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ultrafacts:

femmeboyant:

sparkletindi:

vaspider:

laughingcatwrites:

unpretty:

jcrewguy:

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In a statement to The Post, a spokesperson for NBCUniversal claimed the tree work is simply an annual ritual at this time of year. “We understand that the safety tree trimming of the Ficus trees we did on Barham Blvd. has created unintended challenges for demonstrators, that was not our intention. In partnership with licensed arborists, we have pruned these trees annually at this time of year to ensure that the canopies are light ahead of the high wind season,” they wrote. “We support the WGA and SAG’s right to demonstrate and are working to provide some shade coverage. We continue to openly communicate with the labor leaders on-site to work together during this time.”

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If those trees were pollarded annually, the cut areas would NOT look like that. There would be big knobs of old growth at the trimming sites. Not seeing any of that here. The way those trees were topped (not pollarded, which is a very careful process that has to begin when the tree is immature) is excellent way to kill them due to loss of hydration, open sites to infection and parasitism during the best time of year for both, lack of nutrition due to so little greenery and new budding growth being left, sunburn and other exposure damage, and a myriad of other possibilities. Plus, if they were topped annually, they would not have the lovely drooping branches seen in the other picture but would have tons of vertical suckers instead.

This is what an annually pollarded mature tree should look like:

If this was done by the city, the public works arborists should be protesting in front of city hall and screaming their heads off right now. I’m not hearing about that, so… Tree law!

The Studios: *speak*

Botanists and other Tree Experts:

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Update and confirmation of Imminent Tree Law:

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He mentions later in the thread that not only do they not trim the trees annually, they’re trimmed at best once every 18 years. Supposed to be every five, and only in dormancy, which even my layman’s ass knows about tree trimming.

And yes, Universal can probably eat the fine. But it’s gonna be a whopper even if the trees survive (which is as mentioned kinda unlikely), California is a triple damage state for tree law, and it may increase dramatically if there were nesting birds in the trees.

All this to be a Captain Planet filler villain to some writers. And yes, it’s currently just the writers officially picketing there; SAG-AFTRA recommended against it for petty bullshit like this and the suddenly necessary sidewalk construction.

I asked my dad— a retired arborist—about TREE LAW and he just kinda blinked and said (i paraphrase because Dad Tangents, amirite?):

“Worst and best case I ever saw was a guy who was caught in the act of cutting down a C&C tree by two Department of Urban Forestry supervisors while they were randomly driving around on a Saturday. Not only did he have to deal with the cops showing up and months of paperwork and bureaucracy, but he also had to pay the fines AND cover the cost of the tree removal + stumping + buying a new tree + planting the new tree + wages for the regular crew plus the extra workers they needed to get the jobs done. That tree ended up costing him upwards of $35K, and that was over 20 years ago.”

So yeah, respect Tree Law or pay out the bootyhole.

spitblossoms:

elekilokal:

My timeskip redesigns

finnglas:

ode-on-a-grecian-butt:

socialmaya:

theyer old enough that they used to connect 

They’re older than Florida. The Floridian peninsula is the solidified runoff of the Appalachians that got caught on some coral. It’s why we’re like this, I think. You don’t stand a chance of being normal when you were created by the shed skin of an elder god draping itself over a hollow skeleton. You’re always going to be a little Off.

pissvortex:

pissvortex:

i don’t know if i can do this blue sky app anymore

Dril, on twitter a couple of months ago, said that he would block every single user with a blue checkmark. people on bluesky, a website that is not twitter, have said that this is bad because content creators and sex workers sometimes buy blue checks on twitter to advertise their content. that’s literally the entire thing leading up to these posts

orphanedsource:

Does tumblr assume I’m a caveman? Recommended posts for Grugnar?

criticalrolo:

my mood

chippish:

beaft:

beaft:

nothing brings me more joy than repeatedly doing a bit that my mother dislikes

i think i’m funny and that’s the main thing

(ID: both images are a text message conversation between OP and Mothership [their mom]

Mom: Text me to say you’re home safely 
OP: I’m home dangerously
Mom: Stop it
OP: I’m home lethally

OP: I’m home in an extremely lackadaisical and downright reckless fashion 
Mom: Text me that you are at home and not in a wheelie bin 
OP: My journey home is violating so many health and safety regulations
I’ve killed three pedestrians 
Mom: You’re breaking my heart 
OP: I actually got murdered as soon as I left your field of vision 
Mom: So not funny
OP: And then got up and was immediately murdered again by a different person
Mom: On the tube now 
So unable to respond to your witticisms
OP: Who knows how many times I’ll have been murdered by the time you get off the tube

end ID)

stitchedspider:

spider crew

sunsetsounds:

really funny that every website is in an arms race to make itself as bad as possible and immediately someone makes a firefox extension to fix it