Reposted by Kathleen Rhoades
My kid has started a Letterboxd list called Killer Sweaters for films where the killer wears a great sweater and they've asked me to throw it out to Bluesky for more because "that's the kind of thing those weirdos like to do"
![On the 17th of June, 1769, I attended the service at this church, and being obliged to remain for a short time in the neighborhood, it so occurred that two Sundays afterwards I again repaired to this place of worship; and I never was more astonished, than when, on opening the door, I perceived a young acacia [Robinia], which, in this short interval, had forced its way through the floor and had grown to the height of four feet. This tree was the sucker from a root...49 feet long.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sxyrc3qjtgzox5l7eg4maujm/bafkreienkwj2fhxth2pjy43kz4ifwdxtb24k772rh63bvfon3cb3is366q)
![Jean Hector Saint-Jean de Creve Coeur's account of his travels in North America [1786] typifies the impression made by suckering black locusts: "An acacia [Robinia], that was planted twenty feet from the parsonage house...sent a root across the cellar of the house, which penetrated the side of a well 17 feet beyond, and to the depth of 15 feet below the surface of the ground, insinuating itself among the stones of the well....It then...threw up a small tree."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sxyrc3qjtgzox5l7eg4maujm/bafkreiecq2qkkj4zxbimc2dqmfgvkhzfjota6nncxw4gg33cqy7in2ig7u)
