#grumbles

[skweebs]

Made this guy from my favorite Gerard Donelan comic

[plantnerderyallday]

The more time I spend around my new coworker, the more I understand about why plant id books and foraging resources are written the way they are.

For context, my mom is the one who taught me to forage, and it was and is just part of life. She regularly added foraged foods to our everyday meals. I knew how to identify huckleberry before I learned the alphabet. Foraging was just another part of feeding ourselves, along with gardening, raising chickens, and going to the store. And the firmest rule was that you didn't eat a plant unless you were willing to bet your life on it being what you thought it was.

So to watch my coworker see a berry, say 'strawberry!' and then pick it and have it three quarters of the way to his mouth before I could point out that it was actually an unripe blackberry...

Well, it was a striking moment. Because while that particular mix up would not actually hurt you, the lack of paying attention it takes to mistake an unripe blackberry for a strawberry and the lack of caution it takes to put a plant that you've hardly looked at into your mouth- no wonder some people think bittersweet nightshade is a look alike to red huckleberry!

And it explains a lot about how secretive most people are about their foraging spots. If you don't care enough about your own health and well-being to actually look at the plant you're eating, how could I trust you to care for the health and well-being of the plants you want to forage and the ecosystems you want to forage from? I want my foraging spots to be better off for my interactions with them. I want to be able to go back to the same spots year after year and decade after decade and see the native plants thriving, the invasive species losing ground, and the biodiversity increasing.

Can I trust you to help with that, if you won't even look at the berry before you pick it?

[dont-you-leave-him]

My pins came!!

I got them here

[eightyonekilograms]

What is even the point of copyright persisting after death if the Tolkien estate isn’t going to use it to stop these Valley thugs from naming their evil empires after shit from LOTR. We need to return to the 80s when you could tell a company was evil because it was named Blackwell-Fujimoto Heavy Industries.

[bjornkram]

not beating the gay boy allegations

[spicymotte]

something about people asking where to read the rest of The Queen’s Guard (not as in ‘where can I read this’ but as in ‘what do you mean that’s all? can you hurry up with new content’) irks me. makes me livid. stop being greedy I’m doing everything I can but the day only has so many hours

[luitenantalbiemckinner]

Grumbles at you. Just stands and grumbles with an annoyed face.

Grumble grumble.

Mmmmrrrr

Grumble

[johnnyjoekidjoestar]

It's pride month, bring out the gay pride Gyro!!!