You can get bags of mixed rocks for tumbling (but you don’t have to tumble them) for pretty cheap. If you search “rocks for tumbling” you can find tons of suppliers. I find it cheaper and better to get them directly from suppliers. Most companies that make rock tumblers also sell rocks.

It’s totally our fault. Our forest and wildfire management is shit.

Just one of the bullshit things we did:

Canada has a policy where lumber companies have to plant enough trees to replace, factoring in natural death, all the trees they log. However, some species of tree are worth more money than others. So they cut down diverse forests to plant one, maybe two species: pine and spruce.

Thing is, there are pine beetles and there are spruce beetles that kill the trees by burrowing holes through the bark. They suddenly had a whole lot more of their favorite trees so there were suddenly a whole lot more beetles. Big sections of forests died at once with the beetles then so overpopulated they spread to healthier, more diverse sections of the forest to kill the pine and spruce there, too.

You can guess what happens to a forest full of dead wood.

That reminds me of Granite Falls in BC, where there are little pools going all the way up the wall of a waterfall. The water is ice-cold but the pools are warm in the summer, and not very busy because you can only get there by boat.

Definitely still cool. The layers are captivating.

It’s like a mini, aesthetic mountain. The blue is so blue.

In LeakedBB’s early days, it had sections for other types of “leaked” content such as computer programmes and eBooks. But within months, the forum’s discussions were almost exclusively about pornographic images and videos that members claimed had been leaked – implying that it was non-consensual, hacked or stolen content.

Not only that, but they actively encouraged non-con nudes and leaked footage.

I love the texture and shape. Looks like it would be fun to fidget with.