I’m doing it gang, I’ve spent stupider gardening money before like when I dropped $300 on shade loving perennial bulbs only to learn they were also plants that rotted with wet feet and all immediately died in my swampy gumbo soil
I’m buying two firefly petunias. I’ve never grown petunias much because where I live they’re a winter annual but fuck it I’ll grow them as an indoor plant I certainly have the sun to do it.
They’re supposed to ship to me in April, I’ll report back on if they immidiately die or this is the coolest thing I own. My biochemical engineering design project was using a similar chemical pathway to modify bacteria to glow in the presence of specific toxins so I absolutely need glowing petunias in my window box
My glowing GMO petunias have arrived!! I’m glad I ordered 2 one seems really leggy and about to snap off it’s roots if I’m not careful transplanting. They’ve been in a dark box for 2-3 days so I can only just barely perceive light from the more sturdy bush if I close myself into my pantry, but it is definitely there!
I’m putting it under my aquarium grow lights for a few hours till full dark and I’ll report back!!
I’ll probably give them 2-3 days to recover from shipping before I transplant them
The flower buds and new growth glow the brightest! This is so cool!!! I definitely want to know if it starts to glow more brightly with a few sunny days
It’s been a few days so I’ve transplanted my petunias. Since I don’t trust this spring weather to hold I’ve been keeping them inside under an old aquarium grow light. The glow is getting more intense! Once your eyes adjust to the darkness the plants stems new growth and buds glow all the way to the soil. I’ve been putting them on my bedside table at night to enjoy the glow.
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So one thing I’ve noticed is that people’s DnD characters may vary but there is usually an underlying thread that they all have in common. This thread is typically related to what that person struggles with the most.
For instance, my betrotheds DnD characters: a bitchy warlock we had to bust out of two different pacts, a sassy barbarian, a reformed drow cultist, and a sunshine fighter cleric.
All these characters were wildly different but at their very core struggle was them grappling with their self worth. My betrothed struggles with their worth a great deal and even with different facets showing their characters all have that too.
Mine all tend to contend with different themes of loneliness and acceptance. Surprise, surprise, the little autistic gremlin yearns to have been met with more love and lasting friendships.
So we’re at breakfast. I am meeting a new friend of my betrotheds for the first time. It’s been twenty minutes since I’ve met this man. I say my theory. He laughs. He starts to describe a few of his characters but specifies that he often has healing aspects. He gives a very broad overview of their character arcs.
I ponder for a moment then said, “Would you like to have my assessment?”
He laughed, “Sure!”
“We’ve just met. It’s gonna get real.”
“Bring it on.”
“I think your struggle is that you feel you must offer something of value or service to people to be worthy of their love.”
His jaw dropped. His fork froze midway to his mouth. A potato fell. He stared into space as this sank in. Quietly he said, “Oh.”
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why don’t people in zombie apocalypse stories ever just wear suits of armor? you think any zombie is gonna get their shitty rotting jaws through this?
I’m gonna rip and tear my way through the zombie apocalypse completely unharmed because none of the undead hoards will be able to get through my plate mail
everyone else is like “oh we gotta stay inside the most secure places possible and never leave” and I’ll be storming through the wastelands in my bloodstained suit of armor, blasting the Doom (2016) OST and plowing my way through waves of the undead. one of them tries to bite me but his shitty rotting teeth don’t even leave a dent in my armor before I turn his head into paste. I’ll be unstoppable until I die of dehydration or something like an idiot
this goes along with my other pet peeve about zombie apocalypse stories, namely: why does no one ever think to ride a bike?
bikes are quiet- if the zombies react to loud noises, they won’t hear you on a bike the way they might hear you in a car. bikes don’t need gas, meaning you won’t be stranded if you run out. bikes are much, much easier to maintain than a car- there’s no computer that can short out, no fiddly engine bits that could kill you if you mess with them wrong. you can learn how to maintain a bike with a couple weeks’ worth of classes. almost every adult knows how to ride a bike, and without cars on the road, it’d be much safer to do.
Mark Twain essentially invented the genre of a bystander sent into a time-travel sci-fi plot just to get someone to draw this image for him. And today we can simply search for such a picture. It is a time of wonders
#holding this concept up in my mind and rotating it next to Norris and the Plague Doctors #zombies #story ideas I will never write #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #apocalypse cw #illness tw? #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
downside: going to have to include a picture of the Giza pyramids in the slides for the lecture upside: i get to give people a crash course in why perspective matters in two frames, because
I loved these perspectives so I took some of my own when I was in Cairo and yeah, they’re literally just. Right there. Pass em on your way to work, nbd
That Pizza Hut among other things is why Egyptologists laugh their asses off when we see another piece of media where the protagonists get “lost in the desert near the pyramids”, because it’s like… just turn around my dudes you’re only a seven min walk away from the nearest fastfood shop
You can get lost in a city! Have your protagonists get “lost in the desert near the pyramids” and then cut to them at Pizza Hut arguing about where to find their hotel.
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#oh my fucking god #PopCap: ”at long last‚ we have created the Torment Nexus from classic story It Would Be Terrible Yet Hot to Create the Torment Nexus” #I would like to trade in this world’s genre and get a better one‚ thank you #sexuality and lack thereof #disappointed permanent resident of The Future #games #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
My covid post from last year is going around again, as I sit here debating how and what to write about HPAI H5N1.
I’m tired.
Things to know:
HPAI H5N1, Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1, is so far wildly lethal when humans get it. Somewhere between 53% and 56% of the humans who have been found to have it have died.
Those people mainly got it from interacting with sick birds. A couple have gotten it from interacting with sick mammals. The one of those that’s most important to US news right now is a worker at a milk cow farm who got sick very recently. That worker’s only symptom before getting on antiviral medication was pinkeye.
(Keep your cats indoors; cats are getting it from sick birds. Don’t have bird feeders this year. Do NOT interact with wild birds that are acting strangely; do not poke at dead wild birds.)
Humans are not yet giving it to humans. There are one or two cases where they might have done, in the last few years; those cases guttered out quickly, to the great good luck of our species, and did not spread.
Human-to-human transmission is the big concern.
We are not in any immediate danger of H2H transmission. When we’re in immediate danger, you’ll know.
When the flip happens, we will go from not being in immediate danger to being in immediate danger, very rapidly. This could happen this month, or in five months, or in five years, and we don’t know when.
By the time we are in immediate danger, it is too late to do the greater bulk of your preparation.
So it’s time to prepare now. This time we have is a blessing. We should not squander it. What would you have done differently in September, 2019, if you knew what was coming? Do that.
With some differences; a) flu can pass by fomite–that is, a sick person touches a doorknob, you touch a doorknob, you rub your face, you get sick–so you actually do need cleaning chemicals for this one. b) This one gets in through the eyeballs pretty easily in its current shape, so eye protection should be prepped for adding to masking in public spaces. c) this one is gonna call for fever reducers and we know how hard they were to get when covid hit; stock up. And stock up on pet food if you can keep it from going bad, because pet food gets its protein from cow and bird meat; there will be shortages.
With a lot of similarities; the flu is airborne so don’t stop masking, if we have a proper lockdown this time you’re going to wish you had flour and rice and canned fruit so keep stock of all your staples. If you have a nice big freezer, now is the time to get beef and chicken before the prices shoot to the ceiling. I’m also stocking up on powdered milk and powdered eggs for baking with.
We have made a lot, a LOT of mistakes with how we’ve handled covid. But one thing we didn’t do wrong was all of the community-building in the early days. Think about what worked then, and what didn’t really work. Now is the time to make sure community bonds are strong. As always, as in ANY potential disaster, there are two most-important questions?
Who can protect and support you?
Who can you support and protect?
Plan accordingly.
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#OP is from 2024-04-05 #in the past month‚ things have continued to spiral #the cold war has not yet gone hot‚ but it’s notably warmer than it was #personally‚ I would not be willing to bet money that good PPE will still be available for sale a month from now #it might be #it might not #don’t rely on it #(I rather suspect the only reason it’s still in stock is that the PPE supply chains bulked up somewhat after 2020) #(so that they’re not the very first thing to fail anymore the way they were then) #(in 2020‚ respirators were already impossible to obtain by late January) #also‚ take a moment to thank all those who fought for pasteurised milk to be the standard #PSA #101 Uses for Infrastructureless Computers #HPAI #illness tw #apocalypse cw? #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once #I think I will rearrange my queue to place this post second instead of its default eleventh #and arrange the current ninth post to be first
#environmental storytelling #journal entry found on skeleton etc etc #you know how the Wikipedia article on smallpox starts with ”smallpox was”? #the Wikipedia article on E3 2020 starts with ”The Electronic Entertainment Expo 2020 (E3 2020) would have been” #(it was not until I went and read it that I realised that an in-person E3 was never held again) #(and only one virtual one (in 2021)) #(I guess I’m not the intended audience for this photo) #covid19 #juxtaposition #illness tw #apocalypse cw? #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
I’d be great at violence and other crimes, I’d like to think. If that was a job, I mean.
Unfortunately the legal jobs that get characterized often as being “violence and crimes as a job” contain very little violence and crimes by weight and also have a degree of forced conformity that I don’t think I’d do well with. So I guess we’ll never know if I’d be good at them.
The point is I think museums should legally be able to assemble heist teams to heist other museums’s shit. This could solve essentially no problems, create many new ones, and destroy a bunch of priceless artifacts, but also it would be very funny and those priceless artifacts were stupid anyway.
In fact I think museums should all be allowed to steal anything from anywhere if they can get away with it, and it should be very easy to legally become a museum, with the main conditions being you can’t sell your collection and have to display some percentage (maybe 5 or 10%?) of it where it can be seen by the public (for at most a small fee, maybe like $20 tops). Heist wars. “Come to the Guggenheim, we stole davinci’s older, better woman-with-an-emotion painting and threw the Mona Lisa in the trash like the trash it is.” “Welcome to the National Museum of Brazil, featuring three insects and a bust from the British museum, one of the Benin Bronzes, the liberty bell, Two Thirds of Bill Paldorski from the US’s vinyl collection, and a terracotta soldier replica we made because the one we had got heisted by the Museum of Gabon. Also some stuff from Brazil, but you’re not here for that.” “Welcome to the Monument Museum. We were founded three years ago specifically to display the Statue of Liberty, and six days ago, as you may have heard, we successfully heisted it. It will be available for public viewing after we’ve reassembled it. In the meantime check out our Battle of May Island memorial stone and Minaret of Sinan Pasha Mosque, both of which we heisted for practice”
This would clearly be a superior world to live in.
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Brinens and Things 