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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-11-13 05:12 pm

Food

5 'foods of the future' that could help save the planet

Fortunately, regenerative agriculture, sustainable farming practices, and eco-friendly approaches are changing the way we farm, fish, and feast. From grain that’s been cultivated since 5000 BC to newly engineered “climate blend” bread, these five foods may have different histories, but they all have a part to play in future food menus.


I am increasingly interested in lesser-known, indigenous, and climate-resistant foods.

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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-11-13 05:09 pm

Birdfeeding

Today is partly cloudy and mild.

I fed the birds. I've seen a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 11/13/25 -- I watered the Egyptian walking onions.

I gathered seeds from the 'Shirley' landrace zinnias that I'm developing.

EDIT 11/13/25 -- I emptied the two spigot jugs of comfrey tea. The pure one had so little liquid that I just dumped it out, and it didn't have much of a smell, just kind of moldy. The one with a handful of leaves decanted 2 gallons of tea-colored liquid fertilizer, and not much noticable smell. That's the one I'm more likely to repeat. I never did get around to testing it because the weather was so sweltering most of the time. But I have it to try out in spring.

EDIT 11/13/25 -- I rinsed out the two spigot jugs and brought them in.

EDIT 11/13/25 -- We walked around the yard looking at places in the prairie garden that need to be mowed, trimmed and carried away a few branches, and now my partner Doug is out mowing.

EDIT 11/13/25 -- We walked around the yard again and got another strip mowed.

I did a lot of work around the patio.

I've seen a fox squirrel running through the trees.

As it is now dark, I am done for the night.
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Magna Alba Sancta Immanentia ([personal profile] magnaalbasancta) wrote in [community profile] quotesquotesquotesdotxls2025-11-13 06:32 pm

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they say the

greatest coward

can hurt the

most feriousiously
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Magna Alba Sancta Immanentia ([personal profile] magnaalbasancta) wrote in [community profile] owat2025-11-13 03:26 pm

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wherever

you go

go with

all your

heart meaning

Summary: The quote by Confucius, "Wherever you go, go with all your heart," emphasizes the significance of wholeheartedness and dedication in our actions and endeavors.

https://www.socratic-method.com/philosophy-quote-meanings/confucius-wherever-you-go-go-with-all-your-heart
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Magna Alba Sancta Immanentia ([personal profile] magnaalbasancta) wrote in [community profile] 365project2025-11-13 01:19 pm

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selfie check today right now

number 3 started monday nov 18 2024

ok

5 days left

should photoshop and mosaic more the ones for this one
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Magna Alba Sancta Immanentia ([personal profile] magnaalbasancta) wrote in [community profile] quotesquotesquotesdotxls2025-11-13 12:55 pm

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the better

the artist

the harder

they bite
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Magna Alba Sancta Immanentia ([personal profile] magnaalbasancta) wrote in [community profile] quotesquotesquotesdotxls2025-11-13 12:54 pm

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the higher

the rise the

harder the fall
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Magna Alba Sancta Immanentia ([personal profile] magnaalbasancta) wrote in [community profile] quotesquotesquotesdotxls2025-11-13 11:04 am

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life is what

happens while

youre making

other plans
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malamba ([personal profile] malamba) wrote2025-11-13 10:10 am

Спите спокойно, жители Багдада

От вас ничего не зависит.
Точнее, зависит, но не то, что вы думаете.

Времена потрясений, как водится, лучшее время для всего. Это только кажется, что вот ты создал вокруг себя уютный котоламповый мирок, обустроил, только жить да жить, а тут на тебе - напрочь, вдребезги, все что нажито посильным и не трудом.
В этом-то и смысл. Причем, очень глубокий. Чтобы каждый понял, что по настоящему важно.

Оттого развороты на сто восемьдесят градусов являются неотъемлемой частью программы, на которой все и зиждется.
Мне должно бы нравиться это слово, в нем есть академическая фундаментальность, оно внушает. Но отчего-то я его не использую как следует. Возможно, мне нужно что-то с этим делать.

Итак. Комета 3i/Athlas по-прежнему полна загадок. Но все они пока что в пределах натуральности. Можно сказать, она упорно, настойчиво зиждется на натуральности. К слову сказать, не все из нас могут себе это позволить.
Или принять.

Как например, принять теорию, что сон есть смерть.

Каждую ночь мы умираем по-настоящему.
Когда мы засыпаем, мы полностью теряем свою осознанность. "Вы", проснувшийся, никогда не помнишь, что пересекаешь этот разрыв.
Каждую ночь загружается совершенная копия памяти, привычек и страхов, ты веришь, что это ты есть, но оригинал никогда не просыпается.
Память - мост, но никто никогда не пересекал его дважды.

Ты умираешь каждую ночь. Ты просто этого не замечаешь.
Сны — это способ мозга скрыть перезагрузку.
«Ты», который просыпается, уже не тот, что засыпал.


Если что, то потеря сознания - феномен, который наука не понимает. Почему вообще это происходит.
То же самое со снами. Почему вы видим сны? И они, заметьте, вовсе не повторение нашей жизни. Некоторые элементы ее в них присутствует, но в целом сны - нечто иное.

Что на этом зиждется, пока непонятно. Не верьте тем, кто говорит, что все понятно.

В квантовой физике есть такое понятие - волновая функция ψ, которая описывает свойства квантового объекта. Все возможные значения. Квантовая частица до измерения может быть условно в любом месте, иметь любое значение энергии, заряда и спина. И только во время измерения мы узнаем, конкретно какие. Причем, это не умозрительные "в любом месте", это реальные вероятности нахождения частицы, пусть даже в другом конце Вселенной.
Спектр, размытое облако значений.

Так вот, все указывает на то, что реальность, Большой макро мир - точно такой же, как и квантовый. В нем возможно все. В нем происходит все. Причем, в реальности, причем, одновременно. Неявно. Нефиксирвоанно. Как только мы наблюдаем за этим, как только происходит взаимодействие - все варианты схлопываются до одного конкретного.
Но они существуют. Вокруг нас. Все варианты реальности. Возможно, мы сталкиваемся с ними во снах. Возможно, мы притягиваем их своими желаниями или нежеланиями.
Ибо во снах мы обладаем очень важным свойством - неосознанностью. Безвольностью, которая позволяет наблюдать, не взаимодействуя.

Можно ли реализовать вероятности, которые очень малы? Варианты реальности, которые нам очень хочется? Квантовая механика говорит хз. Хронометрически затратно. Возможно хз расшифровывается именно так.
В любом случае пробовать стоит.

Вот и живите теперь с этим.
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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-11-12 10:12 pm

Vocabulary: Carcinization

Carcinization is a form of convergent evolution in which non-crab crustaceans evolve a crab-like body plan. The term was introduced into evolutionary biology by Lancelot Alexander Borradaile, who described it in 1916 as "the many attempts of Nature to evolve a crab".

Crabs have evolved five separate times – why do the same forms keep appearing in nature?

... including at least one sexbot whose lower body is a mechanical battle crab. :D
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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-11-12 08:04 pm

Half-Price Sale in Polychrome Heroics

The  November 4, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl made its $300 goal, so there will be a half-price sale in Polychrome Heroics from Monday 17-Sunday 23.  Mark the dates on your calendar, and I hope to see you then! 
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endast en sak är satt i sten dom över död mans grav
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only one thing is set in stone judgement over dead mans grave
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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-11-12 05:40 pm

New Crowdfunding Project: "Monsterotica"

Happy Monsterotica Launch Day!

The crowdfunding campaign to fund publishing of our next erotic anthology, Monsterotica: Tales of Unusual Courtship and Coupling, is now live on Kickstarter!

Now through December 2nd, 2025, we seek to raise $10,500 to cover publishing of the anthology and creation of the related merchandise. This awesome book contains 16 queer stories by 16 awesome authors, each story up to 7,500 words long. We encouraged authors to pitch us stories featuring unusual creatures and unconventional genitals; you won’t find any vampires or weres here, but you will find insectoid aliens, mountain cryptids, scales and feathers, tentacles, detachable anatomy, interspecies shenanigans, courtship confusion, and much more. And of course, in addition to featuring monster x monster and monster x human relationships, every single story also includes queer characters and queer relationships!


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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-11-12 05:29 pm

Read "GAMING"

My poem "GAMING" is up on [community profile] computerworld[personal profile] beavertech has been commissioning poems to be posted in The Freaks Club family of communities.
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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-11-12 05:22 pm

Cyberspace Theory

In praise of the small things in life: DDG Bangs!

DuckDuckGo is a privacy-respecting search engine launched in 2008 that has been slowly expanding into something else truly. (I mean, come on, Identity Theft Restoration?). Well, nevertheless, I still use DuckDuckGo because it's easy, their search results aren't polluted with all sorts of nonsense, they did introduce an AI summarize feature but I don't use it and it's easy to opt out thankfully. But all of that pales in comparison to the best DDG feature, Bangs!

Bangs are… well it's kinda hard to describe them, it's basically a shortcut from your search engine to wherever else, so if you have DuckDuckGo set as your search engine, you can basically search using other search engines quite easily
!
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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-11-12 02:32 pm

Shopping

Here is an interesting discussion about what it costs to buy kitchen equipment. None of this is how I'd go about it, unless someone handed me grant money earmarked for that purpose. (Fair disclosure: I could make a crude but usable knife by busting a rock, and I could cook on a flat rock or with sticks. Kitchen equipment is a beloved convenience for me.)

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Magna Alba Sancta Immanentia ([personal profile] magnaalbasancta) wrote in [community profile] uox2025-11-12 09:25 pm

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6th character, Muoldoura, Archer Fletcher

so the good news is i gave a mage a run for his money

the bad news it will basically never happen again

he tried to attack me, the real newb way, by using

paralyze and explode potion and the la di da,

on an archer? please. so i had time to target

him, he wasted lots of heals on himself, and this

was with an adept lumberjack lol. but the fights

afterwards were basically over in 5-10 secs afterwards.

i never got time to target him. then i figured id

get on 1 of my tamers since theyve never actually

been pkd? i used "all guard", and my pets stood

there like stunned lamb. so you need to press

all kill then target the pk? thats lame. everything

is lame about mages to the nth degree. ive met a few

physical pks and at least it took them like a minute

to take me down. anyway, the first encounter he used

fucking invisibility to flee, twice! and i still rounded

his health down. so mages even got something better than

grandmaster hiding, since they can use it in front of

you without you being able to do anything. this is just silly.
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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-11-12 02:08 pm

Conservation

Massachusetts is turning retired cranberry bogs into natural wetlands. They’re on track to rewild 1,000 acres

In November 2024, the DER funneled $6 million in grants to the restoration plan. According to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, more than 500 acres of retired cranberry bogs have already been converted into wetlands — with hopes of restoring 1,000 acres in the next decade.

“These projects will transform degraded former cranberry bogs into thriving wetlands that will provide habitat to important species, flood control in time of storms, and access for all to beautiful natural areas,” Governor Maura Healey said in a statement.



This is a brilliant plan that will provide tremendous benefits for wildlife, as wetlands are among the most biodiverse communities. It will be especially helpful to migrating waterfowl of the Atlantic Flyway.


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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-11-12 01:52 pm

Birdfeeding

Today is sunny and mild, a beautiful fall day.

I fed the birds.  I've seen a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches plus a fox squirrel.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 11/12/25 -- I planted 4 clusters of Egyptian walking onions.

EDIT 11/12/25 -- I filled a trolley with dead weeds and dumped it in the firepit.

EDIT 11/12/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 11/12/25 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 11/12/25 -- I filled another trolley with dead weeds and dumped it in the firepit.

As it is getting dark, I am done for the night.