Let’s talk about ancient Maya tamales. Fun fact: They had tamales before tortillas, the latter being a recent addition in their cuisine arriving in the Maya region in the Postclassic period, in some cases even in the Colonial period. The tamal on the other hand goes far back into the Preclassic period. The murals of San Bartolo (100 BC) depict them.
As the name suggests, the Derwent River sea star (Marginaster littoralis) occupies five locations throughout Tasmania’s Derwent River, none of which fall within the boundary of nature reserves.
Although little is known about the life cycle of
Marginaster littoralis, characteristics of a similar sea star (Patiriella vivipara) suggest that the species has a life span of around four years.
Five known subpopulations are all geographically isolated from one another, albeit within the tight confines of the Derwent River.
Insufficient data exists on the current area of occupancy of the Derwent River Seastar, but it is unlikely to exceed 0.01 km2
There is insufficient data to indicate the species’ total population size. None of the published accounts of the species provide estimates of abundance. But data indicates that this little asteroid is likely to be extinct.
The destruction of the species’ habitat is a further threat. Populations in the Derwent River are located close to Hobart, and are subject to run-off pollution, but sadly, there is no recovery plan in place to protect the species.
Photo: In order by Blair Patullo and A J Dartnall
THIS TINY SEA STAR IS THE FIRST MARINE EXTINCTION DOCUMENTED IN AUSTRALIA
Scientists only knew the
Derwent River sea star
for about 25 years. It was first described in 1969, but scientists noticed a decrease in its population in the early 90’s. Field surveys conducted in 1993 and 2010 failed to find a single individual.
is now extinct. Is the first documented extinction of an Australian marine animal, and one of the few documented recent marine invertebrate extinctions.
Everyone should just say “Fuck Work” one day and just not go
Im actually serious. like, unless you can’t miss a day of work and risk endangering someone’s life, like a paramedic or doctor or something, literally everyone should just choose at least one day and just not go, preferably around Christmas so it fucks them the most. Fuck that Wal-Mart 9-5, fuck that Steak n’ Shake shift, super fuck the police, definitely fuck Amazon, and God Fuck Capitalism. the fuck they’re gonna do about it, fire 1000 employees?
y’all out here reblogging this like it’s a joke but come December if we all banded together and didn’t go to work, aint none of these big companies gonna be able to make quota and what the fuck can they do, fire like 10,000 people nation-wide and hope they can train enough people in on day to tip the scale back? fuck no, they’re gonna have to eat that loss, and even if its only one day, that’s gonna set millions of amazon orders back. its gonna fuck walmart’s whole thing, sam walton can suck a cock. these companies aint got no power without us but yall still think its a joke. and honestly if y’all want a fucking pay raise that bad, put up or go home and show they asses that they aint nothing but a name without bottom-level workers like us for like 3 days and something is gonna have to give
december 20th 2018 is gonna be national fuck work day
and y’all can go if you want but im staying my ass home and playing super smash bros ultimate
Also @ customers make plans for your holiday feasts early on so no one has to work those days.
My american friends are out there making General strike history im in
Make sure to get yr friends & coworkers in on national fuck work day too 🙂
when the capitalists die out either thru global warming or revolution will we be able to start homegrown internet
been reading about dual power and how to grow my own tomatoes and i’m wondering how and if we’ll be able to start commie internet lol
like obviously the internet is this huge electric capitalist controlled hardware infrastructure thing so after all that shuts down is there a way to do it ourselves lol
i want to come home from a hard day on the communal allotment, kiss my Wife, crank up my generator, and start sharing meams!
GOOD NEWS: the homegrown commie internet is in the works! Across the world, people fighting against censorship and for a more democratic internet are building mesh networks (meshnets) of long-range wifi (LoRa)
Since wifi is just a standard for sending data through radio waves, and radio waves can go a pretty long way if you use ‘em right, it’s not that difficult to connect two computers by wifi from across town. Then you just keep adding more computers to the network and you’ve got internet!
As for sharing fresh mëmês, the network to go to is Scuttlebutt. Unlike most social media, Scuttlebutt posts are stored on your computer and sent directly to your friends’ computers (rather than being stored on the cloud and sent to a central server). It works just fine over traditional internet, but you can also view and interact with it offline, and it has protocols for connecting over any means that two computers can share information – that includes LoRa, as well as hardwired connections, sneakernet (basically mailing a USB stick back and forth), etc
What that means is you always know that your info is just as safe as the network it’s sent on and the computer that receives it – no one even theoretically has the ability to collect and sell it all. And, since it’s all run on your computer, there’s no servers to go down or companies to go out of business that could destroy the whole thing
You can read more about this kind of stuff here (or here if it’s cloudy in Barcelona)!
there’s also the work being done by the DCPT, left-behind Detroiters meshing together their neighborhoods to share overpriced high-speed connections among the community and producing these good good educational documents, especially this rad resource page. building meshnets to share a global uplink is very similar to building meshnets for the purpose of intracommunication and these resources are useful in both cases
I’ve had a couple people ask about how to join/organize something like this, which is great! The best list of active projects I know of is here, though you should also do a search online if you don’t see one in your area in case they missed it. For those without a nearby group, put a pin here and try contacting nearby pins as well – you can use the instructions on buildyourowninter.net as well as the DCPT’s resources as linked above to get set up!
Please reblog this version so others can get involved!
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