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:

a graphic depicting the seasonal stages of water currents in lakes, it is explained in in the main text of the post

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.

A picture taken from deadman's point in Green Lake

I just think its neat.

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  • XiaCobolt [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    21·
    12 days ago

    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

    • TerminalEncounter [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      13·
      12 days ago

      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.

    • Le_Wokisme [they/them, undecided]@hexbear.netEnglish
      13·
      12 days ago

      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.

  • Moss [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    20·
    9 days ago

    The world is getting so much scarier for trans people and I feel like I just have to come out. I’ve been a closter enby agender for years and only ever come out to one person, but I think if I don’t come out soon, I never will.

    But fuck I hate having that conversation. Like “hey, I’m not who you thought I was and I don’t like who I was. Please love me regardless.” And my friends and family are all good people who will accept me and do their best and really try to respect me, but it’s still so scary.

    • XiaCobolt [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      12·
      9 days ago

      I went to a transfem event recently and it was packed. What was really moving was there was the regulars, plus a whole bunch of new girls who’d just dropped (eggs recently broken and out of the closet), but also a bunch of long term trans girls including stealth ones who’d drifted out of the community, who were coming back in because of everything going on.

    • WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]@reddthat.com
      2·
      8 days ago

      But fuck I hate having that conversation. Like “hey, I’m not who you thought I was and I don’t like who I was. Please love me regardless.” And my friends and family are all good people who will accept me and do their best and really try to respect me, but it’s still so scary.

      I just don’t do ave it. With my parents, when I came out, it was just “I’m wearing a bra cause I started HRT” and that more than my sister or my closest friends got in terms of coming up (I did incidentally piss off my sister apparently tho - she thought I told my half-sister that I was an NB and she only found out from my half-sister, but no one told my half-sister that: she just assumed as much).

  • Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml
    18·
    11 days ago

    No matter how terrible life gets, my mood always improves when I realise that I’m destined for some real nice tits

    (´･ω･`)

    (Not going to post actual size cause that feels wierd. Is it wierd?)

    • lilypad [pup/pup's, it/its]@hexbear.netEnglish
      9·
      11 days ago

      I love that feeling/realization. I think I’m past major growth but every now and then they get a touch rounder/fuller ^^ I’m glad you’re getting some mood lifts! doggirl-happy

      is it weird?

      I dont think its weird, strictly speaking, I think it has more to do with your comfort if anything. Like, I put stuff here that’s probably tmi (tho behind spoilers). But idk, I’m also not good at telling what’s weird tho vivian-shrug

      • RION [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        7·
        11 days ago

        I’m hoping mine fill out more :/ they’re “big” by measurement size but I feel like that doesn’t account very well for the tuberousness

        • lilypad [pup/pup's, it/its]@hexbear.netEnglish
          6·
          11 days ago

          Yeah, my issues with my breasts I realized aren’t really with their size, but with the size of my ribcage. Fingies crossed they fill out more for you, and if not there’s surgeries to make tuberousness less tuberous if that’s something you want to pursue.

  • catter [comrade/them, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    17·
    13 days ago

    Things are starting to look pretty bleak in my relationship. They are an anxious personality type and are needing constant assurance that nothing is changing. Things are not changing in who I am as a person, but damn, we don’t want anything to change? My lifelong depression should just stay this way?

    This is probably just from me not feeling sure about who I am. If I could come out as trans without friction, I’d probably do it just to try. I’m waiting for the waveform collapse. I have to do something even though I don’t know what that is, I can’t stay in the closet like this much longer. Please send your best vibes.

    • TerminalEncounter [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      13·
      13 days ago

      You’ve talked avout your relationship for like a long time now and I gotta be honest, I haven’t heard you say a lot that makes it seems like its worth all your heartache and self denial time. You’ve held yourself in this tension to save a relationship that you dont seem to enjoy very much

      • catter [comrade/them, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        7·
        13 days ago

        I think that’s a fair take based on what I’ve said here. Maybe I’m not being a great member of this community by sadposting so much and not sharing the positives, but there are positives. I don’t mean that in a defensive way, just reflecting. I’m distressed because of the things I love about my relationship.

        Things are progressing for me, though. You and others here have helped with that immensely. I’m the closest to coming out that I’ve ever been, and the anxiety of that proximity is hard to handle sometimes. I guess I just want to feel like I tried to make my old life and the new one fit together. Sorry if I’m rambling.

        • TerminalEncounter [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
          8·
          13 days ago

          Sure, but it’s not like been 2 weeks or 2 months of being sad and distressed and anxious, yeah? It’s been 2 years. I really dont recall you once talking about something cute with your partner, something they did that made you feel loved or cherished, something they did that made you feel safe. I only know what you’ve posted of course, I suppose, but not once did you talk about doing something nice with them? What you’ve posted is mostly guilt and anxiety about feeling responsible for your partners reactions - which isnt responsibility. Have you ever heard of Issendai’s sick systems? Here’s a link and a different link. Hopefully none of that rings true.

          I struggle to see what you get out of this besides avoiding the anxiety of being single, which is not a failure state. I had a very long term relationship, we were together for 11 years. The last 2 years were hard, they didnt clean, didnt take care of themself, didnt work, didnt make doctor’s appointments or go to the ones I made, asked me to wake them earlier and were very mad when I did, and also did some stuff I wont elaborate on without a content warning. I loved them and I tried to work through it but love isn’t enough sometimes. Being single after thay was an adjustment but it wasnt like bad - the relief was nice. For you, your main pain point seems to be your partner isnt attracted to your gender identity and you are a not cis - so the relief of just being yourself is likely to be quite good over the next x years of being in the closet and anxious and distressed all for… well again you never elaborate on what exactly is so worth all this so I cant say what you seem to find worth it besides feeling anxious about the possibility of being single.

          • catter [comrade/them, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
            5·
            13 days ago

            Wow, first of all, thank you for not backing down on this. I needed to hear that. I will have to spend some time thinking about the sick system concept. In some ways, I think I’m the center of one, even though I don’t mean to be. My partner has described a feeling of complete instability in our relationship, which lines up with the neverending crisis componenent. They have always been clear that they want me to succeed, and if that means I am trans, they want me to feel like I can express it fully. I’ve been whittling that part of me down because it is hard to face.

            I’m not really scared of being single. At least, I don’t think I am. My partner is financially dependent on me. It sounds wrong verbalizing this now, but I have been scared they will struggle without me. They are struggling because of me now though. I guess I know what I have to do. Thanks 💜

  • Ceres [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    16·
    10 days ago
    misgendering

    New housemate was initially perfectly consistent on gendering me right, then eventually I brought up my transness and had fun talking about it a bit to them, but, since then ive consistently been misgendered, which has me less bothered and more just highly suspicious now (like maybe thought I was cis before?), hope its just a coincidence of mistakes and I won’t have to deal with more annoying stuff. There was one especially silly house meeting where I was misgendered 3 times in a short span with my other housemates chiming “she” in correction each time (my heros), almost like a sitcom bit lol.

  • segfault11 [she/her, any]@hexbear.netMEnglish
    16·
    12 days ago

    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 trump-anguish that is all theory-gary

    • Wmill [they/them, fae/faer]@hexbear.netEnglish
      10·
      12 days ago

      I’m sure they feel lucky to have met you and find your smarts, humor and attitude delightful who-must-go getting an inside tip that they find you adorable because they adore everything about you.

  • Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml
    16·
    13 days ago

    You know…

    Even after everything

    If I had the option to restart my life

    To choose my birth gender

    I would still just choose to be myself

    • Ceres [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      11 days ago

      love the section around 2:40 with the ascending/descending clicky instrument, and the whole thing is immersing me in some kind of late 90s early 2000s video game in a cyber setting

      • Veggie_Deluxe [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        1·
        10 days ago

        Thank you so much<3, i want to build towards a project that is a kind of audiovisual cyberpunk/junglist album that serves as my dream ps1 game, Been learning old 3d modeling software, but that biz is above my paygrade for now lol Regardless its great to hear that my mind’s eye vibes are carrying through. For the first time in years i feel like i have stuff to look forward to :)