Anne

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[–] Anne@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago (8 children)

What was that conspiracy theory that they're building an underground data center and the ballroom is just a cover?

Starting to sound a little less wacky...

[–] Anne@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Still waiting for that one to explode

[–] Anne@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Whether or not to just go for it would depend on your investment and goal. Did you spend what you consider to be a lot on your spores? If you decide not to experiment with cultivation, can you return them or resell them? Basically, are you going to be wasting your investment if you don't try, or if you try and fail? Then, what's your goal? Learning because it seems like a fun hobby, or just getting these specific mushrooms right the first time?

Personally, I'd just go ahead and try as best as you can. Use the advice you got, but don't stress about it if it's not perfect. The most likely failure is nothing will grow and you'll have wasted whatever you spent on materials and a little time. Absolutely worst case scenario is that contamination in your substrate somehow introduces a different kind of mushroom that you weren't expecting and - again worst case scenario - you don't realize it's the wrong kind of mushroom and eat it and die. That seems wildly unlikely, though.

[–] Anne@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Up front, yeah, I absolutely didn't read all of that. I am an amateur forager, and while I'm confident enough to sight identify common edibles and eat them, I don't consider myself to "know about mushrooms" either. My problem with your comment is that it's just as bad as AI giving advice; people might skim through and take it as fact without reading your little disclaimer, just like people skim through and take AI as fact without knowing better. That probably seems fine on the surface because your comment is just the opposite of the meme and, if followed, your advice will definitely prevent anyone getting poisoned. Unfortunately, it also will really discourage anyone interested in foraging. I'd hate for someone to miss out on a fun, healthy hobby because you can't just keep your shit to your self.

Lemmy has communities where people who know what they're talking about can give actual good advice. Please seek one out!

[–] Anne@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (5 children)

i do not know much about mushrooms

We can tell

[–] Anne@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

They Cage the Animals at Night by Jennings Burch

[–] Anne@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

I saw this movie for the first time at a sleepover with a group of girls I was trying to befriend at a new school, where I had just moved for reasons related to my brother dying the year before. I had chosen the 'never talk about it' coping mechanism and so of course whoever picked the movie had no idea the drama they were about to unleash ... But hoooo boy those girls had a ROUGH evening with the weird new kid lmao! The one girl's Mom was absolutely amazing though, she baked brownies from scratch and made us all brownie sundaes because we needed so much soothing.

[–] Anne@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Built a little greenhouse in the spring, and planted peas, jalapeno, zucchini, cucumber, lettuce and... One pumpkin seed on a whim.

So, the pumpkin grew like Audrey 2 and choked out everything but the jalapenos. 😒 On the bright side, everyone in my office is getting a free pumpkin to carve this year! Whether they want it or not.

a small greenhouse absolutely overran with pumpkin

[–] Anne@lemmy.world 34 points 3 months ago (1 children)

LMAO at all these dude saying it's about shit talking. Nah, home girl got her eyebrows waxed and the waxer wants to know if she needs her lip done too... it hurts. Do not recommend.

[–] Anne@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago (3 children)

white peahen hanging out with chickens

I had a white peahen show up in my yard and hang out with my chickens once. She stayed all afternoon, ate scratch with the flock, then just wandered off into the woods.

We're in the northeast US, so she definitely wasn't wild, and it took forever to identify her because WTF was a white peahen doing here 🤔

[–] Anne@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

He is at risk of being injured or killed by a car, predatory animals, crazy people, etc. not to mention the damage that he and his friends are doing to the small wildlife in the area... Bringing friendly, adoptable strays to a shelter is the right thing to do.

 

Look at that honker!

a row of morels, featuring one big honker the length of my hand from base of the thumb to tip of the index. fat and juicy

 

She's hoping that you'll trip over her. If you go around, she'll lunge out at your ankles. Loads of fun either way!

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Taffy Cat (lemmy.world)
 
 

We just got a batch of ten baby chicks! Two days old and they are already having a blast climbing and jumping off a little rock and sticks. This batch are all females, and are a random variety of "exotic" chickens. When their real feathers grow in it'll be fun to figure out what breeds we got!

They are just in an XL dog crate with foil insulation around the bottom edge, and a red heat lamp hanging from the top of the crate. I don't know if the foil actually helps retain any heat, but it does keep the chicks from escaping. It's a high security henitentiary.

 

My flock befriended this strange white bird today. It's the large one in the background of the attached pictures. It's the size of a small turkey, grey and white, with a prominent crest. It ate some scratch with my girls, then ate some wild blackberries, and departed into the woods.

We're in upstate NY. I've never seen a bird like this before. It almost looks like a peacock but, again, it's white and we are in upstate NY.

The girls liked her, she seemed harmless - they usually lose their shit if even a little sparrow tries to snag some scratch. They alert me to turkeys and deer regularly but didn't mind this stranger at all.

Can anyone help me identify this bird?

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