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Kandiaronk: I have spent six years reflecting on the state of European society and I still can’t think of a single way they act that’s not inhuman, and I genuinely think this can only be the case, as long as you stick to your distinctions of ‘mine’ and ‘thine’. I affirm that what you call money is the devil of devils; the tyrant of the French, the source of all evils; the bane of souls and slaughterhouse of the living. To imagine one can live in the country of money and preserve one’s soul is like imagining one could preserve one’s life at the bottom of a lake.
A “We want to kill black people” sign held by the kkk and a guy standing between them and black people protesting for civil rights holds a sign “compromise?”
We have many years of Platner's (anonymous! sometimes embarrassingly unfiltered!) Reddit history, and there isn't one single hint of antisemitic or pro-Nazi sympathies. Anyone who tells you he's an "honest-to-God Nazi" is either extraordinarily dim or lying through their teeth. Ben Burgis is replying to a wacko
CANCEL ALL DEBT NOW. Replace representative democracy with sortition Citizens chosen by lottery to govern. Join the movement for financial freedom and true democracy
Polypore mushroom with some awesome greens, oranges, browns and some white in there!
A carved pumpkin of a ghost coming out of a pumpkins.
A bunch of chrysanthemum (mums) flowers with soft pink tips that slide to white then yellow from outer edge to the center.
A FRANK FRIEND Your body, your mind, what are they? Eaten food grows your behind, child’s play. Grown from gathered life you are Cut your hand off and stick it in a jar. You’re in two! You're here and trapped afar? Surely not! Hear this and know it true. What you own cannot be you Your hand obeys your will Is it you? Are you eager to die on this hill? Gathered from outside, it's not you still. Writing with clouds, a plane prints out thoughts. You’re the same when thinking about was’s and oughts. A plane could write the word ‘sky’ in effort of wit But the word would not be the true blue, bit would not be it. Is a blank canvas a problem? I’m glad space is empty, does that larn em? What tells the bees to build a hive? What beats your heart keeping you alive? It cannot be named, labels offend it chiefly Words don’t work even when used briefly Searching inward always helps, no matter how measly. What is this life sustaining thing that supports even a sea flea? Look inside and what do you find? What's beneath the raging waves of your mind? Everything you think of is a copy rearranged. Without memory are you gone? A husk deranged? A blue sky, a pretty day, this is your mind defanged. If we miss the sky for the cloud we’d be sorry for certain More happens under the ocean than on the surface. Identity is a crutch Something to lean on when you’ve forgotten. You’re like this moment, eternal, never rotten. Worries of the past and future happen now Engage in life while sap is in the bough. Break your mask and be in the play somehow Cast off, blindly leap, in love please fall. Explore the world, nothing sacred to keep, love all. By: Nathan Traini
I’m multitude of baby blue flowers that two bumblebees are feeding from. The heart leaf Astor or the blue wood. Aster is native to the central and eastern parts of North America.
8 fully in frame tiny white petal’d flowers with yellow centers. Doellingeria umbellata is a perennial up to 200 cm (80 inches) tall, spreading by means of underground rhizomes. It can sometimes produce as many as 300 small flower heads, each with as many as 16 white ray florets and 50 yellow disc florets.
A beautiful purple flower with yellow flowers in the center. Naturalised in several places, including scattered locations in South and Central America, the West Indies, the United States, Australia, and Italy.
Here we have the Mexican daisy just unfurling to bloom. Its pink speckled white flowers and hardy yellow center is striking. This plant is native to Mexico, Guatemala and Costa Rica. It is used as an ornamental plant in many countries, but it is an invasive plant in many areas of the world. It has naturalized in scattered locations across North America, South America, the West Indies, Italy, Australia, and Asia, where it is a garden escape and in some habitats becoming a weed.
Tickseed flower with bright yellow tips and red center. It is found in eastern Canada (Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick) and much of the United States, especially the south-central part of the country (Oklahoma, Arkansas, etc.)
Here is a bright yellow wood poppy flower amongst its green foliage. Its typical natural habitat is moist forests over calcareous rock, particularly in ravines.
A red five petaled flower with a yellow center. species is endemic to the State of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.🇧🇷
This 8 petaled flower is bright yellow with a deep red ring around the stamens. The center it yellow. This plant is native to the US and Canada and has been cultivated in china and naturalized there.
Day 1 of the first signs of flowering. Tiny tubes of light purple erupt. The leaves from this plant have been used as a medicinal tea.
This rose mallow is beautifully pink, with a maroon center. This plant is edible and has been used medicinally for a variety of ailments.
Penstemons have this tubular structure that bees and hummingbirds love. This version is associated with piñon–juniper woodlands, ponderosa pine forests and Douglas-fir forests in the southern parts of their ranges, and with Gambel oak, usually at elevations of 1,200 to 3,000 meters (3,900 to 9,800 ft), but occasionally as high as 3,400 meters (11,200 ft).
Here is a sunflower with mostly red with yellow tipped petals. Native to the western US and Mexico sunflowers have many uses both by wildlife and humans. This wild version boasts multiple blooms on one stalk instead of the single head domesticated species.
This showy orange 6 petal’d flower was one of the first daylily’s used for breeding new cultivars.
20 some orange flowers bunched together typical of butterfly milkweed. To have beautiful surroundings you must do the right things.
Here you see a blue flag iris flower that’s with its yellow center and blueish purple flowers. It’s been beaten up by the constant downpours every week in western Pa.
Two Five petaled blueish purple germanium flowers with their alien-like reproductive organs.
Blue eyed grass has 6 petal flowers light blue with a bright yellow center.
A sundrop flower with its four hand-fan-like bright yellow petals and striking clawish reproductive organs. Native to North America this plant is host to many butterfly and moth species.
A pink orchid with three large pink petals and and dark pink slipper with a yellow inside. It is a terrestrial plant native to the wet montane forests on the eastern slope of the Andes in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
Reddish pink flowers abound on the 3 foot bush, as an ornamental bush not much information is available about any uses. It is the official flower of Unzen, Nagasaki, and of Kagoshima Prefecture.
Purple tubular flowers that little bees crawl in and fall asleep.
A white pedal flower with a yellow center next to a pink flower about to bloom from the same plant.
A bright yellow 5 pedaled flower, with a deep cup with equally spaces brown lines.
A bright yellow flower with 4 pronged petals is very low growing. This plant has evidence of being used in psychoactive regards as a cannabis substitute and folk medicine in Europe.
A close up of rhododendron purple flowers with their amber patterning on the vertical pedal. They bloom in bunches and smell wonderful.
Green and gold Chrysogonum virginianum flowering yellow, beautifully.
Indigenous peoples used this plant as a poultice to treat ulcers and tumors and the roots used to make a tea to help childbirth.
Flowers of many kinds flowering purple, white, red, and yellow burst forth either side of an indoor pond. The white steel and glass greenhouse enclosing this oasis has a teardrop shape. In the back are tall shrubs behind and waterfall feature.
Three bright red 5 petal flowers from the Peregrina. The family Euphorbiaceae is called the spurge family. Some are bushes or trees, and have resemblances to cactus. It is poisonous to eat the Peregrina.
White puffballs with a gradient of green as you get closer to the center. This native US plant is a welcomed whimsical wonder.
Bugle weed in flower as a bee does its thing.
This purplish blue flower struck me as somehow perfect. Its center springing forth with stamens and tiny disk shaped flowers. Petals are flat and has a certain feeling of peaceful existence.
This red spiked puffball is a flower with many hidden healing benefits that are only useful now due to our current technological development. Silver nanoparticles are used for antibacterial, antitumor and sensing contaminants. Magnetite nanoparticles are used for MRI and cell labeling and tracking methods. The green synthesis of these nanoparticles are easier to make than starting from scratch.
A red passion flower with its flat petals and stamens springing from the center. The fruit of this flower takes a month to ripen and when ripe taste someone like sour strawberries.
A stock of dead nettle with its tiny purple flowers and purple top leaves fading to green. The tops are edible and have been used in salads or as an antioxidant. In folk medicine it was combined with two other plants and an incantation was recited to reduce pain. It is considered invasive by the department of agriculture but not invasive according to the PA state government.
The front of a house with a weedy and small garden bed. A line has been cut with a shovel in the front lawn to guesstimate where to put the stones for a new garden bed
A zoomed in picture of a violet flower with veins of dark purple leading into the flowers’ center of a light yellow. All around the flowers are different grass types and clover.
Here amongst the leaves are four 5 pedaled white flowers with stripes of pink with bright pink stamens. Springbeauty’s petals reflect UV light.
A bunch of small purple flowers called tommies of the Crocus tommasinianus variety. They have a bright yellow claw like filament and anther surrounding a more red colored stigma.
Snow clings to thousands of branches of trees that create a tunnel of pure winter over a state road.
The back and front bumper of two cars are so close the electrons are talking to one another.
Coco (Nut) our family member for 12 years passed away. Here she’s sitting on a summer day on the brick patio. In the back is a metal rocking chair, a small brick retaining wall and a tan 8ft tall fence. Always having a doggie grin when we would get home Coco was my friend. She chewed things and reminded us of the folly of materialism. A true spiritual guru. She’s sorely missed everyday.
Overcast skies above, and a weeks worth of flurries on the ground. The trees are apple and the powder is Bitchin.
A Beef Wellington: seared filet, basted in Dijon mustard, then wrapped in a mushroom duxelles, a layer of prosciutto, encased in a layer of puff pastry. Cooked at 425 for 25 min and let sit for another 30. It’s a beautiful golden brown, log of culinary art over a foot long.
The right side of the rainbow behind brick houses illuminated by golden sunset light. In the foreground in a fenced in backyard with a stone fire pit on the right and a shed on the left.
Wild poinsettias grow in hotter equatorial climates in the Americas. Here you can see the leaves are more thin, and spaced further apart than the poinsettias we know.
The is the turtlehead flower. Chelone glabra is native to much of the eastern half of the US and attracts many pollinators like butterflies, hummingbirds and bees.
A wiki commons image of a very general grouping of the different types of plants needed to make a healthy food forest. These include a canopy layer of trees, vertical layer, understory, shrub, herbaceous, ground cover, water plants, rhizosphere, and fungi layers. These all come together to protect each other and foster fertility in the soil.
Red yarrow densely flowering in a bunch as they do with their light yellow centers.
A Zig zag aster found on wiki commons since I killed mine. The flowers are single pedal light purple, with a popping yellow center. In the background leaves cover a rocky ground.
Wiki commons image of a red slightly orange sunflower with a bright yellow center. The website says Mexican sunflower but doesn’t seem very specific.
A ground cherry with its covering still on.