lobster @Lobster@qoto.org

Oh to be an inch high and get to lay on this like a fuzzy blanket.
#mosstodon

Decided I’d like to try to identify as many trees and plants as I can on my walks. Started today with this mass of blackthorn. Guess I’m foraging sloes this year!

Blessed Ostara everyone. May your day be balanced and beautiful.

Got up early today and went for a responsible forage* in the rain. When I got home I put the bread machine on, then made coffee and porridge, and brought it to my husband in bed.

*for me responsible foraging should mean that no one can tell where you have been. I was foraging wild garlic, so this means taking a couple of leaves from each clump over a large area where it grows, rather than ripping out whole clumps which I see people do. It’s an eco system, not just food. Be respectful.
#pagan

here's another shot of the cage fungus from yesterday. Although a Red-cage Fungus, this one is so yellowish it looks like aging tangerine peel

#fungi #mushtodon

Hugo Noms close today! Reminder:

You can nominate awesome 2023 indie films, like Poor Things, Lola, Mars One, Plan 75, Aporia, & The Cow Who Sang a Song into the Future!

Ditto graphic works in translation, like Junji Ito's Soichi, and Mo Xiang Tong Xiu & Luo Di Cheng Qiu's Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation!

And since people have asked, yes my essay on the cross-influence of Anglophone & Japanese SF was 2023 and is eligible in Best Related: http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/a-mitfreude-of-anime-and-mangas-relationship-with-anglophone-science-fiction-or-this-essay-will-not-try-to-get-you-into-anime-and-manga/

It’s happening again, #ForestGarden paths are being created at the #TirGarden. Very exciting. Paths increase accessibility, form the structure of the space and can make gardens far more usable.

#GardenDesign #gardening #ForestGarden #FoodForest

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks "Heil!", then it's a Nazi.

The US has announced $5.8 billion in funding for fixing water infrastructure nationally. The funding will be used to clean drinking water, replace lead pipes, remove contaminants and improve wastewater treatment and sanitation. #ShareGoodNewsToo https://fixthenews.com/r/1c2f76df?m=d62c57a4-125a-4b9d-b04d-bdfd23b8627c

There be monsters in those swamps.

#wetlands #Polesia

Let's be honest elegant design is boring. Crafty use of what is available, now that is interesting.

I find nature's absolute disregard for humans, our inventions, opinions, and beliefs to be very refreshing.

I miss the internet

I know this is going to make me sound old – but I miss the internet.

The real internet. The one we used to have. Before it all got so much less – and somehow so much more – complicated.

I went online for the first time around 2001. The 90s had ended, and the world was coming online while I was coming out of my shell and becoming more self-aware.

@Daojoan "scared of AI" as in "scared of mold". Like mold, it's not going to become sentient and eat us all. But also like mold, it has a tendency to spoil previously good things, and my preferred amount of it in my (information) diet is zero with very few, carefully selected exceptions. Those exceptions, or the bries among the internet mold that is AI, are things like automatic transcription or translation.

We've all been tricked into planned redundancy and non-repairability.

It doesn't have to be this way.

I've just received a radio, built in 1957. After a clean and fitting a plug, it came to life with no further work.

At most, the capacitors, costing pennies, will need changing at some point, as might a valve or two, costing £5 each.

Let's go back to the days when equipment could last for several decades.

https://youtu.be/8lF7jqyYb5A

#repair #ewaste #reuse #electronics