GlennMagusHarvey

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I don't mind having an excuse to get ourselves a new calendar system :P

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

then write the year before the month before the day ๐Ÿ˜ˆ

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

looks at today's date

...darn, I did forget Tau Day. :(

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (9 children)

~~well yeah, there's no 14th month~~

[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

A local park ranger I know likes to remark that our state tree is a grass. (I'm in Florida.)

But I'd say that's also inaccurate. IMO, grasses are in the family Poaceae, and palms are in the family Arecaceae. I guess one could remark that our state tree is a commelinid...but I don't think tourists would get as much of a kick out of that.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

๐ŸŽต Ya ya ya ya ya ๐ŸŽต

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think it's arguable that "tree" is just a term for a growth habit rather than anything really taxonomically meaningful.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (6 children)

How many social credit points do I lose if I refer to bamboo products as "wood" outside of botany nerd circles?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Isn't that just "hosed"?

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Talk about invasive species!

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

"Frickin' beautiful."

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Time to post one of my favorite songs:

https://youtu.be/PKQPey6L42M

("Da Coconut Nut", by Ryan Cayabyab. This version is probably the one performed by his group, Smokey Mountain.)

This song reminds us that the coconut is not a nut; it is the fruit of the cocopalm.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

(URL goes to /c/houseplants )

Where's the pixel art in the sidebar from?

Actually, where's all of the art from? But I'm specifically mentioning pixel art because I really like pixel art and I think this stuff is really cute!

EDIT: I did not expect the preview snippet to be so extraordinarily lengthy.

 

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/1363359

It was already bad when the sea surface temperature was well over 90 degrees Fahrenheit last week, but...over 100?

https://nbc-2.com/weather/weather-blog/2023/07/25/buoy-in-florida-keys-measures-101-1-degree-water-temperature/ (this is the article linked above)

FYI that's hot tub hot, as this other article notes: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/hot-tub-water-temperatures-florida-soar-100-degrees-stunning-experts-rcna96163

This might be record-breaking. In the worst sense possible.

(this is a repost of my own toot, with additional elaboration and minus hashtags)

 

It was already bad when the sea surface temperature was well over 90 degrees Fahrenheit last week, but...over 100?

https://nbc-2.com/weather/weather-blog/2023/07/25/buoy-in-florida-keys-measures-101-1-degree-water-temperature/ (this is the article linked above)

FYI that's hot tub hot, as this other article notes: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/hot-tub-water-temperatures-florida-soar-100-degrees-stunning-experts-rcna96163

This might be record-breaking. In the worst sense possible.

(this is a repost of my own toot, with additional elaboration and minus hashtags)

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Once upon a time, this piece of wood was posted somewhere.

Note that I'm wearing gloves when presenting this to you. I highly advise against touching it with your bare hands. The last person who did...well, here's photographic evidence that they lost their mind.

 

It's almost as if time has stopped for a piece like this.

(Auctioneer's note: If you're looking for the best part, it's the last part.)

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Alien Song (www.youtube.com)
 

I wrote up a comment to a post on Mander, and there shouldn't be any blocks (unless for some reason I'm blocked from /c/palaeoecology for some reason which I see why I would be but please inform me if this is the case), yet when I click the Reply button to post my comment the little spinny animation never ends and if I refresh the page my comment is absent.

 

Was checking out the various communities, deciding which ones to subscribe to, and found the SpaceEngine community. Never even heard of this software (does it count as a game?) before but it is super neat (and also available DRM-free on GOG).

Mander, and the threadiverse more broadly, is cool.

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Hi there! (mander.xyz)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Hello! This is my first time using the "threadiverse". I joined this instance because there's a lot of interesting stuff going on on Lemmy and Kbin. I heard about this part of the fediverse only recently, mainly coinciding with the controversy on Reddit, though I've been using the fediverse since even before Twitter got stupid.

Like my profile suggests, I'm into environmental science and policy issues, and have gotten myself sucked into some local native plant groups and doing wildlife observation stuff. I'm also a musician, and I enjoy videogames as well, mainly older ones.

Shown here is the full version of the photo from which I got my avatar. It's my own photo. There's a snapping turtle that can be occasionally sighted at a nearby park. Sidenote: snapping turtles look way more elegant in the water.

OMG I can edit the thread OP! I remember this specifically being impossible on Reddit lol

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