clew

@clew@ecoevo.social
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#Soil, ecology, low-input #MarketGardening, women's history, material history, math, programming, literature of the long nineteenth, #waltz, #polka, leavened bread. Mostly around the Salish Sea.

Moved over from octodon.social as that delightful venue closed.

Profile image looks grayscale but is a color photo; a gull on a gray day here is just that gray. Header, for contrast, is an edible-flower harvest, punnets of brilliant oranges and purply-blues and pinks, on a scrubbed washpack table.

clew41m ago
Dan Jones10h ago

In the word "queue", only the first letter is pronounced. The other four are silent (quietly waiting their turn).

#DadJoke #DadJokes #Humor #Linguistics #FrenchMakesEnglishWeird

clew45m ago
myrmepropagandist20h ago

"We should close the fish market it's too industrial"

This mentality in NYC drives me nuts. Markets are the whole purpose of even having a city. When you decide the *markets* are too industrial for the city you have totally forgotten what the point of the city even is. It's bad enough that most of the small manufacturing is gone. Everything can't be fancy shops, luxury condos and corporate headquarters.

Someone needs to make sandwiches for you or something. Come on.

clew49m ago
Qagggy!10h ago
I am looking for an urban design professional to draw NACTO-style diagrams that illustrate ways Seattle residential streets might be inexpensively retrofitted as shared streets under SB 5595.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:fxjqjbmvithsqm6m7ds2uylj/post/3lpjw3fjqkk2p
clew50m ago
colorblind cowboy 😷✊🏻3h ago

I’m looking for a sensitivy/authenticity reader. And it’s been super hard to find someone that fits the requirements:

1) Spanish-fluency
2) Mexican heritage
3) Female
4) Familiarity with gothic literature (a fan is even better)
5) Open to reading potentially traumatic (but not graphic) situations

I’m looking for someone who does this for a living (so does invoices, contracts, and has experience with this kind of reading).

If you have leads, let me know!

#AmWriting #books

clew53m ago
Daniel Lakeland10h ago
Dear tech mastodon #lazyweb My sister got a #windows 11 laptop 6 months ago or so, and today as we were trying to set up Syncthing between her and me, we discovered that it's of course been intimately entwined in OneDrive, so all her documents are inside c:\Users\username\OneDrive etc and she doesn't like that. What's a good online guide on how to unfuck her computer so that all her folders are stored locally on her computer only?
clew3h ago
CosmicRami21h ago

Incredible new #JWST deep field (120 hours!) released by folks from ESA/NASA Webb teams.

Not only is nearly everything in this image a galaxy (the two spiky stars are not), but those curved arcs are images of galaxies beyond this cluster, which are projected and warped into our view thanks to the power of gravity!

It's called a gravitational lens. To visualise what's happening, take a look at this diagram.

There are distant galaxies that we can't normally see. There's also a galaxies between them and us, with lots of mass.

This mass warps space-time and bends the distant galaxy light towards us so we see them.

I am amazed. You should be amazed. This is a really epic image.

Galaxy image and alt-text credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, H. Atek, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb)

Diagram credit: NASA, ESA & L. Calçada

#Galaxies #GravitationalLensing #GalaxyCluster #Astrodon

clew8h ago
Show threadDoomsdaysCW8h ago

Has anyone in #Maine / #NorthernNewEngland seen any #bumblebees yet?

#Bee #BeeHuggah #Bees #WildlifeDiary #Nature

clew8h ago
Peter Brodersen2d ago

My route planner for Denmark that refuses to drive on roads named after men is now online:
https://osrm.findvej.dk/nomales/

A couple of examples:

Odense:
https://osrm.findvej.dk/nomales/?z=15&center=55.403985%2C10.385385&loc=55.401682%2C10.391736&loc=55.404484%2C10.394011&hl=da&alt=0

Carlsberg Byen:
https://osrm.findvej.dk/nomales/?z=16&center=55.667353%2C12.533405&loc=55.665580%2C12.529242&loc=55.665435%2C12.530379&hl=da&alt=0

#OSRM #OSM #OpenStreetMap

clew9h ago
wet forest moon folkloristNov 15, 2024

for folks feeling super bummed or who can’t see any light rn, I offer the option to reach out for the wackiest creative idea you ever had and go do it. art saves lives, a practice of weirdness is its own therapy

https://write.as/malena/make-art-in-order-to-keep-living

make art in order to keep living

For folks feeling super bummed or who can’t see any light right now, I offer the option to reach out for the wackiest creative idea you...

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clew9h ago
RolloTreadway9h ago

Blimey. That's some dedication to find at the start of a book.

(Stuart MacBride, In a Place of Darkness)

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Show threadJ blue2d ago

I did manage to collect some black highbush blueberry and wild blueberry for seed saving.

I saved the black blueberry last year and cold-stratified them outside by just burying the berries in pots and only one came up. This year I’m saving the seeds in the fridge in moist vermiculite to see if it works better.

Pic: top left is domesticated blueberry from my garden, top right is black highbush blueberry and bottom is wild blueberry.

#NativePlants #gardening #jardin #garten

Show threadJ blue2d ago

In case anyone was wondering, black highbush blueberry (right off the bush) tastes like store-bought raspberries with a slight tang that is reminiscent of sumac.

I sat them overnight on the counter bc I was too tired to save seeds yesterday and today they taste more like blueberry icecream/cream with raspberry swirl.

Wild blueberries taste like blueberries ought to taste, like you expect a blueberry to taste. More flavor and less tart, but more seedy than store-bought.

Show threadBrian Davis2d ago

@jblue sometimes I've find a wild blueberry that has a definite hint of garlic. It's not bad but is quite surprising. Have you ever encountered that? Seems like they were darker and glossier and a low growing bush above 3000'. We also have one that is a bright dusty blue that has a more typical flavor.

This is on the West Coast for reference.

Show threadJ blue2d ago

@intrepidhero garlic is pretty wild for a change in taste. But I wouldn’t be surprised. Peppers/grapes/coffee can change radically in taste and intensity depending on altitude. I haven’t encountered much variation with blueberries but I have had wild maypops that taste like lime and broccoli.

The other Vaccinium we have locally (south east coast) is dearberry and those are terrible, mealy, barely hint of blueberry, more bird food than anything.

Show threadJ blue2d ago
@intrepidhero if you remember the trail you had them, you can open up iNaturalist, go to maps and screen for plants to see if anyone tagged any with an ID. There are a lot of different species of vacciniums in the PNW, some are pretty rare.
Show threadBrian Davis2d ago
@jblue oh that's a good idea. Thanks!
Show threadMalka Beth2d ago
@jblue thanks for the taste differential- because beyond soil amendments for the general PH need, I keep wondering what varieties of blueberries I should try to get & focus on growing. I'm fine with them being a little seedy but don't much like the commonly found tart taste of store bought blueberries.
Show threadJ blue2d ago

@BrahmaBelarusian I have a really good blueberry that tastes better than all of the other varieties. It’s very big and round, almost a sphere. It’s not as heavy bearing but worth it for the taste.

I don’t know the name but here is a picture for reference.

Show threadMalka Beth2d ago
@jblue The lower yield is actually another good thing, because in as much as I do want some, I don't really want a huge amount, rather I want enough to have a few plants giving me a few gallons a year for fresh & a few gallons a year to freeze (baking, preserves & ice-cream).
Show threadThe Great Llama 2d ago
@jblue
I hear they can take several years to bear fruit when grown from seed, but still very cool. I've been playing with taking cuttings from various wild berries. Having some luck with Evergreen Huckleberries, but apparently my technique is a bit flawed because the Red Huckleberries, Salal and Oregon Grape I've tried haven't worked out. Trying to bring as many native plants to my yard as I can.
Show threadJ blue2d ago

@TheGreatLlama I’m ok with it taking years. I’m going for native species diversity and making my space as similar to what the local nature reserves have as possible.

With Vacciniums, not all cuttings take and then not every rooted cutting survives its first winter. Don’t feel bad. ❤️

Show threadThe Great Llama 2d ago

@jblue
Oh, I definitely think there's plenty of value in maintaining as wide a gene pool as possible. I think we're on the same page.

I suspect my issue with the cuttings has mostly been timing. I think I've taken most of them too late in the year. The survivor was taken back in late February or early March. I probably just need to get an earlier start.