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Steph 🇨🇦 🇺🇸
@ebishi.bsky.social
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I like cats, knitting, gardening, fermenting, photography, playing cello.

Sometimes I lurk.

I'm switching to curated lists and feeds rather than follows. If I've unfollowed you, its probably because I've moved you to a list instead!
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voodoovintage.bsky.social
I've had a few folks ask about the vintage photo I use as my profile banner. This picture captures a uniquely New Orleans moment in Feminist history - the Storming of the Sazerac.

More pics & #FashionHistory #NewOrleansHistory #FeministHistory #VintageFashion #VintageCocktails in 🧵
September 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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madamegilflurt.bsky.social
This is Nadine Dennis and her cat, Puzzums. The #Frockingfabulous Puzzums became a movie star in the 20s and 30s, pulling down $250 a week working with the likes of Carole Lombard, Maurice Chevalier and Cecil B DeMille!
September 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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castltrastondrs.bsky.social
www.wsj.com/health/why-v...
Essay | Why Vaccines Work Best When We’re Young
Parents concerned about vaccinating their babies deserve to know why doctors recommend it.
www.wsj.com
September 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
ebishi.bsky.social
Enjoying the last hurrah from our roses, this mild and rainy #RoseWednesday. 🌱
A delicate pink rose, opened about 2/3 of the way. Raindrops rest on its petals. Beside the bloom are 3 buds, not yet opened. In the background, many more blooms in various stages, from the same bush. This one here is the most perfect. A cluster of scarlet roses. The two flowers up front are fully opened, and startlingly vivid. Underneath, smaller buds.
September 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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strandjunker.com
Allow me to address the elephant in the room: If Charlie Kirk wasn’t a right-wing extremist, right-wing extremist groups wouldn’t be marching to honor him.
September 15, 2025 at 7:47 PM
ebishi.bsky.social
I’m growing a bunch of tomatillo plants, from seeds saved from last year’s crop.

Last year’s plants all yielded the same fruit: small and pale green.

This year’s crop is…varied. Some are large. Some are purple. The internet says tomatillo breed true, but do they truly? confused.gif

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An assortment of tomatillos, recently picked. Some are large and green, others are smaller and purple. Allegedly, they should all be the same variety.
September 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
ebishi.bsky.social
Happened upon the dahlia show at Burlington's Royal Botanical Gardens.

Where we learned that all flowers are dahlias.

🌱 📷 #bloomscrolling
A close up of a dahlia. I think this is a waterlily dahlia. A hemisphere of rounded petals spiral, becoming smaller and tighter towards the center. Each petal starts yellow in it's center, turning pink towards the edges. It is the colour of a sunset. A close up a dahlia. Specifically, I think it may be an orchid dahlia.It features a single row long, pale pink petals, spaced around a central disc. The petals are curled, so that they look like narrow and long. The overall effects is that of starburst. Overlapping these outer petals is a second row of much shorter petals. A close up a dahlia. Possibly a collarette dahlia? It faces forward, with 7 curled pink petals surrounding a central yellow disk. The petals are each different sizes, and in different stages of unfurling.This flower looks as though she were rushed out of the house before she had finished getting ready.
September 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
ebishi.bsky.social
Unblocked, but off the needles, just in time for #showmeyourknits sweater week! Caitlin Hunter's Halibut sweater, in Lion Brand's Fishermen's Wool.

This is my first yoke sweater, and I'm already scoping out a second. Much fun. Do recommend.

🧶 #knitting #sweater
Trying on the WIP. The yoke and body of a knit sweater are completed, in a medium grey wool. The yoke features a ring of halibut, stitched in cream. The sweater also features a very cozy ribbed turtleneck. Sleeves have not been started yet, so the sweater fits like a t-shirt. The sweater fits a bit large in the shoulders. That's okay -- technically it is not for me, though I do plan to steal it from time to time. A completed sweater, waiting to be blocked. The sweater is medium grey, with a ribbed turtleneck. It features a yoke design of cream coloured halibut. Seven fish lay in a row, dangled vertically, tails up, with diamond patterns filling the space between each fish. Stylistically, they look like wood cut prints. Along the inside of each sleeve are a series of coloured stitch markers. The markers count out the rows in 5s and 10s. Some of the markers also denote decreases. Useful for ensuring the second sleeve matches the first! The sweater is laid out on a distressed pine floor. Very rustic.
September 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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amybrown.xyz
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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cislesbiangrandma.bsky.social
Mr Brachiosaurus has been eyeing those nasturtiums for days. So I let him out to nibble on some.🤓
July 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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semaforben.bsky.social
I do treasure this letter Tom Lehrer, who just died 60 years after he vanished from the stage, sent me when I tried to write about him www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/tom...
July 27, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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cardamomaddict.bsky.social
“In the bill we agree and are sending an unequivocal message that everybody has the right to their own body, their own voice and their own facial features, which is apparently not how the current law is protecting people against generative AI.”

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features
Amendment to law will strengthen protection against digital imitations of people’s identities, government says
www.theguardian.com
July 15, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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themountaingoats.bsky.social
esp if you are younger than me and weren't around for the first orchestration of this stuff, you should go over this timeline. it won't take but a minute and it's clear & not an op-ed: it's just an explainer. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...
History of US-Iran relations: From the 1953 regime change to Trump strikes
Iran remains the US’s adversary in the Middle East since the 1979 Islamic revolution led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
www.aljazeera.com
June 23, 2025 at 4:11 PM
ebishi.bsky.social
Boxtree moth has come to KW. I know its probably a losing battle, but we're currently attempting to manage with pheromone traps (for early detection) and liberal applications of BTK. 🤞🌱
The first sign of trouble. A top-down view of a very distressed boxwood shrub. Close to 50% of the leaves are brown and dead. Is it blight, or is it a boxtree moth infestation? It's a boxtree moth infestation. The image zooms in, to see scarred branches, insect webbing, and so many little pellets of caterpillar poop. 3 weeks later, an explosion of bright green new growth. The hedge was sprayed with BTK biological insecticide (which only targets caterpillars; flying insects are not harmed by it). Cautious optimism rules the day. In the background, the blurry pink of a lawn flamingo -- another invasive visitor, albeit a less voracious one. ALERT! ALERT! The boxtree moth trap has just caught a moth! The boxtree moth has wings that are cream coloured in the centre, with a thick border of dark brown. It clings to the side of a translucent white trap, lured by the pheromones of a female moth. The top of the trap is opaque green. Time to apply more BTK!
June 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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geophotographer.org
A new star has exploded into a supernova visible from North America. Amateur telescopes can now spot this bright stellar explosion, offering a rare chance to observe a star’s final moments in real time. #Supernova #Astronomy #Stargazing #StellarExplosion
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A 'new star' has exploded into the night sky — and you can see it from North America
The never-before-seen "nova," dubbed V462 Lupi, recently appeared in the constellation Lupus, after suddenly becoming 4 million times brighter. The shining explosion is visible to the naked eye and ca...
www.livescience.com
June 21, 2025 at 8:57 AM
ebishi.bsky.social
🌱🌹 Happy garden day! Rose season is officially started. The hybrid tea roses opened up on Monday, and now the floribunda are all following suit.
Closeup on a hybrid tea rose with two open blossoms. The petals are a crisp white in the centre, darkening to a pinky-red towards the edges. Variety unknown. Another hybrid tea rose. This flower is a creamy white, with a touch of pink trim just around the outer-most petals. Blurred in the background is an apricot-coloured floribunda rose. A bubblegum pink floribunda rose in full bloom, surrounded by many more buds waiting to open. Another floribunda rose, apricot-colours, also surrounded by many more buds.
June 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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zachweinersmith.bsky.social
Something worth remembering about immigration: it's not a choice between values and pocketbook. You get both. The best evidence is that immigration enriches us all. If you want to convince yourself, imagine the USA didn't ban Chinese immigration in 1882, or immigration more broadly in 1924.
June 8, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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gigibu.bsky.social
A MUST READ ON BILL C2 #CANADA

#MarkCarney
#turtleisland #indigenous #cdnpoli
@canadiangreens.bsky.social @liberal-party.bsky.social
@ndp.ca
#Alberta #abpoli
#Ontario #onpoli
#Quebec #pqpoli
#BritishColumbia #bcpoli
#Manitoba #mbpoli #skpoli
#pepoli #nspoli #nbpoli #nlpoli #nupoli #ntpoli #ytpoli
Privacy At Risk: Government Buries Lawful Access Provisions in New Border Bill - Michael Geist
The government yesterday introduced the Strong Border Act (Bill C-2), legislation that was promoted as establishing new border measure provisions presumably designed to address U.S. concerns regarding...
www.michaelgeist.ca
June 5, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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saemg.bsky.social
bill c2 is incredibly broad sweeping powers:

it attacks:
- all canadians' online privacy & privacy wrt to mail
- immigrants, it gives arbitrary powers, without oversight to the immigration minister
- and more

www.parl.ca/DocumentView...

very disappointing: @mark-carney.bsky.social
June 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
ebishi.bsky.social
Found a lovely volunteer growing in a neglected corner of the yard. These dusky cranesbill may get relocated to a more prominent location.

Every time I look up a new discovery in the yard, it turns out to be yet another geranium 😂
A patch of dusky cranesbill (hardy geranium). Delicate stems rise above a naturalized lawn of violets, wood sorrel, and other hardy geraniums. Each stem bares a small (2cm) burgundy flower with prominent stamen.
June 3, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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zoandbehold.bsky.social
My home of Missoula just voted to establish the pride flag as an official government flag of the city, thereby circumventing the state's asinine pride flag ban. 🏳️‍🌈

Missoula is once again showing how to fight back against policies that seek to erase the LGBTQ community.
June 3, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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nnedi.bsky.social
Omg, 😍.

“This is a site for pictures of owls… in towels.”

owlsintowels.org
https://owlsintowels.org/
May 27, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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paultobin.bsky.social
This is the best team crossover video I've ever seen.
May 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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crypticcitrus.bsky.social
I turned my security cams into AI bird detectives! 🦉🎤 My new blog post guides you through setting up BirdNET-Go & @home-assistant.io for 24/7 backyard bird tracking, custom dashboards, and alerts. Learn how to identify every chirp!

#AI #BirdNETGo #HomeAssistant #Birding
Backyard Bird Tracking With AI-Powered BirdNET-Go
Turning security cameras into AI bird detectives! How I use BirdNET-Go & Home Assistant for 24/7 bird detections & alerts. Identify every chirp!
www.kyleniewiada.org
May 27, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com
when the tribunal asks me if i am now or ever have been an abundance liberal i'll just say "no, i am a supply-side progressive"
May 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM