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Maynard MA | conservationist & gardener | one polite goblin
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this asshole snoozing it up while I file our taxes 👺 #dogs

Not to downplay the beauty of nature on its merits, but I do think the wood in the foreground looks like an anthropomorphized rabbit playing a guitar #MaynardMA

We must watch for a breach in the living wall that hemmed us in; the wall that had only admitted us in order to shut us up.

Photographer Lee Miller (left) and Tanja Ramm, breakfast in bed at Lee’s Paris studio, 1931 #womensart #SundayMorning

this is objectively hot, right? it's not just me

✨Plant Spotlight🔎✨: Aristolochia arborea is a tree native to El Salvador, Guatemala & Mexico, w/ flowers that mimic the appearance & scent of mushrooms 🍄‍🟫 This attracts fungal gnats that carry pollen from plant to plant, aiding in the pollination of this species 🪰🌸 #plantappreciationday #NYBGscience

It is simply a real mistake to let the evil heartless people in the world cause you to become more evil and heartless

UK artist Jane Perkins creates artworks by #recycling found and waste materials such as plastic toys, beads, buttons and shells #WomensArt

Toby, the Learned Pig

Ruth Miller, artist who creates hand-embroidered portraits from her studio on the Mississippi Gulf Coast #womensart

Look at that face. St. Lawrence was an early treasurer of the Church, and when the Roman emperor Valerian demanded he hand over the riches, he gathered a bunch of poor people, disabled people, widows etc, and said, "this is our true wealth," and now he's the patron saint of COMEDIANS

This whole thread is A+.

you're gonna wanna see this

Without saying your age who was your animated crush

wondering if it's worth doing a psychological deep-dive on a character who has reached higher echelons of a secret society and also reads his young daughter's diary and then gloats to her about it

Signs of spring, ranked.

Arundhati Roy, "Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing."

One time I found a magic pen and this happened

every time Elon suffers my health replenishes like Link in a fairy fountain

"How can the new world come?"

This video is funnier without context, but it is worth noting that Myra is vibing here despite a scary thunderstorm outside. (Song is "Smile Jamaica" by Chronixx.) #dogs #reggae

Weird: on either side of this mural there is a child with water (?) gathered in its skirts, being pulled away from the naked man by its hair

Urban trees, even small ones, can reduce water run off by 25%!

The raised hand is reportedly meant to indicate blessing, but this sure does look like world-spanking.

.... Sciatica?

What services do insects provide, and what would the world be like without them? 🪲 Watch the interview on pesticides and #InsectDecline with @paneurope.bsky.social and @davegoulson.bsky.social 🔽 www.pan-europe.info/blog/pestici... #Entomology #SaveOurInsects #InsectScience

Happy 97th birthday to this diary entry and #LifeGoals moment from Virginia Woolf

You have to wonder if anybody in the 40s read this and was like ugh, virtue-signalling, can't I just read about a guy punching airplanes in peace

"we stand for the rule of law."

This is true. We don’t know the lifespan of Yellow Birch because they are commonly hollow. Despite this, we have documented one at 363 years and another one that is 406 years. Although dead, we have documented 4 of 10 Paper Birch 210-223 yrs