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[vintageeveryday]

Ballerinas of the Paris Opera Company’s Corps de Ballet, 1958. Photographed by Baron.

[just-shower-thoughts]

Building a treehouse is the biggest insult to a tree. “I killed your friend, here hold him.”

[unclebeanbag]

“Friend”

Its more of I killed a potential enemy. Hold his dismembered corpse in victory.

[ulysseus]

Plants don’t wage war

[unclebeanbag]

Ever heard of blackberries?

Yes, plants do wage war

[kasaron]

Mint and strawberries, too. They need to be quarantined or they will kill basically everything else. 

[systlin]

I planted mint in the ground 2 years ago.

It’s currently fighting a bitter battle to the death against the raspberries attempting to invade from the east while trying to annex the patio.

Could go either way at this point TBH. Unless, of course, I take a shovel and the blowtorch out there and battle both back to within their original boundaries.

And anyone wondering if a blowtorch is overkill for weeding back mint has never actually planted mint.

[moirakatson]

This post did not go where I expected it to.

[deathbeforednf]

Our garden plot at my childhood home slowly got overrun by wild blackberries after we stopped managing it while my sister and I were in nursing school. And by overrun I mean it was like a 4 foot tall thicket of wild blackberries. It hadn’t been touched by humans in at least 4 years. I started the ultimately futile task of trying to clear this plot with a machete and discovered to my amazement a patch of mint several feet across underneath the canopy of blackberry, still fighting the good fight all those years later.

Ultimately it took two jars of homemade napalm and some creative fire placement to clear that patch but I damn sure saved that patch of mint. It earned the right to be there.

[norseminuteman]

Yall mother fuckers don’t even talk unless you’ve had to wage war on kudzu (it’s an ivy strain directly from Hell) that shit doesn’t just wage war with other plants, it wages war with all living things on planet earth. It’s some gnarly ass Blood for the Blood God, Chlorophyll for the Chlorophyll Throne demon weed. 

[breadgunner-deactivated20181003]

Can second the comments of Kudzu.

I forget where I read it but there’s this one tree that creates an extremely flammable substance that’s in both the bark and leaves. Dead trees become torches and crushed up leaves become dust-incendiary, all while the plant’s seeds are Giant Redwood levels of resilient to open flame. IE it has a goddamn scorched earth policy. It’s even more badass than plants that use toxins to starve other plants.

[booksandwildthings]

I’d like to third the comments on Kudzu. These are the battlefields:

See those weird pillars? Those were trees. See that strange lump in the middle? That was a house. Everything green you see in this photo is kudzu.

[nevercure]

Kudzu is an apocalyptic nightmare

They smother every other living plant to death

Those trees under there are dead, they can’t get sunlight. Kudzu takes over and steals everything from these trees, and becomes them. It’s creepy as hell. These plants are basically straight out of a horror novelist’s wet dream tbh.

The bodies of everything the kudzu has slain.

What used to be a house

Someone attempting to drive a four wheeler through it, to give you scale

It’s an ornamental plant kept in check in china, but was introduced to north america where it immediately went rampant and began to spread incredibly fast like a disease, destroying everything in its wake

The ONLY thing that has stopped this curse from engulfing the united states is goats. Apparently goats love this stuff like no tomorrow. Everywhere we find it now, we just bring a horde of goats to cut it down. Everything is fine…. for now.

[nevercure]

Kudzu is on time magazine’s top 10 invasive species to look out for.

This little buddy doing his part

[nevercure]

Not to keep spamming this post but 

“the growth of kudzu as it became a “structural parasite” of the South,[7] enveloping entire structures when untreated[11] and often referred to as “the vine that ate the South”.[13]”

“It has been spreading rapidly in the southern U.S., “easily outpacing the use of herbicide spraying and mowing, as well increasing the costs of these controls by $6 million annually”.[2]“

yall it’s been estimated this plant consumes 600 kilometers of the united states every year

it’s been suggested that we just start eating it to make it go away

[kiwilemonteanonsense]

Adding to the spam: yes, kudzu IS edible. In fact, all parts of it but the vine are edible. The leaves are supposedly great in salads or baked into quiche. The flowers supposedly are great in jam. The roots… Well, if you know how to cook other root vegetables, you know what to do with kudzu root. Feed this stuff to your livestock and cook it.

Eat it before it eats your house.

[vagaybond]

@solarpunkcast @solarpunkactionweek @solarpunkinspo @enviropunk feels relevant

[crittizen]

In this world it’s eat or be eaten

[gamebird]

Thread starts with the existential angst of building a treehouse. Ends with recipes on how to eat kudzu.

Posts that make you go ‘hm.’

[nemfrog]

Pollinating bees. Following the bee line. 1931.

Internet Archive

[nemfrog]

Rock campion. A. Male stage. C. Hermaphrodite stage. D. Female stage. Handbook of flower pollination. 1906.

Internet Archive

[ochyming-deactivated20220410]

PRABHAKAR BARWE    

1936-1996    

Green Lake, 1982   

oil and enamel on canvas   42 x 36 in. | 106.7 x 91.4 cm.

[probablyasocialecologist]

“Those working-class Londoners sheltering in tube stations during World War II? They weren’t supposed to be there. In fact, the British government of the late 1930s built far too few municipal shelters, preferring to leave that to private companies, local government councils, and individuals and when the first bombs first fell, the hardest hit areas were poor, immigrant, and working-class communities in the East End with nowhere to go. Elite clubs and hotels dug out their own bomb shelters, but the London Underground was barricaded. On the second night of the Blitz, with the flimsy, unhygienic East End shelters overflowing, hundreds of people entered the Liverpool Street Station and refused to leave. By the time the government officially changed its position and “allowed” working-class Londoners to take shelter down among the trains, thousands were already doing so — 177,000 people at its most packed. Eventually it was adopted into the propaganda effort and became part of the official mythos of the Blitz, but the official story leaves out the struggle. It leaves out the part about desperate people, abandoned by their government, in fear of their lives, doing what they had to — and what should have been done from the start — to take care of each other.”

— Laurie Penny, Tea, Biscuits, and Empire: The Long Con of Britishness

[hasufin]

Huh.

Just like how the Covid mythos will inevitably include praise for the Americans who stepped up and sewed masks for themselves and others - without at all mentioning that the reason we had to make our own PPE is the utter ineptitude of the Republican government to refill our stockpiles, have more proper PPE made, or properly distribute what exists.

We often speak highly of those who rise to adversity, but we neither admonish those who caused the adversity, nor praise those whose efforts prevent it.

[ilsa-fireswan]

We often speak highly of those who rise to adversity, but we neither admonish those who caused the adversity, nor praise those whose efforts prevent it.

[ingridbergman-deactivated202001]

The Princess Bride (1987) dir. Rob Reiner

[weirdpolis]

@itspileofgoodthings:

#murder me#the princess bride#I used to think they were only good because of their chemistry and faces#(bc they actually say so little)#but the script deserves so much credit too#because even though they barely speak they say ENOUGH#and then Cary and Robin fill the spaces in between with such TRUTH#I’m obsessed with the balance in writing romance between saying too much and not enough#both pitfalls and commonly made mistakes#the princess bride strikes that balance perfectly#this exchange alone says so so so much#through their words and their expressions#the moment starts out so Playfully Hard#she’s still in her bossing him around/tossing her head at him mode#but then he stands up and looks at her Like That#and she’s suddenly caught off guard by his humanity on a deeper level#so she softens and adds the please#almost as an apology- or at least an expression of gratitude#like she knows she’s just been kind of unfair (even if just in a fun way)#and then he Looks At Her Like That Again#and says what he always says#As you wish#and he’s so deliberate with it#and it’s like- it’s like#[screams into the void]#it’s like he’s saying ‘I don’t care what you ask me to do or how you ask me to do it’#‘I will always love you and I will always do what you ask me to do’#he’s almost (almost) laughing at her a little#but more than that he’s being pointed#to let her know he loves her and look at her face in the last gif. it takes!

[uppity-hobbit]

How to DESTROY Trump's data harvesting machine by webdev data analyzer, steampunk fantasy author, and swordfighter/archer Claire Ryan:

Okay I want to talk about the TikTok/K-pop stan let’s-troll-Trump operation and specifically about the data gathering aspect of it.

If you’ve been keeping up with the whole MO of the Trump campaign, Cambridge Analytica, micro-targeting of demographics on social media shit etc etc, you’ll know that gathering people’s info in order to shill for donations is a HUGE revenue stream.

AFAIK that was the reason he ran. To campaign, get donations from the MAGAts, funnel vast lakes of money into his businesses.

Like, it was just that simple. Doesn’t take much to feed racists the messaging they want to hear and suck money out of them.

The Russians/GOP/various other factors caused him to win, which was not in the plan, but anyway Trump at least knows that firing up the base = MONEY.

Yes yes, donations from big GOP donors, but you have to understand - there was a vast lake of untapped racist small donations that Trump plugged a hose into back in 2016.

That hose is powered by data.

(For reference: I’m a senior web dev specializing in data processing and analysis so I sort of know what I’m talking about.)

Have you seen those spammy emails that Trump supporters get, asking for money? Yeah, they’re carefully tuned to get cash out of them.

(Side note, I used to work in online advertising.)

Your regular ad campaign that’s pitching, say, workout leggings uses a huge amount of data and A/B testing to determine what is effective. It’s advertising by statistics.

Part of the reason that FB is so goddamn big isn’t because it’s any good, it’s solely because you can advertise to users based on their bio details and their Likes. Having those signals to determine how likely a person is to buy a product is the stuff of an advertiser’s dreams.

Google works the same way TBH but at least Google’s core functionality is useful.

You think having personalized search results is creepy and invasive until you’re like me, a web dev looking for obscure code errors...

Like, Google is aware of the context of my searches and it always returns good results. If I’m looking for info on bash, for example, it’s not going to show me videos of street fights, I’ll get StackOverflow pages on the bash Linux shell.

Anyway: the thing about this stuff is that it runs on ACCURATE data.

The worst fucking thing about data analysis is when your data is corrupted or inaccurate, and you have no way of filtering it out. It means insights derived from the dataset are 100% junk.

Now, other thing to know is that zoomers and millennials are THE tech savvy people and I would hazard a guess that the vast majority know how internet advertising works. They know about the data tracking.

Probably not in any detail but the use of fake social media profiles and fake emails specifically to make advertising data worthless is a thing going back years.

So the troll operation in this case, by all accounts, used fake emails and temp Google Voice numbers.

And listen, people: you don’t know how fucking genius this is.

I will bet a month’s salary that some poor database admin is now staring at a dataset of over a million ticket reservations that they were going to use to shill for donations and feeling sick.

Not even just donations: I’d bet they were planning on using this data to cross reference against other sources and do additional micro-targeting.

Let’s say they were going to use it to ID moderates to advertise to them.

They might have planned to ID any Democrat trolls and just slide that particular subset on to someone who can fuck with voter registrations.

Or cross-reference signals on location, and determine how to direct their campaign spending based on that.

Anyway - point being, they were probably expecting some level of trolling but not this.

That dataset is probably complete junk. Any registration that doesn’t correlate somehow to known good information is now suspect.

Like, for voters who they have a profile on already, like committed MAGAts, they can probably select them out and add this data point to the profile for future use, but novel signups? The thing that Parscale was bragging about IIRC?

Junk.

You can’t tell the difference between a legit email/phone number and a fake email/Google Voice number.

By automated means, is what I’m saying. Obviously if the email is “[email protected]” that’s a pretty safe bet for being fake.

So at the very least, this means a TON of extra work for the marketing team at Trump HQ just to clean up the data (somehow) and make it usable.

At worst, it means they toss it.

And trust me on this: Trump may stiff contractors, but he ain’t stiffing them.

That team keeps the money hose working. They are absolutely getting paid.

So imagine if you spent a ton of money setting up a rally and getting the devops in place to collect marketing data (least you think those systems are cheap, they are not) and then...

A few hundred thousand tech-savvy teenage trolls showed up to ratfuck you.

I can’t think of any better example of the power of the people in the modern world than this.

So in conclusion, all the photos of the half-empty arena are nice, but the thing really making me giggle is the thought of Parscale staring at that database and wondering when he’ll be fired.

Quick PS to this thread: part of the reason that this is so genius is because Trump HQ likes to shill for donations by email.

Allow me to enlighten you to how much time and money you have to spend on good, large scale email campaigns in order to get results.

Answer: A FUCKTON.

And you live an die on the accuracy of your mailing list. Fake emails are the bane of your life.

Trump HQ now have to face whether they can drop $insert-ridiculous-money-here to run an email campaign on this dataset that is almost certainly 90% worthless and for which they may not be able to filter out the real registrations.

Again: without known good data to use as a filter, they can’t tell which is a fake registration and which is one from a voter they haven’t got on their lists yet.

And Trumpikins desperately needs to get to those voters.

Like I can’t even tell you how much this whole thing makes me both smile and just internally clench because I know what it feels like to stare down the barrel of a billion records you spent excessive time/money compiling and it’s all fucking wasted.

Other devops/data analysts will know that feeling. :P

Anyway I might be going viral and I don’t have a soundcloud, so get out and vote, Nazis fuck off, support #BlackLivesMatter, and give all the money and power to women of color and trans people

CLAIRE OUT

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LINK TO COMPLETE THREAD

additional thoughts from me...

Y'all were doing this by screwing up some survey on the Trump campaign's website

But the suggestion was to fill out the forms with obvious fake email addresses and names. Revised suggestion: Use realistic email addresses and names. Don't use your real identity, but make it hard for them to filter out the noise.

Caveat: you know they'll be collecting whatever info they can from your device: IP, location etc-- and cross-correlating it with Facebook data or whatever they have trying to suss you out. I'm a Gen Xer who knows enough to be wary what I share online, so I'm hesitant to click on Trump campaign ads. But a lot of Gen Z knows how to use VPN and other tools to block spyware.

GO GO GO GO

🌸 Hit Cambridge Analytica Like a Swarm of Murder Hornets! 🐝

[spector]

gonna start formatting my posts like fics on ff.net circa 2008

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A/N: This is a post about my day!!!! If you don’t like it, don’t read it! Flames will be used to boil water for my tea, LOL! ^^”

~*~*~*~* CHAPTER ONE *~*~*~*~

I tried so hard, and got so far But, in the end, it doesn’t even matter I had to fall, to lose it all

(A/N: I don’t own the rights to Linkin Park!!!)

i made some bombass fried rice today fuck

~*~*~*END OF CHAPTER ONE*~*~*~

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A/N: And that’s it :D I hope you guys enjoyed this update, I worked really hard on it!… If this chapter gets 10 comments, I will upload the next one ASAP. ^_^” This is a lot of fun–

My teacher: Hey, shouldn’t you be doing your homework?? -_-” Me: EEP O_O! Okay, see you later guys, GOTTA GO FAST! Please comment and remember NO FLAMES!!!

[whetstonefires]

this really is a perfect example of the form right down to making me want to stab op with fork

[topcat77]

Mark Bradford

Cigarettes and Gum, 2015

[thunderstruck9]

Mark Bradford (American, b. 1961), Cigarettes and Bubble Gum, 2015. Mixed media on canvas, 120 x 120 cm.

[sonic-justice-real-for]

Ok, but are you on grass tiktok?

[thunderstruck9]

Adrian Ghenie (Romanian, b. 1977), On the Road to Tarascon 2, 2013. Oil on canvas, 210 x 160 cm.

[hipinuff]

Richard Artschwager (American: 1923-2013), Bottle Crash, 2008. Acrylic and broken glass on canvas

[arborealgargoyle]

my little sister found me an American Dagger Moth caterpillar that matches my outfit perfectly?? What a lovely solstice gift ✨ the fuzzy little darling is now munching on a bed of ash leaves in a jar 

[arborealgargoyle]

I’m frEAKING OUT because my fluffy baby made a cocoon that I can see inside of. She used the glass at the bottom of the jar instead of a leaf to be the floor of her cocoon?? I’ve watched tons of moths/butterflies pupate but I’ve never seen one accidentally make a window into their cocoon before???????

[arborealgargoyle]

she’s laying on her belly now (she’s upside down when I turn the jar over to take a quick pic of her) her cute little feet just tucked under her belly rolls. She seems slightly shorter today, more compact, as she’s laying in a straight line instead of having to curl a little to fit (like yesterday)

[witchochick-deactivated20220629]

Witch Tip: Watercress

Watercress has not only many important vitamins, but also a blood purifying effect. The herb grows wild in flowing waters. Unfortunately, as these streams and moats are often the victims of environmental pollution, watercress is no longer found so often. You can settle them immobile in your own garden, but you should have enough water at hand.

As soon as sowing starts, the young plants need a lot of water. Therefore, it is best to plant them in a watertight container so that they can be covered with water so that they are completely in it, as in their natural environment.

The important Vit. A, C, D, E are contained in the watercress, and it has a strong diuretic effect. To avoid kidney irritation, you should not prepare them alone as a salad, but together with dandelion, sorrel or stinging nettles. It is just as indispensable for seasoning quark or herb butter as it is for garnishing food.

Even at the buffet a bowl of fresh watercress may not be missing.

A tea, brewed from fresh leaves, is a good remedy for rashes. The leaves can be put on the diseased skin.

[midnightinthemagicmicagarden]

Stone Poppies Watercolor on Bristol Board 2018, 10"x 14" Sodalite Poppies

[nontemporary]

MARCELLO VELHO