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You can replace [ACTIVITY YOU ENJOY] with [SCROLLING] but watch out. This sucks bad 👍

Some things about this post since getting quite a few notes:

1. If you see this post, highly recommend taking it as an opportunity to set a timer for 15 minutes and switch over to ACTIVITY YOU ENJOY. if after those 15 minutes, you want to go back to scrolling, that's okay!

2. Huge shout out to this popping up in my notifs often, bc I do go back to activity.

3. I think there are times where scrolling is fine. Right now, for example, I'm being connected to a machine for two hours to donate plasma and platelets. Yes this is a brag but it is also a time where scrolling is one of the few things I can do. (Though I will probably also read or watch something on phone lol)

wizard-council-bureaucrat

hmmm, this seems to be some kind of curse breaking spell… be free ye reader

unpickled-olive-deactivated2025

all the food classification discourse is phenotype-based and no more sophisticated than ancient greek zoology.

"pizza is a flat bread with toppings baked on"?

let me guess: you define a man as a featherless biped, don't you plato?

no, we need the taxonomical model. food evolves and adapts and descends. it fills niches that cause it to diverge from its ancestors and converge with other, unrelated species. unlike most animals, food is capable of horizontal gene transfer, making taxonomical divisions less linear.

american pizza (Focaccius rotunda) is descended from an italian baked flatbread dish. deep dish pizza (F. r. patina) is a subspecies of american pizza which evolved in the american midwest. it is taxonomically unrelated to common species of casserole in the area (and casserole is not a taxonomic category but a polyphleytic grouping, much like fish and crabs)

unpickled-olive-deactivated2025

"sushi is a burrito" yeah and a bat is a bird.

unpickled-olive-deactivated2025

hotdog is actually genetically in the ramen clade for reasons scientists don't understand yet

#intruiging #q

sg1

Stargate SG-1, 05.03 Ascension

#sg1 #q

bewbin

nunchucks are illegal in some states but guns are not. so if you tie two guns together and create gunchucks it’s neither legal or illegal

trupowieszcz-moved-deactivated2

schroedinger’s gunchucks

worldeaterouroboros

Why does schroedinger have so many things

kairibloodheart

Schrodinger’s hording problem

pmamtraveller

Fish-shaped interlocking paving stones.

#inspiration #gotta figure out how to make me some molds and concrete #and then decide if the time is worth it #but how cool would that be #q

duckbunny

what do you do when you find a hair in your food?

I don't eat the food

I don't eat the hair

I eat the hair

Ticky box

Remaining time: 5 days 12 hours

#i'll attempt not to eat the hair #but i don't care as much if its definitely from my immediate family

fangorn-forest

summer sufferers poll: would you rather have…

the ability to repel all bugs so they can’t touch/bite/sting you

the ability to always be at a comfortable temperature while outside

no chafing ever again

Remaining time: 5 days 16 hours

#i can cope with the heat and the chafing through external controls #but i would love a bug force field that didn't kill them and didn't put nasty chemicals on me

byjove

Inflation has made me not understand prices anymore in the sense that I no longer understand what an appropriate price for any food is. Is a $5 bag of chips a good deal? Because that sounds fucking insane to 2018 me. And yet, that is how much they cost.

#this is why i haven't bought a mango for probably a year #at least #q

flame-of-tar-valon

"I think someone is trying to assassinate me ... They spiked my drink"

[screen cut to a goblet of wine with sharp caltrops at the bottom]

abdullahsaadi

Study of clouds by Johan Christian Dahl (1788 - 1857)

#art #clouds #light and shadow #q

headspace-hotel

It's just such a big task, wanting to teach people the ways of the plants, articulating a way we can rely on one another and our ecosystems instead of capitalism, and beginning the work...learning to utilize the weeds that are our friends, cooking with the edible plants, being sociable with neighbors to form a community, destroying the wasteful tracts of unused Lawn to be replaced with wild flowers and grasses and trees...

"By learning how to craft from the materials of nature" I think to myself, "there would be no need for buying plastic objects and knickknacks which doubtless were shipped from overseas and are responsible for much pollution...and the ecosystem rejoices when its gifts are accepted."

I made a little basket. I'm getting much better at it! It's made of Eastern Redcedar bark, collected from standing deadwood.

So much space devoted to mown grass, that could be taking care of us in many ways.

headspace-hotel

Just think how much consumption could be reduced if everybody who was into crafts had the knowledge and access to natural materials found in the world around them!

Kudzu, Willow, Wild Grapevines are also good for this kind of thing...

headspace-hotel

Not everyone can be into crafts, but everyone can use the crafts! So they can be a gift!

I wonder what natural material makes good pot-holders and oven mitts...surely that's a very old invention

narrativerehearsal

Not everyone will be into every craft but that's the point of community.

At our allotments (like a community garden only the plots of British allotments tend to be a bit bigger than your average American community garden plot) there's a lot of swapping of skills, supplies, seeds, and actual food.

One of our neighbours is too old to get up a ladder and prune his plum tree, so we do it for him and have permission to pick some of the plums in return.

If one person ends up with too many seedlings of one type of plant then they'll give some of them to others and often get something else in return. If one person ends up with more beans or courgettes or kale or whatever than they can use then they offer the excess to friends.

I make a lot of jam and have several 'jam deals' with people where I have permission to pick their berries etc and return some in the form of jams or jellies. A different neighbour has a crab apple tree that he can't be bothered to do anything with but also won't cut down because it shelters his bee hives. I pick the entire crop of crab apples and give him crab apple jelly and butter in return. We also keep an eye on his bees when he's away and then we get some of the honey.

The same applies to skills and communities. You don't need to have everyone knowing how to make baskets from barks and grasses. You only need a few that can do that, while others are good at canning or sewing or growing pretty flowers or raising chickens or identifying tasty and non-lethal mushrooms. Then you swap skills and end products and so everyone has supplies and everyone gets fed.

That's how communities are supposed to work. You're not supposed to know how to do every possible task all alone. You're supposed to know how to do/enjoy doing a few things and then when you need something you don't know how to do yourself you turn to someone else who does.

headspace-hotel

@meganemaryam Luckily, there are a ton of wild plants that work great for spinning thread and yarn. I don't know where you live, but some of the best ones are Apocyonum cannabinum (dogbane; it has a lovely copper-to-peach color and is incredibly strong and tough, doesn't require retting you just beat it and scrape it a bunch) any of the types of nettle, Kudzu (Pueraria spp, haven't personally tried it yet but it was literally one of the fundamental textile fibers of ancient China and farmed for use as textile), Milkweed (Asclepias spp, you can use the bast fibers or the seed fluffs, the latter are very delicate and best to blend with something stronger, but I made a fantastic yarn out of 50/50 Dogbane bast fiber and Milkweed floss) and the new/green less-than-a-year-old sprouts off of grapevine (Vitis spp).

With the exception of the milkweed floss, all of these fibers are bast fibers, meaning they come from the inner bark, you have to peel the bark off the woody inner part and then beat, soak, crush, and/or ferment the bark in some combination to extract the fine threads. It is surprisingly easy to get cool results this way

Pictured, Dogbane/Milkweed blend yarn, processed Dogbane fibers, a bunch of Dogbane/Milkweed yarn (don't mind the spool made from a macaroni and cheese container) Grapevine thread, Dogbane cord. I made it!

#except for me; hobbies georg #who must know every single hobby #q