it's ghost pipe season in the forest here. ghost pipe (monotropa uniflora) is a parasitic plant which doesn't make chlorophyll and gets its nutrients from the mycorrhizal networks found on tree roots. it's ephemeral, appearing fast and disappearing within days, and is psychoactive 🌱

"it looks like you're using an adblocker to visit our site." yep! ha ha! it rocks!

Last night my neighbor saw me plunging my hand into the soil, grabbing a fistful of worms then raising them triumphantly above my head as I laughed and lightning crashed around me. Going to be difficult to explain that one.

the information age

i pick a handful of these grubs off my potato plants every day and feed them to our chickens. in this way the world alchemically transmutes potato plants into chicken eggs. nothing is impossible if you know the right middleman

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"Hey do you want to hear what the CEO of..." No.

turn your yard into garden. do it now! you don't need anything special! do it a chunk at a time. do it next to your existing garden if you want. this patch was de-yarded but bare for a few weeks. then the garden store set out a ton of free plants. they live here now 🌱

i live that life

there is a 226 year old man somewhere in vermont at this very moment

also new from me at @serious-eats.bsky.social: the fastest and easiest way to peel ginger www.seriouseats.com/easiest-way-...

The Easiest Way to Peel Ginger Fast—Without Wasting So Much of It

Learn how to peel ginger with a microplane instead of other more common methods. This simple kitchen trick wastes less ginger, reaches every knobby corner, and lets you grate with the same tool after ...

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a local Little Free Library has issued a request for neighbors to refill it with books, ignoring the fact that if people don't bring the books back that size notwithstanding it cannot possibly be a library

you can do it

i like my phone to count my walking when i'm doing chores. sometimes it feels like a lot but i check and it's way less than i expect. think about the marathon. 26 miles. but i only walked 1.2 miles today. good way to stay humble

this quote from patreon.com/merrittk is incredible "Video game developers once spoke of being inspired by childhood experiences exploring caves or growing gardens. Today, they talk about being inspired by their childhood video games."

merritt@merrittk.com · 4d ago

yea www.patreon.com/merrittk/pos...

AI Guys heard about the wire mother cloth mother experiment and immediately dreamed of a world where everything was wire mother

stop

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

At the statisticians' party every guest gets a plus or minus one

stuck behind morrissey in traffic

i spent my vibrant years building a career and life centered around the advancements of technology. I genuinely did not think that the era would ever arrive where i detest it all and set my goal as a screen-free life in a woods house growing tomatoes and watching squirrels. im going hermit. thats it

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d ago

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

organized crime

top ten photo i've ever taken. three bears crossing the road at the WILDLIFE CORRIDOR sign up the road from my house

Many people are familiar with Eadweard Muybridge's motion studies, using early photography to answer questions about how animals (and human animal) moved. I was not, until today, familiar with "chickens; scared by torpedo (1887)" www.flickr.com/photos/bpldi... #photography

Animal locomotion. Plate 781

Description: Chickens; scared by torpedo Photographer: Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904 Date: (c) 1887 Format: Photographs; Prints; Collotypes; Motion study photographs; Book illustrations Provided ...

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the truth

forums are still the best thing online

communism is when a charismatic leader tells you how you are allowed to cut and style your hair. capitalism is when your employer tells you how you are allowed to cut and style your hair

activating my frog

poop is the money of the butt (i have a shirt of this at drewtoothpaste.com)

there is no reason to make "dinner for 3" if i'm cooking dinner at all i'm cooking for fourteen people and we're eating that for the rest of the week