smart...art...heart and mighty brave...must tip my hat to @4th_xtz versum.xyz/token/versum/1090…

Trees talk to each other. Underground fungal networks let them share sugar, send warnings about pests, and even feed their dying neighbors. The "wood wide web" has been running for 400 million years. We invented the internet 40 years ago. 🌳

A first generation dairy farmer just sued the state of Wisconsin after they tried to bankrupt his farm despite them following all the rules. Out of nowhere, the state suspended the farm's milk license, fining them $10,000 initially and more money everyday if they don’t shut down. But they aren’t rolling over, now fighting back against the system for every small farm in America that’s a victim of Government overreach: Grassway Organics, the East Troy farm run by Chaz Self and his family, filed suit against Wisconsin’s Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) on September 28, 2026, along with a request for a temporary restraining order. Grassway Organics says state regulators worked with it for six years on a member owned dairy co-op model until something changed. The current operation is a diversified, grass-based organic farm rather than only a commodity dairy. This is not a conventional mega dairy farm - it’s a small local farm-store selling meats, eggs, fresh dairy and putting on wood-fired pizza events and tours for the community. All of a sudden, they were attacked by the state of Wisconsin, who tried to hit them with thousands of dollars in fines and tried to shut them down. The farm sued and filed a Temporary Restraining Order this past week and the state hearing is not scheduled until May 2027. A 4th generation farmer chimed in and exposed what might really be going on “800+ family farms in Wisconsin alone went bellyup even with subsidies during trumps 1st term due to grain wars. There has to be a bigger reason WHY Wisconsin being targeted…” - @starflowerwing Either way, this is plain government overreach shutting down healthy foods trying to serve the area. They are asking their community to support their battle that will cost legal fees of $150,000, and you can find their GoFundMe @graze_and_gainz link in bio. You can also see Grassway Organics on the Localize Farmers Market app and help support them directly when they beat the state.

This Angophora costata - Smooth Bark Apple says hello.

Drawing #thicktrunktuesday

Aluminum 23.75 inches tall...20k US$...payment through x money only...hand delivery to conus only...8hrs of construction of vid provided before sale

dydtさんの磁気コアメモリキットが届いたので編んでみた。 40分くらいで完成！

And here is the gov saying that 200 micrograms is max anyone over 50 should eat in a day. So you can have the marmite, but you can't have the toast with it or any other flour that day! Sign the petition.

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Using Build in the Grok app and actually shipping something I never thought I’d have. Wild. Thanks @aksheyd @ericzakariasson @grok

I used to get caught up in chasing peak fall color, when the trees were their fullest & most vibrant. Over the years, I’ve come to love when falling leaves reveal the bones of the trees, giving the remaining color room to shine. These four images celebrate a part of fall I once considered too late.

Lebanese Cedar chilling in Nottingham, England

The pattern but not pattern in this sand is top notch

Yes, I see your messages. I am still working on the malware bonking video. Making a bonking video is extremely time consuming because I have to take pictures (or videos) of everything, schizo rant into a microphone, and document everything without getting overly technical. I literally just read a random DM, then started documenting my entire bonking routine. This bonking could have been done in like, 30 minutes probably, I don't know, but making it a video out of it has taken me HOURS. I am nowhere near complete, and it needs refinement, but if you seriously want to see what I've created over the past couple of days here it is:

In April 2009, dozens of cedar waxwings were found dead in a single yard in Thomas County, Georgia. Their stomachs were packed with one thing: small, red berries. The birds had hemorrhaged into their lungs, tracheas, hearts and brains. It was cyanide poisoning. A decade later the curator of the UNC Chapel Hill Herbarium found dead waxwings on campus, in sight of a large nandina planting. That's what finally prompted somebody to test the berries. Nandina, sold as heavenly bamboo, is from China and Japan, it's invasive across the Southeast, and it's still sold at garden centers. Most birds can detoxify small amounts of cyanide. Eat one or two nandina berries and you'll be sick for a day. Cedar waxwings don't eat one or two. They gorge on them. A flock strips a bush in minutes. And the ripe berries release cyanide slowly as they digest. There's no warning, no bad taste, nothing that says stop. By the time it's hitting, the bird has a crop full of them. Worse, nandina berries hang on all winter, when almost nothing else is fruiting. It's most attractive exactly when the birds have the fewest options. If you have one, cut the berry clusters off before they ripen. That solves the problem this year. Then dig it out. Get under the root crown and pry it up, or it comes back. Alternatively, a cut stump with a dab of herbicide will usually kill it for good. Replace it with winterberry holly, American holly, or eastern red cedar. Red berries all winter, and waxwings are supposed to eat those.

Myth #9 busted Derinkuyu was not a novel discovery, there are 200 of these subterranean cities and dwelling complexes in the Gölcük Plain (~4,300 ft in elevation and made of volcanic tuff, not limestone - tuff is VERY tectonically stable) Tuff oxidizes, hardens, and seals once you cut it, creating a clean wall/overhead. My guide was a local professional who grew up in Derinkuyu, playing in and learning about these complexes. A single enormous underground refuge can be explained as an extraordinary local exception. Hundreds distributed through the same plain landscape constitute a regional behavioral adaptation (necessary from extreme circumstance). The question becomes: adaptation to what? Contrary to my initial assumption to date - This is an IDEAL ECDO refuge.

I posted this article a week ago, and am grateful for the robust discussion and engagement in the comments. x.com/MethuselasMuse/status/… I admit it is a long, dense article. On Sunday, a video discussing this same material will post. This may be a more digestible format for some. Cheers. youtube.com/@MethuselasMuse

A fun thing Tesla could do: map pot holes and generally measure road quality/ride smoothness. Then rank municipalities on road quality and how quickly they fix potholes. Some good ol’ fashion competition might help make things better!

This is heavy youtu.be/C9qFiSeY42s?is=9nbi…