Rach FlowerSong
@springrainbloom.bsky.social
Degree and interest in public health and epi. COVID conscious lifestyle. Mom of humans. Zebra who tries to run. Love cakes and bakes. Dogs are my favorite people. Live in the US. LGBTQ+ rights. Favorite escapism - RWRB. Shift the zeitgeist.
A watched pot never boils, but if you don’t at least check intermittently to give yourself the opportunity to notice that the burner is off, it will also never boil.
December 3, 2025 at 12:48 AM
A watched pot never boils, but if you don’t at least check intermittently to give yourself the opportunity to notice that the burner is off, it will also never boil.
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Commemorating #WorldAIDSday is an act of defiance against ideology driven policies that will end our progress to end the epidemic.
December 1, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Commemorating #WorldAIDSday is an act of defiance against ideology driven policies that will end our progress to end the epidemic.
Today, I needed trees.
November 29, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Today, I needed trees.
Did I heat up leftover shiitake mushrooms (with thyme and garlic), leftover shallots and fry up some eggs alongside and then top it with leftover tahini yogurt sauce? I sure did. The best meal I’ve eaten in ages.
November 28, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Did I heat up leftover shiitake mushrooms (with thyme and garlic), leftover shallots and fry up some eggs alongside and then top it with leftover tahini yogurt sauce? I sure did. The best meal I’ve eaten in ages.
The day after Thanksgiving, neighborhoods should rotate their leftover pies Little Free Library Style. I says this with the generosity of spirit of someone who just had a pecan pie and huckleberry apple dropped off by a neighbor friend.
November 28, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The day after Thanksgiving, neighborhoods should rotate their leftover pies Little Free Library Style. I says this with the generosity of spirit of someone who just had a pecan pie and huckleberry apple dropped off by a neighbor friend.
A feast was had. I had to go back once there was space on the plate for salads and biscuits, not pictured. I didn’t eat the flowers.
November 28, 2025 at 3:23 AM
A feast was had. I had to go back once there was space on the plate for salads and biscuits, not pictured. I didn’t eat the flowers.
Day 2 done.
Yogurt tahini garlic sauce ✅
Buttermilk biscuits w/ honey butter ✅
Lemon meringue pie ✅
Blueberry galette ✅
Now to schlep it all over to where the turkey, stuffing, salad and pumpkin pies and people are…
Yogurt tahini garlic sauce ✅
Buttermilk biscuits w/ honey butter ✅
Lemon meringue pie ✅
Blueberry galette ✅
Now to schlep it all over to where the turkey, stuffing, salad and pumpkin pies and people are…
November 27, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Day 2 done.
Yogurt tahini garlic sauce ✅
Buttermilk biscuits w/ honey butter ✅
Lemon meringue pie ✅
Blueberry galette ✅
Now to schlep it all over to where the turkey, stuffing, salad and pumpkin pies and people are…
Yogurt tahini garlic sauce ✅
Buttermilk biscuits w/ honey butter ✅
Lemon meringue pie ✅
Blueberry galette ✅
Now to schlep it all over to where the turkey, stuffing, salad and pumpkin pies and people are…
My favorite Thanksgiving hack is standing on a stepstool when rolling out your pie crust. You get extra leverage for rolling it out, and your family gets a jumpstart on roasting.
November 27, 2025 at 6:36 PM
My favorite Thanksgiving hack is standing on a stepstool when rolling out your pie crust. You get extra leverage for rolling it out, and your family gets a jumpstart on roasting.
Fighting the temptation to expand the Thanksgiving dessert menu at the last minute. Inside of me there are two wolves. Both of them want dessert.
November 27, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Fighting the temptation to expand the Thanksgiving dessert menu at the last minute. Inside of me there are two wolves. Both of them want dessert.
Day 1 done.
Roasted Brussels sprouts w/ pomegranate molasses, Meyer lemon, brown sugar ✅
Roasted green beans ✅
Kaddo Bourani (slow cooked sweetened pumpkin) ✅
Yogurt mint sauce ✅
Whipped yams✅
Shiitake mushrooms with garlic, shallots and thyme✅
Toasted pine nuts✅
Fried shallots ✅
Maple chili sauce ✅
Roasted Brussels sprouts w/ pomegranate molasses, Meyer lemon, brown sugar ✅
Roasted green beans ✅
Kaddo Bourani (slow cooked sweetened pumpkin) ✅
Yogurt mint sauce ✅
Whipped yams✅
Shiitake mushrooms with garlic, shallots and thyme✅
Toasted pine nuts✅
Fried shallots ✅
Maple chili sauce ✅
November 27, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Day 1 done.
Roasted Brussels sprouts w/ pomegranate molasses, Meyer lemon, brown sugar ✅
Roasted green beans ✅
Kaddo Bourani (slow cooked sweetened pumpkin) ✅
Yogurt mint sauce ✅
Whipped yams✅
Shiitake mushrooms with garlic, shallots and thyme✅
Toasted pine nuts✅
Fried shallots ✅
Maple chili sauce ✅
Roasted Brussels sprouts w/ pomegranate molasses, Meyer lemon, brown sugar ✅
Roasted green beans ✅
Kaddo Bourani (slow cooked sweetened pumpkin) ✅
Yogurt mint sauce ✅
Whipped yams✅
Shiitake mushrooms with garlic, shallots and thyme✅
Toasted pine nuts✅
Fried shallots ✅
Maple chili sauce ✅
Woah. The trick where you soak garlic cloves in hot water before peeling does work, and I just saved so much preparation and kitchen cleanup time on my garlic confit! I’m chuffed.
November 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Woah. The trick where you soak garlic cloves in hot water before peeling does work, and I just saved so much preparation and kitchen cleanup time on my garlic confit! I’m chuffed.
I feel like grapefruit spoons were ubiquitous in my youth and now people can’t bother to reserve the drawer space. I don’t own any. I do have milkshake spoons. The only single use spoon I have is an absinthe spoon, and I don’t have any absinthe. An absence of absinthe, if you will.
November 25, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I feel like grapefruit spoons were ubiquitous in my youth and now people can’t bother to reserve the drawer space. I don’t own any. I do have milkshake spoons. The only single use spoon I have is an absinthe spoon, and I don’t have any absinthe. An absence of absinthe, if you will.
We have officially entered I-miss-the-sun season
November 24, 2025 at 3:18 AM
We have officially entered I-miss-the-sun season
I am feeling deeply unenthusiastic about cooking for Thanksgiving this year which is somehow causing me to try to add items to the menu.
November 23, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I am feeling deeply unenthusiastic about cooking for Thanksgiving this year which is somehow causing me to try to add items to the menu.
Suggest a word that can safely be retired: pulchritudinous
November 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Suggest a word that can safely be retired: pulchritudinous
Spending a half hour looking for a 90 minute movie because a 2 hour movie is too long
November 23, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Spending a half hour looking for a 90 minute movie because a 2 hour movie is too long
I want to bother her
November 20, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I want to bother her
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As public health citizens, we rely on agencies like the CDC for science-based guidance. But last night’s change to its “Vaccines & Autism” page - now hinting at a possible vaccine link - deeply undermines that trust. When credible institutions shift in ways that echo anti-vax rhetoric, we all lose.
November 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
As public health citizens, we rely on agencies like the CDC for science-based guidance. But last night’s change to its “Vaccines & Autism” page - now hinting at a possible vaccine link - deeply undermines that trust. When credible institutions shift in ways that echo anti-vax rhetoric, we all lose.
Dr. Jacobs’ posts about this are 🔥.
I can’t make articulate words happen, I’m too mad. You can’t just take the misinformation down at some point in the future and undo that damage or restore faith in the guidance provided by our institutions.
I can’t make articulate words happen, I’m too mad. You can’t just take the misinformation down at some point in the future and undo that damage or restore faith in the guidance provided by our institutions.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM, YOU FLAMING SHITBIRDS.
THE LAST TIME HHS, AS CURRENTLY OCCUPIED BY RFK JR., CONDUCTED A “COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT” OF THE CAUSES OF AUTISM THEY BLAMED TYLENOL AND THEN, BECAUSE IT WAS BULLSHIT, HAD TO WALK IT BACK.
THE LAST TIME HHS, AS CURRENTLY OCCUPIED BY RFK JR., CONDUCTED A “COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT” OF THE CAUSES OF AUTISM THEY BLAMED TYLENOL AND THEN, BECAUSE IT WAS BULLSHIT, HAD TO WALK IT BACK.
November 20, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Dr. Jacobs’ posts about this are 🔥.
I can’t make articulate words happen, I’m too mad. You can’t just take the misinformation down at some point in the future and undo that damage or restore faith in the guidance provided by our institutions.
I can’t make articulate words happen, I’m too mad. You can’t just take the misinformation down at some point in the future and undo that damage or restore faith in the guidance provided by our institutions.
#MusicChallenge
#NovemberAlchemy
11/20 - The Fade Beneath the Frost
Pearl Jam - Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town
m.youtube.com/watch?v=4YFY...
#NovemberAlchemy
11/20 - The Fade Beneath the Frost
Pearl Jam - Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town
m.youtube.com/watch?v=4YFY...
November 19, 2025 at 10:06 PM
#MusicChallenge
#NovemberAlchemy
11/20 - The Fade Beneath the Frost
Pearl Jam - Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town
m.youtube.com/watch?v=4YFY...
#NovemberAlchemy
11/20 - The Fade Beneath the Frost
Pearl Jam - Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town
m.youtube.com/watch?v=4YFY...
When you have to restart a song three times because the people who dance in your head miss their cue. Come on, imaginary friends, focus!
November 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
When you have to restart a song three times because the people who dance in your head miss their cue. Come on, imaginary friends, focus!
Good morning, sunshine.
November 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Good morning, sunshine.
Cruelly tautological indeed. Non lawgeeks might give this a gander as well.
Lawgeeks, check out this amicus brief in the upcoming SCOTUS case about state bans on trans women athletes.
It directly challenges the nutso "ascertainability at birth" argument that Justice Barrett nodded to in Skrmetti and that the 6th Cir. has adopted.
www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
It directly challenges the nutso "ascertainability at birth" argument that Justice Barrett nodded to in Skrmetti and that the 6th Cir. has adopted.
www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
November 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Cruelly tautological indeed. Non lawgeeks might give this a gander as well.
I had to multi task to get dinner ready by 5:00 today and so didn’t even bother attempting to make my crust pretty…but my curried carrot and garbanzo bean pie got the “best dinner ever” effusive praise from a picky kindergartner so I’m calling it a resounding, if homely, success!
November 18, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I had to multi task to get dinner ready by 5:00 today and so didn’t even bother attempting to make my crust pretty…but my curried carrot and garbanzo bean pie got the “best dinner ever” effusive praise from a picky kindergartner so I’m calling it a resounding, if homely, success!
Is it lunchtime? She keeps booping my arm off my laptop.
November 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Is it lunchtime? She keeps booping my arm off my laptop.