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LittleRedCanary Apr 13, 2023

Sometimess I feel guilty for the amount of plants I have, in a house that doesn't have enough natural light for them, and how they would be better living somewhere else. Then the orchids do this and my good will of not bringing more goes out the window:

LittleRedCanary Mar 7, 2023

I want to share with you a thread from my last week at #Twitter. This exemplifies how out of touch fucking #ElonMusk is with reality. I actually don't think he is a narcissist, that would need a sophistication that he clearly lacks.

Which brings me to what happened today. You would think a "genius CEO", or "a great leader" would AT LEAST know how to behave like a decent human being. Spoiler alert: he doesn't.

LittleRedCanary Jan 16, 2023

I have a complicated relationship with cleanliness. I love clean stuff, but my laziness always gets in the way.

Let me put it this way: I really like HAVING CLEANED, but I strongly dislike GOING TO CLEAN. Hateful future tense...

LittleRedCanary Jan 13, 2023

#FungiFriday

Indian pipe, or ghost plant, is one of the coolest things out there. Not only for looking really cool, but also for turning plant vampirism into a form of art.

Indian pipes (Monotropa uniflora), are white because they have no chlorophyll and so cannot photosynthesize, so they "steal" from other plants using a fungi "bridge" (kind of a food dealer). You can find the entire explanation of this curious feeding mechanism here:

https://www.wxpr.org/natural-resources/2020-10-13/the-ghost-plant-indian-pipe

The Ghost Plant - Indian Pipe

For this month's Field Notes, Susan Knight explores the ecology of Indian Pipe, spooky looking white plants that skip photosynthesis and steal sugar from…

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LittleRedCanary Jan 11, 2023

This is a Hoatzin, a pretty majestic creature on pictures but clumsy AF as a sky navigator. It's so bad at flying that actually its chicks have developed claws in their wings to climb the amazonian forest. Do you want more cool facts? https://wildlatitudes.com/the-hoatzin-a-weird-and-wonderful-bird/

The Hoatzin: A Weird and Wonderful Bird

The Hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin) is a Neotropical bird that lives along slow-moving rivers and lakes in the Amazon Basin. With a distinct appearance, loud calls, a tendency to live in social groups, and a clumsy way of moving through foliage, it’s not surprising that Hoatzins are fairly easy to find in their habitat. (In case […]

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