Melinda R. Cordell
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Melinda R. Cordell
@rosefiend.bsky.social
I beg your pardon ... I'm going to promise you a rose garden!

Retired Horticulturist looking for freelance writing work. Chicken wrangler, pedant, general goofball.
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🌱🌱 I KEEP FORGETTING TO MENTION THAT I ALSO WRITE GARDENING BOOKS! For fun and for profit (about $0.05 worth lol).
Edible landscaping, roses, perennials, indoor gardening, growing plants in containers, soil building, and all kinds of good stuff.
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This year's scion list (so far) from 39th Parallel Orchard. Carter's Blue, Cox's Orange Pippin, Grimes Golden, Belle de Boskoop, King David, Esopus Spitzenburg, and then some ornamental crabapples -- Makamik, Profusion, and Sugar Thyme.
Grafting all onto existing apple & crabapple trees. 🌱 🌱
October 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
🌱🌱 Here are some chicken pics because I haven't posted anything lately.
October 3, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I wish a small army of raccoons would infest JK Rowling's house and take up residence in her fridge and use her toilet as a place to dunk everything she loves
it appears that @bsky.app have suspended the account of @jessiegender because a trans person saying "I wish ill on JK Rowling" is against the rules, so let me say with my loud cis voice that I too wish ill on all perpetrators of hate speech against trans people

reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous
August 16, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs.

(“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)
April 27, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.

Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.

Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
February 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Here’s an excellent old school video on how to establish a relationship with your elected officials & lobby them more effectively.* In my four decades in Washington, this is the best “how to” lobbying video I’ve ever seen. I’ve used it to train activists across the country.

* Your results may vary.
Calling your reps is only the 1st step. This excellent old Amnesty International advocacy video gives very practical next steps for turning that call into a relationship. It also offers great tips on how to keep the pressure up until you get what you want. This should be mandatory for civics class.
How to lobby your elected representatives
YouTube video by SKT DCA
youtu.be
January 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
If you see this, post a Spider-Man.
February 21, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I renamed the Gulf of Mexico, you're welcome
clearly I am not a minimalist

nor is Lester B. Pearson
February 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
February 20, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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“put it on his fucking gravestone”
February 20, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Those words, diverse and creative? Not an accident.

This isn’t about mass street protests, necessarily. Those aren’t safe now, not when they’ve got the army on their side. No pink hats, kids.

Time to level up and get smarter.

Here’s a reading list for you:
Political Education
Time to Level Up. 
bookshop.org
January 17, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Over 50% of nonviolent movements to overthrow governments are successful within one year of their peak.

The key is to engage over 3.5% of the country, a cross-section of society—clergy, kids, grandmas, teachers) using DIVERSE & CREATIVE tactics, with women in leadership.

We can do this.

More:
On Organizing
time to level up / an early draft of a playbook
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
January 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Freeze your credit individually at each bureau. It’s free:

• Experian: www.experian.com/freeze
• Equifax: www.equifax.com/personal/credit-report-services/credit-freeze
• TransUnion: www.transunion.com/credit-freeze
February 19, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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Contact one of the 3 credit bureaus. Lock down your credit. They will share your wishes with the other 2 bureaus.

#Equifax
#Transunion
#Experian
Folks, I can’t stress this enough:

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February 19, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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"How to Write While Deeply Distracted" from @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social is the post of the year (the decade, maybe?) full of helpful, specific strategies. I'm off to lock myself in a closet now. substack.com/home/post/p-...
How to Write While Deeply Distracted
(from an ADHDer to the rest of you)
substack.com
February 17, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Post a picture of you in a different era: I had a knife to cut my college graduation cake so I did the crazy eyes. My mans just looked handsome as always lol
February 17, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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BREAKING: Judge Amir Ali, one of the final Biden appointees confirmed, just temporarily restored what looks like a wide swath of foreign aid funding that had been blocked.

Full order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 14, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Here is the pre-RFK vaccination schedule for your kids. Please download it before he is confirmed and changes/deletes it.

Give it to your pediatrician and say this is the schedule you want your kids on.

Making this my pinned post.
February 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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It is actually genuinely funny that the Army looked at the Executive Order and said "no"
Army guidance on implementing President Trump's order on transgender troops, filed in court today, says to NOT take adverse personnel action against people based on gender identity "at this time" and to continue medical treatment. for gender dysphoria.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 12, 2025 at 9:48 PM
This is worth remembering at the moment
February 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Well all righty, sign me up
I charge and command that, of the city’s cost, the pissing-conduit run nothing but claret wine this first year of our reign.
February 13, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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"you never shut up about politics, talk about something else"

I am part of the named target group of a moral panic that brought a fascist Neo-Nazi regime to power.

I do not have the luxury of a non-political existence.

I will not pretend otherwise for your comfort.
February 13, 2025 at 12:27 AM
More plants from Ronna's greenhouse, since you guys seemed to like her plants yesterday. She has a bunch of rare stuff that has me stumped, and all her plants look gorgeous. 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱
I kind of overdid it on the alt text, sorry guys, I didn't mean to write a dissertation there.
February 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
My buddy Ronna has some really cool succulents in her greenhouse. I can't remember what they're called, but they're neat. 🌱🌱🌱🌱
February 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM