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jenny hauf @jennyhauf.bsky.social · 1h

Oh how I long to weave myself a coracle (and then paddle away from the world for a little while).

NearlyKnowledgeable @g0blinegg.bsky.social · 9h

Tommy Rogers (b.1849) was one of the last Severn watermen. He was a coracle maker, poacher, and larger-than-life Ironbridge character. Known for his expert knowledge of the Severn, he saved 8 lives and recovered more than 80 bodies alongside his son from the river Severn.

#Shropshire #Ironbridge

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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossb-brighton.bsky.social · 9h

Whoop, whoop! The new queer wildlife documentary 'Second Nature,' narrated by the inspirational Elliot Page, will premiere in New York on Saturday. 🐠🏳️‍⚧️🐧🌈🐘

It looks awesome; check out the teaser. Hopefully it will be available in the UK soon.

www.secondnaturedoc.com #lgbtq #nature #film #PrideInSTEM

Second Nature — A documentary about everything you didn’t learn in high school biology.

Debunking myths that females are “inferior” and being queer is “unnatural,” Second Nature follows trailblazing trans Evolutionary Biologist Dr. Joan Roughgarden as she meets other groundbreaking scien...

www.secondnaturedoc.com

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 8h

🐏 New Absolute Units 🐏

Same-sex relationships have always been part of rural England, but they've been underrepresented in our collections.

In the first of 2 episodes, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares his work tracing queer rural lives in The MERL archives.

merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

The Absolute Units art. Three giant sheep hover over the English countryside.

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jenny hauf @jennyhauf.bsky.social · 16h

The Focus Poster by Wendy Macnaughton and Courtney Martin

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jenny hauf @jennyhauf.bsky.social · 17h

So good!

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jenny hauf @jennyhauf.bsky.social · 1d

Waking up to a kraut that's already so wily that it got brine all over the counter? That calls for a #dailydelight!

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jenny hauf @jennyhauf.bsky.social · 2d

Happy anniversary!!!

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jenny hauf @jennyhauf.bsky.social · 2d

This looks so great!

Chelsea Green Publishing @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social · 8d

How do some plants live for thousands of years? Which adaptations & evolutionary strategies allow them to thrive in some of the harshest places on the planet for so long—and so well?

#NewBookAlert IN BOTANICAL TIME is available for preorder—releasing Feb 2026. #BookSky #Nonfiction
bit.ly/3VYNYcG

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jenny hauf @jennyhauf.bsky.social · 2d

🫂

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jenny hauf @jennyhauf.bsky.social · 2d

I'll give ya some once it's ready 😍

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jenny hauf @jennyhauf.bsky.social · 2d

🥰🥰🥰

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jenny hauf @jennyhauf.bsky.social · 2d

#dailydelight: I'm making kraut for the first time in YEARS. Thank you @ourcookquest.bsky.social for inspiring me!! #lactofermentation

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jenny hauf @jennyhauf.bsky.social · 2d

I love this 💓

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jenny hauf @jennyhauf.bsky.social · 3d

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jenny hauf @jennyhauf.bsky.social · 4d

I'm so grateful for you and your work and so sorry that you're struggling. Thank you for sharing what you're going through, and thank you for reaching out to loved ones so that you have support as you work on making it through. Take such good care, Alan.

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jenny hauf @jennyhauf.bsky.social · 4d

🫜🥬 TODAY!! 🫜🥬

If you want to have fun with some brilliant ferments we'd absolutely love for you to come out! We're going to make soy sauce pickles, misozuke, bbq sauce made from lactofermented veggies, and more! #boston

jenny hauf @jennyhauf.bsky.social · 11d

Attention Boston-area lovers of #wildfermentation and #koji! The wonderful (& James Beard nominated!) Rich Shih will be teaching a class on simple lacto ferments at my farm this Sunday, 10/12. We'd love to see you there! Learn more and sign up here: www.muddyriverherbals.com/events/2025/...

Flavor Making & Fermentation on the Farm! — muddy river herbals

We welcome you to join us for a class of sharing fermented food ideas to get you comfortable making them at home. Jenny has invited her friend Rich who is the coauthor of Koji Alchemy, the James Beard...

www.muddyriverherbals.com

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jenny hauf @jennyhauf.bsky.social · 10d

My partner's confused excitement at finding the itty bitty Hepatica acutiloba blooming woke me from my hammock nap. It's late and I'm in America (eastern Massachusetts) but I'll still tag #wildflowerhour!

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 11d

James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:

Or, to put it another way, as long as white Americans take refuge in their whiteness— for so long as they are unable to walk out of this most monstrous of traps-they will allow millions of people to be slaughtered in their name, and will be manipulated into and surrender themselves to what they will think of-and justify—as a racial war. They will never, so long as their whiteness puts so sinister a distance between themselves and their own experience and the experience of others, feel themselves sufficiently human, sufficiently worthwhile, to become responsible for themselves, their leaders, their country, their children, or their fate. They will perish (as we once put it in our black church) in their sins—that is, in their delusions. And this is happening, needless to say, already, all around us.

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jenny hauf @jennyhauf.bsky.social · 10d

The white tip on every collie's tail is called the shepherd's lantern <3
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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 11d

Tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival! A, East Asian harvest celebration whose date is transient on our calendar, full of lanterns and mooncakes, celebrates Chang'e, the moon goddesses, and dates back over 3,000 years. #FolkloreSunday

The Beijing Mid-Autumn Festival showing blown up lanterns of two dragons, a layered cake with a flaming ball at the top, all on top of water in an urban area of the city

Three quarters of a mooncake, showing the golden exterior with Chinese characters originally on the whole cake but with one quarter missing. The interior of the golden cake is a chocolate-looking sweet bean paste

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jenny hauf @jennyhauf.bsky.social · 11d

¡¡Me encanta!!

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jenny hauf @jennyhauf.bsky.social · 11d

@ourcookquest.bsky.social

jenny hauf @jennyhauf.bsky.social · 11d

#kojibuildscommunity

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jenny hauf @jennyhauf.bsky.social · 11d

Attention Boston-area lovers of #wildfermentation and #koji! The wonderful (& James Beard nominated!) Rich Shih will be teaching a class on simple lacto ferments at my farm this Sunday, 10/12. We'd love to see you there! Learn more and sign up here: www.muddyriverherbals.com/events/2025/...

Flavor Making & Fermentation on the Farm! — muddy river herbals

We welcome you to join us for a class of sharing fermented food ideas to get you comfortable making them at home. Jenny has invited her friend Rich who is the coauthor of Koji Alchemy, the James Beard...

www.muddyriverherbals.com

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