Something amazing that keeps us stargazing

Jeremias Ritter - Nautilus Snail, c. 1630 (Nautilus shell, silver-gilt)

Hey. Hey, nonagesimus. Hey are you awake?

Hey.

Have you ever used a bone hand for dirty stuff?

Lelwel hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus lelwel)

You know what the most frustrating thing about the vegans throwing a fit over my “Humans aren’t Parasites” post is?  I really wasn’t trying to make a point about animal agriculture. Honestly, the example about subsistence hunting isn’t the main point. That post was actually inspired by thoughts I’ve been having about the National Park system and environmentalist groups.

See, I LOVE the National Parks. I always have a pass. I got to multiple parks a year. I LOVE them, and always viewed them as this unambiguously GOOD thing. Like, the best thing America has done. 

BUT, I just finished reading this book called “I am the Grand Canyon” all about the native Havasupai people and their fight to gain back their rights to the lands above the canyon rim. Historically, they spent the summer months farming in the canyon, and then the winter months hunter-gathering up above the rim. When their reservation was made though, they lost basically all rights to the rim land (They had limited grazing rights to some of it, but it was renewed year to year and always threatened, and it was a whole thing), leading to a century long fight to get it back. 

And in that book there are a couple of really poignant anecdotes- one man talks about how park rangers would come harass them if they tried to collect pinon nuts too close to park land- worried that they would take too many pinon nuts that the squirrels wanted. Despite the fact that the Havasupai had harvested pinon nuts for thousands and thousands of years without ever…like…starving the squirrels. 

There’s another anecdote of them seeing the park rangers hauling away the bodies of dozens of deer- killed in the park because of overpopulation- while the Havasupai had been banned from hunting. (Making them more and more reliant on government aid just to survive the winter months.) 

They talk about how they would traditionally carve out these natural cisterns above the rim to catch rainwater, and how all the animals benefitted from this, but it was difficult to maintain those cisterns when their “ownership” of the land was so disputed. 

So here you have examples of when people are forcibly separated from their ecosystem and how it hurts both those people and the ecosystem. 

And then when the Havasupai finally got legislation before Congress to give them ownership of the rim land back- their biggest opponent was the Parks system and the Sierra Club. The Sierra Club (a big conservation group here in the US) ran a huge smear campaign against these people on the belief that any humans owning this land other than the park system (which aims at conservation, even while developing for recreation) was unacceptable. 

And it all got me thinking about how, as much as I love the National Parks, there are times when its insistence that nature be left “untouched” (except, ya know, for recreation) can actually harm both the native people who have traditionally been part of those ecosystems AND potentially the ecosystems themselves. And I just think there’s a lot of nuance there about recognizing that there are ways for us to be in balance with nature, and that our environmentalism should respect that and push for sustainability over preserving “pristine” human-less landscapes. Removing ourselves from nature isn’t the answer. 

But apparently the idea that subsistence hunting might actually not be a moral catastrophe really set the vegans off.  Woopie. 

Hey, so I know you mean well with this. I know you do. But, ok, a few things. Different ethnic/racial groups are not different species. Calling non-native people an invasive species that can’t be part of a local ecosystem is…not helpful. It’s the same “humans are parasites” argument with some asterisks thrown in.

The problem isn’t that humans who are descended from one continent are now living on a different content, outcompeting the local species for resources because there arent any predators in the new ecosystem evolved to deal with them like rabbits released in Australia or kudzu vines in the deep south. The problem is that because of colonialism and capitalism, the majority of humans living in America (and many other places) are not doing so with systems and practices that are sustainable and mutualistic with the ecosystem.

Also- groups of people who ARE historically indigenous to an area can still have environmentally unsustainable economic systems for all sorts of historical and geopolitical reasons. *Gestures to China as just one example* it’s not a question of indigenous-ness, but of mutualism and sustainability.

Land Back and the general philosophy of looking to indigenous practices and knowledge for how to live in a more sustainable and mutualistic way are obviously awesome. But so are new technology and practices that would improve sustainability and mutualism. And that holds true world wide.

I want us to fight the urge to paint indigenous people as being magically more in tune with nature and white people as being irredeemable parasites who cannot be part of the natural world.

Listen. I do love weird looking monster cocks as much as the next guy, but I genuinely barely see any love for bizarre vagina biology on monsters. Whenever I see monster cunt it's always basically just human, and what's with that?

Hear me out. Here are some suggestions:

Insect monsters whose chitinous underbellies you have to rub and caress to get to their slits/gonopores.

Transmasc werewolves whose bottom growth is exagerrated while transformed, allowing for easy penetration. Knotted tdicks anyone?

Monsters who have claspers in their cunts to keep you locked inside of them while you cum.

Monsters whose wetness has an aphrodisiac quality, making it hard to think of anything but keeping your face and tongue buried inside of them to get more.

Reptile monsters with hemiclitori to make pleasure even more intense as you eat them out.

Monsters with vaginal canals they can restrict and shift around independently, allowing them to form fit themselves perfectly to your fingers or cock.

Robots with slits that vibrate as you grind against or fuck them.

Hyena monster women with pseudo-penises.

PUSSY TENTACLES!!

Idk man like monster cocks are neat but I need to eat out weird monster pussy okay?

when you come up with the weird design for a monster dick, think of what the vagina would have to be like to justify or work with it.

don't forget the

TEETH!!!

three thousand lanterns from qiandeng temple

so sad, so sad

May be haunted, $.25 extra.

enough about taylor swift already. reblog and tag the smallest, least known artist you listen to

hey good news

there's a specifically designated role in the naked mole rat ecology for "guy who runs off into the wilderness and fucks their way into a stranger's house"

Y'all have no idea how absurdly strange naked mole rats are as creatures They're cold-blooded mammals that live in a eusocial structure with a queen and drones, similar to ants, bees, termites and no other mammal on the planet. They barely need to breathe, with a respiration rate low enough to let them thrive in burrows with 2% oxygen, and survive with 0 oxygen whatsoever for about 20 minutes with zero lasting effects.

They live for over 30 years, which is absurdly long for a rodent, don't grow frail with age, and are basically immune to cancer because their telomeres just never shorten.

Naked Mole Rats are rodents that attempted to evolve into bugs, failed, and unlocked the secret to immortality in the process.

joan baez imitating bob dylan you mean everything to me

okay i ruined your life but did you not have fun? exactly relax