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DecaturNature
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Nature lover in Decatur, GA, USA. Interested in the sciences, science education, and events around Decatur and Atlanta. Also interested in Mastodon and similar […]

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Image from the movie "A Scanner Darkly", showing a stylized/cartoon-like photograph of Keanu Reeves bending over to pick blue flowers growing among corn stalks.
November 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Is your teen texting about Unions? UWU: Union Workers Unite LOL: Labor Organizes Labor TFW: Time for Fair Wages IDC: I demand a contract OMG: Overtime money guaranteed ASAP: All Solidarity, All Power STFU: Support the effing Union From the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW).
October 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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As much as I hate that YDFM clear-cut and flattened a large block of land -- and still hasn't built anything useful on it 5+ years later ... I do appreciate that their parking lot used light-colored pavement and includes many trees. It does not get as hot as […]

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Satellite view of YDFM lot.
October 12, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Pride on the Green (Avondale Estates). Oct 4th 11-5.

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Pride On the Green Image - see alttextbot below for details.
September 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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There are still some flowers blooming at Arabia Mountain nature preserve. I was happy to find an American persimmon tree in fruit, since I had been thinking of planting one in my yard. Unfortunately, the fruit is not ripe yet and was not pleasant (astringent) […]

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small plant with globe flowers. Arabia mountain Georgia Sept 2025 Small bushy plant with bilateral flowers. Stone mountain GA, Sept 2025 Wild persimmon tree with unripe fruit. Arabia mountain GA, Sept 2025 Pine seedlings among moss and maybe lichen? Arabia mountain. Sept 2025
September 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Fediverse question: A Lemmy story just showed up under the Atlanta hashtag, but I cannot see any way to add tags to a Lemmy post. The only mention of Atlanta seems to be the community name. How does that work?

https://lemmy.world/post/35876651

#lemmy #mastodon #fediverse
screenshot of mastodon #atlanta hashtag showing the referenced Lemmy post.
September 14, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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A few days ago there was a big apartment fire in Clarkston. "Fire officials say about 32 units were impacted, displacing 35 adults and 15 children." (via ANF) These are largely refugee families recently resettled in the USA.

If you can chip in, they are […]

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Clarkston Fire Relief On August 19th, 32 units burned down in Clarkston Oaks Apartments. Financial Donations: Go to https://www.envisionatlanta.org/give-1. Select "Clarkston Area Economic Relief", and in the comment section put "Fire Relief". Other details in the image are not transcribed
August 23, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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@jmht All this "AI" hype has been reminding me of this old demotivational poster:
Motivation If a pretty poster and a cute saying are all it takes to motivate you, you probably have a very easy job. The kind robots will be doing soon.
August 22, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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We seem to be entering the COVID-19 summer wave. Emergency department visits have doubled over the past month (as percent of total visits). Remember that with ED visits, the most recent data reflects infections that occurred ~2 weeks ago; one week to gather the […]

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Figure showing COVID-19 ED visits in Georgia rising during July, while Influenza visits remain negligible.
July 26, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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I also got a striped fly of some sort, and another insect that I can't begin to categorize.
striped fly on crimson sage near Atlanta GA unknown insect on crimson sage near Atlanta GA
July 20, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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My garden had some more surprises today -- three leafhoppers, all from species I don't think I've noticed before. The biggest looks like a "blue and gold" leafhopper, but I can't find a good candidate for the other two.

https://bugguide.net/node/view/917498 […]

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Blue and gold leafhopper on a pepper plant, near Atlanta GA unknown leafhopper on crimson sage, near Atlanta GA Unknown leafhooper on crimson sage, near Atlanta GA
July 20, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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My flower patch has attracted some sizable beetles. I'm not sure exactly what they are -- maybe Emerald Euphoria beetles. Anyway, I'm feeling blessed, because we all know that the Creator has an inordinate fondness for beetles.
#gardening #insects
Green and brown beetle (2-3 cm long) on Impatiens. Green and brown beetle (2-3 cm long) on crimson sage.
July 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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It's frustrating when people use meetings to grandstand and speculate about topics that are only tangentially related to what they supposedly called everyone together to discuss.
June 27, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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It was great to see everyone who showed up at Atlanta Streets Alive! A friendly passer-by parked his dog (Sophia?) in front of our sign for a photo. She's a good dog!
#dogsofmastodon #atlanta
Black dog in a stroller with a white hair band holding a ponytail on top of her head. The stroller is parked in front of a sign for theATL.social
April 28, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Pike nursery is a good place for general gardening supplies around Atlanta. Their staff is knowledgeable and available for questions. Much better than Home Depot. And to top it off, they are employee owned […]

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map of pike nursery locations around Atlanta.
March 3, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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For comparison, here is the county-level life expectancy from 2000. It shows the same basic pattern as the data from 2019, but the top counties have increased by 6 years, while the country as a whole has increased by 3, and many places have stagnated. For […]

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February 18, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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A local bookstore used pennies to tile it's floor.

https://littleshopofstories.com/about-us
The floor of Little Shop of Stories in Decatur GA, covered in pennies, forming the word "read" from lighter pennies, contrasted with darker pennies around it.
October 17, 2024 at 1:37 AM
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Hurricane Milton poses a major threat to Tampa and other parts of Florida. This could be comparable to Katrina, with over a million people needing to evacuate tomorrow (Tuesday). There are >3 million people in the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater metropolitan […]

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October 8, 2024 at 2:23 AM
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Shelter offer in MS:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DA1k5QrMEFz/

#milton #evacuation #florida
October 8, 2024 at 2:08 AM