I keep forgetting I ordered 3 pounds of #hops on clearance at 2 am and whenever I get one of the ten thousand shipping updates I am so delighted. Highest entertainment value I have gotten out of $4.50 in ages

Today in micro-socializing, my friends went to the beach without me, texted me photos, and brought me back a piece of fancy cake from Ruth+Dean 🩷

#ChronicIllness #SpoonieTown #MECFS

Clo-oose 🌊

Mood this morning 🫩

Pre-2024 hops are $1.50/lb at Northwest right now. Sharing for anyone else who is scheming bulk pain salve mutual aid projects. Or big into home brewing I guess?

https://northwesthops.ca/en-ca/collections/clearance

#hops #PlantMedicine #herbs

i love seeing these little mixed herb planters. feels... educational? i always take a photo. they seem to release new ones each year but so far only with plants I already grow. i want to tell them, "keep going!"

#herbs #gardening

(Hops is a culinary plant (non-toxic), grown abundantly here in the PNW, and effective for pain as a topical salve. Not even expensive!)

Went into Green Muse the other day to chat with Anna about herbs and she made such an interesting point about pain salves.

They are hard to stock because a lot of them rely on plants that are endangered/unsustainable (cramp bark), closed practice (devil's club), toxic (aconite, various nightshades...), or regulated as drugs (cannabis). And pain medicine that is not reliably in stock is kind of pointless.

Made me love #hops even more 💚

#pain #PlantMedicine #herbs #PoisonPath

brb settin up a Hobonichi Cousin for chores in Stardew Valley

I am playing #StardewValley for the first time and instead of drawing a map like for Final Fantasy or whatever, I am having the biggest urge to set up an entire planner to keep track of all the special events and growth cycles and errands

#games #planners

🚨 Alert for any eXtreme chili gardeners in #VictoriaBC -- ghost pepper and carolina reaper seedlings at Cook Street Castle for cheap today.

#gardening #SoSpicy

Can endorse the circus show about ocean deoxygenation 👍

https://www.islandcircusspace.com/entanglements

is there an existing wikipedia project to make "allegations" more prominent in people's pages? i just found a hockey player's sexual assault trial under "personal life"

Little tip for people who have potted plants and drink water. If you keep a vase or watering can by the kitchen sink, you can empty all the unfinished water glasses and bottles and kettles into it for the plants.

Never having to find or fill up a watering container somehow means I am much more prompt about watering the plants.

My vessel is an old french press beaker with a broken beak, but yours could be as fancy as you like

#houseplants

Alright #gardening folks, what are your favourite small trees to grow in pots?

I am considering adding one more plant to a zone 9 / PNW patio that gets morning and afternoon but not midday sun. Currently there is a smoke tree, a black elder, a clematis (Bill McKenzie) on a trellis, and several pots of succulents including local stonecrops.

#ContainerGardening #PNWgardening

For fellow fans of a certain type of anti-imperialist ranting, there's a Sina Rahmani livestream later today on "(How badly) did the US lose to Iran?" in conversation with / goaded on by Nick Estes.

https://www.youtube.com/live/QDdeA8H7ReA

Having recently celebrated World Goth Day, Dracula Day, Drone Music Day, and Ocean Week, I am curious: are there global or national special days that you observe?

Zootopia public transit accommodates dolphins. We are dreaming too small

https://zootopia.fandom.com/wiki/Tube_Station

They should stop trying to make Zootopia movies about race and class, which goes very badly, and start focusing on utopian disability accomodations which the Zootopia movies absolutely rule at

After the HBO-sized hype it is hilariously Canadian and quaint to see Heated Rivalry nominated against Murdoch Mysteries and North of North. Like oh right, we are a small population. Best actor was presented by Strombo, a guy I have been in a (large) room with, to Hudson Williams, a guy my mother in law ran into at a Starbucks in Port Coquitlam 😂