Sue Mosher
@placekeepers.bsky.social
Humanity. Earth. Between and Beyond. Living in #ArlingtonVA but dreaming of Scotland. THEN: broadcast news & desktop software maven. NOW: spiritual teacher ( #Celtic #contemplative) & #NativePlants enthusiast. She/her/us.
I missed Wilma Jones’ debut on Substack in September, but now I’m happily subscribed to her posts on #ArlingtonVA Black history. open.substack.com/pub/wilmaj/p...
From Twelve to Three: The Vanishing of Arlington’s Black Communities
How a century of systematic displacement reduced a dozen thriving African American neighborhoods to just three surviving enclaves
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November 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I missed Wilma Jones’ debut on Substack in September, but now I’m happily subscribed to her posts on #ArlingtonVA Black history. open.substack.com/pub/wilmaj/p...
If you live in the Washington, DC, area or visit soon, don’t miss The Stars We Do Not See: Australian Indigenous Art. You’ll never see anything like it unless you actually travel to Australia (to which the exhibition offers a heartfelt invitation.) On thru Feb.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
If you live in the Washington, DC, area or visit soon, don’t miss The Stars We Do Not See: Australian Indigenous Art. You’ll never see anything like it unless you actually travel to Australia (to which the exhibition offers a heartfelt invitation.) On thru Feb.
www.nga.gov/exhibitions/...
www.nga.gov/exhibitions/...
Beautiful reflections, especially for anyone feeling pressure to “get it right.” As a #NativePlants enthusiast, I definitely relate to the stories told by leaves laced with holes, green acorns, and flower heads with a few seeds that the goldfinches missed.
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Nothing in Nature is Imperfect
A tattered leaf prompts a meditation on beauty in defiance of judgement
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November 22, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Beautiful reflections, especially for anyone feeling pressure to “get it right.” As a #NativePlants enthusiast, I definitely relate to the stories told by leaves laced with holes, green acorns, and flower heads with a few seeds that the goldfinches missed.
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The loss of the CDC as a reliable source is devastating. Once a jewel in America’s crown of scientific expertise, it will be very hard to rebuild.
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November 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The loss of the CDC as a reliable source is devastating. Once a jewel in America’s crown of scientific expertise, it will be very hard to rebuild.
open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
Strong all-ages turnout for Remembrance Sunday in Kippen, Scotland, despite the drizzle
November 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Strong all-ages turnout for Remembrance Sunday in Kippen, Scotland, despite the drizzle
Well done, kiddo!
When I was a kid I assumed voting was something that all adults did. I voted in my first election at 18 and proudly wore my “I Voted” sticker to the work that afternoon. My boss had no idea there was even an election that day. That’s when I learned that too many people don’t know/bother/care. (1/4)
November 5, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Well done, kiddo!
I’ve always enjoyed kaleidoscopes, but the last place I expected to encounter them was outdoors, in a garden — 3 very high quality instruments at Meadowlark Botanical Gardens, aimed at a dish of brightly colored succulents. Video in 2nd post. Locator photo in comments. 1/2
November 2, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I’ve always enjoyed kaleidoscopes, but the last place I expected to encounter them was outdoors, in a garden — 3 very high quality instruments at Meadowlark Botanical Gardens, aimed at a dish of brightly colored succulents. Video in 2nd post. Locator photo in comments. 1/2
Discarded 18 expired COVID rapid tests. (I checked for expiration extensions.) Glad we didn’t need to use them but remorseful about the addition to the waste stream. Kept the swabs, thinking they might be handy for household cleaning tasks. Still have a couple of COVID/Flu/RSV tests in reserve.
October 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Discarded 18 expired COVID rapid tests. (I checked for expiration extensions.) Glad we didn’t need to use them but remorseful about the addition to the waste stream. Kept the swabs, thinking they might be handy for household cleaning tasks. Still have a couple of COVID/Flu/RSV tests in reserve.
Mitigation measures will include construction of temporary aviaries to over-winter some of the conservation park’s resident birds and protect them from wild species that might harbor bird flu. Is your local zoo doing anything similar?
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October 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Mitigation measures will include construction of temporary aviaries to over-winter some of the conservation park’s resident birds and protect them from wild species that might harbor bird flu. Is your local zoo doing anything similar?
www.fotawildlife.ie/blogs/news/f...
www.fotawildlife.ie/blogs/news/f...
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The president demolished the East Wing to build a ballroom. It’s hard to think of a better metaphor for what’s happening to our health ecosystem—gutting Medicaid, weakening the CDC, and cutting SNAP. The symbolism isn’t subtle: luxury expands while the systems that keep people healthy contract.
October 23, 2025 at 7:47 PM
The president demolished the East Wing to build a ballroom. It’s hard to think of a better metaphor for what’s happening to our health ecosystem—gutting Medicaid, weakening the CDC, and cutting SNAP. The symbolism isn’t subtle: luxury expands while the systems that keep people healthy contract.
Spent the afternoon at The Getty Center in Los Angeles. As many times as I’ve been there, I still find art works that move me for the first time and viewpoints that I never noticed before. Hope you find something to enjoy among the images I captured. 1/4
October 3, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Spent the afternoon at The Getty Center in Los Angeles. As many times as I’ve been there, I still find art works that move me for the first time and viewpoints that I never noticed before. Hope you find something to enjoy among the images I captured. 1/4
Such heartbreaking news for lovers of the Irish language and landscape. I’m so glad to have met him during his Gaelic Tamagotchi tour. The word I was given to protect is “cáfall”, which means an easy-going dude. #speirgorm www.rte.ie/news/2025/10...
Broadcaster and scríbhneoir Manchán Magan dies aged 55
The writer, broadcaster and documentary maker Manchán Magan has died at the age of 55, his family has confirmed.
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October 3, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Such heartbreaking news for lovers of the Irish language and landscape. I’m so glad to have met him during his Gaelic Tamagotchi tour. The word I was given to protect is “cáfall”, which means an easy-going dude. #speirgorm www.rte.ie/news/2025/10...
I am taking a peculiar joy in learning that there is such a thing as "puppytooth."
If you do patterned socks, keep the pattern discrete — pin dots, puppytooth, tonal check, etc. And choose a color that matches your pants: tan with tan, gray with gray, etc. Failing that, navy socks go with everything and look better than black socks.
This way, it's tasteful.
This way, it's tasteful.
October 1, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I am taking a peculiar joy in learning that there is such a thing as "puppytooth."
“Your capacity to sustain this work for years is itself a form of resistance.” An excellent pep talk for writers, readers, and doers alike.
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Ryan McCormick, M.D. (@mccormickmd)
Hang in there.
Fellow writers and dear readers, here is a call to persistence and resistance:
The new fat-shaming-American-city-invading agenda of this administration is just the latest outrageous...
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October 1, 2025 at 2:03 PM
“Your capacity to sustain this work for years is itself a form of resistance.” An excellent pep talk for writers, readers, and doers alike.
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Finally, a judge who clearly delineates the current regime‘s unconstitutional assault on the First Amendment AND also is determined to find a remedy, not just issue an opinion. More of this, please.
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October 1, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Finally, a judge who clearly delineates the current regime‘s unconstitutional assault on the First Amendment AND also is determined to find a remedy, not just issue an opinion. More of this, please.
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I work with Veterans. If I told them that they "killed people and broke things for a living" they would (rightfully) tell me to go to hell.
Those that have had to kill someone in the line of duty most often view it with sadness, regret, and one of the worst experiences of their lives.
Those that have had to kill someone in the line of duty most often view it with sadness, regret, and one of the worst experiences of their lives.
Hegseth: "A few months ago I was at the White House when President Trump announced his liberation day for America's trade policy. It was a landmark day. Well, today is another liberation day. The liberation of America's warriors ... you kill people and break things for a living."
September 30, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I work with Veterans. If I told them that they "killed people and broke things for a living" they would (rightfully) tell me to go to hell.
Those that have had to kill someone in the line of duty most often view it with sadness, regret, and one of the worst experiences of their lives.
Those that have had to kill someone in the line of duty most often view it with sadness, regret, and one of the worst experiences of their lives.
We are so lucky in #ArlingtonVA to have not one but two urban farms working on different models, the other being Fresh Impact Farms on Langston Blvd, serving mostly top restaurants but also producing greens for direct sales to eaters. 1/2
Michael Natelli (@theurbaneer)
A former NSA technologist just raised $9 million to turn empty office buildings into neighborhood farms.
Oren Falkowitz built and sold two tech companies. Now he’s solving food distribution by not “d...
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September 30, 2025 at 12:02 PM
We are so lucky in #ArlingtonVA to have not one but two urban farms working on different models, the other being Fresh Impact Farms on Langston Blvd, serving mostly top restaurants but also producing greens for direct sales to eaters. 1/2
Thank you, Governor, for the $400 check that I can now donate to an organization that actually supports my local #ArlingtonVA community since I can't depend on you to acknowledge the hurtful impact of fed layoffs, ICE raids, and the other chaos emanating from the WH.
September 29, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Thank you, Governor, for the $400 check that I can now donate to an organization that actually supports my local #ArlingtonVA community since I can't depend on you to acknowledge the hurtful impact of fed layoffs, ICE raids, and the other chaos emanating from the WH.
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To get clean air infrastructure everywhere, we need as many governments, states, cities, nonprofits, schools, businesses etc. to sign on as possible. Please read the pledge, share it, and push your local orgs to join!
Link to Global Pledge for Healthy Indoor Air: aas.eventsair.com/healthy-indo...
Link to Global Pledge for Healthy Indoor Air: aas.eventsair.com/healthy-indo...
Pledge
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September 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
To get clean air infrastructure everywhere, we need as many governments, states, cities, nonprofits, schools, businesses etc. to sign on as possible. Please read the pledge, share it, and push your local orgs to join!
Link to Global Pledge for Healthy Indoor Air: aas.eventsair.com/healthy-indo...
Link to Global Pledge for Healthy Indoor Air: aas.eventsair.com/healthy-indo...
ACOG: “Failing to treat medical conditions that warrant the use of acetaminophen [aka Tylenol], such as maternal fever, persistent headaches, and pain, can be dangerous.” www.acog.org/news/news-re...
September 22, 2025 at 11:13 PM
ACOG: “Failing to treat medical conditions that warrant the use of acetaminophen [aka Tylenol], such as maternal fever, persistent headaches, and pain, can be dangerous.” www.acog.org/news/news-re...
One commenter wondered about how the harvesting machinery would fare, but this idea from Denmark looks like it’s very much worth further trials.
Vertical rows are the agrivoltaic winner!
“The vertical panels produce slightly less electricity—but with higher value, as generation peaks coincide with morning and late afternoon demand…The crops don't seem to mind the presence of solar panels and they like the wind protection they provide.”
“The vertical panels produce slightly less electricity—but with higher value, as generation peaks coincide with morning and late afternoon demand…The crops don't seem to mind the presence of solar panels and they like the wind protection they provide.”
Double harvest: Vertical solar panels and crops thrive side by side
Imagine a field where solar panels and crops coexist—with no trade-off. It sounds like science fiction, but that's precisely what researchers from Aarhus University have now documented in a full-scale...
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September 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
One commenter wondered about how the harvesting machinery would fare, but this idea from Denmark looks like it’s very much worth further trials.
“I am horrified.” From a comment on @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social report on yesterday’s ACIP meeting and the likely delay in vaccinating babies for HepB: “It’s much worse than ridiculous. As an obstetrician, who has cared for mothers who were hepatitis B carriers and delivered their babies …” (1/5)
September 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM
“I am horrified.” From a comment on @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social report on yesterday’s ACIP meeting and the likely delay in vaccinating babies for HepB: “It’s much worse than ridiculous. As an obstetrician, who has cared for mothers who were hepatitis B carriers and delivered their babies …” (1/5)
Enjoyed this book so much that I’m sorry we finally finished it after reading a word a day. It’s a keeper! Thanks for the recommendation, @irishacw.bsky.social. #SpeirGorm #SpeirGhorm #SpéirGhorm
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A History of Ireland in 100 Words by Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Gregory Toner
This book tells a history of Ireland through the examination of 100 key words from the Royal Iris...
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September 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Enjoyed this book so much that I’m sorry we finally finished it after reading a word a day. It’s a keeper! Thanks for the recommendation, @irishacw.bsky.social. #SpeirGorm #SpeirGhorm #SpéirGhorm
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U.S. health insurers’ trade association announced yesterday that any vaccine recommended by ACIP as of Sep 1, 2025 (inc. COVID) will be covered without copay through 2026, effectively pre-empting whatever ACIP decides at this week’s meeting.
H/t @cmyeaton.bsky.social
www.ahip.org/news/press-r...
H/t @cmyeaton.bsky.social
www.ahip.org/news/press-r...
September 17, 2025 at 12:12 PM
U.S. health insurers’ trade association announced yesterday that any vaccine recommended by ACIP as of Sep 1, 2025 (inc. COVID) will be covered without copay through 2026, effectively pre-empting whatever ACIP decides at this week’s meeting.
H/t @cmyeaton.bsky.social
www.ahip.org/news/press-r...
H/t @cmyeaton.bsky.social
www.ahip.org/news/press-r...
This is probably my last #NativePlants bloom report for the year (Round 8), as we’re waiting only for the final asters, and they’re a little camera shy. But we have early goldenrod, white wood aster, blue stem goldenrod, and late boneset. 1/2
September 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
This is probably my last #NativePlants bloom report for the year (Round 8), as we’re waiting only for the final asters, and they’re a little camera shy. But we have early goldenrod, white wood aster, blue stem goldenrod, and late boneset. 1/2