i did!! all the flowers are dropping now, as expected

taft avocados, painted by royal charles steadman, 1917

blakeman avocados, painted by royal charles steadman, 1916

Looks like hand pollination season has begun in the greenhouse!

"What are other countries supposed to do?" I don't know, man. Maybe stop letting the U.S. use your military bases to launch strikes on Iran to start? Expel some diplomats? Cut off trade with us? Idk.

@drymifolia.org flowers on two this year.

The project continues! Here are a few of next year's trees, just about ready to start growing after a winter spent in a dark, cold greenhouse

Location tracking by a federally-funded app always on while folks are simultaneously doing ICE watches seems concerning

For some reason the pinned skeet about joining the avocado project has self-deleted, so I guess I'll make another one! If you live in USDA zone 8b or above in Cascadia and you want to torture some baby avocado trees in the name of science, slip into the DMs!

For The New York Times to choose to publish Jesse Singal today, of all times, is a choice to attack trans people, to make them even more vulnerable while they are already under attack. It is an appalling abdication of the Times’s journalistic duties.

The more of these fascist atrocities I see, the more I become an immigration maximalist. Let everyone in, give everyone work permits/green cards. Make it possible to get citizenship within a few months. Make it as easy as getting a driver's license.

This is not meant to be a doomer position: this is meant to motivate you to fight like hell so that we stop them from carrying out these plans! Don't give up!

Mr. Onion with the cleanest explanation I've seen yet of why AI should not be entrusted with important things

NEW: No one has heard from Seattle organizer Frank Gabriel Yzaze Yegres since Friday when he said he would be deported this weekend. ICE lookup system says he's in custody, but won't say where. Advocates demand WA congressional delegation step in www.theburnerseattle.com/post/seattle...

There are only ~7k signed PRO for this right now vs ~30k CON.

emergency shut the fuck up Friday has been declared for all future public defender needers

yeah the feds shot a husband and wife at my gynecologists office. right where i walk with my kids to the train to go downtown or to buy chocolate chip cookies at the middle eastern deli where the owner gives them high-fives. i didn't hear a damn thing. i was reading The Moffats aloud

Lots of police at legacy Emmanuel hospital. They aren’t letting people in unless they need to be seen. They are telling people they are on lockdown due to an “ongoing situation”

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.

Evergreen post

There's no way this is a real color name, c'mon

This diagram shows the flower timing for the A- and B-type trees each individual flower on the trees actually has both anthers and stamens, and follows a two-day open/close cycle in which the flowers themselves alternate functional sex

Balanced polymorphism in a floral transcription factor underlies an ancient rhythm of daily sex alternation in avocado https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.22.695989v1

I have a few species of Rubus available in the nursery currently: R. leucodermis (black-cap raspberry), R. pedatus (strawberry bramble), and R. parviflora (thimbleberry). Let me spotlight a few PNW-native moths that depend on Rubus to rear their young.

If you're near Seattle, don't forget to RSVP for our big action tomorrow! www.mobilize.us/seiuorganizi...

Botanically speaking, a squash is a fruit. A berry, actually!

santa barbara early avocados, painted by elsie e. lower, 1909

This is the tree that has been outside in the ground for the longest of any tree in the project: since January 2021. If the winter is mild enough to avoid damage to the branch tips, it's possible this could flower for the first time next year.

Venezuela Bombs American Drug Yacht, Wiping Out Entire Sackler Family Cartel: tinyurl.com/mr472vs5

Fuzzy wuzzy widdle 🥑

An avocado seed, a slug, and a clump of mushrooms walk into a greenhouse

For anyone who cares, my current favorite whistle to 3d print is: makerworld.com/en/models/11...

King Conservation District’s native plant sale is open for the year!!!

🚨ALERT🚨 A 9 year old US citizen and his immigrant mother are being detained at the immigration office in Tukwila right now. Supporters are being requested at 12500 tukwila international blvd Follow superfamilia_kc on Instagram.

Republicans really are living in a different consensus reality from everyone else, huh?

These articles always depend on a bizarre Schroedinger's Seattle: The city is falling apart due to progressive overreach but we should have re-elected the conservative non-socialist who has been in charge for the last four years.

avocados, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1914

perfecto avocados, 1932

spinks avocados, painted by amanda almira newton, 1917

Title text: "'They really shouldn't let those small cars drive in traffic. I worry I'm going to kill someone if I hit one! They should have to drive on the sidewalk, safely out of the way.'" Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3167#Transcript

The nationwide strike coincides with the company’s popular holiday Red Cup Day, one of the coffee giant’s busiest days of the year.

I say this with all due respect, and maybe even a bit more respect than is due to your left-punching, pedo-protecting, fascism-enabling rag of a paper: Fuck all the way off and stop being a stain on the entire journalism profession.

Congratulations Seattle Times for a clean sweep in the 2025 election—for mayor, city attorney, and city council, all of your endorsed candidates lost!

We gotta abolish the Senate folks

I've started about 500 avocado seeds for this project, but this little seedling is pretty special. This was grown from the seed of the first (and so far only) avocado that has ripened on any tree in the project.

BREAKING: Following trial, Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, finds that Trump did not properly invoke federal law to call up the National Guard and "permanently enjoins Defendants’ orders to deploy federalized members of the National Guard to Oregon."

Ok that's it, Butlerian Jihad now