Guess I'm doing something right.

Image alt text: a butterwort plant mostly filling a green 3.5 inch pot. Its leaves are about 4 times longer than wide. They curl up at the edges, hot dog style. Each leaf has sticky dew drops to catch prey. A few gnats are stuck to leaves. At the tips of some leaves are tiny baby butterwort plants. In the middle is a rising flower stalk bent over on itself. A hint of violet and white petals can be seen.

Alt text: a fly is resting all casually inside a venus fly trap, not moving and not triggering the trap.

I live in the US and don't think I've ever had a UK style biscuit. What are the asbolutely must try brands/types?

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For many years the AskMenOver30 subreddit has been a very helpful, supportive, and wholesome place for general discussion among adults. The community has been a great example of how good the internet can be. I would love to see this legacy continue in the fediverse.

Trans men are men and welcome. People who are younger than 30 are welcome to seek advice from their older peers. Women are welcome to do the same.

sometimes, the most valuable lessons are the harshest ones. What’s a piece of brutal, no BS advice you think every younger generation needs to hear? It could be from your own experience, something you learned the hard way, or just a tough truth no one talks about enough. Let’s hear the cold, honest reality.

To help jumpstart this community, I am crossposting posts that I like from /r/askmenover30. The original post can be found here.

I'd just about given up on the dwarf sundew seeds I'd planted. After a couple months though there are at least a dozen small little sundews.

[Image description A very zoomed in picture of 3 tiny sundews. They look like red hairy spikes things sitting on wet green cut sphagnum moss.]

If you look closely, there are tiny hairs with dew all on the stalk.

[Image alt text: a blank white background with the flower stalk in front. The stalk is straight but then curves over to the right point back downward. On the left side of this arc is a closed flower from the previous day. At the apex is the currently blooming flower in profile. It's petals are a delicate pink. The part od the stalk going back down has curled up immature flowers which will bloom every 1 to 2 days as the stalk unfurls.]

Maybe not the best type of dumpling to inaugurate this community, but it's a cool and wet Saturday morning and I wanted some easy and warm comfort food.

The soup is a basic chicken stock with frozen peas, chopped carrots and onion. Already cooked dark chicken meat from last nights dinner was added and then I seasoned to taste. The dumplings are made from a basic biscuit dough. My mom would actually use canned biscuits for her chicken and dumplings.

As the title suggests, what did you do to stay fit/healthy?

I’m struggling the most with sleep, to the point where it’s difficult to focus on work the following day.

I’ve never been very healthy or in shape, but feel like if I don’t start now it will be very difficult to manage in 10-15 years.

Would love some advice/guidance/motivation.

To help jumpstart this community I am reposting questions from /r/AskMenOver30 that I like. The original reddit post can be found here.

My teens and 20's I always had something going on, always on the move. 30s were mostly spent working at my career and having children. I stopped doing everything, more or less. I turn 40 this summer and will hopefully have more me-time.

I'd like to explore new hobbies, skills, experiences, anything and everything. Give me your best recommendations please

In order to help jumpstart this community, I am reposting questions from /r/AskMenOver30 that I think are good. The original reddit post can be found here.

When I was younger, I thought “making it” meant money, hustle, status. Now I just want stability, a calm mind, and maybe a good dinner. No shade to ambition, but these days, peace of mind feels like the bigger flex. Curious if other guys have had this quiet shift too, or if I just got tired.

To help jumpstart this community I am reposting questions from /r/AskMenOver30 that I think are good. The original reddit post can be found here.

This is a White Pitcher plant (Sarracenia leucophylla), East Alabama variety. That tiny little stalk is its first true leaf and it's first pitcher.

Like other temperate pitcher plants, the seeds needed to experience a period of cold, aka stratification, to be viable. I kept the seeds in a Ziploc bag with sphagnum moss in my fridge for 60 days before planting.

This was my lunch today. Each slice of bread had light mayonaise and one of them also had a little bit of sriracha. The tomato had liberal amounts of salt and freshly ground black pepper, of course.

10/10 would eat again.

[image alt text: An old woman stares with a primal hunger at Hank's junk and urges him to run to the tornado shelter. Bobby is looking too but Luanne is covering her eyes because she loves her uncle.]

I would like to present ![email protected], a community dedicated to identifying the cool rocks and minerals people find!

What's This Rock will be modeled on the Reddit community /r/whatsthisrock. If you have anything you would like ID'd, please post a clear photo with information about where you collected it.

[image alt text: Picture taken from just inside a tent looking out the open tent flap. A pair of sock clad feet stick out onto a rock ledge. The tent is only a few meters from the edge of a cliff. The view looks out over a wide river valley, and in the far distance are mountains. The river has been dammed and in the center of the image is Weiss Lake, which looks vaguely like an alien from the classic Space Invaders arcade game.]

The view is from Cherokee Rock Village, on top of Lookout Mountain. They have one of the best campgrounds in the state, highly recommend.

[image alt text: A close up view of a 2.5 inch square black pot on a grow shelf. In the pot is a Dwarf Sundew. Its leaves are the shape of elongated rain drops, with the narrow point coming out of its center. Each leaf is covered with dozens and dozens of closely packed red hair like stalks, with a drop of sticky dew at the end. Some leaves have gnats stuck to them and are in the process of closing, others opening. A curled flower stalk is emerging from the center.]

I can't wait to have more seeds than I know what to do with. The original motiviation for getting native carnivorous plants was to help with the fungus gnat problem in my grow room.

The sundews eat a good number of gnats but I think I'd need a dozen or more to actually make a dent in the population.

A group of LGBTQ+ baristas is working to unionize a Starbucks in Huntsville for what they hope will help create a more fair and equitable workplace for everyone.

If successful, the store on Memorial Parkway would be the third organized Starbucks outlet in Alabama, after stores in Scottsboro and Birmingham. The organizing team wants to join Starbucks Workers United (SBWU), the union that represents over 570 union Starbucks stores, out of about 15,000 outlets in total.

In a scathing opinion more than 570 pages long, a panel of three federal judges issued a final ruling on Thursday concluding that not only did the congressional map Alabama Republicans adopted in 2023 violate the civil rights of Black voters, but that lawmakers had also intentionally discriminated against that same group in passing their map.

The decision likely means that Alabama's congressional delegation will remain split between five Republicans and two Democrats for the rest of the decade, but a more serious consequence looms.

Because of the court's finding of deliberate discrimination, the state could be brought back under federal supervision to ensure that any future changes it makes to voting rules and procedures—which include anything from relocating a polling place to imposing new voter ID laws or redistricting plans—do not disadvantage minorities.