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Adventures In My Four Season Garden

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Artist. Gardener. Easily amused by medieval marginalia. Running 5 sourdough starters at once? Is it excessive?#TeamGFSourdough

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Adventures In My Four Season Garden @zenobiapaints.bsky.social · Jan 12

Just remember: people have been baking with this stuff probably since the Neolithic period and they didn't need a scale or a $300 Le Creuset bread cloche to get there. If anyone bugs you, call it Experimental Archaeology

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Clare - Little Conkers @littleconkers.bsky.social · 9h

This is a great pattern if you're moving on from #crochet basics - vintage-inspired packaway bag: littleconkers.etsy.com/listing/1082...
#Crochet #MakeYourOwn

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Adventures In My Four Season Garden @zenobiapaints.bsky.social · 6h

Rain rate is now 0.12in/hr
0.63in on the gauge now
Winds still 6-10mph steady gusting into the teens

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Kathryn Schipper @ravenala.bsky.social · 7h

Linden leaf. Brown, sepia and black Sakura Micron pen on watercolor paper.
#SciArt #botanicalart #illustration #penandink #naturalhistoryillustration

Ink drawing of a dried fallen linden tree leaf

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 7h

I just know this cat walked a Roosevelt down, took no prisoners at the fall of an empire, and still owes money to a Pharaoh

Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 13h

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 7h

What's your favorite color?

1. ghost in the fog
2. Victorian vampire
3. zombie heart
4. moss covered skeleton

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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 9h

White-collar workers are done with burnout, layoffs, and corporate spin. They’re organizing for fair pay and real power on the job. Union strength isn’t just for one class of worker—it’s for all workers. 💪 https://seiu.co/47qitOb

The future of white-collar work may be unionized

Law firms, banks and tech companies are seeing an uptick in employees choosing to join unions.

seiu.co

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10h

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 10h

ICYMI: Greece is showing how it’s done—when labor rights get attacked, workers walk out. Strikes remind everyone where the real power lies: with the people who make everything run. https://seiu.co/3IOlwHx

Thousands march in Greece against labor law changes, disrupt services nationwide

Thousands of demonstrators have marched through Athens as part of a general strike protesting changes to Greece's labor laws.

seiu.co

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h

one thing perhaps worth emphasizing is that under federal law an escaped enslaved person was a criminal. an "illegal," you might say.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 11h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 9h

I do miss my old job… but I have to work on making it safer again first.

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 9h

Then I woke up and realised that if I went back to work in emergency medicine… this would almost certainly be a reality.

It’s a nightmare. #Respie

#MedSky

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 9h

Last night I dreamt that I was working in an ED again… in an older site that no longer exists.

I was not wearing a respirator and running from place to place trying to find one desperately… and everyone I knew was just watching me… bemused.

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Progressive Mass @progressivemass.bsky.social · 9h

Massachusetts needs to pass the Safe Communities Act so that we can limit such blatant police collaboration with ICE.

We can't stop everything ICE is doing, but our state and local law enforcement should no the making their jobs easier. #mapoli

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 9h

Republicans love to make up conspiracy theories of child trafficking to hide the fact that they are the biggest supporters of child trafficking in the country. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Dread Cyser Empress and Cider Barrel Wrangler @alwen-lost-arts.bsky.social · 9h

Well, duh. I said the same thing during the dot com bubble: why are people dumping all this money into companies that are generating a product that doesn't apply to anything?

www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai...

They're all buying the latest tulip bulb, and I'm Dutch enough to know how THAT ends.

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Jenn Burrill @jennburrill.bsky.social · 9h

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing ...

You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth”

- Pope Leo XIV

Reports @apnews.com

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

apnews.com

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Kathryn Creepy Shroom 🍄🦇 @dekaye.bsky.social · 10h

It is soda and I will fight you in a Denny's parking lot if you call it pop.

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Jenn Burrill @jennburrill.bsky.social · 9h

This family was able to hire an immigration lawyer, but there is no right to a lawyer in immigration proceedings - even if you are a kid

Reporting from ABC News in June 2024

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The Eyewall @theeyewallwx.bsky.social · 9h

Reported max wind gusts on the coasts of NJ & DE so far. 58 mph Barnegat Inlet, 56 mph Atlantic City Marina

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11h

Imagine being one of the soldiers who thought they dodged this shitty assignment, but then got tapped in because some dudes got fat-shamed on social media.

Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 14h

The Texas Military Department confirmed to @taskandpurpose.com it had replaced some of the 200 National Guard troops sent to Chicago for not being "in compliance" with validation standards. This came after photos of heavyset NG members were widely mocked. taskandpurpose.com/news/texas-n...

Some Texas National Guard troops replaced in Illinois after failing to meet standards

An unspecified amount of Texas National Guard troops were replaced in Chicago, shortly after photos of their appearance were mocked.

taskandpurpose.com

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Iconyc @iconyc.bsky.social · 10h

Can't ever be sure, but since I work a very public facing job my guess is the viral load was simply very high & broke thru my defenses. I'd hate to know what it would have been like w/o being vaxxed. Yikes.

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Iconyc @iconyc.bsky.social · 11h

Yup. Even with Paxlovid I tested positive a full 7 days. And this was after my booster in September and with masking everywhere. Still no where near 100% 10 days later.

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 11h

People Say COVID Infections Are Worse This Year.

"Razor sore throat, fevers, chills. Some social media users are claiming that their current COVID-19 infections are more severe than previous COVID infections; some even claim it’s the worst they’ve ever felt."

Source: archive.md/DB2uM

People Say COVID Infections Are Worse This Year. Here's What Doctors Think.

By Jillian Wilson
Oct 12, 2025, 07:00 AM EDT

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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 11h

Let’s be clear—this didn’t happen by accident.

Republicans are holding the government hostage to protect billionaires and corporations while working families pay more for healthcare, rent, and groceries.

That’s the real cost of their shutdown shenanigans.

Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 11d

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year.

Republicans in Washington did this.

This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

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