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@stevenaleach@universeodon.com · 4d ago

Wow. I almost wound up not filing my taxes this year.

H&R Block's site is filled with promotions and gotcha paid stuff that you have to opt out of over and over again while going through filing steps.

I'd gotten to what *looked* like a step you couldn't pass without buying an optional service. And so I thought I was done.

Finally realized after getting a few "let's finish" emails that that step *could* be passed without buying something (just a different design and color choices for the "buyme" clicks so it looked like the first was auto-selected).

After passing this point finally, there were many more steps and many more promotions to opt out of, but finally it's done.

So with only three days left, I NOW have my taxes filed and got through it without being forced to purchase anything.

Those ads almost cost me over $600.

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@stevenaleach@universeodon.com · 6d ago

The pull of the #mushroom cultivation rabbit-hole is profound.

You can grow oysters on cardboard? Seriously? Cardboard?

I have access to an infinite supply of cardboard + all sorts of empty food-grade containers I can divert from recycling every day.

And I have quite a number of chefs I can hand any mushroom producing container to once it starts fruiting.

Oh Hell Yea!

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@MCDuncanLab@mstdn.social Thanks for the note on the oysters - I ended up going to I-Naturalist and found that the ones I wanna try already live here. Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy. I'm gonna let lion's mane

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@stevenaleach@universeodon.com · Mar 10, 2026

@MCDuncanLab@mstdn.social I think I'll leave the oysters in the fridge for now, four species are enough for someone who's never tried growing mushrooms before, I think ;-).

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@stevenaleach@universeodon.com · Mar 10, 2026

@MCDuncanLab@mstdn.social Thanks for the note on the oysters - I ended up going to I-Naturalist and found that the ones I wanna try already live here. Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy. I'm gonna let lion's mane and shiitake each have a log of their own and let them fight for the stump. And I'm planning to de-pot all of my vegetables (that originally were going to be balcony plants) before I move them out, and put them in burlap mounds/balls, half with button mushroom spawn added to a wood-chip/bark and compost mix, and the other half with wine-cap spawn. The inspiration for trying to grow mushrooms was this mound/blob planting, now about two months old, that is happily filled with shaggy ink-caps. The plants love their fungus friend and the tree's never been happier. So I decided I wanna pick what species lives in the next planting like this I do.

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@stevenaleach@universeodon.com · Mar 09, 2026

I'll be occupying my time during the upcoming summer break from work with a bit of gardening - a large maple tree was just taken down at the rear of the property leaving a huge stump and some torn up de-landscaped area around it. I have several types of peppers and tomatoes as well as broccoli waiting to be moved outdoors ---- And lots and lots of mushroom liquid cultures in an ever growing collection. What's odd is that I can't find any kind of USDA climate zone table for mushrooms. I know shiitake will grow here happily, and I know that lions main should be fine. Less sure about wine-caps and Agaricus Bisporus. I *think* if I get them established in the soil they should persist here in zone 5b, but can't find any actual reference to consult. I've got four different oyster mushroom types to try - no clue if any will make a re-appearance next year once established. That seems strange, but then mushroom cultivation in general beyond agaricus is actually pretty new. I remember reading books as a kid from the 40's, 50's, and maybe even early 60's that referred to "the cultivated mushroom" and there was literally only one cultivated mushroom species at the time, at least in the western world. #mycology #mushrooms #gardening #madisonwi

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@stevenaleach@universeodon.com · Mar 07, 2026

@futurebird@sauropods.win I noticed at some point that the kid who occasionally works at the corner grocery heard "a couple of" as a nonspecific quantity. He would always ask "so how many?". I found this fascinated and have tended to buy stuff in pairs ever since. He now assumes I mean two, but always double checks. "And a couple avocados please" "So is two okay?" .... I've bit my tongue so many times to stop from asking: "If the next customers through that door happen to be a couple who walk in together holding hands, how many people would they be?"

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@stevenaleach@universeodon.com · Mar 03, 2026

@fsinn@mas.to Besides the idiocy of believing in "biblical prophecy" to begin with, anyone who *believes* in "Armageddon" and *wants* it to happen and wants to help bring it about? Fuck Them. Fuck Them All.

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@stevenaleach@universeodon.com · Mar 03, 2026

RE: https://mas.to/@fsinn/116163253755776732 How?! How can people possibly be this dumb? I simply can't think of anyone who literally believes in magic and the supernatural as an actual adult. These are nasty fucking children commanding forces. Deluded Idiots. Evil Idiots. Fuck anyone who both believes in "Armageddon" and seriously *wants* it to happen! Seriously, *wanting* to help bring about the end of the world because you were told it was a good thing in church should absolutely disqualify anyone from public office or military service. Fuck.

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Having a writers coffee sesh and our coffee artist is knocking it out of the ball park (this was a request for Cthulhu):

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@stevenaleach@universeodon.com · Feb 28, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop It's a Cthulhu-Elephant!

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What is the ideal length of a video on a topic you enjoy? So not music, or ambient stuff. I know that there are some people who I will click on a one hour or three hour video for... but if it's just b

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@stevenaleach@universeodon.com · Feb 28, 2026

@futurebird@sauropods.win I was just doing a search for stuff on YouTube and realized that I basically *always* filter for "Over 20 minutes" and pretty much no longer see anything shorter in search results. I've basically been doing that since they introduced "Shorts". I don't look at unfiltered YouTube search results at all anymore 'cause there will be tons of "Shorts".

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@stevenaleach@universeodon.com · Feb 24, 2026

Anyone else find clips of "USA! USA!" chants at the Olympics chilling?

I heard that at least three times as sound-bites on NPR, and each time I thought "Yikes", and "1936".

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@stevenaleach@universeodon.com · Feb 21, 2026

@futurebird@sauropods.win If it's under 15 minutes (or if it's a "vertical video" of any length) I tend to scroll past - after that I'll scan for high quality looking long content (and especially any semester-length play-lists of lectures), open these up in new tabs. Any of the playlists I check out first and move to the left of the tab-bar, and any of the others that turn out to be good material I want to go back to and watch again, until I've watched (or bailed on) all the individual videos and moved any worth going back to to the "keep" side, then settle in to watch the lecture playlists. Some of those tabs might be up for well over a month before I'm finally ready to close them.

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@stevenaleach@universeodon.com · Feb 20, 2026

So basically Trump wants to destroy anything America achieved during the Obama and Biden administrations *and* wreck the future just so that in his fuzzy fantasy his time will have been a "high point"? Is that what's going on here?

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@stevenaleach@universeodon.com · Feb 17, 2026

Yes! It has strawberries! I wasn't sure any had managed to root before being washed off since the wild strawberry seeds take quite some time to germinate (a couple weeks compared to three or four days for the clover), and takes another week or more before there's a distinct leaf that identifies it as "not clover". But I've *Finally* spotted at least three of the little guys, scanning with a magnifying glass. The seed-packet instructions and most guides suggest stratifying strawberry seeds in media in the fridge for a month, so I wasn't even sure if they'd take to this treatment at all, let alone manage to get rooted through the burlap and not get washed off the vertical sides.

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Bike riding occasional coder with too many houseplants living in # MadisonWI . # AI , # Aquaponics , # BariSax , # Bikes , # Brains , # C , # Carfree , # CargoBike , # CleanEnergy , # Coffee , # Cycling , # Debian , # Decarbonization , # Ebike , # Gardening , # Houseplants , # IPFS , # Jazz , # Jupyter , # Jupyterlab , # Linux , # ML , # Madison , # Neuro , # OpenSource , # P2P , # Piano , # PublicRadio , # PyTorch , # Python , # Recycling , # Rustlang , # Science , # ScienceFiction , # Space , # Sustainability , # Unix

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@stevenaleach@universeodon.com

Bike riding occasional coder with too many houseplants living in # MadisonWI . # AI , # Aquaponics , # BariSax , # Bikes , # Brains , # C , # Carfree , # CargoBike , # CleanEnergy , # Coffee , # Cycling , # Debian , # Decarbonization , # Ebike , # Gardening , # Houseplants , # IPFS , # Jazz , # Jupyter , # Jupyterlab , # Linux , # ML , # Madison , # Neuro , # OpenSource , # P2P , # Piano , # PublicRadio , # PyTorch , # Python , # Recycling , # Rustlang , # Science , # ScienceFiction , # Space , # Sustainability , # Unix

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@stevenaleach@universeodon.com · Feb 17, 2026

I've suddenly found a whole new kingdom of life to obsess about growing. I've now got an absurd collection of #mushroom cultivation supplies coming from Amazon. All because a fungus added itself to my little mound planting, colonizing the whole hill from top to bottom all the way around, is loving life, and is clearly not bothering the plants one bit. So I'll pasteurize the soil and bark for the next mound and stuff in a bunch of spawn for oysters or shiitake or both and hopefully they can persist for a few years and be coaxed into fruiting with sufficient watering and appropriate temperatures. every so often. #houseplants #mushrooms

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Bike riding occasional coder with too many houseplants living in # MadisonWI . # AI , # Aquaponics , # BariSax , # Bikes , # Brains , # C , # Carfree , # CargoBike , # CleanEnergy , # Coffee , # Cycling , # Debian , # Decarbonization , # Ebike , # Gardening , # Houseplants , # IPFS , # Jazz , # Jupyter , # Jupyterlab , # Linux , # ML , # Madison , # Neuro , # OpenSource , # P2P , # Piano , # PublicRadio , # PyTorch , # Python , # Recycling , # Rustlang , # Science , # ScienceFiction , # Space , # Sustainability , # Unix

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@stevenaleach@universeodon.com

Bike riding occasional coder with too many houseplants living in # MadisonWI . # AI , # Aquaponics , # BariSax , # Bikes , # Brains , # C , # Carfree , # CargoBike , # CleanEnergy , # Coffee , # Cycling , # Debian , # Decarbonization , # Ebike , # Gardening , # Houseplants , # IPFS , # Jazz , # Jupyter , # Jupyterlab , # Linux , # ML , # Madison , # Neuro , # OpenSource , # P2P , # Piano , # PublicRadio , # PyTorch , # Python , # Recycling , # Rustlang , # Science , # ScienceFiction , # Space , # Sustainability , # Unix

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@stevenaleach@universeodon.com · Feb 17, 2026

Every time I see the name "Tik-Tok", the first thing that comes to mind is "And they're all made out of ticky-tacky And they all look just the same."

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Bike riding occasional coder with too many houseplants living in # MadisonWI . # AI , # Aquaponics , # BariSax , # Bikes , # Brains , # C , # Carfree , # CargoBike , # CleanEnergy , # Coffee , # Cycling , # Debian , # Decarbonization , # Ebike , # Gardening , # Houseplants , # IPFS , # Jazz , # Jupyter , # Jupyterlab , # Linux , # ML , # Madison , # Neuro , # OpenSource , # P2P , # Piano , # PublicRadio , # PyTorch , # Python , # Recycling , # Rustlang , # Science , # ScienceFiction , # Space , # Sustainability , # Unix

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Bike riding occasional coder with too many houseplants living in # MadisonWI . # AI , # Aquaponics , # BariSax , # Bikes , # Brains , # C , # Carfree , # CargoBike , # CleanEnergy , # Coffee , # Cycling , # Debian , # Decarbonization , # Ebike , # Gardening , # Houseplants , # IPFS , # Jazz , # Jupyter , # Jupyterlab , # Linux , # ML , # Madison , # Neuro , # OpenSource , # P2P , # Piano , # PublicRadio , # PyTorch , # Python , # Recycling , # Rustlang , # Science , # ScienceFiction , # Space , # Sustainability , # Unix

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@stevenaleach@universeodon.com · Feb 15, 2026

#Ficus experiment.

The tree is a Ficus Obliqua, one of a bunch I started from seed in 2022. It had eighteen siblings once, but the lankier or bigger leafed ones I gave away and I'm down to three now.

It was in a two gallon-ish flower pot until last month. Now that I find myself in a place with a large window and a balcony, it's been de-potted to give it room to grow.

The tray underneath is filled with expanded clay and baby watercress. The mound is seeded with mini-clover and alpine wild strawberries. I didn't have quite enough clover seed to get good coverage on the first pass, so had to give the bald spots a second rub-down once the first batch was established.

The mound consists of a base "pillow" of burlap stuffed and stitched with planting mix, a burlap pot containing the transplanted tree stitched tight to that, and then more soil mix and a wrap around all of that, stitched top and bottom to the other bags.

The mix is 50/50 orchid potting mix (bark, chunky perlite, some charcoal) and potting soil.

It looks like the clover will handle the vertical sides, and I'm sure the strawberries will if any are actually hiding in there somewhere.

As an unexpected (bonus?), it's now growing mushrooms. I *think* they're "Shaggy Ink Cap", and I'll take it as a sign that a healthy soil ecosystem is getting established in my little hill. Once the clover and (hopefully) strawberries are established enough, I won't need to keep the mound nearly as moist so the 'shrooms should calm down I expect.

My first time growing #watercress -- I'll be using more on the deck under plants so I won't be raining on the downstairs neighbor all summer.

#ficus #bonsai #houseplants

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Bike riding occasional coder with too many houseplants living in # MadisonWI . # AI , # Aquaponics , # BariSax , # Bikes , # Brains , # C , # Carfree , # CargoBike , # CleanEnergy , # Coffee , # Cycling , # Debian , # Decarbonization , # Ebike , # Gardening , # Houseplants , # IPFS , # Jazz , # Jupyter , # Jupyterlab , # Linux , # ML , # Madison , # Neuro , # OpenSource , # P2P , # Piano , # PublicRadio , # PyTorch , # Python , # Recycling , # Rustlang , # Science , # ScienceFiction , # Space , # Sustainability , # Unix

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Bike riding occasional coder with too many houseplants living in # MadisonWI . # AI , # Aquaponics , # BariSax , # Bikes , # Brains , # C , # Carfree , # CargoBike , # CleanEnergy , # Coffee , # Cycling , # Debian , # Decarbonization , # Ebike , # Gardening , # Houseplants , # IPFS , # Jazz , # Jupyter , # Jupyterlab , # Linux , # ML , # Madison , # Neuro , # OpenSource , # P2P , # Piano , # PublicRadio , # PyTorch , # Python , # Recycling , # Rustlang , # Science , # ScienceFiction , # Space , # Sustainability , # Unix

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@stevenaleach@universeodon.com · Feb 12, 2026

Horrible: "TLDR". Moreable: "AIDR".

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