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Also sorry for mod absence, work has been CHAOS.

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If you're going to plant grass, make it native to your area, wildlife depends on it.

I've seen 2 new awesome resources pop up in the comments this week (I haven't added them to the list yet my personal life is chaos right now). I'd love to know if you guys have come across any other books, websites, videos etc that you find very useful and informative to add to the list.

Here is the current list of resources.

I'd love to get as many resources as possible outside the US.

Would love to see lists from all over the world!

Here's another link to Wild Ones explaining why to choose native plants over non natives.

What natives do you have growing?

I run a decent sized sub. I've noticed the last few days that all my sticky posts that say where else you can find us are getting mass reported. I usually have like 6 reports a week. I'm getting a report on every post made that gets the sticky all of a sudden. I just took the word "Lemmy" out and we'll see if that changes. Anyone else noticing something similar if you still have an account?

Obviously these plans aren't inclusive of the entire US but from what I understand they are working on adding even more garden plans to their list.

This can be beneficial if you live in any of these towns and would like to have a list or a plan for natives in your own yard and your don't know where to begin.

Just sharing this link since everyone always loves American meadows so much. The only issue I take with them is they sell seed packs that are "native to your area" and some are not.

One of our Reddit mods has said he's had great luck with Pheasant Forever as a US based option who focuses on natives for habitat restoration.

I've never used them personally but I wanted to drop it as a link since I had never heard of them before.

How many of you make mead? I made my last small batch for Thanksgiving and I've just gotten caught up with life and other hobbies and forgot it existed until I saw this community.

TLDR; killing off native species as well as their food supply and habitats.

Let's see if I can get all this link formatting down haha.

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• !twoxchromosomes@slrpnk.net

We are not the Reddit TwoXChromosomes but we did see that they did not exist here and all the search results happened to be users looking for it so here it is! If anyone from the Reddit 2x wants to mod, inbox me on reddit or lemmy, same username.

Let's see if I can get all this link formatting down haha.

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No lawns has over 150k subs on Reddit and we're currently participating in the reddit protest (and will be depending on how our poll goes). I found slrpnk.net and wanted to bring another bit of No Lawns over to lemmy.

Our main goal is to promote native plants over non natives, create a healthier yard for everyone, and enjoy some pretty flowers.

Ripped from this reddit post here.

That number is terrifying and what's even more terrifying is that google is able to do this with no consequences. Really makes you consider what other search results are getting skewed beyond belief

Ripped from Reddit via u/cherrimsunshine -- I am not the OP

I'm asking for perspective because I'm curious what other people's experiences are in this.

My partner of 5 years basically doesn't know anything about how menstruation works or birth control for that matter. He basically just knows I get my period at the same time every month and sometimes it's rough. When we first started dating I let him know I was on birth control and he got offended because he didn't realize that I, like many others, used it for acne / hormone control. He thought I was just hooking up with a bunch of guys I guess. Which either way, not a good reaction, but his ignorance was shocking to me.

On the other hand, around the time I got my first period, my dad actually taught me how menstruation works. My mom said he knew more than she did actually. He knew all about the cycles and ovulation, etc. I didn't realize how rare it was for a man to know this at the time.

Anyways I just had to explain to my boyfriend something about how birth control works and wondered if anyone has a partner (I'm saying male partner because women are more likely to have an understanding) that has made an effort to understand how menstruation and / or birth control works. It's like every time I bring up something about my period or my birth control he's learning something for the first time. I guess it'd just be nice if he cared to learn since it is a big part of my life and we've been together for 5 years now. I kind of envy people whose partners keep up with their cycle. My boyfriend doesn't care to know because it doesn't immediately affect him but considering we both definitely don't want kids, you would think he'd care to at least understand the processes that keep my womb child-free?

Also just for laughs, one time I told my boyfriend I had an appointment with my ob-gyn and he asked me why men don't have special doctors for their dicks. I was like uhh......because we...have full reproductive systems in our bodies.....? Lmfao.

TLDR: My boyfriend doesn't know anything about menstruation or birth control. Do your partners know / care to learn about the processes?

Reddit link here since I stole this topic from there.

I am currently a professor in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware. I have also authored the New York Times best seller Nature’s Best Hope and I have authored and co-authored additional books such as Bringing Nature Hope, The Living Landscape, and The Nature of Oaks. In addition, I have authored over 100 research publications in my field.

I have also founded Home Grown National Park which is a grass roots whos mission is: "To regenerate biodiversity and ecosystem function because every human being on this planet needs diverse highly productive ecosystems to survive."

Here is the link to our website with the copy and paste of the AMA and here is the link to the original Reddit AMA.

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Do I have to be a woman to participate in this community?

No. Any user who can follow the rules is welcome here. Women, men, nonbinary, agender, genderqueer, cis folks and trans folks, everybody. If you're not on board with that, you can fuck right off.

But what about the subreddit name?

Read this post from when (The Reddit) 2XC was only a month old. We (They and now us) haven't changed our stance since then, and never will.

What about trans women?

Trans women are women. TERFS can fuck right off.

What are the rules, anyway?

We're currently using the Reddit twox rules you can find them below.

TL;DR: Keep it civil, keep it relevant. Don't start shit, won't be shit.

I went searching for this and the only thing I could find were more people looking for a community similar to r/twoxchromosomes so I created it. I'm not a mod or a creator of the original subreddit, if any of those people find this and would like to join as a mod, absolutely let me know.

Hey all, updated the sidebar description with some links :) I tried to copy the reddit wiki as best I could to a free website so if there's any issues (or continuing the protests) with reddit we still have the information.

Edit: Updated sub icon both here and reddit