
2025-06-11 08:58:59
New study finds glyphosate unsafe at any dose.
Glyphosate is widely on sale in garden centres and DiY shops, including B&Q.
Carcinogenic effects of long-term exposure from prenatal life to glyphosate and glyphosate-based herbicides in Sprague–Dawley rats | Environmental Health | Full Text
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It's only a week away until the moving truck arrives and puts an end to our 16 years in Caledon. Today, I'm taking some time to squeeze in 9 holes of golf with my brother, who has a cottage close to our new home. My car is packed with 11 different plants that we split from our current garden, over 70 individual plants for the new house. Two planters will have to wait for the next trip.
#Moving #Gardening
"Vancouver has 22 civic libraries. Victoria has 12. The streets of these two cities, however, have well over 1,000 unincorporated “little libraries”. You’ve seen them, of course. Those quaint little bird-house structures, placed along sidewalks, usually with a glassed-in front to keep the contents safe from the elements. Inside these little boxes there is always the oddest selection of books, and almost always something that will pique your interest. "
Minestrone soup, all out of the garden bar the parmesan on top, on this cold night. #permaculture #retrosuburbia #fromthegarden
Jack Ciattarelli, a former state legislator endorsed by Donald Trump won the Republican nomination quickly Tuesday evening.
Rep. Mikie Sherrill, a former Navy pilot and federal prosecutor, won on the Democratic side, beating out five competitors.
New Jersey is one of two states, along with Virginia, hosting a high-stakes gubernatorial contest this year.
Natura Urbana IX 🏡
城市自然 IX 🏡
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️?
#filmphotography
Topiary garden at Pierrepont Holme Hall, February 2025
#photography #heritagephotography #historichouses #gardens
Today I helped building new raised beds for our communal garden. Looking forward to have a small plot in the middle of the city again!
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Cut Chemist:
🎵 The Garden
#CutChemist
https://theotherside1.bandcamp.com/track/31-cut-chemist-the-garden
https://open.spotify.com/track/5Tp97LcL45G82uC6vaLvt5
Chia porridge with pawpaw, passionfruit, gudgin sprinkles, greek yoghurt. All from the garden bar some milk powder to make the yoghurt. #permaculture #retrosuburbia #fromthegarden
watching out #caturday
Got root?
I figured this spider plant would be a bit rootbound after 3 years in the same container, but I wasn't expecting _this_! Poor thing has been detangled some and potted up. Snipped off 9 babies and stuck them in the greenhouse while I was at it, to give away later in the year, because everyone needs more spider plants.
#garden
Topiary garden at Pierrepont Holme Hall, February 2025
#photography #heritagephotography #historichouses #gaden
We had some sun before the rain moved in #dogsofmastodon
Dango-on-a-pointy-stick!!!!
My most-oft-used garden tool is a 6" wide spade.
The handle broke; it broke sincerely and completely. Grrrrrr.
No store around here even carries those any more, not even the place I bought it from a year ago.
Well, at least Amazon provides.
I'm working with a few organisations with different meeting cultures at the moment, and I really enjoyed this post about levels of note taking #linkTuesday Which level do you use?
Last year I made the raised beds. We, unwillingly, shared our harvest with the birds and small mammals.
This spring I built enclosures out of 1” PVC sched 40 pipes with 3/4” PVC Sched 40 side panels.
Our intention this year is to share only with family and friends.
Tomatoes in one bed, Strawberries in the other.
Enclosures are 6’ high to allow easy human access via side panels.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #InTune
Giuseppe Verdi, Francesco Maria Piave, Alexandre Dumas, Angela Gheorghiu, Frank Lopardo, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden & Georg Solti:
🎵 La traviata, Act I: Follie! Follie! ...Sempre libera
#Spotify
watching out #caturday
Celebrity haunt that made ‘Chinese chicken salad a household name’ to close this summer
Sweet-crunchy, crispy-wonton-laced Chinese chicken salad was most likely created by Madame Sylvia Wu at her Santa Monica restaurant Madame Wu’s Garden,
but a large share of the dish’s popularity across L.A. in the 1980s and ’90s can be credited to Chin Chin.
“Owner and founder Bob Mandler is the man responsible for making Chinese chicken salad a household name in Los Angeles County, …
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #EasternEchoes
Unknown Mortal Orchestra:
🎵 The Garden
#UnknownMortalOrchestra
https://unknown-mortal-orchestra.bandcamp.com/track/the-garden
https://open.spotify.com/track/0xUeLKG6g1vGXSlHDsLKAf
Stopped off in town, Broadmarsh area. Sat on a rock for a bit and read my book.
I don't often go into town these days, but I was reminded of this nice little garden area when the May Day march met round the corner the other week, and I thought I would have a rest there today before coming home.
Lovely to see the flowers growing there now. I really like that the city council went in that direction for that bit of the land.
#Nottingham #BloomScrolling
As I've seen a good number of people here post about "Worktree.ca" as a "Canadian-owned" alternative to GitHub: it's a closed-source fork of Gitea which "one day" (maybe, if the company doesn't change its mind) will be open core. It also runs on AWS…
Not that it's any of my business, but migrating there feels like the code-equivalent of leaving Twitter for Bluesky: Moving from one company-owned walled garden to the next, without having learned a lesson. All painted in a nationalist cash grab. 🤷♂️
My latest historical analysis, this time about the craze for Japanese gardens in the US, how they got here and why we should look at the thought behind the Japanese garden, not just the plants and furniture. It can be found in two places, depending on your reading preference.
https://varnelis.substack.com…
Natura Urbana IV 🏡
城市自然 IV 🏡
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️?
#filmphotography
View of the Santa Ynez Mountains from the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, Santa Barbara, California, USA. March, 2025.
#santabarbarabotanicgarden #nature #naturephotography
Natura Urbana IV 🏡
城市自然 IV 🏡
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️?
#filmphotography
As I've seen a good number of people here post about "Worktree.ca" as a "Canadian-owned" alternative to GitHub: it's a closed-source fork of Gitea which "one day" (maybe, if the company doesn't change its mind) will be open core. It also runs on AWS…
Not that it's any of my business, but migrating there feels like the code-equivalent of leaving Twitter for Bluesky: Moving from one company-owned walled garden to the next, without having learned a lesson. All painted in a nationalist cash grab. 🤷♂️
I've spent the day in my Slackware bubble; on this computer the latest hyprland with nwg-shell.
Of course all runs well; had some great hints and my dots were still available on my Codeberg.
Only one real challenge: installing all of the Rust stack (and that involves a ton of dependencies).
Not bcs I'm a dev, but because I want eza and have a go at wezterm 😆 !
As you know, you'll have to install those separately and by yourself on Slackware. Keeps our garden nicely walled 😜
Tired El Dorado Sunflower, Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, Santa Barbara, California, USA. March, 2025. #santabarbarabotanicgarden #flower #flowerphotography
Survey: Q1 How big is your phone? What else would you carry in a belt bag? I made some that fit my iPhone 11 hard case (I made these 6.5”x5” x2”), but know other people carry bigger phones and more stuff...
Q2 These fit 32-43” waist (adjustable). In future bags what waist size range should I make? Maybe a 28” and up? (I’ll look at garment sizes too. I want to fit the widest range possible.) PS. The red sparkle bag has a glow in the dark stripe! Thanks infinitely in advance!
#vinylbags #bagmaker #handmade #glowinthedark
This week instead of a playlist with random rock/metal stuff, I'm working on Progressive Metal playlists. :blobkeyboard:
First one has:
- "Tiara" by "Seventh Wonder"
- "The Waking Hour" by "Age of Artemis"
- "Secret Garden" by "Angra"
- "V: The New Mythology Suite" by "Symphony X"
- "Contingent" by "Pyramaze"
(no Dream Theater, sorry!)
YT Music: …
It's #hosta season! With a new #huecheca/coral bells.
And hidden in the #vinca, this little #hydrangea cutt…
El Dorado Sunflower, Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, Santa Barbara, California, USA. March, 2025. #santabarbarabotanicgarden #flower #flowerphotography
Lincoln Cathedral, April 2025
#photography #heritagephotographer #documentingplaces #lincoln
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden & Mark Ermler:
🎵 Rose Adagio (The Sleeping beauty Op.66)
#PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky #OrchestraoftheRoyalOperaHouse #CoventGarden #MarkErmler
Today I got the key to our new communal garden.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Frederick Delius, BBC Concert Orchestra & Barry Wordsworth:
🎵 The Walk to the Paradise Garden
#FrederickDelius #BBCConcertOrchestra #BarryWordsworth
Finished a bag using vintage automotive vinyl! I think it was for a bench seat truck because the pattern repeats horizontally. I had to force myself to get through my perfectionism blockage. #bagmaker #vinylbags #sewing #handmade #vintagematerials #betterdonethanperfect #nakatsubyjna
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #InTune
Frederick Delius, London Symphony Orchestra & John Barbirolli:
🎵 The Walk to the Paradise Garden (A Village Romeo and Juliet)
#FrederickDelius #LondonSymphonyOrchestra #JohnBarbirolli