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Rain_Spout @rainspout.bsky.social · 2h

Want to go hiking with dog but cant decide where

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 3h

I really recommend browsing a reddit called "Is this AI?" for this purpose. people post questionable images and commenters weigh in on their validity, but are required to provide specifics as to their reasoning. once you start seeing the signs, it gets easier and easier over time

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 3h

I genuinely cannot express how vital it is that you train yourself to recognize AI-generated images and videos for your own good because none of this is going away and many, many people are counting on you to fall for their shit

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Rain_Spout @rainspout.bsky.social · 3h

Also my cat who thinks she's a rabbit has eatten my drosera down to the nub about 3 times now and it has legit grown back to normal every time. I also propogate these and spider plants to give as presents because they are so easy.

Also having great luck using self watering pots with them.

Rain_Spout @rainspout.bsky.social · 3h

Rehiblitation guide if you want to attempt it.

Personally I haven't had luck with saracenia or dionaea (flytraps), and didnt want living plants in my fridge so I only have Drosera x 'Hercules' and a Nepenthes x 'St Gaya' atm. I want a pinguicula and another kind of drosera eventually tho.

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Rain_Spout @rainspout.bsky.social · 3h

Mentioning them bc the ones in the plastic cups from big box stores are usually weak or sick due to suboptimal conditions and often have bad care instructions on the cup. If you are interested and want that plant to live, get your care info else where. This company even has a plastic cup flytrap +

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Rain_Spout @rainspout.bsky.social · 3h

Lrt in these cases nursery grown are likely fine because they are captive bred and not taken from the wild. Been growing a couple carnivorus plants for a few years now and I got mine from @calcarnivores.bsky.social

Their youtube channel is super helpful for carinvorous plant care and propogation.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 20h

This is true and they are super endangered by poachers who shovel them up by the hundreds and sell them at flea markets and shit. You should not buy the plants and if you happen to kick the poacher in the shins on accident, no one will hear about it from me.

mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 23h

still amazing to me the number of movies, games, etc. which have Venus Flytrap-based creatures in some form compared to the actual native range of Venus Flytrap, which is like, the great untamed jungles of a few wet pine savannas in North Carolina

map illustrating the native range of Venus Flytrap plants, just a little half circle around coastal North and South Carolina in USA

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 3d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a powerful antibody, known as 04_A06, that is able to neutralize 98.5% of MORE THAN 300 different HIV strains AND permanently reduce HIV viral load to undetectable levels, making it one of the broadest-acting antibodies against HIV identified to date.

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 21h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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InkyInGreen 🍂 @blackwallmancer.bsky.social · 9d

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist):

the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much.

you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.

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Rain_Spout @rainspout.bsky.social · 1d

Back to MTAP related things: kinda torn between gust and from what i've heard about mint on who Tigan should go with

I think I'd maybe I'd like mint better ( had only just started dating gust and... eh, maybe he gets better?) but gust is more fun to draw?

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 2d

genuinely squealed like I saw a celebrity

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Jya @jyaart.bsky.social · 3d

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James GHOULizio @theswweet.blackskycomra.de · 3d

It sure would be great if literally any of the BlueSky staff would be approaching a fraction of this level of professionalism. Shout out to Rudy and everyone on the BlackSky team.

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 3d

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

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Evelyn @chipnick.com · 8d

For those interested in paying for a platform that will actively protects its users, here's where you can pay us (Northsky)

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dapurplesharpie @sharpiepls.com · 7d

you can migrate to blacksky

non-black users have the choice of "myatproto.social" or "cryptoanarchy.network" handles

sources and additional information under this video thread hereby blacksky.community/profile/shar...

Writing our Destiny aka Andrew @planecrazy.bsky.social · 8d

I just don’t know where else to go? Won’t do Meta, and won’t do X. Guess I could try Mastodon again, don’t want to if I can help it.

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Rain_Spout @rainspout.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe green maybe blue

More mtap oc Tigan in her work clothes.