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Parody botanist Plant-related blog:
http://pattheplants.blogspot.com
I have uploaded some neat but unfinished notes from 16 years of reading about the human uses of the asclepiads. From delicious vegetables to blue dyes to rival indigo, deadly poisons to medicines traded world-wide. And string. 1/2
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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
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I have seen that camera valued at $9,000. The information it contains is priceless.
add a skeleton here at some point
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2000 AD Comics
2 months ago
add a skeleton here at some point
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The Terry Pratchett Estate have announced: The Roundworld year for 2026 shall be known as [FX Drum Roll]: The Year of the Curious Squid. Artwork by Discworld artist Paul Kidby.
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Bekah
4 months ago
Ai slop got me like:
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Harry Turtledove
4 months ago
Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)
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Exclusive: Jeremy Corbyn on Peter Mandelson scandal
YouTube video by Peeps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0dP38aqNKA&ab_channel=Peeps
5 months ago
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Billy Bragg - Hundred Year Hunger
YouTube video by Billy Bragg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1axjhKB96to
5 months ago
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The BBC have libelled Guillermo del Toro with the allegation that his previous film credits included Prometheus. They have edited out the heinous lie but given no apology.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Frankenstein: Guillermo del Toro's Netflix adaptation debuts in Venice
Saltburn star Jacob Elordi is unrecognisable as Frankenstein's creation in the new Netflix adaptation.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2x3pye5mjo
6 months ago
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Sajad Alipour
8 months ago
#Dionysia
odora subsp. odora
#Primulaceae
Kermanshah, Iran April 2025 | Elevation: 1850 m This species looks like a natural bonsai.
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Simon Clark
8 months ago
The Met Office is currently looking for people to suggest up to 5 names for storms... It would be great if thousands all suggested the same 5 names (in alphabetical order as that's how storm names appear): BigOil, BP, Equinor, Exxon, Shell.
www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...
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Name our Storms
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-our-storms-call-for-names
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Andy Tattersall
11 months ago
eBay have changed their terms of service and you're automatically opted-in for your personal data to be used for AI development and training. To turn this off, sign into your account click on the Hi (your name)! > My eBay > Account > AI training preferences and you can toggle off the permission.
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'Island of strangers?': Michael Rosen performs new poem for SIr Keir Starmer
YouTube video by Peeps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih0Wdvc296c&ab_channel=Peeps
9 months ago
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Seen on Tumblr
www.tumblr.com/depsidase/77...
9 months ago
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The usual forensic comedy from John Oliver. Lost among the massive promotion of anti-trans dogwhistling from the new fascists.
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Trans Athletes: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flSS1tjoxf0&ab_channel=LastWeekTonight
9 months ago
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Cameo Wood
10 months ago
ネコ飛出し注意 (neko tobidashi chūi) Means “watch for cats darting out” and I love this sign.
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis
9 months ago
Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns
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🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴
10 months ago
If you use the Biodivisity Heritage Library (I use it almost daily), you'll be saddened (and maybe angered😡) to learn that DOGE+Musk+Trump have eliminated its funding. BHL is looking for a new home.
#ILoveBHL
So much f***ing winning.🤬
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-...
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A New Future for the Biodiversity Heritage Library
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives. A global consortium of over 660 contributors, BHL has made more …
https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-future-for-bhl.html?utm_source=BotanyOne&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-week-in-botany-april-28-2025
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John Vibes
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10 months ago
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I don't normally share petitions but I have bought plants from this place and love their ridiculous range of unusual useful plants.
chng.it/46C2bWtq6y
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Sign the Petition
Stop the Destruction of the World-Renowned Dartington Forest Garden
https://chng.it/46C2bWtq6y
11 months ago
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Seems fair.
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French MEP asks US to return the Statue of Liberty
France should take back the Statue of Liberty because the US no longer represents the values that led France to offer the statue, a French MEP said.
https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2025/0316/1502436-french-mep-statue-of-liberty/
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Papa Woof und Krampus und Bleaken
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@rebeccawatson.bsky.social
Have you seen this hilarious/sad story of a French mayor and a fortune-teller who is good at impressions? It is worth embezzling public funds for a really good necromancer, I suppose.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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French town reels from scandal involving mayor and fortune teller
The mayor and fortune teller are both being kept in prison under judicial investigation.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crgg9reyvx7o
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Kewa salsoloides (Kewaceae) grown under lights in Manchester, UK. Anybody else grown these (apart from Kew Gardens obviously)? 2½ petals, very odd. Seed from Ladysmith, South Africa. More photos and info (and Kewa bowkeriana) in my blog article:
pattheplants.blogspot.com/2024/01/kewa...
#flower
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