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  • I like the way it seems she’s quickly escaping the cameras focus and about to duck behind the tree. It captures her elusive charm.

    Makes the photo seem more alive. As if saying “in the corner of your eye you see a red flash above you. You look up, only to see a shaking branch suddenly relieved of weight. And far in the distance is the sound of beating wings.”





  • Eyes can sometimes be less deiceving than marketing material.

    my auntie, who has one many awards with her rare orchids, still cant figure out some jewel orchids. My own baby jewel orchid was looking beautiful before it got demolished by spidermites (at the time I thought they were just spiders until it was to late). Next time I’m going to try grow them in a bioactive terrarium hopefully they will be happier.

    I’d love to see how your setup turns out and what plants you choose to plant, please post an update when you get them.


  • Is the LED light a grow light? If not that’s fine, most normal white LEDs are just as good or often better than cheap grow lights so don’t bother switch.

    Its really hard to tell from a photo how bright the light is, but my guess is its medium indirect light, high indirect is still really bright.

    I would recommend a maidenhair fern, their leaves look amazing, especially with light shining through and they can handle pretty much any level of indirect light.

    Another recommendation would be a hoya, there are lots of varietys some have flashy leaves, and they are easy to look after.

    Then if you want a challenge: jewel orchids; these orchids have beautiful iridescent leaves and tend to like high humidity, and low to medium indirect light, unfortunately they are an absolute pain to grow.

    I also love mounted elkhorn ferns if you want a splash of weird. Very easy to care for.

    I have had surprisingly good results with succulents in low light conditions, they grow very slow but seem to usually do fine.





  • I would say it would be fine, the only problem would be warping as the pine will be quite thin (plywood is more resistant to this).

    But if you don’t care about everything being perfectly straight I think pine would be plenty strong enouph and wouldn’t warp noticeably much either (just pick straight boards from the store). So yea I think it would be fine.

    P.s. (if you join multiple boards together its usually less likely to warp but I don’t think this is necessary for your usecase)


  • The hairs are naturaly made by the plant and are called trichomes.

    The “hairs interfere with the feeding of at least some small herbivores and, depending upon stiffness and irritability to the palate, large herbivores as well. Hairs on plants growing in areas subject to frost keep the frost away from the living surface cells. In windy locations, hairs break up the flow of air across the plant surface, reducing transpiration. Dense coatings of hairs reflect sunlight, protecting the more delicate tissues underneath in hot, dry, open habitats. In addition, in locations where much of the available moisture comes from fog drip, hairs appear to enhance this process by increasing the surface area on which water droplets can accumulate.” wikipedia

    The stinging spikes of stinging nettles are also a type of modified trichome which is pretty cool


  • I think it would be too much effort to try and train an old shrub into a tree when hydrangeas are so insanely easy to take cuttings of, and the cuttings grow so fast. (So much so that when we prune our hydrangeas many of the fallen branches accidentally become new plants).

    tho I love hydrangea bush’s too and this is a lovely mature one. So I reackon you should keep this one, take a cutting, and grow the cutting into a tree somewhere else, and then you get the best of both worlds (:







  • Sorry for the late reply and thanks for the question,

    The Australian 2024 national defence strategy says this: “Our Alliance with the US remains fundamental to Australia’s national security. We will continue to deepen and expand our defence engagement with the US, including by pursuing greater scientific, technological and industrial cooperation, as well as enhancing our cooperation under force posture initiatives”

    US has these military facilities in Australia (and more secret ones):

    “Australian Defence Satellite Communications Station – located near Kojarena 30 km east of Geraldton, Western Australia. Other U.S. bases in Australia are present and this list does not include ADF bases with U.S. access. The U.S. military has access to many ADF training areas, northern Australian RAAF airfields, port facilities in Darwin, Fremantle, Stirling naval base in Perth, and the airfield on the Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean.” Wikipedia

    US also has a Rotational U.S. Army, Navy Presence where they bring their submarines and provide financial benefits to many military services they can use (RAAF bases and the assisting in manufacturing of missiles and other weapons). There are 2500 US marines on permanent rotation

    According to US gov “The United States is Australia’s defense goods and services partner of choice” and “The U.S. has over $27 billion in active government-to-government sales cases with Australia” most of Australias military equipment comes from the US including their nuclear submarines

    Also most aggregiously

    “As documented by CIA whistleblower Christopher John Boyce and several authors, including John Pilger,[7][4][6] as well as some Australian politicians,[8] the CIA allegedly backed Governor-General and representative of Queen Elizabeth II in Australia, Kerr, to dismiss Whitlam, due to Whitlam’s perceived left-wing policies[3] including Australian withdrawal from the Vietnam War, as well as his views on Australian sovereignty.[3] His conflict with the CIA is alleged[3] to have come to a head when he discovered several CIA-led operations occurring in Australia and overseas conducted by ASIO and ASIS, leading him to threaten cancellation of the lease on the Pine Gap facility, ending the US-led (nominally joint) operation, which was integral to the CIA’s signals interception operations in the southern hemisphere”

    "In a statement to parliament on 3 April 1974, Whitlam said: “The Australian government takes the attitude that there should not be foreign military bases, stations, installations in Australia.”

    He was then sacked and replaced by a more agreeing pm by the CIA Wikipedia

    There are also numerous traid agreements that leads to Australia relying on US for a lot of its financial security (though it relies on China and Japan as well). And also many Australian companys are US owned/funded

    This is all the research I have time to do but there are many, many more examples of American interference and control.

    Edit: also America controls most of Australian media including News Corp Australia (owns most newspapers and News Corp is also the controlling shareholder of Foxtel and it owns Sky News in Australia. And much more)

    also the American controlled ABC is the most visited site In Australia. And controls a lot of other media

    https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/how-much-influence-does-the-murdoch-media-have-in-australia-20201015-p565dk.html




  • nettle@mander.xyztoWriting@beehaw.orgMy mortal enemy: Names!
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    Feel free to ignore me but:

    Alfred “Alfie” Joseph

    Bengiman “Bengie” Oliver

    Maya Oliver

    Persephone “Percy” Elm

    • in greek mythology Persephone was taken by hades (in an unwanted arranged marriage of sorts arranged by her father zues) to control the underworld with him, becoming the queen of the underworld. her mother sad to lose her causes winter and apon Persephones return to her mum every year, summer returns.

    Also

    “The myth of a goddess being abducted and taken to the underworld is probably Pre-Greek in origin. Samuel Noah Kramer, the renowned scholar of ancient Sumer, has posited that the Greek story of the abduction of Persephone may be derived from an ancient Sumerian story in which Ereshkigal, the ancient Sumerian goddess of the underworld, is abducted by Kur, the primeval dragon of Sumerian mythology, and forced to become ruler of the underworld against her own will.” Wikipedia

    I also like the name lucida

    These are just random names that popped into my head just before sleeping so feel free to ignore or pluck what you like (also I spent way longer thinking about the first names then the last names so I’m not set on my last names)