I’m jealous. Mostly what I’ve managed to do with African violets is kill them. Probably overwatering, so perhaps I’ll try again after our move next year - right now I’m trying to cut down on the number of pots we’ll need to move!

Upvoted the photo. I’d downvote the caterpillar if I could.

Looks like mullein. Pretty common roadside weed in many parts of the US. Allegedly medicinal though I’ve never tried it and wouldn’t harvest any that had been marinating in exhaust fumes.

Go you!

It’s a lemmy bug. Though we already have thousands of users on Beehaw, the reality is that this is a very immature software platform. I guess the good news is that means it should steadily improve!

Bug in lemmy’s issue tracker: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1329

Good to hear you were able to find a way to get good local produce! Using a CSA isn’t quite as nice as growing my own, but I no longer have half an acre to devote to home gardening (or, probably, the back muscle strength to manage it myself). It really does seem like small scale production and actual freshness does make everything taste better. I pity people who have only had supermarket carrots.

In my opinion it’s unreasonable to think anything can truly be deleted in a federated system. Even if the official codebase is updated to do complete deletion & overwrite, it’s impossible to prevent some bad actor from federating in a fork that just ignores deletion requests.

Seems sensible to just not post anything that you don’t want to be available for the lifetime of the internet.