The teensy #butterfly that is the Dainty Sulfur breeds on a host plant that makes humans cringe and cuss: Spanish Needles. In defense of growing Spanish Needles in my yard, it's a great security plant to grow if you have a problem with prowlers. You've heard of paint tagging an offender, I'm sure--but the seeds of the Spanish Needles hold fast to clothing and are a bitch to remove, so it performs very much like tagging a perp. Not to mention how CUTE these li'l guys are! When they flock around a growth of Spanish Needles, the bunch of 'em looks like yellow glitter.
A few years back, the #Common Buckeye had a huge baby boom over here. Not so much last year even though I have an ample supply of their host plant, Lanceleaf Plantain. They do host on other plants besides that, though. Here's one feasting on the flowers of a Monarch's favorite host plant, the #Honeyvine. YES Honeyvine IS a milkweed!
#WingedWednesday Although #MonarchButterflies have had waning activity here, other butters have been making up much of the difference. Case in point, the overwintering Eastern Black Swallowtails that have come bustin' out all over.
Beware the Okie scramblebrains disinformationist going around the Fediverse claiming that farmers are well off when they aren't. It's @okanogen VerminEnemyFromWithin whose handle is pretty accurate being self-descriptive.
A #farmer might very well have lucrative assets in the form of farmland acreage and high dollar cultivation equipment, but none of that has been able to keep any #farm from being foreclosed on or in need of Willie Nelson's movement, #FarmAid . When you've got land assets and depreciating equipment, you're a prime target for every corporate farming operation to snap up all you own the second you default on a loan, and this has been going on for decades.
KSA contains three sources of geothermal energy: high-enthalpy volcanic intrusives (Harrats), high-enthalpy radiogenic granites, and medium enthalpy hot springs (Fig. 5).
Official support thread for @GottaLaff, who continues to document many cases where Trump and his cronies meet the rule of law. She has to endure continouous and relentless "yes, but" MAGA reply guys and takes the time to scold them for their destructive behaviour. We salute and support you. And everyone that replies to this toot offer his/her/their help to deal with the trolls. You make the Fediverse a hopeful place. On your side.
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My work cycle varies. I work 12 hour shifts so on work days I do not do much more than Work, Sleep and do it again. This Week is a Long Week meaning that there are four days in the work cycle instead of 3. Though the way the Week is broken up I work from this Wednesday to next Sunday. Though Sunday is actually counted as one of the days on next weeks work cycle. So I work 5 consecutive days. Have 3 off, then work 2 days and have 4 off. That is what my work cycle breaks down to. During a Work cycle I do not have a lot of time to do much besides work and rest as already stated.
I will keep an eye on the server and make sure it stays up. I cannot do much more than that. Last night there was down time due to the MariaDB shutting down. This is likely yet more configuration Tuning.
If you setup up a LAMP or LEMP and install Friendica, turn on debugging the error logs go nuts. There are many known issues with the code base though 99.8% of them are non terminal. So they get worked around for now
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Work Cycle
My work cycle varies. I work 12 hour shifts so on work days I do not do much more than Work, Sleep and do it again. This Week is a Long Week meaning that there are four days in the work cycle instead of 3. Though the way the Week is broken up I work from this Wednesday to next Sunday. Though Sunday is actually counted as one of the days on next weeks work cycle. So I work 5 consecutive days. Have 3 off, then work 2 days and have 4 off. That is what my work cycle breaks down to. During a Work cycle I do not have a lot of time to do much besides work and rest as already stated.
I will keep an eye on the server and make sure it stays up. I cannot do much more than that. Last night there was down time due to the MariaDB shutting down. This is likely yet more configuration Tuning.
If you setup up a LAMP or LEMP and install Friendica, turn on debugging the error logs go nuts. There are many known issues with the code base though 99.8% of them are non terminal. So they get worked around for now. I will eventually start refactoring code. Though in the mean time I have to keep the server up and running. My instance is Pristine that does not make it special it means that I have not modified any of the code base at all. I have only modified the settings. It is not actually a Vanilla installation as I do use Addons. So if Friendica works on other Instances then it will work here as well. Though it is my understanding that most Friendica Admins deal with the types of issues I am overcoming.
I will be around more after my work cycle. I hope everyone has a great week!
It's called Dereliction of Duty because a duty of the Executive Branch is to faithfully execute the laws of the United States, under which law enforcement resides.
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has been accused of ignoring or flat-out defying recent federal court orders, with two judges now weighing contempt findings against officials.
A farmer's "wealth" is in the fair market value of all the acres he/she owns, as well as in the form of farming equipment assets, so the "wealth" factor people claim farmers have is overblown because it's not liquidity wealth.
Few people understand modern farming. The consolidation, the incredible inherited wealth, how most farmers borrow to the hilt against their property for new equipment, new pickup trucks, new toys. How many farmers have huge contracts to supply corporate producers, and then the subsidies and set asides. That clown whimpering about the green initiatives and limits on applications "reducing yields" is never going to tell you the rest of the story.
@okanogen VerminEnemyFromWithin The snag in that scheme is that the farmer needs liquidity to repay the loan plus interest. Debt doesn't make one wealthy either.
Fucking moron. Most farmers have millions in inherited land. They borrow against it for millions in operating capital and to fund millions in capital equipment and toys that they either write off as biz expenses and or depreciate against income earnings. Yes, they pay back those loans using the operating capital that they borrow, and also derive large incomes from the crops they produce Those aren't the only liquidity tricks they use you absolute oxygen thief.
Criticism of the United Nations often centers on the paralysis of the Security Council, its divisions, vetoes, and geopolitical entanglements creating the impression of an ineffective international body.
Boy, add "extremely high quality vintage sewing machines" to the giant pile of stuff that is almost free if you know how to tune them up. I guess no one needs industrial strength metal sewing machines anymore. (this is a Singer 15 clone, postwar Japan, made with permission of Singer). #random #ReduceRepairReuse
@Unus Nemo Eventually, yes, sort of. It took time, of course. There does appear to be a bigger propagation issue with Friendica My Portal, which explains a lot about poor results during Hashtag Games. Rogue Project has better results.
Maybe My Portal does not have a relay setup? Though a relay should not effect say a comment to a post on another instance. It will increase propagation to other nodes that you have no direct contacts on. If those nodes are on the same relay of course.
Is it just my area, or are others in the United States seeing supply chain issues? My store was out of a lot of stuff and they said the warehouses were not getting certain products from manufacturers.
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Since when? HF radio has no such shortcomings when you don't take its envelope and try to modulate visual frequencies with it. That's a fool's errand. Not just with HF but VHF and UHF. I suspect the article is actually talking about GHz frequencies. That's just not HF, sorry.
A major bottleneck with high-frequency wireless communications is the conversion from radio frequencies to optical signals and vice versa. This is performed by an electro-optic modulator (EOM), whi…
Look up JD Vance and Acretrader and you will understand why they want farmers to fail.
They will basically be able to buy up prime farmland at fire sale prices once these farmers go bankrupt.
Dems had a plan called “Investing in Rural America”, but I guess Trump-voting farmers would rather make $7.25/hr in shoe factory and pay $50 for a Gildan blank.
Agricultural products: How Trump’s trade war with China might hurt the American farmers who voted him in | cnn.com/2025/04/13/business/am…
#MonarchMonday When it's late in the migration season and the Monarch cats I've taken into protective custody achieve adulthood, I know that I can give them a shortcut to the late migration route, since I know where it is already, and so when there's frost in the forecast, I know where they'll still be safe close to that route and provide limo service there. Photo shows a Monarch perched on the backrest of the passenger side of the car, taking in the sights through the window.
#MonarchMonday In a previous post I did say that there were not quite twice the number of Monarchs overwintering in Mexico than there were last year; The World Wildlife Fund has been keeping track, and here's their chart, which is still alarming even so.
There'll be more on the topic April 20th on "60 Minutes" when Monarch Watch retiree, Chip Taylor, gets interviewed.
#MonarchMonday I've been behaving myself on this instance so far, but be ye warned that when it's Caturday, I'll post caterpillar pictures. They're cats too. This pic is of a 5th instar cat eating the peel off of a seed pod of a milkweed vine called Honeyvine. Too often it's not recognized as a milkweed and is removed under the belief that it is "invasive". It is not--its "problem" is that the seeds are highly vigorous and they don't all emerge at the same time; the ones that delay, or emerge during the pre-fall emergence event, give the impression that they've come up from neighboring vines. They do NOT.
#MonarchMonday This is a somewhat side-view of a Monarch egg in the process of hatching, so if you look closely, you can see that this, too, looks like just a black head up top but you can also see a tiny white patch where the mandibles are--this kid is getting a grip on a shell ridge to chew on to break out.
@Nazani The States have had weird weather for the past 3 years running, so you're not alone. They've also severely dropped in population number, too. We do have hope this year because compared to last year, the overwintering population in Mexico was not quite but almost doubled this year. I too had zero Monarch activity last year, and very meagre the prior year. It can only get better, I hope.
#MonarchMonday This is a pic of a Monarch egg that's fully ripe and ready to hatch, with the caterpillar's tiny black head at the top of the egg, as you're looking down on it.
#MonarchMonday Those migrants haven't reached the north central part of Oklahoma yet but according to Journey North, they've appeared in the southern part of the state at this point...so here's a pic of past Monarch activity here. This is a portrait of a newly hatched bebby.
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in reply to okanogen VerminEnemyFromWithin • •The snag in that scheme is that the farmer needs liquidity to repay the loan plus interest. Debt doesn't make one wealthy either.
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in reply to okanogen VerminEnemyFromWithin • •Ya, no imaginary mumbo jumbo pulled from your ass is going to provide a clue.
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