szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

that's not a yard it's a hate crime

no landscape that isn't:
- home to sheep
- in a place called a "highlands" so some such
-with craggy rocks and rain and wind

should ever ever look anything like that... and even then there ought to be... IDK maybe some clumps of ... clover or... god it's so depressing.

(meme stolen from tumblr)

So the CEO of online ads giant IAB made a pretty… remarkable speech, saying:

"These extremists (referring to privacy advocates) are political opportunists who’ve made it their mission to cripple the advertising industry and eliminate it from the American economy and culture."

And this, friends, is our mission statement RIGHT THERE.

In a new article, we write about how the phenomenon of #weeds acquiring #herbicide #resistance can lead to positive effects when these weeds are plants of #phytomedical importance and important in #food #technology.

#Cornflower is such a plant, and its herbicide-resistant biotypes have much higher levels of #polyphenols, #flavonoids and free radical scavenging activities - i.e. better #health-promoting properties than herbicide-sensitive biotypes
#science #plantscience

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-38520-z

Here's what's going to happen, because I've seen it before.

The government creates a big tree-planting program. A bunch of Wyoming ranchers who just happen to donate to politicians- just a coincidence!- will get paid millions of dollars, which they'll mostly pocket. But they'll buy some cheap non-native seedlings and wreck their native grass rangelands putting them in.

6 years later, during a drought, the whole thing burns, releasing all the carbon anyway.

I've seen enough tree plantations to know that planting trees for climate is going to cause as many problems as it solves.

https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-republicans-trillion-trees-01e455acce4397c0376e82bfa18b72c2

...No county commission or state legislature can possibly meet the demands of a quasi-religious movement that believes it has God on its side and that its opponents herald the apocalypse. But that doesn’t mean they give up. It just means they keep trying, using any tool available. Eventually they arrive at the point described by Tom Lee, the lawyer for the Sumner County Election Commission: “It’s not enough to get your majority and get your way—they have to make the minority lose their voice.”

BY THE WAY ITS BEEN OVER A CENT...
*coughs*
By the way, it has been over a century, folks.

Opening the fridge over and over again is not about hoping that new delicious food will materialise.

It's about hoping hunger has lowered your standards enough to eat what's available.

#Hungry #NotThatHungry

The problem with capitalism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.

Incredible.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

Zabił biały cisheteroseksualny Polak, zaszczuwana jest kobieta i mniejszości
krytykapolityczna.pl/kraj/mord…

This is your reminder that potatoes are an objectively superior currency to Bitcoin or any other crypto

A Potato:
- Shows inherent proof of work
- Hacker proof
- Valid in any country
- Works in any century
- Accessible at any tech level
- Delicious and nutritious
- Is also a battery
- Can be turned to rocket fuel (AKA vodka)

A poster spotted in Wrocław, Poland:

"Walking your dog burns 100kcal.

Picking up shit burns 20kcal".

I sometimes hear people make fun of the fact that Berlin has a huge empty field right in its core area where Tempelhof airport used to operate which is now a public park and left almost entirely unchanged, runways and all.

They talk about it as if it's an example of the city's inability to do something "useful" with this land. And what they mean is build stuff on it.

But just the way it is, it is hugely popular among the people of Berlin, it's a unique space where the sheer size of it enables anyone to basically do whatever without annoying anyone else. Even at peak times like Saturday afternoon, it still doesn't feel crowded and the further away from the edges you go the emptier it gets.

It refuses any commercial "usefulness" and instead gives people space to use how they see fit. It's absolutely beautiful.

This, from my first book #TheIdiotBrain, remains the most unsettlingly astute paragraphs I've ever written.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Idiot-Brain-Neuroscientist-Explains-Really/dp/1783350822/ref=sr_1_3?qid=1689252786&refinements=p_27%3ADean+Burnett&s=books&sr=1-3

https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Dean-Burnett/The-Idiot-Brain--A-Neuroscientist-Explains-What-Your-Head-is-Really-Up-To/20508227

#Democracy #Wealth #Privelige #Empathy #Politics

#ClimateDiary 1/2 An area slightly larger than entire Germany, a little smaller than Montana, 146,000 sq mi.

The Baltic Sea.

The status is horrendous. Matter of fact, since the 2010 reports, no substantial decreasing trends could be observed at all! Digest that!

Now, politicos are all Gung-Ho on air again, we'll do this, we'll do that. New technology, blah blah.

Baltic sea is fucked up, dying.

Links:

In depth Hydrographic-hydrochemical assessment 2020 here: https://www.io-warnemuende.de/files/forschung/meereswissenschaftliche-berichte/msr-2021-0119.pdf

Help! Help! I am trapped
in a haiku factory!
Save me before they

Some new crops from the second #allotment plot.

We're pretty late on the zucchinis, but they have arrived!

And our first ever daikon!

Never have I had a sweeter crisper daikon, it's so good. Was worried they'd be no good as they had sent up flower stalks but unlike a normal radish that does not seem to have turned them into inedible woodiness. Hurrah.

The extra allotment space has definitely allowed us the chance to grow a lot of things we never have before. Daikon is one of them.