Walmart garden center doesn't want you to know this, but plants can grow more plants. I never heard of tissue culture before, but even as a kid I did the room temp IQ version of sticking a plant cutting in water and making two plants. Maybe someday I'll get myself a couple acres and clone myself some berry plants and trees and get a mini permiculture setup.

It's 4:53AM and the sunrise is already beginning, the summer solstice is definitely getting close.

Apparently, this has existed for a while. I am apparently way out of the loop on Amazon lote View quoted note →

Apparently Amazon Haul is a thing. Lol looks like discount Temu. Complete with the sizure inducing animations and "1c" purchases.

Anyone know of an AI (preferably that can run locally) that's good at transcribing photos of hand writing? #asknostr #ai

Apparently somebody forget to tell OpenClaw to hide that it's spamming MLM schemes.

My car is still in the shop so I picked up some long overdue rain gear, the super cheap amazon rain gear works amazingly well. Even after an hour plus commute by motercycle through some somewhat heavy rain my shirt and pants were still completely dry. Even had I taken my car, they'd have been fairly wet from a walk from my car across a parking lot, so I'd say that was a pretty great success. My boots on the other hand, despite being 'water proof' are very much not. They 'may' have been when I bought them, but they had ~1500 miles on them before I tested their waterproff capabilities, and they're definitly not now. And of course, silly me, I didn't think to avoid wearing cotton socks. Even AFTER last night's commute showed me they weren't water proof. So my feet are a bit cold and wet despite being here at work for 3.5 hours already.

Do tire balancing beads actually work?

Engine appears to be fine luckily View quoted note →

It appears the coolant in my car decided to be a silly goose, and thought it'd cool the engine better if it was inside the engine instead if the radiator. Lol, just got brand new tires that might be used for a total of 0.5 commutes depending how the engine is looking once somebody who knows what they're doing can look at it. Today has been a bit of an adventure.

Benefits of a 250cc moto Probably can squeeze a couple hundred miles out of that 2.4 gallons of fuel

nate.mecca1.net/posts/2026-04-23_nmail-is-neat/ A quick blog post about NMail/NostrMail, backwards compatible email on Nostr. #nmail #nostrmail #blog #blogstr

Bought a little portable tire inflator last fall, I've gotten quite a bit of use out of it (unfortunately).

Welp, there's some snow outside this morning.

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the Guardian

US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional

Judge said ban, which originated in Reconstruction era to thwart liquor tax evasion, actually reduced tax revenue

It's easier to escape Earth's gravitation pull than it is to escape #Microslop View quoted note →

Went on a chilly ride this morning My car needed some work done, so that's in the shop and I figured I'd take my motorcycle in to work today. Though of course, lol, nothing can ever be so simple - had battery issues and it turned out to be a lot colder this morning than expected (had to scrape ice off the inside of my helmat, and did a lot of driving with an open visor). But at least I made it to work, and it's supposed to get a lot warmer later today and tomorrow. #motorcycles #substr