Aaron

Overhead view of Philodendron 'White Wizard'.

Overhead view of Philodendron 'Summer Glory'

Overhead view of a Camouflage Aglaonema

Philodendron erubescens 'White Wizard', Philodendron x 'Summer Glory', and Aglaonema pictum tricolor

Work was slow a couple days ago so I got to play with the light box. Some of these might show up on the DGC Instagram as part of a plant spotlight, but I had a fun time with it and wanted to share.

After playing a few hours of #Civ7 I feel there are a lot of critiques, but it comes down to this: the game has great potential, but it was hamstrung by being both a console and PC release.
First time I've refunded a Civ game; guess I'll be playing Humankind til it goes on sale this summer.

Sometimes, it feels like life just sucks. But then I get to wake up with three cats snuggled up on the bed and I remember that it's not all bad.

When they put the diss track ragging on you at the Super Bowl, into American Sign Language, it so far gone for you. There's now gestures that explain the diss into people who have never heard the song before. The destruction is total. bsky.app/profile/rvbd...

Fact-checking wasn’t “biased” against conservatives. Conservatives just shared more false content. If there’s a sportsball game and one team fouls four times as much, it’s not “biased” for the ref to call four times as many fouls against that team.

@lawfare.bsky.social has launched a new page to keep track of executive actions related to national security and foreign policy, Lawfare analysis of the orders, and the legal challenges against them. Check the page out here: www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-ser...

The way forward is the same as it’s always been - organize your neighborhood, your household, your workplace. Nobody is coming to save us except ourselves. Look out for one another.

The answer to whether Biden's presidency will be considered a failure or if history will pass a kinder judgment is that it absolutely does not matter and you need to get out of the loser mindset of things like being vindicated by "history." Politics is about power and outcomes. It's not a TV show.

Well, I guess I can thank Trump for one thing; watching the tech CEOs cozy up to him has finally given me the motivation to fully get off Facebook. Instagram is gonna be a little more complicated tho.

The Electric State on Netflix | When is an adaptation not an adaptation? Netflix’s upcoming sci-fi adventure The Electric State adapts a much-loved art book by Simon Stalenhag. Or does it?

It can be difficult to judge a film's quality by its trailer, but I'm getting major 'World War Z' vibes from what I've seen. If you're going to make almost no attempt to stay faithful to the tone and story of the original media then don't bother.

I mean we could just build out more nuclear to handle baseload, with a dispersed network of wind & solar to supplement it. We have a much larger population but also significantly more land, we have more than enough space & resources to address these issues if we just had the political will.

Modern plants are both safe and reliable; Fukushima in particular was a perfect storm of bad choices and crazy circumstances. As for the waste, they can bury it under my house if they want considering it's incredibly compact and safe.

It's cleaner than everything except maybe wind and solar; the only real issue is the uranium mining. A modern nuclear plant is clean, safe, and reliable, despite what fear mongering might say.

Nuclear is at least as green as hydro and biofuel though; primary concern is mining uranium, but it's a similar issue for wind and solar as well.

Nothing says “lead the Pentagon” like mommy making phone calls for her very good boy.

Read that as "buy podcasts" and still didn't see a problem here tbh

Spending a month on Bluesky has created a whole new model of a fight we need to be having right now. Not liberal vs. conservative or whatever, but respect vs manipulation.

I am tired of being manipulated everywhere I go. That’s why I like it here, I feel like I’m in charge for once.

Not gonna lie, might have to get one of these. Gotta keep feeding your curiosity and sense of wonder.

Ten Ways Billionaires Avoid Taxes on an Epic Scale After a year of reporting on the tax machinations of the ultrawealthy, ProPublica spotlights the top tax-avoidance techniques that provide massive benefits to billionaires.

New to our work? Back in 2021, we launched a series of stories documenting the key ways that the ultrawealthy — billionaires like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel — avoid taxes.

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Ethics Committee Declines to Release Matt Gaetz Report

The obviously ethical thing to do. It's right there in the name!

We left X and joined Bluesky because those against our parks said, “If you don’t like it, leave.” So we did. And now they’re saying, “No, come back so we can say mean things to you—it makes us feel important.”

Kaoru is just a sleepy lil guy

A 🧵 worth reading.

Growing up in Southern Baptist churches (or 'independent' churches which were adjacent to the SBC), this feels incredibly on-point.

#Dandadan episode 7 was phenomenal. Some of the best TV in years, and I really hope the folks at Science Saru are well-compensated for the incredible talent on display.

Now if you'll excuse me I need to go give my mom a hug

Been losing my mind about this ever since Musk basically said, "It's not an illegal lottery, it's merely fraud." Here's to The Onion one day owning AmericaPAC.

One of these days I'll have an original thought on one of these platforms, but until then enjoy the reposts.

Atlantic Ocean Excited To Move Into Beautiful Beachfront Mansion Soon
theonion.com/atlantic-oce...

the most important survival strategy we can adopt in this new world is to pick one guy to blame for everything going wrong and really just tear his life apart. this brings me back to the subject of Jared Leto,