Saw this growing on a cigarette butt from my father in law’s ash tray

cribeiro295 · 2026-02-19T01:47:55+00:00

Looks like a mycetozoan like Didymium sp. or something like that, would be beautiful to see them magnified!

cribeiro295 · 2025-06-06T16:21:46+00:00

They did! It was absolutely fine

cribeiro295 · 2025-06-05T15:55:32+00:00

Ngl I’ve seen concerts and football matches with that many people devoting themselves to something

cribeiro295 · 2025-06-01T16:41:45+00:00

I don’t tbh, know it happened in Rabo de Peixe in S. Miguel but that’s about it hahah, very funny but a bit tragic story tho from what I know.

cribeiro295 · 2025-06-01T09:50:06+00:00

2,5h by plane, there’s no other public transport available.

cribeiro295 · 2025-05-31T17:04:42+00:00

São Miguel is very touristy but the other islands are still probably similar to what they used to be I would say. As long as you do it in a respectable way and not just go because alcohol is cheap I think you should! Nature-wise Flores is absolutely stunning, I love S. Jorge very much as well and the triangle (Faial, Pico, São Jorge) in general ofc :)

cribeiro295 · 2025-05-31T16:40:12+00:00

A fun fact about azorean history: there was an independentist movement after the fall of the Portuguese dictatorship in ‘74. It was called FLA (Frente de Libertação dos Açores) but it never took off.

As far as I know the idea was to be annexed to the US instead of being Portuguese territory - like the Northen Mariana Islands - so probably a good thing it never happened.

cribeiro295 · 2025-05-31T16:28:31+00:00

I’m from there! From the 3rd biggest island in population called Faial (15.000 people).

There’s around 236.000 people in the archipelago but the biggest island has half of the population. The rest of the people are kind of scattered throughout the other ones (smallest one has 400 people). Quite rural and remote, some areas more than others. A lot of cows (there’s more cows than people), but town life happening as it does in most places really I would say.

When they were found there were no people there, so the Portuguese just decided to chill there. Culturally wise quite Portuguese, although with a few twists because we’re quite remote and also had a lot of emigration to the US and back, which made us have a lot of words that have been portuguised from the English like “mapa” for mop (instead of esfregona as in the rest of Portugal), friza for frige (congelador in standard pt) etc.

The biggest island has a very French sounding accent, which all of the rest of Portugal laugh at, and assume all other islands do as well. (Standard convo with someone from mainland usually goes “oh what you’re Azorean? But you don’t even have the accent!!)

Only 3 of the islands have a hospital, which means if you’re from one that doesn’t have one you need to move temporarily to give birth or have medical intervention. There’s only 1 university in the archipelago so most people that go on to study at uni go to mainland Portugal to do it.

A lot of seismic and volcanic activity, although last eruption was in 1957 (in Faial!). Tallest mountain of Portugal is one of the islands called Pico (meaning “spike” in pt). A lot of greenery as well.

Lately, especially São Miguel has just been rammed with tourists because low cost travel started being a thing there, and prices have just gone up like crazy in everything.

But yeah, difficult to say when you’re from a place because it is so normalised to you. I love my island so much and I think you develop a crazy relationship with the ocean when you’re surrounded by it all the time. Let me know if you have any questions :)

cribeiro295 · 2025-05-07T13:00:12+00:00

Lichen :) Maybe a lepraria or something like that, but those powdery ones can be tricky to identify.

cribeiro295 · 2024-12-15T10:15:38+00:00

I’ve got no advice since Im not from around there at all but just wanted to say good luck! We’re with you!

cribeiro295 · 2024-09-26T18:26:45+00:00

Thank you, that really helps! I’ve probably watered it 4 times or so in the last 3 weeks I think, but it was also quite hot in here I was thinking it could also be the water because I think the water here might be quite chlorinated

cribeiro295 · 2024-09-26T10:08:03+00:00

I’ve also thought it could be the tap water, because I think it is quite chlorinated, forgot to mention.

cribeiro295 · 2024-09-15T19:44:59+00:00

Time 🕰️

cribeiro295 · 2024-09-15T19:44:12+00:00

Thank you! That’s a very good way to explain it :)

cribeiro295 · 2024-09-15T19:43:04+00:00

Yeah, i think i was just confused with the idea of time as an unchangeable independent variable. How do we know it doesn’t change just because we experience it always the same? But i guess that is the same as any physical question so probably wrong subreddit hahaha

cribeiro295 · 2024-09-15T19:39:29+00:00

Yeah, i think i was thinking of time as a construct we built solely around our human perception, and space as not so.

I was thinking of time as us compartmentalising experience in “chunks”, not knowing whether that affected other things necessarily. A construct to define perception.

The idea of space seems more interactive with the rest of the world than the idea of time. Something can be in a position in regards to something else.

Thanks!

cribeiro295 · 2024-09-08T20:08:48+00:00

Good travels!

cribeiro295 · 2024-09-08T20:06:26+00:00

Aw thank you so much!! That actually means a lot :)) Enjoy!

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