szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

TFW you forget to check your germinating pots for two days 😱 and your seedlings are leggy cave-dwellers bruised from pushing against their darkness/humidity cover.

*UK = UnKnown. These are #8 of some packets of seeds I saved but never labeled that I’ve been trying to sprout in the hope of figuring out what they are.

#gardening
#GrowYourOwn
#SeedStarting
#GardeningIsHumor

Seaweeds are not plants. They’re algae, without roots or leaves, although they do photosynthesize: harvesting the sun’s energy to build themselves. BUT there are a small number of real flowering plants in the sea: the seagrasses, which evolved from terrestrial plants and grow in large meadows.  Mostly water moves pollen around, but for at least one species, small crustaceans do the job of bees and carry sticky pollen from one plant to another.  Underwater gardening, anyone?  #Ocean #Seagrass

Help a researcher!

I'm designing an experiment and am searching for easily-explainable distinctions that most people don't know.

For example, the differences between:

- a hardtail and full-suspension mountain bike
- an engine and a motor
- jail and prison
- a lawyer and attorney
- others?

#psychology #philosophy #help

☀️What a beautiful image of the #Pyrenees acquired by #Sentinel3 on 5 April!

🏔️Quelle belle image des #Pyrénéesacquise par Sentinel-3 le 5 avril!

😎¡Qué hermosa imagen e los Pirineos adquirida el 5 de abril por #Copernicus 🇪🇺🛰️Sentinel-3!

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CopernicusEU/status/1645332139121029120

42 is not only the meaning of life but clearly also the age at which you start blaming the sound mixing on every tv show for the inability to distinguish between speech and background noise. I long for the days of tv and film when there was not incidental music in every scene. And yes, I am now officially old.

#age #rant

I pach węza wklejona, a za tydzień jak nic się nie wyskoczy przeprowadzka do nowego ula.

#pszczoły #beekeeping

COWORKER RECENTLY OUT OF THE HOSPITAL: i blew a tire on a mountain road and crashed thru the guardrail, rolling end over end down a cliff into a creek. i was trapped for hours upside-down & near death until a man walking his dog found me and called 911

ME: what kind of dog was it

This joke is from 1974 (in *Computer Lib*). It only took 50 years to build.

AMERICA: We don't need the metric system, our measurement system is fine

AMERICAN MEASUREMENT SYSTEM:

My favorite fact about Americans is that a 1/3 pound burger was created to compete with the Quarter Pounder and people didn’t buy it because they thought it was 𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘳 due to being bad at math/fractions.

TIL a very interesting and mind-blowing thing about b/w television shows and possibly b/w movies too: they needed to use bizarre set colours to achieve the correct tones!

It makes sense, of course, as with microphones and other sensors, the capture isn't perfect, corrections are needed to complete the illusion.

This will forever change how I watch film noir!

Gorgeous ribbon of aurora across North America last night, captured by the Suomi NPP Earth-observing satellite. https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/viirs/imagery-viewer/ #aurora

Is there any gardening/allotment planning software you can recommend? The must have features are:

* support in crop rotation, although a knowledge base is not necessary, adding plants and rules manually would be fine

* a visual space planner (counting how many plant units are needed and what the neighborhood would be), but it doesn't have to be fancy, a bare rectangular grid would be fine

Any other features such as a calendar, plant knowledge base, mobile app, etc. are nice, but definitely not necessary.

#allotment #gardening

If armed bank guards can’t stop a killer before he kills, how do they expect armed teachers to?

This is inescapable on French insta so I'm posting it here for all to enjoy

"Kto jest ojcem maleństwa/dziecka kangurzycy" - to byłby główny wątek gry o puchatku, nad którą teraz myślę. Czarna brutalna satyra małych społeczności żyjących z dala od dużych miast.

Photographer Lacee Johnson was on a hike in a snowstorm and came across this mom and yearling having a nose bump moment. 💗
#Alaska #Moosetodon

Latest bad design.

Fire alarms in the house are all mains powered (battery backed in modules) and linked. Nice.

I got a "relay" base module to alert me even if not in the house, and works well.

Seems if the power for the alarms trips and all on battery, they still work, good.

But they *don't* cause the relay to trigger.

And they *don't* then work if there is an alarm.

FFS, how hard is it - safety system - loss of power = trip the fucking alarm, *NOT* then inhibit a real alarm.

Arrrg!