I have never tried to grow dahlias before, so I really, really hope I won't just have shriveled tubers to show for it...!

That one was my first pick!!

(Reposted because the picture quality ended up really rubbish and these flowers are too gorgeous for bad photos. 💖)

Four dahlia images from Dahlias by Linn's webpage. 1 is Giovanna, a small dahlia with an apricot center shading to pink. 2 is Emmas Hug, a small dahlia with more pointed petals with a dark red center shading to apricot. 3 is Take Off, an anemone style dahlia with a creamy yellow center shading to white then purple. 4 is Zingaro, another small standard dahlia with a cerise center and petals that are yellow shading to pink.

Bitsy, a small dahlia which has petals shading from white to light purple.

Creme de Cognac, which has petals of dark red (more towards the center where they are still furled up) and apricot.

Melody Dora, which has pointier petals in pink and cream.

Somehow ended up hyperfixating on the idea of dahlias. After deciding we can probably grow them away from slugs, I spent many hours trying to narrow 100s of beautiful options down to a few I love that also look good together. The 4 together will go in the planter, the other 3 in pots on the deck!

I have so many prejudices against French cars that when I saw that it was a Citroen I was like "Oh yeah that explains it". 😆 Hope you get your baby back soon!

people who say this act like if they weren't at the airport they'd be at home curing cancer. what exactly are your big plans for your extra 45 minutes at home you fuckin loser

It's SO GOOD

The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!!

Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on!

I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

Oh nooooooooo. 🫂

You look like the MCU design of The Hamburgler

I hope you're sleeping better now!

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

That is always fun! Sounds a lot like life with a chronic illness...

That's SO MUCH rain

I love spring! And the nasturtium looks very cozy like that.

Wish I could cover you with blankets and cats!!

underrated is how cathartic the "hide post for me" button is. there's something very soothing about sending harmless things that annoy you to the shadow realm in a way that doesn't impact anyone else.

Sweet!!!

Syphilis was first called grande verole or the "great pox" by the French. Other historical names have included "button scurvy", sibbens, frenga, and dichuchwa, among others. Since it was a disgraceful disease, the disease was known in several countries by the name of their neighbouring, often hostile country.[130] The English, the Germans, and the Italians called it "the French disease", while the French referred to it as the "Neapolitan disease". The Dutch called it the "Spanish/Castilian disease". To the Turks it was known as the "Christian disease", whilst in India, the Hindus and Muslims named the disease after each other.

Today I learned that syphilis is New World! I don't know how I'd missed that it wasn't around before 1492 but that explains a lot...! All in all terrifying reading, do NOT get syphilis (so many did!!), but the way different countries named the disease is amazing.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syphilis

I hate being in that state and I'm so sorry you're going through it.

Yeah that's such a miserable feeling. 🫂 I hope you get the all clear soon.

Looks like it's up to 21 volumes now!

Yay for simple fixes! Hope it doesn't happen again.

Too many colds for sure! No more until 2028 sounds fair.

Fingers crossed it's solved soon!

Digital painting of a dark cloudy sky. The clouds are churning and curling in a chaos of all shades of grey.

We report on a windy afternoon: there are all these trees which are still painstakingly growing leaves, and flowers too. We can tell this is not an easy day for them. All those flowery trees are shaking, and the petals are flying all over, forming a spring blizzard.

I was reading on the Shueisha app when I had it, so I think about seven or eight volumes worth of chapters? It's so good!!

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Much appreciated! 💕