I'm camping in a field of wildflowers, and was really enjoying these little flowers. So cute! At first I was reluctant to look up a name, because how would the name assigned by some english-speaking (or Latin-speaking) person improve my enjoyment?

But then I looked it up, and knowing that it is a Yellow Avalanche Lily let me learn that it is a critical early spring food for some ground-dwelling bees, and that the bulbs were a food source for native peoples.

I also learned that bears like to dig up whole plots of them to eat the bulbs. This is important information, as I'm camping in the middle of a large plot of them. I'll be extra careful now.

#BloomScrolling #Camping

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#Introduction

RE: https://mastodon.online/@michael_w_busch/116649942156057143

"Just put your telescopes in space!" say the techbros. 73% (!!!) of a new space telescope's images already have satellite streaks in them.

Why does this feel linked to WW2 history somehow? 🤔

#billionaires

RE: https://mastodon.social/@wchr/116652301416756650

💥 BOOM 💥
"start treating the adtech industry as a national security threat".