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Mikhail Gorb-á-chèvre
@epluribusnada.bsky.social
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Southeast Michigan
Into plants and TTRPGs and art history and queer stuff

Plant photos: #EPNplants
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Yanno what, sure

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A collage of official art of Grass-type Pokemon
February 18, 2026 at 12:14 AM
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Life sucks, but I saw this cool utility pole today, so that's something
An asymmetrical, fin-shaped wooden utility pole carrying 5 sets of overhead lines that meet at the pole at a 90-degrer angle. The pole has a cartoon face graffitied onto its base and is by the end of a sidewalk on a nondescript road. It's winter, the turf grass is yellow, there's snow on the ground, and some bare trees are visible all around.
February 15, 2026 at 3:22 AM
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Jorffrey the Gerorffe...my cursed contribution to the cash register doodles at work
A ballpoint pen drawing of a giraffe with a third eye in the middle of its forehead, additional eyes on its ears and neck, and a Jacob's ladder with an electrical arc on top of its head. It's captioned "'ere be playthings" (in bubble letters) and "Jorffrey the Gerorffe." Above him is a set of earlier doodles by a co-worker of Geoffrey the Giraffe, the mascot of Toys 'R' Us.
January 24, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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This is the worst LinkedIn DM anyone has ever sent me

This is hate speech
December 17, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Feeling cuter and comfier at work today in today's outfit
November 25, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Wiped down the mirror and cleaned the shower tile just in time to boomerang right back around to dressing like I did in high school
An Asian man with glasses, a beanie, a gray hoodie, and a mustache taking a selfie in a bathroom mirror
November 9, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Went for a walk the other week and came across this sweat bee perched perfectly in the middle of a fall-blooming aster

🌱 #EPNplants
A low-growing herbaceous plant surrounded by grass and clover. The plant has several magenta buds and a single fully open, daisy-like flower with dozens of narrow petals and a yellow center. A small, greenish bee is perched on the flower's center.
September 29, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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I love this sleepy elderly baby
An orange tabby cat with white paws lying on his side, head turned to look vaguely in the direction of the camera The same orange tabby cat, asleep
September 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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You wouldn't believe how much lutea they put on these nelumboes

🌱 #nelumbolutea
A wooden boardwalk next to some shallow water full of North American lotuses (Nelumbo lutea) with trees in the middle distance. Yellow lotus flowers and ruffled, bowl-shaped lotus leaves rising above the water on long stalks. Lotus flowers, leaves, and seed pods, in brighter light. A dense stand of lotus flowers, seed pods, and leaves that cover the water entirely.
August 19, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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Unreasonably excited about getting close to 40k

#dorfromankit #indiegames
A screenshot of the game Dorfromantik showing a landscape made up of hexagonal tiles containing rivers, railways, towns, fields, and forests.
June 19, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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They're an aggressive, weedy invasive species across large swathes of the eastern US and PNW (you could see suckers/seedlings coming up under these trees), but I finally got a close-up look of my neighbor's pawlonias
A tree with upright panicle of large, lilac-colored, trumpet-shaped flowers with five flared petals and cream throats (their shape resembling those of crossvine or trumpet creeper, i.e. Bignonia capreolata or Campsis radicans, respectively). The flowers dangle from copper-colored calyces. A wider shot of the tree in the previous photo.
May 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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'Victoria' is just such a boringly green rhubarb cultivar

Anyway, we're making rhubarb jam
A stainless steel mixing bowl full of white sugar and rhubarb stem slices, which look like slices of juicy, non-fibrous celery
May 10, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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'Homesteader's Kaleidoscopic Perennial' kale putting on a pretty show as it attempts to die by childbirth

[whips out pruners]

🌱 #gardening #EPNplants
A kale plant sporting spikes of pale yellow, four-petaled flowers
May 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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I didn't expect it'd be this year

Syringa 'Nadezhda,' (a Soviet cultivar whose name means "hope"). 'Congo' and 'President Lincoln' are still too small to flower
A lilac panicle with purplish-pink buds opening to double, bluish florets
May 1, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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All the alder-leaved serviceberries (Amelanchier alnifolia) have reached blooming age this year 😄

1. 'Honeywood'
2. 'Fergie'
3. 'Lee #8'
4. 'Regent'

1-3 were purchased as whips from St. Lawrence Nurseries. 4 came as a mature plant from Boehler's near Saginaw, MI

🌱 #gardening #EPNplants
A waist-high tree with dark, reddish brown stems, dark green, almond-shaped leaves, and clusters of white, five-petaled flowers with yellow centers. Same as previous, but a 12-inch high plant. Same as previous, but a close-up on a single flower cluster at the tip of the stem of a 2-foot-high plant. Same as previous, but a branching tree with gray bark the height of a grown adult with numerous flower clusters and young leaves.
April 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Caught another shoot on the day it emerged, and it's adorable 🌱
An egg-shaped rhubarb shoot emerging from the ground consisting of a wrinkly, crumpled up leaf enclosed in a red sheath.
April 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Washtenaw County #springephemerals, part 2

🌱 #wildflowers #plants #EPNplants
Dutchman's breeches, my favorite wildflower! White flowers shaped like upside-down pairs of baby pants arranged in rows along light brown pedicels. Feathery, mimosa-like blue-green leaves. Yellow trout lily. Bright yellow trumpet shaped flower growing above a rosette of brownish green, lance-shaped leaves dappled with irregular, blurry, pale green spots. Waterleaf. Geranium-like (palmate, deeply cut) green-blue leaves with a symmetrical pattern of pale spots concentrated at the leaves' inner corners. Blue cohosh! My first time seeing it in nature. A cluster of six-petaled maroon flowers with yellow and green centers above vaguely peony-like leaves that have a dark bluish cast when they've newly emerged.
April 22, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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#springephemerals spotted on a walk in Washtenaw County, MI

🌱 #wildflowers #plants #EPNplants
Spring beauty. Small, five petaled flower with pink anthers. Petals are pale pink with darker pink veins. Hepatica. Violet flowers, not fully open. Hairy, angular leaves vaguely remiscent of tricorne hats. Bloodroot. Small, daisy-like white flower with yellow eye, though this one is rather bedraggled-looking. Flower is surrounded by a partially furled, palmate leaf resembling a rounded maple leaf with too many lobes. Cut-leafed toothwort. Four petaled flower with a yellow-green center. Leaflets are long and lance-shaped, with jagged edges, and are arranged in a fan, like a cannabis leaf.
April 22, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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My rabbit's foot fern with its fronds pressed up against the glass, yearning for the caress of redbud-senpai's blossoms

🌱 #houseplants #gardening
April 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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...huh.
April 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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First bumblebee sighting of 2025 at our house

(The flowering shrub is Lonicera x purpusii)

🌱 #midwestgardening #gardening
A bumblebee hanging upside down on a cluster of lampshade-shaped white flowers, one of many flower clusters on a long, twiggy branch in front of a red brick wall and dried, brown leaves
March 31, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Day 4. The jar denizens ("ginger bug" - wild yeast and lactobacillus) have been moved to their long-term residence in the fridge

Some of them have been used to inoculate a ginger/lemon/brown sugar solution. If I did everything right, it should be carbonated in 3-8 days
A two liter soda bottle labeled "3/30 ginger beer" sitting on a kitchen counter amidst assorted clutter
March 31, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Day 3. So proud of my much my microbial boy has grown
March 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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We have audible fizzing! (less than 12 hours after the first feeding)

I'm sorry for ever doubting you, Randazzo's ginger
A top-down view into the opening of a glass jar filled with sugar water and finely diced ginger, which is now slightly foamy and making audible fizzing sounds
March 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Mmkay, we're doing it

Going with the recipe that uses the most ginger and sugar at the outset so I'll know as quickly as possible if the non-organic ginger I bought was disinfected with radiation after harvest

Hoping for foaminess and bubbles
A red plastic cutting board with a piece of unpeeled ginger root on it, with a jar full of finely diced ginger and white sugar behind it A jar covered with a flour sack towel attached with a rubber band full of diced ginger floating in sugar water
March 26, 2025 at 8:20 PM