Always discovering new cool things at our #library. What an interesting idea: you can check out a packet for someone experiencing memory loss to help you spark memories and engage together.
@ahm42 very cool! Love seeing there initiatives. Our library also has a seed library! And lends out tools, too. Outside they have a children’s vegetable garden kids help plant and tend and anyone can harvest from. My favorite is at the library entrance there are tubs filed with herbs you can snip a few from.
@evan to be honest I’ve never looked closely to see. Most of the plant is toxic and fruit only edible when fully ripe so I’ve never tried it. I leave it for the wildlife.
@IcooIey fair enough! I've read about them but never eaten them. I guess the ripe fruit are not poisonous. I've read a couple of accounts that they used to be a summer fruit beloved by children. Anyway, glad you're staying safe!
Had to go site walk a quarry I didn’t know existed in our town for a permit renewal yesterday. Most of our bedrock is dead boring, but this was a delight. Look at those layers! #rocks#geology#CT
@inquiline Runs in the family. Better treatments these days luckily. And kudos to the PA who took me seriously and ran every screen known to science. Even with good health insurance having access to medical care where you are acknowledged and listened to makes all the difference.
I have no idea how any of this works, but I have a question.
Was curious to see how me blocking a domain would play out in practice. So, I blocked threads.net. Just checked and, yes, it is blocked from my account (but not on my instance).
Have not seen any posts when using the desktop interface.
But! I do see threads.net posts when using mobil app ice cubes.
Why? How? what's the point of blocking a domain if it doesn't always block the domain?
Mysterious.
For @futurebird an ant plant. The green house has a big collection of ant plants, but sadly, no ants! The research specimen collection however does have a fantastic collection of army ants and their associated guests.
I am sick. Assumed spouse fed cat in morning. It’s dinner time. Offspring just sent this and no opened food in fridge. Someone is not amused at dereliction of duty.
Really sick of this cold.¹ Even a mild fever is a pain in the fanny, wiping me out until I remember I can take meds that will help. Ugh. I don’t remember what being sick is like anymore since the pandemic taught me better hygiene techniques and I just haven’t been sick as often. Whine whine, complain complain. This is one time being an adult stinks, no one to take care of you.
¹ No it isn’t flu or Covid. Just run of the mill virus. Really. Multiple tests. Symptoms not the same.
Here’s a hypothetical question not related at all to a presentation I may have gone to today. If you are an academic researcher working on modeling cyber security threats (but not working on mitigating or detecting those threats) how, ethically, do you publish your research?
Another school year starts, another time having The Conversation with my child about what to do if there’s a school shooting/ bomb threat/ armed intruder. It doesn’t get easier. Utterly infuriating in fact. #GunControl
Just got an email from a local greenhouse that fuel costs are too high so they are giving away all their remaining houseplants this weekend and shutting down for two months.
@shekinahcancook and Orchid World is doing well! I started rescuing orchids at the beginning of the pandemic and at least for the Phalaenopsis, have figured out a good regimen to keep them healthy and blooming.
Really glad I cancelled working at the polls on Tuesday since I tested positive for Covid this morning. Had cold symptoms since Sunday evening, but negative Covid tests till this morning when I woke with pounding headache. Thought yesterday I was improving! Sigh. No idea where I contacted it, have been masked everywhere. Sigh.
It’s unclear if I did just have a cold, but that lowered immune system allowing for Covid infection, or if this is just how Covid presents now. Offspring had cold first last week/ weekend and never tested positive, inc. today when we pulled her from school after my positive test.
Feel ill? Assume it’s Covid and act accordingly. Test frequently. Rest. Stay home.
@IcooIey idk what's the English name for this . Burn as a little smudge and breath in nose. (Littlest, it would burn your nose) carefully. Or add in a drink like you'd do Cedar branches. Bring to a boil. Weak or as strong as you want it. Less or more.
We Nick name this stuff "old man beard" .... 😆 don't know the original English name.