doe @exiliaex@masto.anarch.cc

okay now that i'm more certain the Unidentified plant in my neighborhood is Queen Anne's Lace i should pluck a specimen for my book

I think i've got Yarrow down pat, it's really QAL vs Poison Hemlock that i struggle with, and that struggle is a lot more serious, poison hemlock can mess with your head just from touch, let alone eating any on the mistaken thought that it's wild carrot.

in order: Yarrow, Queen Anne's Lace, and Poison Hemlock

the most notable part of the yarrow, in contradistinction is the fern like leaf patterns.

the difference between Queen Anne's Lace vs Poison Hemlock, as i've heard it, is that The Queen has hairy legs - the stem has lots of little hairs on it. And that the Hemlock has purple splotches on the stems.

but what i see in my neighborhood seems not to have either hairs *or* purple splotches. so i'm at a loss.

i've got probably a group of 10 to 20ish neighborhood plants scattered in grasses and in between cracks of sidewalk that i'm pretty good at identifying against lookalikes and whatnot.

though, there is a group of 3-4 shared lookalikes that i really struggle to identify - Yarrow, Queen Anne's Lace (Wild Carrot), and Poison Hemlock.

on that note - my group of 4 crows became a group of 5 and i don't know why. is it a different group entirely? did a straggler need a pack? at the beginning there seemed to be a lot of animosity regarding the extra member but i don't see that much anymore.

i don't *think* it's a different group entirely, the rest of them still have a connection to me. on some days they'll still follow me, they still come up to the expected feeding spots.

love bird spotting around the neighborhood through the different seasons - you start to pick up on certain areas they like more than others, certain "hot spots" where multiple flocks can be found, and noting, even without words, the differing group-styles they exhibit at different parts of the year.

lindsay nikole thank u for yr videosssss

we've apparently only seen what we think was a newborn LAST YEAR what the FUCK

wait WHAT — we've NEVER seen a great white shark give birth???

after 500 boosts and 750+ likes i think its time for me to mute this

dear mastodon, i know it goes against your ethos but you could really group notifs together, it wouldnt hurt.

fedi virality hits different

there's something especially funny about the way certain circles talk about which softwares or products they use - an infinite circle of boycotts

shamelessly stealing this from a law professor on twitter

omg this page from the FTC vs Amazon complaint

every disaster that shakes the core of industrial-connectivity makes my brain go "death stranding"

civilization's role for vampirism has never been presented more clearly

watching "Bram Stoker's Dracula" and holy shit

this is also the first time ive heard of shotspotter - evil technology

this is a wild lil tool https://walzr.com/bop-spotter

i think there's something to be said about public discourse taking on a similar form. it sometimes feels like all discourses are trending towards "child-friendly" and "morally performative" version of themselves

something i've noticed about my experience attending different Protestant churches growing up is how it legitimately feels like the adults are mostly passing on memetic "sunday school" versions of the stories, and not at all interested in searching for meanings in the stories, but instead hoping to connect their memetic-sunday-school versions to current events.