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The cum tanks by e-girl street. Yeah you can't miss them.

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(Kicking legs into the air) I'm sooo masc... Hehe... Ooh my gooood I'm Sooo masc!!!!

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systlin
Anonymous asked:

Did you hear the scientists have found a way to grow colored cotton? Thoughts?

It’s not a ‘scientists have found’ and much more ‘people have been already doing that for thousands of years and it’s just gaining more attention recently’

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beowulf22121

Scientists didn’t know. It should be “Scientists just found out”

There’s actually been a load of vitriol leveled against folks who try to raise traditional colored cottons, because a lot of cotton growers don’t want the colored cottons cross-pollinating with their standard white cotton.

But anyway cotton can be grown in lovely natural shades of greens, reddish-brown ochres, and browns, all of which deepen with a good boil in water with a bit of washing soda thrown in.

The color obviously doesn’t fade or run, because it’s not dye. It’s the intrinsic color of the fiber itself.

I….I want clothes made out of those colors. They don’t hurt my brain!

Aren’t they lovely?

I’m biased because I love the natural earth tones of many fibers, of course…browns, blacks, creams, copper-reds, ect…but I think they’re just gorgeous.

If anyone wants to know where you can get yarn or cotton like this!

Ok natural cotton varieties are cool, but that’s not what the recent buzz is about. A team of Australian scientists published a paper on successfully using gene editing to produce cotton in vibrant colors. This is potentially a big deal because the dyeing process uses pretty toxic chemicals, produces nasty waste products, and overall isn’t great for the environment (or workers). It’ll be a while before the tissue cultures actually grow up and produce cotton, so it isn’t a sure thing yet, but cool progress nonetheless.

Oh I had no idea that they were doing this! The only colored cotton I knew about was the traditional naturally colored varieties!

How cool!

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