Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

It’s fun how sometimes I manage to do something pretty impressive at wobk and get many people amazed and excited but get no happy chemicals from it,

And then do something completely useless in some obscure ass piece of tech that 3 creatures use and get flooded with them

How are AUDHD brains even real, dawg

companion gardening is frustrating because there's very little research on it, and there's so many compounding factors involved that it's super hard to do the research. but it's also the kind of thing that anyone gardening has seen effects—positive and negative—so you know there's something there, and especially for people like me that do high-density high-biodiversity wild gardening it's very relevant. I'm not the kind to dismiss lore as superstition, a lot of gardener's lore is just stuff that works, but the lore on companions is too contradictory to know what works or not. and I like testing things myself but again, compounding factors.

so thinking on first principles, reasons why companion gardening may work:

- mechanical. "three sisters" principle: a tall plant, a low bushy plant and a climber, together, means they can all share in the sun.
- compatibility of needs. basil likes a lot of water and sun, so does tomato, so if you add both you can just strive to keep that pot well moist.
- overpowering plants. mint grows so much so fast that it can literally overshadow other herbs. but nothing's stopping you from planting it under something tall like corn, or say next to an ivy that's climbing a wall, or to nettles with can stand up to it in growth rates.
- biome/ecology. wild strawberry grows in forests, so it should have evolved to negotiate with a forest-type soil food web, which is fungus-centric. make a foresty soil with lots of wood/bark and leaf mulch etc. and it will probably be happy with other foresty plants like waldmeister or bear garlic. by contrast rosemary grows on sunny dusty meadows and exposed rocks in the Mediterranean, so it will be more bacteria-oriented, so maybe make a sunny pot with thyme and sage. mints are happy with wet boggy soil meaning they're adapted for anaerobics; could probably share a bog-pot with forget-me-not and spring-snowflake, for example (as long as you contain her spready tendencies, e.g. with a lil fence).
- cross-pollination. maybe don't plant dill next to angelica or fennel, because the resulting hybrids are unlikely to taste good. (or do it on purpose to develop your own varieties, but you'll need some guided selection until you develop a tasty hybrid or heirloom.)
- insect repellents: I'm rather sceptical of the idea that if you plant this or that aromatic herb insects wouldn't come because the herb itself is a repellent. rather in my experience plants are able to defend themselves from insects almost perfectly, _as long as_ you have living soil with rich microbiome and the plant is healthy enough (you can proxy this by measuring sugar production with a brix refractometer). what I suspect is happening is that when people plant savoury next to their tomatoes or etc. they're increasing biodiv and general health of the tomato, which is then able to produce more secondary metabolytes and become unpalatable (or just flat-out thicker cell walls, which is enough to shake off aphids).*
- and the one everybody imagines: specific species of plants having evolved compatible or detrimental chemistry together. e.g. allelopathins from sunflowers or brassicas are said to be especially effective at hindering the growth of nightshades.

but there's very little reliable information on this, and I wonder how big of an effect it is, compared to what you get from the basics: plenty of sunlight, adequate watering, and a richly alive soil microbiome that you feed with living things (organic compost, worm tea etc.). like doing periodic drenches of worm tea is like night and day, you can test it yourself in two pots at similar positions, but you'll feel guilty for the plant you deprived of friends when you see how much more the other one grows. I'm not sure how much the companion factors matter if you nailed everything else your plants need. like onions are said to inhibit the growth of beans, but if you plant beans next to onions and they don't grow, it's hard to be sure if *that's* the reason they didn't grow, it could be so much else.

#wildGardening #Naturgarten

This simple farming technique can capture carbon for thousands of years.
It's called: leaving the fucking oil and coal and gas in the ground.

Vier de kracht en moed van jonge vrouwen, van BIPOC-vrouwen, van trans vrouwen, van ongedocumenteerde vrouwen, van disabled vrouwen en van vrouwen in tijden van genocide en oorlog!

Kom op 8 maart naar de Wereldvrouwendag-manifestatie om 12:00 bij het beeld van Mariken van Nimwegen (Grote Markt, Nijmegen). Vier diversiteit, vier de kracht van de vrouw! Kom samen, juist nu.

The Siemens C60 in a first generation of consumer facing MMS phones did have a camera. Yet didn’t have a camera!

stop giving corporations the benefit of the doubt. there's no doubt, and even if there was, why the hell are you giving them the benefit of the doubt? look where that shit got us. "They probably don't mean what they wrote in that legal document" are you kidding me

Op Wikipedia NL is recent een stemming afgerond over of er überhaupt genderneutrale voornaamwoorden gebruikt kunnen worden, en zo ja, hoe. Gelukkig is die stemming vóór uitgevallen, dus binnenkort zal het eindelijk toegestaan zijn om op Wikipedia NL naar non-binaire personen te verwijzen met voornaamwoorden zoals hen/hun en die/diens!

Maar natuurlijk op de overlegpagina over die stemming weer een weerzinwekkende stroom transhaat...

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overleg_Wikipedia:Stemlokaal/Aanvulling_WP:BLP_over_voornaamwoorden_en_voormalige_namen#Bezwaar_tegen_de_uitslag

Als kers op de 💩-taart toch wel dit stukje:

Maar verder past het goed in deze tijd van botox, opgezwollen lippen en alternatieve waarheden, waarin mannen de, overigens stuitende, miss-verkiezingen kunnen winnen, travestieten de sterren van het Eurovisiesongfestival zijn en mannen de hoofdprijs kunnen winnen in vrouwensporten.

Daarop mijn reactie:

Ik begrijp sowieso niet dat het überhaupt toegestaan is om op Wikipedia uitspraken te doen zoals hierboven. Een post met vergelijkbare abjecte haat jegens andere bevolkingsgroepen zoals zwarte mensen of Joden zou je direct een blok opleveren, maar kennelijk is het oké om queer mensen op dergelijke wijze te bejegenen, en dat moet nu echt eens een keer afgelopen zijn. Ik begrijp überhaupt niet hoe mensen het in hun hoofd halen om zulke uitlatingen publiekelijk te doen. Echt ziekmakend beneden alle peil. Ga je schamen.

En weer een reactie van die 💩:

Of iets beledigend of kwetsend is, is strikt subjectief. Niemand wordt gedwongen dit soort stemmingen, in dubbele betekenis van het woord, te volgen en te lezen. Ik constateer dat het precies degenen zijn die zeggen zich in te zetten voor tolerantie, die zich hier juist uitermate intolerant tonen.

En weerwoord van mij...

Maar nogmaals, als je vergelijkbare uitspraken zou doen over andere bevolkingsgroepen, bijvoorbeeld vrouwen, zwarte mensen of Joden, dan zou je line recta een blok krijgen. Maar kennelijk is het oké hier om queer mensen zo te behandelen. Een beetje empathie en medemenselijkheid is teveel gevraagd tegenwoordig?

Echt waar. Wikipedia editen. Waarom doe ik het überhaupt? Ik word er alleen maar misselijk van.

Incredible, found a classifieds listing for a Packard Bell with an Athlon II... running Windows 10

No, you see, ERP stands for Enterprise Role Play

OH: "Pinata Economics"

this blog post is hard I hope game development isn't as hard as a blog post