#they like dirt and watering plants

[jamiesfootball]

Just had the biggest galaxy brain idea of all how about Sam Obisanya fights Jamie’s dad in a parking lot

#it’s a trap of course #Sam’s too classy to fight #but he could go a few verbal rounds before Tartt Sr got a word in I guarantee it #and then the police can swoop in and arrest him on whatever dirt Moe planted #meanwhile jamie is having brunch with Ola going ‘this is so weird sir Sam’s never late’ #and Ola is just like ‘i know it’s so crazy right? now eat up Im taking you boys to the water park later’ #jamie tartt #sam obisanya #ted lasso spoilers #sort of

[canonically-a-genloser]

also btw can i say i hate capitalism

#my boss . *points to 500 plants* yeah u can weed the moss off the top of all of them in two hours. no u cant sit and drink water #holy fuck that job is a shitshow #i had a massive mental breakdown there last year the day the first genloss episode streamed #fuckin great way to remember that anniversary #AND my boss is currently tryna turn me into a manager there. bestie that is a Fuck to the No #im quitting once hes done with me this year. im not goin to fuckin plant college for that job nuh uh #all i want to do is join an indie production company and draw and or voice little guys for a living i dont like dirt #im just a little guy i cannot live laugh love in these conditions #it might be time for mansplain manipulate malewife except the malewife is randy #i mean i can be the malewife too. whatever hes into

[snekdood]

idk who needs to hear this but growing native plants is not hard at all, at all

#you could be starting seeds RIGHT NOW assuming your last frost date is some time in april or somethin #put the seeds in the fridge in moist sand or a moist paper towel #if its too late buy them from the fuckin store somewhere. or wait till next fall and toss em on the ground after mild tilling #throw some metal mesh of some sort over it to protect it from the rodents and BOOM. there ya go. the seeds are cheap asf too #its hard to kill a native plant. they naturally grow in that environment for a reason. #you can go a day or two without watering sometimes in summer and still be fine (depending on the plant ofc & if theyre potted) #idk its just. like. so easy. everyone could do it. everyone SHOULD do it. #in an apartment? get a window flower pot and plant some in there. #no excuses to not try and do the bare minimum. every piece of turf grass you see should fill you with violent rage to the point where #your body feels physically compelled to grow native plants in retaliation. #some you can even grow inside. i have some vine cuttings im growing inside rn that i started some time last year at the end of summer #from a wild plant outside. just look up how to grow it. watch the jankiest video you can find first. #i trust the guy with the scuffed set up thats shakily holding his phone scooping home-made dirt into a red solo cup over the #pristinely filmed shots of a garden and a man all dressed up nice #i mean idk hes prolly got some good advice too i just trust the other guy more ykno #give a fuck #literally tho this vine is so tall rn its touching my ceiling sdvvfsdhgdfs idk wtf imma do with it. #but i love it and its one of my favorite native plants and i LITERALLY grew it in a fuckin red solo cup.

[toytulini]

should be illegal to go to bed w a headache and then. wake up w a headache

#toy txt post #why does it still hurt i laid down in the dark for hours with an icepack and tried to sleep! #next thing im trying is caffeine!!!!!!! #worst part is it was like #i was fine all day. then i showered. then i got out if the shower and my ears felt a little weird. then i went outside #to shake off the towels i potted plants on the day before and to toss out the old dirt. and after that it was like game over #my ears were hurting so bad and then they finally stopped hurting but then i had a headache #like the fuck is going onnnnn #evil #and then when i went to bed i wasnt even tired i was BORED but trying to be good and self care and make the headache go away #and it dodnt even work???? like god fuck this i shouldve said fuck it and played more side order #blast my stupid head and brain with bright colors and bright fast paced video game if this is how its gonna act #i did the things i drank water i ate food to take ibuprofen and then brushed my teeth and took eepy meds and went to bed with an icepack #SO WHY IT STILL HURT

[rahleeyah]

I really made that post like an hour ago about not having any water and then decided now would be a good time to re-pot the orchid someone gave me as a birthday present

#me with dirt all over my hands looking at my thirsty plant: I've made a huge mistake #it's ok i keep bottled water in the closet for hurricane season I'm gonna be ok but like wow that was dumb

[theater-of-dimensions]

I just found the cutest worm in my apple 🥺 it was a very nice orangey salmon pink and like 3 mm long

#Tbc it was an apple from the tree in our yard so it's 100% fine and normal to find a worm #Because the only quality control those apples go through is me looking at them and being like 'yeah that looks edible' and yoinking it off #But it was just funny because I was eating it while watering some plants so I wasn't paying attention to the apple #And I glanced down and this lil guy was just sitting where I had just bitten off a chunk lookin at me like 'bro wtf my house' #Anyway I fucking love nature and animals and there is so much biodiversity in one yard #I was going around kicking all the puffy dandelion heads to spread the seeds more #And I walked into one corner of the yard and looked down and the grass below was *teeming* with life #Like it looked like the plants were moving #Because there were so many little crickets hopping around #And also the echinacea is in full bloom surrounded by raspberries so there are So! Many! Bees! #They're all out here in their lil puffy sweaters!! #RHSLDHOKSBDHKSDHSK THE NATURAL WORLD IS SO FULL OF WONDER AND I AM SO FULL OF LOVE #Anyway shoutout to Coyote Peterson and the Brave Wilderness yt channel for making me be normal about bugs #Because to be clear I absolutely do still have a phobia of them #But! They're just so shaped! #Edit: sure hope that worm didn't have any roommates because if so. uh. I ate them :/ #I'm pretty sure it was just the one though #It was right at the bottom in the like fuckin butthole of the apple (idk what it's called); it looked like it was full of dirt and goo #(which I assume is the worm's poop and other slime idk) #I thoroughly rinsed it off with the garden hose so we good

[yardsards]

why is basil such a Thirsty Little Bitch

#eliot posts #she is my FUSSIEST houseplant #and i am including my venus flytrap who needs to be watered with distilled water in that list #granted most of my other house plants are very low maintenance but still #but like. you're one day late to water the basil and it droops over melodramatically til you water it again and then leaves fall off #hell idk if even a full day late i'll touch the dirt and it'll be reasonably moist and then i wake up the next day and she'll be Weeping #why did i decide owning 17 houseplants was an okay decision to make

[terrarium-tonic]

My bank account hates me...

But j love it

So i have a terrarium now.

I also have a monstera deliciosa.

I have craved these things explicitly for a long time now

It took a while to get the monstera sitting right and I've had 2 new leaves open out since i got it!!

I watered her today and oh boy did she drink. Hopefully she'll keep on growing and dripping water from her pretty leaves

#plants #monsteraplant #terrarium #dirt #watering #growing #tank #plant parent #i will be the greatest plant parent this world has seen and i will sit under my mighty monstera like a small gnome

[six-of-ravens]

lowkey talking myself out of gardening tomorrow lol

#on one hand i want the gardening stuff out of the living room #on the other I don't want More garden in the living room and more plants to water #i like. burnt myself out on gardening last year lol #also fuuuuuck I don't want to go all the way to the greenhouse #i want walmart to simply have dirt for me #maybe I'll check the hardware store tomorrow. they had dirt early last year #i want to at least plant my tomatoes...

[khloros]

My dying houseplant and I are chillin in the sun both trying to absorb nutrients we are currently lacking. Bestie activities <3

#I have no idea what kind of plant he even is #I stole him from momma because she was going to put him outside in the cold to put him out of his misery #which is like. I don’t understand why you would do that. It’s a plant. #like just water it and see if it comes back. it literally had some green leaves left. #I think she felt guilty because she forgot about it in a hot dark room and never watered it #anyways #I took him and I watered him and I removed his dead leaves #and guess what? #he’s growing a whole new stem/branch thing 🥰 #again I have no idea what kind of plant he is. he just looks like a bunch of sticks in dirt rn #but he has so many new leaves coming out!! and they’re everywhere! #I’m so proud of him #he hasn’t gotten a lot of sunlight but I don’t want to overwhelm him so I’m just bringing him with me for some temporary sun time #I’m drinking coffee and having a chat with him :) he’s such a sweetie #I believe in him #we’re both gonna get through this little buddy #we’re gonna live!!! #I guess it just bothers me that someone would give up on a living thing just because it’s not doing good #especially when it’s an easy fix #like what if we tried believing in the future. what then. what if this plant would florish if we just gave it a chance #anyways. I love him #my post #houseplant updates

[iloveyoumorethansoup]

I have no love the way I have love for my plants it is ridiculous the degree I care about these guys

#I’m like falling asleep on my feet and I see my aloe plant and I’m like no absolutely not my little friend looks so so sad #bestie is getting repotted right this instant #and the other night at almost midnight it was looking so sad I had unpotted it and discovered the problem (root rot) and drove to the store #immediately. without question. went to hunt for dirt #couldn’t find any so I went back first thing the next day #every time I move cross country I drive so I can take care of my plants #every Tuesday I make sure they’re watered and looking nice #my blinds are always open so they’re never starved of light #most of my plants I’ve had for years now #my aloe plant for about 5 I think #i love my plants very much #they keep me on a schedule and remind me to open the windows #i think they take care of me arguably as much as I take care of them #soup talks

[stabbystiletto]

His name Arty, yes he is a good boy but he is also a bit spicy so no petting or else 🖐🖐🖐🩸🩸🩸🩹🩹🩹 yes i learned this the hard way lololol 😆😆😆😆

#you tell yourself 'I'll just be really really careful' but no you will get stabbed and sliced and diced lololol 😆😆😆 #you say 'stabby he's so dirty :(' and yes he is #i did not realize that you should fill the pot with dirt then make a hole then put the plant in #i put in the plant and then i tried to dump the bag of dirt in all around him #i do not know anything about gardening 🙃 #I've always loved succulents though they're so frickin cool and beautiful and water saving and awesome and perfect and i love them lol🥰🥰 #some day i wanna get a saguaro cactus like one of those big suckers 🌵🌵🌵😎😎😎😍😍😍 #pricklier the better #anyways my dream is to just be surrounded by these pokey shits 🌵🌵🌵😆😆😆🥰🥰🥰💖💕 #if i can keep him alive for a couple months i wanna try to get another one we'll see how this goes lol 🤞🤞🤞 #agave parryi truncata #shitpost lol 😆

[reasonsforhope]

As relentless rains pounded LA, the city’s “sponge” infrastructure helped gather 8.6 billion gallons of water—enough to sustain over 100,000 households for a year.

Earlier this month, the future fell on Los Angeles. A long band of moisture in the sky, known as an atmospheric river, dumped 9 inches of rain on the city over three days—over half of what the city typically gets in a year. It’s the kind of extreme rainfall that’ll get ever more extreme as the planet warms.

The city’s water managers, though, were ready and waiting. Like other urban areas around the world, in recent years LA has been transforming into a “sponge city,” replacing impermeable surfaces, like concrete, with permeable ones, like dirt and plants. It has also built out “spreading grounds,” where water accumulates and soaks into the earth.

With traditional dams and all that newfangled spongy infrastructure, between February 4 and 7 the metropolis captured 8.6 billion gallons of stormwater, enough to provide water to 106,000 households for a year. For the rainy season in total, LA has accumulated 14.7 billion gallons.

Long reliant on snowmelt and river water piped in from afar, LA is on a quest to produce as much water as it can locally. “There's going to be a lot more rain and a lot less snow, which is going to alter the way we capture snowmelt and the aqueduct water,” says Art Castro, manager of watershed management at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. “Dams and spreading grounds are the workhorses of local stormwater capture for either flood protection or water supply.”

Centuries of urban-planning dogma dictates using gutters, sewers, and other infrastructure to funnel rainwater out of a metropolis as quickly as possible to prevent flooding. Given the increasingly catastrophic urban flooding seen around the world, though, that clearly isn’t working anymore, so now planners are finding clever ways to capture stormwater, treating it as an asset instead of a liability. “The problem of urban hydrology is caused by a thousand small cuts,” says Michael Kiparsky, director of the Wheeler Water Institute at UC Berkeley. “No one driveway or roof in and of itself causes massive alteration of the hydrologic cycle. But combine millions of them in one area and it does. Maybe we can solve that problem with a thousand Band-Aids.”

Or in this case, sponges. The trick to making a city more absorbent is to add more gardens and other green spaces that allow water to percolate into underlying aquifers—porous subterranean materials that can hold water—which a city can then draw from in times of need. Engineers are also greening up medians and roadside areas to soak up the water that’d normally rush off streets, into sewers, and eventually out to sea...

To exploit all that free water falling from the sky, the LADWP has carved out big patches of brown in the concrete jungle. Stormwater is piped into these spreading grounds and accumulates in dirt basins. That allows it to slowly soak into the underlying aquifer, which acts as a sort of natural underground tank that can hold 28 billion gallons of water.

During a storm, the city is also gathering water in dams, some of which it diverts into the spreading grounds. “After the storm comes by, and it's a bright sunny day, you’ll still see water being released into a channel and diverted into the spreading grounds,” says Castro. That way, water moves from a reservoir where it’s exposed to sunlight and evaporation, into an aquifer where it’s banked safely underground.

On a smaller scale, LADWP has been experimenting with turning parks into mini spreading grounds, diverting stormwater there to soak into subterranean cisterns or chambers. It’s also deploying green spaces along roadways, which have the additional benefit of mitigating flooding in a neighborhood: The less concrete and the more dirt and plants, the more the built environment can soak up stormwater like the actual environment naturally does.

As an added benefit, deploying more of these green spaces, along with urban gardens, improves the mental health of residents. Plants here also “sweat,” cooling the area and beating back the urban heat island effect—the tendency for concrete to absorb solar energy and slowly release it at night. By reducing summer temperatures, you improve the physical health of residents. “The more trees, the more shade, the less heat island effect,” says Castro. “Sometimes when it’s 90 degrees in the middle of summer, it could get up to 110 underneath a bus stop.”

LA’s far from alone in going spongy. Pittsburgh is also deploying more rain gardens, and where they absolutely must have a hard surface—sidewalks, parking lots, etc.—they’re using special concrete bricks that allow water to seep through. And a growing number of municipalities are scrutinizing properties and charging owners fees if they have excessive impermeable surfaces like pavement, thus incentivizing the switch to permeable surfaces like plots of native plants or urban gardens for producing more food locally.

So the old way of stormwater management isn’t just increasingly dangerous and ineffective as the planet warms and storms get more intense—it stands in the way of a more beautiful, less sweltering, more sustainable urban landscape. LA, of all places, is showing the world there’s a better way.

-via Wired, February 19, 2024

#california #los angeles #water #rainfall #extreme weather #rain #atmospheric science #meteorology #infrastructure #green infrastructure #climate change #climate action #climate resilient #climate emergency #urban #urban landscape #flooding #flood warning #natural disasters #environmental news #climate news #good news #hope #solarpunk #hopepunk #ecopunk #sustainability #urban planning #city planning #urbanism

[0ut0fmych3st]

I truly never know anymore if it’s Hephaestus fucking around or Mello. Should be Mello because he’s nocturnal and Hephaestus is diurnal but that’s never stopped the bastard before. At least I know it’s not Charlotte. She can’t be bothered to do more than take a leisurely stroll around her vivarium. Meanwhile Hephaestus tries to break out of his enclosure like it’s a hobby and Mello is a lump in a toilet paper tube until I go to bed. Then he gets gecko zoomies

#hephaestus is literally just a little shit. he’s smarter than us all and he’s bored #he lives in a 90 gallon fish tank with like 9 or 10 inches of dirt #he has plants and a good basking spot and water and is truly living in fire skink heaven #and yet every fuckin day i watch him try to escape. he’s done it before idk why he won’t just go the same way #to keep it interesting? idk like i said he’s smarter than everyone #we cannot possibly hope to know what he’s thinking

[agdab]

2 interactions with one home depot employee here and then she goes and complains to her manager ab me

#work liveblog. #i wasnt rude i was hust like #hey could you water these plants they are literally bone dry #she makes an excuse before walking off and didnt even water the petunias i was holding in my hands while her hose was spraying concrete #second time i just decided to water shit bc she was spraying the leaves/flowers and the dirt was dry as hell #and ahe was just like oh should i not be watering your plants #i said nah ill just do em theyre still dry you need to get into the dirt not do surface level watering its had for the plants #and shortly after that a manager came over ajd was like. oh:( are u having a bad day.... #like yea dog of course i am im having to do someone elses fuckin job #on top of hauling heavy shit and then making YOUR STORE look nice while counting rhen stickering for discount #got the 'oh so sorry:((( anyway be nice to her shes just one person' #DOG SO AM I? HELLO? #hes for sure gonna complain to my boss ab me but like do what ever the fuck i do not care #i fuckin hate home depot employees

[knightpixie]

oh

that's how you make clay in this modpack

#you need to automate bone meal gravel sand and flint #gravel and sand are easy #cobble generator. crush into gravel. filter off some gravel to mill into flint. crush some gravel into sand #bone meal is trickier #composting doesnt work like in vanilla #you need different kinds of plants and it takes time #and it makes compost not bone meal #but compost can be crushed for bone meal #or you can make a tree farm and mix the extra saplings with compost and water #and have a 50% chance of getting one compost extra #then crush that for bone meal #then you also need clay and water #mix together into silt dirt #mix that with water into mud #crush the mud for 25% chance of clay #since one clay makes 8 dirt you effectively double your clay #so you can make more dirt #so you can make other kinds of cobblestone #so you can wash them for more kinds of ores #minecraft #modded minecraft #autoterrafirmacraft