A few acres of land and then hire experts to set up a Versailles style garden using only native plants, and also a food forest.
Ruthlessly curious, solution oriented, darkly humoured. Painfully earnest. Petrichor enthusiast. Anti war. Cats galore. PFP: Woman with reddish very long hair, back turned, teal dress Banner: Muppets Waldorf/ Statler booing the apocalypse.
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A few acres of land and then hire experts to set up a Versailles style garden using only native plants, and also a food forest.
Heck yeah! New Mexico "...Department of Health has issued a public health order that removes those limitations so that pharmacies can vaccinate people of all ages, including children under 6 months old..." www.koat.com/article/stat...
New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
🌱Evening light as August ebbs #Dahlia #DailyDahlia #Gardening
#CovidGoodNews
Without saying Just Like Heaven, fav The Cure Song? The Upstairs Room Obscure B-side from their early days www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZwA...
Feel better soon and may you have a swift uneventful permanent recovery. @rahaeli.bsky.social has a useful protocol for covid using antihistamines that's backed up by science if you are interested.
Do it.
Pro-tip: Do not underestimate the effect of respecting people and their time nor underestimate the effect of not doing so.
connecticut could never compete with the actual pizza capital of the USA, portland oregon
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Some good news for once:
Voices arguing that climate action is a waste of time are getting louder. Here’s why they are wrong. "It’s hard to overstate how much there is to be done. But don’t believe self-interested arguments that action is impossible, or will be for nothing." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Too many people don’t believe that #LongCOVID could ever happen to them That view isn’t supported by research nor personal experience of people with LongCOVID Young, healthy, athletic people have had LongCOVID (long term or permanent disability) It could happen to anyone And it’s preventable 😷
"A clear and dangerous pattern is emerging: Shrink these agencies until they break, then claim that selling off or industrializing our public lands is the only fix." - commentary by Tracy Stone-Manning wyofile.com/the-west-is-...
Or apologized when they were wrong.
Animals. I'd love to be able to explain to my cats why they need medication and have them tell me what they need. Also, one of mine is on his way out and I wish he could tell me when he's ready, vs me trying to figure it out on his behalf. I've been trying to teach them buttons but it's very slow.
Why am I keeping these random ribbons from gifts and projects past? I use fabric gift bags now, because I have always hated doing gift wrapping and I'm incredibly bad at it. Goodbye! #Decluttering
After searching/comparative shopping, I'm donating my Dad's film camera. The model isn't terribly rare, it's visibly scuffed and even the mint condition ones aren't going for much. Works, has the original packaging, will be a great find for a thrifter, I hope. #Decluttering #SwedishDeathCleaning
Sleepy girls. #Caturday #CatsOfBlueSky #KittyPix
But living forever in 'maybe', 'someday' and aspirational fantasies ends up costing more in the end--wasted time, money and energy. Holding on to dreams and goals of younger selves limits me today in ways I can't even see until I let them go. 2/end
Just tackled some #Decluttering indecision piles I've been avoiding for weeks. I'm about 3/4 through. Something that makes passing things on hard is when I'm implicitly/explicitly saying goodbye to selves I once was, or wanted to be, or never ended up being. Pain is attached. 1/n
Hello Saturday. #Caturday
Right? No thank you to my weather even more! Waiting for September over here.
Trade please, it's due to be 41c here this weekend.
I'm also waiting for cooler weather. No thank you to summer.
Happy Friday! Here's some of what's blooming this week in my zone 9a PNW garden. It's hot out there! Have great a weekend. 🌱
🦒 Giraffes are 4 distinct species, a major report confirms. Experts say the revision is crucial for ensuring all populations of giraffes are adequately protected. Each giraffe species faces different threats, & now can tailor conservation strategies| Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it: Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.
Holy hell
LUCY TIME
tl;dr: Donald Eastlake knew he'd tested positive, went to Worldcon and the MPC meeting anyway, took off his mask, and explicitly refused to put it back on. If you were at that meeting or at Worldcon in general: you can boost your chances by immediately starting a H1+H2 antihistamine --
Interesting 🧵 on personal risk decisions (RE: things like Covid & more) "Making decisions in terms of your estimation of probabilities is a suckers game. You level up in life when you realize that it’s less about predicting, and more about identifying..." 🧵: threadreaderapp.com/thread/19582...
New York City is now home to one of the first hybrid-electric ferries in the country. It’s transporting visitors from Manhattan to Governors Island, home to growing hub for climate change research.
“Recent studies suggest that slow, tactile tasks, such as knitting, may activate brain systems in ways that support long-term cognitive health in various ways, including engaging memory, attention, and motor function, while helping to regulate stress.” 🧶
"people who are still concerned about covid are so unreasonable, they just want us all to go into lockdown again!" literally nobody is asking for that. what people are asking for is stuff like universal masking in healthcare settings and investment in indoor air filtration/clean air infrastructure
Insurance companies sue BNSF for causing Tunnel 5 Fire: www.kiro7.com/news/local/l...
Sign languages have regional variations, accents and are different in every country. ASL is one of the only sign languages with a one handed alphabet, most use both hands.
It appears once the union rejected the government’s back-to-work bullshit Air Canada execs folded immediately, faced with a unified front of labour and supporters. Big lesson here.
Rich people aren't where money comes from. They are where money goes. That's why economies that prioritise rich people's interests all stagnate and the promised growth never materialises.
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Someone said: "Remote work doesn't allow for team cohesiveness." Fuck this team nonsense. The only people who ever talk about the importance of "teams" at work is management, never workers. Multiple studies show productivity increases when optional remote work is available. That's the bottom line.
Covid is rising. New vaccines may not be ready until mid-September. Article fails to mention that CDC recommendations for staying home when infected are too short or other means of protection including masks, air filtration and improved ventilation. #Medsky wapo.st/3HDjKbC
Y'all need to stop using Duolingo. Your library probably gives you free access to Mango or other language learning programs which haven't been sloppified.
The car wash needs to be slower. It’s great in there. Make it thirty minutes. I will pay extra for the inconvenience
"A new era of cancer treatment challenges the idea of what it means to have and survive cancer. A small but growing population is living longer with incurable or advanced cancer, navigating the rest of their lives with a disease increasingly akin to a chronic illness."
dudes rock www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Inspired by a convo on Threads- You need to vaccinate your new kitten for rabies. You need to keep your adult cat vaccinated using either the annual or 3 year vaccine. Even if the cat is indoor only. Accidents happen. Cats get out. You may bring a lost kitten in. 1/
Serce Ogrodu - The Heart of the Garden The European Tree of the Year 2024 A Common beech (Fagus sylvatica) that lives in the Botanical Garden of the University of Wrocław, Poland Photo: Bożena Piotrowska
The thing about safety is once you start talking about giving it to some people by removing it from others, you're not talking about safety anymore.
There is no one who will dismiss your growth more than the people who are mad you did work they aren’t willing to do.
"If we continue with the policies we have now we are clearly on a pathway of 2.7 or 3 degrees where adaptation is simply not doable anymore.” Adapt now or lose everything. The choice is that simple.
And you’ll pay for that choice with your health Sad part is research shows respirators are so effective that public use would’ve dropped rate of Covid transmission so well, it would’ve been suppressed for as long as respirator use continued, maybe even gone extinct like Yamagata flu strain in 2020😷
Overall, these results are important because they show that despite new treatments, vaccines & greater immunity among the population over these last few years, #LongCOVID incidence has not gone down. Thus, Long Covid is still an important public health matter needing serious attention and resources.
every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing
Is she hungry?
'FIP research offers potential insights into Long COVID' '“Our findings support the idea that FIP in cats is a useful model for studying long-term immune problems after a viral infection...' www.dvm360.com/view/fip-res...
...What the hell
DermaKleen, DermaSerra, KleenFoam, and PeriGiene are the soaps under recall.
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She's also hissing/growling at anyone who approaches. Just The Worst.
Guess who's hogging all the catnip today? #Calico #CatsOfBlueSky #Jerk
Eastern Swallowtails on Allium Millenium.
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Gah, I haate when they do that! They pulled that crap for my inhaler last year. Safe journey
We call that "stewp" in this house.
👀🧵by @vipintukur about "persistent blood–brain barrier (BBB) leakiness in LongCOVID almost 3 years after infection." Full thread here: threadreaderapp.com/thread/19549...
Spouse to patchwork cat: "I love you so much but you are extremely silly" Patchwork cat: Meee-erreh Me, from the the other room, scornfully: "You call *that* a meow?"
clout has poisoned our world like lead
July's best science images, as chosen by the Nature photo team, include a glow-in-the-dark marsupial showing off its luminous furr, which earned photographer Ben Alldridge a spot as a finalist in the Beaker Street Science Photography Prize 2025. See more photos at the link. #SciArt 🧪 🔭 🏺
Quote this with a book you read way too young that explains why you are the way you are. Amphigorey by Edward Gorey There are others, but this one probably the most.
USA: Some states are being hit harder than others this summer as a new COVID-19 strain (XGF) continues to spread. Washington, Oregon, Idaho, California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana saw higher COVID test positivity in the week ending Aug 2. archive.md/a3K8z
'New biomarker may be the first specific and quantifiable indicator for confirming long COVID' 'Researchers from..Translational Genomics Research Institute..Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation-UCLA Medical..have identified a potential biomarker..' www.news-medical.net/news/2025081...
Real rebellion is not letting a culture that prizes coldness and hardness make you cold and hard.
Another benefit of cleaning air with HEPA filters might be lowering blood pressure. #Medsky www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/...
1. I've said exactly this for quite some time. Expanding on Adrian's @sillyputty78.bsky.social point on X / Twitter here, Covid-19 has three distinct characteristics as a disease that enables it to be denied at a societal level.
Sweet dreams. #Caturday #CatsOfBlueSky
Horses were given bread especially made for them in medieval times and there were laws about who was allowed to produce it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsebr...
It's a paper from last year, but it still pains me to think that we could have achieved elimination without resorting to lockdown, simply by implementing universal respirator usage alone. Not masks, respirators. It's still not too late.
What really sucks about ageing is how long your body takes to recover from minor inconvenience/interference, i.e., was hours/days, now takes days/weeks. e.g., pulled muscle, too little sleep, dental surgery. 3rd day out from dentist & my jaw is still quite sore. It was a filling, not a punch, ffs.
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Once more for those who think Covid is over and it’s just a cold. #CovidIsntOver
New study: "the Gulf Stream moved northward at the end of the Little Ice Age" - a sign that the Amoc started weakening then. Even if the Amoc does not cross a tipping point soon, the research shows the weakening could still have a significant impact on climate patterns, with serious implications.
Suck it, Diogenes
I was asked about my opinion on this recent study into #MECFS and I wanted to share here as well. First and foremost, sincere congratulations to the research team for some stellar work. I will never stop cheering for groups that are working to uncover the biological 1/
The Times: 'Lack of ME research because of ‘medical misogyny’, says top scientist' 'Professor Chris Ponting, who led a groundbreaking study into the disease, says it is ‘highly stigmatised and incredibly female-biased’' #DecodeME www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
The comments here perfectly explain the confusion that vision impaired people have with most images - trying to make sense of an image. Here it’s sighted posters who aren’t sure about what they are seeing. The alt text has helped them (awesome alt text!). That’s how alt text helps every image
Earth has lost one-fifth of its wetlands since 1700 – but most could still be saved theconversation.com/earth-has-lo...
Two things can be true. -mRNA vaccines are a huge advancement and are critical to stopping acute death from Covid -the Covid vaccines were absolutely not sufficient to stop the spread of Covid, as seen by many waves since, and masking is a key strategy to address this insufficiency.
Daily Echo: 'People with ME have key genetic differences to other people, study finds' 'People diagnosed with ME have significant differences in their DNA compared to those without the condition, according to a “groundbreaking” new study' #DecodeME www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/nationa...
If they're feather, you can compost those & recycle the fabric. If they are memory foam, only trash. The others, you might be able to recycle the fabric & toss the innards. I don't know where you are in the world, but the shelters near me won't accept pillows. Blankets, OTOH are a go.
I have been letting go of so much lately.
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We should add a "yikes" button next to the "likes" button
When thinking about how to get out of this mess we need to keep in mind 'asymmetric causation'. Knowing what caused a problem doesn't tell you how to solve it. The example that brought the point home to me was: If you're run over by a steamroller, the cure is not to have it reverse back over you
Tens of thousands of cornflowers in a field in Wicken. Research shows that the sight of them will help you recover from sources of stress more quickly & boost dopamine release in your brain, lifting your mood…in case you need it just now:
You can miss someone but also know that you are better off with them out of your life. You can love someone and still realize that a deep relationship is untenable. You can like someone so very much and understand that they are not beneficial to you.