Creme of the Crop

catholic-aviator:

madameliberty:

writing-prompt-s:

God has been waiting billions of years for a lifeform to be able to study atoms and quarks and quantum entanglement to really appreciate how much painfully intricate effort he took to make the universe. Humans are finally there, but they think it’s all evidence that God must not be real.

Writing prompts just got really real

This isn’t even a writing prompt, this blog is just spitting straight truth now.

(via schrodingers-blursed-kitty)

boosyboo9206:

genderfluidintake:

judgejudyofficial:

teaboot:

hypallepse:

neeetsocks:

no language should be mocked other than french

Birds is “oiseaux” in French.

No letter is pronunced the way it should.

And there are seven of them.

ITS PRONOUNCED “WAZO” AND YES, I WILL DIE MAD ABOUT IT

oiseaux hits every vowel in the french alphabet and manages to only be pronounced with 2 goddamn syllables

got vowels coming out the oiseaux

This will never not be funny and I will never not reblog it.

(via disgruntled-neighborhood-wife)

mens-rights-activia:

I don’t care how unfair things are in your life, put some goddamn headphones on in public

(via renecdote)

westballz-baptist-church:

berserklrina:

sponge boy me bob we’re having a presentation on human trafficking

(via scrunchie-face)

i-am-the-broken-bride:

girlfromenglishclass:

“A modern retelling” oh so you mean worse

“A Muppet retelling” oh so you mean better

(via gracefullysaint)

elodieunderglass:

only-tiktoks:

People in the old days were clipping everything to everything… clipping cardigans into capes, shoes into different shoes. clipping through the roof. Clipping through the floor.

(via animeandcatholicism)

funnyflywheel:

the disciples, in the upper room, with the Lord Jesus now in their midst:

(via smol-catholic-bean)

thisbibliomaniac:

dykecostanza:

posting this after a train carrying toxic chemicals de-railed in a residential area thanks to deteriorating safety conditions you forcibly prevented railroad workers from striking over is just beyond words to me

At least four trains, actually 😌

(via shenzi-hemlock)

gracefullysaint:

Ok what are y'all doing for lent- if you are doing more than one tell me what is new this year or what you’re most excited about

Traditional only (giving up meat + fasting on Ash Wednesday and Fridays)

Giving up a ‘luxury’ food (chocolate, coffee, etc.)

Giving up an entertainment (music, social media, tv, etc.)

Giving up a sin or bad habit (gossiping, complaining, etc.)

Taking up a good time habit (praying, giving, volunteering)

Taking up a different entertainment focus (ex: listening to only christian music

Reading a devotional or spiritual book (not the bible)

Reading the bible (whole or part)

I’m not doing anything for lent

Other (tell me in the comments) or Results

See Results

(via aro-ace-ave-maria)

headspace-hotel:

animentality:

It was gut-wrenching when I realized that many people alive today have never seen a truly mature tree up close.

In the Eastern USA, only tiny remnants of old-growth forest remain; all the rest, over 99%, was clear-cut within the last 100-150 years.

Most tree species here have a lifespan of 300-500 years—likely longer, since extant examples of truly old trees are so rare, there is limited ability to study them. In a suburban environment, almost all of the trees you see around you are mere saplings. A 50 year old oak tree is a youth only beginning its life.

The forest where I work is 100 years old; it was clear cut around 1920. It is still so young.

When I dig into the ground there, there is a layer about an inch thick of rich, plush, moist, fragrant topsoil, packed with mycelium and light and soft as a foam mattress. Underneath that the ground becomes hard and chalky in color, with a mineral odor.

It takes 100 years to build an inch of topsoil.

That topsoil, that marvelous, rich, living substance, took 100 years to build.

I am sorry your textbooks lied to you. Do you remember pictures in diagrams of soil layers, with a six-inch topsoil layer and a few feet of subsoil above bedrock?

That’s not true anymore. If you are not an “outdoorsy” person that hikes off trail in forests regularly, it is likely that you have never touched true topsoil. The soil underlying lawns is depleted, compacted garbage with hardly any life in it. It seems more similar to rocks than soil to me now.

You see, tilling the soil and repeatedly disturbing it for agriculture destroys the topsoil layer, and there is no healthy plant community to regenerate it.

The North American prairies used to hold layers of topsoil more than eight or nine feet deep. That was a huge carbon sink, taking carbon out of the atmosphere and storing it underground.

Then European colonists settled the prairie and tried to drive the bison to extinction as part of the plan to drive Native Americans to extinction, and plowed up that topsoil…and the results were devastating. You might recall being taught about the Dust Bowl. Disrupting that incredible topsoil layer held in place by 12-foot-tall prairie grasses and over 100 different wildflower species caused the nation to be engulfed in horrific dirt storms that turned the sky black and had people hundreds of miles away coughing up clods of mud and sweeping thick drifts of dirt out of their homes.

But plowing is fundamental to agricultural civilizations at their very origins! you might say.

Where did those early civilizations live? River valleys.

Why river valleys? They’re fertile because of seasonal flooding that deposits rich silt that can then be planted in.

And where does that silt come from?

Well, a huge river is created by smaller rivers coming together, which is created by smaller creeks coming together, which have their origins in the mountains and uplands, which are no good for farming but often covered in rich, dense forests.

The forests create the rich soil that makes agriculture possible. An ancient forest is so powerful, it brings life to civilizations and communities hundreds of miles away.

You may have heard that cattle farming is a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions. A huge chunk of that is just the conversion of an existing forest or grassland to pasture land. Robust plant communities like forests, wetlands, and grasslands are carbon sinks, storing carbon and removing it from the atmosphere. The destruction of these environments is a direct source of carbon emissions.

All is not lost. Nature knows how to regenerate herself after devastating events; she’s done so countless times before, and forests are not static places anyway. They are in a constant state of regrowth and change. Human caretakers have been able to manage ancient forests for thousands of years. It is colonialism and the ideology of profit and greed that is so destructive, not human presence.

Preserve the old growth forests of the present, yes, but it is even more vital to protect the old growth forests of the future.

(via brookriver)