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floating, 13 days ago to Plants

Leaves are the best 🍃🍂🍁

Thanks for all that photosynthesis, cooling the local environment, participating in the water cycle, giving cover to critters, and being so nice to look at.

#Plants #Nature #Photo

floating, 15 days ago to writing

Steal This Hour

Watch the clouds swell as cows drift across the yellow hillside

Watch the inky hawks circle and circle over blades of grass waving and fluttering in the field

Watch the squirrel flick its tail, clasping tiny fingers around a newfound acorn

Watch the flies zig and zag like magical green jewels

Read more >

https://paper.wf/nightdream/steal-this-hour

#writing #blog #mindfulness

floating, 16 days ago to random

I wish it were easy to capture and share sound recordings on mastodon as it is to share photos and video. A feed full of nature sounds would be fantastic.

floating, 18 days ago to conservative

What happens when you don't mow your lawn?

gift link: https://wapo.st/3wtRxhO

#ecology #animals #wildlife #pollinators #birds

floating, 19 days ago to til

#TIL that Microsoft is a major fossil fuel enabler. #climate #Microsoft #tech #AI #climate #ClimateChange

https://grist.org/accountability/microsoft-employees-spent-years-fighting-the-tech-giants-oil-ties-now-theyre-speaking-out/

floating, 21 days ago to Korean

Study suggests that sperm whales have a phonetic alphabet and “a very large dictionary”

#whales #language #communication #animals #science

https://apnews.com/article/a94df8e07b129f19917437fcb85e7655

floating, 21 days ago to books

I think it’s time to bump this one up on my reading list. I bought it a couple of years ago and keep putting it off.

#Books #Philosophy #Life

floating, 21 days ago to random

Some kind of emissions event happening now at the #Chevron Richmond refinery.

#EastBay #sfba

floating, 21 days ago to random

Out for a walk in the late, milky light. Every few blocks, a mallard couple relaxing on someone’s lawn.

floating, 22 days ago to writing

I took my own advice today and started working on a story idea I’ve been thinking about for over a year. I hope I have the skills to do it justice. #Writing #WritingCommunity

floating, 25 days ago to writing

I don't know if I can keep going
I'm tired of rowing and rowing
Plus, what kind of boat
Takes this much work to float?
There's water, but nothing is flowing

#writing #poetry #poem #limerick

floating, 25 days ago to random

In this Chilean adoption scandal, an estimated 20,000 newborns were stolen from predominantly poor and indigenous mothers and sold to American and European families who thought they were adopting children in need. The network of child traffickers included social workers and faith leaders. No one has been held accountable.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/27/chile-forced-adoption-scandal

floating, 25 days ago to random

Momo being a Very Good Boy to see if I will cave and give him a different flavor of food after my son gave him a flavor he didn’t want. Guess what happened?

floating, 25 days ago to random

Giving the new dentist favorable reviews based solely on the reading material in the waiting room

A stack of books with visible titles "Likes. Andy Spade", "FERDINAND", and "Banksy" on a shelf.

floating, 28 days ago to Cats

Good morning

#cats

floating, 1 month ago to random

What’s the longest it’s ever taken you to read a book? I’ve been working on this one for at least six months and I’m only about 1/4 way through. I have about an hour a week to devote to it. It’s not easy reading for me and I have to be in the right headspace and be able to really slow down and focus. I’ll get to the end eventually.

floating, 1 month ago to science

Interesting study investigating cell-membrane ion gradients as a "nongenomic information system" informing cellular decision making.

https://phys.org/news/2024-04-cells-hidden-communication.html

#science #biology

floating, 1 month ago to Cats

Morning yoga

#Cats

floating, 1 month ago to random

Dear Mastodoners,
The term Semitic refers to languages, not people. The term antisemitism was coined in Europe for anti-Jewish political purposes and refers to Jews only. The racists make the rules. Learn things from legitimate sources and then you can open your mouth.
Love, Sick of This Shit

floating, 1 month ago to random

floating, 1 month ago to Podcast

This interview is a real gut punch.

"I didn't realize until years later, thinking back about that, was I was three years old. I lived with my birth mother, and then I didn't anymore.

And I was a three year old. I was talking to her. I forgot over [00:27:00] a while, over time what I was doing. And in the book I talk about it that way. I forgot what I was doing, but I kept doing it. And in, the way that I forgot my name, I had no idea what my name was and I had to find it."

#adoptees #podcast #identity #adoption

https://www.adopteeson.com/listen/277

floating, 1 month ago to random

Strict new EPA rules would force coal-fired power plants to capture emissions or shut down

#Biden EPA, that is.

https://apnews.com/article/5c96ca146e7f70b47806beb4bc3713e6

floating, 1 month ago to tv

Someone please make a #TV set with 1970's era functionality for my mom. 🙄​

#technology #tech

floating, 1 month ago to random

Lots of changes in voting laws for 2024, especially in swing states. Don't assume voting will work the same way as last time. Find out what's changed in your state.

#uspol #voting #trump #biden #vote

gift link

https://wapo.st/4aivFol

floating, 1 month ago to random

Ashager Ararao, from the community of Beta Israel aka Ethiopian Jews, tells the dramatic story of her family's migration to Israel.

https://castbox.fm/episode/Episode-16%3A-An-Ethiopian-Jewish-story-id5650111-id689763955