These protests are threatening the stability of the pro American governments of Jordan, Egypt, and Morocco. Not to be optimistic but this is a huge deal for the SWANA region.
there's a cherry blossom tree in DC that keeps blooming every year even though it shouldn't and the park service keeps thinking it's dead and then it keeps blooming! well they're removing a lot of trees to rehabilitate the area and they've said it's finally time for stumpy to go and they're going to mulch it and use the mulch to enrich all the other trees so it can help everything else keep going. and they're also going to plant spliced little pieces of it all over so that stumpy can live forever and this is genuinely sending me into a spiral
STUMPY MY BELOVED!!!!
For added context on what rehabilitating the area means: there are structural issues with the Tidal Basin seawall that cause flooding like this independent of rainfall. Big portions of the sidewalk in Stumpy’s section are regularly submerged, which is bad for the land and the trees themselves, not to mention an accessibility issue for visitors.
It’s sad that Stumpy and many other trees in the area will need to be cut down, but it will ensure the continued survival of the other trees in the area, and Stumpy himself will live on in his cuttings!
I believe Stumpy will be taken to the national arboretum and his clones will return to the tidal basin after the rebuilding.
Someone left him a bottle of bourbon as an offering.
The Japanese Embassy came to pay him honor this week.
Stumpy and his cohort are part of the original gift from Japan more than 100 years ago, and many have lived this long bc the National Parks takes care of them. Normally the trees live about 40-50 years.
live laugh farcille
the name "theresa" is so funny like. theres a what
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back on my bullshit (the bullshit being embroidered jackets for the spring collection)
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^ wisdom from my cat who just stepped across my keyboard while i was trying to make a post
^ the future face of cyber security
it's good that we finally got some kind of ceasefire resolution passed, but what was passed is not NEARLY enough.
the language implies equal power between parties, the ceasefire is not permanent, US still is no longer funding UNRWA, etc etc etc. PYM's recent post sums it up well.
do not lose momentum just because you saw an article titled "UN CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION". keep talking, keep fundraising, keep boycotting, keep protesting. its not over until palestine is free
Teuta Matoshi | Spring/Summer 2024
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General tumblr reminder, since some people don't know: If the person's URL has "deactivated" plus a string of numbers (a date) after it, that means that they manually deleted their own blog. It doesn't mean they were banned. Banned blogs don't have "deactivated" after them and will just be the normal URL you can't click on or interact with. They look very similar and function the same, but they were caused by two very different things.
thats not true i dont think people would do that
oh fuck this is a really good hill i gotta die on this
rich people seeing mount everest