Historically accurate leggings. Lorica Clothing’s inspiration is straight out of the Metropolitan Museum’s Arms and Armor exhibit.
Lorica (latin for body armor) is funding their leggings project on Kickstarter, and have already far surpassed their goal, which means the leggings are happening. Read more
hey so it’s march now aka the beginning of endometriosis awareness month and i feel obligated to remind you that debilitatingly painful periods are not normal. if you or someone you know is ending up sick or bedridden every month, you are not crazy and deserve medical attention from someone who will take you seriously
hey it’s march again let’s get this post circulating again
There’s a lot of different things you can plant for bees.
FIRST AND FOREMOST:
1) Always plant natively. This takes research, but in the long run, it’s easier for you, the gardener, and on the land.
2) Do not plant anything already sprayed by pesticides. It doesn’t matter if you have zero plans on using them, as it can reside for much longer and continue to harm pollinators.
There are often websites that discuss your local, native flora. USE THESE RESOURCES. Do not go down to a major chain store like Lowe’s or Home Depot. It will be tempting. They almost never have native species. Find your local nurseries. Certain arboretums sell native, safe/pesticide-free plants.
More reasons to planting natively: There are more bee species than just honey bees. A lot of native bees are in trouble due to food loss: that is, the squash bees need squash plants. Recent research is showing that other pollinators, such as monarchs need more than milkweed and rely on other flowers such as goldenrod.
To quote one of my friends: “People want to help pollinators, and the honeybee is one of those icons. However, there are over 400 native bees which barely get any attention and often are better pollinators of local food crops (ex: squash bees & squash/cucurbits or blueberry bees & blueberries).”
The other thing I want to point out is: BEES ARE REALLY AWESOME. BUT SO ARE WASPS, MOTHS, BUTTERFLIES, BATS, FLIES, BEETLES, AND BIRDS.
I have seen how bees are becoming popular, and at times, education on proper bee planting support, but wasps in particular remain a-okay to hate and kill and destroy. That’s really uncool. Because wasps are awesome. (Also often way less aggressive and territorial than people think.)
This is in part why native gardening is extremely important. Treat your home–your house–like a habitat. Keep grasses longer (do not cut it so low; this is actually way healthier for your grass too, and preferably: plant native grass). Keep dead logs around. Seems weird, but many species of animals use dead logs as homes and sources of food. (If you’re in California or a place where palms are native, consider not cutting down the skirt. Lizards and insects use these as homes!) Consider supporting all pollinators. Some of these plants are especially fun, such as persimmons
(Diospyros virginiana)
and paw-paws (Asimina triloba) for Maryland! (When researching native plants to Maryland, I found that a lot of the plants I thought were exotic were actually natives. Which was sort of terrifying in its own way.)
If you wish to plant non-natives or keep non-natives, consider a raised bed garden or pots. I prefer keeping a lot of non-natives, especially those that require less light and are particularly good for air purification inside. If you have pets, keep what is toxic in mind.
Learn to love “weeds.” There is not true weed species. Weeds are made up. We chose to say “This plant does not belong here.” A lot of ‘weeds’ I was told about were actually native plants. I always loved them and later found that yea, they’re actually really great. Before ripping any plant up, identify it.
If you do not have a lawn–I don’t have one in California–this is more difficult. I would suggest keeping native plants in pots. Some of them do well this way. If you have a balcony, don’t make the mistake I did and scorch-murder your plants. Make sure they have protection against the sun.
Visit your local arboretum (and in some cases, such as the zoo I volunteer for, we are also a garden). Ask questions. Go to the library and research. Send emails to people. If you realize anything you do is wrong or could be performed a better way, be open and do not take it personally. It may seem weird to add this little bit of advice, but seriously. I feel like sometimes we want to be correct, to be doing a really helpful thing, and when we realize we’ve failed, we get defensive and refuse to change. (I see this in the pet care communities, too.) This can cause more problems.
Under D&D rules, a dagger does 1d4 base damage. The average human has a Strength score of 10, adding no bonuses. Several of them, due to the military background of many, likely had strength or dexterity scores of 11-14. But only two or three, and quite a few would be frail with old age, sinking to 8-9 strength. All in all, we can only add a total of +1 damage per round from Brutus.
An estimate of sixty men were involved in Caesar’s actual murder. Not the wider conspiracy, but the stabbing.
Julius Caesar was a general, which is generally depicted as a 10th level fighter. Considering his above baseline constitution and dex, weakened by his probable history of malaria, epilepsy, and/or strokes (-1 dex modifier), and lack of armor at the time of the event, he would likely have something along the lines of AC 9 and 60 HP. The senators would likely hit him roughly 55% the time.
So the Roman senate had a damage-per-round of 66, more than enough to kill Caesar in one round even without factoring in surprise round advantage.
On some real shit, I do not fuck with people who ride those boat things at the carnival. People who get on those do not give a fuck about life, they don’t care about you, ya mama or your kids. They literally have nothing to lose. You don’t care about life so there’s no need for me to fight you because you’re not going to give a damn about my face.
THIS JOINT!!!!
BITCHHHHHHH. I got on this shit when I was 12. Wasn’t no bar, no protection, nothing in that shit. I didn’t realize until it was too late. You couldn’t pay me to ever get on this shit ever again in my life. We were in Landover, this shit almost smooth flipped my ass to Baltimore. No. Never again.
12? I got on this bitch when I was 21 and had my head in my ex’s shoulder the ENTIRE time. Screaming like a bih too. Nope. Never again. I was praying to the gravity gods the entire time.
?????? All it does is swing back and forth???? I don’t understand the concern??????
centrifugal force keeps you in your seat.
Centrifugal force isn’t keeping me from crying tho
listen we’re always pushing back against anti-vaxxers with the science showing that no, vaccines don’t cause autism, but can we please talk about the underlying problem here which is that people hate autistic children?
even if the poorly researched pseudo-science was right and vaccines had any link to autism in children, i would still want myself and my children vaccinated because guess what, there’s nothing wrong with autistic people.
what i hear when people say they don’t want their children vaccinated against deadly illnesses because they believe that vaccines cause autism is not just that they’re horribly misinformed, but that they’d rather have a sick, dying, or dead child than an autistic child. and honestly, that’s pretty fucked up and just goes to show that neurotypical people don’t view us as people who are equally entitled to life.
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