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BLM ~ Land Back ~ Free Palestine ~ sometimes streamer ~ chronically ill
~ they/them ~ Russian Mennonite/Irish/Scottish settler currently on Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk) land
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Very serious question: what the fuck do they want me to pay?
A handwritten receipt with S.2 as an item and indecipherable squiggles as a total
September 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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This stump split in half while I was pulling it out of the ground.
Decided to toss it in a pot for shits n giggles but I didn't expect it to actually survive. No clue if the smaller bit is actually alive but I don't think I'll check for a couple years... #bonsai
A green planter pot with a thin tree stump, held together by bits of yarn. One side of the stump has new growth, showing that the roots are doing well
August 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Four of the trees that my landlord tried to kill last summer by cutting the trunks and leaving the stumps and roots alone. The walnut grew up through 2 feet of dirt.

I wasn't sure exactly which stump was which tree... Ecstatic to see the Japanese maple sprouting this morning.
A very interesting stump of a European Smoketree, with a few thick branches sticking out at angles near 90 degrees The stump of a Manitoba maple, or boxelder, which has repeatedly had lower beaches trimmed to a few inches long A Japanese maple stump, around 3-4 inches in diameter, with fresh growth on one side A black walnut tree, which has regrown from a stump cut off and then buried 2-3 feet deep in a garden bed. I dug down to the stump and trimmed the branches a couple weeks ago, but it's regrowing prodigiously
August 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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If you see this, post a #castle 🏰
A diagram showing how to perform a "castling " move in chess
August 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Annoyingly, shit looks normal until I start scrolling and then pops into the shitty grid
The normal subscription feed with normal thumbnails
August 1, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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What in the everliving fuck is this new YouTube subscription fees? Does everyone's look like ass now or am I specially cursed?
YouTube subscription feed but with 4 useless tiny thumbnails in a grid where a single video thumbnail is usually visible
August 1, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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My babies
A tabby and a white/orange cat lay in identical poses atop a stone porch wall
July 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Well, it's been fun being Sinead O'Connor, but time for a #NewPFP
The second pic was taken today; how long ago do you think the first picture was taken?
A pale, blue eyed person with a buzzcut gazes intently into the camera, with a black backdrop and shirt. The image was inspired by Sinead O'Connor's "Nothing Compares 2 U" and photographed by Ted Simpson A pale person wearing an Ottawa Fury FC hat and blue tank top smiles at the camera.
June 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Bonus pic
A top-down picture of the juniper bonsai from the previous post, showing the movement of the main trunk
June 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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A freshly unpacked juniper in a small plastic pot, sitting in a bowl of water. The same juniper, now in a rectangular teal bonsai pot with decorative stones covering the dirt The following morning, after pruning a few branches and redirecting the leader (is that the right term for the tip?) Moments after the previous image, same juniper in real pot, now viewed from the other side
June 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Columbine thriving despite the lack of ... everything. I need to learn from them.
Purple and pink flowers growing up from a crack between a house and the driveway
May 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Thank you, Robin Wall Kimmerer, for a gift I didn't know I was craving.

"... the frilly little cup at the top of a Juneberry that was once part of the flower. It's called the "calyx," in case you were craving a delicious new word, the way some people crave money."

#TheServiceberry
Because I'm a botanist, my knowledge of economics and finance is about the size of the frilly little cup at the top of a Juneberry that was once part of the flower. It's called the "calyx," in case you were craving a delicious new word, the way some people crave money. My fluency in the lexicon of berries does not extend to economics, so I wanted to revisit the conventional meaning of economics to compare it with my understanding of the gift economy of nature. What is economics for anyway? The answer to that question depends a lot on who you ask. On their website, the American Economic Association says, "It's the study of scarcity, the study of how people use resources and respond to incentives." -The Serviceberry
May 13, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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I got to "natural numbers" and put the book down to take notes on the specific definitions of basic sets... Copied the diagram at the top yesterday like 'this set is wholly contained within the next, neat"

The eureka moment I had about 3 mins ago when I 'organically' drew it again with operators...
A spiral notebook lying on top of an open paperback book, covering the left page. The visible page is Chapter 5: Division and Its Discontents" of "The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Math", with highlighted text in yellow, orange, and green. In orange "[a new crisis comes when we] try to work out the mathematics of sharing" and in green "...unless we expand the universe [of numbers] once more, now by inventing fractions" The notebook has 2 similar diagrams, one - copied from the internet - showing number sets N, Z, Q and R nested. The second diagram, created 'organically' while noting how fractions expand available operations, shows the same nesting along with + and × under N, - under Z, and ÷ under Q.
May 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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how do we live in one of the realities where youtube SOMEHOW still forces you to install an extension to reverse a playlist???

at least let me make a private copy that I can reverse for myself, though the existence of shuffle suggests you can play it backwards without disrupting the original sort
Playlist - 409 videos - 9,321 views Every PBS Spacetime episode. PBS Space Time exploresthe outer reaches of space, the craziness of astroph... Play all, save, share, and an expanded menu button showing options to Shuffle or Report playlist
May 11, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Anyone know if there's a separate notification for the new streamelements "sponsorship" affiliate stuff? Is this one now for both types or is Twitch not in the business of sourcing sponsorships directly anymore?
@zachbussey.bsky.social
Twitch settings, notifications tab. A yellow line draws attention to Sponsorships: Sponsorship opportunities sourced by Twitch for you as a streamer
April 15, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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replayed the demo until the devs told me to chill

taking the release slow, scribbling notes, having eureka moments as assets absent from the demo fill in gaps...

made it back to the antechanber on day 4, in what ended up being a 44 room mansion

i'm still so far from room 46 and loving it
Very Impressive. We didn't intend for you to get this far. But here you are, all the way up on the Ninth Rank and you even managed to find your way into the Antechamber! Unfortunately, we're going to have to put an end to your progress there... before you learn more than you should. [additional thank you paragraph from the game's demo]
April 12, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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defining the phrase, "his eyes lit up with delight"
a bearded man with a deeply unbuttoned shirt sits behind a mic and gasps as his eyes light up in delight. he is in front of a brick wall illuminated by green and blue lights.
April 12, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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I've been so frustrated by the lack of information when setting up certain [redacted] games recently, that I feel I need to give a shoutout to upcoming Early Access game Stygian: Outer Gods for how well they present clear and detailed info
#gamedev #UI
The Video Settings tab for Stygian: Outer Gods. The left side shows typical settings with arrows and sliders to adjust. On the right side, a notebook shows a detailed description of the, in this case, Window Mode options, with a bullet list of the all possible options visible below.
April 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Turns Remaining Until Crises
Restart Button (thank fuck)
Mt. Everest (surely they know all of the natural wonders they plan to have?)
new map starting positions? still not a single explanation in-game of that, or any game other setup options mean (i beg @civilization.2k.com explain stuff)
2/
a Civ 7 game setup screen, with a hover tooltip "helpfully" "explaining" that "Map Type" lets you "Select the type of Map for the game" but not what "Continents Plus" means or what type of map it will generate
March 29, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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Reading the @civilization.2k.com patch notes, and they claim that all "6 DLCs" in the Crossroads of the World DLC have been released, but I'm still not sure what I bought.

1 DLC is;
1 Leader
2 Civs
4 Natural Wonders

Lovelace, Bolivar, GB+Carthage, Bulgaria+Nepal, Wonders = 5

Where's "DLC 6"?
Civ 7 patch notes. Under the header "Crossroads of the World Collection - DLC 4-6", sections are circled in yellow. "Added new leader: Simon Bolivar" is circled and labelled 4 "Added new civilization Bulgaria" and "Added new civilization Nepal" are both circled and labelled 5 Below these labelled patch notes, on top of the small terms that specify "6 DLCs", is a yellow 6 with a question mark
March 29, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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The absolute hoard of pickle spears that came with my smoked meat sandwich
More pickles than you'd expect with one sandwich
March 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Teenage boy meets elderly man
Person in a plaid newsboy cap with grey hood and black parka
March 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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everyone: Civ 7 has some cool new mechanics, but the UI doesn't tell you about anything important where you need to see it
Civ devs: uh, yeah, UI... we can fuck around with alignments and spacing?

their "fixed" tech tree paths
a tech tree with confusing pipes leading between prerequisites and unlocked nodes. previously, all pipes left and joined tech nodes at the same place. they "fixed" this by slightly changing where they join, but the "fix" still overlaps weirdly and doesn't actually clarify much
March 4, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Today, I noticed the perforated line on one side of this takeout box for the first time... 🤯
A takeout box with 3 flaps sticking up and the fourth partially ripped off along a perforated line
February 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Love both of these streamers, but few things will stop me from clicking on a stream more effectively than knowing that they're using guest star/stream together system and sharing chat despite chatters only being able to view a single stream.

Does anybody want to read about a stream they can't see?
Ravs_ and sips_ streaming using twitch's half baked "collaboration" tools that are designed for Dan Clancy's "interviews with successful people" approach to streaming
February 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM