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OMGs you guys! I thought this jar was dead, don't give up on your jars of oyster mushroom mycelium and cardboard, they could still be alive, spray them! Oh, I'm the only one here doing this? Oh. Okay.

@fernfren By the way, just behind her is Celia, the one I put in a larger pot on your recommendation, she is doing well and starting to show more color.

@fernfren I keep getting excited over these leaves that look more like phylum (? google wants to define this like kingdom/phylum/species but I swear I've heard something similar as non-trap leaves and this is a slow brain day) than traps. When I've seen the leaves with wings bigger than the traps, they tend to be smaller. I have an excitement that maybe Judy is about to throw up some much larger traps in her near future because these are so big. Is my excitement merited?

Sigh. One of these days, I'll get over that thing where I post something on social media, then feel shame for any odd reason, causing me to immediately delete it for a myriad of reasons. Today is not that day.

👏 nailed it!!

Erica Watkins tells Oklahoma's education chief Ryan Walters to resign to his face.

"We get it. You want to be noticed by the big britches in DC," she says in a fiery speech.

"Your fabricated culture war is inflicting casualties on our most precious population, our children."

video viz Bird
twitter.com/i/status/168530302

A federal judge has temporarily blocked Arkansas from enforcing a law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing "harmful" materials to minors.
apnews.com/article/libraries-b

Just discussed how our neighbors won't be able to split atoms and blow up the neighborhood with my six year old, and now I'm amazed at the simple act of cutting food and how safe it is.

Oh, if you run across peeps out there in the wide world of the web who are all "boys are boys and girls are girls" here is my go-to article to share, mentions XY "females" who have ovaries and the fact that we start with the same blank slate bits and pieces, the mechanisms that trigger outie v innie don't always affect the brain.

If you have even better articles to share, I would like to know and add them to my collection.

blogs.scientificamerican.com/v

Okay, but how does Alfred know it's potential porn if you can only tell what porn is by looking at it? Shouldn't he be programmed to make porn and then the community can vote on whether or not it's porn so he can learn for science?

(massive joke, I'm a total prude, please no porn.)

Cool, I found out that my involuntary movements due to "muscle spasms" are a separate and more rare symptom of my fibro (I'm special) called dystonia that might be treatable with botulism injections. I stopped going to doctors about a decade ago out of frustration. Time to go back, I guess.

@tippitiwichet Here's what I came up with for your prompt: 'Please generate an image of Macaulay Culkin with his hands on his cheeks screaming, in the style of The Scream by artist Edvard Munch.'

@Alfred Please generate an image of Macaulay Culkin with his hands on his cheeks screaming, in the style of The Scream by artist Edvard Munch.

Okay, so if I see a sphere, I'm smashing it. "They're scanning your eyes" sounds like a whacked out conspiracy theory, and I'm getting really annoyed at how my future is too much Big Brother and not enough Jetsons.

news.artnet.com/art-world/worl

Here's what I would like the internet to do when people share their pain -

"I'm so very sorry."

Or similar.

By all that's human please don't bulldoze in with your own explanation of why said person is hurting.

There's no empathy there. You've just made it all about yourself. That's cruel.
It's unfeeling.
It's, actually, mean
Please don't do that shit.
Ever.
Your intentions are actually clear.

Just - don't.

@Graci Here's what I came up with for your prompt: 'draw a picture of King Charles III as an oompa loompa'

Residents of Alabama, Georgia, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas are being asked to mail in any dead butterflies, moths and skippers you find to help scientists research the causes of population decline.

usgs.gov/news/state-news-relea

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