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Aug 29Liked by Étienne Fortier-Dubois

"Prophets of a solarpunk utopia" is how I'm now going to think about all plants with weird leaves or flowers. Thanks for tickling the machine and selecting this gem.

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Interestingly it says "silent prophets" and I noticed that Claude, when prompted for poetic prose, really likes to add the words "silent" and "quiet" everywhere for some reason

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Sep 11Liked by Étienne Fortier-Dubois

I loved reading this! Also totally intrigued by what solarpunk is? I’m super interested in questions about monstrosity, good and evil, and if any of those things really exist, or exist in isolation from the other two. I sort of now want a Venus flytrap, but am also slightly scared that having one might turn me into a villainous mastermind.

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Thank you!!

No one fully knows what solarpunk is, but it's an aspirational futuristic aesthetic in which solar power plays a large role, everything is environment-friendly, and architecture tends to feature a lot of plants. I don't know if I'd have much to say about it but it'd be interested to write about it sometime...

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Sep 14Liked by Étienne Fortier-Dubois

Ok well THAT sounds cool. I also want to write about it sometime!

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Aug 31Liked by Étienne Fortier-Dubois

Tu pourrais lui donner des petit shake de protéines 😅 genre de la farine de cricket de l’industrie, comme ça tu te distance de l’horreur jusqu’à l’oublier…

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Aug 31Liked by Étienne Fortier-Dubois

Mais mais est-ce que Boris est en danger maintenant? 😢🪲

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Il va être correct puisqu’il est plus gros que les pièges! (En supposant qu’il soit encore en vie…)

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Aug 30Liked by Étienne Fortier-Dubois

Beautifully done. We are fortunate to have Drosera - and I confess, I don't know which of the dozen or so species in our region it is - growing on our property. All you can see is a black speck, and that's an unfortunate, teeny insect caught on one of its sticky traps. The Drosera have had a great year, scores of them are in flower right now, which means there must be lots of insects around, which is surely a good ecological thing...and yet...I feel sad for the insects.

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Thank you! It's strange, right? Certainly is no worse than animals eating other animals... and yet.

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Aug 29Liked by Étienne Fortier-Dubois

please please please please write a book. C'mon. Please.

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haha sure, as soon as a fancy publisher offers me a book deal lol

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Aug 29Liked by Étienne Fortier-Dubois

Put them in a plastic pot,not a clay pot as you said they not Likey the minerals.

But they love full sun and sitting lots of distilled water. Good luck. We have been going strong with ours for a few years.

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Thank you! It's in a plastic pot hidden inside a terracotta one, hopefully that's fine because I don't have any sufficiently small decorative pots to put the plastic one in

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Aug 30Liked by Étienne Fortier-Dubois

Perfect. I did wonder if it was plastic. But figured for others to be aware I'd better share.

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