That's a pretty good question. I 💯 agree that it can fall into authoritarian colonial bullshit, and in fact that's probably what I was thinking of in terms of 'defining' vs 'advancing'. I'll invoke the case of the 'Sad Puppies', a bunch of lame ass white men who were super mad that the Hugos were overwhelmingly going to 'not white men' (read: interesting BIPOC voices everyone loves and gasp......women?!).
I would probably claim the Sad Puppies tried to define culture.
The rest of the attendees advanced it by telling them to fuck right off.
I'm based in the Pacific Northwest, so here's a few of my favorites in the region.
Seattle
Swanson's is the normal recommendation, they are pretty cool. If maybe a little pricey.
RIP City People's.....
Tacoma
Calendula Farm & Earthworks is worth a visit! They have a good selection of native plants.
Portland Ave Nursery. This is in Tacoma! I've bought a few trees from them! It's definitely got a good vibe.
Portland
One Green World is my current mail order choice for bare roots. They are in Portland, OR. I've visited the retail location down there, it's a good way to spend some time!
Snohomish
Flower World is also very neat and very dangerous (for my wallet).
Garden cleanup continues! I'm doing the boring bits of tidying/repairing my cheapo greenhouse from last year. I'll be putting some more onions in the ground just to have greens.
Pumpkins Georg, who lives in spooky bog & disposes of over 15 million pumpkins every day, is an outlier and should not have been counted.
It sucks, but as someone who hosts their own services and supports business clients: If they have a budget, Office365 all the way. Does it suck paying money to M$? Oh hell yeah. But it's a 'cost of doing business'. Don't screw around if they can afford it, just go O365 :(
kale is a delicious vegetable
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KALE DOESN'T EXIST IT'S CABBAGE ALL THE WAY DOWN
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AND NEITHER DO VEGETABLES
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This particular 'elder god' is more of a mantle, you see. This entity does wield great powers, but is also beholden to a horrible and cursed collection of duties. During the summoning, they accidentally, somehow, kill this elder god; due to the nature of the summoning they must now assume his mantle and fulfill his obligations, with all that entails, lest the cosmos fall. A Satan Clause, if you will.
Cold weather is on the horizon - I'm rapidly building an inside grow zone to move some plants inside as an experiment this year. I'm getting cold frames and what not set up for outside.
Lots of things to chop down and replants, I'll be trying a bunch of cool weather crops this fall since I built so many new garden beds!
I'll be harvesting everything that's still out there. We had a last little burst of warm-ish weather, and the poblanos put on some size, excellent! My everbearing strawberry plants are still going insane though and producing tons of fruit!
cross-posted from: https://orbiting.observer/post/938974
> Happy Friday, cassette heads!
He's like a moose, the car might not win!
try pfizer/poppy-lrud-normal-128, run it straight offff your neural chip and feed it 1 GB RAM you'll be gud2go
"This is why we can't have nice things." The license change sucks but makes total sense. I guess Dave Kinne there fucked around and found out, to the detriment of everyone.
cross-posted from: https://orbiting.observer/post/923566
> Happy Friday, Vaporwavites!
I'm on Team Crosspost, although duplicates marginally annoy me too. Because of the low content volume and the potentially fractured nature of Lemmy means more people will see it in the event of blocked instances. Although, I hope crosspost combining becomes a thing like alex@lemmy.ml mentioned.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20260661
> Hello Vaporwavians!
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> As a Vaporwave Enjoyer, I'd like to see some more life in this community! To that end, I'm going to try and make a weekly post sharing my favorite tracks. I encourage you to do the same!
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> First up, as an computer person who assists others often, it's my theme song: コンピューターマン (Ｃｏｍｐｕｔｅｒ░Ｍａｎ) from ꜰᴏʀᴇᴠᴇʀ ᴍɪᴅɴɪɢʜᴛ.
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Howdy, gardeners! It's been a minute since I posted, but my PNW garden is just getting up to steam!
My first cukes came in, I'm growing 'Spacemaster 80' slicing cucumbers and 'Homemade Pickle' cucumbers, for obvious reasons. !Cukes I've just made my first batch of pickles using a Claussen knock off recipe from the forbidden site, so we'll see how that goes. It just went in the fridge for cooling, so I get to try it in just a couple days!
I've started researching canning, as I want to can peppers, tomatoes, beans, and maybe corn - should the Corn Experiment prove bountiful. Learning how to Not Get Botulism seems pretty important!
My tomatoes are doing well - I'm growing Roma, Gardener's Delight, and Oxheart. I'm endlessly fascinated by how the Roma tomatoes look like they do on the label of the can :) ! Those are in containers. The other two varieties are trellised and are going nuts!
Gardener's Delight: !Tomatoes
Oxheart: !Tomatoes
Gardener's Delight Closeup: !Tomatoes
Oxheart Closeup: !Tomatoes
All the peppers are finally flowering. I'm growing Serrano, Jalapeno, Poblano, Shishito, and Ground Cherries. They are all growing rather well except a couple of the Shishito's in the raised bed seem quite small.
In my Three Sisters Garden, corn is growing fairly well, it seems half of them are 'normal' size and the other half are still half height, so I may have packed it too tight. I'm growing Blue FM1 pole beans, which have just flowered and are doing well, as well as pumpkins, of which two have grown so far, still green.
In the Squash Garden, I've got crazy vines from my Kubota squash, with 4 or so gourds growing. I planted beans here but they never really took off.
I also built a 'Wildlife Garden' this year. It's open to the public (animal visitors) and I don't do any pest control here. It's also gone NUTS! I have Blue Hubbard squash growing a mile a minute with 8 gourds on the vine, scarlet runner beans reaching for the sky, some ridiculous sunflowers pushing their way up, chamomile, clover, feverfew, boy it's wild! It's fun to look at.
For salad greens we've had the 'Tower of Power' going for a few months - it was a strawberry planter that I stuck a bunch of transplanted lettuce/chard/kale/mustard plants into. It produced salad for us every couple days, pretty excellent! My wife asked me to start migrating it back to strawberries, so I've started that process. Due to that, I've replanted a bunch more greens to keep us going!
!THE TOWER PROVIDES !Jumpstarting Strawberries !Jumpstarting Strawberries
And speaking of those strawberries, I'm propagating a bunch of strawberry plants (june-bearing) to have more ground cover for next year in addition to the strawberry tower, and I'm hoping my ever-bearing strawberry will put out runners, but it's still fruiting consistently!
I got a small onion harvest (time to figure out how many onions I'd actually need in a year), and plenty of garlic. This was my first year growing onions, and half the garlic was from last years harvest! !
I also have numerous other things going - my lemongrass is growing really well:
As is my celery in a pot:
I've been growing marigolds and nasturtiums all over the place. The nasturtiums are great in salad! My cabbage started doing pretty well once I defeated an Aphid Menace that was stunting them.
So, that's my big ole report! What’s growing on with you all?
(Apologies to LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.org if I stepped on your toes, I felt compelled to make a weekly thread!)
This is a beautiful Lemon Queen sunflower in my backyard. I've planted a whole row, but this one shot up and got an early start, the rest barely have their heads grown.
I'm growing these as part of The Great Sunflower Project, a citizen science effort to track pollinators in the United States. These were chosen for their wide appeal to pollinators, and true to form, there is always at least one sort of insect buddy visiting at any given moment!
David From Space @orbiting.observer I'm David. I live in Tacoma, Washington. I do square foot gardening, home automation with Home Assistant, and have too many cats.
You think you saw me behind some ferns? You just might have!