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obviously dont have much to report on this blog since starting my emt program except for the knowledge that in addition to normal grain entrapment problems involved with falling into a silo you can also get horrible crush injuries like a sick and twisted monkeys paw fable. blood flow cut off from the extremities by the weight of your own bushels. one minute youre on the silo the next minute youre in a nutty putty cave ass corn nightmare. this happens to people

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so was anybody gonna talk about the new ecology paper proposing Ethiopian wolves as potential pollinators of native nectar-rich flower inflorescences positioned on stalks conveniently within wolf enjoying height AND that it includes photos of said wolves doing said unconfirmed alleged pollination (delightful) AND that it has observational evidence suggesting some wolves do like 1 flower and are done and other wolves just get really into it and spend upwards of an hour going between 20 and 30 flowers for up to 4-5 minutes per cluster just utterly going at it, lost in the nectar sauce? because I cannot BELIEVE I haven’t seen something on this webbed site about it yet. it just has everything this site enjoys

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Hey plant man, I like your plant posts. Should give us a lil plant post to rotate in our brains if you have some time. Take this as permission to sling spaghetti at the wall for whatever Plant Stuff has been in ur head

(I also feel like i should tell you that I cannot for the life of me remember when I started following this blog but going through your lichen posts had me telling all my direct family members how much lichen now baffles me, so thank u for reminding me that Science Does Not Know All)

for years i've strongly envisioned a plant museum exhibit i would make if i ever became the guy who got to do that. imagine the biggest wall in the exhibit dedicated to showing how lepidodentrons became modern plants (and it would be utilized for that instead of some crowd pleaser dinosaur because of isoetes favoritism for me only, i would insist the space be used like that instead of something more cohesive. I would take the public and say LOOK AT IT). it starts at the left side with a life-sized lepidodendron silhouette and shows species getting smaller and smaller along the wall until the far right, where there's an aquairium with isoetes collected from the closest healthy isoetes population, preferably in the same area so people can be like 'whoa so close to us'.

version two of this exhibit would be to just have a tank of local isoetes beside a life-sized lepidodendron silhouette or replica so you could compare the sizes more directly. version three of this exhibit would be to put a tank of isoetes at that place in scotland that has the grove of fossilized lepidodendron stumps still upright in place from when their grove got flooded for the last time.

any of these would have merch in the gift shop too by the way.

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very obvious that carnivorous plants live in the wild but none of my times seeing carnivorous plants in various commercial and enthusiast settings had prepared me for almost stepping on them at [redacted southeastern US location] i got to go to on the conference plant field trip last weekend. they were actually eating flies and stuff next to like mud and grass and some sand. sundews and pitcher plants there too. just in the bushes. crazy stuff out there folks

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funniest carnivorous plant thing is having really tall flowers to avoid accidentally eating their own pollinators. me in the nutrient sparse bog solving one problem and instantly creating another

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I bought a 30 year old car and drove it cross-country back home. The other day I was taking some of it apart to work on it, and all manner of seeds and other flora that are not indigenous to my region came tumbling out. There was Spanish moss so old it turned to dust when I touched it. This plant matter traveled 3 decades and 2,000 miles to be here with me. How about that huh

this is also modern megafauna dispersal. seeds will be like oh man im so ready to fall off, i have so much food and water saved, if only a very strong and fast creature beyond my comprehension would carry me 2000 miles to a soil patch that looks like this one but different. nothing has changed

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its crazy that cacti can be as rotund as they are. saw 4 over the past few days in the middle of nowhere wilderness with what i could describe as softball type shit going on. an optimal form of creature is an orb in the desert with like 3 huge flowers and you cannot even touch it btw (in case you were unaware of the dangers)

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The sunporch roof has a bad leak, which we're going to be fixing shortly. I'm moving plants into the den so they're not underfoot for that.

However. I've also been staging hobbit gear in there. And now it looks like I'm prepping for a gotdam jungle expedition

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I will NEVER see a prehistoric dinosaur

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would you?

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forget mammoths, bring back dire wolves! wolves but bigger, what could go wrong. while we’re on the subject why not make some other animals dire. i’d love to see a dire iguana or something

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me and the boys have a couple of chains wrapped around the sword in the stone hooked up to mikes toyota tundra gonna pull that fucker out like a tooth.

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hell is full. heaven is full. god created a new holding space for souls called hurgle and the only thibg to do here is this infinitely expading jigsaw puzzle of a finely detailed pigeon. we are just slowwwwwly creating little tufts of feathers for eternity . yesterday , greg found a corner piece

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Old, but still relevant

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I’m not haunting the narrative I’m third-wheeling it. The narrative doesn’t really want me there but l’m trying to hang out anyway