Nature Freak

C. old enough to remember Y2k. not old enough to have cared about it. unaustralian. gender: ¯\ _(ツ)_/¯. body: whack. thumb: green. Neach-ionnsachaidh na Gàidhlig. They/them; iad/iadsan

[theplantqueer]

just looked at a patch of bushland i adore on iNaturalist and of the roughly 1500 total observations ever made by anyone in that patch, well over a third are mine from just the past three months...

[asteriavinifera]

Do you wanna go watch the sunlight pierce the leaves of the forest with me?

[theplantqueer]

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[anxeious]

one thing about me is i’m gonna go lay down

[goodgirlcoded]

i need a house with a front porch and i need to sit there with the love of my life day after day and never stop being curious about each other

[vintageandroid]

i made a post like this before but I can't find it now. so. I'll just redo it.

What's the first "big news story" you remember from when you were a kid?

It's something I love to ask mixed-aged groups sometimes because I think it's really interesting to see the responses. I've gotten answers from the Olympics of [whatever year] to Watergate to more recent stuff from my niblings.

My first news thing I remember is the OJ Simpson trial. I vaguely remember watching the news with my grandparents before that, but that's the first story I remember, in part because my second grade teacher had us go play so she could watch the verdict 😂

[theplantqueer]

ohhhhh my god we've had one single class on eucalypts so far (today) and i'm already so keen.

the teacher has very many knowledge in his brain that i would like to put in mine.

[theplantqueer]

Some close-ups on a eucalypt log in my yard, whose bark all flaked off over time to reveal these intricate patterns!

(Open the pics to see how stunning they are without tumblr's compression)

[lazer-exe]

I'm gonna say it, I do think that even the laziest person imaginable should have a roof over their head, food in their stomach, and access to healthcare

[lazer-exe]

a lot of people are reblogging this saying that most "lazy" people are actually just disabled or that the concept of laziness itself is a product of our society's obsession with productivity. this is all true, but it is not my point.

even if someone WAS just lazy and simply didn't want to do anything but lie on the couch and watch tv, they should still have these things. it's irrelevant whether some people aren't actually lazy because everyone, including hypothetical lazy people, should have their basic needs met.

if we have the resources to do it, there is no defense of letting people die because they don't want to work, and much less because they can't.

I don't want lazy people to have basic necessities because they "actually" deserve them because they ARE working or CAN'T work. I want lazy people to have basic necessities because they are people, and we shouldn't leave them to die when we have the resources not to.

[johnny-depp-is-loved]

[lakemojave]

Google has far more than 2 Ls to their name tbh

[theplantqueer]

[ID 1: A tweet from Culture Crave that says, "Google announces it will now prioritize Al-generated answers in search results over human-written website articles

• Search will be centered around a reimagined "intelligent search box'

• Starts next Tuesday

(via @TechCrunch)"

2: A reply from Morchel with a screenshot of them asking google "how many Ls are in Google". The AI summary responds, "There are 2 Ls in Google (Goolle)." /end ID]

[thesophistiicate]

if you want to experience life more deeply you have to find more beauty. stop training yourself to dismiss, to mock, to assume the worst all the time — when you do this you build walls between yourself and the world. and after a while you stop feeling the warmth of it entirely.

beauty requires openness. it asks you to let things reach you, to soften enough to be moved. it’s not naive to see beauty everywhere—it’s a skill, a form of intelligence, a kind of quiet bravery. because it is so much easier to critique than to create, to detach than to engage, to dismiss than to love.

let yourself be affected. let yourself find things beautiful and let that be enough. life is not asking you to be cool, sitting on the sidelines and nitpicking everything. it’s asking you to see life and experience it fully.

[theplantqueer]

Terrestrial orchids! Pterostylis concinna, the Trim Greenhood.

Small flying insects are attracted to the little dark tongue in the opening, then it's thought that they get lost in the bright chamber of the flower, buzz around wildly getting pollen all over them, and then eventually leave and go do this at the next flower, thus pollinating them!

Saw many patches of these in the area, and they tended to be growing from patches of moss on very sandy soils, or directly on top of sandstone.

[theplantqueer]

Your plants are turning me on oh my

😳😳😳 - tumblr auto-flagger, probably

[theplantqueer]

there's no option for appealing the "ma ture" label on that post about fucken plants that i spent a bunch of time on, so i've sent a help ticket in about it. useless website.

[theplantqueer]

Native plants found in or above the regenerating zone after a controlled burn in a remnant forested valley on Bidjigal country earlier this year!

Monotoca elliptica, a heath plant that's usually seen as a medium-sized shrub in this area but can reach 5-10m when mature. It seems to rely on mycorrhizal relationships to grow, so has been a hard one for people to cultivate in gardens but does well in the wild :)

Dillwynia retorta, one of the many bush peas that get called "Eggs & Bacon" because of the yellow & red flowers. Being legumes, they're nitrogen fixers. They also grow back quickly after fires and do well at preparing the soil for other local species to grow again!

Kennedia rubicunda, a vine with three leaflets per compound leaf and a long, dark red pea flower. Common along the east coast in a range of habitats and in various types of soil. Will happily climb things or spread across the ground in a mat.

Persoonia linearis, one of the Geebungs. They have strange tubular yellow flowers with a swollen base whose four petals peel outwards, and will become these fleshy fruits, which get the purple patches as they mature. Parts of the fruit can be eaten but are astringent. Native bees in two different subgenera of the genus Leioproctus specialise on Persoonia spp., so they only forage on Geebung flowers!

Allocasuarina littoralis, one of the east coast she-oaks, whose branchlets are needle-like, and the leaves are reduced to tiny teeth at the kpins along them. They're usually dioecious, so they don't generally have separate male and female plants like other she-oaks. The male flowers are red rings coming off the ends of the needles, and the female flowers are dr-seuss-like red tufts along the branches that turn into grey, barrel-like cones.

I also saw huge patches of undisturbed lichen growing on top of soil, which is a great indicator of the health of the ecosystem, and so many patches of terrestrial orchids! An amazing patch of bushland that was almost turned into a quarry in the 70s.

[enki2]

[theplantqueer]

[ID: An online article subheading "Where does enshittification come from?" The text appears to go into the definition and etymology of "enshittification" but it's hard to tell, since there are two separate pop-up ads obscuring most of the text. /end ID]

[mewvore]

"we detected a mature post" yeah I'm in my 30s