Here's A Very Interesting Bit To Find. The Length Of A Saturnian Day Is 10 Hours & About 39-42 Minutes.

Here's a very interesting bit to find. The length of a Saturnian day is 10 hours & about 39-42 minutes. Maybe this should give a glimpse into the variances of day lengths outside of Earth. Mars, on the other hand, has 25 hour long days.

The length of a day on Mars -- the time it takes Mars to complete a rotation on its axis -- has been known since 1666. It was even accurate to within 3 minutes!

The length of a day on Saturn was a mystery until 2019.

It was extremely difficult to measure for two reasons. First, because without a solid surface, Saturn had no geographical features by which to measure rotational speed. And Saturn has a funky magnetic field that makes alternative ways of measuring hard. Saturn's day was only measured when NASA's Cassini probe studied the planet's icy, rocky rings and their interaction with the planet.

While I'd like very much for such social programs to go on in my homelands & my land of study, it'd be very hard to do in the former since it has short growing seasons for most of the plants. An extremely continental climate makes it difficult (especially in frigid winters & sometimes torrid summers) to cultivate own crops, though not impossible to do (greenhouse or not). But such efforts aren't unwelcome despite any difficulties or setbacks the conditions may give, no matter who it's from. Especially support such efforts for Native growers (including normally pastoralist groups like neighbouring Kazakhs) to supplement themselves with or without portable greenhouses or even soil-less growing (which is actually quite a bit cheaper & easier than it often looks). Furthermore, self-sufficiency goes a long way in mitigating any disasters or crises to come to a nearby community (even if a population transfer happens). Even handier is that most produce can be grown from scraps (whether it be from fruits, vegetables, herbs, or any compostable material including keratin [stuff hair & nails are made of] & vacuum cleaner dust). Still make an effort to accommodate as much as is ecologically reasonable for your area.

We launched Truelove Seeds 3.5 years ago to support the food justice movement & small scale farmers in preserving their culturally important seed varieties and financially benefiting from doing so. We decided to run some numbers and see how we were doing! In the first three months of this year (our busiest time shipping seeds), we sent $22,726.13 to our seed growers and to indigenous farm projects. At our farm, we grow nearly half of our seed catalog, & last year 40 other farms grew the rest, each contributing at least one ancestrally or regionally important variety to our catalog. We send 50% of each packet sale to the farm that grew that variety - so if you spend $4 on a packet of our seeds, $2 goes to the farmer who grew it. 

Half the farms we work with are run in full or in part by farmers of color & nearly half our seed payments go to those farmers. 43% of the money goes to food justice programs rooted in communities of color, & 32% goes to urban farms. We have also started sending 25% of our seed packet sales from Lenape and Wampanoag varieties to community farms from those tribes. A couple of our growers also send their share to those groups. While we sent $1,667.50 for January through March sales, we also included 25% from all sales before that, & will continue to send quarterly checks when we pay our growers too. Thank you to our seed sister Rowen White for pushing seed companies to share the benefits of their work with indigenous seeds with their original keepers. 

Finally, since it is pride month, just over a quarter of the farms we work with are run by LGBTQ+ growers (the number is much larger if we include other team members from these farms), & these farms receive 44% of our seed payments. #happypride

As a couple of my coworkers have said: looking at these numbers is affirming that our collective work is making an impact. This also shows us where there is room to increase our support for food justice programs & farmers of color in terms of investing in their capacity to grow more seeds. What we love about our model is that as interest and support for Truelove Seeds grows, our farmer friends proportionately benefit! Thanks for your support.

Here's a useful one to know especially for family & friends you'd like to help move, especially when working and/or studying overseas.

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To show my support (while keeping in mind that transgender & gender identities aren't the same kind of thing as the above kinds of orientations), here's my support despite coming from a place that's not so welcoming of such.

Reblog if you don't care if someone is transgender, straight, gay, lesbian or bisexual.

((My OTP is so gaaay! Silver Spoon is GAY for Diamond Tiara!))

DT: I.. just.. can’t.. (puts her head in arms on the table and cries)

Here's an interesting one to use for writing & worldbuilding uses too.

Ventifacts = rocks carved by the wind (by nbeard3)

With all this factored in, one should bear in mind that since this is merely the starting point, it can be tricky to tell just what the series would be like since it'll be awhile before that starts. After all, the series can address what we're currently left wondering & address what would be currently unresolved. Maybe its animation models aren't the liveliest, but at least they'll age well if nothing else.

Have you seen the MLP G5 movie? I heard it's a pretty good start.

I saw it. It was alright.

It was your average children's show affair with nothing really special to show for it. I only liked, maybe, half the songs, and the storyline was incredibly basic.

I also really don't like the art style for the main ponies themselves. The art for the little critters was super cute though, loved how creative they got with the new creatures.

But otherwise yeah, it's perfectly serviceable. I could watch it if I had a kid, but it didn't spark the same joy or appreciation that G4 did for me, so I'm not sure if I'll end up watching any more going forward.