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oh hi!

yeah. some kinda fox girl.

please bear with me.

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ai6yr, to random

Seeing secondhand reports of aurora being visible in South Florida (Miami). Anyone out there able to confirm? #Aurora #FLwx #SpaceWeather

melanie,
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@ai6yr Negative report from a friend in Florida (not sure where) who isn’t on here.

MLE_online, to random
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I just found out about a local plant shop whose owners have become completely deranged with fears about the Chinese Communist Party, and several yelp reviews of their store tell sales of being thrown out because the owners became suspicious that they were spies.

I want to make up shirts that say "C.C.P. -- California Commission on Plants" and go in there with a friend and start measuring their plants with calipers and taking notes in a notebook

melanie,
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@MLE_online CCP(M) — California Committee for Plants (Measurement)

melanie,
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@MLE_online doesn’t exist in the other ccp, means measurement in the one i suggest. meant to speak of microfractures in western communist parties, which i am sure she is aware of if she has researched the subject

bampot, to random
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Ma erm an pish ur headin up tae visit the phlebotomist
The day is a big wan so ma vampiristic buddie will sook oot near a hale ermfae eh vital bodily fluids thit en head fur the Quackentstein Lab far away high up oan the hill.
Whit astonishes me is thit Igor drains ma erm here ,sends these vials miles oor the watter tae the Quack Lab an by 6 o'clock the night ah will huv 2 pages eh highly specialised results oan ma computer screen.
Gaunny say somehin bad aboot NHS Scotland ..Gaun..ah dare ye!

melanie,
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@bampot only thing bad I can say about it is that if the horrible oiks wanted, Westminster could issue a stop-work order on it tomorrow

also I bet none of them are wearing FFP3s like they should when dealing with folk who are possibly contagious with airborne pathogens

melanie,
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@bampot My understanding is that W’minster can still walk all over devolution if they’d like.

But I won’t belabour that point, except to say that it puts credence behind my theory of Scotland as an occupied country (although it doesn’t look like a military occupation because it has been fully institutionalized).

GhostOnTheHalfShell, (edited ) to climate
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8 min

Before aught else, they must drink. It’s not like it will last. The midwest will stop only when they can’t draw water.

https://youtu.be/DdNtraY6HhQ

melanie,
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell This makes me wonder why irrigation was allowed to fester and become such a big thing as it has. It should have been nipped in the bud for broadacre crops early on, and only allowed for subsistence cropping (i.e. backyards and “”homesteads””) in the desert states (which if I’m not mistaken is CA, NV, AZ, NM, CO, WY, OK, and TX). The crop failures due to dry years should’ve been a thing planned for early on.

melanie,
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell This is about the Ogalalla basin, isn’t it?

ai6yr, to random

My neighbor (who hates bees, rabbits, coyotes, and all insects in her yard -- and has replaced their lawn with plastic) has a "Welcome Spring" sign up. 🤔

melanie,
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@ai6yr @mjausson He should’ve left the grass a little higher so the buns could’ve mowed it nice.

Also, I think a self-filling bird bath could be useful so the desert forest dog didn’t need to chew on the irrigation pipelines.

melanie,
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@ai6yr @mjausson Can i put on a coyote fursuit and bite your neighbour until he is convinced to do nature-first landscaping?

fkamiah17, to random
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I see one of the contestants at Eurovision got told off for wearing a keffiyeh wrapped round his wrist.
Flying the Zionist flag is cool though, because ...

melanie,
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@fkamiah17 i think the policy here is that the Israel flag is permitted because Israel is a member of the EBU

ai6yr, to EPCOT

What does it mean when most of the plants featured at Epcot's "The Land" are in my backyard? (most being grown in hydroponics) 🤔

(I don't think I can get a floating water ride back there, though).

melanie,
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@ai6yr Your yard has coffee bushes?

melanie,
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@ai6yr It sounds like I should get one, and keep it indoors (since the climate here is so cold pretty much only annuals from that region could ever grow, and that’s if they’re particularly ephemeral)

FloydyStu, to random
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I'm seeing a few posts blaming France for the deportation of Doctor Ghassan Abu Sittah from this country yesterday.

This isn't strictly true.

Germany, in April, issued a Schengen wide ban on the good doctor which, unfortunately, means that France, and ALL other Schengen countries are legally obliged to follow.

The conversation needs to be had with Germany about overturning this law, not with France.

melanie,
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@FloydyStu It’s effectively Germany interfering with another country’s politics.

RickiTarr, to random
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This 1947 Anti-Facist short is so simple and so effective, you realize how stupid all the arguments to the contrary are. You can say a lot in 2 minutes.

https://youtu.be/BCVK7LdI4ao?si=CUhuXZAfQEy6E9vY

melanie,
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@RickiTarr the ?si= cruft at the end of the link is a tracking cookie from YouTube. Delete it if you want it to be less likely for YouTube to link you back to your connexions here.

melanie, to random
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Don’t you fucking kent on my state

melanie, to random
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… you can just say IDF. We don’t call the 40s Wehrmacht the Scheissmacht, although maybe we should. We shaln’t invent names for the IDF either.

RE: https://toot.wales/users/fkamiah17/statuses/112376968274791201

fkamiah17, to USpolitics
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WEEK 31: Following reports of "secret" meetings between US senators and the ICC prosecutors, the ICC issues a very strong statement on the arrest warrants.

melanie,
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@fkamiah17 Can you link where you got this statement?

Wen, to environment
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Bird flu outbreaks in cattle will not affect supply, Americans told

http://archive.today/2024.05.02-184845/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bird-flu-outbreak-us-virus-spread-cattle-cows-mgbnwwn9f

(cached)

Scientist and animal/human health workers are worried, but the public is told ‘nothing to see, nothing to worry about, move on’.

The massive power of agribusiness is threatening the world we live in and also (for those who don't really care), our health by incubating new and dangerous illnesses.

melanie,
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@Wen We’re so screwed, and confinement operators don’t even have the care for their stock to introduce filtered air to confinements.

melanie,
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@Wen @DanielleVossebeld it’s not even that, it’s more of an inexhaustible desire to inflict maximal suffering. I think there’s something to be said for relatively inexpensive meat being possible without creating ideal conditions for the spread of a lung-eating zombie virus

melanie, to random
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To save the British economy, blow up the Union.

melanie,
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Unilaterally (from the W’minster side) put Scotland (as a kingdom), Wales (as a principality), Mann (as a lordship), insular Normandy (as a duchy) and Ulster (as a Free State) on an equal footing with 1932 Canada, except that they have the right to make constitutional legislation by means of referendum, including stripping Westminster’s right to legislate on constitutional matters. Referendums in the colonies (yes there still are some) must be used to dispose of them, according to the options of condominium with all the independent states, or subjection to just one, or secession (only Bermuda would realistically have a chance).

This way, England gets to have the national reckoning it really needs relating to resource availability and feeding itself, and the other countries (except Wales with Llyn Celyn - Liverpool could be annexed to Wales, instead) get to continue or break ties with England as needed.

compost, to random
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This little video from the channel Primitive Technology, one of my favorites, is an amazing reminder of why we should not use too much ash on clay-dominant soil.

Clay plus ahs is the recipe for cement. It will compact your soil if you put too much of it.

Demonstration... I am so glad someone decided to make a video about this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaCfKda82nA

melanie,
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@compost If you need cement for whatever reason (e.g. rice basin), it’s perfect.

melanie,
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@mamsell @levampyre @compost ginger likes crap drainage‽

CLMilne, to connecticut
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https://mstdn.ca/

Tomatoes outgrowing pots and shelving!!Am pondering same -
Is it too early to put tomatoes in the ground?




@gardening

melanie,
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@richrollgardener @gardening @CLMilne Right on.

SerFinchalot, to gardening
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This year’s battle against the dandelions.

melanie,
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@SerFinchalot @Irisfreundin @gardening “pollinators” =? plants attracting pollinators

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