Waaaaaaa…….nooooo

Danielle Nierenberg, President of Food Tank, shares a sustainability pro-tip in honor of Earth Day. Instead of wasting leftover pasta water by pouring it down the sink, you can save it, let it cool and use it to water your plants. The starchy H2O will give them a beneficial nutrient boost and help them grow. Just be sure to avoid using cooking water that has been salted or seasoned.

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“Bettas live in puddles…”

“Well actually bettas live in dirty puddles so even though the water in my .25gal (.9L) is brown and smells like its rotting, its tottally okay to keep my betta in there!”

“All that room for one fish? Bettas live in puddles so no I don’t need that big of a tank”

“Bettas live in puddles their whole lives so its okay to permanently house them in the cup they’re sold in”

No. No. No. No. No.

Bettas live in rice paddy’s. Hundreds upon hundreds of acres of three feet deep water surrounded by roots and leaves and plenty of hunting grounds.

Domestic bettas are bred in large glass jars sometimes. It doesn’t mean you can keep them in the glass jar.

Sure, I can fit in the under the stairs closet and live my whole life there. Oh wait. I’d be miserable. I don’t understand people who take an animal who is completely reliant on you as its soul source of living, and just throw them in a cute little wine glass and ask me why tf their betta isn’t eating/swimming/ living, and then tell me I’m wrong when I say they need at least 5 gals and lots of hiding spots because “they live in puddles”

Finished sticker design!! I ordered them and theyre set to arrive between .. next week and a day before one of my tabling events😅

Van der Linde gang, early days

Lots of new acrylic charms and stickers are now in my shop!

The golden hour

                                Foglie Tropicale (Series II)- Various Plants

1.  Ornamental Foliage Plants, Mary Evans

2. Codiaeum hybrid, drawn and chromolithographed by Pieter de Pannemaeker from Jean Linden’s l'Illustration Horticole, Brussels, 1888

3. Coleus Blumei, Imprimerie et lithographie de F. et E. Gyselnyck,1854-1896

4. Garden Croton, Imprimerie et lithographie de F. et E. Gyselnyck,1854-1896

5. Cyrtosperma,  Imprimerie et lithographie de F. et E. Gyselnyck,1854-1896

6. Pitcher Plant,  Imprimerie et lithographie de F. et E. Gyselnyck,1854-1896

7. Trichocentrum cosymbephorum

8. Majesty Palms

9. Aspidium obliquatum

Cockroaches!

Jessi tries to convince you that cockroaches are cool! After the video I bet you'll agree that even though some can be pests, there's way more cool things ab...

Cockroaches are highly underrated animals. Madagascar hissers have complex social groups, fascinating communication, and studies suggest that they can even differentiate between individual humans (i.e. they don’t hiss defensively when picked up by someone that they know).

I love my three pet roachlings and would actually highly recommend Madagascar hissing cockroaches as a great low maintenance pet. They are easy to handle, fascinating to watch, and incredibly easy to care for. Plus they only live 2-5 years so they aren’t a hugely long term commitment.

Quick illustration of me turning into a fucking goliath birdeater tarantula shortly after snapping under the pressure of living in America