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nature, ecology, climate, right relationship, commons, geopolitics, photography, wellness, cats, art, poetry, mindfulness, solarpunk 🌞

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la démone
Photo: Michiko, a cat, or more appropriately, a dark cat shaped demon backed by a grey foggy shore, approaches you from under the shade of a tree, her glowing eyes lit up like green embers.
November 21, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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la belle idiote
November 21, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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ok pinterest, you have gone too far
A clip of a “Sausage Christmas tree” fm pinterest w a sparse Charlie Brown xmas tree array of rosemary sprigs and short roasted sausages sticking out randomly from the foliage.
November 21, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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who needs to even cook xmas dinner? all u need is…

charcuter-tree
another tall skinny tree with spirals of cheese cubes, sliced meat, pickles etc stuck on it with toothpicks Another charcuterie tree with rows of meat, cheese, cucumber slices, pickles, and a big cheese star at the top
November 21, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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it even has odd looking cousins..
A messy looking “tree” on a wood round, with a base of salad greens with mini tomatoes, mini peppers and cocktail shrimp pegged to it Another version of the shrimp tree, but the shrimp are pinned on so they stick out like creepy curved droopy fingers
November 21, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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omg. it lives!
A photo (fm pinterest) of an actual cocktail shrimp tree at an actual event on a red tablecloth made of shrimp on a tall conical tower covered in kale.
November 21, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Anyone seeing this following links? It’s bc Cloudflare is down. www.bbc.com/news/article...

That also means X is down.

Do you feel it?

That sweet calm?
Error page: says Internal server error Error code 500 Visit cloudflare.com for more information. 2025-11-18 14:21:33 UTC You Browser Working Vancouver Cloudflare Error twb.preloading.dev Host Working
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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How is Drax still turning BC’s old growth forest into pellets @davidebybc.bsky.social??? #bcpoli #cdnpoli @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @dpcarrington.bsky.social
Schematic fm Drax’s web page edited in scribbly red to indicate them cutting trees is not sustainable forestry that produces logs for construction & Drax taking waste residues, but deforestation that turns forests into pellets to be burned, emitting CO2.
November 18, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Apple fritters made w fresh milled local einkorn are a newly discovered nutritious food group. Very necessary to survival in these times.
Photograph: A homemade apple fritter on a funny lil blue jackal and sun ceramic plate I made, beside a small blue teapot and ceramic mug of tea, on a brown placement. #ambaking #doughnuts #donuts #homecooking #baking #einkorn Apple fritters messily frying in a cast iron pan. A blue bowl filled with glaze and a whisk on a black cutting board beside 2 ambrosia apples and a measuring cup. A metal drying rack covered in 11 glazed apple fritters
November 18, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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Not a doggo, but when we take Michiko for walks I have to call her sometimes to get her to hustle and so do a kind of cat kulning of her long form name that goes something like “Michiko Kokoro! Kami Michikokorokoko! Kiki Kuu Kitty Kitty Kukukuuuu!”
A photo of a floofy lil lynx point ragdoll cat on an old forest giant tree stump covered with roots of younger trees. A red leash reaches from her harness towards to viewer.
November 18, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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oh to be a tree or a bit of moss
to not know what a monday is
an acceptable loss
Photograph: a trail winds up through the ferns and undergrowth in a Pacific west coast raingorest with towering trees reaching up to a dappled white and blue sky. #westcoastkin #nature #eastcoastkin #amaripoetry #poetry #natureconnection
November 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Awash in the pale November golden light of the sun about to slide and hide for another long night.
Photography: Portrait orientation shot, slightly washed out in the golden light of a sunset over the Salish Sea looking out from a West Vancouver beach, long shadows cast on the sand by rocks along the shore as the frothy tide goes out, even as new waves arrive, crashing into shore. The sun hangs over the horizon across an orange to pale blue sky.
November 16, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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Squash made it into a filling for stuffed peppers. 🫑 I didn’t realize dh had chopped up and eaten some of the peppers though! 🤪 Also, I I had a lot of extra filling, so I prepped it into a makeshift semi stuffed purple cabbage casserole thingy that we can bake later this week.
Photo: A mixture of cooked basmati rice mixed with ground pork, onions, squash, tomatoes, toasted pecans, raisins, celery, parsley, garlic, and secret spices in a cast iron pan ready to be stuffed into peppers. #cooking Photo: A glass baking dish filled w the mixture in the last pic that has been wrapped and layered with purple cabbage and sprinkled with cheese. Ready to cover and put in fridge to bake later.
November 16, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Sunny kabocha squash rainbows before & after roasting.
Photograph: Kabocha squash sunny orange arc slices w green skin, lined up in a baking pan ready to go in oven. #amcooking Photograph: Kabocha squash orange arc slides w green skin, lined up in a baking pan after boking, more golden brown.
November 16, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Biophilia works for cats too—they love being out in nature—but it’s usually best to take cats out on leash to protect bird populations. Michiko was an adventure kitten & loved going for walksies.

🐱
A cream coloured lynx point ragdoll kitten is lying down on a log at the beach looking out at the world w a very serious look in her blue eyes. #caturday #ragdollcat #kitten #catsofbluesky
November 15, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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this one doing a lil collab w this hemlock
Photograph of Amanita flavoconica mushroom growing up right beside a western hemlock sapling. #mushrooms
November 14, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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“All Western faith and good faith became engaged in this wager on representation: that a sign could refer to the depth of meaning, that a sign could be exchanged for meaning and that something could guarantee this exchange — God of course.

But what if God himself can be simulated, that is to say
This way the stake will always have been the murderous power of images, murderers of the real, murderers of their own model, as the Byzantine icons could be those of divine identity. To this murderous power is opposed that of representations as a dialectical power, the visible and intelligible mediation of the Real. All Western faith and good faith became engaged in this wager on representation: that a sign could refer to the depth of meaning, that a sign could be exchanged for meaning and that something could guarantee this exchange - God of course. But what if God himself can be simulated, that is to say can be reduced to the signs that constitute faith? Then the whole system becomes weightless, it is no longer itself anything but a gigantic simulacrum - not unreal, but a simulacrum, that is to say never exchanged for the real, but exchanged for itself, in an uninterrupted circuit without reference or circumference. Such is simulation, insofar as it is opposed to representation. Representation stems from the principle of the equivalence of the sign and of the real (even if this equivalence is Utopian, it is a fundamental axiom). Simulation, on the contrary, stems from the Utopia of the principle of equivalence, from the radical negation of the sign as value, from the sign as the reversion and death sentence of every reference. Whereas representation attempts to absorb simulation by interpreting it as a false representation, simulation envelops the whole edifice of representation itself as a simulacrum. Such would be the successive phases of the image: it is the reflection of a profound reality; it masks and denatures a profound reality; it masks the absence of a profound reality; it has no relation to any reality whatsoever;
November 14, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Simulacra of simulacra…
“We will live in this world, which for us has all the disquieting strangeness of the desert and of the simulacrum, with all the veracity of living phantoms, of wandering and simulating animals that capital, that the death of capital has made of us-because the desert of cities is equal to the desert of sand-the jungle of signs is equal to that of the forests-the vertigo of simulacra is equal to that of nature-only the vertiginous seduction of a dying system remains, in which work buries work, in which value buries value— leaving a virgin, sacred space without pathways, continuous as Bataille wished it, where only the wind lifts the sand, where only the wind watches over the sand.” ~ Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
November 14, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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finding wee glowing gifts on the beach left by the fae
A photo of a piece of green seaweed washed up on the beach in the last light of November, and nestled in the middle of it is a clear “fairy” sea glass, a wee giftie, glowing in the sun. #westcoastkin #eastcoastkin #beachcombing #itsthelittlethings #seaglass #smalltreasures #pnwonderland #canada #natureconnection
November 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
amari.bsky.social
these boots?… to one song and one song only
November 14, 2025 at 6:36 AM
amari.bsky.social
it’s like the egregore of the rapey vibe colonizer is rising up again through this trump regime, and part of its power is in convincing men that this is the natural way of humanity

when it most certainly is NOT

vawnet.org/sites/defaul...
By contrast, Native societies were relatively more peaceful and egalitarian. Their egalitarian nature poses a threat to the ability of white men to continue their ownership of white women because they belie patriarchy's defense of itself as "normal." And in fact, the nature of Native societies did not escape the notice of the colonizers. It was a scandal in the colonies that a number of white people chose to live among Indian people while virtually no Indians voluntarily chose to live among the colonists. According to J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, "Thousands of Europeans are Indians, and we have no example of even one of these Aborigines having from choice become Europeans!" (Stannard 1992, 104). As William Apess (Pequot) once stated in the 1800s: "Where, in the records of Indian barbarity, can we point to a violated female?" (O'Connell 1992, 64). Brigadier General James Clinton of the Continental Army said to his soldiers as they were sent off to destroy the Iroquois nation in 1779: "Bad as the savages are, they never violate the chastity of any women, their prisoners" (cited in Wrone and Nelson 1982, 17). As Shoat and Stam argue, the real purpose behind this colonial terror "was not to force the indigenes to become Europeans, but to keep Europeans from becoming indigenes" (1994, 72). The high status of women in Native societies did not escape the notice of white women either. White women often looked to the Native societies as models of equality from which the white society should base itself, often to the dismay of white men. Even in war, European women were often surprised to find that they went unmolested by their Indian captors. Mary Rowlandson said of her experience: "I have been in the midst of roaring Lions, and Savage Bears, that feared neither God, nor Man, nor the Devil ... and yet not one of them ever offered the least abuse of unchastity to me in word or action" (Rowlandson 1974, 108-109). Between 1675 and 1763, almost 40 percent of women who were taken captive by Native people in New England chose to remain with their captors (Namias 1993, 25). In 1899, Mrs. Teall wrote an editorial in the Syracuse Herald-Journal discussing the status of women in Iroquois society: They had one custom the white men are not ready, even yet, to accept. The women of the Iroquois had a public and influential position. They had a council of their own ... which had the initiative in the discussion; subjects presented by them being settled in the councils of the chiefs and elders; in this latter council the women had an orator of their own (often of their own sex) to present and speak for them. There are sometimes female chiefs ... The wife owned all the property ... The family was hers; descent was counted through mother. (Lopez n.d., 101)
November 14, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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i know i know, it’s an alligator but it’s really giving lyle lyle crocodile… or maybe lyle’s mischievous cousin
From the Lyle Lyle Crocodile motion picture, Lyle the crocodile is standing on his back legs wearing his burgundy scarf w his arms out like a showman presenting. From the Lyle Lyle Crocodile motion picture, Lyle the crocodile is lounging in a fahncy Manhattan bathroom in a claw foot tub bubble bath scrubbing his foot.
November 14, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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K. as an aside, that’s really weird. my keyboard has a ghost these days… that was supposed to be 🩵🌊🩵

but for whatever reason as i typed it decided to overlay the wave on top of a small version of the first heart 🧐. i wasn’t sure what it would look like after i sent it, so screencaped the glitch
A screencap of my avatar with emojis on the right of it. to the far right is s pale blue/turquoise heart. On the left is the Japanese wave emoji a f behind it is a small superscript version of the pale blue heart and the blue cursor bar, all overlapping.
November 14, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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Glad for a break in the rains today. Managed to run to the shore & snag a few late day rays & this capture of the cloud over Vancouver front fm the beach.
Photograph: A panorama shot right after the sun set over the water looking south towards Vancouver fm West Van. On the right the sky is blu transitioningbto golden white at the horizon where the sun set. On the left the cloudy weather front ripples along in pastel pinks, blues and yellows. The rocky beach stretches out to trees on the right and left. #westcoastkjn #eastcoastkin #sunset #oceanscape #landscape #natureconnection #nature #naturelovers #oceanlovers #momentofcalm #documentyourdays #november #panorama #vancouver
November 14, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Thanks! 🙏🏻 I just had a minute and there was a break in the rain so I drove down there like a maniac lol. Always a good idea to go down to the sea to touch water. Especially when online is such a frenzy as it is these days and the forecast is…
Screenshot of weather app forecast percent chance of rain. Fri 85% 5° ー 8° Sat / 95% 8° — 12° Sun 75% 9° — 12° Mon 85% 6° ー 10°
November 14, 2025 at 2:06 AM