plantanarchy:

mallgothhamlet:

gallusrostromegalus:

cephalopodvictorious:

shwoo:

ssj8goku:

learning that most trees do not derive from a single lineage but actually only look and function superficially similarly due to convergent evolution is one of the most fucked up things i’ve ever learned and i will never be the same person as i was before i learned that

Oak trees are quite a bit more closely related to roses than they are to pine trees.

So are apple and cherry and pear trees! But palm trees are basically grass

Like many animal lines have gotten Huge and Lumpy in the ocean, so have plants gotten Tall and Woody in the sunlight.

THIS IS WHAT I’VE BEEN SAYING. TREES ARE A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT.

in a similar vein, Cactus are more closely related to plants like Dianthus and Amaranth than to other common succulents like members of the Crassulaceae family that contains Echeveria, Jade Plants, Sedum, Kalanchoe, etc

Phylogeny is wild and categorization is made up

josieandthepussycatsofficial:

soih:

you know it’s winter cause women be posting the most heavy, on-the-nose feminist theory about how all of this is futile and being a woman is to be a subhuman object of endless torture and it’s like, thank you seasonal depression for raising the collective consciousness! take the sun and warmth away and we realize how empty and hysterical and feral we all are!

anarcho-marxianism:

“Punishment is not something that happens to bad people. It happens to those who cannot stop it from happening. It is laundered pain, not a balancing of scales.”

— porpentine (via foldingcookie2)