots and bottles and tombs and beds and cribs have designs on them I love the graffiti on ancient walls I love the fact that they danced and sung and made art just like we do!!!! We are the same we are the same we are the same
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.
