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Eric R. Scott @leafyericscott.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2025

I tasted a new plant today! (Always a good day when you eat a new thing). These are fruits of Pistacia terebinthus, a wild pistachio relative. They are roasted and ground and brewed like Turkish coffee to make a drink called Qezwan. Tastes toasty, nutty, and […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

A small white cup filled halfway with small seeds. Their skins are blue green and one is peeled partially to reveal a red seed.

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Eric R. Scott @leafyericscott.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2025

Yo Apple, what in the pixel art is going on here. Is this just a UI thing that no one other than me uses? No one has noticed that those borders are drawn in the wrong place?

screenshot of the UI element in macOS that comes up when you hit the "fn" key after typing something that might be the name of an emoji. It is an oval "pill" with suggestions of the "1" and hand pointing up emojis but the borders around the pill are pixelated and overlapping the pill interior in a strange way.

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Eric R. Scott @leafyericscott.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2025

Hi Rosy, I'm Eric! (I have no idea what is going on here either)

An onion balanced on a clear plastic cup sitting on the tray return of a food court style trash can. The cup has a white label with "Rosy" hand-written on it. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Eric R. Scott @leafyericscott.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2025

Happy early #caturday! This is my grandma's 22lb orange cat Chompy. He loves to chomp.

Large overweight orange cat lying on a couch

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Eric R. Scott @leafyericscott.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2025

That's what an oak tree should look like.

Looking up past orange iron bridge trusses at the canopy of a large California valley oak with twisty limbs

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Eric R. Scott @leafyericscott.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/05/2025

Vietnamese church functions have some of the best food in Tucson

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Eric R. Scott @leafyericscott.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/03/2025

It's almost yellow season in #Tucson! (Uam Masad in the local language, Tohono O’odham).

Encelia farinosa (brittlebrush), a low shrub with grey green leaves and showy yellow composite flowers on stalks.

Thymophylla pentachaeta in bloom. A small prostrate herb in the sunflower family will small yellow composite flowers

Larrea tridentata (Cresote bush) with yellow flowers

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Eric R. Scott @leafyericscott.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/03/2025

Please share your favorite recipes for kumquats. I've got 3.5 lbs of them 😳 #Recipes #cooking #fruits #food

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Eric R. Scott @leafyericscott.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/02/2025

I think this is the *worst* model diagnostics I've ever seen. I had to laugh out loud when I saw it. What a way to start a friday. #statistics #GAMs #EcologicalModeling

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Eric R. Scott @leafyericscott.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/02/2025

Cat says I’m done with work for the week

A gray cat sitting on a desk in front of a monitor displaying code

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Eric R. Scott @leafyericscott.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/01/2025

This elderly baby is off to a veterinary dentist this morning for a high risk tooth extraction. Send healing vibes please!

Gray cat with his mouth slightly agape and with a droplet of drool on his lip

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Eric R. Scott @leafyericscott.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/12/2024

Messing around with some raster calculations today and using New Hampshire as an example. Is it just me or is it a really unpleasant shape? It kinda evokes "diseased organ" for me for some reason.

A heatmap of the state of New Hampshire in a color palette ranging from black to dark purple to orange to yellow.

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Eric R. Scott @leafyericscott.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/12/2024

Extremely proud of how gray my weekends are in my GitHub contributions graph. #GitHub

A GitHub contributions graph with month on the horizontal axis and day of week on the vertical axis with contributions ranging from less (gray) to more (dark green). Almost all the saturdays and sundays a gray!

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Eric R. Scott @leafyericscott.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/11/2024

On my way to Bisbee, AZ to do a mine tour with my mom and she tells us that "a significant part of Sesame Street was filmed there". Folks, this is that "significant part"

A "View-Master 3D" cartridge (disk?) in packaging featuring an image of Big Bird, Bert, Ernie, and another muppet I don't recognize riding horses with a saguaro cactus in the background

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Eric R. Scott @leafyericscott.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/11/2024

Didn't know what to do with myself this morning, so I took some time to brew some #tea. Drinking this "truly f-ing ridiculous" ripe puer with aged tangerine peel packed in bamboo from white2tea. #gongfucha

A tube of bamboo with Chinese writing next to a cup of a deep amber colored tea

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Eric R. Scott @leafyericscott.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2024

My 18 yr old cat requires that I provide a belly to lay on after meals. If I'm not laying down on the right part of the couch, he stares at me until I assume the position.

A bald bearded man (me) with a gray cat on his chest

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