Scott Cave
@hellabarnes.bsky.social
Once and future historian of colonial Latin America, current stay at home dad. just a clod of the common earth
Posting RVA-area plant pics on Insta @powerlinebotany, for now
Posting RVA-area plant pics on Insta @powerlinebotany, for now
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“like me, you shall yield yourself up to the flames. are we not all so many punic youths, to be consumed for the almighty baal of industry?”
The Trump administration today announced a new government-backed fossil fuel industry mascot.
Meet Coalie the lump of coal!
Meet Coalie the lump of coal!
January 22, 2026 at 11:06 PM
“like me, you shall yield yourself up to the flames. are we not all so many punic youths, to be consumed for the almighty baal of industry?”
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i never should have eaten that shit. got me seeing the duendes.
It's always the same hallucination across time and space and in whatever country the mushroom grows in. Extremely weird.
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans
Only recently described by science, the mysterious mushrooms are found in different parts of the world, but they give people the same exact visions.
www.bbc.com
January 23, 2026 at 3:00 AM
i never should have eaten that shit. got me seeing the duendes.
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fact check: false ❌
January 23, 2026 at 3:47 AM
fact check: false ❌
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we’re not gonna get a flake of snow until Saturday and the grocery stores are already totally picked over
January 22, 2026 at 9:59 PM
we’re not gonna get a flake of snow until Saturday and the grocery stores are already totally picked over
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hell. they’re all going to hell. I gotta hope so.
SIL in St. Paul reports that a Spanish speaking AA meeting got raided.
January 23, 2026 at 1:51 AM
hell. they’re all going to hell. I gotta hope so.
i never should have eaten that shit. got me seeing the duendes.
It's always the same hallucination across time and space and in whatever country the mushroom grows in. Extremely weird.
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans
Only recently described by science, the mysterious mushrooms are found in different parts of the world, but they give people the same exact visions.
www.bbc.com
January 23, 2026 at 3:00 AM
i never should have eaten that shit. got me seeing the duendes.
Reposted by Scott Cave
It's always the same hallucination across time and space and in whatever country the mushroom grows in. Extremely weird.
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans
Only recently described by science, the mysterious mushrooms are found in different parts of the world, but they give people the same exact visions.
www.bbc.com
January 23, 2026 at 1:37 AM
It's always the same hallucination across time and space and in whatever country the mushroom grows in. Extremely weird.
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
hell. they’re all going to hell. I gotta hope so.
SIL in St. Paul reports that a Spanish speaking AA meeting got raided.
January 23, 2026 at 1:51 AM
hell. they’re all going to hell. I gotta hope so.
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a big reason people think they suck at cooking is their dull-ass dangerous knives!
January 22, 2026 at 7:57 PM
a big reason people think they suck at cooking is their dull-ass dangerous knives!
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I just thought everyone should see this
January 22, 2026 at 11:02 PM
I just thought everyone should see this
“like me, you shall yield yourself up to the flames. are we not all so many punic youths, to be consumed for the almighty baal of industry?”
The Trump administration today announced a new government-backed fossil fuel industry mascot.
Meet Coalie the lump of coal!
Meet Coalie the lump of coal!
January 22, 2026 at 11:06 PM
“like me, you shall yield yourself up to the flames. are we not all so many punic youths, to be consumed for the almighty baal of industry?”
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meet me at the unknown lifeform the size of a telephone pole if you're not a coward
I would love to see one of these chonkers in real life
Mystery tower fossils may be a whole new kind of life
Towering Prototaxites ruled Earth before trees—and they may have been a form of life entirely new to science
www.scientificamerican.com
January 22, 2026 at 8:18 PM
meet me at the unknown lifeform the size of a telephone pole if you're not a coward
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the shimmy, golden, wingéd seeds of yellow jessamine | Gelsemium sempervirens
January 22, 2026 at 3:59 AM
the shimmy, golden, wingéd seeds of yellow jessamine | Gelsemium sempervirens
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my son is 4 and named Liam
January 22, 2026 at 8:19 PM
my son is 4 and named Liam
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If ICE were soldiers they would be guilty of war crimes many times over
There is no level to which these heartless shit-for-brains won’t stoop to inflict cruelty and suffering.
January 22, 2026 at 8:25 PM
If ICE were soldiers they would be guilty of war crimes many times over
we’re not gonna get a flake of snow until Saturday and the grocery stores are already totally picked over
January 22, 2026 at 9:59 PM
we’re not gonna get a flake of snow until Saturday and the grocery stores are already totally picked over
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This really gets to the core of what makes Vance such a detestable figure
January 22, 2026 at 8:24 PM
This really gets to the core of what makes Vance such a detestable figure
If ICE were soldiers they would be guilty of war crimes many times over
There is no level to which these heartless shit-for-brains won’t stoop to inflict cruelty and suffering.
January 22, 2026 at 8:25 PM
If ICE were soldiers they would be guilty of war crimes many times over
my son is 4 and named Liam
January 22, 2026 at 8:19 PM
my son is 4 and named Liam
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Brazilian surfer Pedro Calado at Mullaghmore.
January 22, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Brazilian surfer Pedro Calado at Mullaghmore.
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too bad that it's a poor craftsman who blames his tools because sometimes the tools do suck shit
January 22, 2026 at 7:41 PM
too bad that it's a poor craftsman who blames his tools because sometimes the tools do suck shit
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A fascinating piece about some of the last of Russia's Old Believers, an Orthodox sect that first emerged in the 17th century. #earlymodern
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Forty years in the Siberian wilderness: the Old Believers who time forgot
The long read: In 1978, Soviet scientists stumbled upon a family living in a remote part of Russia. They hadn’t interacted with outsiders for decades. Almost half a century later, one of them is still...
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 1:25 PM
A fascinating piece about some of the last of Russia's Old Believers, an Orthodox sect that first emerged in the 17th century. #earlymodern
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Fires are pretty rare in Appalachia these days, after decades of Smoky the Bear propaganda and fire suppression, and so one isolated old burn out in the coalfields was my most reliable honey hole for cool plants like this colic root.
December 12, 2023 at 2:05 AM
Fires are pretty rare in Appalachia these days, after decades of Smoky the Bear propaganda and fire suppression, and so one isolated old burn out in the coalfields was my most reliable honey hole for cool plants like this colic root.
the shimmy, golden, wingéd seeds of yellow jessamine | Gelsemium sempervirens
January 22, 2026 at 3:59 AM
the shimmy, golden, wingéd seeds of yellow jessamine | Gelsemium sempervirens
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bedtime, queen?
honk-shoo, m’lady?
horizontal meditation, babe?
honk-shoo, m’lady?
horizontal meditation, babe?
January 16, 2026 at 2:20 AM
bedtime, queen?
honk-shoo, m’lady?
horizontal meditation, babe?
honk-shoo, m’lady?
horizontal meditation, babe?