in learning how to do this stuff I incidentally also have to see just how many nerds out there are willing to defend a tech company's right to spy on users. Fucking insane how badly they want to deepthroat a corporation.
I wish I could just install linux mint on my phone and use it like a small computer.
every time my samsung phone updates, I have to spend like 20 minutes figuring out how to turn off all the new shit they add.
I learned about a desktop program for manually uninstalling spyware that samsung says I'm not allowed to remove, and I'm almost to the point of doing that.
Smoked out
Ohhhhh I've heard of honey berries but I didn't realize they're a species of honeysuckle! There is a native Lonicera that grows all over the place here, and it looks like honey berries are quite similar so I bet they'd thrive here too! Ohhhh I want one now.
We have a mystery variety that bears fruit with green skin and golden flesh, and then a chicago fig, and the one we got yesterday is an Olympian fig that's supposed to be well suited to our area's cool weather =3 They're all quite small still but I'm sooooo excited for them to grow!
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Thats so rad! Mar and I just picked up our third fig variety yesterday and I'm so excited for them all to grow up!
Freak and young
The workers realised from the very start that in order to fight for peace, bread, and freedom, the labouring classes, the workers, soldiers and peasants, must organise, close their ranks, unite independently of the capitalists and against the capitalists.
crunching so loud she thought it was plastic, i wish my knees were that good 😭
I was crouching in the darkness ready to pounce on Maranda who didn't know that I was there, but my loud crackly knees gave me away
I don't think it has the capacity to overrun this particular land because we're not semi-arid and competition is high, and so I'm glad to see it because it'll help native perennials establish through summer wherever it does wind up growing, and I can continue to fantasize about domestication lol.
But after I made friends with it and saw it as a helpful part of a succession which paved the way for native grasses and forbs, I stopped fighting it as much and started appreciating it.
other species take advantage of the niche it carved out and become established, eventually outcompeting the thistle entirely. And so long as you don't disturb the soil again, the thistles won't come back.
I used to hate this species because it is damnn near uncontrollable, and I fought with it.
The bigass taproots aerate the soil while injecting loads of carbon into it, which kickstarts the soil ecosystem in a way few other plants can.
But those seeds, which can lay dormant in the soil for decades, only sprout in repsonse to disturbance. After several years of growing in a patch,
All those seeds are like 30% a food grade oil. The taproot is like water chestnut or jicama depending on when you harvest it.
It's drought tolerant, pest tolerant, and doesn't require fertilizer.
I've also seen its flowers covered in native bee species, which was surprising.
Their thick, starchy and deep taproots penetrate even the shittiest and hardest clay soils. I've seen them thrive during years that saw as little as 10 inces of rain.
I also think they're the best candidate for domestication in the world, and they can be a powerful tool for repairing poor soil.
In semi-arid ecosystems, I've seen them completely outcompete every single other species of plant life after generating thick stands. Their trunks can be 2 inches in diameter at the base, and they can reach over 7ft tall in these conditions, while growing tens of thousands of seeds.
A photo of a young scotch cotton thistle (O. acanthium).
We have a lot of cool habitat regeneration going on around our home and a lot of incredible plant life, but this is the one guy that has me feeling the MOST excited.
It's a cotton thistle, O. acanthium, and it's a horrendous invasive species the likes of which few can compare in dry-summer regions.
A photo of an acrylic painting showing the effects of edibles that used catgirl weed in them. A figure stoops beside her cat.
A rough textured clay pendant with an eyeball with legs running.
Same eyeball runnin' but on black clay this time
Inspired by my recent read of the Tao Te Ching, loosely based on the Chinese character for the Tao ("an eye with legs"/to see) I made a linoblock stamp and impressed it onto clay. I call them Taolings. They make great tree ornaments or wall hangars.
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A waterspout just moved over Puget Sound and was visible from Seattle. It appeared to be spawned by a mesoscale convective vortex.
Source: imgur.com/a/seattle-wa...
A photo of an acrylic painting showing the effects of edibles that used catgirl weed in them. A figure stoops beside her cat.
A pink floating house is seen suspended a few meters in the air, on it rests a few coyotes. the house and lawn is in disrepair. a strange skull creature looms in the background.
A strange place.
I can't be taken, if I give it away.
fluffy marshmallow🐾
A small sculpture of a black and white bird, small and plump with a white face and tummy
MORE TINY BIRRRRRRD
This one feels so nice in the palm, little fidget bird.
Mino
Ink/Acrylic
48”x24”
Canvas