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

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE MUST CREDIT: Lunch for jurors in the “sandwich guy” trial are a variety of sandwiches, according to a source familiar with lunch.

There is such a thing as a free lunch at the "sandwich guy" trial: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

My latest about contingency plans (or lack of them) for increased ICE enforcement and/or National Guard deployment in Seattle. If you've been hoping SPD might intervene on behalf of Seattle residents, you might want to read until the end.

Pablo Moreno Gonzalez is testifying in the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman about the conditions inside the ICE facility in west suburban Broadview. Gonzalez says he is 56 and was born in Mexico but has lived in Chicago for 35 years.

if you see that AI-generated video going around, of some NYPD officer telling an ICE officer what he’s doing is against the law, one straightforward way to tell it’s AI is this will literally never happen

Puget Ridge Edible Park is a Seattle City park that for ten years has been developed and funded through the efforts of volunteers.

I'm sure someone else has mentioned this already, but does anyone else wonder if they are trying to spark food riots with the end of food bank support and food stamps? Miller, Thiel, Musk, etc., are accelerationists and that's certainly one way to accelerate things...

A momentous occasion for the project: seedling 666 has been added to the tree database! 😈 www.drymifolia.org/profile.php?...

Tonight I'm working on making a Halloween costume of my 4 year-old's second-favorite @benhatke.bsky.social character (for some reason she didn't want to be her favorite, which is the hill troll neighbor in Nobody Likes a Goblin)

Periodic reminder that this scheming half-wit Goebbels isn’t even a lawyer.

Anyone encountering Greg Bovino out there in the wild please ask him how his balls are doing

This is definitely a joke, but

Rookie numbers, we can do better

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I just realized @noshu4me.bsky.social is on here (though not active recently?), so I wanted to say thank you for making my 4 year-old's favorite song, which she calls "the 'there was a time before the police' song" noshumusic.bandcamp.com/track/yeehaw...

Bruce Harrell’s budget is rage bait, as is his entire mayoral career

Can everyone please get your normie friends to join signal for this kind of thing? Apple, Google, and now Meta have shown they will not allow you to organize your community on their platforms

If the three shittiest right-wing organizations in the greater Seattle area are "a friendly audience" then #youMightBeMAGA

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Poosky for squatters