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Kelsey
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The New England asters are popular with the insects here in the central US too! #nativePlants #pollinators
October 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Scientists, companies, ex-NOAA staff race to restore axed climate data

Climate.gov resurrected as Climate.us

#Climate #NOAA
October 4, 2025 at 6:50 PM
kelsey-reid.bsky.social
My obedient plant is blooming! I guess it lives up to the name so far...
A pair of tall, narrow leaved pants with pink flowers blooming at the bottom of a central spike of flower buds. Surrounded by a patch of short green plants and a sidewalk in the background Close up of pink cone shaped flowers at the bottom of the flower spike with buds above it
September 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
kelsey-reid.bsky.social
I think I found oyster #mushrooms in my neighbor's yard. I should ask if they want to be #fungifriends 😀 🍄‍🟫
Top view of whiteish mushrooms on a log A hand holding a white- stemmed mushroom with an off center, light tan cap. In the background are white mushrooms on a log Hand holding a mushroom showing the white gills on the under side of the cap and a short white stem. White mushrooms on a log in the background.
August 26, 2025 at 8:23 PM
kelsey-reid.bsky.social
Apparently morning glory leaves are delicious #urbanWildlife #wildlife
August 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
kelsey-reid.bsky.social
These were some nice mushrooms! 😋🍄‍🟫 They came from a pink oyster Fruiting block from north spore. #fungiFriends
Pink mushroom pieces, cut and ready to cook, on a gray cutting board with a small, red- handled paring knife nearby.
August 4, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Lupine is vexing me this year. Tried growing some from seed and it didn't come up. Then bought one at a nursery only to find out it's the western version, not the kind native to the eastern US. 😢 #nativePlants
July 16, 2025 at 11:13 PM
kelsey-reid.bsky.social
My cat just brought a grape to bed to play with 🤣😺🍇
July 8, 2025 at 4:28 AM
kelsey-reid.bsky.social
The tiny good things happening today. Eastern swallowtail caterpillars on my dill plants, a dragonfly on some straw, my native petunia is blooming, and the blue wild indigo seedlings are still alive
July 4, 2025 at 3:00 AM
kelsey-reid.bsky.social
Another volunteer mystery plant ftw: coreopsis! #nativePlants
Tall, bright yellow flowers with darker yellow centers and narrow green leaves with a background of other greenery.
June 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
kelsey-reid.bsky.social
Good news: there's native lady beetles in my yard!
Bad news: that's because my rhubarb is covered with aphids! 🤦
A red beetle with black spots climbs on a bug- eaten green leaf
June 8, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
June 3, 2025 at 12:45 AM
kelsey-reid.bsky.social
I just found the history of my house online! It was built in 1887! We knew it was older than 1940 like it said on the listing, but this is SO COOL!! 😀 #oldhouse
May 24, 2025 at 4:54 AM
kelsey-reid.bsky.social
A welcome visitor on a fleabane plant #nativePlants
A black and blue butterfly sits on a green leaf of a tall plant
May 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
kelsey-reid.bsky.social
Re- cleared a path to some gooseberry bushes #nativePlants
A hand behind a Gooseberry branch with small green leaves and small green berries
May 17, 2025 at 3:04 AM
kelsey-reid.bsky.social
Garden giant living up to its name #fungiFriends
April 20, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Several U.S. regional climate centers shut down Thursday — including those in the Midwest, Great Plains and South — after their federal funding from NOAA ran out.

Here's why you should care:
Regional Climate Centers shut down abruptly this week. Here's why it matters
The closure of four of the six Regional Climate Centers across the U.S. occurred after funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ran out. A recent report stated that the Trump a...
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April 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
kelsey-reid.bsky.social
Plant a few native plants this year. Every bit helps. #nativePlants
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April 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
kelsey-reid.bsky.social
Spent a few hours removing invasive honeysuckle from my backyard. Hope to get the rest later this week. #nativePlants
March 18, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Okay, this is pretty great. I didn’t realize how much friction it was to look up each phone number until this app had them ready to go, one after another. Plus it tells you how many other people used the app to call about the issue (14,700 on the federal funding freeze alone!)
pronounced-ing.bsky.social Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · Jan 30
Okay, I cannot recommend 5calls.org enough. Enter your address and it will find all your reps (federal and state). AND give you a list of issues to call about AND which reps to call about each of them AND a little script for each, in case it's helpful. They have an app, too.
5 Calls
Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
5calls.org
January 31, 2025 at 3:50 AM
kelsey-reid.bsky.social
Some good info here in how to limit their data collection on you
bsky.app/profile/eff....
eff.org Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · Jan 17
Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.
Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data
If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect ...
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January 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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threnody.bsky.social
hi, cis folks! meet HB28. it's a sports ban on trans athletes. but actually, it's the first step to something much worse—see below.

45 sec call scripts for democrats & republicans in congress follow. if you've been saying you'd stand with trans people, now's the time.🧵

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US Congress House Bill 28 US State Legislature page for HB28& Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 54-0) Status: Introduced on January 3 2025 - 25% progression Action: 2025-01-03 - Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce. Pending: House Education and Workforce Committee Summary To amend the Education Amendments of 1972 to provide that for purposes of determining compliance with title IX of such Act in athletics, sex shall be recognized based solely on a person's reproductive biology and genetics at birth. Tracking Information Register now for our free OneVote public service or GAITS Pro trial account and you can begin tracking this and other legislation, all driven by the real-time data of the LegiScan API. Providing tools allowing you to research pending legislation, stay informed with email alerts, content feeds, and share dynamic reports. Use our new PolitiCorps to join with friends and collegaues to monitor & discuss bills through the process. Monitor Legislation or view this same bill number from multiple sessions or take advantage of our national legislative search.
January 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Are you acquainted with "You, Too, Can Speak Gaelic," one of the all-time great Isaac Asimov science essays, one explaining chemical nomenclature, during the course of which he deploys one of the all-time great Asimov anecdotes?

"Of course! It's dactylic tetrameter!" is only one minor highlight.
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Image of a page of text. Part 1 of quote from Isaac Asimov's article. It is for that reason, then, that you can come up to a perfectly respectable compound which, to all appearances is just lying there, harming no one, and find that it has a name like para-dimethylaminobenzaldehyde. (And that is rather short, as such names go.) To the average person, used to words of a respectable size, this conglomeration of letters is offensive and irritating, but actually, if you tackle it from the front and work your way slowly toward the back, it isn't bad. Pronounce it this way: PA-ruh-dy-METH-il-a-MEE-noh-ben-ZAL-duh-hide. If you accent the capitalized syllables, you will discover that after a while, you can say it rapidly and without trouble and can impress your friends no end. What's more, now that you can say the word, you will appreciate something that once happened to me. I was introduced to this particular compound some years ago, because when dissolved in hydrochloric acid, it is used to test for the presence of a compound called glucosamine and this was something I earnestly yearned to do at the time. So I went to the reagent shelf and said to someone, "Do we have any para-dimethylaminobenzaldehyde?" And he said, "What you mean is PA-ruh-dy-METH-il-a-MEE-noh-ben-ZAL-duh-hide", and he sang it to the tune of the "Irish Washerwoman". If you don't know the tune of the "Irish Washerwoman" all I can say is that it is an Irish jig; in fact, it is THE Irish jig; if you heard it, you would know it. I venture to say that ifyou know only one Irish jig, or if you try to make up an Irish jig, that's the one. It goes: DUM-dee-dee-DUM-dee-dee-DUM-dee-dee-DUM-dee-dee, and so on almost indefinitely. For a moment I was flabbergasted and then, realizing the enormity of having someone dare be whimsical at my expense, I said, "Of course! It's dactylic tetrameter." "What?" he said. Image of text, part 2 of quote from Isaac Asimov's article. I explained. A dactyl is a set of three syllables of which the first is accented and the next two are not, and a line of verse is dactylic tetrameter when four such sets of syllables occur in it. Anything in dactylic feet can be sung to the tune of the "Irish Washerwoman." You can sing most of Longfellow's "Evangeline" to it, for instance, and I promptly gave the fellow a sample: "THIS is the FO-rest pri-ME-val. The MUR-muring PINES.. and the HEM-locks-" and so on and. so on. He was walking away from me by then, but I followed him at a half- run. "In fact," I went on, "anything in iambic feet can be sung to the tune of Dvorak's 'Humoresque." (You know the one- de-DUM-dee-DUM-dee-DUM-dee-DUM-dee-DUM-and so on forever.) For instance, I. said, you could sing Portia's speech to the "Humor- esque" like this: "The QUALITY of MERcy IS not STRAINED it DROPpeth AS the GENtle RAIN from HEAV'N uPON the PLACE beNEATH." He got away from me by then and didn't show up at work again for days, and serve him right. However, I didn't get off scot-free myself. Don't think it. I was haunted for weeks by those drumming dactylic feet. PA-ruh-dy-METH- il-a-MEE-noh-ben-ZAL-duh-hide-PA-ruh-dy-METH-il-a-MEE-noh— went my brain over and over. It scrambled my thoughts, interfered with my sleep and reduced me to mumbling semi-madness for I· would go about muttering it savagely under my breath to the alarm of all innocent bystanders. Finally, the whole thing was exorcized and it came about in this fashion. I was standing at the 4esk of a receptionist waiting for a chance to give her my name in order that I might get in to see some- body. She was a very pretty Irish receptionist and so I was in no Image of text. Part 3 of quote from Asimov. hurry because the individual I was to see was very masculine and I preferred the receptionist. So I waited patiently and smiled at her; and then her patent lrishness stirred that drum-beat memory in my mind so that I sang in a soft voice (without even realizing what I was doing) PA-ruh-dy-METH-il-a-MEE-noh-ben-ZAL-duh-hide . . . through several rapid choruses. And the receptionist clapped her hands together in delight and cried out, "Oh, my, you know it in the original Gaelic!" What could I do? I smiled modestly and had her announce me as Isaac O'Asirnov. From that day to this ·I haven't sung it once except in telling this story. It was gone, for after all folks, in my heart I know I don't know one word of Gaelic.
December 4, 2024 at 6:28 AM
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www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/c...
Life After Death: America’s Cemeteries Are Rewilding (Gift Article)
More burial sites are forgoing pristine lawns for drought resistant plants and wildflowers that help wildlife. Efforts picked up in the pandemic.
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December 1, 2024 at 3:35 PM
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Alice's Restaurant Massacree
YouTube video by Arlo Guthrie - Topic
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November 28, 2024 at 4:36 PM