thegardendude

@thegardendude@kitsunes.club

Greenhouse worker and irrigation tech at a local nursery just outside Richmond, VA. Gardener, environmental activist, "dad" to two wonderful Frenchies. I dabble in nature photography and guitar in my spare time. Chair, environmental working group, Richmond DSA.

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thegardendude, to random

Sometimes those discount plants at the nursery really turn into something given a second chance, like this Japanese maple I brought home and gave to my mom. I forget what was wrong with it at the time, but you wouldn't know it now.

thegardendude, to random

Trying to figure out why doesn't render correctly in @Vivaldi

The two side bars show up but I don't see anything where my main feed should be. Everything looks normal in Firefox 🤷‍♂️

thegardendude, to goodnews

The week in - climate activists score big in Europe, the UK narrowed the gender pay gap, and Germany saw train travel increase 21% https://www.positive.news/society/good-news-stories-from-week-15-of-2024/

thegardendude, to Spotify

Music fans should be leaving in droves over how poorly they compensate artists. They have the nerve to complain about piracy while engaging in something very close to piracy themselves. Bandcamp may be slightly less convenient or feature-rich but at least artists get paid. https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/confirmed-next-year-tracks-on-spotify-1000-plays/

Uraael, (edited ) to random
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users.

Go into settings > General, scroll down to Appearance and turn on Seasonal Screen Effects.

I turned it on a couple of weeks ago and nothing happened but today I'm watching cherry blossom falling as I type this which is very lovely, reminding me of the garden full of flowering cherry trees I once had. 🥰

thegardendude,

@Uraael it really is delightful. As I explained to someone else a few weeks ago, it's the sum of a lot of relatively small features about Sharkey that makes it so much more fun to use in my opinion than Mastodon.

thegardendude, to random

So apparently Christians are flooding TikTok with videos purporting to prove the existence of certain events and characters from the Bible.

I don't care how real Noah's ark was, or the rock where Moses received the Ten Commandments. If you believe the Bible instructs people to hate the LGBTQ community or make second class citizens of women, it's a hard pass for me. 🚫

compost, to random
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Where I live people don't watch their dogs if you happen to walk on the streets because you exercise.

A few times in a few days I have been yelled at by dog owners because their unwatched dog ran on the street and they could not run after it. I got quite lucky that the dog was not violent.

I prefer to warn people that nowadays people are that way. I don't see exactly why I have to be held accountable for this and it is a stress that could be easily avoided for both parties.

If I had a dog and I lived next to a street I would keep my dog on a leech because you never know what the dog can do. That to me is common sense and if my dog charged a person in front of my house I would say I am sorry.

thegardendude,

@compost The Venn diagram circles of people who let their dogs off-leash and people who drive cars recklessly but get big mad at people riding their bikes is the same circle pretty much. 🤦‍♂️

thegardendude, to random

Largest solar storage project in the U.S. goes online, with enough energy to power 233,000 homes https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/largest-us-solar-storage-project-goes-online-enough-for-a-quarter-million-homes/

clive, to random
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For some reason the Vivaldi browser on Mac has begun crashing frequently ...

... and for no reason I can detect

I mean there's gotta be a reason, but I can't figure it out!

Anyone else experienced this? Know what's going on, and how to fix it?

thegardendude,

@clive I started using Vivaldi again on Mac recently and I haven't had any issues with it crashing. Maybe it's an extension you're using with it that's the cause?

ai6yr, to random

Watching somebody at one of my workplaces go on a rant about fluoridation on the company Slack 😬

thegardendude,

@ai6yr we're accumulating quite a list of things people have gotten hysterical over that amounted to nothing, yet ironically dismissing things that were actually a problem, like COVID.

thegardendude, to random

New drug with ingredient from European tree species approved to help smokers quit for good https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/smokers-twice-as-likely-to-quit-if-using-drug-from-laburnum-tree-finds-study/

thegardendude, to random

@Sharkey the Sharkey update is fantastic! Nice work! 👏

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