Anonymous asked: Any hot takes on putting car tires on motorbikes? afaict you don't own a honda gold wing so this might not be relevant to you but opinions are sharply divided enough and I feel like if you have a position on it I want to read it
uh, when I upgraded (from a 1968 CB350 to a 2005 919) I was surprised how much fatter the tires got, a Gold Wing running like Geo Metro tires sounds believable
oh christ, remember the AIDS quilt? that was kinda operating in the shadow of the Vietnam Wall (both had a company on national tour in the late 90s, like CATS)
but also this performance of Midwestern normativity by the bereaved mothers of these plague fags, back when PFLAG and not HRC was the brand
actually, how did that shift? I would read that longform.
also me: "Jesus Christ was 2edgy4this world"
me: …I mean not wrong, but are you planning to sell t-shirts outside the Jars of Clay concert or something?
Saw a KatNipBox ad and paying $20/mo for a subscription box of corporate samples of healthy snacks and mentally stimulating toys for your indoor cat has to be the most blue tribe shit I’ve ever seen
(the red tribe equivalent is letting him outside to play in nature and kill all the birds and get hit by a car/eaten by a coyote/crippled by disease like God intended)
Saw a KatNipBox ad and paying $20/mo for a subscription box of corporate samples of healthy snacks and mentally stimulating toys for your indoor cat has to be the most blue tribe shit I’ve ever seen
(the red tribe equivalent is letting him outside to play in nature and kill all the birds and get hit by a car/eaten by a coyote/crippled by disease like God intended)
What tribe is it if you live in a place with few enough people that it’s safe from cars but enough people that it’s safe from coyotes, so the cat grows strong on the fruits of his hunts and noticeably reduces how much money you waste on animal feed eaten by mice and roads resurfaced because of burrows?
was shopping around before I renew earthquake insurance the other day and one of the agents was Old Cascadian enough (dedicated to virtue within their role for no immediate personal gain) to point out that even if my house came through *a bit* damaged, Portland would not have the infrastructure for rehabilitation for *years* afterward (the PNW only has superquakes every few centuries)
I feel that artistic genius is the basis of a natural aristocracy and that authentic artists (as distinct from the merely popular) have proper command over all inferiors and all domains and are the font of all morality that none but fellow artists have right to cross
I feel that artistic genius is the basis of a natural aristocracy and that authentic artists (as distinct from the merely popular) have proper command over all inferiors and all domains and are the font of all morality that none but fellow artists have right to cross
so many naturally aristocratic artistic genius assholes, tho
Circus Tree: Six individual sycamore trees were shaped, bent, and braided to form this.
Actually pretty easy. Trees don’t reject tissue from other trees in the same family. You bend the tree to another tree when it is a sapling, scrape off the bark on both trees where they touch, add some damp sphagnum moss around them to keep everything slightly moist and bind them together. Then wait a few years- The trees will have grown together.
You can use a similar technique to graft a lemon branch or a lime branch or even both- onto an orange tree and have one tree that has all three fruits.
Frankentrees.
As a biologist I can clearly state that plants are fucking weird and you should probably be slightly afraid of them.
On that note! At the university (UBC) located in town, the Agriculture students were told by their teacher that a tree flipped upside down would die. So they took an excavator and flipped the tree upside down. And it’s still growing. But the branches are now the roots, and the roots are now these super gnarly looking branches. Be afraid.
But Vi, how can you mention that and NOT post a picture? D:
I am both amazed and horrified of nature as we all should be
I love how trees are like “fuck it, I’ll deal” at literally everything. Forest fire? Cool, my seeds’ll finally grow. Upside down? Branches, suck, roots, leave. What’s this new branch? Eh, welcome to the tree buddy.
I need to be more like tree
I continue to fear and respect out arboreal overlords.
what kind of professor did these students have that they needed to prove him wrong so badly that they literally dug up a tree, flipped it and put it back in the ground?
Sounds like y’all’ve never heard about the Tree of 40 Fruits. Well, it’s exactly as it sounds. Sam Van Aken, an artist based in New York, decided to try his hand at grafting (e.g. the process by which you attach the branches of a different tree to a host tree).
As artists are inclined to do he decided to push some limits and over the course of a few years he grafted over 40 different fruit onto the host “
including almond, apricot, cherry, nectarine, peach and plum varieties.”
It has a fruiting period lasting from July to October and this is what it looks like when blossoming.
Shit’s tight yo.
Also we have a group called the Guerrilla Grafters. A group who started in San Fransisco with the goal of grafting fruiting branches onto non-fruiting trees of the same type.
Most cities have fruit trees that simply don’t produce fruit because having all these would be a mess and inadvertently providing unregulated food to people comes with a lot of legal risks I suppose. These grafters seem to think otherwise and have taken it upon themselves to try and bring fruit trees back to urban areas.
HOLY SHIT
THE LAST ONE
Solarpunk as fuck!!
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