Green Lake and its sister Round Lake, are a pair of unique bodies of water located in the aboriginal territory of the Onandoga nation. This writeup will concern itself with Green Lake, but much of this information carries over to its sister.
The final remnants of a plunge pool formed during the last ice age by a glacial waterfall at least twice the size of Niagara Falls; Green Lake is situated in a gorge and fed entirely by rain and groundwater. As a result, it is one of the few meromictic lakes on earth.
So, okay, in general terms, lakes do this:
For the warmer months water organizes into distinct layers, each circulating in their own way. The warmest water, being the least dense, sits at the top. This is where the phytoplankton hang out, producing oxygen and consuming nutrients. The coldest water, being the most dense, sits at the bottom. This is where nutrients tend to accumulate and oxygen gets depleted by animal life. As summer turns to winter the top layers get colder and the water mixes as stratification breaks down, the same happens as winter turns back to summer. This process helps more evenly distribute oxygen and nutrients.
Ok so Green Lake doesn’t do this.
The bottom of the lake is totally devoid of oxygen, so no decomposition; whatever falls down there, stays down there. The water is also very high in mineral content, which leaves layers of calcite deposits on anything that isn’t moving. Moreover there is a layer of bacterially active water around 18-20 meters down that makes the water purple at that specific depth. Thanks to photosynthetic bacteria that deposit some of the minerals in the water, Green Lake is home to one of the few existing freshwater reefs.
I just think its neat.
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Instead of complaining and doom scrolling all the time, I’m gonna pick up a new web novel to hyperfixate about. Unfortunately, I’ve already read the 2 CN web novels which are most highly praised.
Aparantly, from this point on I’m supposed to lower my expectations.
But instead of doing that, I’m going to find a novel with a FEMALE MAIN CHARACTER written by a WOMAN AUTHOR (this is supposedly not so hard these days and there’s a lot more popular options)
They should invent HRT that fully gets rid of body hair.
gross
made a great escape from the call last night because everyone was talking about paying for food with boners and “getting to” pick up dog shit with their bare hands…
polyheartbreak
my primary partner broke up with their other partner. felt really sudden for everyone, it’s clear they’re going through a lot but feels like they caused needless hurt. came at a bad time too. I feel for both of them but it feels like the other one was cast-out and I’m real sad for them. remembering that I’m a big softie and catch feelings easily experience heartbreak easily.
they’ve made some personal breakthroughs in the short time since, and it came out that some tweaks were needed, but why couldn’t these have been shared before taking such drastic steps? these were minor issues if only they were brought up to all involved. now our futures have all been drastically altered (there were changes coming I was looking forward to a lot) and I had no say in the matter. I’ll get through this but all hands on deck for my support network.
Because of the post-break changes I want us to try again but the hurt can’t be undone and it’s the foolish hope of an unrequited lover.
The weirdest part is navigating the “survivor’s guilt” and balancing being there for my primary and their needs with my empathy for other and my feelings this was somewhat rash.
I kinda feel like
at the end.I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
me (a black and white manga still of griffith) except i’m not evil 😇
unrelated, but what is it with the the long white haired snake affiliated archetype, I feel like I’ve been encountering many of them lately 🤔
Evil twink is an underrated aesthetic and I love it every time I see it
dysphoria/negativity
Wow I hate this. This whole week has just been awful. Consumed. I’ve been so dysphoric. So hopeless. My bottom dysphoria has been bothering me a lot more than usual. I mean so has everything else.
I hate being trans. It’s traumatizing and horrible. It’s not worth it. I hate my existence. There’s barely a reason to keep pushing. It’s all so overwhelmingly awful.
I’ve thought about messaging people to complain but there’s no point, there’s no point to any of this. Nothing is going to make this stop. I don’t want to keep living if this is what it’s going to be like. And I don’t have any hope
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There’s barely a reason to keep pushing.
It’s OK. Just push for the sake of pushing. Even if you don’t have a reason, at least outlive your enemies and see them die first.
I’ve thought about messaging people to complain but there’s no point, there’s no point to any of this.
Ts is so real. At best it can be a little soothing in some cases.
Lost count of how many comments I made then deleted cause “why tf does this matter?”
Being intimately aware of how dogshit everything is and being less disconnected is actually fucking horrible.
i like the person i am dating 🙂 they are cool and smart and make me feel special pretty much every day i talk to them
thank you for your attention to this matter
that is all 
I’m sure they feel lucky to have met you and find your smarts, humor and attitude delightful
getting an inside tip that they find you adorable because they adore everything about you.
I can’t get over that stat that there’s probably 400,000 trans internally displaced refugees in the USA. As in people who’ve fled one state to another. That’s like a factor of 10 more I would have guessed. If a civil war had displaced half a million people that would be news worthy
a civil war kinda does it more all at once. Queer people leaving rural areas for socially liberal cities is a steady trickle that’s been happening for as long as we’ve had language to describe ourselves.
The trans population is something like 0.5%. Somewhere between 0.3% to 1%.
If its 400K, then 400K/1650K are displaced. Or between one out of four to one out of five transgender people have been internally displaced in the US by that estimate.
dysphoria (maybe?)
sometimes my boobs look like boobs and sometimes my boobs don’t look like boobs and I dunno what to make of that, especially since yknow they’re the same boobs
Jimothy Cool is playing Celeste on stream (therefore this post belongs in the trans thread) and he’s having an incredible glitch on his chat. English messages are being filtered and he can’t see them, so everyone is writing ni hao in the chat, because for some reason chinese isn’t banned
thanks for mentioning always great to watch a streamer I know play Celeste for the first time, and encouraging me to learn some phrases or at least to read pinyin better
I havent gushed about my bottom surgery lately but I am very happy about having a vagina and the results of the surgery!! This shit kicks ass
it fucking rules!
Fuck yeah! Happy for you :)
I think I know why I'm depressed
Haven’t done fun things in a while. Haven’t left my house to go anywhere that isn’t like a pharmacy or a grocery store. My clothes don’t fit the gender expression I want. Even videogames are boring right now. Haven’t gone out with friends, so no social interaction that isn’t online.
I feel terrible.
I don’t think I can fix this for now. At least I can feel things now, which didn’t use to be the case.
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Had a therapy appointment for the first time in 10 years. They did not bring up my gender dysphoria diagnosis or my transness at all despite that being a pretty major development in my mental health since I last went. A trans friend have me resources though, so I’m going to go to one that specializes in lgbtq mental health so I don’t have to deal with cis ignorance
