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#Luddite; naturalist; musician; plant breeder; mushroom fairy;
They cant take my joy.
Gender anarchy; accessibility; ecological reciprocity; anti-capitalism; Black Lives Matter; Free Palestine;
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2025-05-11 21:29:36

🌺If you are looking for something positive you can do right now for the #environment (that is also #antiFascist), because #ClimateChange and land use (habitat loss) are two sides of the same coin, find a 'Friends of _____' group and start to learn about #RestorationEcology. It's hard to see and interact with climate, but its very possible to develop relationships with the landscape, no matter where we live.🌱
🌲Restoration is a lovely, impactful way to build community around local natural spaces. The idea is to create and support (diverse) refuge areas that are resistant to human pressures. Patches of wilderness that can serve as a bridge between larger conservancies. Imagine a pit stop for #bees, #plants, #fungi, and #birds. Urban or rural. No matter how small. There are many approaches and no right one. It combines seamlessly with #NatureEducation and appreciation. Search for conservancies, natural areas, land trusts, state, county, or city parks. It doesnt have to be swanky: it can be the drainage way behind your neighborhood (the more local, the better).🪻
🌳There are also many many different roles to get involved in that can make it #accessible! Nature education and land use planning are severely under-utilized areas, as is citizen wildlife monitoring. You can grow plants for restoration in your garden or in your window. (Responsibly) collect native seed from areas of abundance and scatter it in bare places. If you dont know where to start, just learning plant names and their relationships is hugely rewarding, because you will start to see patterns in the landscape that will allow you to interpret and share with others (*chills*). 🌼
🌾I know people are stretched really thin right now, but #nature is so restorative and #EcologicalRestoration connects me to my neighbors. It provides an easy platform for broader community organizing, which seems relevant right now. We aren't separate from nature: we are a part of it. It always gives back more than we put in 🪷
#Ecology #Bloomscrollling #NaturePhotography
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2025-04-22 13:15:48

Old growth 💚🌿 #ThickTrunkTuesday
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2025-04-05 03:35:34

Sorry, cant hang out tomorrow. I have plans. And so do you.

2025-04-04 00:23:30

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@nprofile…kkxq The idea is to turn us into an isolationist authoritarian state like Russia and destroying the economy serves that means. Crony billionaires can do extremely well in that sort of economy, even if as a whole their earning potential decreases with a smaller economy. The billionaires are trading some money for even more power. A weakened population economically, specifically a weakened relatively liberal upper middle class, helps his authoritarian vision, assuming that the people dont revolt in the process. This is coupled with agressively targetting 'liberal' civil institutions like media and independent judiciary, while attempting to create a police state.

2025-04-02 13:40:39

When i saw baneberry on the other side of the country from me, it was like running into an old friend at the airport 💚 #Photography #Bloomscrolling
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2025-03-29 18:10:24

Am i the only one who ever feels jealous of plants? 💚🌿 #Bloomscrolling #Photography
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2025-03-28 13:16:02

Leaf out 💚🌿 #Photography #Nature #Plants #Spring
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2025-03-25 13:21:00

Life...uh...uh...finds a way 🌿💚 #ThickTrunkTuesday
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2025-03-23 16:08:42

#silentSunday #photography
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2025-03-16 17:29:58

Why can #Canada seemingly pivot their economy so quickly when a hostile neighbor starts threatening war? Their population has a social safety net and isnt so debt-riddled due to consumerism and abusive corporate practices. Their economy is resilient in ways we cant conceive. Why is it hard for the #US populace to protest en mass? The same exact reasons in reverse. #uspol

2025-03-16 01:33:21

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@nprofile…naem this is the first social media ive ever used so im very used to the odd responses but i have very little perspective on what corporate social media is actually like besides the fact that i always hated it

2025-03-16 00:51:52

What's that? A swelling of optimism in my chest?...wait, no... nevermind its just heartburn.

2025-03-13 22:45:37

That density of plants tho 🌿#photography #NaturePhotography
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2025-03-12 22:35:17

No words needed 🌿💚 #waterfallWednesday #MarshMadness #mosstodon #lichenSubscribe
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2025-03-11 22:15:37

You could call oak trees a keystone species grouping 💚 i feel awe regularly when I stand under them #thickTrunkTuesday #photography
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2025-03-09 18:07:25

#mosstodon #silentSunday
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2025-03-08 15:05:55

Woods edge bloom 💚 #Bloomscrolling #NaturePhotography #Photography
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2025-03-08 14:30:30

Top hat 💚 #Mushrooms #NaturePhotography #Photography
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2025-03-08 02:45:32

Flash of light 💚 #NaturePhotography #LandscapePhotography #photography
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2025-03-08 00:10:08

Savanna view 💚 #Photography #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography
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2025-03-07 21:40:47

Mcroscopic leaf textures. Cant wait to get back outside to botanize 💚 #photography #naturePhotography
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2025-03-07 19:16:38

Beetle on a mission #Insects #NaturePhotography #Photography
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2025-03-07 02:51:33

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@nprofile…t5r6 "prioritize enjoying the process" 💚 this is one reason why photography is so meaningful to me as I can stop at any point in the process - even just taking a mental photo or internally expressing a desire to go shoot a specific photo - and always have "something of value". It is very process oriented. As is botanizing/ naturalizing, making music, cooking, etc.

2025-03-06 23:35:56

Chicken of the woods #NaturePhotography #Mushrooms #Nature
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2025-03-06 22:15:26

Turtle party 💚 #wildlfePhotography #photography #naturePhotography
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2025-03-06 13:50:29

A chonk wood violet #Nature #Photography #Plants #Bloomscrolling
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2025-03-06 12:31:48

Morning 💚 #Photography #LandscapePhotography #Nature
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2025-03-04 12:55:04

Have you ever seen a plant that doesn't photosynthesize? #plants #NaturePhotography #photography #thickTrunkTuesday
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2025-02-27 13:05:39

Entry for thickest trunk #naturephotography #ThickTrunkThurday #photography
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2025-02-26 01:05:10

Its worth remembering that plants, fungi, and microbes are also wildlife #nature #wildlife

2025-02-24 18:24:37

I have what I think is a good example of how useless ‘AI’ is for understanding. I am tagging widely. I searched “how to identify mushrooms” on DuckDuckGo, which then so helpfully spammed my screen with this lovely advice (see image with alt text). The source of much of my knowledge is mushroomexpert.com, managed by Michael Kuo.
“A mushroom is identified by its characteristics”. I could get semantic here too about the definition of a mushroom, but talk about a pretty useless statement. Fine though. That’s well enough and good if you want an explanation that is super entry level. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, though I don’t remember telling the ‘AI’ that I wanted only entry level information.
Then it talks about the danger in attempting to ID mushrooms because of the potential for poisoning. It tacitly assumes that my wanting to ID a mushroom means I want to eat it. I don’t. I just like mushrooms. I have a problem with the whole ‘some are poisonous’ throw-in, like its something their lawyers required them to include. How many are poisonous? 90%? 5%? We have no idea, and that’s OK. I didn’t tell the ‘AI’ that I wanted information on whether or not they were poisonous. But, as I’ll get to, the fact that this is included is not my problem. My problem is what they don’t include.
I think mushrooms are awesome. I think the fact that some of them are poisonous is relevant only based on the human-centric assumptions ‘AI’ is so obsessed with and what it’s dataset is built on. I don’t see the value in a mushroom based on whether or not I can eat it, and it chaffs me that they don’t also include any information about their ecological roles. You know what is a great way to identify a mushroom (including if I want to eat it)?!?!?! Their ecology (essentially, their ‘behavior’)!!! Let’s be sure to not mention that, #TechBros.
Ok let’s keep going, cause we’ve made it this far. It suggests talking to a #mycologist. It turns out that I don’t have any experienced mycologists on call. Mycologists are helpful but busy people. And I’m more likely than most of the population to know mycologists. You might as well say, ‘don’t bother trying to ID the mushroom’. Way to kill my interest immediately in something I’m trying to get into. If you really want to learn to ID mushrooms for foraging, there are sources you can look up to help you.
I’ll get to my main point. Identification of certain mushroom forming fungi to species is essentially impossible. Look up Amanitas or Russulas on mushroomexpert.com (phenomenal source, old school blogging). There is no clear delineating of what a mushroom forming species even is. Scientists argue over and reclassify bird subspecies all the time. Imagine the black box that is mushroom forming fungi, which most of the time is a web of single-cell wide threads hidden in the soil. Some mushrooms historically were ‘IDed’ (scientifically) by taste or color, which as you all know everyone experiences these things the same, all the time. And, darnit, I happened to leave my DNA sequencing kit at home (as if there aren’t issues with classifying mushroom forming fungi on their DNA alone).
If ‘AI’ were functional, to me, it would include the suggestion that one option is, instead of focusing on species, focus on species groupings (this also applies to foraging for mushrooms if done thoughtfully). Species groupings can be more useful, as is sometimes saying: “I don’t need to know exactly what this is. I’ll just focus on it’s ecology instead of obsessing over an arbitrary definition”. This nuance is not something that can be corrected with better algorithms or more training data (in fact, its going to get worse), because #LLM s are designed to spit out the lowest common denominator.
In the end, given all the questions I brought up, the biggest problems I have with ‘AI’ is that it falsely assumes something gigantic about the question I am asking and gives a simplified and highly misleading perception of how much we actually know. I think it makes a big mistake assuming that I am uncurious and want a bare-minimum answer. And when it comes to the grand total of all there is to know about mushroom forming fungi, we know next to nothing. Of course, 'AI' cannot say that because 'AI' doesn't know what it doesn't know.
You know who can identify and communicate all of these nuances? Humans.
#nature #mushrooms #fungi #AI #technology #artificialIntelligence #ecology #solarPunk #EcologicalReciprocity
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2025-02-24 10:50:58

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@nprofile…07t5 just wow. A majestic being 💚

2025-02-23 21:07:35

#BloomScrolling #nature #plants #insects
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2025-02-23 20:05:36

The roots from my cuttings started sprouting secondary rootlets and hairs so i thought maybe it was time to get them out of the water and into soil #Plants #Gardening
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2025-02-22 15:05:39

I could use help with a #sewing project. I need to make my own pants for sensory reasons. I've been looking at patterns and I have some pretty rigid design criteria (super high and long waisted, minimal seams) that makes me think I'd be better off deconstructing a pair of mine and using that as a pattern. At a bit of a loss. Any suggestions on where I might start?
#Disability #ActuallyAutistic #AskFedi

2025-02-22 08:42:46

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@nprofile…lwgl The apple I pick tastes better than the apple thats served to me.

2025-02-22 00:50:39

#photography #nature #sunset
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2025-02-21 23:40:09

I feel like people need this today 💚 #photography #nature #wildlife #frogs
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2025-02-21 11:36:56

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@nprofile…wjfe this is a really important political button we need to keep pushing because conservatives out west love using their public lands. Having a good amount of experience with this: national forests, BLM land, etc. are used heavily by conservative rural communities.

2025-02-21 01:15:34

Timeline cleanse - a chunky-white seeded, bright red stemmed understory plant called Baneberry that makes me extremely happy #photography #nature #plants #bloomscrolling
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2025-02-21 00:40:59

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@nprofile…lwgl i would like to expand on geography. This theory is from reading about Ancient Egpyt. You could argue that Egypt is the cradle of modern civilization: it was the envy of the world for 2000 years during a time when cultural interchange was happening at an accelerated rate. Other civilizations of their time, and Egpyt outlasted them all, sought to copy Egypt. Modern beaurocracy is part a product of Egyptian models. Rome is a literal successor to Egpyt. We tend to conveniently forget that Egypt is in Africa.
At that time, trade still happened largely through land routes. Egypt is surrounded to the South and West by thousands of miles of deserts. There were advanced kingdoms all over Africa. But the south and west was largely cut off from the north, at least in comparison to the level of trade with the Meditarranean. So Egypt became part of the Middle East while the rest of Africa remained a separate geographic entity. This has extraordinary implications for the history of Africa. The trade routes were geographically isolated, which put Africa at a disadvantage. However, there were plenty of wealthy and powerful kingdoms in Africa.
There is a story I learned from the book Born in Blackness (about the slave trade from the African perepective) that the King of Mali, a powerful west African polity, Mansa Musa, who is considered one of the wealthiest people ever, made an overland trip to Mecca for the Hajj in the 1300s. Imagine how difficult that trip would have been to make overland. A hundred years later, it would have been done by boat. This author, Howard French, talks about how Musa's expedition misses the arrival of early gunpowder weapons in the Middle East by a very slim margin, and wonders about an alternate history where Mali was fighting on an even playing field. Unlike what we are told about exploring the world, the drive to explore the coast of west Africa was to get access to their gold. Its an utter myth that Africa wasn't advanced. That story is a story my white culture tells itself to distract from the fact that my ancestors pillaged west Africa for gold and then for slaves for island sugar plantations, and called ourselves 'Explorers'.

2025-02-20 23:51:43

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@nprofile…lwgl i have another researched theory on this that relates to geography but i dont want to hijack your thread, basically it has to do with the trade routes around Egypt

2025-02-20 23:51:43

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@nprofile…lwgl i have another researched theory on this that relates to geography but i dont want to hijack your thread, basically it has to do with the trade routes around Egypt

2025-02-20 12:46:26

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@nprofile…07t5 this is great! I don't know how specific this is to NV, but there are cultural norms and laws around protecting 'relics' on the massive tracts of public land. Beautifully strange country.

2025-02-20 10:12:29

#photography #ThickTrunkThursday
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