go follow me on goldenspecter, im more active there; several crayons short of a full box. fuck around and find out at this point. π«23, a(e)ro, ace. they/astrum π« I have autism, adhd. π« talk shit, i will bite you so think before you hop in my notes with your dumbshit π« sideblog I'm active on: goldenspecter
It *is* a problem that charismatic species are often focused on for conservation at the expense of less charismatic but important species, but threatened species that are the subject of a lot of public outreach and education are also typically strategically selected.
I suspect that monarch butterflies are an example of this. Milkweed is a highly valuable plant for pollinators and a host plant for like. 400+ insect species. Getting people to plant it to save monarchs is funny because you’re essentially finessing people into saving a ton of other insects that they wouldn’t ordinarily care about
“Save the bees” isn’t misguided, it’s just the version of the truth you would tell a 5 year old. If a small kid asks about the colors of the rainbow you don’t start explaining that visible light has wavelengths of 400-700 nanometers
A lot of people don’t even know that there are different types of bees. things like planting native flowers, stopping using insecticides, etc, benefit all bees and all insects generally
ALSO
it’s actually a GOOD thing to have lots of conservation efforts focusing on “Charismatic megafauna,” especially apex predators
Because big animals like tigers need a LOT of space
So creating a preserve to save tigers…saves thousands of other species, because the tigers need miles and miles of habitat to live on, and that habitat needs to be healthy to support the tigers
They’re called “umbrella species” and they’re a great thing.
People say stuff like “cis people will use she/her pronouns for crossdressers and drag queens but refuse to use them for trans women 😒” a lot and i get the sentiment but also if a cis man wants to be a she/her then I think she shouldn’t have her pronouns used as some weird passive aggressive thing about transphobia.
everyone mentions the tumblr calendar of Out of Touch Thursday and Tuesday again? No problem, but we can go bigger. A larger scale. Is it not now Over the Garden Wall Fall?
Only time shall tell what shall be chosen for winter and spring.
Do not vote on this poll. Restrain yourself. Hold back your curiosity. Tamp down your defiant streak. Feel free to interact with the post in other ways — but whatever you do, do NOT vote.<br><br>Check back in a week to find out how good Tumblr users are at delayed gratification.
So within two days of each other, Fox News writes an article comparing aromanticism and asexuality to pedophilia, and then Matt Walsh releases a video saying asexuality is a mental illness and asexuals are tricking teenagers into having depression.
Not sure what’s going on right now over in Conservative World, but it’s a hell of wild U-turn for them to suddenly switch from “Oh no! The left is sexualizing our children!” to “Oh no! The left is asexualizing our children!”
It’s a reminder, I guess, that they’re coming for all of us. The fash and the white supremacists will not make nice distinctions between the queers when they put us up against the wall. There is no gatekeeping, no label-policing, no purity-purging and no assimilation that any of us can do that will save us. They want us dead, and while they’ll start with whoever is most vulnerable at any given time, they’ll get around to all of us eventually.
Queer solidarity means all of us because the fash are coming for all of us.
go follow me on goldenspecter, im more active there; several crayons short of a full box. fuck around and find out at this point. π«23, a(e)ro, ace. they/astrum π« I have autism, adhd. π« talk shit, i will bite you so think before you hop in my notes with your dumbshit π« sideblog I'm active on: goldenspecter
It *is* a problem that charismatic species are often focused on for conservation at the expense of less charismatic but important species, but threatened species that are the subject of a lot of public outreach and education are also typically strategically selected.
I suspect that monarch butterflies are an example of this. Milkweed is a highly valuable plant for pollinators and a host plant for like. 400+ insect species. Getting people to plant it to save monarchs is funny because you’re essentially finessing people into saving a ton of other insects that they wouldn’t ordinarily care about
“Save the bees” isn’t misguided, it’s just the version of the truth you would tell a 5 year old. If a small kid asks about the colors of the rainbow you don’t start explaining that visible light has wavelengths of 400-700 nanometers
A lot of people don’t even know that there are different types of bees. things like planting native flowers, stopping using insecticides, etc, benefit all bees and all insects generally
ALSO
it’s actually a GOOD thing to have lots of conservation efforts focusing on “Charismatic megafauna,” especially apex predators
Because big animals like tigers need a LOT of space
So creating a preserve to save tigers…saves thousands of other species, because the tigers need miles and miles of habitat to live on, and that habitat needs to be healthy to support the tigers
They’re called “umbrella species” and they’re a great thing.
People say stuff like “cis people will use she/her pronouns for crossdressers and drag queens but refuse to use them for trans women 😒” a lot and i get the sentiment but also if a cis man wants to be a she/her then I think she shouldn’t have her pronouns used as some weird passive aggressive thing about transphobia.
everyone mentions the tumblr calendar of Out of Touch Thursday and Tuesday again? No problem, but we can go bigger. A larger scale. Is it not now Over the Garden Wall Fall?
Only time shall tell what shall be chosen for winter and spring.
Do not vote on this poll. Restrain yourself. Hold back your curiosity. Tamp down your defiant streak. Feel free to interact with the post in other ways — but whatever you do, do NOT vote.<br><br>Check back in a week to find out how good Tumblr users are at delayed gratification.
So within two days of each other, Fox News writes an article comparing aromanticism and asexuality to pedophilia, and then Matt Walsh releases a video saying asexuality is a mental illness and asexuals are tricking teenagers into having depression.
Not sure what’s going on right now over in Conservative World, but it’s a hell of wild U-turn for them to suddenly switch from “Oh no! The left is sexualizing our children!” to “Oh no! The left is asexualizing our children!”
It’s a reminder, I guess, that they’re coming for all of us. The fash and the white supremacists will not make nice distinctions between the queers when they put us up against the wall. There is no gatekeeping, no label-policing, no purity-purging and no assimilation that any of us can do that will save us. They want us dead, and while they’ll start with whoever is most vulnerable at any given time, they’ll get around to all of us eventually.
Queer solidarity means all of us because the fash are coming for all of us.
