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🍉 she/her. here you'll find science, art, weather, baking, history, dinosaurs, cryptids, witchiness and musings on motherhood ☀️
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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
January 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I made tzatziki sauce from scratch 🌿
December 10, 2024 at 10:24 PM
foggy Ohio River.
December 10, 2024 at 6:23 PM
Sunset yesterday in Pennsylvania. ☀️
December 9, 2024 at 12:41 PM
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i think people freak the fuck out about computers because baseline literacy is genuinely declining and this compounds badly with tech literacy at a time when nobody feels like they have any control over anything else going on.

online is bad for you, basically.
November 27, 2024 at 1:54 AM
The new rosemary & black garlic boursin cheese has no business being as good as it is.
November 23, 2024 at 12:41 PM
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The "bluesky is an echo chamber" think pieces that keep popping up really tickle me because they show how certain people genuinely believe social media should be for debating and arguing and not talking about the things that make you happy and sharing art with the world.
November 22, 2024 at 12:57 PM
Second loaf ever, spiced things up a bit with a different recipe. I remembered to add steam this time. Also, I made a sourdough start– wish it luck.
#breadsky #beginnerbaker #bread
November 22, 2024 at 9:06 PM
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I’ve never seen a living quetzal but I have held museum specimens and I’ve seen many fantastic photos

But none of that can convince my brain that they could possibly be real, something about the way their feathers fall makes them look like a painting by someone who doesn’t really understand birds
A male Resplendent Quetzal with a bit of food for the nestlings. Costa Rica

#birds
November 21, 2024 at 6:18 AM
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November 20, 2024 at 3:01 AM
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I mean my goodness...
November 20, 2024 at 2:51 AM
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Bomb cyclone goes boom.

An incredible view of the deepening low pressure system approaching the Pacific Northwest.
November 20, 2024 at 1:53 AM
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A freezing daytime Moon! It's still below 0c here in London, Earth but up there it's about 120c in daylight! #astronomy #astrophotography
November 20, 2024 at 9:29 AM
My first time making bread from scratch! 🍞 #bread #baking #beginnerbreadmaker
November 20, 2024 at 4:30 PM
I'm moving next month and I'm really going to miss this view. 💔 #westernPA #sunset #skypics
November 19, 2024 at 11:24 PM
Arachnophobia warning ⚠️

Triangulate Cobweb Spider living peacefully in my kitchen 🕸️ #arachnids #spiders #spiderposting #arachnid #combfoots #spiderfriends
November 19, 2024 at 4:31 PM
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our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse. stay locked in.
November 19, 2024 at 1:25 PM
November 13, 2024 at 7:14 PM
Found under a bridge in my town. #foundart #streetart
November 11, 2024 at 3:24 PM
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fix their hearts or die
November 11, 2024 at 12:51 PM
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I’ve never seen or heard a Nightjar, but maybe there’s a chance I will now.

Once feared extinct in Ireland, the secretive nightjar calls again

www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Ella McSweeney: Is the nightjar extinct in Ireland or just keeping a low profile?
The confirmation revives the question of whether nightjars could have a more hopeful future in Ireland than previously believed
www.irishtimes.com
November 10, 2024 at 11:10 AM
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one of the reasons bluesky works differently is because early users waged a successful fight to get the devs to prioritize safety features to protect communities at risk

as a result bluesky now has a suite of controls that i think are unmatched on social media

here’s the list, lmk what i’ve missed
November 10, 2024 at 7:42 PM
Welcome Chris to #Bsky! He's a treasure and it's good to have him here. My daughter's favorite book at the moment. 🚀
November 11, 2024 at 12:30 AM
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already tired of the whiny threads from young men about how society forced them to become monsters because they put woke in the video games or whatever. back in my day you applied some guyliner, wrote some emo lyrics in a journal, and handled it
November 9, 2024 at 4:20 PM