It's flourishing more than I thought it would! The fungus is spreading to the other piece of wood, and this new clover-like thing has come up! I just give it a light drizzle of water every time it rains.
Democrats, before you get all smug that American Arabs/Muslims have "no choice" but to vote for Biden, consider that a very large proportion of them have passports and a large group of friends/family around the world willing to host them at a moment's notice.
Urbanists and cyclists 🚴♂️ in Naugatuck Valley #Connecticut are encouraged to complete an online survey examining habits, preferences, and challenges to walking/rolling and cycling in the community.
The weeds on a landscspe will tell you a lot more than any soil test about the health of your soil.
If they are here that is for a reason. They have just like any plant a purpose to do. So if we have too many of the same weeds somewhere that means there are issues with the soil that needs to be fixed.
A healthy soil must always be covered, and weeds are nature's way to protect itself.
Before to treat weeds as an enemy, learn about them, they are here to tell you facts about your landscape not to be a nuisance.
Also a lot of weeds are edible and can be cooked, their greens can be used for the compost pile or to feed composting worms.
Fucking Lego Thatcher on BBC Breakfast this morning saying that the national finances are the same as household finances and can be run the same way 🙄 😡 #LabourIsDead#UKPolitics
@israel
Or let me put it this way before the Zionists start weighing in: I want Tel Aviv too look six weeks from now the way Rafah will look two weeks from now. @palestine
"People on Mastodon are boring. They talk about polluting less, escaping tech monopolies, biking. They help each other and they seem really afraid of climate change.
They have complete disdain for real issues like wokism, football results or the last iphone."
@ploum
Interestingly, #NFL mastodon seems to be the only community that's figured out what hashtags are for. They have pretty standard acronymized ones for teams and even matchups, which they use religiously during games, and they don't make up implausible ones that will never link to anything. @nfl
Right-wing Israeli protesters hold a demonstration to demand the immediate removal of the offices of the UN refugee agency for Palestinians [UNRWA] in occupied East Jerusalem on February 5, 2024 [Atef Safadi/EPA]
We're so used to this, but I would like academics to take a moment and look at how much of the official and unofficial discussion around university is about despair, imposter syndrome, stress, harassment, etc.
What I often see in these discussions, especially the official ones, is discussion of coping mechanisms and "self-care".
What I rarely see in these discussions is questioning why we've built an education system that treats people this way in exchange for this education. @academicchatter
@ml
Call me a curmudgeon here, but it seems to me that many colleagues can cut out a lot of stress by not taking on the roles of parent, therapist, and life coach to their students.
@furqanshah
I was thinking mostly of instructors of undergrads who do things like contact students whenever they miss a test or revamp the curriculum whenever they don't want to do the reading. It's a "students can do no wrong" attitude that's more common in the humanities, and it seems that the people who mollycoddle the most are usually the ones complaining about stress in academia.
