“Bolf Spirit” 🐻🐺
Watercolor and colored pencil
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A Bolf is a spirit that is both wolf and bear, both loner and loyal to family, both teacher and healer, full of strength and wisdom.
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The fact that the location of the world’s oldest tree has to be kept secret encapsulates everything that’s bad about humanity.
There’s a story about that, actually.
According to the smithsonianmag.com, the world’s oldest bristlecone pine was a nearly 5,000 year old tree later named Prometheus. In 1964, a man named Donald Rusk Currey decided to use an increment borer to determine its age (a process that cuts a small hole into the center of the tree trunk, and is not intended to kill the tree). Unfortunately, the borer got stuck. He and a park ranger cut the tree down to remove the equipment, and when they counted the tree rings, they realized their mistake. Oops. This incident lead to better protection of the remaining bristlecone pines.
There’s some wiggle room about what can be called “the world’s oldest living tree.” The world’s oldest living single tree is the tree that the OP is referring to. Its name is Methuselah,and it is also around 5,000 years old. Since its location is unknown, nobody knows what it looks like. But it might be this tree here:
But technically, it isn’t the oldest living tree. Let me explain.
It turns out that root systems of trees can send up genetically identical saplings (aka clones) via their root systems. Like so:
Which means the original trunk can die, but since the root system is attached to other trees which give it nutrients, it lives on. The root system can theoretically do this indefinitely. So the tree trunks could be fairly young, but the roots could be large and very, very, very old. So the oldest “tree” isn’t a small grove, it’s a logic-defyingforest.
I’d like you to meet Pando.
This male quaking aspen covers 106 acres and is ancient. I’m talking an estimate of 80,000 years. The trees you can see are just “shoots” he sent up, and their average age is 130 years old. He is his own forest. If trees could talk, I’d love to hear what he had to say.
He might be dying, due to insects and drought (hmm, wonder what could have happened to cause that). A section of Pando is being studied in an attempt to find a solution. But in the meantime, we can enjoy him for his beauty.
We are sharing some of our favourite gifs each day this month for Antifa International’s anniversary. Today:
A survivor of Dachau concentration camp attacks one of the former SS guards after the liberation of the camp in 1945.
- Frankenstein, Mary Shelley. Introduced by Stephen King. Illustrated by Bernie Wrightson (Marvel Comics, 1983)
This edition reprints the full novel by Mary Shelley (1831 edition), with illustrations by Wrightson. Wrightson spent seven years drawing approximately 50 detailed pen-and-ink illustrations. Wrightson also used a period style, saying “I wanted the book to look like an antique; to have the feeling of woodcuts or steel engravings, something of that era” .
Wrightson has said that it was an unpaid project: “I’ve always had a thing for Frankenstein, and it was a labor of love. It was not an assignment, it was not a job. I would do the drawings in between paying gigs, when I had enough to be caught up with bills and groceries and what-not. I would take three days here, a week there, to work on the Frankenstein volume. It took about seven years.”
How British Police Shut Down the Original UK Antifa - While the writer seems under the impression that “Antifa” was a specific organisation in the 2000′s, the rest of the article is some interesting recent history on antifascists experiences in the UK, with some important lessons to be had on the danger of the state to antifascist organising, and the importance of good security culture for activists.
Why We’re Investigating Extreme Politics in Underground Music - A good look at the connection and history of extreme music and the far right, and why it is vital to not tolerate fascism or fascist apologists in our scenes, whether they be fans or artists.
Indigenous Ally Toolkit - A good resource on how to be an ally to indigenous people in their struggle specifically in Canada, but with important lessons that are applicable to many other struggles too.
Right Wing Violence and Emergency Aid: Thanks, Antifa - Why invoking the slogan “no violence“ in the fight against the right is a betrayal of the victims of neo-Nazis and does nothing to stop the violence they experience
Heavy Metal Confronts its Nazi Problem - write-up of the Black Flags over Brooklyn festival and a short look at metal’s nazi problem and the antifascist response to it.
15 Things the Stansted 15 Did Right - Lessons to be learned from the 15 activists in the UK who blocked a deportation flight and risked life-time prison sentences on terrorism charges.
‘Their ideas had no place here’: how Crete kicked out Golden Dawn - Great article showing the importance of grassroots community activism and a diversity of tactics to get rid of fascists. Mobilising and creating antifascist consciousness in the neighbourhood, combating fascist recruitment in schools, organising multicultural antifascist festivals and going out and physically destroying fascist spaces; all these tactics together worked to rid Crete of its Golden Dawn presence.
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