Meri Elena
@meri-elena.bsky.social
Speculative fiction author and podcaster. Briefly a botanist.
She/her/hers
NCSU 2018 🐺
IUB 2023 🌽
www.merielena.com
She/her/hers
NCSU 2018 🐺
IUB 2023 🌽
www.merielena.com
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🌺 Hibiscus 🌺
August 21st 2024
August 21st 2024
January 21, 2026 at 7:45 AM
🌺 Hibiscus 🌺
August 21st 2024
August 21st 2024
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A pair of Egyptian Goose today at Burton Mere RSPB England today for #BirdsSeenIn2026
January 14, 2026 at 12:29 PM
A pair of Egyptian Goose today at Burton Mere RSPB England today for #BirdsSeenIn2026
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From less-creepy AI to smartphones that got cheaper, here is the tally of the mostly good, but occasionally crummy, year in technology for 2025.
Analysis | The best and worst technologies of 2025
Your Elon Musk-free guide to actually good things that happened in technology in 2025.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 31, 2025 at 2:00 PM
From less-creepy AI to smartphones that got cheaper, here is the tally of the mostly good, but occasionally crummy, year in technology for 2025.
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Night night sweet dreamies
Hold your boundaries with confidence.
You don’t need to revisit the people, habits, or beliefs that caused you harm.
Mental health isn’t a race.
The pain didn’t arrive overnight, and healing takes time too.
Hold your boundaries with confidence.
You don’t need to revisit the people, habits, or beliefs that caused you harm.
Mental health isn’t a race.
The pain didn’t arrive overnight, and healing takes time too.
December 30, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Night night sweet dreamies
Hold your boundaries with confidence.
You don’t need to revisit the people, habits, or beliefs that caused you harm.
Mental health isn’t a race.
The pain didn’t arrive overnight, and healing takes time too.
Hold your boundaries with confidence.
You don’t need to revisit the people, habits, or beliefs that caused you harm.
Mental health isn’t a race.
The pain didn’t arrive overnight, and healing takes time too.
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Merry Christmas to those who celebrate it! Aurora captured on November 11, 2025. #christmas #northernlights #nature
December 25, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Merry Christmas to those who celebrate it! Aurora captured on November 11, 2025. #christmas #northernlights #nature
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Night night sweet dreamies
Whatever self-care means to you, find time for it every day.
Take a bath, read, call someone you love, anything that makes you feel loved
Whatever self-care means to you, find time for it every day.
Take a bath, read, call someone you love, anything that makes you feel loved
November 28, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Night night sweet dreamies
Whatever self-care means to you, find time for it every day.
Take a bath, read, call someone you love, anything that makes you feel loved
Whatever self-care means to you, find time for it every day.
Take a bath, read, call someone you love, anything that makes you feel loved
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November 25, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Buried deep in the bill to end the government shutdown is a provision that would let Republican senators whose phone records were seized during the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection sue the federal government for damages.
Lawmakers outraged by provision allowing senators to sue over Jan. 6 records
The House won’t block the bill to reopen the government over the language, but Speaker Mike Johnson said he’ll seek to undo it next week.
wapo.st
November 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Buried deep in the bill to end the government shutdown is a provision that would let Republican senators whose phone records were seized during the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection sue the federal government for damages.
Well, time to go back to Cairo.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/a...
Egypt’s Grand Museum Is Finally Open. Now, ‘We Need Our Stuff Back.’
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Well, time to go back to Cairo.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/a...
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Abdul Raheem and Shamiyan Hawramani have fostered more than 200 kittens in six years.
Their videos share each litter’s journey from arrivals to adoption and kitten high jinks: wrestling matches, demanding meows, hiding in paper boxes. https://wapo.st/46MXbd1
Their videos share each litter’s journey from arrivals to adoption and kitten high jinks: wrestling matches, demanding meows, hiding in paper boxes. https://wapo.st/46MXbd1
October 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Abdul Raheem and Shamiyan Hawramani have fostered more than 200 kittens in six years.
Their videos share each litter’s journey from arrivals to adoption and kitten high jinks: wrestling matches, demanding meows, hiding in paper boxes. https://wapo.st/46MXbd1
Their videos share each litter’s journey from arrivals to adoption and kitten high jinks: wrestling matches, demanding meows, hiding in paper boxes. https://wapo.st/46MXbd1
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Visitors to the Blue Ridge Parkway can once again enjoy a leisurely jaunt through some of the best fall foliage in the South.
The Blue Ridge Parkway Just Reopened A 26-Mile Stretch Just In Time For Fall
There are now 114 contiguous miles of the Blue Ridge Parkway open to travelers through the Asheville area.
bit.ly
September 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Visitors to the Blue Ridge Parkway can once again enjoy a leisurely jaunt through some of the best fall foliage in the South.
What if diapers were free for the parents who need them most? 19thnews.org/2025/09/diap... via @19thnews.org
What if diapers were free for the parents who need them most?
Diaper Dollars, a nonprofit that gives families in need money to cover diaper expenses, could be a model for states looking to offer more solutions to the diaper need crisis.
19thnews.org
September 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
What if diapers were free for the parents who need them most? 19thnews.org/2025/09/diap... via @19thnews.org
"The death of academic freedom in Texas"
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...
Texas Professor Fired After Accusations of Teaching ‘Gender Ideology’
www.nytimes.com
September 13, 2025 at 12:59 PM
"The death of academic freedom in Texas"
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...
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Federal agents detained a man who was in a car with his wife and two children on Monday night in D.C.
The man said he didn't know why he had been pulled over.
The man said he didn't know why he had been pulled over.
September 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Federal agents detained a man who was in a car with his wife and two children on Monday night in D.C.
The man said he didn't know why he had been pulled over.
The man said he didn't know why he had been pulled over.
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Orange Porecap - a striking species with a vibrant orange colour & honeycomb-shaped pores, found in South Somerset (Favolaschia claudopus) 🧡🍊 #Fungi #FungiFriends #Mushrooms
September 9, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Orange Porecap - a striking species with a vibrant orange colour & honeycomb-shaped pores, found in South Somerset (Favolaschia claudopus) 🧡🍊 #Fungi #FungiFriends #Mushrooms
Very helpful info
The most helpful info I've found on the Covid-19 vaccine at this point, from @kkjetelina.bsky.social, particularly point 12, "What should I do right now?" I'm interested to see what our pediatrician, who is extremely pro-vaccine, has to say about this...
Covid-19 vaccine license change: 12 key questions answered
And an important note about the ousted CDC leaders
open.substack.com
August 29, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Very helpful info
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I don’t really even know what to say. It’s exhausting.
August 20, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I don’t really even know what to say. It’s exhausting.