Shannon ❤️‍🔥 😷🍃🌕🍉

wet season in the central Everglades. that is an alligator looking for a waterbody.

George Floyd passed six years ago today.

the post covid years have truly been so awful

In a study of people with generalized anxiety disorder, only 8.6% of recorded worries actually happened. The most common outcome: 0%. Not a single worry came true.

Did some airplane travel this week- the number of people back to wearing masks over hantavirus and Ebola is truly shocking. I feel sad for the people who live their lives in fear over over-hyped, extremely rare diseases. People, so fearful that they can't go out in public or travel without masks... I pity them, I worry for their mental health, I even worry for our country that has so many guillible people - but these poor fools are not my enemy.

“Propaganda doesn’t work on me” Or is it just that you’re not in the target audience? 🤨 Easy peasy for a leftist to shrug off manipulation aimed at patriotic conservatives who love the military, cops, and nuclear family. But what about propaganda leveraging justice rhetoric?

doing a line of what could’ve been

They sell LED bulbs in the colour tone on the left. I sent emails and made phone calls to people in my local council until they changed the bulbs on my street. You can do the same.

Farmers have figured out that the cheapest pesticide is a strip of flowers. When you plant wildflowers through a crop field, not just around the edge but in strips running through the middle, you get ladybugs, lacewings, hoverflies, and parasitic wasps living in the field instead of visiting it. They eat the aphids, the caterpillars, and the mites for free, all summer long. In controlled trials, fields with tailored flower strips had leaf-beetle numbers 40 to 50% lower and crop damage cut by around 60%, enough to drop below the threshold where spraying was even considered worth it. The flowers attract a standing army to our fields. We spent decades engineering chemicals to kill the insects eating the crop, when the insects that eat those insects would have worked for the price of seed.

I was begging for summer but I ain’t know it was gon get this hot