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Angela
@adminanemone.bsky.social
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🇨🇦🇺🇸 Cascadian Halfling Druid and IR nerd (Russia, its neighbors🇬🇪🇺🇦, civil society). Democracy is a delicate thing.
Mostly (re-)posts of neat things that help me feel tethered to the ground. Enjoyer of plants, invertebrates, mushrooms, birbs, etc. 8b.
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First half was alarming enough, but it only gets worse from there!
While parents are asked to consent to these surveillance programs, the school’s handbook says that there is “no expectation of privacy” on campus. If parents want to restrict recordings of their children outside of the school, they have to manually opt out of the “anywhere” option—as Jessica Lopez learned midway through her older daughter’s second year at Alpha. The girl says she remembers sitting on her bed one night working on schoolwork when she received a notification that she’d been flagged for an anti-pattern. She says Alpha’s system sent a video of her in her pajamas, taken from the computer’s webcam, that showed her talking to her younger sister.
October 27, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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It's a mess, but it's a beautiful mess! This is autumn from our front yard, as harvest season wraps up in the Pacific Northwest. #gardening 🌱
A mostly white cat with gray ears balances on the edge of a raised garden bed, surrounded by plants that are starting to fall asleep. A massive grape trellis dominates the scene, but the prettiest color is displayed by the potted volunteer maple which is a vivid rusty red. The blue sky is streaked with high clouds.
October 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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My 82-year-old mom and her sister saw the Aurora for the first time in their entire lives tonight because of your tips, @vincentledvina.bsky.social ! This meant a LOT to them and to me. ❤️ Thank you. ❤️ And I'd never seen such an active aurora before! Photo taken from Point Betsie, MI.
Pillars of green light dance along the horizon below a glowing green haze tipped with pink, fading into a clear starry sky.
September 15, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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😍 Well that was fast! That upper-right photo gives me major Sifl and Olly vibes
August 22, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hell-hole it is.
A wholesome street hockey action scene, taken in front of our nation's Treasury building
August 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Warm, wild blueberries growing on what was for many years a working field, now returning to nature. Mount Young, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada.
A close-up of a blueberry plant growing among grass and other weeds. Three ripe blueberries are in the center of three red-tinged sprigs of leaves.
August 5, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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One of my favorite moments on the whole show
July 20, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Puddle approves! This was taken around the same time you posted.
A gray kitty that looks similar to the OP's post, slumbering upside-down
July 14, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Always thought the jets were so cool
A video still from the TV sign-off National Anthem in the 80s. The American flag is superimposed over a soaring bald eagle.
July 14, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Happy 10th birthdays to #fosterfailures Snowflake and Puddle on this momentous (and warm and sleepy) #Caturday! So grateful to have these little wild animals still gracing our home with their presence 🐾
July 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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This post is brought to you by the letter P: A peacock proudly poses on a planter of purple petunias. Huntington Castle & Gardens, Clonegall, Ireland. Lovely spot to stop for a tea on our drive from Wicklow to Kilkenny 🫖☘️
#birds
A male peacock proudly poses on a planter of purple petunias
July 8, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Goodnight from Kilkenny :)
The sun's final rays tint the cloudy skies over a cow pasture in Clara, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland tonight
July 6, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Yes! It's... aspirational but it's on my list too! I swear I nailed it once while working at my picnic table desk during the pandemic. You'll just have to believe me
June 26, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Shopping bags! 🧡 Some of them really do look just like that. We tend to call them "pollen-pouches"
A bumblebee on a lupine with very prominent orange shopping bags / pollen-pouches on its legs
June 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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The poppies are here!!! 🎉 I forgot to water them for a second (they're potted) so who knows how many I'll actually get, but I'm thrilled anyway because LOOK.
#flowerfeed 🌱
Papaver orientale 'Helen Elizabeth'. It's the most delicious salmon pink color ever and the middle is an almost-as-tasty deep purple.
June 6, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Snowflake is resting up/becoming extra-long in order to exact maximal chaos upon our household this #CaturdayEve
A long, flat white cat gathering her energy for tomorrow's terror campaign
June 6, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Well that was even more depressing than I expected
A note that bigots are targeting a children's pride event in Seattle
May 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Our lupines were beset by bumblebees yesterday! Here's one of them 🐝🌱 #flowerfeed
A bumblebee with a bright orange patch of pollen on its leg visiting a purple lupine
May 29, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Shy chive bee 🐝 🌱
Beautiful warm day here in the Seattle area
A shy honey bee peeks around the side of a floofy chive blossom in the sun
May 28, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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It's my favorite rhodie's turn to show off! It always blooms last, so I get to look forward to it all spring 💓🌱
A big poofball of tropical-pink rhododendron blossoms
May 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Zelensky's got a new competitor on his hands!
May 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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This is killing me
May 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Sometimes I forget how incredibly irritating she was at the start of the show
Audrey Horne laughing sadistically as an innocent concierge tries to save her papers from a stream of hot coffee unleashed by Audrey Horne upon her desk
May 2, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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I want to say OF COURSE everyone has a favorite slug and show you mine -- but you've just shown me so many cool slugs that I might need to reassess!
A banana slug hanging out on a mossy log with a matching millipede buddy
April 25, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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Good to know. In that case here are some kitty-lumps on an electric blanket for you
Puddle the Cat blissfully sleeping on an electric blanket Snowflake the Cat blissfully sleeping on an electric blanket
March 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM