Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't

Thornscrub Sanctuary shirts are in. This 5 color image was printed by a local company in Texas and is available in sizes Small through 2XL on Comfort Colors T-shirts. Original drawing of the grandpa Peyote is by J. Santore.

Shirts are $42 with free shipping within the United States. To order, please Venmo "societyishell" (do not use "purchase protection" and leave full name, address and shirt size on the comments.

International orders can use PayPal address Crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt@gmail.com but please send cash "friends and family" and include $13 dollars extra for shipping (apologies, I'm not in charge of shipping costs!).

All proceeds from these shirts goes directly to Thornscrub Sanctuary, our 501c3 nonprofit conservation organization dedicated to the conservation and education of the Thornscrub habitat in South Texas. We are currently raising funds to drill a well and set up pig fencing to protect rare cacti from depredation by feral hogs. All work we do at the property is 100% volunteer and we do not pay ourselves. Any money raised goes straight to the land.

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A new plant species was discovered last year in West Texas. I did a video on it before it had even been described and named :

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RLLS0YA...

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Share this video with your dad or your coworker who won't shut up about that stupid TV show. Or better yet, spare yourself the pain of having to listen to their parroted arguments and don't. If someone tries to tell you that the sky is purple they're clearly insane. You should still be friends with them, of course, just get better at changing the subject when they start ranting to you about things they've clearly absorbed from oil company PR firms.

https://youtu.be/wBC_bug5DIQ?si=nuJGk...

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Hello All,
I'm headed to Chile today to film plants. We're flying into Santiago then headed South to film such genera as : Arachnitis,
Lepidothamnus,
Viola,
Araucaria,
Fitzroya,
Pilgerodendron,
Saxegothea,
and everything in between.

If there's something you'd like us to focus on or film, list it in the comments below. The Chilean temperate rainforests are a place I've been wanting to visit ever since I grew a bunch of Alerce (Fitzroya cupressoides) from seed 15 years ago. We hope to hit low and high elevation points and document the species, the ecology and the habitat as much as possible.

There should be some good videos later this month.

-J

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Here's an interview I did with Liam from the East Bay Yesterday podcast about working for the railroad in Oakland and studying botany on the side. It's available on most podcast apps, so if Spotify makes you want to puke all you have to do is search for the podcast title (East Bay Yesterday) and find the episode from December 10th 2024. This was a fun conversation about a world that doesn't exist anymore, especially after the railroads adopted the cost-cutting measures known as "Precision Scheduled Railroading" (talk about some sleazy business euphemisms eh?).

open.spotify.com/episode/3NbS1Of9PpMW2QheI10Xhr?si…

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Pardon this week's publicizing of old uploads. I was going through old videos on the channel a few days ago and came across some short old ones that I had recorded before I started doing plant videos. I decided to make them public - prior to that they had just been "unlisted" - which worked out since I'm behind on editing, teaching class at a small university for the semester, and swamped with book work. After Thursday or so we'll be back to our regularly scheduled programming.

J

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The "Giving-The-Finger" tee now up in the bonfire store as shirts and hoodies in a number of different styles, including women's cut and long sleeve.

www.bonfire.com/giving-tree-2/

We all know the kid in that book was a dick, even the author who wrote it. The book was meant as more of a lesson on how humans can take, take, take but so very few end up cultivating enough enlightenment to give anything back. Silverstein was trying to send a message in the book, so he had to give the book a certain ending. In the Crime Pays version that I drew up two nights ago, the message is a bit different and the tree is going to be threatening to break some legs. Happy endings! Yay!

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STEAL YOUR EDUCATION shirts up in the store.
If somebody finds a contact for the people running sci-hub please drop it in my DMs. Artwork hand drawn by me.

Need to make one for www.LibGen.is which is by far the best place to get free textbooks in PDF form

www.bonfire.com/steal-your-education/

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This was one of the most enlightening podcast conversations I've had in a while.

open.spotify.com/episode/11G9oDYKUiFxjNDPXoJrfZ?si…

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"Natural Selection" & "Death Cult" bulldozer up in the bonfire store. Available in five different colors, short sleeve and long sleeve.

www.bonfire.com/store/crime-pays-but-botany-doesnt…

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