pseudokaṇāda ☀️

I despise mob media for congruent-ish reasons (in short: imo it's an example of media that does strongly influence young populations, esp in growing societies like mine) & I don't think there can be a critique of the ideals without leaning into it.

Reminds me of this great quote about war movies:

Sometimes we look back at a sappy piece we wrote and regret it.

.. and sometimes we look back at a sappy piece we wrote and it restores us to the joy we were feeling when we wrote it.

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Agroecology Our purpose is to find the place where our ideas make us and that bit of the world better. Owning a piece of nature is vital to this ambition.

On why i love my job, for if and when anyone who looks at my profile wants to know what I'm all about:

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what tv shows/movies also books/music (less pref) evoke the same agentic energy/vibes as city building, management and strategy games like:

SimCity 3000, Zeus, Pharaoh, Caeser 3, Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri, AoE, Red Alert, Railroad Tycoon, Rollercoaster Tycoon..

Recs please!!

something I would like to see Twitter refugees who had large-ish followings over there relearn to do is engage in the replies

I know that was impossible with the number (and type) of people replying there, but it’s a wonderful part of the culture here and I don’t want to lose it in transition

Gm

banger 😂

gorgeous!!
got a name for the cultivar?

It's a famous rare variety of banana that grows in much higher elevations than usual. Next to it there's a variety of northeastern turmeric called lakadong turmeric, which hasn't sprouted so you can't see it. There's also many other things in the same piece of land, list too long to detail. :D

I remember this meme every day because it's funny and also packages so much wisdom about the natural world in it.

As anyone who has spent any time working with their hands will tell you, this is a governing principle behind making most of the things you see around you!

pas grand-chose. supposedly refers to the way it clusters on the tree. but while we're on the topic, grapefruits are a scam, dear keta (they make for a gorgeous essential oil though)

it does! just don't have the yellow-fleshed one, which is seriously hit and miss. what you want is the much more dependable sweet granadilla (Passiflora ligularis), not the passionfruit (Passiflora edulis). Granadilla has greyish flesh inside and has none of edulis' vulcanized rubber afterburn.

2/ .. except instead of associating that check with "i'm dreaming" associate with for ex. "I want this to go another way" / "wait, this doesnt have to happen, I'm in control". if you're anything like me, this will allow you to change the plot 60-70% of the time without really realizing its a dream

1/ The reason i ask is, in case you havent tried this: you could adapt as I did one of the methods of lucid dreaming (without going into full conscious LD). create a simple new habit during the day as a "reality check", like a pinch on the hand (anything physical or sequential really).. contd..

are you sort of conscious that they are nightmares as they are happening? have you ever been able to change them without waking up?

the secret ingredient to almost everything good is simply giving a shit