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Cindy H. @cindyhphoto.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you! Those photos do match much better. Enough that I could replace my unknown with Bacardi.

Cindy H. @cindyhphoto.bsky.social · 5d

Trying to capture the tones of color are difficult, reds like to blowout.

I want to replace these tubers or ones very similar. I think I found leafy gall and didn't keep many tubers except one plant that seems fine. We'll see in the spring how it looks growing out.
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Cindy H. @cindyhphoto.bsky.social · 5d

I don't have a great photo of the plant itself this year. The leaves are darker and reddish compared to other dahlias (who are new to me this year). It seems to be more of a landscape dahlia, as it doesn't get too tall and stems are fine for mason jar bouquets, but not long.
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This dahlia bloom shows more of the light center than others in this conversation. Almost gold but soft with Magenta ish edges to the petals.

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Cindy H. @cindyhphoto.bsky.social · 5d

All I wanted was her name, because I love this plant. They think it might be Karma Fuchsiana. I don't think that's right.

Photos of KF I find online are way more pink and bright yellow. This bloom is hard to photograph, but runs a deeper color and the accent is softer golden yellow.
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A dahlia blossom, name unknown. Pinkish red or reddish pink, sorta Magenta. The petals soften to a wrap soft yellowish color in the middle.

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Cindy H. @cindyhphoto.bsky.social · 5d

What is this Dahlia?

Several years ago, I ordered my first tubers, they were supposed to be Cornel Bronze. Once she bloomed, I knew that there was a mix up. I contacted the shop, who got in touch with the grower.
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Magenta ish dahlia bloom. Name unknown at this time.

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Dr. DioxiNation @djzaber.bsky.social · 6d

Russia used hunger in Mariupol in Ukraine.
Assad's government & rebel groups used starvation tactics.
The Ethiopian government used hunger in the siege of the Tigray.
Starvation in Biafra.
Destruction of farms and wells in Yemen, Nigeria, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Now the GOPedos.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6d

So while even Josh Hawley is willing to bring a bill to the floor to make sure the most vulnerable don’t starve, Thune wants to use hunger as leverage to force a Dem surrender.

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cira-csu.bsky.social @cira-csu.bsky.social · 7d

Lightning flashes within the powerful eye wall of Hurricane Melissa.

Incredible imagery this morning of Melissa, a Category 5 storm, south of Jamaica.

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𝙲𝚑𝚞𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚝 𝙸𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚎𝚜 @churchstreetimages.com · 7d

Join the #BlueSkyArtShow
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Scary or pleasant, show us your fall favorites!

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Photo of fallen autumn leaves with text over it reading:
Join the #BlueSkyArtShow
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Cindy H. @cindyhphoto.bsky.social · 6d

The frost finally arrived last Thursday night/Friday morning. Time to store dahlia tubers and start thinking ahead to seed starting.
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The petals of a David Howard dahlia. They are soft orange and tipped with tiny frost crystals.

The underside of a nasturtium leaf, the frost is helping to see the network of veins.

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Cindy H. @cindyhphoto.bsky.social · 11d

A good frost comes tonight. It was my last chance to get pineapple sage cuttings. I also started rosemary for 2026.

Lemongrass grass got put in the shed tonight and the garage tomorrow night. I just need to get to the weekend to harvest.
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Small pinapple sage cuttings in two 6-cell containers. I root cuttings for next year's plants. It's an easy one to get started.

Small rosemary branches stuck in soil. I take cuttings and grow them for the next season. Rosemary became impossible to find in the spring of 2020, the following year, I learned about how easy they can sprout roots.

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Logan Mitchell PhD @loganemitchell.bsky.social · 11d

@climatecentral.org hired the NOAA scientist who was in charge of maintaining the billion dollar weather disaster data set and is going to continue it! Here is the new home of the Billion Dollar Disaster's data set: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · Oct 3

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Oct 3

We’ve gotten several messages that the Trump administration has tampered with federal employees’ email systems, making some people’s automatic Out of Office replies blame the government shutdown on the “radical left.” This was done without the employees’ knowledge.

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Cindy H. @cindyhphoto.bsky.social · Sep 24

Mosquito netting, it's a smaller "hood" of it to put in over a hat and face to keep the skeeters from biting your forehead and buzzing in your ears.

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Climate.us @climate.us · Sep 23

🚨 NCA5 is now LIVE! 🚨

They took it down, but we've brought it back at: nca5.climate.us

Bookmark. 👏 this. 👏 page. 👏

This is just our first step in restoring trusted science information that Americans need to understand what's happening with the climate.

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Cindy H. @cindyhphoto.bsky.social · Sep 24

Oh the mosquitoes! I went out after work, and didn't grab my head net. Big mistake... thank goodness for cortisone cream.

We've had a resurgence in the tomatoes and temps look good for the next 2 weeks to get more that are still tasty.
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Harvest basket full of tomatoes. Big yellow is a Gold Medal. The dark ones are either Paul Robeson or Cherokee/Lehoulier Chocolate . San Marzano and Blue Beech paste tomatoes. Sun sugar are the yellow cherry. Black are the brownish purple cherry. Perfection in Pink and Midnight Indigo are the two cherry tomatoes with super dark tops.

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Dr. Zachary Rubin @rubinallergy.bsky.social · Sep 22

To all the moms and dads out there listening to President Trump, do not be fooled.

Tylenol does not cause autism.
Vaccines do not cause autism.

Children with autism spectrum disorder are important just like any other children.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · Sep 22

Multiple peer reviewed studies done by medical researchers indicate that Tylenol does not seem to be a cause of autism. But one heroin-addicted nepo baby says that it is. For pregnant mothers it can be hard to know who to trust.

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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · Sep 10

Obviously, there's bigger news happening right now, but Senate Republicans just voted against releasing the Epstein files. Every Democrat voted to release them. Susan Collins was the deciding vote to protect Trump and others named in the files.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · Sep 10

You can condemn murder and political violence without whitewashing Charlie Kirk's shameful history of hate, racism, white nationalism and promotion of dangerous conspiracies that radicalized Trump supporters to violence.

You can do both.

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · Sep 7

If you're a reporter, please stop referring to RFK Jr and his cronies as "vaccine skeptics." They're not skeptical. Skepticism would be fine. Skeptics look at evidence and can be persuaded.

These people are extremist anti-vaccine cranks, and that's how news organizations should describe them.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · Sep 8

In any other administration (including Trump's first one), someone in the Pentagon would have said: "Mr. President, you cannot order the military to murder a bunch of people on a boat on the high seas."
Designating them "narco-terrorists" isn't a thing that lets you do that.

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Cindy H. @cindyhphoto.bsky.social · Sep 7

We watched someone's with George Wendt in them: VFW and Edmond.

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Cindy H. @cindyhphoto.bsky.social · Sep 7

I started Vampires of El Norte, by Isabel Cañas. Loving it.

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · Sep 5

AI slop is more than just junk – it’s dangerous.

An example: This fake photo of a child with a puppy went viral during Hurricane Helene, fueling misinformation.

Don’t fall for it (and flag harmful content when you see it).

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What is AI slop? A technologist explains this new and largely unwelcome form of online content

AI slop refers to low- to mid-quality content created with AI tools, often with little regard for accuracy or quality.

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