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Me in bed drinking cider. *siiip* Fictional interlocutor: are you wearing a leather jacket in bed? "Maybe" Wait, is that the same jacket from yesterday? Did you sleep in it? Are you editing Wikipedia while drunk off cider and in yesterday's clothes? "No more questions! This interview is over!"

Don't go overboard with the food! This is about having something of an okay size to wrap. Six cookies or ~200 g of something is good enough. Don't buy caviar. I got plain inexpensive black tea one year and that was perfectly fine. I had too much tea and took it to work, but she knew I like tea.

In 2024 my sister bought me a tin of thin swedish ginger cookies. Excellent gift. I was going to take them to work to share and then was sick so I ate them all while in bed drinking tea.

Holiday gift guide: Give them something to eat and cash. Seriously. There is too much stuff in the world. Everyone eats. Learn what kind of treat they like and buy that and give them an hour or two of pay so they can buy something nice for themselves.

Gift giving usually goes wrong. I don't live with my friends so I don't know what they already own or only like on the surface. I am a reader, but does anyone not living in the same house as me know what books I already own? No!

»The failure mode of clever is “asshole.”« Saw an AI reply to a proudly anti-AI explainer of the giant pumpkin. So I blocked this asshole who is a "photographer". @looserooster.bsky.social

He thought funny to reply with a slop Image of a giant squirrel eating the giant pumpkins writing »Here is my non-organic very-AI explainer to my wife's question of "what happens after Halloween?"« It was clear he uploaded at least one of the OP's photographs into the plagiarism engine.

Yesterday morning before going to the science fiction convention I dug in my garden and found two spring beauty tubers.

They like part to full shade and I found them growing under conifers, but in my garden they grow in the shade of an elm. I have also seen them growing under oak bushes.

Yesterday morning before going to the science fiction convention I dug in my garden and found two spring beauty tubers.

Well, I should say never due them in the fall. I got my first batch digging up three in the spring when they were easy to locate and they have been reproducing in my garden for about the last 10 years.

Yesterday morning before going to the science fiction convention I dug in my garden and found two spring beauty tubers.

Immediately after I yet again escape from my imprisonment in the Secret Archive, I will be headed to MileHiCon in Aurora. My current plan is to not allow my recapture by the authorities until sometime early on Tuesday.

If there are people in the vicinity or in the science fiction convention who want to meet with a human who likes books and is in no way a plant demon inhabiting a corpse, I will attempt to remain visible to moral sight.

Fuck, Morphius. Did you have to make the nightmare about no one wanting to come to my birthday party so upsetting that I woke up in the middle of the night?

All the pictures are down on Wikipedia. Guess I'll work on taxonomy and text only for a while.

Well, now the article about the Farallon Islands has a list of native plants in the Flora and Fauna section. When I looked at it last night it was a section of *lies* since there was no flora in it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farallo...

I, being a responsible normal human adult and not a plant based metaphor for seasonal change, got covid and flu vaccines yesterday. Not too achy despite having to reattach my arms... What?

Because I hate needles I got myself a quarter kilo of licorice candy and ate it while lying in bed and reading about plants of the Farallon Islands.

Don't [WP:CANVASS] Putting information into articles on Wikipedia is not a vote. It is about legal responsibilities (especially in biographies of living people) if it is truthful and not trivial. Editors are not supposed to go looking for support for their position on or off Wikipedia.

I saw a little while ago, a possibility not entirely serious, call for help here on BlueSky to keep some information in an article about a living person. Don't. Please don't. Not as a joke, not to right a wrong, don't turn up the heat on Wikipedia.

Yes, this is because I am slowly working my way through all the euphorbias looking for errors in Wikipedia. Every once in a while I run into something that makes me pause and go, "That's funny. Let's check other sources."

Ehhhh. I think I might need to send an email to Kew. It lists a natural hybrid named Euphorbia × inconstantia, but going to the original publication they cite, R.A. Dyer (1931) Records of the Albany Museum vol. 4 page 93, he is describing a species. Seems like an error.