Posts by playinprogress@assemblag.es
(DIR) Post #AVdfrcCOJDGsWkEGie by playinprogress@assemblag.es
2023-05-11T20:11:03Z
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@adamgreenfield Possibly relevant quote:"If these software packages are life creating, and accepted, and widely enough spread throughout the world, there is a chance we might get a grip on this problem: provided that the software is freeing, liberating, allows each person individual control and decision making power to do the right thing, and to create living structure, locally, wherever they are. "
(DIR) Post #AYJln7XhNHMVDVLwi8 by playinprogress@assemblag.es
2023-08-02T10:49:09Z
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@ParadeGrotesque sorry for being a rando wandering into your mentions, but isn't 2) basically what the Briar app does? (which is also why I would love to see more of my friends adopt it)https://briarproject.org/(apologied if I misunderstood)
(DIR) Post #AZ00Xk9lBFRODf56J6 by playinprogress@assemblag.es
2023-07-04T17:21:53Z
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my flowers bring all the pollinators to the yard :)#bloomscrolling
(DIR) Post #AZ00Xl95VEUtHrm4tk by playinprogress@assemblag.es
2023-08-22T19:02:53Z
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I love these gladiolus divas. So dramatic! Could draw them endlessly if I didn't have other stuff to do. #bloomscrolling
(DIR) Post #AZ00XltshFvZczfRpo by playinprogress@assemblag.es
2023-08-22T19:19:01Z
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The bees on the other hand are really digging the dahlias these days. I thought they were just an indulgence for me, because so pretty and colorful, but no, every morning when I do the first round of looking, the bees are already busy on them.I probably spend "too much" time looking at plants, but can't stop won't stop.#bloomscrolling
(DIR) Post #AZ00XmjdapKODVsmVU by playinprogress@assemblag.es
2023-08-22T19:34:28Z
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Dahlias baby! Here without bees for a change.#bloomscrolling
(DIR) Post #AZ9FYQIVkQu2eXb0yG by playinprogress@assemblag.es
2023-08-27T06:51:46Z
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@Wolven yes yes yes PLEASE I am feeling this so hard
(DIR) Post #AZfIZaFOWbLWrH1wLQ by playinprogress@assemblag.es
2023-09-11T17:56:10Z
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@tante Ouch. I feel this pretty hard.
(DIR) Post #Ab2LtIZxZgcUUNe8Se by playinprogress@assemblag.es
2023-10-22T18:44:56Z
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@Wolven break my heart without a warning just like that
(DIR) Post #Ab2OQJFgIFlW2a1tuS by playinprogress@assemblag.es
2023-10-22T19:13:22Z
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@tante ich fühle dies
(DIR) Post #AbfIjlhD2TvlTPMKHI by playinprogress@assemblag.es
2023-11-10T13:41:09Z
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@posiputt I relish pointless and frivolous. I wish we had more pointless and frivolous in the world. Both the extraction machine and most of the activism against it are so very pointful and un-frivolous.
(DIR) Post #AcN0JAunApttHpZesK by playinprogress@assemblag.es
2023-12-01T15:43:42Z
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@Wolven Imho this point was also very eloquently made by Erik Davis in "TechGnosis", which came out no less than *25* years ago. Old enough for me to have read it as a teenager and been influenced by it for a decade+ long (now abandoned) attempt at an academic career as a HistSci person. (I should probably reread it, I have no idea how well it holds up now and in what ways...and uhhhhh, new foreword by Eugene Thacker.)https://techgnosis.com/books/techgnosis/
(DIR) Post #AdCuHI7cfgu0c7flr6 by playinprogress@assemblag.es
2023-12-26T16:41:30Z
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@Wolven this is too absolute a statement! this cannot be true! this must be some kind of bias because the in fact existing normal things go unnoticed because they are, well, normal.Like me. Look at me being all normal and stuff. Like about the meaning of words.
(DIR) Post #AjxPj3s1NOcbAIrqe8 by playinprogress@assemblag.es
2024-07-15T14:23:12Z
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tu-lips! You would, wouldn't you? I mean, who could resist?#rubyfruitJungle #photography #bloomscrolling
(DIR) Post #B20da7Kqep8gwjpxuC by playinprogress@assemblag.es
2026-01-06T12:48:23Z
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Yesterday I started idly wondering if #clitorises are a human/primate special or if they are more widespread. Turns out they are! Almost all vertebrates have them, except for birds, except except for those bird species where the males have penes. Clitorises have even been found in reptiles like snakes, who have two-parted "hemiclitorises" \o/ But animal clitorises are still quite underresearched /o\#rabbithole
(DIR) Post #B20da8QCcP14JdLktE by playinprogress@assemblag.es
2026-01-06T12:52:05Z
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The Wikipedia article on animal clitorises is a treasure trove of delightful trivia, including this bit about hyenas:"Subordinate females lick the clitorises of higher-ranked females as a sign of submission and obedience, but females also lick each other's clitorises as a greeting or to strengthen social bonds; in contrast, while all males lick the clitorises of dominant females, the females will not lick the penises of males because males are"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_clitoris
(DIR) Post #B20da9TmgZTXb2286y by playinprogress@assemblag.es
2026-01-06T12:52:53Z
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(You do not, I repeat you do not want to read the bit about hyenas and giving birth. It is gruesome and I really wish I hadn't.)
(DIR) Post #B20daASP3Bxsd2OXb6 by playinprogress@assemblag.es
2026-01-06T13:02:40Z
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... and from there I got to the genus "Clitoria" of "mainly tropical and subtropical, insect-pollinated flowering pea vines." They are very pretty!https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clitoria
(DIR) Post #B20daHyD7KZDviKXeC by playinprogress@assemblag.es
2026-01-06T13:03:36Z
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Also, this amused me 😂 "Controversies existed in the past among botanists regarding the good taste of the naming of the genus. The analogy drew sharp criticism from botanists such as James Edward Smith in 1807, Amos Eaton in 1817, Michel Étienne Descourtilz in 1826, and Eaton and Wright in 1840. Some less explicit alternatives, like Vexillaria (Eaton 1817) and Nauchea (Descourtilz 1826), were proposed, but they failed to prosper, and the name Clitoria has survived to this day."
(DIR) Post #B20daPrllAAUQ3NVia by playinprogress@assemblag.es
2026-01-06T13:04:34Z
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Hence concluded my little rabbit hole. You're welcome! :)