[dezigrar-ic]

[dawnsongs]

its time to cut off your relationship with your own self destruction. your nurturing of your own misery that was once meant to ease the cavernous isolation that came with the pain serves you no longer. you are not in love with your sadness, you are used to it. familiarity wears the mask of comfort for us all,however, it is a lie. & it is time for you to push that notion to the curb. starting right now, choose yourself.

there is enough suffering coming your way without you grabbing hold of every spiral your brain takes down. if you can’t feel hopeful, practice gentle curiosity. ask yourself, in what way is this thought pattern serving me? where did I learn to talk to myself this way? does this make me feel good?

Before we can change we have to realize that we even want to, & to peek through the fog at the possibility that we just may move in that direction, some day.

have patience with yourself

[haleyincarnate]

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[did-you-know]

Because most of us spend the majority of our time indoors, NASA conducted a Clean Air Study to determine which common houseplants are the best for filtering harmful toxins like ammonia and formaldehyde from the air.  

**Please note: Several of these plants are known to be toxic to cats, dogs and other pets. If you are a pet owner, please do check the toxicity of plants before introducing them to your home.**

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[awkward-ravby]

There’s a good site to reference when trying to make sure you don’t accidentally poison your fur children!

http://www.tailsmart.com/11-detoxifying-plants-that-are-safe-for-cats-and-dogs/

[visvya]

[roboticsappreciationsociety]

This Plant Is Driving Its Own Robot

A robot that can detect a plant's electrochemical signals goes where the plant wants it to go

Cybernetics usually refers to humans enhancing themselves with robotic parts. Sometimes, we heard about animal-robot cyborgs, or insect-robotcyborgs. It’s not all that often that we hear about plant-robot cyborgs, because what’s a plant going to do with a robot, right? But you could argue that plants have the most to gain from robotic enhancements, because otherwise (with a few totally cool exceptions) plants aren’t capable of mobility or manipulation at all.

It’s straightforward to see how mobility and manipulation could be useful for plants, but the real question is, How do you get a plant to tell its robotic parts what to do? At the MIT Media Lab, Harpreet Sareen is trying to figure this out, and Elowan the mobile cybernetic plant is just the first in “a series of plant-electronic hybrid experiments.”

The difference between this plant-robot hybrid and others that we’ve seen in the past is that the plant is actually in control: The robotic base moves where the plant wants it to, to the extent that a.) plants want things and b.) the plant is able to communicate such, and c.) we’re able to correctly interpret it. So, it’s not just that the robot part is like, “Oh, there’s some light over there, plants like light, let’s go over to the light,” because that’d be completely independent of the plant itself. Instead, the system measures signals from the plant itself and takes direction from that. Whether it’s the right direction or not isn’t necessarily clear, but at least the plant is in the loop somewhere, rather than being just a passenger.

While the intent here is to give the plant some agency of its own, the practical result is still a robot with a plant on it that chases light. That’s a pretty safe thing for the robot to do, I suppose, but are plants more nuanced than that, and if so, is it something that robots could eventually detect and respond to? My dying houseplants really, really hope so.

[spyrogif]

[barcarole]

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, dir. Jonas Mekas, 2000.

[chuwenjie]

something different

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[minotauri]

mom said it’s my turn to conjure the old gods

[charlietaggedart]

[redlipstickresurrected]

Katrin Koenning (German, b. 1979, Ruhrgebiet, Germany, based Melbourne, Australia) - From her series The Crossing, Glow, Indefinitely and other.  Photography  More  

[2gris]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BZ49EXAl_9n/

[growingsucculents]

Bye bye pink

[toms-cacti]

Rebutias in full bloom and a mediolobivia

[bidoof]

learning that most trees do not derive from a single lineage but actually only look and function superficially similarly due to convergent evolution is one of the most fucked up things i’ve ever learned and i will never be the same person as i was before i learned that

[shwoo]

Oak trees are quite a bit more closely related to roses than they are to pine trees.

[cephalopodvictorious]

So are apple and cherry and pear trees! But palm trees are basically grass

[gallusrostromegalus]

Like many animal lines have gotten Huge and Lumpy in the ocean, so have plants gotten Tall and Woody in the sunlight.

[parasocialanxiety]

THIS IS WHAT I’VE BEEN SAYING. TREES ARE A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT.

[plantanarchy]

in a similar vein, Cactus are more closely related to plants like Dianthus and Amaranth than to other common succulents like members of the Crassulaceae family that contains Echeveria, Jade Plants, Sedum, Kalanchoe, etc

Phylogeny is wild and categorization is made up

[theweirdwideweb]