amy

Tree-hugger, mom-cubed, domestic strategist. Landscape Arch. teacher and sustainability nerd. I’m here to experience information and see cool plant stuff.

[amy @asldesignCO]

🤯no way! That’s inhumane-sorry @massimo
you suck @nikitabier stupid 🤖

[amy @asldesignCO]

🤯no way! That’s inhumane-sorry @massimo
you suck @nikitabier stupid 🤖

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

No. There's no way back and the countdown started. This guy runs "experiments" whose results no one can see. Abuse of power cannot be won on social media.

Time to plan other alternatives, even though I spent a lot here, 12 years and given my health situation I don't have all the choices open.

[amy @asldesignCO]

Bird PSA safety 🫶🦩🦚🐦🐓
Be like Mikey-don’t crowd the plate!

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

In 2021, a salmonella outbreak moved through feeder birds across the western US so fast that pine siskins were dying in people's yards within days of each other. The cause traced back to crowded feeders.

A bird feeder concentrates dozens of individuals from different territories onto the same surface, multiple times a day, touching the same perches and seed with the same beaks. In nature these birds would rarely be in contact. At a dirty feeder they're sharing a pathogen highway.

Two diseases do most of the damage. Salmonellosis spreads through droppings contaminating seed and kills birds within days, sometimes visibly, sometimes not. Avian conjunctivitis swells a bird's eyes shut and leaves it unable to find food or see predators coming. Both move fastest in exactly the conditions a popular feeder creates: warm, damp, crowded.

The fix is unglamorous but it works. Empty and scrub with hot soapy water every one to two weeks, more often in wet weather. A 10 percent bleach solution rinsed thoroughly handles what soap can't. Let it dry completely before refilling, since damp feeders breed faster than dry ones.

[The Forbidden Menagerie @ForbidMenagerie]

Wild Type Armadillidium vulgare, these hardy isopods are a fantastic choice for enclosures.

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[amy @asldesignCO]

🌱 or 📀
Local communities get your water portfolios in order the 🤖 are coming!

[amy @asldesignCO]

🌱 or 📀
Local communities get your water portfolios in order the 🤖 are coming!

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Texas may not have enough water to support its growing number of data centers.

The state already hosts hundreds of these facilities, with many more proposed as AI companies, cloud providers, and developers build the infrastructure for the digital economy. Data centers demand huge amounts of electricity to power servers and large volumes of water for cooling, either on site or at the power plants that supply them.

ERCOT, which manages Texas electricity, is reviewing over 438,000 megawatts of new large-load requests. Roughly 89 percent of that comes from data centers, exceeding the state's current peak demand.

Water use is also a major concern. A Houston Advanced Research Center study found that Texas data centers now use about 25 billion gallons of water each year. By 2030, that figure could climb to between 29 billion and 161 billion gallons. A University of Texas report projects that by 2040, data centers could consume 3 to 9 percent of the state's total water, compared to less than 1 percent today.

These demands matter in a state already dealing with drought, population growth, and chronic water shortages. Yet Texas lacks a full public accounting of the industry's water consumption. Lawmakers note that many data centers fail to report their usage as required, which complicates future planning.

Supporters highlight the jobs, investment, and technological benefits. At the same time, local communities worry about who will bear the costs of grid upgrades, strained water supplies, and projects in rural areas with limited regulatory control.

[Shining Science @ShiningScience]

🖤 The Fungus That Feeds on Radiation… and Could Save Humanity

Deep in the ruins of Chernobyl, scientists discovered a mysterious black fungus that does something no other life form does—it doesn’t just survive deadly radiation… it hunts it. Known as Cladosporium sphaerospermum, this strange organism actually grows toward radiation, turning dangerous energy into food through a process called radiosynthesis—like how plants turn sunlight into energy.

Even more astonishing, experiments aboard the International Space Station showed the fungus thriving under cosmic radiation, and it even acted as a natural shield, protecting whatever was behind it. Could this be the key to keeping astronauts safe on missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond?

Back on Earth, scientists imagine using it to clean up radioactive sites, or maybe even as a living shield against deadly radiation. One thing is certain—this fungus survives where almost nothing else can, and its secrets could change the future of science… and our survival.

[amy @asldesignCO]

Peas for everyone ✌️

[amy @asldesignCO]

Peas for everyone ✌️

[amy @asldesignCO]

I think you mean the Gulf of Trump; 92% loss of hairline and 8% body regulation 🤣🤣🤣

[amy @asldesignCO]

I think you mean the Gulf of Trump; 92% loss of hairline and 8% body regulation 🤣🤣🤣

[NRDC 🌎🏡 @NRDC]

#464: President Trump resurrected a committee that hadn’t been used in 30 years, called the “God Squad,” to give Big Oil a free pass to kill endangered animals in the Gulf of Mexico. Drilling and oil spills will put species like Rice’s whales, manatees, and sea turtles at risk of extinction.

[amy @asldesignCO]

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[amy @asldesignCO]

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[PMSlim @pm_slim42555]

@ProjectLincoln @KenPaxtonTX He's getting a divorce NUMBNUTS 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

[CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil @CBSEveningNews]

More than 1,000 runners are carrying a single American flag from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., one mile at a time, to celebrate the nation's 250th birthday. They say the journey isn't about politics — it's about reminding Americans that we're stronger when we move forward together.

[amy @asldesignCO]

Colo. Native plants
Heil Ranch Boulder County

[amy @asldesignCO]

Colo. Native plants
Heil Ranch Boulder County

[amy @asldesignCO]

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[amy @asldesignCO]

Yes gurl! We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. - - 🫶🇺🇸 7.4.1776

[amy @asldesignCO]

@sarobertson_ Yes gurl! We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. - - 🫶🇺🇸 7.4.1776

[amy @asldesignCO]

Yes gurl! We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. - - 🫶🇺🇸 7.4.1776

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

McGowan: Every single country in the World Cup has universal health care except us. That's not a far left position.