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These toadstools appeared overnight and were gone two days later. They're so bizarre. I know the important parts live in the soil itself, so I'm hopeful this means my raised bed has a healthy fungal component to go with all the humus and wee beasties 😁

A spread of small tan toadstools amongst some leggy looking clover. They have bulbous narrow caps and thin white stalks.

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Jeffy 🌿 @jeffreon.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I didn't plant any tomatoes this year. Last year's tomatoes took issue with that choice, and so here we are.

A huge plastic bowl half full of cherry tomatoes in varying stages of ripeness

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Jeffy 🌿 @jeffreon.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I like Star Trek, and I like ST Online, but even I don't think it's 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥. But you can make some 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 freaks with it. Before you give it up, maybe roll a character of the 'Alien' race and see how monstrous you can make it.

A tiny goblin creature made in Star Trek Online standing next to a fairly normal looking Andorian woman.

A hideous Star Trek Online creature with an elongated body, tiny frog head with bulbous eyes, and neon blue hair. She's standing in a sort of Gollum pose.

An extremely squat blue alien made in Star Trek Online.

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Jeffy 🌿 @jeffreon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My portable telephone has become a window into a world of SIN

A twunk looking into his phone. Rainbow light is shining out onto his face.

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Jeffy 🌿 @jeffreon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Another one of my "leave it and see" pots has produced more wild cabbage type things. I think it's a bit late in the year for them to come to much, but they're always nice to see.

A close up of some very small plants in a mossy flower pot. They have hairy tongue-shaped leaves and tiny white flowers.

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Jeffy 🌿 @jeffreon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If I was a Pokémon Gym Leader, my type of choice would be: Water 💧 and these would be my realistic, non-legendary picks: 1. Wartortle 2. Corsola 3. Castform 🌧 4. Lumineon 5. Lanturn 6. Pyukumuku (Probably should be Blastoise but I like Wartortle the most 🙂)

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Jeffy 🌿 @jeffreon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm just going by the Guardian article (which, admittedly, is not usually wise). You probably have a better understanding than me. I am always worried that these allowances can escalate once the hard line is revoked. I'm not sure who I'd trust to push back enough against nuclear power lobbyists.

Denyer said keeping existing nuclear stations running could be a low-carbon option because a significant proportion of their carbon footprint came from construction. “So if I were energy secretary, my evidence-based approach would be to keep existing nuclear plants in operation, but to consider proposals for new nuclear power very carefully, bearing in mind the cost, speed and environmental impacts.”

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Jeffy 🌿 @jeffreon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's October! Post your team of spooky 👻 Pokémon

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Jeffy 🌿 @jeffreon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

they are cool as hell but some of them are also repulsive and obscene. like look at this shit. this just grows out of the ground around here. fuck.

A revolting looking stinkhorn toadstool.

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Jeffy 🌿 @jeffreon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's amazing where you can find chickweed if you look. Thriving at the top of an old tree trunk! A good place to disperse seeds I suppose. It's the big sort that goes all angular when it seeds. I should probably learn the proper names at some point. 😅

A tall tree stump that looks mostly dead, though with a sprig of new growth on one sawn off branch. On the near side there's a hollow branch scar with a spray of chickweed tumbling down. The sky is blue with puffy white clouds.

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Jeffy 🌿 @jeffreon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i thought this was literally your area of expertise was it all a lie?

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Jeffy 🌿 @jeffreon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of the best cartoon intros of all time

Igor and Nanny from Duckula resurrecting said vampire duck. Igor stands with arms outstretched in front of a vertical coffin bursting with magical light.

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Jeffy 🌿 @jeffreon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A juicy glorpulent fungus and a leathery crunchulent fungus. Lots of different sorts out at the moment.

A toadstool with a thick white stem and a bulbous top. The cap has crazy paving patterns on the sides and a nasty looking sphincter at the tip. The sides are coated in a very shiny, grey-green, evil looking goo. Two slugs are eating the stem.

A huge shelf fungus on a fallen tree. It looks like a brown cockle shell, with slightly more pale areas where the skin has peeled.

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Jeffy 🌿 @jeffreon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's not easy to snap a picture of frogs moving at maximum speed. This is the best I managed 😅

A very blurry picture of a brown frog hopping through a wire fence amongst clumps of grass

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Jeffy 🌿 @jeffreon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

he knows what he's going for short 𝘧𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 🫦

close crop of the face of whoever the guy in the op photo is

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Jeffy 🌿 @jeffreon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My wild strawberry plant is now a sprawling morass of wild strawberry plants, but not a single flower or fruit all year. There's apparently a 'barren' species, but that flowers without fruits. So I don't think that's the issue here. Maybe next year? Not that it matters too much, it's still nice. 🙂

A sprawl of wild strawberry plants and runners on the edge of a raised bed. On one side it's flanked by a sunflower plant, on the other by a spread of vervain.

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Jeffy 🌿 @jeffreon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I plopped a spare sunflower seedling here earlier in the year and kept forgetting about it. Now it's produced the world's tiniest sunflower. My mood has been arse recently and I keep feeling really bad for neglecting it, even though it obviously doesn't care. Maybe I need my meds checked again. 😟

An extremely tiny sunflower nestled in a scrubby corner. Also featuring chickweed!

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Jeffy 🌿 @jeffreon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Getting started on next year's carrot seeds 🙂 It'll be interesting to see if these grow into bizarre mutant shapes like the last batch. That was fun.

Sprouting carrot tops in a plastic dish with a shallow layer of water at the bottom

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Jeffy 🌿 @jeffreon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Another photo taken by holding binoculars in front of my phone 😂 Pretty cool to see a sailing ship doing what sailing ships do. It was blowing a hooley though so I expect even that little sail at the front was doing some work.

A blurry picture of a sailing ship out at sea. It has three masts with the sails furled, apart from a small one at the front. The sea is choppy with white crested waves.

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Jeffy 🌿 @jeffreon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Oh, I'm sure she does. "Legitimate concerns" 🙄

Shabana Mahmood says she wants to distinguish between far-right extremism and legitimate local concerns over asylum sites

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Jeffy 🌿 @jeffreon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It seems to be that time of year again 🍄 I've no idea what any of these are, but they're pretty, and that's enough for me. The second one is a little suspect though. Hmm.

A small toadstool resting on grass. It's roughly spherical, a creamy white colour, and is covered in rough looking bumps and spikes.

A creamy white toadstool with a long thick stem and a bulbous, roughly spherical, collared cap with a long vertical fissure. It looks like a deformed penis.

A cluster of delicate brown toadstools with thin stems and conical caps.

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Jeffy 🌿 @jeffreon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I love this lil crystal guy so much. The real hero. 🥹

Jeffy's FFXIV character standing above the injured Crystal Exarch, in a cutscene. They are both holding onto the same magic staff. Jeffy's character is wearing light mail in red and white, the traditional colours of a White Mage. The Exarch is a cat person and is covered in glowing cyan crystal shards that are obviously causing him pain. The two are looking at each other with a shared resolve.

Jeffy's FFXIV character and the Crystal Exarch jointly holding the Exarch's staff high as it radiates a blinding white light.

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Jeffy 🌿 @jeffreon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Obviously there's the antisemitism of people rejecting his surname, but rejecting his first name really squicks me out on a visceral level. I'm sure most of these wankers don't even know the circumstances, but it feels like they're making fun of a person's childhood trauma, and just... fuck you.

"I had a stepfather called David I got on badly with. I didn't want to be a 'little David' version of this man making my life difficult."

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Jeffy 🌿 @jeffreon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Beach find 🙂 I dunno if these are variations of the same critter or if they're different, but they're pretty either way. I may have cheated and wet them a bit before the photo to make the colours pop out.

Six sea snail shells, 3 of each type. They are the same swirl shape with a flattish apex, but some have bright yellow whirls and some a vibrant orange.

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Jeffy 🌿 @jeffreon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sorry Pol but you've fucked it in the first sentence. Labour is not progressive and it's part of the 'right bloc'.

You might think a byelection showdown between two progressive parties is unimportant when the deep struggle for the national heart is between the right bloc and the left

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Jeffy 🌿 @jeffreon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I saw this thing when I was up on the coast. Apparently some sort of wind turbine installation ship? Pretty cool! Managed to snap it by putting binoculars in front of my phone camera 😅

A photo of a huge construction ship on a grey sea. It has a big crane and lots of upright structures. Some are legs so it can stabilise on the sea bed, but others might actually be part of the turbine.

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Jeffy 🌿 @jeffreon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I really like this stuff. It's called "sea sandwort" and it's a weird beach succulent type thing that forms big mats on the high shoreline. I suspect it wouldn't grow well away from the beach, or I'd be trying it in pots already. (Apparently also known as "sea chickweed", because of course it is!)

A close up of a mat of sea sandwort. It's made up of fleshy leaves arranged in a tight pyramid shape along the stems.

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Jeffy 🌿 @jeffreon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I have some good old home grown 𝘢𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 to share today. First appears to be leek seeds germinating while still in the seed head, which is certainly a choice. The second is a nearly done flowering stem from a fancy cabbage, which seems to have grown multiple whole new flowering plants? Fun!

A papery leek seedhead on top of a classic leek hollow stem. Tiny tufts that look like blades of grass are growing from the seeds still lodged inside.

The long, thin stem of a cabbage gone to seed. It's heavy and has flopped horizontal, but along its length is a whole new flowering plant, complete with leaves and yellow flowers.

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Jeffy 🌿 @jeffreon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

And FYI he changed his first name because of personal family issues implied to be pretty unpleasant. I think it's actually quite cruel to deliberately ignore a decision made for important wellbeing issues like that, regardless of what you think of a person.

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