A message much better stated than I could say it, but which I try to give to ECRs I work with. There are seasons in research and sometimes it is harvest time, but sometimes the seeds are just sitting in the ground resting and waiting for Spring. https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-harvest-will-come/
Mango season! First batch of green mango pickles with home grown mango and mostly homegrown spices. These are Indian style pickles in oil. Good as a cndiment to spice up a curry or dahl, or wonderful with a sharp cheddar on crackers or sourdough. I try to make some every year, but not every year is a good mango year. This year there'll be lots extra to give away. #cookingfromthegarden
Excellent piece by @… on the ebb and flow of creative work and the inevitability and importance of fallow periods.
“What I failed to notice: that the fallow periods were doing something too. They were composting. I was taking in books and conversations and experiences without the pressure to immediately metabolize them into output. I was wandering without a map, which meant I sometimes stumbled into territory I never would have found if I'd been navigating by GPS.
The harvest seasons, when they returned, drew on seeds I hadn't remembered planting.”
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-harvest-will-come/
“Perl’s early success was its own undoing. It became the default tool for the first web boom, and in doing so, it took the brunt of that era’s chaos. Then, just as it began to mature, its versioning story confused the industry into thinking it had stalled.” #Perl
The Robins are getting drunk on Camphor tree seeds again 🥴🐦⬛
#birds #nature
Leftover Kimchi Bokkeumbap with scrambled Tofu and crushed black sesame seeds for lunch.
I'm all for quick lunchtime prep and this took about 60 seconds lol.
#Lunch
It was already a challenging week, and now someone's stolen two planters from the front of the house?! At least it wasn't a burglary but it's still really unsettling. Also I kept meaning to save seeds from one of the plants that's now gone.
“10 of your best, please, barkeep!”
"Sir—this is a collection of 2118 tracks.”
1. Bikini Kill, “Rebel Girl”
2. Chubby Cree, “Rock Your World (Handsome Tiger Remix)”
3. Björk, “Human Behaviour”
4. Ra Djan, “Ratamahatta”
5. 1000mods, “Cheat Death”
6. Soundgarden, “Jesus Christ Pose (Remastered)”
7. Mazzy Star, “Ghost Highway”
8. Beasts of Bourbon, “Chase the Dragon”
9. Rammstein, "Sehnsucht”
10. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, “…
The more I look at this wonderful #solarpunk illustration of a #hackerspace by @…, the more I like it.
Castor Beans I found growing as an annual
#photo #photography #seeds #bloomscrolling
Random thought: humans view trees as vulnerable because they can't move out of the way of danger. But consider:
1. A single tree can produce tens of thousands of offspring.
2. Many of those seeds can remain dormant and viable for millennia.
3. Some living trees survive fit millennia themselves.
4. Trees vastly outnumber humans, maybe up to 100:1.
5. Many seeds die, but those that don't have found a niche that supplies them everything they need without having to move.
In contrast, humans:
1. Only produce a few dozen offspring at most. Barely replace their own population.
2. Cannot remain dormant once birthed.
3. Only survive for a century tops. Can only reproduce for maybe half that time.
4. So few of us. Individual humans live hundreds of feet apart, or at least dozens even in the densest cities.
5. Need to constantly burn energy moving around for their next meal. Could starve and die at any time in just a few days if they can't find water.
At a species level, the survival of humans begins to look much more perilous than the survival of many tree species.
Also I forgot to add:
6. Humans kill *each other* all the time. What the fuck humans?!? We have made ourselves our own biggest threat.
Trees do compete locally for water and sunlight and thus do kill each other, but only via circumstance, not intentionally.
Did you know if you leave the pumpkin guts in the fridge until they get a little squishy you can just rinse all the guts off instead of picking out seeds one-by-one? Happy this experiment worked out. (Was actually intentional, btw. 🙂 I read about how farms that produce pumpkin seeds just leave the pumpkins out in the field for a bit and thought I'd try the fridge version.)
I'm trying to reintroduce chia seeds into my diet, but I’m being careful with soaking them overnight. This stuff can easily turn into cement in your gut if you aren't cautious about preparation.
Is An Orange Halloween Pumpkin Green? - Sow in April, reap in September, get soup and pie and roast seeds too! Oh, and a Halloween lantern. #green #pumpkin #Halloween -
They grow up so fast... kiddo made ramen soup from the book she's got for Christmas 🤤🍜 #foodporn #food #ramen
Pumpkin seeds like you mean it.
#AskFedi #gardening
Back in the spring, I planted some old seeds in pots: spinach, parsley, rocket, iirc. All spring and summer, nothing happened, so I thought they were too old - "oh well, it was worth a try". And I think I must have taken out my wooden labels at that point, because I can't find them now.
But now there are some leaves growing in the pots.
Can any "real gardeners" identify this? Is it just a random arrival or might it be one of my sown seeds making a late appearance? Is it edible?
"Despite widespread belief in climate policy, disinformation still seeds doubt ahead of COP30"
#COP30 #ClimateSummit
From a selection of 2105 tracks, my #MondayRandom10 for this week is:
1. The Jubalaires, “Preacher and the Bear”
2. Sam and the Womp (ft Natty Campbell), “Come We Play”
3. Apollo 440, “Heart Go Boom”
4. 10cc, “I’m Not In Love”
5. The Chainsmokers (ft Daya), “Don’t Let Me Down”
6. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, “The Mercy Seat (2010 Remaster)”
7. Future of the…
😔 the days are getting colder and shorter
😄 but it's a great time to sow wildflower seeds!
😠 but Oxalis pes-caprae is invading again
Fruit-eating animals are less diverse in body size, and thereby less well matched to the diversity of fruits they eat and seeds they disperse, in habitats with more human disruption
#science
Food today has been all kinds of weird.
I missed Breakfast, but had Katsu Curry at 2pm.
Afternoon snack was a Pain Au Chocolate
For Dinner, I plan to have Porridge with milled seeds, and fresh berries
#Vegan #Food
Psyzkaller: Learning from Historical and On-the-Fly Execution Data for Smarter Seed Generation in OS kernel Fuzzing
Boyu Liu, Yang Zhang, Liang Cheng, Yi Zhang, Junjie Fan, Yu Fu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08918
We are having a pescatarian christmas dinner and the centrepiece will be a salmon roasted and decorated with pomegranate seeds.
So step 1 in preparation is to break open the pomegranate to get at the seeds and yes in case you're wondering the kitchen does now look like a particularly gruesome crime scene. Red-stained knife and hands and all.
Crosslisted article(s) found for astro-ph.CO. https://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph.CO/new
[1/1]:
- MESA-QUEST: Tracing the formation of direct collapse black hole seeds via quasi-stars
Santarelli, Campbell, Farag, Bellinger, Natarajan, Caplan
First gudgin of the season. We'll have kilos of them this year but the first are always a treat. They're mouth puckeringly sour but so deep in flavour (and extremely good forvyou). I'll make jam and sauce and dried powder later but these first 4 go in the fridge (seeds taken out) with a sprinkle of sugar overnight and onto my yoghurt tomorrow. #fromthegarden
Crosslisted article(s) found for astro-ph.GA. https://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph.GA/new
[1/1]:
- MESA-QUEST: Tracing the formation of direct collapse black hole seeds via quasi-stars
Santarelli, Campbell, Farag, Bellinger, Natarajan, Caplan
Morning!
I think I've found the best breakfast ever.
Jumbo Rolled Oats, Alpro Oat Milk (No Sugar), topped with Strawberries, and a milled Flaxseed, Sunflower, Pumpkin & Chia Seeds & Goji Berries mix, and a few drops of Maple Syrup 😋
#Vegan #Breakfast
Deets on #CIA’s early 2000's era #covert ops #Aggro mission that began modifying #poppy seed properties in 2004 and dropped them by the billions from ai…