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Well, I did not WANT to separate all the plants into Districts based on species and shape, but all of the specialty scrub natives are getting bodied by regular monarda, so now I have to be mean and do this. Thanks plants.

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Well, I did not WANT to separate all the plants into Districts based on species and shape, but all of the specialty scrub natives are getting bodied by regular monarda, so now I have to be mean and do this. Thanks plants.

making a a backyard butterfly meadow is a lot harder and more expensive than you would think. my hands hurt

tall elephantsfoot plant "does well in a naturalized meadow" my ass. just had to move four of these www.flawildflowers.org/flower-frida...

making a a backyard butterfly meadow is a lot harder and more expensive than you would think. my hands hurt

I thought I could just dump meadowy natives in vague clumps, let them seed wherever, and then cut paths through it, but some of the plants are too powerful and shade out the others. I ended up with like 90% one species, and everything else getting smothered, including important stuff like milkweed.

I think vibecoding is just as bad and hobbyless as generating art or text, actually. Even if we ignore the environmental / land use / security impacts, it's still directly devaluing a human craft. Just hire someone.

I think using genAI to make images, even little insignificant ones, is hobbyless loser behavior. It completely sours my opinion on people forever, even if they have done good stuff in the past. If you think that is an overreaction or "crashing out", you can take your cringe comp screenshot and go.

Seen a non-zero number of posts in just the past few minutes acting like fans being disappointed by an artist using genAI is ridiculous, terminally-online behavior. Uhh, no? People don't just like to see pretty things, we like seeing pretty things and knowing people made them.

There is certainly a power tool of some kind I could rent to chop up bahiagrass rhizomes faster than yanking them with my hands, but then I might hurt some of the two billion thingies trying to hibernate in there, including five entire glubbies just today

Bahiagrass is technically naturalized and retains a lot of moisture and OM, but it smothers seedlings and trends toward dominance, so unfortunately I have to fight it sometimes

For the alphabet book, I started making big colorful letters for each page (ex: "B" is for Benggwigwishingasuchus) that matched the color palette of the illustration, and then I started using those letters for other headings, but they're hard to read zoomed-out, so I started making more letters -

skeetos stop biting me, I am trying to make you a nice world. bite the neighbors' dogs

Is it self-aggrandizing to put "studios" next to my dopey little self-publishing logo? I can't just put "mossworm" as both pen name and publisher, that's confusing

There was a challenge on Project Runway probably like 15 years ago where they had to make their own logo with one of those art screen tablets, and everyone was trying to come up with cool nike swoosh type stuff, but I remember this one woman was like "whatever" and just wrote her name in all caps

something that really bothers me about my soil science courses is how casually the professors continue to operate as if things are normal while the entire course is reliant on existing EPA and USDA website infrastructure, which we have already seen that trumpy can take down or alter at any time.

what if I'm trying to do my assignment, but then fascism decides hydric soils are woke and takes the page down? dumber things have already happened

something that really bothers me about my soil science courses is how casually the professors continue to operate as if things are normal while the entire course is reliant on existing EPA and USDA website infrastructure, which we have already seen that trumpy can take down or alter at any time.

If I try to open this image in full size, mspaint crashes.

plants are slowing down and it's getting cold outside, so I'm back inside listening to booktok drama. there sure is a lot of that

I like to spread the word about this mail order nursery called Joyful Butterfly, which I order from about once a year. I'm not affiliated or sponsored, I just really like their business. I ordered six Boehmeria cylindrica five days ago for 42 dollars plus 12 shipping, and they look great.

I have literally never seen this plant for sale anywhere else, but it's a host plant for a bunch of guys.

splebs

eventually I'll probably put some little flying guys in there, but zzzzz

I'm going to assume you are in there voluntarily, but please get my attention if you need help getting out

living in a place that has lizards is vital to my mental health becuase at almost all times of year I can look at a little animal going "😒"

people who believe deeply in genAI or LLMs should all wear a specific hat of some kind. for me. thanks