Nature

The natural world and animals: outdoors, gardening, pets, wildlife

A topic in the tpot Community Archive, drawn from 3,994 posts.

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  1. eigenrobot — trusted by 79 posters here
  2. AskYatharth — trusted by 80 posters here
  3. RichDecibels — trusted by 90 posters here
  4. the_wilderless — trusted by 78 posters here
  5. relic_radiation — trusted by 70 posters here
  6. vividvoid — trusted by 83 posters here
  7. PrinceVogel — trusted by 68 posters here
  8. visakanv — trusted by 83 posters here
  9. QiaochuYuan — trusted by 86 posters here
  10. TylerAlterman — trusted by 83 posters here
  11. yoltartar — trusted by 56 posters here
  12. goblinodds — trusted by 58 posters here

Top posts in Nature

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  1. this is the bortle scale. it's used to measure how dark the night sky is in a given place. until relatively recently in human history i imagine every human being who ever lived could see a bortle 1… (QiaochuYuan) — 41 likes
  2. florida is v nice also there are animals EVERYWHERE (enjoy this weird duck just chillin behind me) https://t.co/yyktA7vvJW (goblinodds) — 28 likes
  3. Hey, I love you. I'm getting on a plane to Peru in a few hrs to go hike the Inca Trail. I don't know when I'll have Internet access, so from today through next Sunday, all my gm and gn posts will be… (vividvoid) — 28 likes
  4. Caged tigers pace obsessively in circles Captive parrots over-groom, pulling out feathers & leaving bald patches Overcrowded grasshoppers turn into locusts - bigger, meaner swarming things… (the_wilderless) — 28 likes
  5. Maybe it all went wrong when we killed the whales. Maybe their songs kept the great dream together. Vast brains slowly, carefully ordering the world with actions subtler than the apes could ever… (PrinceVogel) — 26 likes
  6. i don’t think i understood until this last week how functional the ingredients of a stereotypical vacation are: get sunlight, be near water and in nature, do whatever you want in an unscheduled way,… (QiaochuYuan) — 24 likes
  7. My dad has long been going on about how he has a “pet hawk.” I was like “yeah OK.” But today I watched him go outside and throw a piece of food into the sky that was caught mid-air by a large… (TylerAlterman) — 23 likes
  8. The four kinds of rodents around here Rats - Clever, industrious - questionable personal hygiene - strong friend/enemy distinction - likes darkness a little too much Quokkas - will always hug you -… (PrinceVogel) — 22 likes
  9. i feel like a higher percentage of tpot's energy and enthusiasm should be directed at nature, the environment, climate, etc idk what percentage it should be, but 0.0001% seems low (the_wilderless) — 22 likes
  10. Once at a zoo, a crowd formed around me while I made long eye contact with a gorilla. This set off a series of animal-bonding episodes (incl 1 w a goat today) that were as surprising to me as to… (TylerAlterman) — 20 likes
  11. i think a lot of hobbies that people make fun of due to people getting weird about the hobby when they start it (meditation, bird-watching, art, hiking, etc) comes from the fact that the hobby is… (the_wilderless) — 20 likes
  12. so there's this bar in the Gobelins neighborhood....... https://t.co/njef1iVNnk (goblinodds) — 19 likes
  13. I need someone who knows how to survey land for permaculture. I just got some land to build a permaculture lab to pave the way for our community village network state node thing in Portugal Can… (exgenesis) — 19 likes
  14. What the actual honest to god what the hell seriously what how is this not a major area of research this seems like a thing we should be looking into It literally copies dozens of species of other… (eshear) — 19 likes
  15. a stray cat adopted @__drewface todaywe've never owned a cat beforeplease recommend:1. cat food2. cat litter boxes & cat litter3. general cat advice! https://t.co/F8lixJL3HQ (Prigoose) — 19 likes
  16. in indigenous cultures, “doing nothing” felt nothing like our modern “doing nothing.” there are modes of sensing & communing & listening w nature that look like “doing nothing” to western… (relic_radiation) — 18 likes
  17. Most people don't know this, but Gaia is in fact also against wild animal suffering. If you get her in the right mood, she might even tell you humans are her attempt at creating a species capable… (algekalipso) — 18 likes
  18. i’m at the wrong body of water to catch the sunset but the clouds look fucking gorgeous https://t.co/U8LMLjNiwE (QiaochuYuan) — 18 likes
  19. So get this: my lover’s friend is a Colombian doctor. As part of her program, drs are sent to remote areas where medical care is sparse. She went to work w indigenous ppl in the Amazon When she… (TylerAlterman) — 18 likes
  20. Full cat for those who want it https://t.co/W99uh0OJFC (DRMacIver) — 18 likes
  21. my main “meditative” practice is spending at least 1hr a day sensorially checking in with the rhythms of local nature this looks like: walking, saying hi to the local crows, touching lots of plants,… (relic_radiation) — 18 likes
  22. lemon pig dying :( https://t.co/Cw5vPml9WO https://t.co/QwQMVoCRhT (QiaochuYuan) — 18 likes
  23. Good God, the American West is so sublimely beautiful. I'm in Taos and I'm gobsmacked. What option could there be but to make friends in all of these cities, buy a motorcycle and become a Dharma bum (vividvoid) — 18 likes
  24. Perfect day for a hike with my boy https://t.co/NKCQPfmNYa (vividvoid) — 18 likes
  25. one time a Turkish friend was driving me around Anatolia and he had a headache so we stopped to get a bizarre eye treatment where an old guy put drops of stinging sap inside our eyelids the folk… (yoltartar) — 18 likes
  26. I suspect human relationships – whether friends, romantic, family, community – were never meant to meet alllllll our attachment and belonging needs. rather, that we’re hardwired to meet a good chunk… (relic_radiation) — 17 likes
  27. Apparently octopuses have a 2 year lifespan and despite not being social creatures become social when dosed with MDMA. We need to do MDMA water + iterated embryo selection breeding program and make… (michaelcurzi) — 17 likes
  28. we cut down the last tree on Easter Island! follow me for more tips on staying warm this winter https://t.co/ODecJlpllI (RichDecibels) — 17 likes
  29. @eshear the undersea portions of the African plate are subducting beneath the undersea portions of the Eurasian Plate, driving back arc volcanism that gives rise to Italy, Greece, and the mountains… (slimepriestess) — 17 likes
  30. [mumbles to self] there’s something interesting about how trees are not a type of plant, but really a strategy for all sorts of plants, a way of being, a formula of flourishing. implies something… (visakanv) — 16 likes
  31. there's an incredible story going on in the mountaineering community rn. there's a Malaysian climber who was at death's door, and was rescued by a sherpa who risked his own life to carry his… (visakanv) — 16 likes
  32. ok, the discourse must move on from this: the existence of "coyote ugly" implies at least 3 other kinds of animal ugly. what are they https://t.co/Zlmavq3Dpx (bashu_thanks) — 16 likes
  33. the earth isn't shameless about its sexuality, huh? flowers just everywhere stamens just sticking out. flowers are plant genitalia you know (AskYatharth) — 16 likes
  34. sick mountain mission w/ @GronerJonas https://t.co/U35WcP7iI3 (RichDecibels) — 16 likes
  35. so many towns in the US where I'm the only person out on a walk *without a dog* I wonder if that's why dogs are so popular here: if dogless Americans just sit in front of screens or in traffic all… (myhandle) — 16 likes
  36. This brought me from “yeah maybe I should go see the eclipse” to “omg I would be insane to miss this.” That is a PHOTO of the last one my friends https://t.co/4XNMSpWuiR (TylerAlterman) — 16 likes
  37. We put patterns on flat things. We move water around and boil it. What else do we do https://t.co/nr2mDajitn https://t.co/je65Aspbkc (PrinceVogel) — 16 likes
  38. I met the most unbelievable plum tree https://t.co/0oCxvPoXeO (RichDecibels) — 16 likes
  39. morning in the sunflower garden https://t.co/lJs4Pmglct (eigenrobot) — 16 likes
  40. gm, nature is beautiful, go say hi it sometime, cheers https://t.co/pa9J3m8UbS (_brentbaum) — 16 likes
  41. a bootstrapped internet project just created a massive coral reef expansion in Indonesia. before // after: https://t.co/p2XHL3xGXE (__drewface) — 16 likes
  42. a swim in a flooded quarry summer is here boys https://t.co/YrBku5g6by (mechanical_monk) — 15 likes
  43. tree spirits in England hit different https://t.co/smfHSBLJi5 (RichDecibels) — 15 likes
  44. Animals reacted to me differently when I pretended that I could locate the feeling-quality of an animal’s awareness. In particular, I’d pretend to find “the place they’re looking out from” &… (TylerAlterman) — 15 likes
  45. I thought this meme format was paradoxical until I spent more time in the woods and experienced it as a foundational pattern baked into nature. building a fire? well you’ll need enough airflow that… (relic_radiation) — 15 likes
  46. I heard about a technique for eradicating mosquitos from a city-sized area by releasing huge numbers of sterile male mosquitoes during breeding season…was that real? Who does it? What does it cost? (eshear) — 15 likes
  47. It was always pretty obvious that the whales can talk. But. The whales can talk guys. We're gonna regret killing them and should probably stop completely https://t.co/2sCdavpnQ8 (PrinceVogel) — 15 likes
  48. This account is now an aerial reforestation and seed bombing account https://t.co/25TJFAuy5O (vividvoid) — 15 likes
  49. is this peating??? (it's sphagnuming) https://t.co/bdHvooGiwX (dschorno) — 15 likes
  50. you have reached the Stop And Watch These Sheep For Seventeen Seconds checkpoint https://t.co/cSTuJxQ9M7 (RichDecibels) — 15 likes

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