Literal Banana

@literalbanana

a very serious person who is definitely a real person

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Literal Banana@literalbanana· 27d

more fake-looking dahlias

"bumble rumble" dahlia with streaky fuchsia and white outer petals and pure white inner petaloids and bright yellow sex parts in the center

"rock run ashley" dahlia fully opened (a muted pale pink/salmon dahlia with a ball of highly regular petals) surrounded by buds at different stages because I didn't feel like disbudding him

Literal Banana@literalbanana· 27d

bee fren

honeybee enjoying a sunflower with red and yellow petals

Literal Banana@literalbanana· 27d

random verbena from a seed packet that just happens to be my favorite flower colors (apricot and white)

pretty much what it says on the tin he lives in a darker apricot pot I think it looks sick

Literal Banana@literalbanana· Jul 13

gardeners 🤝 stoners the bud situation is crazy

Literal Banana@literalbanana· Jul 11

look at this idiot

bumble rumble dahlia fully open, he looks fake and AI but I promise he is real

Literal Banana@literalbanana· Jul 10

first dahlia of the season is opening I love how his petals are still folded up, very organized and tidy

Literal Banana@literalbanana· Jul 9

I got this stupid little solar fountain and put it in a bowl and the chickadees and goldfinches love it, they go to the spa and then have a sunflower leaf buffet and my husband says I should run a casino for them so they can have the whole resort experience

mountain chickadee having a sip while lesser goldfinch eats a sunflower leaf (top right)

Literal Banana@literalbanana· Jul 2

saw a squirrel run into this like he was a cartoon mouse

fence with a perfect 3 or 4 inch arch cut into it at the bottom as if a cartoon mouse is about to go in there to his little mouse bed and mouse TV and wedge of cheese on a tiny plate

Literal Banana@literalbanana· Jun 28

a project I'm working on

large metal planter full of dahlia seedlings and protective guardian shallots, with three handmade "leaves" attached with magnets, roses and a native evening primrose and some boulders and trees in the background

Literal Banana@literalbanana· Jun 25

new papyrus buds (their pots live in large bowls of water but you can't see them in the photos)

oooh I'm a baby papyrus everyone care about me ooooh

Literal Banana@literalbanana· Jun 17

he is a dahlia, specifically Mom's Special and his flowers look like this and are like 8" wide, but he was very droopy last year too I think that's just how that variety is

Literal Banana@literalbanana· Jun 17

he has never been watered before in his life

dahlia being very dramatic in the heat despite drinking two (2) gallons of water today spaced out over several hours

Literal Banana@literalbanana· Jun 13

the little goldfinches pick the leaves clean but that's the entire reason I grow sunflowers it's so cute (the sunflowers still manage to grow and bloom I guess they didn't need those leaves anyway??)

sunflower leaf picked clean down to the veins by lesser goldfinches

Literal Banana@literalbanana· Jun 13

new trap

trap of carnivorous plant Nepenthes "Bill Bailey" a cool hybrid with dark red lower traps

Literal Banana@literalbanana· Jun 8

you're doing bear activities with bear tendencies bears are your friends, bears are your enemies

the prairie and the mountains to the north

Literal Banana@literalbanana· May 25

I love opuntia flowers the petals are like fine shavings of translucent wax or soap (plus bonus bee who has clocked out for the day)

what is says on the tin plus it's the kind of luminous candy pink you don't expect to see in nature except maybe smeared into a sunset over lake tahoe

Literal Banana@literalbanana· May 24

pansies aren't as good as dahlias but they can do one of the few things dahlias can't do which is to be blue

blue pansies keeping a young dahlia company

Literal Banana@literalbanana· May 16

congratulations! this is the one I'm growing that I'm most excited about, it's really common but I don't care I think it's beautiful (Break Out)

Literal Banana@literalbanana· May 15

love this explanation - reminds me of Yudkowsky's take on free will (which I like)

The past few years of playing around with these things, which ranged from little experiments to full-scale commercial projects, has left me with a new-found admiration for the brittle, deterministic, mechanical logic of old-fashioned video games.

You know what’s fun? A stick. A stick is fun. A ball is fun. I now have a (hopefully) more nuanced appreciation for the way that the fun of games is rooted in simple behaviors and deterministic rules. The fun of games is deeply connected to the miracle of emergence, in the ways that a small set of seemingly trivial constraints interact with each other to produce an infinite expanse of surprising complexity. Starting with a bunch of surprising complexity doesn’t lead to even more fun, it just short-circuits the whole process.

“Compatibilism” is the philosophical position that “free will” can be intuitively and satisfyingly defined in such a way as to be compatible with deterministic physics. “Incompatibilism” is the position that free will and determinism are incompatible.

My position might perhaps be called “Requiredism.” When agency, choice, control, and moral responsibility are cashed out in a sensible way, they require determinism—at least some patches of determinism within the universe. If you choose, and plan, and act, and bring some future into being, in accordance with your desire, then all this requires a lawful sort of reality; you cannot do it amid utter chaos. There must be order over at least those parts of reality that are being controlled by you. You are within physics, and so you/physics have determined the future. If it were not determined by physics, it could not be determined by you.

Or perhaps I should say, “If the future were not determined by reality, it could not be determined by you,” or “If the future were not determined by something, it could not be determined by you.” You don’t need neuroscience or physics to push naive definitions of free will into incoherence. If the mind were not embodied in the brain, it would be embodied in something else; there would be some real thing that was a mind. If the future were not determined by physics, it would be determined by something, some law, some order, some grand reality that included you within it.

But if the laws of physics control us, then how can we be said to control ourselves?

Turn it around: If the laws of physics did not control us, how could we possibly control ourselves?

Literal Banana@literalbanana· Apr 19

Congratulations, you just became the world's greatest expert on Thing! In recognition of your achievement, your prize is that you are forever triggered whenever an innocent normal person expresses an uninformed opinion about Thing

Literal Banana@literalbanana· Mar 13

"just because it's not monophyletic doesn't mean it's not a natural kind" I insist as they drag me to the Crab Chamber

Literal Banana@literalbanana· Mar 11

Literal Banana@literalbanana· Mar 11

I don't believe in placebo healing but there are a lot of situations where directing mental effort in specific ways changes physical ability/experience which I think is different and real

tweet: "Sure the illustrations are weird/wild, but I think this approach is really useful and undervalued:

“To do X, pretend your body is like Y”

Anyone have other examples of this kind of advice?"

Reply: "target shooting - you pretend it will misfire to avoid flinching
fencing - to fleche, you pretend you’re flying indefinitely
running downhill - imagining you’re doing everything with your abs gives you much better traction
yoga - passim"

Literal Banana@literalbanana· Mar 3

this was somebody else's mixing work but I'm realizing I probably over-mix and I could be way lazier about it and just let the spinning and especially plying do more of the work, like I usually turn A into B but I could just spin A

bright blue, orange, and yellow cormo wool on a wool comb about to be mixed

Literal Banana@literalbanana· Mar 3

idk what I was expecting it to look like spun up but it wasn't that

two-ply merino next to roving it's spun from but sorry I really can't explain how counterintuitive the color situation is if you're blind lol it's just incredibly confusing

Literal Banana@literalbanana· Mar 1

coffee arabica number one recommendation for house plant, he just chills and never complains or gets dramatic

Literal Banana@literalbanana· Feb 25

I made a blankie

merino wool in cabled pattern, central motif by hitomi shida

Literal Banana@literalbanana· Dec 4

noise from being like 31 people I think? maybe the few people who mark themselves as NB are unusual in various ways - in general online samples are high % AIs themselves but maybe NBs are people?

1,634 participants of whom 1.9% were non-binary

Literal Banana@literalbanana· Apr 14

not a word but

worst person you know just made a great point

Literal Banana@literalbanana· Apr 14

I looked out of curiosity, probably not this one but I'm impressed he exists www.etsy.com/listing/1699...