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Faye Havoc @fayehavoc.bsky.social · 3h

Wild. This and the BBC article suggest that my local tree would have to have been deliberately seeded or planted. It's just there, randomly, in the middle of an urban forest, on what used to be the town dump site. (Maybe someone threw a seed in the trash in the 50s and it survived??)

Faye Havoc @fayehavoc.bsky.social · 8h

Oh wow I could not love this article any harder. Makes me want to try eating one.. but I won't because they're growing on a decommissioned landfill and full of lead, probably. (How did the tree GET here, though??)

The forgotten medieval fruit with a vulgar name

Medieval Europeans were fanatical about a strange fruit that could only be eaten rotten. Then it was forgotten altogether. Why did they love it so much? And why did it disappear?

www.bbc.com

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Faye Havoc @fayehavoc.bsky.social · 8h

Overgrown primordial-ass rosehip-lookin' not-pomegranates on a persimmon-like growing schedule. Never have I ever seen or heard of them before stumbling upon this one tree.

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Faye Havoc @fayehavoc.bsky.social · 10h

Found a pokeweed bush. Also finally figured out what these weirdass mystery fruits are called.

Pokeberries in various stages of ripeness from pale green to pink to purple to black, hanging from bright magenta stems.

These things are called medlars! They can only be eaten when overripened, apparently.

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Faye Havoc @fayehavoc.bsky.social · 10h

Mid-October magic! Did I have time for a walk in the woods today? Absolutely the fuck not. Did I do it anyways? Yes.

A cluster of some kind of agaricus mushroom probably, sprouting from the forest floor.

Red hawthorn berries and leaves in the late afternoon sunshine.

An old wooden bridge over an unseen stream, sprinkled with fallen leaves.

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Faye Havoc @fayehavoc.bsky.social · 13h

I was thinking of trying that, inspired by Alexi and her weird idiosyncrasies (and your workarounds for her weird idiosyncrasies).

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Faye Havoc @fayehavoc.bsky.social · 15h

Arthur drinks water. His sister either drinks it on the sly or doesn't and somehow gets enough from twice daily wet food. She doesn't seem dehydrated or uncomfortable. I'm so confused.

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Faye Havoc @fayehavoc.bsky.social · 15h

Not once in the 6 weeks we've had our new cats have I (or my sister) witnessed Miss Moneypenny actually drinking water.

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Faye Havoc @fayehavoc.bsky.social · 1d

A friend told me about it this morning and yes, yes it does!

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Faye Havoc @fayehavoc.bsky.social · 1d

Help! Too cute! 🥹 Congrats, they're adorable!! I just adopted brother&sister kitties too and it's the sweetest thing when I catch 'em snuggling. 🥲 The actual best.

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Faye Havoc @fayehavoc.bsky.social · 2d

Super fun thing about this month: I've only worked on or completed projects for which clients already paid in full weeks/months ago, so it REALLY feels like I'm doing a fuckton of work and getting nowhere. 🥲 (This is why I don't love taking full payments upfront; no carrot left on the stick. 🥕)

Faye Havoc @fayehavoc.bsky.social · 2d

For someone who works all the Goddamn time and barely ever buys anything I sure do not have a lot of money.

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Faye Havoc @fayehavoc.bsky.social · 2d

Not familiar with that one but, sounds bad. 😬

Faye Havoc @fayehavoc.bsky.social · 2d

Give me squash in soup form or don't give it to me at all.

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Faye Havoc @fayehavoc.bsky.social · 2d

Health hazards aside, someone might curse you a decade later for permanently E6000ing feathers to plastic buckram panels, while trying to wire/stitch through a whole lot of dried glue to remount them on new staves.

Faye Havoc @fayehavoc.bsky.social · 2d

Refurbishing a set of Catherine D'Lish ostrich fans for a client and like.. there was A LOT of E6000 involved in the original build; I see now how she got cancer from it.

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Faye Havoc @fayehavoc.bsky.social · 2d

Ideally items glued with E6000 should also be left to offgas and cure for 6 months in a garage or shed, but I know very few of us have garages or sheds and none of us plan our costumes or props THAT far ahead.

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Faye Havoc @fayehavoc.bsky.social · 2d

This set of fans was made way back when Catherine was still making fans for people, so that gives you an idea of how long ago it was. The dangers weren't well-known at the time but please if you must use E6000:
- sparingly
- outside
- wear a fume respirator
- NEVER use it around animals or kids

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Faye Havoc @fayehavoc.bsky.social · 2d

Refurbishing a set of Catherine D'Lish ostrich fans for a client and like.. there was A LOT of E6000 involved in the original build; I see now how she got cancer from it.

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 2d

vancouver planning in the 21st century is developers and the city patting themselves on the back for a sustainable mixed-used community that pays homage to the industrial past while using modern best practices where a two bedroom condo costs a million dollars and there are no schools

Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 2d

cool, awesome, inspiring, just one question where are the schools or buses or community centres

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Faye Havoc @fayehavoc.bsky.social · 2d

Lol yeah I live here and I have a love/hate relationship with how new and isolated and lacking in prettymuch everything it is. I feel bad for my neighbours who have kids, and/or anyone who has to take transit with any regularity.

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Faye Havoc @fayehavoc.bsky.social · 2d

For someone who works all the Goddamn time and barely ever buys anything I sure do not have a lot of money.

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Faye Havoc @fayehavoc.bsky.social · 3d

Haven't seen the Red Cloud in awhile.

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 3d

Love the obvious pro-cat bias among the people who decide which emojis there are. 😺😸😹😻😼😽🙀😿😾 No other animal gets this range.

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Faye Havoc @fayehavoc.bsky.social · 3d

All that's missing are the damson preserves and dandelion wine!

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Iza All Kinds of Banged Up @izabelakaramia.bsky.social · 5d

@catsofyore.bsky.social While browsing through scanned archives of the magazine Chess Review, which was published from 1933 to 1969, I found a cat! People who have watched Netflix's The Queen's Gambit will recognize that Chess Review was the magazine shoplifted by Beth Harmon.

On the October 1957 cover of Chess Review, a black cat is seemingly playing chess. It is looking intently at the white king on the board. The cover is captioned, "A CT CAN NIP AT A KING." The photo is a black and white photo.

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 4d

The trick to getting over stage fright, for me, is to have something you wanna say so badly that it would be worse to not do it.

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