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Kathleen 🌲

@mossgatherer.bsky.social

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Botanist, photographer, weaver Talking about nature, politics, education, photography, writing, ethnobotany, weaving, interdisciplinary things. Just chaos tbh. MSc RGB Kew, MA U of T 🇬🇧🇨🇦 📍New Forest National Park

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Kathleen 🌲 @mossgatherer.bsky.social · Nov 24

Weaving away, an ornate twill (my design), hand dyed (by me) tussah silk (my yarn company) on my 8 shft jack loom.
#weaving

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Kathleen 🌲 @mossgatherer.bsky.social · 12h

Decades of science + decades of advocacy work
❤️❤️

Jason Reid @jasonreiduk.bsky.social · 1d

✅ 6 month HIV check up done!

✅ Viral load remains undetectable, which means HIV cannot be sexually transmitted to others while on effective antiretroviral treatment. In short, undetectable equals untransmittable (U=U).

💊 One pill a day keeps me rocking and rolling.

💪 Onwards!

#HIVAdvocacy

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 22h

Six Degrees of Wikipedia is a site that lets you type in two different topics and then shows how many Wikipedia pages apart they are. boingboing.net/2025/10/14/t...

This Wikipedia game reveals bizarre connections between any topics

Discover unexpected Wikipedia connections with this visual mapping tool that links any topics through article chains.

boingboing.net

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Kathleen 🌲 @mossgatherer.bsky.social · 12h

Happy birthday!

Kathleen 🌲 @mossgatherer.bsky.social · 12h

Was she a beacon when the US was backing coups and dictatorships all over the world?!

Kathleen 🌲 @mossgatherer.bsky.social · 12h

My jaw is on the floor at that article.
Ahistorical and deluded. Who is that author?! America promoted freedom and democracy abroad? Oh my god!

Kathleen 🌲 @mossgatherer.bsky.social · 12h

I haven't yet! I think I need to bump it up the list

Kathleen 🌲 @mossgatherer.bsky.social · 12h

Niche content but anyone who knows about what happened to Dr Crusher in that warp bubble knows why we're in this dystopian hell

@melchizedek420

Not even remotely my problem

All day Astronomy @forallcurious 3d

BREAKING: Earth may be trapped inside a giant void in space, scientists say

Kathleen 🌲 @mossgatherer.bsky.social · 13h

I feel personally attacked by this relatable content

Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 1d

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

Kathleen 🌲 @mossgatherer.bsky.social · 22h

Look at these moths!

Ben Averis @averisben.bsky.social · 1d

My wife Alison had these five Merveille du Jour moths in her moth trap this morning, here in SE Scotland.

Five Merveille du Jour moths found by Alison Averis in her moth trap here in SE Scotland on the morning of 14th October 2025. Background: bark with lichens.

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Kathleen 🌲 @mossgatherer.bsky.social · 22h

Omg this is amazing

Kathleen 🌲 @mossgatherer.bsky.social · 1d

Oh I see, I thought you were saying it's standard.

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Christina @just-wandering.bsky.social · 1d

The patterns in nature are amazing. I could look at these Aspen leaves all day.

#fallcolors #aspenleaves #aspen #colorado #naturephotography #photography

Aspen leaves and branches fill the frame.

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Kathleen 🌲 @mossgatherer.bsky.social · 1d

Wait, you get notifications when you're blocked?!

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Kathleen 🌲 @mossgatherer.bsky.social · 1d

My kid asked if Zohran Mamdani is the same person as Commander Riker

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 2d

We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 1d

On the centenary of Thatcher's birth, there have been predictable calls for a memorial to her memory. But Britain's 2300 food banks serve that purpose already.

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Mr Autumn Man @pnwnwa.myatproto.social · 1d

“I don’t read fiction.”
Cool, so you’ve never practiced empathy, felt wonder, or escaped reality for five minutes. Must be fun being emotionally rawdogged by the news every day.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 1d

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

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Kathleen 🌲 @mossgatherer.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, absolutely. The arbitrary separation of arts and sciences is a figment of colonialist schooling structures, including universities. It doesn't reflect the reality of human knowledge, study, or even research.

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Kathleen 🌲 @mossgatherer.bsky.social · 1d

God bless this poor man, every snippy nerd came out in force 😭

Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 2d

tfw you’re launching state of the art trains with no USBC, even though it would cost a few quid per train to change the faceplate at this stage

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "But Air Force One was really, it was covered with Egyptian desert just a few months ago. If you think about it. Just a few months ago it was Egyptian desert and now it was just a few feet off our window. And it was a spectacular sight."

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Kathleen 🌲 @mossgatherer.bsky.social · 1d

People's refusal to read is becoming impossible to deal with

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Kathleen 🌲 @mossgatherer.bsky.social · 1d

I hear stories like this all the time and I have to ask. What are these people studying that they think so many detentions will achieve something when something is clearly wrong?

Nobody mention funding because funding is a problem is many countries. There's something wrong with English schooling.

My son is in year 10 and has adhd. He attends a school that is very strict and they have brought in a new thing this year where a short detention replaces what would have been a warning previously. They have done this in the hope that it will deter bad behaviour as the detentions are at lunchtime either for 10, 20, or 30 mins of a 45 min lunch break. My son is being issued a detention every single day, sometimes two. He has so many detentions he can't keep up with them as they are held at different locations. Sometimes hes missed one and then that gets upscaled. His detentions are for talking, being distracted and distracting after being told repeatedly. I am not excusing his behaviour at all but I have noticed a big change in this since this was brought in. He seems to he spiralling and he has now started to become argumentative with the teachers when he wasnt before. He is missing every break and lunch break due to these detentions, time that he really needs to blow off some steam. I find it extremely hard to relate to him as I am a people pleaser and never got detentions at school. I was well behaved and followed...

Kathleen 🌲 @mossgatherer.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible 😭

Kathleen 🌲 @mossgatherer.bsky.social · 1d

Strip out corporate tech, see humanities and science as part of the same continuum. Improve science education, build interdisciplinarity.

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