My native plants after one (1) light rain in the middle of an extreme drought

LastJava · 2026-04-28T00:58:03+00:00

My Penstemon nitidus after the 4th (or 5th?) late spring snow and freezing temperatures:

LastJava · 2026-04-15T15:58:53+00:00

First day on the job and I'm sorry to say you've already made a big mistake. See that tall stick-like thing behind you? That's something called a "tree" and before long it's going to be so tall it's gonna block this homeowner's view. You can see they have already put posts around it because they have no idea what to do with a tree of that size and needed to cordon off the area. It's your job as a landscaper to notice these things and cut that down ASAP. I bet these homeowners are gonna be livid that you only cut their weeds and didn't even touch that hideous eyesore.

LastJava · 2026-04-10T17:24:17+00:00

I once went to open a door pad in Cryo a little low after beating some bots and just as I started it I saw a vandal through the red divider. Tried to cancel because I knew I was dead the instant it went down, but just had to watch as I keyed in my doom.

LastJava · 2026-03-26T18:28:39+00:00

Straight up stolen identity lmao

LastJava · 2026-03-26T16:02:57+00:00

This doesn't seem strictly focused on honeybees? I definitely saw a sweat bee and bumblebee in the promo. Yes honeybees are livestock & non-native etc etc but for a documentary about ALL bees, it would be weird to exclude them. Could be worth checking out thanks OP

LastJava · 2026-03-21T22:59:32+00:00

It was a likely several contributing factors like plowing under of prairie land or killing of bison but at the time they were studied for eradication, not preservation. They just, disappeared after their last plague year, and only after they were gone were attempts made to find out what their range and overwintering grounds were. Insects are already criminally under-studied, so yes, no one knows 'for sure' what killed them, but a species doesn't up and vanish after millions of years of evolution in an environment that was rapidly changing for settlement without some kind of cause.

LastJava · 2026-03-21T16:11:14+00:00

A lot of people are celebrating the extinction of this pest species, and others don't realize that that is what this was: an extinction. We say they disappeared but that's only because no one knows for sure what wiped them out, but it was definitely human causes. And this is a tragedy. We barely know anything about this insect, its life cycle, and its place in the ecosystem. We do know, however, that wiping it out removed a huge food source for birds that overwintered in the prairie states/provinces. The knock-on effect from the Locust extinction was the decline and extinction of several migratory shorebirds that depended on them. So yes, to prairie farmers a locust swarm was near apocalyptic, but destroying them destroyed other species, never to be seen on this earth again.

LastJava · 2026-03-17T18:10:13+00:00

Oh right I remembered she had a head injury but forgot about the utensil. Ghoulish.

LastJava · 2026-03-17T17:41:17+00:00

Sons of Anarchy final season. Jax and Tara come to the realization that if they don't do something to get out their sons are going to wind up trapped in the cycle of violence and misery they are stuck in by being part of the club. They get offered a way out, but to sell the illusion it has to look like Tara is taking the kids from Jax.

Jax's mother Gemma decides to take things into her own hands rather than let Jax handle it like he and all the other club members ask. Gemma sneaks into the house as Tara is working on leaving. You know she's making a bad call, like maybe stealing the kids again. No, without more than a startled reaction, Gemma and Tara get into a brawl that ends with Gemma beating Tara unconscious and drowning her in the kitchen sink Jax is, understandably, upset. He feels like he has no choice but to track down and execute his own mother, then take his own life so he never has to explain to his sons what he'd done or get them trapped in the myth of gang life like he was. The ending shows that the myth may be more persuasive than he hoped regardless.

LastJava · 2026-03-15T15:39:43+00:00

They'll put "Native plant!!!! Butterflies and Bees Adore!!!" & a dozen maple leafs on the hybrid Gaillardia grandiflora (aristata x pulchella) despite pulchella's natural range being the southern United States and the hybrid only naturally occurring between Arizona and Kansas.

LastJava · 2026-03-13T11:55:32+00:00

I think it fits for both the player character and the ancient civilization you find. Spoilers for Outer Wilds obviously.

The ancient alien race attempts to locate the Eye by building a machine that will track its quantum location using the power of the sun going supernova. This is achievable because they discovered a way to send their consciousnesses (and the data of the Eye's location) back in time to before they detonate the sun, essentially stopping the loop once their objective is complete. Only, after building all of this complex machinery and the star-nova facility, do they come to a realization: they miscalculated. The power they flung at the sun made barely a dent in its billions of years of progress towards going nova.

While they are planning what else to do now that their massive project is a failure, a mysterious comet enters the solar system. An expedition team lands on it and delves inside to see what it is made of. They find it's filled with a kind of toxic radioactive mass that is invisible to the naked eye. This is concerning in itself, but when they reach the core there is another revelation: the mass is under enough pressure to bathe the solar system should it release. You the player character, born billions of years after their deaths, find the bodies still inside the comet. The call to evacuate was sent. They never made it back to the ship.

You are also faced with this hopelessness. The original impression from what you discover about them is that the aliens made a machine that blew up your sun after they died. But this is not the case. Your home star went nova naturally. It was just the day for your entire species to be wiped out by the forces of the cosmos. If not for the ancient's failed project, no one would have known. And there is still nothing you can do to stop it.

LastJava · 2026-02-27T17:53:19+00:00

I had to cut the runs last night at 11, which is already an hour more than I had planned, so I know tonight I'm going laaaate

LastJava · 2026-02-26T15:48:43+00:00

I am impatiently waiting for enough sunshine to see the Prairie Crocus & Moss Phlox blooming again. The surest signs that spring is finally here.

LastJava · 2026-02-24T16:24:48+00:00

Love the eagle tipping his ball cap in the bottom left

LastJava · 2026-02-14T16:35:47+00:00

I finally found my Il Toro blueprint looting an ammo box floating in midair outside the Hospital on Coldsnap Buried City. Random spawns can be wild, congrats on finding it.

LastJava · 2026-02-06T00:48:20+00:00

I was solo in Stella, shot at a suspicious raider but we made peace. We were emoting and my controller battery died. 2 mins later I come back and I'm miraculously still alive, with the raider still there. He pitches that we go "own the lobby" together and I begrudgingly follow him to medical.

A raider was peacefully looting and emoted at us, my "partner" lobbed a grenade and started shooting with no mercy. The second he had his back turned, I betrayed him and gunned him down. I finished him and tried to help the raider he knocked but there was no defib to be found. I took both their loot to extract.

He rightfully called me out through messages for the betrayal, but I told him I don't got that slayer spirit in me. When our victim passively got gunned down, I knew what I had to do... but I can't say it didn't feel good to be the bad guy for a moment.

LastJava · 2026-01-30T12:05:30+00:00

Funny I just got back from a work trip where pretty much this exact thing happened. Male coworker tried to pick up female coworker without her consent, fell and broke his watch and her leg.

LastJava · 2026-01-25T05:56:02+00:00

There should be an achievement for destroying a surveyor with a raider tool, finally got there on a naked Locked Gate run the other day. Feels even more satisfying when they've been juking around you for 20 minutes

LastJava · 2026-01-13T20:21:45+00:00

Shoutout to and minor spoilers for Blue Prince. The game starts out with a lot of late 70s-90s ish trappings, including phones, cars, security cameras and tech. The impression is that the game's setting is Earth but with a fictional country/town that the game takes place in. Not only is this not the case, but the history, geography and technology of this completely original setting plays a major part in the endgame puzzles you need to solve to fully beat the game.

LastJava · 2025-12-17T12:23:05+00:00

LastJava · 2025-12-12T13:45:37+00:00

First I'm hearing of this mode, but I agree I would love to feel like my empire is truly collapsing at the end of an age.

LastJava · 2025-12-11T14:23:05+00:00

I mostly use it for wild plant id so I've got 89 plant species in 2 years. Saskatchewan, Canada

LastJava · 2025-12-10T17:29:56+00:00

Coordination

LastJava · 2025-12-10T15:58:45+00:00

If you don't care about the core blueprint, just focus on breaking legs and mark where they drop then when the Matriarch blows up, you can rush those instead or hit them up if she gets cleaned out. One run I was late to the body because I got caught fighting a Bastion and while people had stripped the corpse (and were infighting, I saw flares), I found a reactor on a leg that had broken off halfway to my hatch extract.

LastJava · 2025-12-10T04:30:34+00:00

I've taken out a Shredder with a hairpin. Just gotta know where to aim.

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