David From Space @orbiting.observer I'm David. I live in Tacoma, Washington. I do square foot gardening, home automation with Home Assistant, and have too many cats.
You think you saw me behind some ferns? You just might have!
Symfonium can create playlists and push them to Navidrome. It's got great import/sync options.
Tonight's story: Every man older than OldMan.getMinimumAge() has been in perfect *unchanging* health for the last few months‽ To find out why, stay tuned! Our experts chime in to help you understand....
It's not always as simple as measuring an observable system or simulating the parameters the best you can. Lots of parameters + lots of variables = we have a good idea how it should go, we can get close, but don't actually know. That's part of why emergent behavior and chaos theory are so difficult, even in theoretically closed systems.
Now, see - here's some ripe fodder for conspiracy theories. Look, a commercial partner launched these 'nonfunctional spy satellites' who will be definitely owned by 'Not a government!' in orbit! Look, you can point your radios at them, totally silent and non-communicative! You can stop looking at these guys, they were a bust. Guess we'll need to launch TWO MORE to make up for it......
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Like, even the UK.
This is literally an orphan crushing machine story. 38 dogs were heroically saved after...checks notes...they encountered disaster on a freaking FOX HUNT run by humans?!
inside a series of Japanese supply freighters
In case you went 'Space Freighters!?' like me, the JAXA's H-II Transfer Vehicle-9 is the last supply freighter in question.
Well, I've maintained my music collection from the olden days, and acquire new music as I discover I like it. I mostly have trash vaporwave tastes so I actually buy most of my music cheaply on bandcamp. My music collection isn't massive like some peoples, but it's a decent amount of GB. Mostly mp3, I'm not fancy enough for FLAC.
As for hosting the music, check out Navidrome. It's a great subsonic compatible service that can run on your OS of choice. I use Symfonium on Android to access the library. It supports playlist syncing, offline caching, etc. etc.
I'll bet that dog was the highlight of some people's weeks.
I mean, it's the space-time continuum, it's connected! As the documentary Stargate SG-1 shows, we're well acquainted with spatial and chronological drift over interstellar distances.
The Botany of Desire is a fantastic book and also documentary that discusses, in some part, plants being desirable to humans as a selective force. Plant species that humans value have a higher likelihood of surviving because we use them for agriculture, ensuring their ongoing existence. Everything from tea to teonanácatl!
Unfortunately so. They are an Eastern US species that has been moving ever westward. And they are, in bird law terms, 'huge dicks'. They've been systematically kicking Spotted Owls out of their traditional roosting spots for about a decade now. Spotted Owls are pushovers, so they've been losing breeding ground. And barred owls are not just dicks to other birds, they don't like humans much either.
A Gorgeous Sunflower!
cross-posted from: https://orbiting.observer/post/4367
> This is a beautiful Lemon Queen sunflower in my backyard. I've planted a whole row, but this one shot up and got an early start, the rest barely have their heads grown. > > I'm growing these as part of The Great Sunflower Project, a citizen science effort to track pollinators in the United States. These were chosen for their wide appeal to pollinators, and true to form, there is always at least one sort of insect buddy visiting at any given moment! >
A Gorgeous Sunflower!
This is a beautiful Lemon Queen sunflower in my backyard. I've planted a whole row, but this one shot up and got an early start, the rest barely have their heads grown.
I'm growing these as part of The Great Sunflower Project, a citizen science effort to track pollinators in the United States. These were chosen for their wide appeal to pollinators, and true to form, there is always at least one sort of insect buddy visiting at any given moment!
Data migrated from fernchat.esotericmonkey.com
Hopefully as a one off, I moved all of my content on Tacoma Gardening to orbiting.observer, my new lemmy instance. Long live fernchat!
Harvested potatoes today!
cross-posted from: https://fernchat.esotericmonkey.com/post/33565
> Back in January, I had a small potato from the market that went green, so I decided to quarter it and plant it in this old wicker basket. The soil eventually got heaped up to slightly over halfway. Not too bad!
A gorgeous dragonfly in the garden.
cross-posted from: https://fernchat.esotericmonkey.com/post/24160
> It's lovely to have these critters flying around the garden. I really need to get on iNaturalist and start learning the names.
What's blooming in Tacoma?
cross-posted from: https://fernchat.esotericmonkey.com/post/13399
> The picture up top is a Sugar Pie pumpkin that I'm going to try and trellis vertically. Look at that flower! > > My pet cilantro is flowering as well. It's been hot and dry, so it decided to skip the 'lets make herb' part, understandable. The flowers still can make a nice pesto! > ! > > We've got marigolds going around the property! > ! > > The nasturtiums are in full bloom, and delicious in our salads. > > ! > > The tomatoes are doing their thing, yay! > > !
What's blooming in Tacoma?
cross-posted from: https://fernchat.esotericmonkey.com/post/13399
> The picture up top is a Sugar Pie pumpkin that I'm going to try and trellis vertically. Look at that flower! > > My pet cilantro is flowering as well. It's been hot and dry, so it decided to skip the 'lets make herb' part, understandable. The flowers still can make a nice pesto! > ! > > We've got marigolds going around the property! > ! > > The nasturtiums are in full bloom, and delicious in our salads. > > ! > > The tomatoes are doing their thing, yay! > > !
My square foot garden
cross-posted from: https://fernchat.esotericmonkey.com/post/5370
> Here's my square foot garden! > It's a new as of this winter. > Currently I have: > - Tomatoes > - French Filet Beans > - Jade Bush Beans > - Spinach > - Lacinto Kale > - Red Leaf Lettuce > - Little Gem Lettuce > - Leeks > - Onions > - And Scallions, Oh My! > - Radishes > - Carrots > - Early Jalapeño, but it's very sad :( > > Also: far too many vegetables in pots and bags in > Garden Overflow Nexus One: > like pumpkins, arugula, potatoes, more tomatoes (oh no!), strawberries, parsley.... >
Today's harvest
cross-posted from: https://fernchat.esotericmonkey.com/post/2156
> Today's harvest! Red leaf lettuce, little gem lettuce, radishes, and carrots I picked too early because I was too curious!