DonMPhoto 🏳️‍🌈 🟦

Nature photographer and raconteur. Former IndyCar fan who may one day be again. Blather on advertising and general brain dandruff.

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This whole thing could be a RICO case.

An Indian Billionaire Was Targeted by Trump. Then He Poured Money Into a Startup Secretly Backed by Donald Trump Jr. https://t.co/XOl0en8ct2

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IMO, the thing that makes Pete Townsend such a great musician is his willingness to experiment. He had tried "Baba O'Reilly" on his ARP 2600, and didn't like it. It was his curiosity about a switch on his Lowery home organ that let to one of the iconic song intros.

[Backstage @Backstagebs1]

The fact that “Baba O’Reilly” was created by a simple switch on an analog organ is just so fucking cool.

always assumed it was a synth patch. Human creativity and analog gear will always remain undefeated

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AI is contributing to our illiteracy. We accept the answer without understanding the question or problem.

AI is masking America's "post-literate" workforce https://t.co/NPtHchS0yj

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A Florida Love Bug on a Magnolia Blossom. #photography #macromonday

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No one wants one of the damn things, not even the MAGAhats.

[David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells]

“The public has swung 49 points against data centers in just nine months, underscoring the heightened political salience of the facilities and the AI industry that they embody.”

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

The Affordable Gas Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

There are only 35,000 venus flytraps left in the swamps where they grow. Poaching is killing them off.

Venus flytraps grow naturally in only one place on Earth: a 90-ish-mile radius around Wilmington, North Carolina. Wild populations have collapsed due to habitat loss, fire suppression, and decades of poaching for the houseplant trade.

Stealing them from the wild has been a felony in North Carolina since 2014, punishable by 25 to 39 months in jail. Conviction-rate enforcement is slow, and a poacher can still dig up several hundred plants in an afternoon.

Here's how to tell a nursery-grown flytrap from a poached one (US Fish & Wildlife Service guidance):

1. Look at the tray. Nursery-grown plants are propagated through tissue culture, so they're uniform in size. If the plants in the tray vary noticeably in size, some of them probably came from the wild.

2. Look at the soil. Nursery soil is uniform, sterile peat moss. If the soil has sand, gravel, or natural debris mixed in, that's wild soil.

3. Look at the pot. Nursery-grown plants come in clean pots. If there are other small plants, mosses, or "weeds" growing in the pot, the flytrap was likely dug from a bog.

If you want one and want to do it right, buy from a specialist carnivorous plant nursery. California Carnivores, Plant Delights Nursery, and FlytrapStore (in the US) all sell exclusively tissue-cultured plants. Big-box stores and roadside vendors are the highest-risk sources.

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We're getting better at spotting AI slop in writing

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This is my best water drop photo to date. I like the way it magnifies the tiny hairs on the Magnolia leaf. #photography #macromonday

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Since Penske kissed the ring and did the MAGAhat 250 to appease Trumpy, I hope all the MAGAhats enjoy their $2.00 a gallon gas to get to the track. #Indy500

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Today is the first #IndyCar race I have cared about all season. Penske lost me as a fan when he kissed the ring and did his #MAGAhat250. The #Indy500 is a tradition larger and more important than Roger Penske will ever aspire to be.

[LiterateIndy @LiterateIndy]

Everywhere I have searched for peace and nowhere found it, except in a corner with a book.

-Thomas à Kempis

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If you wish to support data centers, support these data centers.

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I tiny bee pollinating a Spiderwort. The flower is less than 1 in (25cm) across. #photography #pollinators #savethebees