erin’s bluesky bullshit

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i think op can be forgiven for not realizing that the behavior described only exists as described in redwoods, but the overall idea of interdependence is still pretty accurate, just not as direct or impactful as described.

consider yellow pines like longleaf, the flammability of their leaf litter and their own fire resistant bark/sap use the spreading of forest fires to prune competition while also adding nutrients and increasing uptake via the biochar, it doesn’t help with establishment, but does promote growth.

i’m not arguing that trees directly share nutrients through mycorrhizal networks, i’m arguing that the overall symbiosis of the rhizosphere creates an interdependent system which some plants can capitalize on, though i am stretching the boundaries of that system a bit.

is root to root grafting and delegation of nutrients within the colony proven in species other than redwood? no, but many species of plants effect the rhizosphere in ways that will directly benefit others of their species in the area.

it is established fact that redwoods use the physical intertwinement of roots to support each other, as is the symbiosis of mycorrhizae pretty much universally, as are symbiotic cycles of soil nutrients. the connection doesn’t have to be purely physical plant to plant connection.

seconding this, if my parents looked more into why i acted exactly this way it would have saved me so much grief. sometimes kids just don’t want to do shit or are forgetful, but sometimes they just can’t communicate what makes it so hard.

“why won’t the dems do anything???”

bc to do something means voluntarily giving up the power and security that most of them have spent their lives attaining at all costs. broadly, they will cling until there’s nothing left to cling to— with or without the rest of us.

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saw a billboard on the way home that read: “less shower lingering, more speedy sudsing”

didn’t see who sponsored it, but I want them to know they can fuck all the way off. if I have to face the world each day, I deserve half an hour to boil myself alive and let the tears run straight down the drain

i think anyone who has amassed billions through the conscious exploitation of others is insane, but i get where you’re coming from. i think the difference is he’s just less insane in public. they’re all bonkers.

there’s more than one bond villain

the only post i saw this year acknowledging kurt cobain’s birthday was a “she would have lived if she had estrogen” post and i am begging my fellow trans girls to stop with that shit. you look like an unhinged asshole, and you are.

stephen miller has the mannerisms of someone who thinks dan hentschel is a guru. it’s literally uncanny.

what happened to roller derby??

personally, i saw it then too. i started gaining political consciousness freshman year of high school when trump was campaigning, and i can’t express how it feels for this man to rule all political discussion for that entire time. i’ll be 28 by the time we even have a chance at being rid of him.

ALSO IT’S NOT 10x IT’S 100x BC THEY DONT FUCKING HAVE $55 BILLION IN CUTS AAAAAAAAA

lmao i didn’t even see he was already promising $5000 checks. if they actually give us government stimulus at a 10x loss just to justify gutting every public service and we let them??? man.

even if musk’s total bullshit $55 billion number was accurate, we would get a one time payment of $500– half of what my granddad gets monthly from social security.

if they actually send every taxpayer an equal share of the entirety of DOGE’s cuts, we will each get $52

On that note:

Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day.

Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links.

Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo

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Yuntian Deng @yuntiandeng•7h For those curious about how 03-mini performs on multi-digit multiplication, here's the result. It does much better than 01 but still struggles past 13x13. (Same evaluation setup as before, but with 40 test examples per cell.)

these guys spent 60 kajillion dollars to make a computer forget how to do math

1/5 What happens when woodland is left to rewild? At Lady Park Wood this transformation has been monitored since 1945! @ect-uk.bsky.social have funded the 9th resurvey (first resurvey since 2010). Exciting and daunting to be part of the team taking on stewardship of this amazing study!

i believe in you!!!

i have once again grown bored of my current entertainment ruts

funeral for a friend 😔

honestly pissed i missed the window where i could rock turtlenecks this time around